Shepherd wind trio will perform benefit concert for Ellsworth October 4

ISSUED: 15 September 2009
MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Owens
(Shepherd wind trio will perform benefit concert for Ellsworth October 4)

Shepherdstown, WV--The Shepherd Three, faculty wind trio of Shepherd University, will perform a benefit concert for Mason Ellsworth on Sunday, October 4 at 3 p.m. in the Shepherdstown Train Station. Suggested donation is $10. All proceeds from the concert will go to the Ellsworth family to help with Mason's recovery from his July 2008 automobile accident that had left him in a coma for several months.

Anne Munro (flute), Gregory Shook (oboe), and Richard Polonchak (bassoon) are the Shepherd Three and are Shepherd Department of Music faculty and members of the Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra. They have performed together since 2005 and will be joined by Dr. Laura Renninger (harpsichord, piano), Shepherd University's coordinator of music history and appreciation and dean of teaching and learning.

On the program are selections from Mozart, Haydn, and Quantz, as well as the Lalliett Terzetto for oboe, bassoon and piano, and the Trio for Oboe, Flute and Piano by Madeline Dring.

Mason studied the bassoon with Shepherd's Richard Polonchak and played bassoon in Shepherd University's Preparatory Orchestra, where he worked with Munro and conductor Dr. Mark McCoy. He graduated from Jefferson High School in May and was planning to pursue a music degree at Shepherd this fall. Mason had been first chair in West Virginia All State Orchestra and was offered a Shepherd music scholarship.

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