Allegheny College To Present Faculty Music Recital

Oct. 21, 2014 — The Department of Music at Allegheny College will present a faculty recital at 3:15 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 26 featuring Susanna Reilly, cello instructor; Diane Kalinowski, vocal instructor; and Wendy Plyler, piano instructor. The concert in Ford Chapel is free and open to the public.

The program includes Cesar Franck’s violin sonata as well as selections of vocal pieces by Kurt Weill, arranged for voice, cello and piano.

A native of Los Angeles, Susanna Reilly earned her Bachelor’s in Music Performance at California State University, Northridge, and obtained her Master’s from Carnegie Mellon University. She has studied with Ann Martindale Williams, Michael Gelfand, Peter Rejto and Joan Lunde. Highlights from her career include participation in award-winning chamber music groups, performing concerti by Dvorak, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky, and attending Chautauqua, Round Top and Los Angeles Philharmonic Institutes.

Diane Kalinowski, a native of Cochranton, began 2014 as a winner of Rochester Lyric Opera’s LaDue Professional Recital Competition and New Jersey State Opera’s Alfredo Silipigni Competition. In July, she won the American Opera Idol Award from Connecticut Concert Opera. She also made her first international appearance in September as a finalist in the Elizabeth Connell Prize for Dramatic Sopranos in Sydney, Australia. Kalinowski holds a Master of Music in Opera Performance from the University of Kansas and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Mercyhurst University.

Wendy Plyler is an active performer and piano instructor in the Meadville area. She has performed extensively in Northwest Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York as both soloist and accompanist. She holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where she studied with Patricia Zander, Steven Drury and the late Louis Krasner, as well as being a student of Alec Chien of Allegheny College while in middle and high school. She has been an instructor in the music department at Allegheny College since 1993.