Please note: The concert on March 10 is canceled. The concert has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 10.
Lincoln, Neb.--Glenn Korff School of Music professors Clark Potter, viola, and David Neely, violin, will perform a faculty recital titled “Duos for Violin and Viola” on Monday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119.
The concert is free and open to the public. It will also be live webcast. Visit https://go.unl.edu/gksomwebcasts the day of the performance for the link.
The program includes three works, including J.W. Kalliwoda’s “Duo No. 1 for Violin and Viola,” Bohuslav Martinu’s “Three Madrigals” and Christopher Lowry’s “Diversions,” which was composed in 2016.
“The Lowry piece is largely based on folk idioms from Irish, Scandinavian and Bluegrass influences,” Potter said. “It’s really fun to play and will be very fun for the audience. The only problem for me is that the composer is a violist, and the viola part to his part is nasty. But I’ll do my best.”
Potter and Neely have a long history together. They met in the fall of 1984 in the studio of Peter Marsh at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. The two formed the Kirkwood String Quartet with two other musicians. After a change of cellists, the quartet left Indiana to become the graduate quartet-in-residence at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. The quartet worked weekly with the Sequoia String Quartet and two weeks each semester with San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet.
At the end of their MFA program in 1987, the Kirkwood Quartet disbanded. Neely took a job at the University of South Dakota, and Potter took a job at Eastern Oregon University, but they continued their collaborations.
Neely later joined the Glenn Korff School of Music faculty in 1993. He also taught at Lutheran Summer Music, where he and Potter performed with the Omega String Quartet. Potter joined the Glenn Korff School of Music faculty in 1996 when a viola position opened, and the rest is history.
“We’ve done life together, through thick and thin,” Potter said.
Neely is professor of violin and an artist/faculty member of the Orfeo International Music Festival in Vipeteno, Italy. He is a member of the Trans-Nebraska Players chamber group, which has performed throughout the U.S. and Canada. For more information on Neely, visit https://go.unl.edu/neely.
Potter is professor of viola and is an active performer as a solo recitalist and chamber musician. He is a member of the Trans-Nebraska Players, the Nebraska Chamber Players and the newly formed UNL faculty ensemble Una Corda. He has conducted the Lincoln Youth Symphony since 2007. For more information on Potter, visit https://go.unl.edu/cpotter.
