The Fulbright College department of music will feature guest cellist Felice Farrell in concert on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. She will be accompanied on piano by Hee-Kyung Juhn. Pieces by Beethoven, Bartok, and Rachmaninoff will be performed.
Felice Farrell received her early musical education on the piano, violin, and cello with her parents and grandfather in Utica, New York. After studying at the University of Syracuse and Eastman School of Music, she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees of Music with the Performer’s Certificate at Indiana University. Her first major appointment, at age twenty-three, was with the Minnesota Orchestra as assistant, associate, and then acting principal cello. Later she was the principal cellist in the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. She taught throughout that period at the University of Minnesota.
She was also accepted into the Affiliate Artist Management of New York City and was on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music. In New York she met Dr. Robert Farrell and moved to Little Rock, Arkansas. Farrell began a chamber music series at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, taught at the University of Central Arkansas, and continues performing locally and statewide with colleagues.
Pianist Hee-Kyung Juhn is the Director of Keyboard Studies at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia. She joined Henderson after six years of teaching at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She has degrees from Juilliard School (MM) and Indiana University (DM); and she has participated in music festivals such as Tanglewood, Aspen, Bowdoin, and Yale Piano Summer Institute.
The Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall is located in the Fine Arts Building on the UA campus. Free parking is available in the parking deck, which can be accessed from Stadium Drive and is located directly to the west of the Fine Arts Building. The admission is free and the public is cordially invited to attend. For more information, please call the department of music at (479) 575-4701 or visit us on the web at www.uark.edu/depts/uamusic.
Program
Sonata, Op. 5, No. 1, in F major Ludwig van Beethoven
Adagio sostenuto – Allegro (1770-1827)
Rondo – Allegro vivace
Duos, originally for two violins Bela Bartok
Transcribed for two cellos by Gates/Farrell (1881-1945)
Sonata, Op. 19, in g minor Sergei Rachmaninoff
Lento – Allegro moderato (1873-1943)
Allegro scherzando
Andante
Allegro mosso
