She has been a featured artist at the Luzerne Chamber Music Center in New York, the Miami Bach Society, the Mainly Mozart and Flagstaff festivals in Arizona, and the York Festival in England. Pologe received his professional degrees from the Eastman School of Music and from the Juilliard School. He has played with the Rochester and Buffalo philharmonics and the Brooklyn Philharmonia. He has served as principal cellist with the New York String Ensemble, Rome Festival Orchestra, Aspen Chamber Orchestra, Honolulu Symphony and the Philharmonic Symphony of Westchester. The Oregon Composers Forum presents a performance of new music by graduate composition students at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall.
Admission is free.
Light food and beverages will be available for purchase during the evening. The program will include not only music by Blema Bii, but also original material and arrangements by student composers. The event is co-sponsored by the Erb Memorial Union Cultural Forum. Blema Bii combines the rhythms of Africa, the Caribbean, the song form of the French Impressionists, jazz and the popular songs of the Americas. In Ghana, it is believed that all musicians have ancient souls.