February ArtsCanisius Programs
Meet the Faculty and Informally Formal Chamber Concerts planned
BUFFALO, NY – ArtsCanisius presents the following February performances:
· Monday, February 11 – Meet-the-Faculty Recital, featuring Lon Gormley, adjunct assistant professor of music, on trombone at 12:30 p.m. in the college’s Montante Cultural Center. Guest performers include Krista Seddon, on piano; Mike Moser, on guitar; and Don Harry, on tuba. They will perform works by Hidas, Tomasi, Gershwin and Wilder. Admission is free and open to the public.
Gormley, a graduate of Indiana University, specializes in playing instruments in the low brass family, including tenor trombone, bass trombone, euphonium, tuba and bass trumpet. She has performed with the SEM New Music Ensemble in New York and Europe, the Chicago Opera Ballet Orchestra, the Brass Compendium Quintet in New York, the Cathedral Brass and Gilliard Brass Quintet in Buffalo, Buffalo Brass Big Band and the West Side Story Company European tour.
Seddon performs with the orchestra at Shea’s Center for the Performing Arts and has been featured as a soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Moser primarily a jazz guitarist, also plays the mandolin and bango. He has performed pop concerts with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and played the mandolin with the Erie Philharmonic and the Chautauqua Opera Orchestra.
Harry plays tuba with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Eastman Brass. He also teaches at the Eastman School of Music.
· Monday, February 25 – Meet the Faculty Recital, featuring Martha Malkiewicz, adjunct associate professor of music, on bassoon and Barbara Wagner, minister of music at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo, on piano at 12:30 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. The performance features works by Vivaldi, Tomasi, Apostel and Perkins. Admission is free and open to the public.
Malkiewicz received her musical training at Indiana University, the Hochschule for Musik in Vienna, Austria and the Eastman School of Music. She has performed with orchestras in South Carolina, Hawaii, Indiana, Italy, Austria and New York State. In addition to teaching at Canisius, she also hosts the college’s Informally Formal chamber series and performs as a full-time member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wagner is the vocal conductor at Buffalo Seminary High School. She recently retired from 24 years of teaching music at the Nichols Schools.
· Wednesday, February 27 – Canisius College hosts an Informally Formal Chamber Concert with the trio Tremani! at 7:30 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. Tremani! is comprised of Buffalo Philharmonic members John Fullam, principal clarinet, Glen Einschlag, principal bassoon and Donald Rebic, piano recitalist and professor at SUNY Fredonia. The performance features works by C.P.E. Bach, von Weber, Beethoven and Osborne. Admission is $12 for the general public and $7 for students.
For information contact the Canisius College Music Office at 888-2536.
Canisius College is one of 28 Jesuit colleges in the nation and the premier private college in Western New York. Canisius prepares leaders - intelligent, caring, faithful individuals - able to pursue and promote excellence in their professions, communities and service to humanity.
· Monday, February 11 – Meet-the-Faculty Recital, featuring Lon Gormley, adjunct assistant professor of music, on trombone at 12:30 p.m. in the college’s Montante Cultural Center. Guest performers include Krista Seddon, on piano; Mike Moser, on guitar; and Don Harry, on tuba. They will perform works by Hidas, Tomasi, Gershwin and Wilder. Admission is free and open to the public.
Gormley, a graduate of Indiana University, specializes in playing instruments in the low brass family, including tenor trombone, bass trombone, euphonium, tuba and bass trumpet. She has performed with the SEM New Music Ensemble in New York and Europe, the Chicago Opera Ballet Orchestra, the Brass Compendium Quintet in New York, the Cathedral Brass and Gilliard Brass Quintet in Buffalo, Buffalo Brass Big Band and the West Side Story Company European tour.
Seddon performs with the orchestra at Shea’s Center for the Performing Arts and has been featured as a soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Moser primarily a jazz guitarist, also plays the mandolin and bango. He has performed pop concerts with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and played the mandolin with the Erie Philharmonic and the Chautauqua Opera Orchestra.
Harry plays tuba with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Eastman Brass. He also teaches at the Eastman School of Music.
· Monday, February 25 – Meet the Faculty Recital, featuring Martha Malkiewicz, adjunct associate professor of music, on bassoon and Barbara Wagner, minister of music at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo, on piano at 12:30 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. The performance features works by Vivaldi, Tomasi, Apostel and Perkins. Admission is free and open to the public.
Malkiewicz received her musical training at Indiana University, the Hochschule for Musik in Vienna, Austria and the Eastman School of Music. She has performed with orchestras in South Carolina, Hawaii, Indiana, Italy, Austria and New York State. In addition to teaching at Canisius, she also hosts the college’s Informally Formal chamber series and performs as a full-time member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wagner is the vocal conductor at Buffalo Seminary High School. She recently retired from 24 years of teaching music at the Nichols Schools.
· Wednesday, February 27 – Canisius College hosts an Informally Formal Chamber Concert with the trio Tremani! at 7:30 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. Tremani! is comprised of Buffalo Philharmonic members John Fullam, principal clarinet, Glen Einschlag, principal bassoon and Donald Rebic, piano recitalist and professor at SUNY Fredonia. The performance features works by C.P.E. Bach, von Weber, Beethoven and Osborne. Admission is $12 for the general public and $7 for students.
For information contact the Canisius College Music Office at 888-2536.
Canisius College is one of 28 Jesuit colleges in the nation and the premier private college in Western New York. Canisius prepares leaders - intelligent, caring, faithful individuals - able to pursue and promote excellence in their professions, communities and service to humanity.