Chamber Music at the Gallery series presents its final program of the season at the Art Trail Gallery on Sunday, April 28th with the Atlantean Trio. The performance is at 5PM followed by a reception. Ticket are $10 each available at the door. The gallery is located at the corner of Irby and Evans in downtown Florence.
THE ATLANTEAN PIANO TRIO was formed in 2005 by Department of Music faculty members at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. The trio’s name was created to complement UNCW's award-winning, student-produced creative magazine the Atlantis, which in turn reflects the university’s unique Atlantic Ocean coastal location in beautiful Wilmington, North Carolina. Richard Thomas and Barry Salwen are original members; Abigail Van Steenhuyse joined the trio in 2011. Since its establishment, the trio has performed regularly at university and college venues and recital series in North and South Carolina.
ABIGAIL VAN STEENHUYSE, originally from Annapolis, Maryland, received degrees in violin performance from East Carolina University and University of Michigan. She is the winner of the Mary Ruth Hardy Violin Scholarship and the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. Performing in various festivals and ensembles Van Steenhuyse has toured England, Iceland, Scotland, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, and Canada. After completing a three-year training program in 2008, she became an AmSAT (American Society for the Alexander Technique, (www.amsatonline.org) certified teacher of the Alexander Technique from Alexander Technique Ann Arbor (ATAA), directed by Jane Heirich. Van Steenhuyse is on the faculty of the Paul Rolland String Method Workshop at George Mason University where she teaches the Alexander Technique and has recently presented Alexander Technique workshops to musicians at East Carolina University and University of North Carolina Wilmington. Van Steenhuyse is a member of the Wilmington and Long Bay Symphonies, and has been teaching violin for ten years.
RICHARD THOMAS is Assistant Professor of Music at Presbyterian College and Director of the Presbyterian College Chamber Orchestra. He is a former member of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Colombia (Bogotá) the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) and a former faculty member of the Universidad del Cauca, Universidad del Valle in Colombia, and the Conservatorio Nacional in the Dominican Republic. Most recently he served on the faculties of the South Carolina Governor‘s School for the Arts and Humanities, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, was principal cellist of the Wilmington Symphony and was String Department Head at Camp Encore-Coda in Sweden, Maine from 1999-2008. In June of 2010 he gave solo recitals in Japan including performances at the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, and Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai and gave master classes at the Jhong-Shin School in Taipei, Taiwan. Thomas studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, DePauw University, the University of North Texas, and received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of South Carolina. Thomas plays a 2004 Grubaugh and Seifert cello.
BARRY DAVID SALWEN is an international concert pianist, giving performances and master classes in the US, Europe, Israel, and Asia. He gave two weeks of master classes at the Shanghai Conservatory in China, among many other places. More recently, as the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Scholars Grant, he gave a semester’s seminar at the Music Conservatory in Freiburg, Germany. Dr. Salwen received his bachelors, masters, and doctorate in piano from The Juilliard School. Following that he studied at the Music Academy in Vienna as the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship. His annual master classes at UNCW have been attended by students from all over eastern North Carolina. Among Dr. Salwen’s nine CDs is the first recording of the complete solo piano music of the American master Roger Sessions; he is the first artist to record all of these works. In 2005 the recording was reissued on Albany Records. This year his recording of the Sessions piano concerto will be reissued as well.
Please join us for another exciting afternoon of music with these extraordinarily talented musicians.
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