DPO Musicians Featured at 2011 Show House & Gardens

Thomas Wittberg and
Kathleen Durig

Mary
Fahrenbruck

Priscilla Acuff

A major benefit that Show House visitors will appreciate is the outstanding performances by so many talented musicians from the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. As you tour this stately Oakwood home, you will be impressed by the melodious sounds of these classical professional performances. It is a rare opportunity you won’t want to miss!

Some of the featured performers include:

Mary Fahrenbruck

• M.Music in Piano, University of Michigan, Ph.D in Piano, The Ohio State University
• Retired as full professor after thirty years at Central State University
• Studied at the Mozarteum in Salzbury, Austria; St. Petersburg, Russia; Eastman School of Music and Indiana University
• Has performed as a soloist from Charleston, SC to Thunder Bay, Ontario
• Has performed widely as a collaborator, accompanist, orchestra member, pit musician and harpsichordist
• She and her husband live in Yellow Springs

Priscilla Acuff

• B. Music Education and M.S. Education and Allied Professions, Wright State University
• Recently retired from the Franklin City Schools as junior high school music teacher, teaching vocal music, general music and junior high band
• Began piano lessons at five years of age, and in high school she studied organ with Paul Jones at First Lutheran Church in Dayton
• She is currently organist at Fairhaven Church in Centerville.

Kathleen Durig

• B. Music Education, The Ohio State University; M.Music, College Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati
• Studied flute with George Hambrecht, former principal flutist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
• She is a performing member of the Sinclair Community College Wind Symphony and the Dayton Music Club
• Currently a music teacher at Huber Heights Titus Elementary

Thomas Wittberg

• Studied classical guitar with Robert Mercer at the University of Cincinnati
• Performs with the Dayton Classic Guitar Trio, with guitarists Jim McCutcheon and David Ferrarra, and with flutist Kathleen Durig
• He is a physicist at the University of Dayton Research Institute

Mary White

• Part of a baroque quartet that is working on the sonata from J.S. Bach's "A Musical Offering," after hearing it performed by Neal Gittleman and the Dayton Philharmonic this season
• Her quartet will play the sonata on Saturday, May 14 at the Show House
• The quartet includes: Mary White, Suzanne Oldham, Richard Simons and Barbara (Dennis) Leeds
• Ms. White lives in Yellow Springs

Mary Arnett and Bob Gray

• Retired DPO violin and clarinet/flute musicians
• They have played at every Show House for more than twenty years

Please tour the 2011 Show House & Gardens and attend one or more of the many special events that are available. The proceeds from the 2011 Show House & Gardens are to benefit the greater Miami Valley school children through enhanced music education and to support The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra.

We look forward to seeing you!