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Melius Piano Trio to perform recital Tuesday, April 17, at St. Olaf College

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March 29, 2001

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? The Melius Piano Trio ? three St. Olaf College music faculty members on violin, cello and piano ? will perform a recital on Tuesday, April 17, at the college.

The recital, free and open to the public, will be in St. Olaf College?s Urness Recital Hall, Christiansen Hall of Music, at 8:15 p.m. The Melius Piano Trio consists of Charles Gray, violin; David Carter, cello; and Kathryn Ananda-Owens, piano.

The trio will perform Trio in C Major, Hob. XV, 27 by Franz Joseph Haydn; Piano Trio by Rebecca Clarke: and Trio in B Major, Opus 8 by Johannes Brahms. The trio has performed the program in Wheaton, Ill., Wausau, Wis., and Rochester, Minn.

Charles Gray teaches violin, viola and chamber music at St. Olaf. He taught at Hope College, Holland, Mich., before joining the St. Olaf faculty in 1986. He received a bachelor of music degree from Wheaton College and a master of music degree from the University of Michigan, where he studied under and then assisted Paul Makanowitzky. His other teachers include Sylvia Rosenberg, Steven Clapp and Atar Arad.

Gray was violist in the Casella String Quartet, winner of the 1981 Cleveland Quartet Competition and the 1983 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition of South Bend, Ind. Featured as a soloist for both violin and viola, Gray has performed with members of the San Francisco, Indianapolis and Atlanta symphonies as well as at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago and with the Bruce Nehring Consort in El Paso, Texas. He has toured as a soloist with the St. Olaf Choir and the St. Olaf Orchestra on both domestic and international tours.

David Carter teaches cello at St. Olaf. He earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Minnesota; a master of music degree from Indiana University; and a doctorate in music from the University of Illinois. His cello teachers include Janos Starker, Gary Hoffman and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi.

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Before coming to St. Olaf Carter taught at Wichita State University and was principal cellist of the Wichita Symphony. He was a finalist in the First International Emmanuel Feuermann Solo Cello Competition, semi-finalist in the 1985 Concert Artist Guild Competition and semi-finalist in the 1989 Erwin Bodky Early Music Competition. He has performed as a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra under Neville Mariner, the Wichita Symphony and the Pueblo Symphony.

Kathryn Ananda-Owens teaches piano at St. Olaf. She holds degrees from Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Julian Martin, and The Oberlin Conservatory.

At Peabody Ananda-Owens made her Lincoln Center debut and was named laureate of the American Pianists Association Biennial Fellowship Auditions. In 1997 she made her Asian debut under the sponsorship of the government of Macau and has concertized extensively throughout North America. Ananda-Owens has premiered works by contemporary composers Klauss Ager, John Harbison and Robert Hall Lewis. She performs with the Baltimore-based New Horizons Chamber Ensemble and in 1998 was a soloist on the St. Olaf Orchestra?s European tour. She has been a guest lecturer for the Baltimore Symphony and has taught on the faculties of Mount Holyoke College and Peabody Elderhostel.

St. Olaf College prepares students to become responsible citizens of the world, fostering development of mind, body and spirit. A four-year, coeducational liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), St. Olaf has a student enrollment of 2,950 and a full-time faculty complement of approximately 300. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in percentage of students who study abroad.

Contact Michael Cooper at 507-786-3315 or cooperm@stolaf.edu.