Elizabethtown College News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
4/20/06
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E-town College professor, violinist to present recital
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – Elizabethtown College faculty 
member and violinist Joel Lambdin will present a recital at 7:30 p.m., May 1, in Zug Recital Hall. He will be accompanied by pianist Emi Kagawa, with whom he is currently recording his first classical release for Heat Retention Records. The event is open to the public free of charge, and the program includes Prokofiev’s “Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 80,” Mozart’s “Sonata in D Major, K.308,” Zhou Long’s “Taiping Drum,” and Chen Yi’s “Fisherman’s Song.”
As founder and artistic director of two chamber ensembles -- the Harrisburg Players’ Collective and BMF -- Lambdin has brought standard classical music to audiences across the United States, Canada and the West Indies. In addition to teaching at Elizabethtown College, he is a member of the faculty at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. He has also served on the faculties of both the North and South Carolina Governor’s schools.
With Harrisburg Players’ Collective, Lambdin has presented the standard chamber repertoire with musicians including Tom Kraines, Odin Rathnam, Daniel Gaisford, Kurt Nikkanen, Kevin Lawrence and the Tony Award-winning Stuart Malina. Under his direction, the Collective has provided Central Pennsylvania with a full educational outreach program and Youth Players’ Collective, as well as raised money for charitable causes. In addition, the Collective performed in a wide range of venues across the East Coast, including a residency at the Cleve J. Fredricksen Library in Camp Hill.
Lambdin has begun a new project, BMF, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A return to the salon style concert in lofts and bars in Brooklyn, BMF pushes the envelope of the contemporary concert by incorporating free-improvisation with the standard repertoire, as well as scholarly orchestrations of masterworks, and works composed by the performers.
As an improviser, Lambdin has appeared with numerous groups, including the Spool Ensemble in Winston-Salem, N.C., Spring Theory in Brooklyn, N.Y., and the Britt Ensemble, also in Brooklyn. He received his bachelor’s of music and master’s of music degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts. .
Pianist Emi Kagawa is the winner of the prestigious Gina Bachauer Competition at Juilliard, where she studied with Jerome Lowenthal. Her New York performances include concerts at the Continental Center and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Kagawa won first prize at the Nancy Clark International Piano Competition, second prize at the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition, third prize at the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition and third prize at the Corpus Christi International Competition. She performs extensively throughout Japan and United States.
Kagawa is currently enrolled in the doctoral program at SUNY at Stony Brook. A former adjunct faculty member at New York University, she has maintained a private teaching studio for 13 years. Her teacher includes Larry Graham, Miyoko Lotto, Martin Canin and Christina Dahl.
At Elizabethtown College -- central Pennsylvania’s premier small, comprehensive college -- 1800 men and women enjoy personal attention, breadth of curriculum, experiential learning and a commitment to serving others. Elizabethtown has been ranked for 12 consecutive years by “U.S. News and World Report” as one of the top comprehensive colleges in the North.
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