Faculty and Friends Concert to feature distinguished professor of violin

The Department of Music will present the final concert in the 2015-16 Faculty and Friends Concert Series at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 12, in Rowe Recital Hall. The concert features Anne R. Belk Distinguished Professor of Violin David Russell with guest pianist Kyle Linscheid.

Prior to coming to UNC Charlotte, Russell served on the violin faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music for 24 years and was a visiting faculty member at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. He has taught in some of the world’s most prestigious violin programs and currently directs the annual “Mountaintop Mastercourse for Violin” in Elizabethtown, N.Y., a program that attracts students from around the globe. He is co-director of “Masterclass Andalusia,” a week-long violin masterclass in Cordoba, Spain.

Linscheid has served as staff pianist at the University of Louisville School of Music and for the Quartet Program and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts. Linscheid makes his home in Morgantown, W. Va., where he collaborates as a pianist within the West Virginia University music community. Together, he and Russell have performed numerous concerts in the United States, Canada, France, Portugal and Spain.

The April 12 program includes three works for violin and piano: Stravinsky’s “Suite Italienne”; Beethoven’s Sonata in G Major, Opus 96; and Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano.

Tickets are $18 for general admission; $12 for UNC Charlotte faculty, staff and alumni; $10 for seniors; and $8 for students and can be purchased at the Robinson Hall Box Office, by phone at 704-687-1849 or online.