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WVU music faculty to perform flute, piano recital Sunday
West Virginia University music faculty members Francesca Arnone, flute, and Christine Kefferstan, piano, will present a recital at 3 p.m., Sunday (Sept. 23), in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall at the Creative Arts Center. The event is free and open to the public.
The first half of the program will include “Sechs Lieder für Flöte und Klavier” by Franz Schubert and “Sonata for Flute and Piano” by Srul Irving Glick.
The second half will feature “Sechs Stücke für Flöte und Klavier” by Fikrät Ämirov and “Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 120” by Edwin York Bowen.
“This collection of pieces is one that features works not often heard today, but which we felt deserved attention,” said Arnone, an assistant professor of flute. “It was very interesting to pair two collections of wildly diverse ‘songs’ with two contrasting sonatas, and all from different parts of the world.”
Arnone is a member of the Laureate Wind Quintet and director of the WVU Flute Choir. She earned flute performance degrees from Oberlin, the San Francisco Conservatory and the University of Miami. She served as Principal of the Boise Philharmonic for four seasons and as Piccolo of the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra since 1997.
Prior to this, she was Co-Principal and Piccolo of the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico.
She has performed with the Florida Philharmonic, the Florida West Coast Symphony, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Missouri Chamber Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife in Spain, among others. She has been both a flute and piccolo concerto soloist in the United States and Mexico.
Kefferstan, professor of piano, maintains an active performing career as soloist, chamber musician and accompanist.
She was recently featured as solo artist at the National Institute of Culture and History in Belize City, Belize; on the Stifel Fine Arts Series, Wheeling; the Silver Series, Plymouth, N.H.; and the Steinway Society Series in Pittsburgh.
A graduate of the College-Conservatory of Cincinnati, Kefferstan studied with Israeli pianist David Bar-Illan, and has had additional coaching with Russian pianists Sedmara Rutstein, Oberlin and Viachaslov Gabrielov.
As founding member of the Sarasvati Trio, her ensemble was featured on the Cincinnati Taft Chamber Series in April 2007.
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