Yoobin Lee, viola is the winner of the Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Strings Competition, east central division. She will advance to the national finals on March 26, 2012 to be held in New York. NY. Yoobin Lee is a Graduate viola student of Professor Matthew Daline.
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Trumpet Ensemble to perform at the Ohio Trumpet Guild Conference
Trumpet Ensemble to perform at the Ohio Trumpet Guild Conference
The BGSU Trumpet Ensemble will be performing at the annual conference of the Ohio Trumpet Guild on March 31, 2012 at Miami University in Oxford, OH. Guest artists for the event are Stephen Burns and Carl Saunders. In addition, Professor Charles Saenz will perform with Mr. Burns on his afternoon recital.
The trumpet ensemble will premiere James Stephensen’s Gilded Fanfare as part of the OITG 2012 Fanfare Project
For more information about the event, please go to www.ohiotrumpetguild.org
BGSU Student Christine Amon, MM ’12, Finalist in 2012 Lenya Competition
JUDGES AND FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE
2012 LOTTE LENYA COMPETITION
12 Finalists Selected; Rebecca Luker, Rob Berman & Theodore S. Chapin Will Judge
BGSU Graduate Student Christine Amon, MM in Vocal Performance ’12, is Finalist
Twelve exceptionally talented young singer-actors have made it through two rounds of auditions for the 2012 Lotte Lenya Competition and will compete for top prizes of $15,000, $10,000 and $7,500 in the finals, to be held on April 21, 2012, at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Three-time Tony Award nominee Rebecca Luker, Broadway and Encores! music director Rob Berman, and Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization President and American Theater Wing Chairman of the Board Theodore S. Chapin will serve as judges.
Held annually by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, the Lotte Lenya Competition is an international theater singing contest that recognizes talented young singer-actors, ages 19-30, who are dramatically and musically convincing in a wide range of repertoire, and emphasizes the acting of songs within a dramatic context.
Finalists were selected from a group of twenty-nine semi-finalists after auditions in New York on March 9-10, 2012. Contestants were required to prepare four selections: an aria from the opera or operetta repertoire; two songs from the American musical theater repertoire (one from the pre-1968 “Golden Age” and one from 1968 or later); and a theatrical selection by Kurt Weill. Tony Award winner Victoria Clark and Vicki Shaghoian of the Yale School of Drama faculty served as coach-adjudicators, evaluating and working with each of the contestants.
The 2012 finalists are: Christine Amon, mezzo-soprano (Bowling Green, Ohio); Natalie Ballenger, soprano (Santa Cruz, Calif.); Douglas Carpenter, baritone (Woodbridge, Conn.); Maria Failla, soprano (Scarsdale, N.Y.); Matthew Grills, tenor (Rochester, N.Y.); Justin Hopkins, bass-baritone (Philadelphia); Briana Elyse Hunter, soprano (New York); Megan Marino, mezzo-soprano (Malvern, Penn.); Cecelia Tickton, mezzo-soprano (Roosevelt, N.J.); Mollie Vogt-Welch, soprano/belt (New York); Jacob Keith Watson, tenor (Wynne, Ark.); and Nicky Wuchinger, bari-tenor (Berlin, Germany).
The twelve finalists will perform their entire programs for the judges on April 21 between 11 am and 3 pm. At 8 pm, the competition will culminate in an evening concert featuring all of the finalists, followed by the announcement of the winners. Both the daytime finals and evening concert are free and open to the public, and will take place in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs Street, Rochester, New York.
The Kurt Weill Foundation will award special prizes in addition to the top prizes, and has already presented an Emerging Talent Award to Robert Ariza, tenor, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the Grace Keagy Award for Outstanding Vocal Promise to Kate Tombaugh, mezzo-soprano, of Streator, Illinois.
Previous Lenya Competition winners perform regularly in major theaters, opera houses, and concert halls around the globe. This season alone, their credits include performances on Broadway (Kyle Barisich, Morgan James, Zachary James), in national tours (Richard Todd Adams, Cooper Grodin), and at the Metropolitan Opera (Paul Corona), Covent Garden (Noah Stewart), Carnegie Hall (Amy Justman, Lauren Worsham), Arena Stage (Justin Lee Miller), Centerstage (Erik Liberman), Los Angeles Opera (Liam Bonner, Jonathan Michie), San Francisco Opera (Lucas Meachem), Lyric Opera of Chicago (Elaine Alvarez, Rodell Rosel), Florida Grand Opera (Margaret Gawrysiak, Jonathan Michie), and Oper Frankfurt (Elaine Alvarez, Elizabeth Reiter).
About the Kurt Weill Foundation
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc. (http://www.kwf.org) is dedicated to promoting understanding of the life and works of composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and preserving the legacies of Weill and his wife, actress-singer Lotte Lenya (1898-1981). The Foundation administers the Weill-Lenya Research Center, a Grant Program, the Kurt Weill Book Prize and the Lotte Lenya Competition (http://www.kwf.org/LLC), and publishes the Kurt Weill Edition and the Kurt Weill Newsletter.
BGSU Men’s Chorus on GMA
CMA Freshman Student as Featured Soloist with Toledo Symphony Youth Orchestra
Meredith Bixel, a BGSU freshman piano major and winner of TSYO Young Artist Competition, will perform Edward MacDowell’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Toledo Symphony Youth Orchestra at the Peristyle Theater on Sunday, March 18. Meredith studies with Dr. Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu.
See the link below for more information:
http://www.toledosymphony.com/index.php?src=events&srctype=detail&category=TSYO&refno=136
BGSU oboe students selected to perform at IDRS conference
Dr. Jacqueline Leclair and her oboe studio have been selected to perform at the International Double Reed Society’s annual conference. They will perform world premieres by BGSU composition faculty member, Christopher Dietz, and BGSU composition graduate students, Viola Yip and Jonathan Fielder. The concert will take place during the IDRS conference at Miami University in Oxford OH on July 8, 2012. Performers will include Dr. Leclair and members of the BGSU oboe studio.