On Sunday, at 4p.m., the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist Second Sunday Recitals will feature cellist Douglas Starkebaum, a senior at Gonzaga University.
He is a member of the Gonzaga University Symphony as well as the chamber quartet and is studying Cello Performance with Gonzaga professor, Dr. Kevin Hekmatpanah, who regularly performs in St. John’s Second Sunday series. A recipient of a music scholarship, Starkebaum hopes to continue studying cello performance and conducting for his graduate studies, according to a press release.
The program will include Boccherini’s Cello Sonata in A, the Bach Cello Suite No. 5, Gabriel Faure’s Elegy and the Allegro from the Dvorak Cello Concerto.
Starkebaum’s accompanist is Gonzaga’s Greg Presley. Presley attended high school in Spokane, where he studied piano with Margaret Ott and was winner of the Young Artist Award of the Spokane Music Festival. He graduated cum laude from Yale University with special honors in music and received his Master’s in Music from The Juilliard School. After graduation he worked with the Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey Dance companies where he was part of the reconstruction of landmark choreographic works of Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and other significant dance companies.
Donations are $5 at the door on the day of the recital.
For more information, check the Cathedral website at www.stjohns-cathedral.org, or call the Cathedral at 838-4277. Free parking is available in the lot behind Lindaman’s Restaurant.
