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line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><b>Cellist Tahirah Whittington Takes
Center Stage at LCCC’s Signature Series Concert<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:15.6pt;background:white'>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:15.6pt;background:white'>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:15.6pt;background:white'>Whittington has performed for audiences in
the United States, Canada, Chile, Japan, Bermuda and across Europe. Her solo <span
style='color:#333333'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span style='color:#333333'>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,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>For more information on the Signature Series, contact the LCCC arts and
humanities division at (440) 366-7414 to go to <a
href="http://www.lorainccc.edu/stocker">www.lorainccc.edu/stocker</a> and click
“Arts and Humanities.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Kim Carrasquillo<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Writer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Marketing and Outreach<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Lorain County Community College<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(440) 366-4822<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>kcarrasq@lorainccc.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
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