Ladies Musical Club: Music for Cello & Piano
Free
- Mary Riles, cello
- Peter Nelson-King, piano
Alan Hovhaness — Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 255
Nadia Boulanger — Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
John Woods Duke — Melody
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Variations in B minor for cello and piano
This month, Ladies Musical Club of Seattle presents music for cello and piano in the Living Room, on Level 3 of the Central Library.
About Mary Riles, cello
Mary Riles received her BA in Classics and BM in Cello Performance from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Andor Toth, Jr.; and her Masters of Music from the Ester Boyer College of Music at Temple University, where she studied with Jeffrey Solow, whom she met as an award student at the Chautauqua Music Festival. She then relocated to Seattle, Washington, where she provides private cello instruction and chamber coaching. Mary has performed with a variety of Seattle area ensembles, including NOCCO, Seattle Modern Orchestra, the Sound Ensemble, and Thalia Symphony Orchestra. She is currently principal cellist of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra. She has additionally been involved in many performances of both solo and chamber works in St. Louis, Ohio, Texas, New York, Philadelphia, and Juneau.
https://www.nocco.org/mary-rilesAbout Peter Nelson-King, piano
Peter Nelson-King is an active performer and teacher on trumpet and piano, and plays regularly with multiple orchestras and large ensembles in the Seattle area. A King County native, they earned degrees from University of Puget Sound and Boston University, returning to the Seattle area after freelancing in the Northeast. They are a longtime member of Lake Washington Symphony Orchestra and Brass Band Northwest, and a frequent recurring member of the experimental jazz group Scrambler. As a solo and chamber performer, they specialize in promoting works by composers who have unjustly fallen into neglect, and have revived major works by dozens of these composers for Seattle audiences.
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