Noon-Ten Concert: William Lawing, trumpet and Cynthia Lawing, piano

Name: Noon-Ten Concert: William Lawing, trumpet and Cynthia Lawing, piano
Start: 2025-10-07T12:10:00-04:00
Location: 131 W Council St, Salisbury, NC, United States, North Carolina 28144

Schedule

Tue, 07 Oct, 2025 at 12:10 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

131 W Council St, Salisbury, NC, United States, North Carolina 28144 | Salisbury, NC

All are invited to the Fall Noon-Ten Concert series at St. Luke's Episcopal Church. This fall series features a variety of accomplished musicians, each presenting about one hour of music. Concerts are every Tuesday in October at 12:10pm in the church. Admission is free, with the opportunity provided to support Arts at St. Luke's programming.
About the October 7th artists:
William Lawing enjoys a distinguished career as a solo, chamber and symphonic musician. A lifelong classical symphonic musician, he currently performs with the Charlotte Civic Symphony, Orchestra Carolina, and the North Carolina Brass Band. Concerto and solo performances have included concerts with the Charlotte Symphony and Charlotte Pops, the Chamber Orchestra of Macau, the Western Piedmont Symphony, the Lee County Orchestra, and the Davidson College Symphony Orchestra. He performed for over 40 years with Carolina Brass, a quintet largely from the Charlotte Symphony, and he was a member of the Western Piedmont Symphony for 15 years. With pianist Cynthia Lawing, he gives annual international performance tours. Recent performances have included concerts in Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, China, Taiwan, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Over his career, he has had the privilege to perform under the batons of Loren Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Aaron Copland; perform symphonic concerts with Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Sarah Vaughan, Bernadette Peters, Johnny Mathis, Aretha Franklin, Bela Fleck, and the Kruger Brothers. He is the J. Estes Millner Endowed Professor of Music Emeritus at Davidson. College, NC, having recently retired after a distinguished career. His classes focused upon different distinctly American musical genres, and he directed the jazz program at Davidson. He received three distinguished teaching awards. While officially retired, he is active in the community as a performer and as a teacher, especially through Davidson Learns, a community teaching and learning institute, and he has developed and produces a concert series of Traditional Southern Appalachian Music at Davidson. Outside of music, he spends much of his free time mentoring high-school refugees in Charlotte, guiding them through the college application and enrollment process. His personal time is shared between gardening, golf, and eight wonderful grandchildren.

Beginning her piano study in Hong Kong at the age of four, Cynthia Lawing was recognized as an outstanding concert pianist at an early age. Her performance career has taken her throughout the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia, where she has served as artist in residence and has given master classes and individual lessons. She has performed with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Macau Philharmonic Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony, the Davidson College Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, the Springfield Symphony, Salisbury Symphony, and Western Piedmont Symphony, performing concertos of Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Ravel, Shostakovich, Bach, Grieg, Saint-Saens, Poulenc, and Gershwin. She has been privileged to perform notable private recitals, including a private recital for Madame Chiang Kai-shek. In addition to her solo work, she has enjoyed a lifelong partnership with her sister, Gloria Cook, as duo pianists. The two have frequently toured together, in the U.S. and in Asia, and have performed many recitals and concertos, most recently with the Bach Aria Orchestra. She has enjoyed being a chamber performer throughout her career. In addition to her many collaborative performances with William Lawing, trumpet, she is in great demand as a pianist with other performers, and as a member of larger chamber ensembles. She was a member of the Chamber Music Society of Charlotte, the Rhodora Trio, and most recently a member of the Bechtler Ensemble. She is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Piano at Davidson College, NC. She has given lectures, lecture-recitals, and master classes at many colleges and universities, and she serves frequently as judge for piano competitions. As testament to her lifelong dedication to teaching, she was inducted as a charter member into the Steinway Teacher’s Hall of Fame. She is especially in demand as a clinician for the NCMTA’s annual workshops on competition repertoire. Additionally, she serves regularly as a consultant, clinician and lecturer in the discipline of Dalcroze Eurythmics, in which she holds a separate degree. She is also a composer of a large number of works for piano, for solo instrument and piano, and for choir.