A piano and viola concert at Vassar College, November 3

Ronald Carbone, viola, and Todd Crow, piano, will appear in a concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, November 3, in the Skinner Recital Hall, Vassar College.

The program includes works by Brahms, Bruch, Schumann, and Reger, highlighting Reger's Suite no. 1 in G- minor, op. 131d for solo viola. The concert, sponsored by the Department of Music, is free and open to the public.

Crow, professor of music and chair of the Department of Music, has been on the Vassar faculty since 1969. He received his B.A. with honors from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and his M.S. from Juilliard School of Music. Crow is now music director of the Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music in Northeast Harbor, Maine.

In 1986 Crow made his London orchestral debut at the Barbican Centre with the London Philharmonic, later making his Carnegie Hall debut as soloist with the American Symphony in 1992. He performs regularly in major halls of New York and London, including Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall. Recently he has played at the Berlioz/Dutilleux Festival in Manchester, England, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He can frequently be heard on BBC Radio in both live and recorded performances.

Crow is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the University of California's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1986.

Carbone, adjunct instructor in music at Vassar College, is on the Chamber Music Conference of Bennington College. He is a violist of both chamber music recordings and solo performances. Boris Koutzen, Richard Burgin, and Ruth Posset are among Carbone's notable instructors, while he holds degrees from Florida State University and Yale University.

Carbone was the recipient of the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music Award, two Artists International Awards, and the Tanglewood Viola Prize. In addition to his activity in the commercial record and film industry, Carbone is an ensemble member of Spectrum Concerts, Berlin, a member of the Composers String Quartet, an associate member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and assistant principal of the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra.

For more information, please call the Vassar College Department of Music at (845) 437-7294. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Cathy Jennings, Office of Campus Activities, (845) 437-5370, as far in advance as possible to request reasonable and appropriate accommodations for the event.

Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact Campus Activities Office at (845) 437-5370. Without sufficient notice, appropriate space and/or assistance may not be available.

Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.

This article was posted on Sunday, November 3rd, 2002.