Current Elon University music faculty members Linda Cykert, flute, and Victoria Fischer Faw, piano, will join former Elon faculty member Fabrice Dharamraj, violin, for a recital at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 15 in Whitley Auditorium, located on campus. The recital is free and open to the public.
The program will include Hummel’s “Sonata for Flute and Piano in D major, Op. 50,” Schumann’s “Sonata for Piano and Violin in a minor, Op. 105,” and Martinu’s “Sonata for Flute, Violin and Piano.”
Cykert is a member of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the Roanoke Symphony, the Winston-Salem Symphony and the North Carolina Symphony. In 2005, she performed with Los Angeles composer and guitarist Christopher Caliendo at MusikFest in Bethlehem, Pa. Cykert is a past winner in the National Flute Association’s Solo Masterclass Competition and won positions in the NFA Professional Flute Choirs from 1993 to 1996.
Fischer Faw pursues an active career as a performer, scholar and teacher, with recent activities in the United States, Puerto Rico, Italy, Hungary and England. She has served as a visiting professor at Aristotle University in Greece and at the University of Belize. Fischer Faw specializes in the music of Béla Bartók. She is a first-prize winner of the Bartók-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition.
Dharamraj has performed as Associate Concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony and as Principal Second of the Winston-Salem Symphony. In 2005, Dharamraj debuted with the New European Strings Chamber Orchestra on an 18-concert tour across the United States. He serves as adjunct professor at Wake Forest University and is an instructor at the Salem College Community Music School.
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