KINGSTON – Music of J.S. Bach, Liszt, Debussy, Prokofiev and Brahms will be performed during a special recital at Wyoming Seminary Upper School on Sunday, July 28 at 4 p.m. The recital, presented by Sem alumni Zhi Yi Dong ’16 on violin and Dominick Cristofori D’Alessandro ’17 on piano, will be performed in Sem’s Kirby Center for Creative Arts, 260 N. Sprague Ave. The recital is free and open to the public.
Dong and D’Alessandro will perform the Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin by Bach, the Transcendental Etude No. 8 in C minor “Wilde Jagd” by Liszt, the Prelude No. 12 “Feux d’artifice” by Debussy, the Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28 by Prokofiev and the Sonata No. 3 in D minor for violin and piano, Op. 108 by Brahms.
D’Alessandro, a West Pittston native, is a 2017 Sem graduate and began piano lessons at age 3 under the musical supervision of Cynthia Stuccio D’Alessandro. A piano performance major at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C., he is a four-time winner of the Anne Liva Young Artists Piano Competition and received the 2017 Marion Munson Scholarship Award from the Mozart Club of Wilkes-Barre. He also received the 2018 Luciana Montanari-Mendola Award, sponsored by the Italian Cultural Society of Washington, D.C. Now studying under Dr. Ivo Kaltchev at The Catholic University, he is a member of the Chamber Choir and participates in piano performances during the Cosmopolitan Clavier Concert Series in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey.
This recital is part of the 2019-20 Wyoming Seminary Fine and Performing Arts Program. For more information call the Sem Communications Office at 570-270-2192.
