The Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College will host a concert by Mount Vernon Music Monday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Whatley foyer.† The string quintet performance will feature Mark Miller and Yuko Mansell on violin, Ute Miller and Sarah Kienle on viola and Zachary Mansell on cello.
Program selections will include Quintet in C major K. 515 by Mozart and Quintet in G major op. 111 by Brahms.
?Mount Vernon Music has developed a huge following in Franklin County and we are very pleased to bring them to the Whatley Center for an intimate foyer performance,? Carolyn Franks, Director of the Whatley Center, said.
Now in his 19th season as concertmaster of the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, violinist Mark Miller also performs with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and other area ensembles. He is a founder and president of Mount Vernon Music Association, a membership-based nonprofit devoted to bringing outstanding performances of classical, cultural and jazz chamber music to underserved audiences in rural Northeast Texas.
A native of Nara, Japan, Yuko Mansell began playing the violin at age of three, and has been giving performances across North America and Japan. She holds both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in violin performance from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, where she studied under renowned violinists Henryk Kowalski, Ik-hwan Bae, Koichiro Harada, and Federico Agostini, as well as with Stanley Ritchie on Baroque violin.
Ute Miller is the principal violist of the East Texas Symphony, performs frequently with the Dallas and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras and has appeared as a soloist with the East Texas Symphony Orchestra. A founder and the Treasurer of Mount Vernon Music Association, Ute performs with her husband Mark in the violin-viola ensemble Duo Renard, which was brought to Texas with a National Endowment for the Arts Rural Residencies chamber music grant.
Violist Sarah Kienle began her studies at the age of seven in Kalispell, Montana. After graduating from Walnut Hill School for the Arts, she went on to receive her Bachelor of Music from the Colburn School and Master of Music from Indiana University. She frequently plays with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and performs with the Houston Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, and East Texas Symphony.
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Zachary Mansell began playing the cello at age seven. He holds his Master of Music degree in Cello Performance and Suzuki Pedagogy at the Cleveland Institute of Music, with Mark Kosower and Melissa Kraut respectively.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for students. Mount Vernon Music is the final performance in a three-part series The Sounds of Northeast Texas, which highlights the talent of regional musicians. Tickets are available by calling the Whatley Center box office at 903-434-8181. To learn more about this and other events at the Whatley Center, call or visit ntcc.edu/whatley.
March 30, 2017
