Event Details - Barry David Salwen, Domonique Launey: piano

Barry David Salwen and Domonique Launey: piano

Friday, February 27, 2015
7:30 p.m.
Beckwith Recital Hall, located in the Cultural Arts Building on Randall Drive

$6 general public (includes tax) • Free to students with valid UNCW ID

Advance tickets are not sold: the Cultural Arts box office opens one hour prior to performance.

Program
Mozart: Fugue in C Minor for Two Pianos, K. 426
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D Major. op. 10, no. 3
Mendelssohn: Andante and Allegro Brillante, op. 92
Chopin: Ballade in A-flat Major, op. 47
Schubert: Piano Sonata in D. op. 10, no. 3

About the Artists
Barry David Salwen is an international concert pianist, giving performances and master classes in the U.S., Europe, Israel and Asia. He gave two weeks of master classes at the Shanghai Conservatory in China, among many other places. As the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Scholars Grant, he gave a semester’s seminar at the Music Conservatory in Freiburg, Germany, one of the leading music institutions in the country. His master classes at UNCW have been attended by students from across eastern North Carolina. Among Salwen’s nine CDs is the first recording of the complete solo piano music of the American master Roger Sessions; he is the first artist to record all of these works. Salwen is a member of the Department of Music faculty, where he teaches piano, music history, and is coordinator of piano studies

Domonique Launey has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Jamaica as featured soloist, accompanist and chamber player. As soloist, Launey has performed with orchestras including Wilmington, Tallis Chamber, Houston Chamber, San Antonio, Oklahoma, Shreveport, Tulare County (Calif.), University of Texas, and L’Orchestre de Chapelle Minimes (Belgium), performing concerti of Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven and Mozart. In the fall of 2014, she collaborated with Steve Errante and the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, performing Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3 in D Minor. In 2010, she performed Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor with the Tulare County Symphony in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth. In 2011, Launey joined the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra in performing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major in honor of his 200th birthday. Awards include first place in the Wideman International Piano Concerto Competition, winner of the University of Texas Concerto Competition; she also performed in Fort Worth, Texas in the Van Cliburn Competition. Performance degrees include work at the University of Texas in Austin. During postgraduate work as a Rotary International Scholar, she performed as soloist for a year throughout Europe. She was presented with the Gold Medallion for her solo performance at L’Academie de Musique in Brussels. Launey serves as pianist for other musicians and ensembles, and is active with the Cape Fear Music Teachers Association.

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UNCW Campus map
(The Cultural Arts building is designated as “CA” and is on the left hand side of the map, just above midpoint.)

Plenty of free parking, right out in front of the Cultural Arts building. No need to feed the meters.