UW Faculty Recital Series Features Violin and Piano Duo Oct. 19

The University of Wyoming will feature a violin and piano duo in a UW Department of Music Faculty Recital Series performance Thursday, Oct. 19. The recital is free and open to the public.

John Fadial, professor of violin, and Jiwon Han, staff collaborative pianist, will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. The program will feature an evening of music by Viennese composers, including Maria von Paradis and Richard Strauss.

Fadial has appeared on four continents as a chamber musician, soloist and pedagogue. His performances have been praised by national and international music critics, and he has toured internationally as a U.S. State Department Artistic Ambassador.

He has been a concertmaster of the North Carolina Opera, the Colorado Music Festival, Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra, the Menuhin Festival Orchestra of Saumur in France, Germany’s Heidelberg Schloss-Spiele and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra for 18 seasons.

Fadial has been UW’s professor of violin since 2008 and, in 2016, served as Visiting Guest Artist at the Conservatoire National de Nancy in France. In 2007, he was a Grammy Award semifinalist for Best Chamber Music Performance for the CD “Where Does Love Go: Chamber Music of Mark Engebretson.”

Han, a South Korean-born musician, is an award-winning pianist. He first gained attention in 1997 at age 10 when he appeared as a soloist with the Korean Philharmonic Orchestra performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488. The same year, he gave a solo recital at Incheon Culture and Arts Center.

He widely performs as a chamber musician, orchestral pianist and collaborative pianist, and he also teaches and conducts regularly. Han has released two solo albums: “Debut” and “Romanticism.” Additionally, he has released two collaborative albums: “Bach-Schubert,” a live performance with violinist Zia Shin, and “Works by German Composers” with violinist Fangting Chen.

For more information, call Kathy Kirkaldie, UW Fine Arts coordinator, at (307) 766-2160 or email kirisk@uwyo.edu.