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2008-11-01: In Celebration of Living Composers: A Faculty Kaleidoscope    

Sarah Kapps, cello
Cheryl Cellon, piano

Carol Worthey's "Elegy" was performed by cellist Sarah Kapps and pianist Cheryl Cellon in a concert entitled: "In Celebration of Living Composers: A Faculty Kaleidoscope" given at the University of Texas Pan-American, Edinburg, Texas. According to Cheryl, the audience was especially moved and appreciative of the work and the performance.

Cellist Sarah Kapps has an active and diverse career that has taken her across North America, through Europe, and into the Middle East.

A native Philadelphian, she moved to Texas' Rio Grande Valley in 2004 to join the faculty at the University of Texas -- Pan-American.

Soloist and avid chamber musician, Ms. Kapps also serves as associate principal with the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra and co-principal of the Valley Symphony Orchestra.

She is a former member of the Red River Quartet and the Denali String Quartet, and has also performed with such popular artists as Joni Mitchell, Johnny Mathis, The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and The Electric Light Orchestra. Sarah Kapps studied cello with Peter Wiley and Paul Tobias, and has attended the Manhattan School of Music, the Mannes College of Music and the University of Oklahoma.

Pianist Cheryl D. Cellon is a collaborative performer whose credits have enabled her to pursue a concert schedule with an array of singers, instrumentalists and chamber ensembles. She has delighted in performing as both soloist and collaborative artist in select venues throughout the U. S. and Europe and she has been a featured soloist with several symphony orchestras.

She has studied with such distinguished artists and professors as Douglas Fisher, Carolyn Bridger, Timothy Hoekman, Valerie M. Trujillo, Lita Guerra, Jerry Alan Bush and Paul Nitsch, and has worked with the notable composers John Harbison, Jake Heggie and Krzysztof Penderecki.

Through master classes and festivals, she has enjoyed performance opportunities with Martin Katz, John Wustman and Dalton Baldwin.

She serves on the faculty at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria and has participated in the Songfest Music Festival at Pepperdine University and at the Acadèmie Internationale d'Été de Nice in Nice, France. Dr. Cellon earned her Doctor of Music degree in piano performance from the Florida State University with an emphasis in chamber music and accompanying. She joined the faculty at the University of Texas Pan-American in the Fall of 2007.

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