The West Virginia University Piano Quartet will complete its 2011-2012 season with a faculty program at the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall in the Creative Arts Center on March 5 at 8:15 p.m.
Performers in the group include James Miltenberger, piano, Mikylah Myers-McTeer, violin, Andrea Houde, viola, and William Skidmore, cello.
The concert will feature “Klavier-Qartett KV 478” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and “Quatuor en La Majeur, Op. 30” by Ernest Chausson (1855-1899).
The performance is free and open to the public.
Mozart produced two piano quartets in his life with his most famous being the one in G Minor. Chausson’s piano quartet in A Major epitomizes the style of late French Romanticism.
Miltenberger serves as instructor of piano, piano repertoire, and jazz piano at WVU. He received his bachelor’s degree from Miami University and a master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music. He has toured extensively as a soloist and performed at Carnegie Hall and with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
McTeer is an associate professor of violin at WVU and coordinator of the WVU String Area. She received her bachelor’s degree in music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She followed that with doctoral and master’s degrees in violin performance from the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music.
Houde joined the faculty of WVU this year as an assistant professor of viola. She received a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Memphis and continued her studies at the Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University, where she earned her master’s in viola performance.
Skidmore is currently a professor of cello and coach of the resident graduate string quartet at WVU. He previously taught at University of Maryland, where he was also a member of the Baltimore Symphony for four seasons. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois.
For more information contact the College of Creative Arts at 304-293-4359.
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CONTACT: Charlene Lattea, College of Creative Arts
304-293-4359, Charlene.Lattea@mail.wvu.edu
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