PRESS RELEASE
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND COMMUNICATION
Contact: Christina Madsen, (501) 852-2659; christinam@uca.edu
Dr. Stephen Feldman, (501) 450-5754; sfeldman@uca.edu
April 15, 2015
CELLIST ROMAN BORYS TO BE IN RESIDENCE
By Cassidy Crawford
College of Fine Arts and Communication Media Office
CONWAY — Roman Borys, Canadian cellist and founding member of the Gryphon Trio, will be artist in residence at the University of Central Arkansas on April 23 and 25.
The Gryphon Trio is an internationally renowned Canadian classical music group formed in 1993. The ensemble has won several Juno awards.
Borys is a music professor at the University of Toronto and is the artistic director of the Ottawa Chamber Music Society. He is also an advocate for Listen Up!, an audience development program where children are taught how to combine musical composition and poetry.
During the residency, a string masterclass with Borys will be held at 4 p.m. on April 23 in the Snow Fine Arts Recital Hall. A chamber music masterclass and Q & A will follow in the same venue at 7:30 p.m.
Borys will also join the Conway Symphony Orchestra on the stage in UCA’s Reynolds Performance Hall to perform the Elgar Cello Concerto on April 25 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased by calling (501) 450-3265 or in person at the Reynolds Performance Hall box office. Tickets are free for UCA students and students involved in music programs, $6 for children and all other students, $20-$38 for adults, and $12 for UCA faculty/staff.
“It is terrific to have an artist of Roman Borys’s caliber visiting us here at UCA,” said Dr. Stephen Feldman, associate professor of cello. “The cello students are very excited to hear him with the orchestra and to be a part of his orchestral accompaniment in Elgar’s moving Cello Concerto. They are also looking forward to having the opportunity to play the pieces they have been working on during the semester for Borys.
“It is a great way for them to bring the semester to a close and will no doubt inspire them to take their work to new levels,” Feldman said.
For more information, contact Feldman at (501) 450-5754 or sfeldman@uca.edu.
The UCA College of Fine Arts and Communication includes the Departments of Art, Communication, Mass Communication and Theatre, Music and Writing. The college’s primary mission is the preparation of the next generation of artists, educators and communicators. For more information about CFAC, visit www.uca.edu/cfac or call (501) 450-3293.
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