FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications (304) 696-7153
 

Three MU students among those featured in Concert of Soloists

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Three Marshall University students and the winner of the annual competition of the Women’s Club of Huntington will be featured on Marshall University’s Concert of Soloists. The concert will take place at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 in the Smith Recital Hall on Marshall’s Huntington campus.

Charles Morey, violinist and winner of the Women’s Club competition, is from Fayetteville, W. Va., and currently accepted to the Junior Division of the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio. He will perform the finale from Violin Concerto No. 2 by Henri Wieniawski.

The three other performers were chosen in a competition for Marshall students conducted by the Marshall Symphony Orchestra earlier in the year. Josh Richardson, trumpet, will play Trumpet Concerto No. 1 by Johann Hertel; Nikki Winter, saxophone, will play “Tableaux de Provence for Saxophone” by Paule Maurice; and Yuri McCoy will play the finale from the Piano Concerto No. 3 of Sergei Rachmaninov.

Dr. Solen Dikener, assistant professor of music at Marshall, will conduct the orchestra. He teaches cello and bass at the university as well as conducting the orchestra.

“The Concert of Soloists is a great honor and opportunity for a student,” said Dr. Marshall Onofrio, chair of Marshall’s department of music. “The chances to play a solo with a symphony orchestra while still in school are few and far between.”

The Concert of Soloists is free and open to the public. For further information, persons may contact the Marshall Department of Music at (304) 696-3117.

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