Trio Caprice to Present Concert

Lancaster Church of the Brethren, 1601 Sunset Ave., Lancaster, will host Trio Caprice in concert on Saturday, March 28, at 7 p.m. The concert is part of the church's Starlight Tea Concert Series.

Trio Caprice includes Debra Ronning on piano, Dana Allaband on violin, and Sara Male on cello. The concert will include selections by Peter Martin, Paul Schoenfield, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Johannes Brahms.

Ronning has has performed extensively throughout Pennsylvania and elsewhere both as a soloist and chamber musician. Many of her students have been prize winners in local and state keyboard competitions. Ronning has held leadership roles at the state and national levels of the Music Teachers National Association. She serves on the artistic committee for Gretna Music and currently organizes its First Listen program featuring young performers.

Allaband studied under Simon Maurer, Sylvia Ahramjian, James Stern, and Arnold Steinhardt and has received degrees from West Chester University and University of Maryland. She has performed in Venezuela, Romania, and Cameroon; at Carnegie Hall; and at various universities across the country. She has been principal second violinist of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra for over a decade and has served as concertmaster with Southwest Florida Symphony, Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, Lancaster Symphony, Kennett Symphony, and Anthracite Philharmonic.

Male is a cellist, educator, and arts leader whose career spans performance, teaching, and arts leadership. She holds degrees from the Victoria Conservatory of Music in Canada, where she received the Principal Emeritus Prize; Rutgers University; and the Mannes College of Music in New York City. She is the founding cellist of the Lancaster-based Newstead Trio, which performed internationally from 1993 to 2018 and debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2001. She serves as principal cellist of the York Symphony Orchestra and assistant principal cellist of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, and she regularly performs with regional orchestras throughout Pennsylvania. She is an adjunct professor of cello at Lafayette College.

Admission is free, and a freewill offering will be received. Tea and cookies will be served following the concert. For more information, contact planning committee chair Giny Mackey at 717-201-8450.

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