Piano trio to perform classical music April 20

GETTYSBURG, Pa. - A piano, cello and violin trio will perform April 20 at Gettysburg College.

The 2:30 p.m. program will take place in Schmucker Hall's Paul Recital Hall located along North Washington Street. The classical music recital will feature the Sunderman Piano Trio. Sunderman Conservatory of Music professors Jocelyn Swigger, Yeon-Su Kim and Daniel Levitov will play pieces from Mendelssohn, Mozart and Shostakovich.

Swigger has performed as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician in the United States, Europe and South America. She earned bachelor's degrees in piano performance and English at Oberlin College. At the Eastman School of Music she earned a master's and doctorate in piano performance and literature and a master's in pedagogy of theory. As a collaborative artist she has played for the Manhattan School of Music, Quartet Program at Bucknell University and Julliard School. As a concerto soloist she has performed with the Albuquerque Chamber Orchestra and at the Music in the Mountains Festival in Colorado. She is the coordinator of keyboard studies at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music.

As the first violinist of the Cosmos Quartet, Kim has also performed with the Amadeus Quartet, Borodin Quartet and Tokyo Quartet. Kim was the recipient of numerous prizes from the Semmering Competition and Leverhulme Fellowship in England. As a recitalist and chamber musician, she has performed and taught in festivals in Austria, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy, Korea and United States. She has given performances on the BBC Radio and the German National Radio. Kim has taught at the University of Massachusetts as a visiting lecturer and at Amherst College since 2002. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal Academy of Music in London, Yale University and Boston University.

Levitov is a professor of cello at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music and the newly appointed conductor of the Gettysburg College-Community Orchestra. Levitov is also the director of the Peabody Young Artists Orchestra and coordinator of preparatory cello at the Peabody Institute. Levitov has performed as a concerto soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi, Mendocino Festival Orchestra and Peabody Camerata. He is a cellist with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Levitov earned his bachelor's degree from the Oberlin Conservatory, master's from the Manhattan School of Music and doctorate of musical arts from the City University of New York.

The Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College combines Gettysburg's superb music tradition and its strengths as one of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges. Established in 2005 through a $15.7 million gift from 1919 graduate Dr. F. William Sunderman Sr., the conservatory offers three degrees -- bachelor of music in performance, bachelor of arts in music, and bachelor of science in music education -- as well as a minor in music.

Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with approximately 2,600 students. It is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. The college was founded in 1832.

Issued: 4/14/08
By: Justin Brower, class of 2010