Piano-Violin duo to open HLSCC’s Performing Arts Season today

Julian Lawrence Gargiulo (right) and Edith Dawn Yokley.

Daniel Singh, HLSCC Communications Director 19.OCT.07
H. Lavity Stoutt Community College’s 2007-2008 Performing Arts Season will open this Friday with a classical concert, featuring a piano-violin performance by New York-based musicians Julian Lawrence Gargiulo and Edith Dawn Yokley.

Gargiulo, a pianist, has performed in the United States, Italy, France, Germany and Russia, and has always been met with public acclaim. Born and educated in Italy, his studies began at the Verona State Conservatory and later at the Academy in Rome.

After a one-year internship in Moscow, Gargiulo went to the United States where he received a bachelor’s degree from Rowan University in New Jersey. He finished his master’s degree at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University and his doctorate in musical arts at the University of Maryland.

He currently serves on the piano faculty at the Westerhoff School of Music, New Jersey, while also maintaining a busy schedule of solo engagements, as well as with other instrumentalists and singers.

Yokley, who performed at the College during the last Performing Arts Season, is a violinist with the Chicago Sinfonietta and a collaborative artist with the Art Institute of Chicago.

Since completing her master’s degree at the University of Michigan, she has performed with such artists as Barry White, Nancy Wilson, Andrea Boccelli, Smokey Robinson, Dennis DeYoung and Diana Ross.

Yokley is also a violinist with the Tim Janis Ensemble based in New York, as well as with the Steve Edwards Orchestra, the High Society Orchestra and the Good Times Society Bands in Chicago.

Tickets for the concert are $20 for adults ($25 at the door; $30 for those that include a reception) and $5 for HLSCC and University of the West Indies students. Primary and high school students will be admitted free of charge.

Tickets are available at the HLSCC Paraquita Bay Bookstore, as well as at the Road Town Bakery, Caribbean Insurers Ltd., Sunny Caribbee and Umi Fashions. Special season ticket prices are being offered.

For further information, persons may contact Marietta Bodley at HLSCC on telephone number 852-7223.