Duo Savignon-Dunoyer from State College, PA features Julie Savignon playing the violin and Cecilia Dunoyer playing the piano. Both musicians have active solo careers in addition to peforming together and with other chamber and orchestral groups. They made their Paris debut in November 2004 featuring French music. During this program, hear them perform music by Debussy, Poulenc, Massenet, and William Bolcom.

Excerpt from Meditation from Thais by Jules Massenet performed by Duo Savignon-Dunoyer

Excerpt from a Sonata for violin and piano by Francis Poulenc performed by Duo Savignon-Dunoyer

Julie Savignon, violin
Julie Savignon is an active soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player and teacher. She has performed at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. Salle Cortot in France, and in concerts in Pennsylvania. She studied in France where she received her academic Baccalaureate Degree and at Rice University where she received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in violin peformance.

Ms. Savignon has served as the Assistand Principal Second Violin of the Charlotte Symphony and currently is associate concertmaster of the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra.

Cecilia Dunoyer, piano
Cecilia Dunoyer grew up in Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and France. She earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in piano from the University of Michigan and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland. Ms. Dunoyer has been an Associate Fellow of Silliman College, Yale University, since 1984 and has served on the piano faculty at Penn State University.

Ms. Dunoyer has performed as a soloists with orchestras in Maine, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Washington, and France. She has also performed extensively in the United States and in Europe, including piano recitals in Paris, New York, Washington, and Vienna. She is the author of Marguerite Long, A Life in French Music published by Indiana University Press in 1993 and has been featured on NPR's Performance Today.