Department of Music concludes its Vicedomini Organ Series tonight

The Vicedomini Organ Series concludes tonight, March 29, at 8 in Anabel Taylor Chapel, with a recital by acclaimed Swedish organist Hans Davidsson. The concert is free and open to the public.

This past summer Cornell acquired a historic Neapolitan organ at auction in San Francisco. Built by Augustus Vicedomini in 1746, the instrument is one of only a few to have been removed from Italy before the passage of that country's historic landmark legislation. Now housed in Anabel Taylor Chapel, Vicedomini's organ is an excellent example of the long traditions of Italian organ building.

The last of the three dedicatory recitals, tonight's program includes works by Matthias Weckmann, Girolamo Frescobaldi and Johann Jakob Froberger.

Davidsson received his soloist diploma from the Conservatory of Göteborg, Sweden in 1985. A special interest in early music led to three years of study at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam and postgraduate research on North German Baroque organ music, focused on Weckmann for the University of Göteborg. In September 1991 Davidsson earned the first doctorate in music performance in Sweden, following the defense of his thesis on the interpretation of Weckmann's organ music.

In 1986 Davidsson was appointed organ teacher at the Conservatory of Göteborg and in 1988 was promoted to organ professor. A year later he was directed to establish an organ center for research in performance practice, including the acquisition of organ instruments built according to historical principles. As a result, in 1995 Davidsson co-founded and was named director of the Göteborg Organ Art Center, GOArt, an international center for interdisciplinary organ research. Recently, he was appointed associate professor of organ at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester.

Mark Kroll and Carol Lieberman give an all-Beethoven recital April 1 at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall.

Also in concert this week, the husband-wife duo of Carol Lieberman (classical violin) and Mark Kroll (fortepiano) presents a recital in Barnes Hall on Sunday, April 1, at 8 p.m. The all-Beethoven program features three sonatas for violin and piano, including those in D Major and A Major (Nos. 1 and 2 from opus 12) and the "Spring" Sonata from opus 24 in F major. Kroll also presents Variations for Piano on "God Save the King."

Lieberman has been one of the leading exponents of Baroque violin performance for three decades and is equally well-known for her performances of 19th- and 20th-century violin repertoire. She has concertized throughout Europe and North and South America and frequently performs for radio and television.

Lieberman received her D.M.A. degree from Yale University, and her awards include a fellowship at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She currently is associate professor of music at the College of the Holy Cross, where she is director of the Holy Cross Chamber Players. She also serves on the faculty of the Boston University Department of Historical Performance, where she teaches Baroque violin and chamber music. Lieberman performs as violinist of the Lieberman-Kroll Duo, the Early Music Ensemble of Boston and is first violinist and founder of the Quartetto Tomasini, a period-instrument string quartet.

Kroll has been acclaimed as one of the world's leading harpsichordists and fortepianists. During a career spanning three decades, he has performed throughout North and South America and Europe, winning critical praise for his expressive playing and virtuosity. Equally active in the solo, chamber music and concerto repertoire, Kroll collaborates frequently with noted musicians and ensembles in the United States and abroad and has appeared as concerto soloist with some of the world's major orchestras. He also has served as the harpsichordist for the Boston Symphony since 1979 and can be heard on the orchestra's recordings of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with Seiji Ozawa and Joseph Silverstein.