Concordia String Trio to present recital

Peoria, Illinois . . . February 7, 2003 . . . The Concordia String Trio will present a recital on Sunday, March 2, at 3 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue. Trio members are Marcia Henry, violinist, Concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra and faculty member at Bradley University; Leslie Perna, violist, and Darry Dolezal, cellist, who are both on the faculty at the University of Missouri Ð Columbia.

The recital will feature the world premiere of a new piece entitled Nightlife, written especially for the Concordia String Trio by Dr. Jeffrey Hoover, Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Illinois Central College. The trio also will perform Sergei Taniev's String Trio in D Major, and will be joined by oboist S. Blake Duncan for the Mozart Oboe Quartet in F Major.

The Concordia String Trio gave a debut recital in March 2000 and has since performed recitals and lecture/demonstrations in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Vermont. In March, the Trio will return to Boston to play concerts and record a new composition at the Berklee School of Music. Last spring they presented a concert of new works written for the Trio by Boston composers at the Tsai Center for the Performing Arts. Last summer, the Trio performed at the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival in Vermont, and has been invited to return for a second season this July.

A review of the Trio's debut recital said, "The Concordia String Trio set a new standard of excellence for chamber music performance in Peoria. They had the telepathic ensemble and bold individual virtuosity that one hopes to hear in this very demanding branch of classical music."

Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Bradley Music Department at 677-2602.