Concert to feature guests, Dana School professor

STAFF REPORT

YOUNGSTOWN — Three distinguished guests and a Dana School of Music faculty member will present a concert at 8 p.m. Monday in the Ford Family Recital Hall at DeYor Performing Arts Center.

Guest artists Yuri Inoo and Andrea Moore on percussion and Susan Svrcek and Dana faculty member Caroline Oltmanns on piano will headline the event.

Admission is $5 ($4 for seniors/students; free for children under 12 and YSU students and employees). Tickets are available at the door or by calling the Youngstown Symphony Society at (330) 744-0264.

The program will include Bartok’s “Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion” as well as an original piece by composer James Wilding, “Mayan Rites, Fantasy for Two Pianos and Percussion.”

The latter piece is based on a flute purchased by the composer while on vacation in Mexico.

The instrument inspired Wilding to write the 30-minute piece for two pianos and a multitude of percussion, some rarely used in performance.

Though the original Mayan flute is too delicate for the rigors of performance, the concert will include a recorded track of the flute.

A native of Japan, Inoo is a musician and educator in the Los Angeles area.

During her years at USC, she performed and collaborated with such distinguished artists as Yo Yo Ma, John Williams, Daniel Pollack and members of NEXUS.

She is the principal percussionist with the Redlands Symphony in Redlands, Calif.

Moore has performed with the Houston Symphony and Houston Grand Opera, at Music Academy of the West and the National Repertory Orchestra and with new music ensembles Musiqa and Ensemble Green.

Oltmanns has performed as a soloist in Europe, South Africa and North America.

Performances in the United States have included Steinway Hall and Weill Hall in New York City, Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago, Redlands Bown and Leo Bing Theater in Los Angeles.

She recently released her fourth solo album. She is a professor of piano at Youngstown State University.

Svrcek has established a versatile career that includes solo, chamber and orchestral appearances.

As a founding member of Piano Spheres (a recital series promoting new and unusual piano music), she has premiered works by Joan Huang, Benjamin Lees, Frederick Lesemann, and Hyo-shin Na.

She has served on the piano faculties of Scripps College, Claremont Graduate University, and California State University Fullerton.