Cellist Carolyn Suda will be featured in a Monmouth College faculty recital Oct. 28 at 3 p.m. in the college Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Suda, a lecturer in Monmouth’s department of music and the principal cellist with the Knox-Galesburg Symphony, will be accompanied by Leigh Pirtle, a former Monmouth College student, who is professor of piano at Southeastern Community College in Burlington, Iowa.

“We will be playing two works representing the great tradition of German music – a Baroque work by J.S. Bach and a classical work by Beethoven,” said Suda, who will perform as concerto soloist in the Knox-Galesburg Symphony’s 50th Anniversary Concert Series in February. “However, the second half of the program will lighten up considerably with music from around the world: a collection of dances from Spain by Cassado, a powerful tango from Argentina by Piazolla, an intermezzo from France by Lalo and a beautiful short lyrical melody by Tchaikovsky from Russia.”

Concluded Suda, “Through this recital, I want to show the great diversity of chamber music available for cello and piano – something for everyone.”