Cellist Stephen Balderston – who joined the DePaul School of Music faculty last year after a decade as assistant principal cello with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) – will be among the artists performing with fellow cellist Tanya Carey at a free chamber music recital, “Tanya Carey and Friends,” Sept. 19. The event begins at 5 p.m. in the DePaul Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave.

Hosted by Carey, a longtime cello performer and educator who teaches in DePaul’s Community Music Division, the program will feature works by Menotti (“Suite for Two Cellos and Piano”), Martinu (“Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano”) and Rachmaninoff (“Sonata in G Minor, Opus 19”). Balderston, Carey, flutist Gerald Carey and pianists Joan Huang and Paul Horn will perform.

Carey, a retired Western Illinois University music professor, has been a performer and music teacher for nearly five decades, including 17 years with Community Music, a program of high-quality music instruction that DePaul hosts for children and adults from the community. She also has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony and Quad City Symphony. Her chamber music career includes work with the Lydian Trio and the Leopold Sipe Trio.

Balderston, an associate professor of cello, directs DePaul’s strings program, which features a stellar faculty, including violinists Ilya Kaler and Robert Waters. Before joining the CSO, he was a member of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for 10 years. A sought-after soloist, chamber musician and coach, Balderston participates in clinics, chamber music concerts and festivals throughout the United States and abroad.

For more information about this concert or the Community Music Division at DePaul’s School of Music, call 312/325-4390.