Join TCNJ Department of Music for the first Faculty Artist Recital of the Spring 2025 semester. The recital features TCNJ Artist-Teacher of violin, Uli Speth, and collaborators, TCNJ Artist-Teacher of piano, Tomoko Kanamaru, and guests Paul Cho, clarinet, and Michael Newman, cello.

This recital will feature a variety of combinations of four instruments: clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. Only in the last piece, however, will all four instruments be performing together. All four instruments will be introduced, one at a time, in Clara Schumann's Three Romances (1853), followed by music that features strings, then solo bass clarinet, and then solo piano. The middle of the program features a selection from Les Six ("The Six"), a group of twentieth-century French composers who were considered trailblazers in the 1920s. Specifically, music by Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc will be performed, and also a short piece by Erik Satie. Although a generation older and not a member of Les Six,Satie was one of their idols. The concert will finish with a quartet by the very skilled and influential American composer Peter Schickele. Schickele, one of America's most well-known composers in the late twentieth century, came to visit TCNJ as a featured guest artist in 2014.

The Department of Music at The College of New Jersey promotes music study in a program where performance, music education, technology, creativity and scholarship are closely integrated. Soloists and ensembles exemplify the high performance and creativity standards achieved by the Department.

Location: Mildred & Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall [Music Building].

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