LEWISTON

Concert artist and teacher Duncan Cumming joins violinist Hilary Walther Cumming and cellist Sölen Dickener in concert when the Capital Trio returns to the Gendron Franco Center in Lewiston at 7 p.m. on Friday to present the fourth recital of the Center’s 10th Piano Series season. The all-Beethoven program will include violin and cello sonatas, as well as a trio.

Maine native Duncan Cumming began his study with Frank Glazer even before attending Bates College. Later, he attended the European Mozart Academy in Prague, before returning to receive his master’s degree at the New England Conservatory and his doctorate from Boston University. From 2002 to 2008, he was Assistant Director of the Tanglewood Institute’s Young Artists Piano Program.

Cumming has performed in cities across Europe and in the United States. In 2009, he published a biography of his mentor, “The Fountain of Youth: The Artistry of Frank Glazer.”

Dickener and Duncan Cumming formed a musical bond when, at their first meeting, they discovered that their respective teachers, Paul Tortelier and Frank Glazer, had performed together 70 years earlier in Paris and Boston.

Dickener began his cello studies at age eight in his native Turkey and soon entered the State Conservatory in Ankara. Later, he studied in France with the legendary Paul and Maud Tortelier. He came to the United States in 1992, and completed a master’s degree in cello studies at Louisiana State University and later received his doctorate from Michigan State University.

Dickener is cello and bass professor and director of the university symphony orchestra at Marshall University. In the summer, he returns to Turkey to direct an international summer music academy and chamber music festival, Akademi Datca. He has given recitals and performed with chamber groups and orchestras across Europe and the United States.

Also a faculty member at the University at Albany, Hilary Walther Cumming studied with Gerardo Robeiro during her undergraduate years at Northwestern University. She completed her master’s degree in violin performance at Indiana University, Bloomington, where her teachers were Franco Gulli and Stanley Richie; she then attended the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen and frequently traveled to Paris for lessons with Sylvie Gazeau and Nell Gotkovsky. Her broad repertoire reflects her interests in classical, baroque, and Irish traditional music, and she has performed as soloist and in ensembles from South America to Eastern Europe, as well as across the Northeastern United States.

Tickets are $15, $10 for seniors, and all students are admitted for free. To purchase tickets, visit the Box Office at 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston, visit francocenter.org or call (207) 689-2000. Box office hours are Monday-Friday from noon to 4 p.m.

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