Wednesday November 5, 2008
CAPE FEAR CHAMBER PLAYERS
7:30 pm
Beckwith Recital Hall, Cultural Arts building, Randall Drive
$5 general admission
Free to students with valid UNCW ID.
Cultural Arts building box office opens at 6:30 pm the night of the performance.
Cape Fear Chamber Players perform Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor, op. 50.
Domonique Launey, piano
Beverly Andrews, violin
Kathy Meyer, cello
BEVERLY ANDREWS, violin, is co-concertmaster of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra and a founding member of Cape Fear Chamber Players. Her earliest musical studies were with her pianist mother, whose family line has played violin or piano since arriving in America in the 1700's. She went on to study in Midland, MI with Virginia Dent, then in Zurich, Switzerland with Fr. Marlis Moser of the Lucerne Symphony, then at Albion College with Dr. Philip Mason, and finally with Dr. Bruce Berg of Duke University. More recently she has enjoyed coachings with Scott Rawls of UNCG and Ervin Schiffer and Kati Sebestyen of Deurne, Belgium. She is former first violinist with the Jackson MI, Battlecreek MI, Lafayette IN, Durham and Raleigh NC symphonies as well as the St. Stephens Chamber Orchestra and Memorial Auditorium's North Carolina Theatre. In addition to her concert career, Beverly enjoys teaching advanced violin students at her studio in Kure Beach. She is a mother of three children: an opera singer in Florence, Italy, a violinist at UNC Chapel Hill, and a race car driver in Dallas, TX. Beverly plays on a special Gemunder violin made in 1895 by a German immigrant who studied violin making under Jean Baptiste Villaume in Paris. After 111 years, the violin was recently discovered resting in a closet covered with black heating oil soot. Last year, it was featured in the Library of Congress as a beautiful example of American Violin Making.
DOMONIQUE LAUNEY is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and resides in Wilmington with her family. She began her musical studies with Phillip Martina, later completing her Bachelors and Masters degrees in performance at the University of Texas at Austin studying with David Renner and Nancy Garrett. During postgraduate work in Brussels, Belgium, she worked with Nadine Deletaille and was awarded the Gold Medal at L'Academie de Musique for piano performance. She has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe as soloist, chamber musician, and featured soloist with many orchestras such as the San Antonio, Shreveport, Oklahoma, L'Orchestre de Chapelle Minimes, Houston Chamber, University of Texas, Tallis Chamber as well as the Wilmington Symphony.
Ms. Launey has particularly enjoyed collaborating with Steve Errante and the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra performing the Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto as well as K.271 and K.466 of Amadeus Mozart. In the spring of this year, she also worked with the Houston Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Mike Lowe, performing the Mozart Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra. Ms. Launey performs regularly as a member of the Cape Fear Chamber Players, teaches in her private studio and is also actively involved in the Cape Fear Music Teachers Association. She enjoys spending time with her husband, three musical daughters, and two hilarious canines.
KATHY MEYER is a native of Atlanta, GA where she studied cello with Donovan Schumacher, Jere Flint, Martha Bishop, and Martha Gerchevski. Ms. Meyer studied with Richard Maag at Furman University, where she earned a BS degree in Biology. She continued her musical training at Drake University with John Ehrlich and fostered her love of chamber music in Maine with Joseph Fuchs and Lorne Munroe. Kathy has been a member of the Greenville, SC and Des Moines, IA symphonies as well as the Atlanta Chamber Orchestra. She is currently principal cellist of the Wilmington Symphony and the Tallis Chamber Orchestra and is a founding member of the Cape Fear Chamber Players formed in 1991. She and her husband Clint have three children who are also string players. Ms. Meyer plays a cello made by H.C. Silvestre in Lyon, France 1863.
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