Jon Lusher, MM candidate in the horn studio, won second place at the Orchestral High Horn Competition at the Southeast Horn Workshop, held on March 2 at Tennessee Tech University.
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2012Andaya recognized by UGA Student Government Association
Monday, March 5th, 2012On March 1st, Mitos Andaya was honored at the UGA Student Government Association Annual Professor Recognition Ceremony and presented with an award for “outstanding commitment to students and academic excellence at the University of Georgia.” She and 14 other professors were selected for this honor out of the 60 university professors that were nominated by students.
Composition grad students sweep competition
Thursday, March 1st, 2012Three school of music graduate students took home top honors at the Southeastern Composers Forum Phillip Slates Memorial Competition.
For first place, there was a tie between MM candidate John Hennecken’s Brass Quintet, and MM candidate Brian Kelly’s Sonata for Cello. DMA candidate Ashley Floyd’s L’esprit de l’escalier, written for bass clarinet, bassoon, and cello was awarded honorable mention.
UGA tubists advance in international solo competition
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Two DMA candidates in the tuba studio, David McLemore and Simon Wildman, have advanced in the Markneukirchen International Solo Competition for Tuba, to be held in Germany in May. The competition is open to tubists across the globe, and requires competitors to be prepared to perform 14 different pieces of solo music for tuba.
McLemore and Wildman are students of David Zerkel.
Music machines in 17th century Rome
Saturday, February 25th, 2012March 1, 4 pm, room 412. Free and open to the public.
Part of the Musicology/Ethnomusicology Student Association’s Colloquium Series.
Dr. Bonnie Gordon of the University of Virginia will present a talk entitled “Music Machines in Seventeenth Century Rome” on Thursday, March 1 at 4 pm in room 412 of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music.
Gordon’s research interests include Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643), castrati, early modern Italy, gender and sexuality, and the history of science. She is the author of Monteverdi’s Unruly Women (2004) and co-editor of The Courtesans Arts (2006), an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural volume of essays about courtesans. Her newest project is Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds.
This talk is presented as part of the Musicology/Ethnomusicology Student Association’s Colloquium Series, and made possible in part by a Department-Invited Lecturer Grant from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
New Music: the neXt festival of contemporary music
Monday, February 20th, 2012
TICKETS: $10, $5 for UGA students with ID
The University of Georgia Wind Ensemble will present the “neXt festival of contemporary music” on Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall.
“The neXt festival juxtaposes the works of three rising stars in contemporary music—Michael Ippolito, Jess Turner and John Leszczynski—with pieces by two icons in contemporary music, Karel Husa and John Harbison,” said John P. Lynch, a UGA professor, director of bands and conductor of the Wind Ensemble. “It’s important that we show audiences that wind ensemble repertoire is very much alive, vibrant and evolving; and that’s why we’ve chosen to showcase contemporary music in this concert.”
The performance will include the world premiere of Ippolito’s “West of the Sun,” along with Turner’s “Through the Looking Glass,” Leszczynski’s “Scherzo a la Britten,” Husa’s Concerto for Saxophone featuring UGA faculty member Connie Frigo and Harbison’s “Three City Blocks.”
Before the concert, Ippolito, Turner and Leszczynski will join members of the UGA composition faculty for a public roundtable discussion of new directions in music. The three guest composers will also speak to the audience before their works are performed.
General admission is $10 and $5 for students with a valid UGACard. To purchase tickets, see the Performing Arts Center box office, call 706/542-4400 or see http://tickets.perfcenter.uga.edu/single/eventDetail.aspx?p=582 .
Helping promote music therapy in Athens and around the state
Monday, February 20th, 2012The Aria Benefit: Friday, Feb. 24, 8 pm, Ramsey Concert Hall
Cost: $15 general admission, $5 students. Tickets can be purchased in advance at Nuci’s Space or at the door.
The Aria Fund promotes music therapy, focusing first in the Athens area and then reaching people throughout the state in need of cognitive, psychosocial, emotional, and expressive outlets through the gift of music.
The fund was founded by University of Georgia graduate Cori Snyder, a music therapist in the Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and wife of the Georgia Guitar Quartet’s Phil Snyder. With this concert, The Aria Fund gets off the ground and offers up an evening of incredible music, featuring Phil Snyder, Brian Smith and Kyle Dawkins (members of the Georgia Guitar Quartet) in their new project, Revien. They’ll be joined on stage by local rocker Don Chambers (Don Chambers + GOAT), whose gravel-tinged vocals and ponderously chunky lyrics will meet the classical stylings of two guitars and cello in Revien. Revien also will be joined by the outstanding vocal talent and UGA music therapy instructor Ellen Ritchey, as well as Arasmus Percussion Group which takes percussion to truly awe-inspiring heights.
An additional day of events will be held from 2-5 p.m. Saturday at Nuci’s Space, with demonstrations and performances as well as a master class with members from the Georgia Guitar Quartet and Revien, Phil Snyder, Brian Smith and Kyle Dawkins. Performance will feature local artist Kyshona Armstrong, also a music therapist. Saturday’s event is free but donations gladly accepted.
Guest Artist Profile: Mariano Garcia Jimenez, saxophone
Friday, February 10th, 2012Performing on Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 6:30 pm in Edge Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
Born in Valencia in 1976, Mariano Garcia Jimenez entered the Advanced Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, where he won First Prize of the last year degree. García assisted at many courses carried out by Claude Delangle, Vincent David and Phillippe Braquart, among others. He has taught different advanced courses in many Spanish cities, as well as conferences and master classes in the Advanced Conservatories of Music of Salamanca, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Oviedo.
As a performer, García has competed in music festivals across the world, winning first prize at the International Musical Competition of Benidorm in 2003. In 2006, he made his debut as a soloist with an orchestra performing the Glazounov concerto with the “Ciutat de Novelda” Orchestra. Later that summer he toured in China performing and giving classes as a professor at the International Music Festival of Yantai.
García is also one of the members of the Austral Quartet. They have recorded a CD at the Jovellanos Museum of Gijón. In 2007 he was one of the members of the jury for the III International Saxophone competition of Huelma and has been invited to teach with Federico Coca and Phillipe Braquart in Zaragoza. Currently, he teaches at the Professional Music Conservatory of Sabiñánigo in northern Spain.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Classic City Jazz
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Saturday, February 11 at 8pm, UGA Chapel
Classic City Jazz, UGA’s vocal and instrumental jazz group, celebrates Valentine’s Day with swingin’ jazz standards, ballads, and blues. Audience members can have a jazz solo dedicated with an additional donation.
Vogel’s works performed in US, South America
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012Two works by Roger Vogel, a member of the composition faculty at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, were performed recently.
On November 13, Vogel’s First Light for oboe and piano was performed by oboist Janice Crews and pianist Rocío del Moral in Rio de Janeiro. at the IV Festival Internacional de Sopros at the Centro Cultural Justiça Federal. The Soliloquy for saxophone was performed on November 13 by Farrell Vernon at the Stroede Center for the Arts in Defiance, OH.
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