MURFREESBORO TN - An MTSU faculty trio featuring Andrea Dawson on violin, Todd Waldecker on clarinet and Arunesh Nadgir on piano will present a free public concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 27, in Hinton Hall of the Wright Music Building at MTSU.

"We're presenting a concert blend of rustic Armenian folk music, Polish dances, French blues and witty Gershwin,” said Waldecker. "We are excited to perform with our new faculty colleague (Nadgir), and we have enjoyed putting together this program of chamber and solo selections.”

Waldecker said the group will play Aram Khatchaturian's folk-influenced “Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano,” Witold Lutoslawski's “Dance Preludes for Clarinet and Piano,” Frédéric Chopin's “Impromptu No. 2 in F# Major” for solo piano, Maurice Ravel’s “Blues from Sonata for Violin and Piano,” Peter Schickele's “Serenade for Three” and George Gershwin's “Walking the Dog.” The special performance is, as always, free and open to the public.

Dawson joined the MTSU music faculty as assistant professor of violin in 2007 and the faculty of the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts in 2008. She is a member of the Stones River Chamber Players and Belle Meade Baroque and has been a featured chamber musician on WPLN-Nashville Public Radio. She has also performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Mexico.

Waldecker is an associate professor in the School of Music and was a recipient of the 2006 MTSU Foundation Outstanding Teacher Award. He’s also a faculty member for the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts and has performed by invitation as a featured soloist at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest 2008 and 2010 and at the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium. As a member of the Stones River Chamber Players, MTSU’s faculty-in-residence ensemble, he has performed throughout the United States and Europe and at conventions of the National Flute Association and the Guitar Federation of America.

Nadgir, the new assistant professor of piano at MTSU, has performed as soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Europe and Asia and at many international music festivals, including the Millennium International Piano Festival, the Moulin d’Ande Festival and the Kneisel Hall Summer Music Festival. An accomplished teacher, adgir has taught at the Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory’s Preparatory and Continuing Education Departments, The Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and the Palisades School of Music.