XIANG GAO & JULIE NISHIMURA VIOLIN-PIANO RECITAL

– A HOMECOMING EVENT

Saturday, October 20, 8:00 p.m.

Gore Recital Hall

Tickets:

$25 adults

$20 UD faculty, staff/alumni and seniors

$10 students

This concert celebrates Xiang Gao as the 2012 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Masters Artist Fellow.

MPCS Artistic Director Xiang Gao performs masterpieces by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms on the Boorse collection: concert violins crafted by many of today’s leading violin makers. This concert, during homecoming weekend, also features UD Faculty Pianist Julie Nishimura. The two artists collaborate on some of the most celebrated compositions ever written for the violin and piano, including Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor and Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor.

Xiang Gao dedicates this recital in memory of Ilene Ross Joseph who was his American sister and passed away on August 16, 2012.

                  3Bs concert highlights

        recorded by Visual Images Media, Inc.

UD Department of Music  •  Amy E. DuPont Music Building  •  Newark, DE 19716  •  USA

Phone: 302.831.2850  Fax: 302.831.3589 Email: TLL@UDEL.EDU

Photo of Julie Nishimura by Paul Marotta

J.S. BACH

L.V. BEETHOVEN

J. BRAHMS

Gao’s emotional performance in memory of his American sister

                       Ilene Ross Joseph

Brahms Violin-Piano Sonata in d minor movement #4

    Xiang Gao, violin and Julie Nishimura, piano

Brahms Violin-Piano Sonata in d minor movement #1

    Xiang Gao, violin and Julie Nishimura, piano

Beethoven Violin-Piano Sonata in c minor movement #1

    Xiang Gao, violin and Julie Nishimura, piano

Beethoven Violin-Piano Sonata in c minor movement #3

    Xiang Gao, violin and Julie Nishimura, piano

                                Bach Double Violin Concerto

                Xiang Gao, violin and Julie Nishimura, piano

Student performers: Gabriella Stout, Justin Chou and Andrew Gentzsch