[NEohioPAL] LCCC's Signature Series to Host Cellist Robert deMaine

[Kimberly Carrasquillo]

LCCC's Signature Series to Host Cellist Robert deMaine

 

American virtuoso cellist Robert deMaine will perform a free concert at
7:30 p.m., Monday, September 24 at Lorain County Community College's
Stocker Arts Center. 

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

deMaine has distinguished himself as one of the finest and versatile
musicians of his generation, having performed worldwide to critical
acclaim. A first-prizewinner in many national and international
competitions, in 1990 deMaine became the first cellist ever to win the
grand prize at San Francisco's Irving M. Klein International Competition
for Strings. As soloist, he has collaborated with conductors Neeme
Jarvi, Peter Oundjian, Joseph Silverstein, and Leonard Slatkin, among
many others, and has performed virtually all of the major cello concerto
repertoire with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where he has been
Principal Cellist since 2002. deMaine has also served as a guest
principal in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Symphony
Orchestra, and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (Norway). 

 

Robert deMaine counts among his chamber-music partners violinists James
Ehnes, Hilary Hahn, Ani and Ida Kavafian, pianists Andrew Armstrong,
Orion Weiss, and Yefim Bronfman, and has appeared at many international
music festivals, including those of Marlboro, Aspen, Heidelberg, San
Miguel de Allende, Montreal, and Seattle. He is also the cellist of four
newly-established chamber groups: The Chroma Piano Trio, Trio21, Icarus
(Flute, Cello, Piano), and the Ehnes Quartet. 

 

A dedicated teacher, deMaine has presented master classes throughout the
U.S. and abroad, and is a regular guest of the New World Symphony in
Miami Beach and the National Orchestral Institute at the University of
Maryland. He has also taught at the Eastman School of Music and the
University of Michigan. 

 

Also a composer, deMaine has written many works for the cello, including
"Twelve Etudes-Caprices," which he performs regularly. Several important
composers have written large-scale works for him, including Chris
Theofanidis, Joel Eric Suben, and Kenneth Fuchs.

Soon to be released are two recordings by deMaine on the Sono Luminus
label: a recital disc featuring works by Rachmaninov, Faure, and Grieg
with the pianist Andrew Armstrong, and the Haydn Cello Concertos with
the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra. Soon thereafter, his recording of
John Williams' Cello Concerto with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Leonard Slatkin will also be available on Naxos. 

 

Of French-Canadian and Polish heritage, deMaine makes his home in Grosse
Pointe Farms, Michigan, with his wife, Elizabeth, and two children, Paul
and Annette.

 

For more information, visit www.stockerartscenter.com and click on "Arts
and Humanities" on the left side of the page.

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Kim Carrasquillo

Writer, Project Coordinator | Marketing and Outreach Initiatives
Lorain County Community College | 1005 N Abbe Road | Elyria, Ohio 44035
t: 440.366.4822  f: 440.366.4113  e : kcarrasq at lorainccc.edu
<mailto:kcarrasq at lorainccc.edu> 

 

LCCC website: www.lorainccc.edu <http://www.lorainccc.edu/> 

 

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