Faculty Performance Features Cello

David Starkweather, UGA professor of cello, will perform a recital on Tuesday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Ramsey Hall at the UGA Performing Arts Center.  Admission is free.

The program will begin with a solo piece by Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite No. 5 in C Minor from the six suites Bach wrote for solo cello.  In this suite, Bach specified that the top string is tuned down one step, which enhances the resonance in C minor and makes possible various chords that are not possible with normal tuning.  Starkweather received the UGA Creative Research Medal for his research and DVD recording of Bach's six suites.  For the second portion of the program, Starkweather will be joined by UGA professor of guitar Daniel Bolshoy.  They will perform an arrangement of the Heitor Villa-Lobos Bachianas No. 5 Aria, which was originally written for soprano and eight cellos.  Villa-Lobos arranged it for soprano and guitar, but in this performance the cello will play the soprano part.  Starkweather and Bolshoy will also perform the Radamés Gnattali Sonata for Guitar and Cello, an entertaining three-movement work with an authentic Brazilian flavor.  The recital will conclude with the César Franck Sonata for Cello and Piano, played by Starkweather and UGA faculty accompanist Damon Denton.  Written originally for violin and piano, it was composed in Paris in 1886, and is one of Franck's most well-known and beloved works.