Senior trombone major Li Kuang is chosen as one of three finalists in the Frank Smith Trombone Competition, sponsored by the International Trombone Association. Li was chosen from a pool of thirty-nine applicants who submitted a recording of Ewazen’s Sonata for Trombone. He will perform and compete in the final round at the International Trombone Festival in Nashville this June.
(Submitted by William Mathis)
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)
