Event Date:  1/30/10 at 7:30 p.m. 

Location:  Mount Vernon Music Hall

                  402 Leftwich St. at Yates

                  Mount Vernon, Texas 75457 

Contact:  Mark Miller at 903-563-3780 or

                  visit www.mountvernonmusic.org

        

 

The public is invited to attend Out of the Ordinary, a concert of breathtakingly beautiful music by Ludwig van Beethoven, MVM resident composer Steven Harlos, and English composer Herbert Howells on Saturday January 30, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in Mount Vernon Music Hall, 402 Leftwich St. at Yates St. in Mt. Vernon. Performing will be the Founders Quartet, Steven Harlos, piano; Mark Miller, violin; Ute Miller, viola; and Carol Harlos, cello. Tickets are $10 for MVM members, $15 for non-members. Students are admitted free. Memberships in MVM start at $25 and are good for the entire season from June 1 through May 31. For more information call Mount Vernon Music at 903-563-3780, or visit www.mountvernonmusic.org.  

Steven Harlos made his solo debut at Lincoln Center in 1986, performing the Gershwin Concerto in F. Known around the world for his sensitivity as a collaborative pianist, he has performed with artists of international stature including Timofei Dokshutzer, Harvey Phillips, Erick Friedman, and Gervase de Peyer. He has also worked with such diverse entertainers as Marvin Gaye, Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, Maureen McGovern and Tommy Tune. His success as a composer has included the publication of his Sonata Rubata for viola and piano to be performed January 30 in Mt. Vernon. He currently serves as staff keyboardist for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and as professor of piano and collaborative piano at the University of North Texas in Denton.

Mark Miller serves as concertmaster of the East Texas Symphony Orchestra and performs with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and other area ensembles. He also directs the chamber series “The Color of Sound” at Texas A&M University – Commerce, where for eleven years he taught and performed as an Artist-in-Residence together with his wife, violist Ute Miller, and the ensemble Duo Renard. Following studies at Purchase College, NY, Indiana University - Bloomington and Boston University, he studied in Germany with Jürgen Küssmaul. He was assistant concertmaster in the Robert Schumann Chamber Orchestra of Düsseldorf, Germany and a member of the Beethoven Orchester Bonn.

Ute Miller is principal violist of the East Texas Symphony, and performs with the Dallas Symphony and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras. She also appears with her husband Mark in the violin-viola ensemble Duo Renard, which was brought to Texas with a National Endowment for the Arts Rural Residencies chamber music grant, and produces the Color of Sound series at Texas A&M Commerce. In addition to playing with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, she served for seven years as assistant principal violist of the Gürzenich Orchester/Cologne Philharmonic, and for eight years as principal violist of the Dallas Opera Orchestra.    

In great demand as a freelance cellist, Carol Harlos maintains a busy schedule performing with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the East Texas Symphony, and numerous other ensembles in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She also maintains a private teaching studio. 

Mount Vernon Music is a 501(c)(3) organization formed in 2006 to further the performance of classical and other fine music in rural East Texas. MVM provides professional concerts for residents of nursing homes and senior centers throughout East Texas, and brings musical events to schools. For more information on the mission and concert schedule of Mount Vernon Music, and about historic Mount Vernon Music Hall, please visit www.mountvernonmusic.org .