[NEohioPAL] Cellist Tahirah Whittington Takes Center Stage at LCCC's Signature Series Concert

[Kimberly Carrasquillo]

Cellist Tahirah Whittington Takes Center Stage at LCCC's Signature
Series Concert

World renowned cellist Tahirah Whittington will perform a free concert
at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, December 11 at Lorain County Community College's
Stocker Arts Center.

Whittington's performance is part of the Signature Series and is hosted
by composer and LCCC Distinguished Visiting Professor Jeffrey Mumford.
The concert is sponsored by LCCC's arts and humanities division.

Whittington has performed for audiences in the United States, Canada,
Chile, Japan, Bermuda and across Europe. Her solo engagements include a
performance with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC, as a
result of winning first prize at the 1999 Sphinx Competition. She was
also a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall for the 2007 Sphinx Gala. Since
2001, Whittington has toured as a member of Core Ensemble, a trio of
cello, piano and percussion, which collaborates with actors to produce
chamber music theater.

She is featured on Cedille Records' recording of Coleridge-Taylor
Perkinson's unaccompanied cello work, "Lamentations: a Black Folk Song
Suite." Whittington has also collaborated with jazz saxophonist Ornette
Coleman and reggae artist Beres Hammond. She has played on the
recordings of R&B artists Alicia Keys, Angie Stone and Joe, as well as
gospel singer, Donnie McClurkin. Whittington received her master's
degree in Cello Performance from The Juilliard School and received her
bachelor's degree at the New England Conservatory. She is currently
pursuing her Doctoral Degree at the Bienen School of Music at
Northwestern University in Evanston, IL,

For more information on the Signature Series, contact the LCCC arts and
humanities division at (440) 366-7414 to go to www.lorainccc.edu/stocker
and click "Arts and Humanities."

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