On Wednesday, November 9, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra String Quartet will hold a reading session of adjudicated student compositions in Bryan Recital Hall from 3:30-6:00pm.
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BGSU Students, Alum, and Faculty Featured at Electronic Music Midwest 2011
BGSU Electroacoustics will be well represented at this year’s Electronic Music Midwest Festival in Kansas City, Kansas, September 29-October 1
Chin Ting Chan (MM ’11) – Katachi II [fixed media]
Tim Harenda (MM ’11) – Absence [violin and live electronics] – with Sally Williams (MM current), violin
Andrew Martin Smith (DMA current) – Echoes in the Darkness [fixed media]
Ben Taylor (MM ’11) – First Punch [contrabass and fixed media]
Dan Tramte (MM ’10) – Corse Mode: for Straight Key and Electronics [instrument with electronics]
Rob McClure (MM ’07) – now our grief is put away [soprano and computer]
Elainie Lillios (BGSU Faculty) – November Twilight [trumpet and live electronics]
for more information visit http://www.emmfestival.org/
(Submitted by Elainie Lillios)
Toledo Symphony Orchestra String Quartet to Conduct Nov. 9 Reading Session of Student Compositions
On Nov.9, the string quartet from the Toledo Symphony will be reading and recording student works. Below is a list of all the particulars regarding the event. Please read it carefully.
Time and place:
Wed., Nov.9 from 3:30-6:00pm in Bryan Recital Hall
There will be four 30-minute slots available. The remaining 30 minutes of the session include a break for the musicians and buffer-time for transitions, etc.
Rules for submission:
-All BGSU composition majors are eligible for consideration for one of the four time slots.
-The submission must be for the entire ensemble, not subsets.
-The submitted work may be of any duration, however, keep in mind that each reading slot is only 30 minutes long.
-Deadlines
Score submission date: Oct.19 (bound score, Dietz’s mailbox by 4:00pm)
Selected composers’ parts due date: Oct.25
(Submitted by Christopher Dietz)
BGSU Choral Society holds auditions
The College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University will hold open auditions for the 2011-12 season of the University Choral Society (UCS), a large chorus consisting of both University and community singers.
The ensemble will perform Handel’s “Messiah” with soloists and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 3 and 4 as part of the symphony’s regular season at the Toledo Museum of Art. On Feb. 25, the choral society, along with other BGSU choruses, soloists and the Bowling Green Philharmonia, will perform an opera gala program to celebrate the opening of new Wolfe Center on campus. On March 25, Toledo’s Rosary Cathedral will be the setting for a performance of Mozart’s “Requiem” with the choral society and Philharmonia. To close the season, on April 21, the UCS will perform Prokofiev’s “Alexander Nevsky” with the Lima Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Lima’s Crouse Performance Hall.
Mark Munson, director of choral activities, serves as the director of the chorus. During his 22 years at BGSU, he has led the Collegiate Chorale, A Cappella Choir and University Women’s Chorus. He is also director of the Lima Symphony Orchestra Chorus and is founder and director of the local vocal ensemble OPUS 181. During the 2005-06 school year, Munson lived in Sweden where he conducted and taught choral music. He is a past president of the Ohio Choral Directors Association.
The chorus rehearses on Tuesday evenings from 7:30-9:30 at the College of Musical Arts, with the first rehearsal scheduled for Aug. 30. For more information, and/or to schedule an audition, call the college at 419-372-2186.
(Submitted by Mark Munson)
Incoming BGSU freshmen music majors to perform with Sanctus Real at the Stroh Center
Two incoming freshmen music majors at BGSU will be performing at the first concert in the new Stroh Center on BGSU’s campus with guest artists, Sanctus Real on Saturday, August 13 at 7:00 pm. Kathleen Schnerer and Brittany Brouwer, both violinists and Music Education majors, will be providing string background music for a few of the artist’s hit songs. Congratulations to our new freshmen class!
(Submitted by Susan Hoekstra)
CMA Students Win Prizes at 3rd Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition – Bangkok, Thailand
Noa Even – 3rd Prize Winner and soloist with orchestra (plus a new saxophone, prize money, and a concert in Shanghai)
(Noa is a second year DMA student at BGSU)
Joel Diegert – 5th Prize Winner and soloist with orchestra
(Joel is just finishing advanced studies in Paris after completing his MM at BGSU in 2008)
Pin-Hua Chen – Semifinalist and the first Taiwanese saxophonist to advance in the history of this competition
(Pin-Hua is a 2nd year MM at BGSU)
Note: Noa and Joel were the only two Americans in the final round of the Londeix Competition. In the semifinal round, Noa and Pin-Hua both performed “Renewing the Myth” by BGSU faculty composer Dr. Marilyn Shrude. Noa is now touring in Thailand where she is presenting recitals. Her Thailand touring program includes “Fantasmi” by Marilyn Shrude.
(Submitted by John Sampen)