An unsigned article on Monday (4/28) at GoErie.com (Erie, Pa.) reports that Howard Lyon will step down as concertmaster of the Erie Chamber Orchestra at the end of the 2013-14 season. “Lyon has been one of Erie’s best-known and most active professional musicians and educators. He joined the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1969-70 season, and has appeared as a soloist with the Philharmonic and the Erie Chamber Orchestra. Lyon coaches the Erie Junior Philharmonic String Ensemble, and is an in-demand chamber musician as a member of the Perry String Quartet for 27 years and with other ensembles. Since 1984, Lyon has taught violin and viola at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.… Lyon will continue as a member of the Erie Chamber Orchestra’s violin section while he will be succeeded as concertmaster by Maureen Conlon Gutierrez.… Conlon has appeared as soloist with various orchestras and chamber ensembles through Mexico and the U.S. including the renowned Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico (OSEM).… She has also played with the Civic Orchestra in Chicago, Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, among others.”
Posted April 29, 2014
