{"id":5204,"date":"2016-10-18T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2016-10-25T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T18:00:42","slug":"david-cullen-invited-to-play-at-carnegie-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2016\/10\/18\/david-cullen-invited-to-play-at-carnegie-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"David Cullen invited to play at Carnegie Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nElizabethtown College Artist-in-Residence, David Cullen, began playing guitar at the age of 7. Fifty years later, he is excited to perform at Carnegie Hall, he said. \u201cThe Gathering Concert\u201d takes place Oct. 28 at Weill Recital Hall and features Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman \u00a0on guitar and award-winning pianist and composer Lynn Yew Evers. According to the Carnegie Hall website, Weill Recital Hall hosts hundreds of events each season in its intimate 268 seat space including recitals, chamber music concerts and masters classes.<\/p>\n

Also performing in the Oct. 28 concert is Cullen\u2019s wife, Jill Haley, who writes and makes music for the National Parks Soundscapes Series.\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t play with her a lot, because we like to do our own separate music jobs,\u201d Cullen said, estimating they play just six or seven joint performances a year. At Carnegie, they will perform two tunes from Haley\u2019s National Parks\u2019 collection. She will play oboe and\u00a0English\u00a0horn. Joining Cullen, Halley, Ackerman and Evers are cellist Eugene Friesen and guitarists Vin Downes and Trevor Gordon Hall.<\/p>\n

Ackerman, the headliner, and Cullen have been playing together for 25 years, so when Ackerman was invited to play at Carnegie Hall for the first time, he invited Cullen to join him. \u201cWe\u2019re just going to enjoy the moment and play some music with an old friend Will Ackerman and with my wife,\u201d Cullen said.<\/p>\n

In the past, Cullen has played in New York at the Merkin Concert Hall and 92nd Street Y and at The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. \u201cCarnegie Hall is a very iconic place,\u201d he said, \u201c[It will be] great to be able to say, \u2018Yeah, I played Carnegie’.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to James Haines, Chair of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, having a member of Elizabethtown College faculty play at Carnegie Hall \u201cshows the caliber of performers and musicians with whom our students get to study.\u201d Every music student who has graduated in the past 20 years, Haines said, has been taught by Cullen in a class or private lessons. \u201cHe\u2019s just really invested in our program,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Cullen has been a part of the College more than a quarter century. \u201cTeaching the students [at E-town] has been very rewarding. I\u2019ve been the Artist-in-Residence here for 10 years, and performing in that role has allowed me to present a wide variety of concerts every year. This has all helped to make me the musician I am today, and I thank Elizabethtown College for supporting this position,\u201d the musician said.<\/p>\n

Haines said he is disappointed that he cannot attend\u00a0 Cullen’s performance. \u201cHaving an artist of his caliber as a member of the community is a real treat,\u201d he said, \u201cHe\u2019s one of the best artists I have ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Artist-in-Residence, David Cullen, began playing guitar at the age of 7. Fifty years later, he is excited to perform at Carnegie Hall, he said. \u201cThe Gathering Concert\u201d takes place Oct. 28 at Weill Recital Hall and features Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman \u00a0on guitar and award-winning pianist and composer Lynn Yew Evers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":5211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,774,5],"tags":[490,1128,54],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements","category-arts-and-culture","category-arts-culture","tag-achievements-2","tag-feature","tag-music","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}