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Hobart Trio to Perform at William Paterson University on April 10

The Hobart Trio, featuring Iris Perry, piano, Kathleen Butler-Hopkins, violin, and Joseph Kimura, cello, will perform music by Haydn and Brahms, among other works, at William Paterson University in Wayne on Sunday April 10, 2016. The concert will be held at 2 p.m. in Shea Recital Hall Room 101 in the University’s Shea Center for Performing Arts on campus. The event is part of the Musical Salon Series.

General admission is $15. For more information, please call the Shea Center Box Office at 973.720.2371 or visit wp-presents.org.

Perry performed to high acclaim as a recitalist, chamber musician, vocal accompanist, and soloist with orchestras throughout Austria, Holland, Romania, the former Soviet republics, and the United States. A prizewinner in international piano competitions, including the Stravinsky Awards and Young Keyboard Artists Association International Piano Competitions, she holds a doctorate in music from Indiana University.  She is the founding executive director of the William Paterson Academy of Music, which offers classes and lessons for pre-college and adult students.

Butler-Hopkins is professor emeritus of music at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she taught for 35 years. She has served as concertmaster and soloist with the Fairbanks Symphony and the Arctic Chamber Orchestra, and as a member of the Alaska Trio, the Alaska Chamber Ensemble, and the Alaska Chamber Players. Her numerous honors include the Alaska String Teachers Association String Teacher of the Year the prestigious Usibelli Distinguished Service Award. She holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the Yale University School of Music.

Kimura has performed as a member of the Laurentian String and as principal cellist of the Stamford Symphony Orchestra. A member of Solisti New York and the Westfield Symphony, he has performed as soloist with the Orchestra of the State of Mexico, the Stamford Symphony, the Gloria Chamber Orchestra, the Garden State Chamber Orchestra, the Korean Symphony of New York, and the Hoboken Chamber Orchestra. He has performed on live NPR broadcasts with the Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, and has played on numerous movie and TV commercial orchestra sound tracks and with numerous Broadway shows.

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