Guitar and cello duo perform Nov. 3

The Richter/Uzur Duo will perform Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. at Appalachian State University. The performance will be held in Broyhill Music Center’s Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Guitarist Brad Richter and cellist Victor Uzur will perform their original compositions.

Richter will perform the guitar solos “Dance of the Harvest Fires,” “How Death Came” and “Elation.” Uzur will perform the cello solo “Balkanika.” Together, the musicians will perform works by Manuel De Falla, Bela Bartok and Led Zeppelin.

The duo is described as “artists who have pooled their love for music of all genres to satisfy every musical whim while simultaneously leaving an audience to marvel at their individual virtuosic prowess.”

Since completing his master’s degree at the Royal College of Music in London, Brad Richter has performed throughout North America and Europe as a soloist, in duos with artists such as Grammy-winner David Finckel of the Emerson String Quartet and in numerous national broadcasts in the United States, Great Britain and Mexico.

Recent festival appearances have included The Aspen Music Festival, The London International Guitar Festival, Festival Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado (Mexico) and the Walnut Valley Festival, where he won the National Finger-picking Championship.

In addition to his collections of concert music for solo guitar (published by Mel Bay and GSP) Richter is an avid composer of chamber music. He is a winner of the International Composer’s Guild Competition. He wrote and performed a score for the Emmy award winning PBS television series “The Desert Speaks.”

When not on tour, Richter teaches at the University of Arizona and serves as the artistic director of Lead Guitar, a charity which he co-founded in 2006 that establishes school guitar programs for at-risk youth

Viktor Uzur has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in many countries in Europe, Asia and North America, including concerts and collaborations with composers such as Tikhon Khrennikov, Petris Vasks and Lewis Nielson.

His engagement as the principal cellist and soloist with ARCO Moscow Chamber Orchestra brought him many CD releases and international tours and his performances, interviews and compositions have been broadcast nationally on television and radio stations in the former Yugoslavia, Russia and the United States.

Uzur is cello professor at Weber State University in Utah. He received his bachelor and master’s degrees in cello performance and a soloist diploma from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and earned a doctorate from Michigan State University.

Uzur is the founder and director of the Bonneville Chamber Music Festival. He is a prize winner and a diploma recipient at competitions such as the Yugoslavian National Solo Competition in Sarajevo, Jeuness Musicales International Competition in Belgrade and XI International Competition Tchaikovsky in Moscow.