Internationally acclaimed musician Dr. Stephen Framil, who has the distinction of being the first American cellist to perform in Hanoi since end of the Vietnam War, will appear on Wednesday, November 17, 2010, at 7 p.m., in Dolan Performance Hall, Annunciation Center, at the College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J.
Dr. Framil will perform a varied program for cello and piano including pieces by Bach, sonatas by Schubert, Shostakovich, and shorter virtuoso pieces by Paganini and Cassado. This program is a preview of a recital Dr. Framil will be performing at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, November 21. For more information, call 973-290-4379 or email events@cse.edu.
Dr. Framil has performed as concert soloist, chamber musician and conductor at concert halls around the world: including Carnegie, Weill, and Avery-Fisher halls in New York; Hong Kong City Hall, with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra from Hungary; Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia; Manila Philharmonic Orchestra in the Philippines; Viêt Nam National Symphony Orchestra; and the Bombay and Bangalore Chamber Orchestras in India. He is the music director/conductor of CAMERATA PHILADELPHIA and artistic director of the Port City Music Festival in North Carolina.
As a versatile and dedicated educator, Dr. Framil, who holds a doctorate in music from Indiana University, has given cello and chamber music master classes at many prestigious music institutions worldwide, including the Shanghai Conservatory, China; DePaul University, Chicago; Longy School of Music, Boston; Blair School of Music, Nashville, Tenn.; and Volgograd Conservatory, Russia. He has been an adjudicator for the Hong Kong Schools of Music Festival, and the Schadt String Competition in Allentown, Pa.
An advocate of inner-city music education, Dr. Framil is the director of the Philadelphia Community Conservatory and the Philadelphia Youth Ensemble, programs that provide music lessons and orchestral experience to underserved youth. Dr. Framil has held professorships at the University of Delaware, Andrews University, Michigan; and Towson University Maryland.
Dr. Framil has recorded the complete J.S. Bach Suites for Solo Cello, as well as the works for Solo Cello by Zoltán Kodály and Gaspar Cassadó. for Radio 4 Hong Kong. He has also recorded the two Haydn cello concertos with Paul Freeman and Czech National Symphony Orchestra for Centaur Records.
Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls approximately 2,000 full and part-time students in 27 undergraduate programs, nine graduate degree programs, and one doctoral program. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.
