DePauw Chamber Players Perform Wednesday Night

August 8, 2006

August 8, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - The DePauw Chamber Players -- May Phang, piano; Dan Rizner, violin; and Eric Edberg, cello -- will perform Wednesday evening, August 9, in the final concert of the 2006 Greencastle Summer Chamber Music Festival. The program, which begins at 7:30 p.m. at Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church, is scheduled to include piano trios by both Mozart and Brahms.

"This will be our seventh program this summer," says Professor Eric Edberg of the DePauw University School of Music, who organized the series. "We've been very fortunate to have concerts of nationally- and internationally-known classical performers, and it is great to be able to end the series with faculty colleagues from DePauw."

May Phang began piano studies in her native Singapore, where she obtained her Associate and Licentiate diplomas from the Trinity College of Music (London) by the age of twelve. A graduate of McGill University in Canada, she obtained her doctorate from Temple University in Philadelphia. Currently assistant professor of piano at DePauw, her prior teaching positions include Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee. She has performed in venues around the world and is a prize winner of several competitions including the Chopin Young Pianists' Competition, Concours d'orchestre symphonique de Montreal, and Pontoise International Young Artists Competition in France.

Violinist Dan Rizner, professor of music at DePauw, received a bachelor of music degree from Michigan State University and a master of music degree from Yale University. His teachers include Walter Verdehr, Broadus Erle and Syoko Aki. Rizner is a former concertmaster of the Lansing Orchestra and a regular performer at the Grand Teton Music Festival where he has participated in recitals with Lionel Party, Joseph Robinson, David Shifrin and Julie Bogorad. He has performed in the master classes of Franco Gulli, Szymon Goldberg and Dorothy DeLay and has received chamber music coaching from Michael Tree, Adlo Parisot, Raphael Hillyer and Koichiro Harada.

Cellist Eric Edberg is an active concert artist who has performed as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician across the country. Trained at Peabody, Juilliard, The North Carolina School of the Arts and Florida State, Professor Edberg's teachers included such eminent cellists as Leonard Rose, Bernard Greenhouse, and Stephen Kates. Recent performances include concerto appearances with the Fort Wayne and Terre Haute symphonies in Indiana and the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony in North Dakota as well as collaborative performances with the Chisti Chamber Players. An improvisational musician as well as a classical cellist, at DePauw Edberg teaches one of the country's few non-jazz improvisation courses for classical musicians, and frequently gives workshops on improvisation and self expression, most recently as part of a "Music for People" weekend at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.

Learn more about the Greencastle Summer Chamber Music Festival by clicking here.

In October 2005, DePauw University announced that a $15 million dollar lead gift by Judson Green and his wife, Joyce Taglauer Green '75, will allow for a $29 million expansion and renovation of DePauw's 32-year-old Performing Arts Center (architect's rendering seen at left). The building, home to the School of Music and department of communication, will be known as the Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts. Work is under way, and phase one should be completed by the Fall of 2007. Learn more about the project in this previous story. You can see time lapse video of the construction project (updated regularly) by clicking here.

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