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Guest Artist Recital: Wanchi Huang, violin & Jeffrey Lastrapes, cello
Venue: Squires Recital Salon, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Time: 8:00 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
General Public: $5.00 Seniors: $3.00 Students: $3.00

Description:
Wanchi Huang, violin and Jeffrey Lastrapes, cello perform an evening recital. Music will include pieces by Bach, Schubert and Ravel.

Guest Artist Recitals are $5 general, $3 senior, and $3 student. Tickets are available at the venue door beginning one hour prior to the performance.

Jeffrey Noel Lastrapes is an active soloist, chamber musician and teacher having performed and taught in Europe, South America and in every region of the US. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School where he studied with Orlando Cole and Harvey Shapiro respectively. He has held positions on the faculties of Oklahoma State University and the Collegiate School (NY), and is the former cellist of the Lindsayan String Quartet.

He has recorded for New World Records, West Virginia University Press, and Centaur Records. He is a frequent guest at festivals around the US and abroad. He has participated in the Evian Festival, France, Sevenars Festival (MA), Bellingham Festival (WA), Interlochen (MI), and the OK Mozart Festival (OK). He has also performed concerts and given master classes at prestigious universities and schools of music including the University of Iowa, the University of Utah, Wesleyan University, and Catholic University.

Mr. Lastrapes teaches at Texas Tech University, is the cellist and founding member of Quartet-a-tete Piano Quartet and has been on the cello and chamber music faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts since 1996. Mr. Lastrapes performs on a Francesco Ruggieri cello dated 1684.

Wanchi Huang began violin lessons with her mother in her native country Taiwan at the age of six. Before the age of 13, she had won numerous Taiwan-wide competitions in both violin and piano including the Taiwan National Violin Competition. At 13, she came to the US to study with Daniel Heifetz and Shirley Givens at the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory Division, and attend the Baltimore School for the Arts.

At 15, she made her solo debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Catherine Comet.Wanchi received her Bachelor from the Curtis Institute of Music, her Masters from The Julliard School, and her Doctor of Music from the Indiana University School of Music. She has given recitals and collaborated with internationally renowned artists in performances throughout the US including Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, Minnesota, California, Virginia, and the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater in Washington D.C.

She taught at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan before coming to JMU in 1998. Wanchi recently contracted with Centaur Records to record all six of Eugene Ysaÿe’s Violin Sonatas.

For more information, visit: http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/