Feng Degang, a visiting professor of music from Nanjing Normal University, will be a featured soloist on Mendelsohn's Capriccio Brilliant in a concert by the Union College Orchestra on Saturday, March 7, at 8 p.m., in Memorial Chapel.
Feng Degang, who performed the musical interlude during the recent
Founders Day convocation, has composed a number of works for television and film. Among
his awards, he won first prize in Jiangsu province for his work as accompanist and chamber
music performer. A member of the Chinese Musician's Association, which has honored
him a number of times, he has been on the faculty at Nanjing for 16 years.
Cellist Euna Chung '99 will be featured soloist in Dvorak's Cello
Concerto. She has studied cello since she was 10, and has participated in the Area
All-State Orchestra, the Hudson Valley Youth Symphony, and the Saratoga and Tanglewood
music camps. A member of the seven-year medical program at Union, she will attend Albany
Medical College next year.
The orchestra, directed by Prof. Hilary Tann, also will perform
Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, one of the more popular
pieces in modern orchestra repertoire, and Sibelius' Finlandia.