Jason DePue returns to Bowling Green Friday to pay tribute to one of his first teachers who helped him navigate both the violin and the turbulence of life.
DePue will perform a recital of music for violin and piano Friday at 8 p.m. in the Bryan Recital Hall in the Moore Center for Musical Arts on the Bowling Green State University campus. Dr. Laura Melton, of the BGSU faculty, will be the pianist.
The recital, DePue said recently in a telephone interview , is intended as a tribute to Vasile Beluska. "I thought it would be nice to demonstrate my gratitude to him," he said.
DePue, the third of violin playing sons of composer Wallace DePue Sr,, started studying violin at 4 with his father's Bowling Green State University colleague Boris Brant.
In January 1986, when young DePue was 9, Brant died. Two weeks later his mother died in an auto accident.
DePue said this marks the end of the first chapter of his life. "Chapter two of my life started with Mr. Beluska," he said.
DePue will perform a recital of music for violin and piano Friday at 8 p.m. in the Bryan Recital Hall in the Moore Center for Musical Arts on the Bowling Green State University campus. Dr. Laura Melton, of the BGSU faculty, will be the pianist.
The recital, DePue said recently in a telephone interview , is intended as a tribute to Vasile Beluska. "I thought it would be nice to demonstrate my gratitude to him," he said.
DePue, the third of violin playing sons of composer Wallace DePue Sr,, started studying violin at 4 with his father's Bowling Green State University colleague Boris Brant.
In January 1986, when young DePue was 9, Brant died. Two weeks later his mother died in an auto accident.
DePue said this marks the end of the first chapter of his life. "Chapter two of my life started with Mr. Beluska," he said.