Rescheduled: Faculty Concert: Tekla Cunningham with Sheila Weidendorf 

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Tekla Cunningham (right) and Sheila Weidendorf (Photo: Erika Pierson).

Artist-in-Residence Tekla Cunningham, violin, and guest pianist Sheila Weidendorf present "Between Heaven and Earth: A Year with Brahms,” a performance of the Brahms violin sonatas. 


Program

Sonata in G major for violin and piano, op. 78: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)  
Vivace ma non troppo
Adagio
Allegro molto moderato
 
Sonata in A major for violin and piano, op. 100 
Allegro amabile
Andante tranquillo – Vivace – Andante – Vivace de più – Andante – Vivace 
Allegretto grazioso (quasi Andante)

Intermission

Sonata in D minor, op. 108
Allegro
Adagio

Un poco presto e con sentimento 
Presto agitato


Biographies

Sheila Weidendorf

Sheila Weidendorf performs western classical chamber music and extemporaneous keyboard meditations, collaborating with a classical trio, Trio Rasa, and with an improvisational trio, Trio Improviso. She also has been immersed in a long-term and ongoing Brahms project with violinist Tekla Cunningham. Weidendorf holds a BA in Piano and Music History from the University of Minnesota School of Music and an MA in Feminist Theological Studies from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A resident of Freeland, Washington, she is the keyboardist for Trinity Lutheran Church on Whidbey Island.