Violist to lead program of classical music in State College

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State faculty violist Timothy Deighton and friends will present a program of classical music at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 2, as part of the Music Series at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County, 780 Waupelani Drive Extension. 

The music in the program will range from the baroque to contemporary.  

Deighton enjoys a varied career as a teacher and performer. He has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australasia, and has received several awards for his work, including the American Viola Society’s 2016 Maurice W. Riley Award for outstanding contributions to teaching and commissioning and performing new music for viola. In 2014, Deighton presented the prestigious William Primrose Memorial concert at Brigham Young University. He performs regularly with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with which he has recorded and toured.

To begin the program, Deighton will be joined by Penn State faculty violinist Max Zorin and graduate student violinist Alma Bulibekova to perform a work by Antonin Dvorak. Zorin maintains a busy performing schedule in addition to teaching violin and chamber music.  

Saxophonist Carrie Koffman will join him to perform a piece by Hillary Tann, a Welsh-born composer who currently teaches at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. They also will perform a new composition by Erberk Eryilmaz, a Turkish composer, pianist and conductor who is currently studying at Rice University in Houston.

The final number in the program will be J.S. Bach’s ‘Sixth Brandenburg Concerto,’ which features two solo violas. Joining Deighton for this performance will be New York violist Nardo Poy, a long-time member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra who also performs with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra and the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra. A string ensemble of Penn State music students and faculty harpsichordist Mark Ferraguto will join the violists in this work.  

Admission for the event is $15; college students are $5 and younger students attend free. 

For more information, call (814) 237-7605 or visit www.uufcc.com.