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Tufts to present 'Brahms and His Circle' Feb. 12

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The following was submitted by Tufts University:

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, MA – The Tufts University Department of Music presents a concert featuring performance faculty members Scott Woolweaver, viola, and Frank Glazer, piano, highlighting Johannes Brahms’ Sonatas Op. 120, Nos. 1 and 2 for Viola and Piano in the Distler Performance Hall at the Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center on Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 3 p.m. as part of the Sunday at Tufts – Community Concert Series. The duo will also perform Heinrich von Herzogenberg’s Legends, Op. 62 and Robert Schumann’s Märchenbilder, Op. 113.

Scott Woolweaver was a founding member of the Boston Composers String Quartet, with whom he has toured across the United States and Europe and which won the silver medal at the 1993 String Quartet and Chamber Music Competition and Festa in Osaka, Japan. He is a faculty member of the All Newton Music School and Tufts University, and is Artist Associate at Williams College. He has recorded for Orion, Koch International, TelDec, Audiofon, Albany Records, Decca and Northeastern Records.

Frank Glazer is a world-renowned pianist, composer, and professor of music. He gave his debut concert at Town Hall in New York City in 1936, and repeated the program in 2006 to celebrate his seventieth anniversary of public performance. He taught at the Eastman School of Music from 1965 to 1980, and has since been an artist-in-residence at Bates College in Maine.

The Granoff Music Center is located at 20 Talbot Avenue on Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit as.tufts.edu/music/musiccenter or call the Granoff Music Center Box Office at 617.627.3679.