Carleton College's faculty string ensemble, The Veblen Trio, presents a recital on Friday, Feb. 6, at 8 p.m. in the Carleton Concert Hall. The program will include "Piano Trio in E flat, Op. 1, No. 1" by Ludwig van Beethoven, "String Trio" by Phillip Rhodes, Carleton's composer-in-residence, and "Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 60" by Johannes Brahms. The event is free and open to the public.
The Veblen Trio is composed of Carleton faculty members Hector Valdivia (violin), Tom Rosenberg (cello) and Elizabeth Ericksen (viola). Guest artist Kathryn Ananda-Owens (piano) joins them for the program.
Valdivia, associate professor of music and the S. Eugene Bailey Director of the Carleton Orchestra, directs upper string studies and chamber music at the College. The founder of the Veblen Trio, he is an active recitalist and chamber musician and has served as concertmaster of the Williamsport Symphony and the Washington-Idaho Symphony. Valdivia performed and recorded "Variations on Balkan Themes" by Amy Beach with the Moravian Philharmonic of the Czech Republic. He has been the guest conductor of all-state orchestra festivals in Washington, Pennsylvania and New York.
Rosenberg, adjunct instructor in cello, is also the cellist of the Artaria String Quartet. A resident of Saint Paul, he is also on the faculties of Macalester College and the University of Minnesota. During the summers, he has served artist/teacher at the Tanglewood Institute, the Quartet Program, Bravo and Stringwood. He was a founding member of the Chester String Quartet with whom he regularly appeared on concert stages and live radio in the U.S., Canada, Central America and Europe. Rosenberg has given performances in all of the major chamber music halls in New York City, both as a member of the Chester String Quartet and as solo cellist of The New York Chamber Ensemble.
Ericksen, lecturer in music, received a B.S. in music education and a M.M. in violin performance and string literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. In addition to teaching at Carleton, she is an instructor at the MacPhail Center for the Arts in Minneapolis and a founding member of the Sartory String Quartet. As an orchestral member of the Plymouth Music Series, she has participated in award-winning recordings. During the summer she teaches at the MacPhail String Academy, serves as managing director and coach at the Sartory String Quartet Institute and travels to Marquette, Mich., to perform and teach with the Superior String Alliance Festival Orchestra.
Ananda-Owens is assistant professor of music at St. Olaf College, where she has taught since 1997. She won first prize in the inaugural WPR Neale-Silva Young Artists Competition and enjoys an active career as a performer and teacher. A laureate of the American Pianists Association Biennial Fellowship Competition, she has performed as a soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, toured internationally as piano soloist with the St. Olaf Orchestra, and has appeared at Lincoln Center. A founding member of the New Horizons Chamber Ensemble, Ananda-Owens also performs with the Melius Trio and has collaborated in chamber music with members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Her concerts have been broadcast on radio and television on three continents and recorded on the Westmark label.
Carleton's Concert Hall is located in the upper level of the College's Music and Drama Center at the corner of First and Winona Streets and is handicap accessible.
For more information and disability accommodations, call the Carleton music department at (507) 646-4347.