Noted cellist offers free master class Oct. 23

Concert: Cello master class featuring Wendy Warner
Date and time: Friday, Oct. 23 at 4:30 p.m.
Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Cost: Free and open to the public

GOSHEN, Ind. – Noted cellist Wendy Warner will present a master class for Goshen College and area high school cellists on Friday, Oct. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in Rieth Recital Hall in the Goshen College Music Center. The master class is free and open to the public to observe.

Warner has become one of the leading cellists in the world, garnering international attention winning first-prize at the 1990 International Rostropovich Competition in Paris, and going on to perform at many of the world's distinguished concert venues, including Carnegie Hall in New York City, Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Paris' Salle Pleyel and Berlin's Philharmonie. A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Warner teaches at Roosevelt University and resides in Chicago.

Warner has collaborated with leading conductors and has performed with the Chicago, Boston, Dallas, San Francisco, London, Berlin and Iceland Symphonies; the Minnesota and Philadelphia Orchestras; the St. Petersburg, Calgary and Hong Kong Philharmonics; Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, the French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and L'Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse. Recital engagements include performances at the Music Institute of Chicago, DC's Phillips Collection and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, as well as Milan and Tokyo. Her 2008-09 season included concerto appearances with the Anchorage Symphony and Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2009, Warner is releasing two recordings for the Cedille label. Past recordings include Warner's debut recording Hindemith, music for cello and piano (Bridge Records), and a second disc featuring duos for cello and violin on Cedille Records. Most recently released is a Naxos recording of the Barber Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Marin Alsop, conductor.

Warner's musical career began at age 6 under the tutelage of Nell Novak, until she joined Mstislav Rostropovich at the Curtis Institute, from which she graduated. An accomplished pianist as well, she studied with Emilio del Rosario at The Music Center.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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