Blessed and Beholden Christmas Recital
Schedule
Sun Dec 21 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Metropolitan Library System (300 Park Ave, Oklahoma City) | Oklahoma City, OK
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Blessed and Beholden Chamber Music will be holding their 3rd AnnualChristmas Recital on Sunday, December 21st at 3:00 pm.
The featured musicians are Violinist, Tiffany Rogalin, and Pianist, Elena
Lyalina. They will perform musical selections by Piotr Illich Tchaikovsky, George
Frederic Handel, Jules Massenet, Antonio
Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli, Franz Schubert to be
performed.
Additionally, come and enjoy a Sing Along of the“Hallelujah Chorus”
from Handel’s Messiah, and Traditional Christmas Carols.
The Concert will be performed at the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Library’s
46th Star Auditorium, 300 Park Ave- 4th Floor, Oklahoma City, OK 73102,
located in Downtown Oklahoma City (Please note that the Metropolitan Library
System does not endorse or sponsor this event).
An assortment of Parking options are available close to the venue.
Food and Drink refreshments will be served.
No Tickets are Required.
Biography of Tiffany Rogalin:
Tiffany (Sammons) Rogalin is an accomplished classical violinist based in
Oklahoma City. As a performing artist for over three decades, Tiffany Rogalin has
showcased her talents on both violin and viola in the United States and France.
During her career, she has worked with chamber music groups such as the Blessed
and Beholden Chamber Ensemble, the Tiffany Duo, Beyond String Quartet, among
others. Her orchestral career has led to her performing professionally on stage with
esteemed orchestras including the Fort Smith Symphony, the National Symphony
Orchestra, the Aretha Franklin Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, the
Alexandria Symphony, the Chicago Philharmonic, and the National Philharmonic
Orchestra. At the age of sixteen (16) she performed solo with the National
Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed solo with the Glenelg Chamber
Orchestra and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Chamber Orchestra. Her
volunteer community service involvement has included performing with the
Crossings Community Church Orchestra, the Capital City Symphony in
Washington, DC, the Oklahoma Community Orchestra, the Oklahoma Chamber
Orchestra and the Worship Band at Calvary Chapel in Bethany, OK.
Tiffany studied violin performance at Carnegie Mellon University, and the
University of Maryland College Park with world renowned violinist, Daniel
Heifetz. Her other principal teachers were Elisabeth Adkins, Ulrich Eichenauer,
violist, Hugh Partridge, and Colin Sorgi.
Biography of Elena Lyalina:
Elena Lyalina currently serves as a collaborative pianist at Oklahoma State
University. Before this role, she held a teaching position for piano majors at
Togliatti Music College named after R. K. Shchedrin. Additionally, she served as a
collaborative pianist at the Killington Music Festival, Heifetz International Music
Institute (PEG program), and Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory in Russia.
Elena earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance from
the University of Georgia. Her notable mentors include Evgeny Rivkin, Dmitri
Vorobiev, Valery Starynin, and Irina Bogdanova. She also participated in the
International Summer Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg under the guidance of
Dominique Merlet. Furthermore, she engaged in master classes led by renowned
musicians like Michel Beroff, Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, Philippe Entremont, Wu
Han, Jerome Lowenthal, and Dina Yoffe.
She was a prize winner of the University of Georgia Concerto Competition
(Athens, GA), Pro Mozart Society of Atlanta Competition (Atlanta), two National
Chamber Competitions in Syzran and Volgograd (Russia), and Samara Regional
Piano Competition (Russia), and a recipient of Sigma Alpha Iota Jan Fowler Cross
and Calhoun Piano Scholarship awards. Elena has appeared as a soloist and
chamber musician in Belgium, Greece, France, Italy, and Portugal.
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