Samuel Nordlund (cello) and Beth McGinnis (piano) perform an evening of chamber music from Beethoven to Martinu.
\nBeth McGinnis taught musicology and piano at Samford for fifteen year s before joining the full-time faculty in 2016. She is Organist at Vestavi a Hills Baptist Church. As an accompanist her performing credits include C arnegie Hall\, Santo Spirito in Florence\, the Vienna Konzerthaus and Pala is Ferstel\, and Birmingham&rsquo\;s Alys Stephens Center. She has publish ed articles on music and the extra-musical and biographical articles for t he \;New Grove Dictionary of American Music. \;She holds a Bachelo r of Music in Piano from Samford University\, a Master of Music in Musicol ogy from Texas Christian University\, and a Ph.D. in Musicology from the U niversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Beth is also a certified yoga instructor\, and teaches classes at the Vestavia YMCA. She lives in Birmin gham with her husband\, Scott\, and two children\, William and Kate.
\nSamuel Nordlund \;is cello and chamber music faculty at Samford Uni versity in Birmingham\, AL\, where he is also cellist in the Samford Quart et. \; He frequently performs with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra\, an d has been a member of the Huntsville Symphony\, Kalamazoo Symphony (MI)\, and Illinois Philharmonic\, among others. \; Samuel is Immediate Past -President of the Alabama Orchestra Association\, and serves on the facult y of STEP Birmingham\, the Alabama School of Fine Arts\, Samford Academy o f the Arts\, and the Samford Piano and Chamber Music Institute. \; He earned his DMA from The University of Alabama\, a MM from Northwestern Uni versity\, and has additional studies at summer festivals including the Mus ic Academy of the West\, the Meadowmount School of Music\, the Kent/Blosso m Music Festival\, and the Brevard Music Center. \; Primary teachers w ere Hans Jø\;rgen Jensen and Carlton McCreery.
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