Reading, Pa.  –As a part of a year-long celebration of “Women in the Arts,” Albright College will host Majore Piano Trio on January 29, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. in Roop Hall, Center for the Arts. The performance is free and open to the public.

Majore Piano Trio features violinist Johannes Dietrich, cellist Marie-Aline Cadieux and pianist Rebecca Butler.

Dietrich began playing the violin at the age of five and shortly after began studying the piano. As a violinist he has performed concertos with the Billings Symphony, the MSU Chamber Orchestra, the String Orchestra of the Rockies, and the St. Martin Chamber Orchestra of Cincinnati. Dietrich is an associate professor at Lebanon Valley College (LVC), where he teaches strings and directs the LVC Symphony Orchestra. He has a master of music in violin performance and a doctorate in violin performance and conducting, both from the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati.

Cadieux is associate professor of music at Kutztown University and adjunct cello instructor at Lebanon Valley College. She has performed across Europe, but has become an established presence in the Mid-Atlantic music scene since moving to the area in 1999. She received a master of music degree and a graduate certificate in performance from Northwestern University where she studied with master teacher Hans Jorgen Jensen. She also earned a doctor of musical arts at Ohio State University under the tutelage of Williams Conable.

Rebecca Gass Butler has been active as a collaborative pianist in southeastern Pennsylvania since her return to her hometown of Reading in 1979. She served as the principal keyboardist for the Reading Symphony, toured with groups from the American Boychoir School of Princeton as an accompanist, and has been the accompanist for the Berks Classical Children’s Chorus, Reading Choral Society and the New England Music Camp in Waterville, Maine. She has also shared the stage with tenor Jeffrey Lentz, violinist Christopher Collins Lee and the Reading Symphony Trio, and has enjoyed working with a variety of talented high school and college musicians in recitals. Butler has been a member of the faculty of the Albright College Department of Music for the past 27 years. She teaches general music courses, coaches small instrumental ensembles, teaches piano and flute privately and directs the Symphonic Band.

This year Albright’s Center for the Arts celebrates “Women in the Arts.” The center has chosen to focus this season – 90 years after women in America received full enfranchisement – on women and the arts to explore gender as both a potential limitation and source of inspiration in theatre, music, fashion and visual arts.

The Center for the Arts is located on the Albright College campus at 13th and Bern Streets, Reading, Pa. For more information or disabled assistance, please call the Music Department at 610-921-7715.

Visit the Center for the Arts web site.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Albright College enrolls more than 1,660 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 500 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.