Trumpeter, pianist to give recital Saturday
Tim Winfield and Nancy Zipay DeSalvo will perform a recital of music for trumpet and piano at 4 p.m. Saturday at First English Lutheran Church, 241 N. Main St. Admission is free.
Winfield, a trumpeter, and pianist DeSalvo are both professors of music at Westminster College.
They will be playing works by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Walter Hartley, John Williams and Herbert Clarke, as well as two newly composed works by Jason Howard and Joshua Hobbs that were only just recently premiered.
Winfield has been assistant professor of music at Westminster since 2014 and is the director of the college's jazz ensemble.
A native of Jeannette, he began playing trumpet at an early age, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
He is the principal trumpet of the Butler County Symphony Orchestra and first trumpet with the W.D. Packard Band, and has been a member of the Billings Symphony Orchestra and the Boulder Symphony Orchestra.
He also has played with the Pittsburgh Opera, Canton Symphony, Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, South Florida Symphony Orchestra and Aspen Festival Orchestra, among others.
As an active freelance musician, he has worked with music greats including John Williams, Barry Manilow, The Hitmen and Jack Black.DeSalvo performs extensively as a soloist, a professional accompanying pianist, and a chamber music collaborator. She has been a guest soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and is currently a pianist with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra. She is an associate professor at Westminster, where she teaches applied piano, vocal and instrumental accompanying, piano techniques courses and music history. She also has served as the chairman of the School of Music.She and baritone singer Jason Fuh captured First Prize for their performance of Four Claudal Poems in the Darius Milhaud Performance Auditions held at the Cleveland Institute of Music.DeSalvo has received the Gwendolyn Koldofsky Award, given at the discretion of the Cleveland Institute of Music faculty to a collaborative piano major.
