Louise Dubin and Dena Levine - Romantic French Cello Music

Doors open at 7:00 PM | Concert begins at 7:30 PM

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LOUISE DUBIN - An “artist of refined taste and musicianship” (Strad Magazine), cellist Louise Dubin has performed as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player all over the world. Festival appearances include Norfolk, BargeMusic, Tanglewood, Savannah, and Caramoor. Solo performances include her recitals at Salle Gaveau, CRR and Reid Hall (Paris, France), the International Cello Festival (Beauvais, France), and many concerts in New York, South Carolina and North Carolina. In 2023, she premiered Roger Stubblefield’s Divertissement for Cello and Orchestra in Queens, the fourth composition of his she’s premiered. With Stefon Harris, she’s played Carnegie Hall, the Jazz Standard, and Chicago’s Symphony Hall to celebrate their Duke Ellington album “African Tarantella.” Formerly Principal Cellist of both the Charleston Symphony and the Auckland Philharmonia, she currently performs with New Jersey Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular orchestra as well as many other Broadway shows. Her album The Franchomme Project was acclaimed in Canada, UK, France and the US, where Strings Magazine called it a "rare musical treat that unfolds with radiant energy.” She's been featured on NPR’s Classical Tracks, Classical Classroom, and Performance Today. After completing her Bachelor’s degree at Columbia University and Juilliard, she earned a Doctorate from Indiana University School of Music, where she received the Eva Janzer scholarship for her studies with Janos Starker, and two IU Graduate School grants-in-aid awards, which funded her research of Auguste Franchomme in France. Her publications include Selected Works for Cello and Piano by Auguste Franchomme, for which she was commissioned to choose works and write the introduction (Dover Publications, 2017). Today’s concert celebrates her just-released second solo album, which features much of the music you’ll hear today! www.louise-dubin.com

DENA LEVINE - Pianist Dena Levine is Associate Professor of Music at the College of Human Development, Culture, and Media at Seton Hall University, where she is also Director of the Classical Concert Series. As co-founder and pianist of the award-winning Laurel Trio for four years, Dena was a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and ProPiano Debut Series. In addition to their residency on WQXR Radio, their performances included Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Alexander Schneider Series at the New School (New York), the Gardner Museum (Boston), the National Concert Association of Panama, the La Jolla Discovery Series, and the Sacramento Festival of New American Music. Dena has also been a guest on the People's Symphony Series at Town Hall in New York, the Premiere Performances Series in St. Louis, and was a participant at the Tanglewood and Marlboro Music Festivals. Her performances have also brought her to Taiwan, Seoul, France, Holland, Germany, and Spain. She co-founded the Portland Chamber Music Festival in Maine, and was Co-Artistic Director from 1994 through 2010. The festival was featured on WGBH in Boston and American Public Radio's Performance Today, presented in a documentary for Maine Public Television, and showcased in the April 2007 issue of Chamber Music, the magazine for Chamber Music America. Dena gave her own debut recital at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in 2005. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and a Master’s and Doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and has recorded for the CRI label.

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