UW Cello and Piano Faculty Recital Featured Nov. 18

The University of Wyoming’s Beth Vanderborgh, cello, and Jiwon Han, piano, will perform as part of the Department of Music Faculty Recital Series at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. The program is free and open to the public.

The recital will feature Claude Debussy’s “Sonate pour violoncelle et piano” and Frank Bridge’s Cello Sonata in D minor, H125.

Vanderborgh, a UW music professor, maintains a vigorous performing, teaching and recording career. She was top prizewinner of the National Society of Arts and Letters Cello Competition, as well as the Baltimore Chamber Awards and the Ulrich Solo Competition.

As United States Information Service Artistic Ambassador and member of the Fadial-Vanderborgh Duo, she has performed on four continents, including recitals at the Kennedy Center, the Phillips Collection, the Teatro Nacional in Costa Rica and American University in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.

Her recent recordings include discs of the “Chamber Music of Gwyneth Walker” and “Chamber Music of Jennifer Higdon,” in collaboration with the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. Vanderborgh is an artist faculty member of the Eastern Music Festival and principal cellist of the Cheyenne Symphony.

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.

He performs with various chamber music ensembles, as a collaborative pianist with prominent musicians, and as an orchestral pianist in a wide range of genres.

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