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Westminster Recital Features Cello and Piano Duo

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Posted on Friday, September 2, 2005

Pianist Dr. Nancy Zipay DeSalvo and cellist Dr. Stephen Framil will perform a recital Thursday, Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at Orr Auditorium.  The event is free and open to the public.

 The program includes Chopin's "Polonaise Brillante, Opus 3," Beethoven's "Sonata for Piano and Cello, Op. 69 in A Major," and Rachmaninoff's "Sonata in G minor, Op. 19."

 DeSalvo, who has been with Westminster College since 2000, is chair and assistant professor of music at Westminster College.  She earned her undergraduate degree from Youngstown State University, her master's from the Manhattan School of Music, and her D.M.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Music.  She is a Steinway Artist, winner of the Gwendolyn Koldofsky Award, and first prize winner in the Darius Milhaud Performance Auditions. 

 DeSalvo is also a pianist with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and has been a guest soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.  She performs extensively across the United States as a soloist, a professional accompanying pianist, and a chamber music collaborator.

 Framil is a Philadelphia resident who served as visiting assistant professor of cello and chamber music at the University of Delaware, artist faculty at the Wilmington Music School Chamber Music Workshop, and adjudicated the 56th Hong Kong Schools of Music Festival Competition.  His current academic affiliations include the Amherst String Quartet at Andews University and professeur vacataife at L'Ecole Superieure Universitaire Robert de Sorbon in France.

 Framil is distinguished as the first American cellist to perform in Hanoi at the National Conservatory of Music.  He is also first prize winner in the 2004 CRS Competition for Performing Artists.  He has performed throughout the world.

 Contact the Westminster College Department of Music at (724) 946-7270 for more information.