Ithaca College

Cellist Elizabeth Simkin will present a free recital on Sunday, November 15 at 4:00 in the Hockett Family Recital Hall.  Jennifer Hayghe will collaborate as pianist.  The program will include Bartok's Rumanian Folk Dances, "Aerialism" by Sebastian Currier, the "Fantasiestueke" by Robert Schumann, and the Debussy sonata.

Cellist Elizabeth Simkin joined the IC School of Music faculty in the fall of 1994.  She has also served for seven summers on the artist faculty of the Bowdoin International Music festival.  Prior to that, she was the teaching assistant and student of Janos Starker at Indiana University, Bloomington.  She received her Master of Music degree with the Performer’s Certificate from Eastman with Steven Doane and her bachelor’s from Oberlin with Richard Kapuscinski, where she won the John Katz prize in cello performance as well as the Oberlin Concerto competition.

As a United States Artistic Ambassador, Elizabeth has performed extensively in International recitals with pianist Karl Paulnack.  She has held summer chamber music residencies at Tanglewood and at the Spoleto festival in Italy.  She has been a returning guest artist at numerous chamber music festivals including: Olympic, Roycroft, Skaneateles, Chenango, Garth Newel, and Heifetz.  As a founding member of Ithaca’s New Music Group Ensemble X, she has toured to major concert halls and universities, and worked personally with many of today’s leading composers.