Gail Borden Public Library notes

Gail Borden Public Library, 270 N. Grove Ave., Elgin, continues its Second Sunday Concert Series at 2 p.m. Sunday with violinist Cyrus Forough and pianist Tatyana Stepanova. Free tickets are available at the Greeter or second-floor information desks

They will perform Sonata in D Major by Jean-Marie LeClair (1697-1764); Sonata in A Major by Cesar Franck (1822-90); and Tzigane, rapsodie de concert by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). The program will be performed without intermission.

A laureate of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, Forough also has won first prize in the Milwaukee Symphony Violin Competition and, along with his wife, pianist Carolyn McCracken, was a winner of the U.S. Artistic Ambassador Program's National Violin/Piano Duo Competition.

Forough is a full-time professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, artist teacher of Roosevelt University's College of Performing Arts in Chicago, and a faculty member of the Chicago Institute of Music.

Tatyana Stepanova, originally from Kiev, Ukraine, graduated from Tchaikovsky Kiev State Conservatory and Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music, where she worked as an assistant professor while taking her doctoral program in piano performance.

Since moving to the Chicago area in 1991, Stepanova has been sharing her collaborative talents with faculty and students of Northwestern, DePaul, and Roosevelt universities, and maintaining an active private piano studio.