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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>Cellist Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir to Perform Free Concert at LCCC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'>Charismatic cellist Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 25 at Lorain County Community College’s Stocker Arts Center.<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:black'>Thorsteinsdottir’s </span>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 in partnership with the Cleveland Institute of Music and Cleveland State University.<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'>Her performance will include <span style='color:#333333'>Maurice Ravel’s “Sonata for Violin & 'Cello” with violinist, Annie Fullard of the Cavani Quartet, and Jeffrey Mumford’s “to find in the glimmering air . . . a buoyant continuity of layering blue.”<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'>Thorsteinsdottir</span><span style='color:#333333'> has appeared as recitalist and chamber musician across the U.S., Germany, Poland, Italy, France and her native Iceland and has performed concerti with the Des Moines Symphony (Iowa) and the Silesian Philharmonic (Poland) and many others. She has garnered numerous top prizes, including the Janigro Family and Romanini Foundation awards at the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition in Zagreb, Croatia and most recently, the Zara Nelsova Award at the 2008 Naumburg Competition in New York City.<br><br>Sigrun Heinzelmann, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Oberlin Conservatory, will present a brief pre-concert lecture entitled "Listening to Ravel: The Expanding Tonal Language of his Late Works." Concert will immediately follow the lecture.<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'>The concert is presented in partnership with MOCA Cleveland.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>For more information on the Signature Series, contact the LCCC arts and humanities division at (440) 366-7414 or go to <a href="http://www.lorainccc.edu/stocker">www.lorainccc.edu/stocker</a> and click “Arts and Humanities.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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 Initiatives<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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>