Artist Recital Series: Barry David Salwen & Sara Westermark

Monday April 24, 2006
The UNCW Department of Music presents pianist Barry David Salwen and soprano Sara Westermark in an Artist Recital Series at 8 p.m. on Monday, Apr. 24 in Kenan Auditorium.

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This concert is free and open to the public. For more program information please contact the Department of Music events hotline at 910-962-7416.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Dr. Barry Salwen is an international concert pianist, giving performances and master classes in the U.S., Europe, Israel, and Asia. He gave two weeks of master classes at the Shanghai Conservatory in China, among many other places. His annual master classes at UNCW have been attended by students from all over eastern North Carolina. More recently, as the recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Grant, he gave a semester's seminar at the Music Conservatory in Freiburg, Germany.

Among Dr. Salwen's nine CDs is the first recording of the complete solo piano music of the American master Roger Sessions; he is the first artist to record all of these works. The recording is set to be reissued on Albany Records. In 2006, Albany will be issuing his recording of Sessions' piano concerto.

Dr. Salwen is currently an associate professor of music at UNCW.

Sara Graham Westermark (formerly Sara White) performs and teaches in the Wilmington area. She received both a bachelor’s degree in voice performance (’96) and a master’s degree in voice performance (’98) from the University of Missouri. While attending the University of Missouri, she performed at the female lead in the opera productions for four years. She also received academic honors (cum Laude & Superior Graduate Achievement Award) and won several voice competitions (NATS ’96 & ’98). She has been a soloist with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, the UNCW Concert Choir, the Southeastern Oratorio Society, the Wilmington Oratorio Society, and with many local church choirs. In addition to performing, she teaches choir at local private elementary schools, works with “Dreams” students, and maintains a private voice studio.