FARMINGTON – Cellist Katherine Kennedy will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29, in Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Accompanying her will be internationally acclaimed pianist Phillip Silver, and for one piece, violist Laurie Kennedy.

Featured on the program are works of the two great Hungarian composers Kodaly and Bartok, who together, devoted years traveling across the Hungarian countryside collecting folk songs. Also on the program are two works by the famous Czech composer Dvorak and a set of duos by Poland’s contemporary genius Witold Lutaslowski.

The program includes virtuoso pieces by Czech-born David Popper and Russian-born Carl Davidoff, two of the world’s first great virtuoso cellists. Also to be performed is Beethoven’s fourth cello sonata.

Kennedy has recently completed a year of cello study at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary. She is a 2002 graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She will be returning to Budapest in the fall for further study.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Silver studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and received his doctorate in musical arts from the University of Washington.

Admission is $5 for adults and $4 for seniors.

There are no advance sales of tickets. For more information, phone 645-2157.

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