Elizabethtown College News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
3/4/05
Contact: Mary Dolheimer, director of marketing and media relations, 717-361-1587, dolheimerm@etown.edu
E-town College faculty member to present violin concert
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – Violinist Joseph Esmilla, an adjunct faculty member at 
Elizabethtown College, will perform at 7:30 p.m., March 21, in Zug Recital Hall. Assisted by pianist Ariel Dechosa, he will present works by Bach, Faure, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. The event, which begins at 7:30 p.m., is open to the public free of charge.
At age 14, Esmilla was granted a scholarship to The Juilliard School, where he eventually earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. While doing postgraduate work in violin and chamber music with Felix Galimir at the Mannes College of Music, he won the concerto competition and performed the Bruch G minor concerto, which was later broadcast by WQXR in New York City.
Esmilla pursued professional studies in violin and chamber music with Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley of the Guarneri Quartet and participated in summer festivals and programs such as Aspen, Interlochen, Dartington and the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, where he was chosen to play the Tchaikovsky violin concerto for the culminating concert. He has performed extensively as a recitalist and chamber musician in the Philippines, United States, Germany, Austria, Malaysia and South Korea. Esmilla has been featured soloist on numerous occasions, performing concertos from the standard violin repertoire with the Manila Symphony, Philippine Philharmonic and Manila Chamber orchestras.
As an orchestral musician, Esmilla was concertmaster of the Manila Symphony Orchestra and the Detmold Kammer Orchester and was concertmaster and associate conductor of the Manila Chamber Orchestra. He is currently a violinist with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and teaches violin and viola at Elizabethtown College.
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 11 consecutive years by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top comprehensive colleges in the North.
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