Mu Phi Epsilon Sunday Concert: Piano Trio: Wendy Morton, cello; Mark Morton, double bass and Leslie Spotz, piano February 22, 2009

Cellist Wendy Morton is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and a founding member of the Carpe Diem String Quartet. She has performed with the Santa Fe Opera orchestra, Honolulu symphony, Pennsylvania Ballet and Opera Orchestras, the Symphony Orchestra of the Curtis Institute of Music, Inverness Festival Orchestra, Harvard Chamber Orchestra, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, and the Brandenburg Ensemble with whom she toured the East coast, including performances in Boston's Symphony Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York. She is currently on leave from her position as Assistant Principal cellist of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra.

Mark Morton is Assistant Professor of Double Bass at Texas Tech University, and is principal bass of the Columbus (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra. Morton is the first-prize winner of the International Society of Bassists Solo Competition in New York City. He is the Artistic Director of the American School of Double Bass, drawing students, teachers, and professionals from all over the United States to its summer camps, private lessons, workshops and master classes.

Pianist Leslie Spotz enjoys an international solo career that has included performances in Moscow at the Tchaikovsky Hall of Moscow University, the South Bank Center of London, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the famed Academy of Music in Philadelphia, her highly acclaimed tours of Germany and most recently her performance at the inaugural opening of Philadelphia’s new performance venue, the Kimmel Center. She presently heads the piano faculty at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, TX.

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