News from the College of Musical Arts

The Sentinel-Tribune features a preview of the upcoming Feb. 5th concert by pianist Robert Levin.

Click to read David Dupont’s article Making up Mozart: Noted musician Robert Levin to visit BGSU.

(Submitted by Susan Knapp)

Versatile pianist Robert Levin will be the next performer in Bowling Green State University’s Festival Series. Levin will be in concert at 8 p.m. Feb. 5 in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center.

The program will feature works by Mozart, spanning his Bach- and Handel-influenced period. Although Mozart is generally thought of as a composer of the Viennese classical style, his father, who provided him with his beginning musical education, passed down his vast knowledge of the baroque tradition.

“Prelude and Fugue in C major” K.394, blends Mozart’s 1782 language with Baroque turns of phrase, while “Adagio variée” in F major” is often described as a somewhat “odd” composition because of its elaborate ornamentation. “Suite K. 399” is sometimes subtitled “In the style of Handel” because of Mozart’s ability to unite baroque flourishes with classical chordal vocabulary.

Levin is one of America’s leading keyboard players in the early instruments movement, but maintains a large repertory in all major periods and genres of piano music. He is equally at home at the harpsichord, the fortepiano, and the standard pianoforte, and as a recitalist, concerto performer and accompanist.

He has recorded the complete Bach concertos as well as the “English Suites” and “The Well-Tempered Clavier.” Other recordings include a Beethoven concerto cycle, and a Mozart concerto cycle with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music.

While at BGSU, Levin will also present a master class for participants in the David D. Dubois Piano Festival and Competition that takes place Feb. 4 and 5, and a lecture-presentation titled “Embellishment, Improvisation and Cadenzas in Mozart.”

Hosted by the College of Musical Arts, the Dubois piano competition provides a number of scholarship opportunities for high school students to attend BGSU and encourages undergraduate piano students to develop innovative programming ideas for outreach projects in addition to allowing current students to participate in music festivals around the world.

For ticket information, call the box office weekdays from noon-6 p.m. at 1-800-589-2224 or 419-372-8171, or e-mail musictickets@bgsu.edu

(Submitted by Susan Knapp)

The CMA presents guest artists Nancy Coade Eldridge, violin (Pacific Symphony) and Caroline Coade, viola (Detroit Symphony) in an evening of violin/viola duets
Monday, January 24th at 8pm in Bryan Recital Hall.

(Submitted by Dr. Megan Fergusson)

Congratulations to the following semi-finalists who were selected to participate in the First Annual Dubois Piano Competition! Competitors will be on the BGSU campus the weekend of February 4-6, 2011 to compete for prizes and hear pianist Robert Levin in recital and master classes.

For more information on the competition, visit:
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/music/duboiscompetition/index.html

Alex Berko, 15, Solon, OH
Ricardo Acosta Murguia, 17, Interlochen, MI (Mexico)
Michael Lenahan, 16, Rossford, OH
Meredith Bixel, 18, Bluffton, OH
Vivian Anderson, 15, Ann Arbor, MI
Brooke Evans, 18, Findlay, OH
Iris Jang, 16, Westerville, OH
Brook Zhang, 16, Gahanna, OH
Arianna Korting, 16, Gates Mills, OH
Amy Fan, 15, Bowling Green, OH
Scott Sherman, 17, W. Bloomfield, MI
Naomi Causby, 16, Columbia, SC
Cathy Li, 16, Sewickley, PA
Miguel Morrissey, 16, Interlochen, MI (Port Charlotte, FL)
Kangling Gu, 15, Troy, MI
Michelle Lui, 18, Interlochen, MI (Hong Kong)
Danni Feng, 17, LaSalle, Ontario, Canada
Michael Tsang, 18, Pittsburg, PA
Heather Shen, 15, Birmingham, MI

(Submitted by Susan Knapp)

Dr. Sean Cooper, is the winner of the National Opera Association’s biennial dissertation competition for his dissertation entitled ‘The Virtue of Recitativo Semplice in the Operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.’  The award was presented at the National Opera Association’s national conference, San Antonio, January 9, 2011.

(Submitted by Dr. Sean Cooper)

Dr. Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu to perform in Sudbury, Canada on January 26.

Dr. Liu, Assistant Professor of Piano, is returning to Sudbury the third time to present a recital and a master class at Cambrian College.  The program includes works by Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Leoš Janáček.

http://www.northernlife.ca/displayArticle.aspx?id=43875

(Submitted by Solungga Fang-Tzu)

Faculty member and pianist, Thomas Rosenkranz recently performed a solo recital as the American representative at the October Musicale Festival in Tunisia. The concert took place at the Acropolium in Carthage and included works by Messiaen, Beethoven, as well as Rosenkranz’s own version of Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin. This trip was sponsored by the American Embassy of Tunis and included a week of masterclasses at the Higher Institutes of Music in Tunis and at the newly founded Institute in Le Kef.

http://tunisia.usembassy.gov/policy/news2/fine-arts/u.s.-pianist-thomas-rosencranz-visits-tunisia

(Submitted by Thomas Rosenkranz)

BGSU College of Musical Arts Events at OMEA Conference - 

Be sure to visit us at Booth 420!

Practical Techniques for Better Bassoons
William Jobert, Christin Schillinger, Karen Pierson, Nathaniel Zeisler
Thursday, January 27 – 12:15 – PMCC 205

Unconventional Field Experiences: Creative Teaching Opportunities for Pre-Service Music Teachers   
Dr. Lisa Gruenhagen and Dr. Elizabeth Menard               
Thursday, January 27, 1:30:00 PM CC 250                                                                                                     

Becoming a Music Education major: Who decides?
Dr. Elaine Colprit and Dr. Vince Kantorski
Friday, January 28 – 8:30 am – CC 250

Learning Tunes: A Step by Step Method for Jazz Musicians
Chris Buzzelli
Friday, January 28 – 8:30 am – M Colonnade AB

Warming up the voices & the ears with your vocal jazz ensemble
Chris Buzzelli & Kim Nazarin
Friday, January 28 – 1:30 pm – M Bronze AB

Teaching Composition to your High School Band Students: Yes, there is time for it!
Dr. Elizabeth Menard
Friday, January 28 – 2:45 pm – CC 232

Let’s Get Real: Professional Practice and Authentic Assessment
Dr. Sandra Stegman & Dr. Vince Kantorski
Friday, January 28 – 2:45 pm – CC 250

RECEPTION!!!  Friday, January 28 from 6-7:30 pm – CC West Pre-function space, Level 2

Becoming Music Educators: Pre-Service Teacher’s Perceptions of the Dual Role of Student
and Teacher
Dr. Lisa Gruenhagen with Sarah Ludwig & Emily Webb
Saturday, January 29 – 12:15 pm – CC 250

BGSU Men’s Chorus
Timothy Cloeter, director
Saturday, January 29 – 12:15 pm – H Regency Ballroom ABC

Other related events:  

So you want to your choral ensemble to sing with blend, balance, in tune and with musical line? Make choral connections instant and dramatic RD Mathey BGSU Alumni Faculty; Thursday, January 27 at 2:45 pm – H Buckeye AB

Toledo Youth Symphony with Dr. Kenneth Thompson conducting, Thursday, January 27 at 4:00 pm in M Grand Ballroom;

Be sure to visit us at Booth 420

more information on OMEA Conference visit

https://www.omea-ohio2.org/Activities/Activities/Conference.html

(Submitted by Susan Knapp)

The Anubis Saxophone quartet, an ensemble that includes three BGSU alumni, will perform a concert of new works at the College of Musical Arts on Monday, February 7 in Bryan Recital Hall. The concert, part of the Music at the Forefront concert series sponsored by the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, begins at 8 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Their program includes the American premieres of works by composers Giorgio Netti and Ben Hjertmann and a new work by BGSU faculty composer Mikel Kuehn.

Anubis Quartet – Allison Balcetis, Ryan Muncy, Sean Patayanikorn and David Wegehaupt – is a saxophone ensemble committed to the creation, progression and performance of new music. Formed in 2007, the group is establishing itself as one of North America’s major contemporary saxophone ensembles. They have performed as guests at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and at the 2008 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial conference at the University of South Carolina. In addition to a Chicago debut performance at Nichols Concert Hall of the Music Institute of Chicago, engagements during previous concert seasons included a presentation of new works at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand at the 15th World Saxophone Congress and a performance at the North American Saxophone Alliance Region IX conference in Edmonton, Alberta. Recently, Anubis Quartet was the collaborating ensemble for Random Access Music, a New York-based composers’ collective, and will present a concert of five world premieres in New York City in May 2010. The quartet has commissioned and premiered works by living composers including Thierry Alla, Philippe Laval, Mikel Kuehn, Claudio Gabriele and Vincent Bouchot.

Anubis Quartet includes two Fulbright Scholars, one Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition gold medalist, one semi-finalist in the Adolphe Sax International Competition and the 4th place winner of the 2008 Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition. In May 2010, Anubis Quartet was named the 2010-11 winner of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists.

Music at the Forefront is an annual concert series featuring performances by accomplished and innovative performers of contemporary music. For more information contact the center at 419-372-2685 or email kdoles@bgsu.edu.

(Submitted by Kurt Doles)

Sophomore trombone student Melissa Hildebrandt received Honorable Mention at the Regional MTNA Young Artist Competition on January 8, 2011 at Ball State University. Melissa was the brass winner at the MTNA state competition in October 2010.

(Submitted by Bill Mathis)