The Hamilton College Department of Music presents pianist Elinor Freer with cellist David Ying on Monday, April 16, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The concert will feature the music of Franz Schubert, Francis Poulenc, Frederic Chopin, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Sergei Prokofieff.
A native of Montana, pianist Elinor Freer has performed as soloist and chamber musician across the United States, Europe, and China. In America she has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Georgia, Kansas, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Tennessee, and her numerous performances have been broadcast on public radio and television stations across the country. Ms. Freer has given multiple performances at The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and has appeared at the Valery Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam.
Other credits include successive recordings for national Dutch radio, touring Germany and Holland with Ensemble Ascoltate, a German ensemble dedicated to the performance of work by women composers, and performing in Moscow under the sponsorship of the Dutch government. She was also twice awarded grants to study and perform at the Akademie Muizicky Chumeni in Prague. In 1996, Ms. Freer was one of two American pianists selected by Pacific Artists International to perform throughout Northern and Southern China in tours designed to promote cultural relations between the US and China.
David Ying is best known to audiences as the cellist of the Ying Quartet. This string quartet composed of four siblings from Winnetka, Illinois, has become one of the best known and most highly regarded young ensembles on the American classical music scene. Formed in 1988 while still students at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, the quartet won the International Cleveland Quartet competition in 1989, made its New York debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in 1991, and won the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1993. Their active touring schedule has included appearances in major cities across North America, as well as concerts in Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, England, Sweden, Austria, and Estonia. The quartet has also held residencies sponsored by Northwestern University and Kansas City Friends of Chamber Music, and they conduct a variety of outreach programs in connection with concert engagements across the nation. In addition, they have performed at the White House at the invitation of former President and Mrs. Clinton, and for members of Congress in a National Endowment for the Arts presentation.
This concert is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. For more information, call the Hamilton College Performing Arts ticket office at (315) 859-4331.
