Carla Trynchuk & Olga Kaler Violin Duet

With guest artist Olga Kaler, violinist

Carla Trynchuk and Olga Kaler will present a violin recital on Saturday, September 19, at the Howard Performing Arts Center on the campus of Andrews University. The duo will be accompanied by Beilin Han, pianist.

Trynchuk is a professor of music at Andrews University and has world-renowned violinist training from The Julliard School of Music, under the tutelage of legends Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. Further, she has performed throughout North America, Europe and Asia, and recently performed in Brazil’s national premier of the “Barber Concerto” with the National Theatre Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, Trynchuk was awarded the Siegfried H. Horn Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship at Andrews.

Kaler earned her doctorate from Northwestern University Bienen School of Music, and currently serves as associate professor of violin at DePaul University School of Music in Chicago. Kaler is also a member of the World Orchestra for Peace under director Valery Gergiev. Having performed on three continents, Kaler has numerous awards as a performing artist and this summer released a book titled “Scale System For Reluctant Scale Enthusiasts.” Olga has performed at several legendary concert halls worldwide and will share at the Howard what have been deemed by critics to be “powerful, enchanting renditions.”

Han is a gifted pianist and has been playing since the age of 3. She has won several awards from the start of her formal education in both China and Singapore. In her master’s program at the University of Kansas she continued to excel and in 2004 was a prizewinner for the Vianna Da Motta International Piano Competition in Portugal. Han has toured and performed internationally in Spain, China and throughout the United States. She currently is a collaborative pianist in both Roosevelt University College of Performing Arts in Chicago and DePaul University School of Music.

The trio will perform pieces by Leclair, Prokofiev and Sarasate. No tickets are required. For information about this or any other event at the Howard Center, visit howard.andrews.edu.