Allegheny Sounds on WPSU

2006 Series
Castalia Trio

Hear Allegheny Sounds featuring the Castalia Trio

The Castalia Trio began performing together in 1991 and unites three peformers who maintain active solo careers. They perform frequently in the United States, and recent international tours have taken them to France, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and China. The name Castalia comes from a mythic fountain at the base of Mount Parnassus. It was said that if you drank the water from the fountain, Castalia would inspire poetry.

The musicians in the trio are violinist James Lyon, cellist Kim Cook and pianist Marylene Dosse.

Excerpt from "Interlude oriental" by Nicholai Rimsky Korsakov performed by the Castalia Trio

Excerpt from "Serenade" by Victor Herbert performed by the Castalia Trio

James Lyon, violin
Mr. Lyon is currently professor of music in violin at Penn State and coaches for the Quartet Program. He graduated with Distinction from the Eastman School of Music. He has performed with the Harrington Quartet, with members of the Tokyo Quartet and the Lincoln Center Chamber Players. Mr. Lyon as been heard in radio broadcasts from Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.

Kim Cook, cello
Ms. Cook is a professor of music at Penn State University. She has performed with the Sao Paulo Symphony and taught at New Mexico State University. A graduate of Yale and the Univeristy of Illinois, she has performed as a cello soloists across Europe, as well as Russia, China, Israel, and the United States. Ms. Cook has recorded the concertos by Dvorak and Haydn and solo sonata of Kodaly, Crumb, and Hindemith.

Marylene Dosse, piano
Ms. Dosse has been a guest faculty member at Indiana Univeristy-Bloomington and artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin. Currently, she is a Distinguished Professor of Music at Penn State University. Ms. Dosse has performed across Europe, North Africa, South America, and the United States with over twenty recordings on the Vox, Pantheon, and Albany labels. She has received first prizes at the Paris Conservatory and two international prizes in Salzburg and Naples.

This project was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment of the Arts, a federal agency.