Violinist Erin Schreiber, assistant concertmaster of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, will join pianist Martin Kennedy, Ph.D., assistant professor of composition and theory in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, for a free concert Thursday, Sept. 3.
The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in the Formal Lounge of the Danforth University Center.
The concert will open with “Sonata in D Major, Op. 12 Nr. 1,” by Ludwig van Beethoven, followed by “Cavatina,” the virtuoso piece by Swiss violinist Joseph Joachim. Next up will be “Carmen Fantasie,” Franz Waxman’s famously difficult arrangement based on themes from the opera by Georges Bizet.
After a short intermission, Schreiber and Kennedy will perform “Sonata in G Major, Op. 27, No. 5,” by Belgian composer Eugene Ysaye, followed by “Trivial Pursuits,” an original work by Kennedy.
Concluding the program will be “Sonata in A Major” by Cesar Franck.
Schreiber assumed the role of assistant concertmaster in May 2008 at the age of 20.
She previously held a concertmaster fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival and has appeared in recitals throughout the United States as well as in London, Sweden and — most recently — Neuenkirchen, Germany.
As a soloist, Schreiber has appeared with the Richardson, Gateway and Alton symphony orchestras and has performed for such dignitaries as Colin Powell and former president Jimmy Carter.
A native of Elsah, Ill., Schreiber is a former member of the Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra and from 2005-08 attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Pamela Frank, Joseph Silverstein and Jaime Laredo.
Her numerous awards include the prestigious Buder Foundation Music Grant, and she is a three-time recipient of the Anita Crane Music Scholarship.
Kennedy was born in England and moved to the United States as a child. He earned a doctorate in composition from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Samuel Adler and Milton Babbitt.
He also earned a master’s degree in composition as well as bachelor’s degrees in both composition and piano performance at Indiana University, where he studied with Don Freund, David Dzubay, Claude Baker and Sydney Hodkinson.
Kennedy’s work has been performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the Bloomington Camerata Orchestra, the Polish National Chamber Orchestra of Slupsk, the Haddonfield Symphony and the Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra, among others.
He remains active as a pianist, performing both as a soloist and in collaboration with such distinguished artists as violinist Lara St. John and flutist Thomas Robertello, recording a CD with the latter, “Souvenir: Works by Faure and Kennedy.”
His music is published by the Theodore Presser Co.
Kennedy’s most recent works include a concerto for pianist Molly Morkoski; a string quartet for Musica Reginae; and “All Hands on Dec,” a work for 10 pianos that received its world premiere at Washington University in October 2007 under the baton of Leonard Slatkin.
Current projects include a piccolo sonata and an opera based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Despair.”
For more information, call 935-5566 or e-mail kschultz@artsci.wustl.edu.