Graduation Recital: Leah Mezo-Willingham, cello

April 8, 2025

Saturday, April 26, 2025, 4 p.m.
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall

Leah Mezo-Willingham, Cello

From the studio of Katie Schlaikjer

with
Stephanie Mara, piano
Yvon Arseneault, cello
Katie Schlaikjer, cello
Philip Spence, cello

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Honours Bachelor of Music: Performance

Program

Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
I. Prelude
IV. Sarabande
VI. Gigue

Silent Woods (Waldesruhe) Op. 68/5, B 182 by Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
with Yvon Arseneault, cello
Katie Schlaikjer, cello
Philip Spence, cello

When Music Sounds for Cello and Piano by Jean Coulthard (1908-2000)
with Stephanie Mara, piano

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 by Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
I. Adagio - Moderato
II. Lento - Allegro molto
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro - Moderato - Allegro, ma non-troppo - Poco più lento - Adagio
with Stephanie Mara, piano

We ask that patrons take photos only during intermission and/or after the show and do not record audio or video unless otherwise announced at the beginning of the show.

Land Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge that Wilfrid Laurier University and its campuses are located on the shared traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnaabe (Anish-nah-bay) and Haudenosaunee (Hoe-den-no-show-nee) peoples. This land is part of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples and symbolizes the agreement to share, protect our resources and not to engage in conflict. From the Haldimand Proclamation of Oct. 25, 1784 this territory is described as: “six miles deep from each side of the river (Grand River) beginning at Lake Erie and extending in the proportion to the Head of said river, which them and their posterity are to enjoy forever.” The proclamation was signed by the British wit​h their allies, the Six Nations, after the American Revolution. Despite being the largest reserve demographically in Canada, those nations now reside on less than five percent of this original territory.