Concerts are listed below by type, then chronologically
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All events will take place in the Maryville University Auditorium (directions available via this weblink).
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Listing by Concert Type

Music Therapy Senior Recitals, Spring 2025

Alexander Silver — Saturday, February 22, at 7:00 p.m.
Raelynn Wood — Friday, February 28, at 5:00 p.m.
Caitlyn Morgan — Friday, March 7, at 6:00 p.m.
Sophie Dueñez — Sunday, March 23, at 3:00 p.m.
Ella Becker — Friday, April 18, at 2:00 p.m.
Ethan Munro — Friday, April 18, at 4:00 p.m.
Tim Biby — Saturday, April 19, at 3:00 p.m.
Sylvia Adzoh — Wednesday, April 30, at 8:00 p.m.

Music at Maryville Series Concerts

Music at Maryville Series 2024-25, Concert 3 of 4 — Yin Xiong, cello • Nicolas del Grazia, clarinet • Peter Henderson, piano — Sunday, February 9, at 2:00 p.m.
Music at Maryville Series 2024-25, Concert 4 of 4 — Scott Lyle, guitarist and composer — Sunday, April 13, at 3:00 p.m.

Faculty Recitals

Guest / Faculty Recital — Mark Sparks, flute • Peter Henderson, piano — Saturday, March 29, 3:00 p.m.
Faculty Recital — Maurice Ravel: Selected Music for Solo Piano — Peter Henderson, piano — Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m.

Music Program Performances

(Canceled) Student Recital 3 of 5 — Friday, February 7, at 10:00 a.m.
Student Recital 4 of 5 — Friday, March 21, at 10:00 a.m.
Performance Class 2 of 2 — Friday, March 21, at 11:00 a.m.
Student Recital 5 of 5 — Friday, April 25, at 10:00 a.m.
Spring Instrumental Ensembles Concert — Sunday, April 27, at 2:00 p.m.
Spring Choral Ensembles Concert — Sunday, April 27, at 7:00 p.m.

Chronological Listing

February 2025

(Canceled) ~~Student Recital 3 of 5 — Friday, February 7, at 10:00 a.m.~~
Music at Maryville Series 2024-25, Concert 3 of 4 — Yin Xiong, cello • Nicolas del Grazia, clarinet • Peter Henderson, piano — Sunday, February 9, at 2:00 p.m.
Alexander Silver’s Senior Recital — Saturday, February 22, at 7:00 p.m.
Raelynn Wood’s Senior Recital — Friday, February 28, at 5:00 p.m.

March 2025

Caitlyn Morgan’s Senior Recital — Friday, March 7, at 6:00 p.m.
Student Recital 4 of 5 — Friday, March 21, at 10:00 a.m.
Performance Class 2 of 2 — Friday, March 21, at 11:00 a.m.
Sophie Dueñez’s Senior Recital — Sunday, March 23, at 3:00 p.m.
Guest / Faculty Recital — Mark Sparks, flute • Peter Henderson, piano — Saturday, March 29, 3:00 p.m.

April 2025

Faculty Recital — Maurice Ravel: Selected Music for Solo Piano — Peter Henderson, piano — Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m.
Music at Maryville Series 2024-25, Concert 4 of 4 — Scott Lyle, guitarist and composer — Sunday, April 13, at 3:00 p.m.
Ella Becker’s Senior Recital — Friday, April 18, at 2:00 p.m.
Ethan Munro’s Senior Recital — Friday, April 18, at 4:00 p.m.
Tim Biby’s Senior Recital — Saturday, April 19, at 3:00 p.m.
Student Recital 5 of 5 — Friday, April 25, at 10:00 a.m.
Spring Instrumental Ensembles Concert — Sunday, April 27, at 2:00 p.m.
Spring Choral Ensembles Concert — Sunday, April 27, at 7:00 p.m.
Sylvia Adzoh’s Senior Recital — Wednesday, April 30, at 8:00 p.m.

German Romantic Chamber Music for Cello, Clarinet, and Piano

Sunday, February 9, 2025 • 2:00 p.m. • Maryville University Auditorium (Directions to the venue) • Free admission • List of Spring 2025 Maryville professional concerts

This recital will be our 2024-2025 Johannes Wich-Schwarz Chamber Music Concert. Please enjoy our pregame musical performance before the Super Bowl!

Artists

Yin Xiong, cello

Nicolas del Grazia, clarinet

Peter Henderson, piano

Musical Program

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major, MWV Q 32, op. 58 (1842-43) (ca. 24 minutes)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, op. 99 (1886) (ca. 29 minutes)
Intermission (ca. 10 minutes)
Carl Frühling (1868-1937): Trio in A minor for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, op. 40 (comp. ca. 1900, publ. 1925) (ca. 26 minutes)
Johannes Brahms: Trio in A minor for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, op. 114 (1891) (ca. 28 minutes)

Brief Program Note

The nineteenth-century German composers Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms were strongly influenced by earlier musical traditions. Despite these creators’ orientation to the past, their works on the first half of this program could not be more fresh and energetic. Mendelssohn’s Second Cello Sonata is ebullient, and features a slow movement reflecting the composer’s fascination with J. S. Bach’s music. Brahms’s Second Cello Sonata is also joyful, but traces a more varied emotional landscape. Brahms’s Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano was one of several late masterpieces inspired by the Meiningen clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld, whose sensitive playing spurred Brahms to end his first retirement from composition. Some years later, Carl Frühling produced a beautiful, lyrical trio showing the influence of Brahms’s autumnal, somber op. 114.