DePoy will make debut at Ford Hall

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YOUNGSTOWN — Bryan DePoy, newly appointed Dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts at Youngstown State University, will make his Youngstown-area musical debut Sept. 13 at Ford Family Recital Hall on West Federal St., downtown.

Tickets will be available at the door or by calling the Youngstown Symphony at (330) 744-4269.

DePoy will team with fellow trumpeter and Dana faculty member Chris Krummel in a performance of Vivaldi’s “C Major Concerto for Two Trumpets, Strings and Continuo.” Guest artist and Baroque keyboard specialist Marcelene Mayhall will anchor the Continuo throughout the first half of the concert.

DePoy has music degrees from Indiana University and the University of Mexico, and a doctorate in music performance from Florida State University. His performance experience includes the Memphis Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, New Mexico Symphony and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra.

Aside from being an active soloist and clinician, DePoy was the music reviews editor for the International Trumpet Guild Journal from 1996-2006, and has published articles in that periodical, as well as the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Journal.

Before arriving at Youngstown State University, DePoy served on the music faculties and as an administrator at Delta State University and Southeastern Louisiana University.

The Sept. 13 concert will be marked by two contrasting performance styles. The first will feature guest artist and Baroque string specialist Brendan Considine and violinist Karen Considine, along with graduate cellist Maria Fesz in an early-music period performance of Corelli’s “Concerto Grosso in C, Op. 6 No. 10.”

The second will feature graduate violinist Mariana Szalaj and senior violinist Justin Jones in a more contemporary rendition of Vivaldi’s “Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins and Violoncello, Op. 3, No. 11.”

The tuneful and charming “Serenade for Strings” by Joseph Suk (1874-1935), a string work on par with the more famous Tchaikovsky and Dvorak String Serenades, will follow intermission, and Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances will conclude the concert.