World Renowned Cellist Stephen Framil to Appear at College of Saint Elizabeth

Internationally acclaimed musician Dr. Stephen Framil, who has the distinction of being the first American cellist to perform in Hanoi since end of the Vietnam War, will appear on Wednesday, November 17, 2010, at 7 p.m., in Dolan Performance Hall, Annunciation Center, at the College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J.

Dr. Framil will perform a varied program for cello and piano including pieces by Bach, sonatas by Schubert, Shostakovich, and shorter virtuoso pieces by Paganini and Cassado. This program is a preview of a recital Dr. Framil will be performing at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, November 21. For more information, call 973-290-4379 or email events@cse.edu.

Dr. Framil has performed as concert soloist, chamber musician and conductor at concert halls around the world: including Carnegie, Weill, and Avery-Fisher halls in New York; Hong Kong City Hall, with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra from Hungary; Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia; Manila Philharmonic Orchestra in the Philippines; Viêt Nam National Symphony Orchestra; and the Bombay and Bangalore Chamber Orchestras in India. He is the music director/conductor of CAMERATA PHILADELPHIA and artistic director of the Port City Music Festival in North Carolina.

As a versatile and dedicated educator, Dr. Framil, who holds a doctorate in music from Indiana University, has given cello and chamber music master classes at many prestigious music institutions worldwide, including the Shanghai Conservatory, China; DePaul University, Chicago; Longy School of Music, Boston; Blair School of Music, Nashville, Tenn.; and Volgograd Conservatory, Russia. He has been an adjudicator for the Hong Kong Schools of Music Festival, and the Schadt String Competition in Allentown, Pa.

An advocate of inner-city music education, Dr. Framil is the director of the Philadelphia Community Conservatory and the Philadelphia Youth Ensemble, programs that provide music lessons and orchestral experience to underserved youth. Dr. Framil has held professorships at the University of Delaware, Andrews University, Michigan; and Towson University Maryland.
Dr. Framil has recorded the complete J.S. Bach Suites for Solo Cello, as well as the works for Solo Cello by Zoltán Kodály and Gaspar Cassadó. for Radio 4 Hong Kong. He has also recorded the two Haydn cello concertos with Paul Freeman and Czech National Symphony Orchestra for Centaur Records.

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls approximately 2,000 full and part-time students in 27 undergraduate programs, nine graduate degree programs, and one doctoral program. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.

Photojournallist Harry Benson to Speak at the College of Saint Eizabeth Tuesday, November 16

Photojournalist Harry Benson, who traveled to the United States with the Beatles in 1964, will present a slide lecture on his 60 years in photography on Tuesday, November 16, 2010, at 7 p.m., in Dolan Performance Hall, Annunciation Center, College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE), 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J. During his presentation, Benson will show his images and answer questions about the photographs. Following his presentation, Mr. Benson will sign copies of his books.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the American Society of Media Photographers of New Jersey and sponsored by the Canon-Explorers of Light program and the CSE Culture and Humanities Area and the CSE Art Program. For more information, visit asmp-nj.org or the events page at maloneyartgallery.org.

Aside from creating some of the Beatles’ most famous images, Benson has been a witness to several major historic events. He was standing next to Robert F. Kennedy when the presidential candidate was assassinated in 1968. He marched with Martin Luther Jr. during the Civil Rights movement and stood next to Coretta Scott King at her husband’s funeral. He was in the room with Richard Nixon when the president resigned in 1974. He was there when the Berlin Wall went up … and when it came down. He has photographed 11 American presidents from Eisenhower to Obama.

Benson was the most published photographer in Life magazine and he is currently under contract to Vanity Fair magazine. His photographs have appeared in Architectural Digest, Newsweek and many other major magazines. In 2009, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington. He has had 40 gallery solo exhibitions and has published 14 books of his photographs.

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls approximately 2,000 full and part-time students in 27 undergraduate programs, nine graduate degree programs, and one doctoral program. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.