Dr. Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu’s solo CD, THE PLEASURE DOME OF KUBLA KHAN, Piano Works of Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Centaur), was recently reviewed by the Audio Video Club of Atlanta, saying, “Under Liu’s thoughtful interpretive style and her delicate touch at the keyboard, these pieces emerge as a labor of love. She does a wonderful job bringing out Griffes’ salient features as a composer.”
To read the entire review, click here.
(Submitted by Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu)
Assistant Professor of Piano, Thomas Rosenkranz will join ensemble Signal in performances and a recording of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians at the The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York and at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City on March 12th and 13th.
In the Fall of 2008, Signal gave two sold-out performances of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and You Are (Variations) at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC. The New York Times hailed the group for its “vibrant, euphoric performances that seemed to electrify the remarkably youthful audience.” Rosenkranz and Signal will be recording the work for New Amsterdam Records in celebration of Steve Reich’s 75th birthday.
For more information please visit:
EMPAC
http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2011/spring/reich/
Le Poisson Rouge
http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/2118
(Submitted by Thomas Rosenkranz)
Effie Papanikolaou was invited by the Musicology Department at Ohio State University to participate in their annual Colloquium Series (February 2011). Her lecture, part of her larger book-length project on the symphonic mass, was titled “Interrogating the Sacred: Beethoven’s Missa solemnis.”
(Submitted by Eftychia Papanikolaou)
Mary Natvig will be the keynote speaker for the American Musicological Society’s Southeast Chapter and the Music History Pedagogy Study Group’s Teaching Music History Day Joint Conference at the University of North-Carolina Charlotte, March 18-19, 2011. Teaching Music History Day is an annual event, first held and organized by faculty at Michigan State University in 2003. It was inspired by Natvig’s edited volume, Teaching Music History (Ashgate, 2002), the first book length publication on the pedagogy of music history. Other Teaching Music History Days have been held at the University of Michigan, BGSU, DePauw University, Baldwin Wallace College, and Edinboro University.
(Submitted by Mary Natvig)
Below please find the results of the final round of the 5th Annual
Chamber Music Competition held Sunday, Feb. 20 at 3:00 PM in Bryan
Hall.
Congratulations to all those who participated, their studio teachers
and coaches!!!
UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION
First Place: FOUR CORNERS QUARTET (Noa Even, coach)
Xiao Han, soprano saxophone
Ryan Hurd, alto saxophone
Corey Whitt, tenor saxophone
Anthony Nicolia, baritone saxophone
Second Place: FLOW LIKE WATER (Roger Schupp, coach)
Alvin Dawson, percussion
Jacob Bori, percussion
Elizabeth Hall, percussion
GRADUATE DIVISION
First Place: YING QUARTET (John Sampen, coach)
John Cummins, soprano saxophone
Drew Sevel, alto saxophone
Pin-hua Chen, tenor saxophone
Elissa Kana, baritone saxophone
Second Place: COLOR FIELD ENSEMBLE (Jane Schoonmaker Rodgers, coach)
Amanda DeBoer, soprano
Karl Larson, piano
Spencer Prewitt, clarinet
(Submitted by Douglas Wayland)
Dr. Joyce Eastlund Gromko, Professor Emeritus of Music Education, has been reappointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Research in Music Education through 2012. Dr. Gromko’s invited article,”Teaching with FORM: Applications of Research in Early Childhood Music,” appears in the February 2011 issue of India’s NAVTIKA: Journal of Early Childhood Care and Education, New Delhi: 2(1), 23-29.
(Submitted by Joyce Eastlund Gromko)
