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Schubert’s Chamber Music III

Who
Ariel Winnick, violin, Meghan Kase, cello, and Peter Pesic, piano

What
Lunchtime concert

Title
Schubert’s Chamber Music III 

Where
Junior Common Room, Peterson Student Center, St. John’s College

When
January 20, 2012, 12:10 to 1:15 p.m.

Details
This concert is free and open to the public.

St. John’s students Ariel Winnick and Meghan Kase join Peter Pesic, musician-in-residence and tutor, in the third in a series of informal concerts devoted to the chamber music of Franz Schubert. The three will perform Schubert’s Adagio in E-flat major (“Notturno”, D.897), Violin Sonata in G minor (D.408), and Rondeau brilliant in B minor (D.895).

Ariel Winnick graduated from St. John’s College, Santa Fe, in 2011, and is now a graduate student in Eastern Classics at the Santa Fe campus. He enjoys playing classical music and traditional folk music of Appalachia, Ireland, and French Canada. He plays guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, musical saw, and spoons, and also writes music. Mr. Winnick has been spending time with distinguished musicians and scholars since 1987.

Meghan Kase is a sophomore at St. John’s College. She graduated from Central Bucks High School East in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, the Bucks County Festival Orchestra, and the Bucks County Youth Orchestra. She was also a member of the Sartoria Competition Award-winning MARAH Quartet and has studied under Sarah Yoon and Mary Pitcairn.

Peter Pesic is a tutor and musician-in-residence at St. John’s College, Santa Fe. He attended Harvard and Stanford Universities, obtaining a doctorate in physics. He has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Mr. Pesic is also a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.