By Sarah McMillin, Staff writer
The music department will host guest artists Christina Dahl and Oksana Ezhokina on April 23 at 7:30 p.m in Stretansky Concert Hall.
Dahl and Ezhokina are a piano duo and will perform works written by Sergei Rachmaninoff for two pianos. Dahl and Ezhokina have set to record these works, including “Symphonic Dances Opus 45,” “Fantasie-Tableaux (Suite No 1) opus 5” and “Suite No. 2 Opus 17.”
Associate professor of music Naomi Niskala helped to bring the duo to campus.
Dahl currently teaches at Stony Brook University in New York where she has been a member of the piano faculty for 21 years. She has performed in multiple festivals including the Gilmore International Piano Fesitval, Aspen Music Fesitval and the Yellow Barn Festival.
She has also served as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department twice. At the same time, she also toured and taught master classes in Africa, South American and North America.
Dahl is also a member of Ensemble HD, which was founded by Joshua Smith and is made up completely of members of the Cleveland Orchestra.
Eshokina is an associate professor of music and the chair of piano studies at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington. She teaches piano and keyboard studies there, as well as accompanying.
She has traveled and soloed with the Seattle Symphony, St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic and the Tacoma Symphony. Eshokina has been featured on multiple radio stations, including NPR’s Performance Today.
She is also the pianist in the Volta Piano Trio, whose recordings for Con Brio label received accolades in multiple international music magazines, such as The Strad, Gramophone and American Record Guide.