tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50341164708207581502024-03-17T00:52:55.849-07:00SOMAANews from UW-Madison School of Music Alumni AssociationWiscMusicNewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245281573260886595noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034116470820758150.post-77568465027581658722013-09-14T13:25:00.000-07:002013-09-14T13:25:16.743-07:00Andrew Putnam named to faculty at Virginia Tech University
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<b><span style="font-family: Perpetua;">Andrew
J. Putnam</span></b><span style="font-family: Perpetua;"> conducts the Symphonic
Wind Ensemble at Virginia Tech and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses
in conducting. He received his doctoral degree from the Conservatory of Music and
Dance at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where he studied with Steven
D. Davis. He previously earned the master of music education, studying with
Colleen Conway and conducting with Michael Haithcock. Prior to his graduate
work, he taught for five years at Whitnall High School in Greenfield, WI where
he served as director of bands. This tenure followed the completion of a
bachelor of music education degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. <span style="color: #262626;">An advocate for the wind ensemble as an artistic medium,
Dr. Putnam </span>has shared in performances at the Midwest Band and Orchestra
Clinic as well as the regional and national conferences for the College Band
Director’s National Association. Additional collaborative work with artistic
leaders including composers John Corigliano, Robert Beaser, James Mobberley,
and Paul Rudy, renowned wind conductor H. Robert Reynolds, and the 2011
Pulitzer Prize winner in music, Zhou Long. His work with Robert Beaser towards the
completion of the wind ensemble setting of the composer’s <i>Manhattan Roll </i>(originally commissioned for 150<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the New York Philharmonic) led to its premiere at the 2011
Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. His recent research has centered on the personas
of folk singers influencing the work of Percy Grainger, and wind ensemble works
of Paul Hindemith.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #1e1d1d;">Jeff Moore
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University of Central Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e1d1d; font-family: Arial;">It's a new
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familiar face on campus. He was previously chairman of the music department.
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<span style="color: #1e1d1d; font-family: Arial;">As director,
Moore will be responsible for overseeing the college's music and theater
departments and advancing the development of a new performing-arts center on
UCF's east Orlando campus. Moore was appointed after a yearlong search from a
pool of external and internal candidates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e1d1d; font-family: Arial;">"Jeff
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to the School of Performing Arts," said Jose B.
Fernández, dean of the College of Arts and Humanities. "His leadership
style fosters a sense of stability while also encouraging people to think
outside the box."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e1d1d; font-family: Arial;">Moore will
work on completing the merger of the theater and dance departments into one
school, which includes creating a unified governance structure for the faculty
and staff members, who number more than 50. His responsibilities also include
identifying opportunities for integration and innovation in the school's
programs and curriculum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e1d1d; font-family: Arial;">He will also
collaborate with the UCF Foundation as it seeks funding for the new
performing-arts center, which is currently designed to have four performance
venues, costume and scenic shops, as well as rehearsal spaces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e1d1d; font-family: Arial;">"I am
honored to have the opportunity to lead the UCF School of Performing Arts.
Throughout my career I have always enjoyed collaborating
with faculty, students and our partners," Moore said. "This new
position affords me the ability to expand on those activities while continuing
to enhance our presence in the community and beyond. When you add the
construction of Phase II of the UCF Performing Arts Center to this environment,
it is a very exciting time for the performing arts at UCF."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e1d1d; font-family: Arial;">A professor
in the department of music, Moore received his master of music performance
degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds
a bachelor of music degree from the University of North Texas. He joined the
UCF music faculty in 1994 where he taught and served as percussion coordinator.
Active in all facets of percussion, he is an international lecturer, clinician
and soloist. He is a contributing author to the third edition of "Teaching
Percussion" and has published more than 30 arrangements and compositions
including a method book and CD package.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e1d1d; font-family: Arial;">Involved in
national and international societies, Moore served as an associate editor of
"Percussive Notes," the Percussive Arts Society's scholarly journal
and was recently elected to the board of directors of that organization. A recognized
expert in marching percussion, Moore has served as the percussion director of
the internationally acclaimed Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps, and as
program consultant/percussion arranger with several European, Japanese, Thai
and Indonesian drum corps and bands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e1d1d; font-family: Arial;">Active in
the music industry, he serves as a consultant and artist endorser with several
companies including Yamaha and has designed signature products with Pro-Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-08-26/community/os-ucf-performing-arts-school-director-20130826_1_performing-arts-center-ucf-music-faculty-ucf-foundation" target="_blank"><span class="pubdate" style="border: 0px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">August 26, 2013</span><span class="separator" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 5px;">|</span><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted by Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel Arts Writer</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jason is a regular
member of the Lone Star Wind Orchestra (Richardson, TX) which recently
performed at the Midwest Clinic under the baton of Eugene Corporon and Leonard
Slatkin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is also a member of the
Bell Street 4 trombone quartet and performs with them at high schools,
universities and conventions throughout the southwest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jason is a graduate
of the UW School of Music (’02, BM: Trombone Performance), the University of
North Texas (’07, MM: Trombone Performance), and is currently finishing his DMA
at the University of North Texas (’13, DMA: Trombone Performance).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His dissertation is on the sackbut
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For more information on Jason and his new position, please visit:</span></div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Your training:</strong> I started piano lessons at age 5 with a neighborhood lady and then took lessons at the Chicago Musical College. When I entered Lane Tech High School, I majored in music so I didn’t have to take the shop classes. My future was to be a math teacher, and then I started the cello. By my junior year I changed my plans to becoming a music teacher. I received my bachelor’s of music from the UW School of Music in 1962 and my master’s of music in 1964. I taught at Wisconsin High School in 1962, Central High from 1963-66 and Memorial from 1966-99.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most inspiring moment on stage:</strong> As a cellist, I think it was when I was a UW student when the symphony orchestra and massed choirs performed the Brahms Requiem and the Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky at the UW Stock Pavilion. Robert Shaw was the guest conductor. After the concert I just wanted to be alone and think about that awesome experience.</div>
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As a conductor, it has to be when the Memorial Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir performed the Ernest Bloch Sacred Service in 1976. Professor Sam Jones was our cantor and Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky was the narrator. There wasn’t an empty seat in the auditorium. I still listen to that performance today because it was so thrilling.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Who inspires you?</strong> I have had many wonderful teachers who have shaped my life, but it is Marvin Rabin who has been my greatest inspiration as a music educator and conductor. For the past 47 years, Marvin has been my teacher, supporter and critic, and my resource for string development and repertoire. His coming to Madison in 1966 to start WYSO changed my whole life.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What’s next for you?</strong> As of now I have no special plans. I am looking forward to this last year with WYSO. After 51 years of teaching and conducting young people, I am sure I will continue to be involved in some way promoting music education and will continue working on music committees and boards.</div>
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Sue Halloway has taught for 33 years, and all of them were in Sauk Prairie. After attending Whitefish Bay High School, Halloway spent a year at Indiana University and then took a semester off to travel and bowl in the AMF World Cup in Singapore. She returned to complete her music education degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also earned her master’s degree.</div>
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“I think the most challenging situation occurred two years ago when budget cuts threatened teaching positions in our district and we cut our fifth-grade band program and musicals,” she said. “Fortunately, we have been able to maintain all of those programs through parent and community support.”</div>
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Halloway repeated her often stated philosophy to students: “ It’s the journey, not the destination. Take risks!”</div>
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She wouldn’t offer words of advice to colleagues, however.</div>
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“There are just too many unknowns,” she said.</div>
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“I have enjoyed everything and every minute (of teaching in Sauk Prairie). The kids have been great; I have had the opportunity to work with an amazing parent group; have been fortunate enough to work with a wonderful staff and administration and have appreciated the wonderful support of the music program by the community,” she said. “Every year I tell my students that they don’t know who they haven’t met yet that will make a difference in their lives. I have begun every year with those very thoughts and am thankful to all of the people I have met along the way that have made a difference in my life and the lives of my students. Thank you for 33 wonderful and memorable years.”</div>
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Halloway said she plans to do some private teaching and might work with the fifth-grade band. She also might want to perform and judge, but golf, bowling, travel and time with her parents also are on her list.</div>
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“I think I can finally identify with all of the seniors. I have had 33 years to decide what I want to do when I grow up and graduate from High School and I’m not quite sure where that path will lead,” she said.</div>
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<a href="http://www.wiscnews.com/saukprairieeagle/news/local/article_5169f328-baef-11e1-b8b3-001a4bcf887a.html" target="_blank">See full story here.</a></div>Ian Melrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02043408285933705695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034116470820758150.post-22196661528883999592012-07-30T13:04:00.001-07:002012-07-30T13:04:16.431-07:00Thomas Kasdorg, recent piano alum, featured in Wisconsin State Journal<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
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Freelance pianist believes in music as a universal language.</h3>
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"Badger Bill" Garvey was an icon in both McFarland where he taught music for 31 years and among the UW-Madison community who shared his passion for all things Wisconsin.</div>
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On Thursday, Garvey passed away after a bout with cancer. He was 60.</div>
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In addition to teaching music in McFarland, Garvey was also field assistant to the UW Marching Band for 35 years.</div>
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Longtime UW Marching Band director Mike Leckrone said his close friend was a figurehead for the organization, helping to organize the alumni band and the annual "Band Day" celebration of high school musicians from around the state.</div>
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As a freshman at UW-Madison 43 years ago, Garvey played trumpet in Leckrone's first band. He began his teaching career in Kenosha, but after being hired by McFarland he spent his evenings after school rushing to campus to assist with the UW Marching Band, Leckrone recalled.</div>
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"I don't know of anybody who was more of a Badger than Bill Garvey," Leckrone said. "We all admired that loyalty he had."</div>
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Over his career, Garvey coached sports, served as president of the McFarland Federation of Teachers through five teaching contracts and served as a guest conductor for several state music festivals.</div>
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"The guy lived for everybody," McFarland Superintendent Scott Brown said.</div>
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In January, despite health concerns, Garvey participated in his fifth New Year's Day Rose Parade, marching with his daughter Jessica, a UW-Madison senior.</div>
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Upon his retirement from McFarland in 2008, Garvey said the legacy he wanted to leave was continued cooperation between the music and athletic departments.</div>
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"There is a mutual respect and admiration for each other's accomplishments. There is also a concerted effort made to not force students into making choices between one activity or another," Garvey said. "There is a hope and desire on my part for this fine relationship to continue."</div>
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Interlochen Arts Academy is pleased to announce Dr. Matthew Schlomer as the next band conductor at Interlochen Arts Academy. Dr. Schlomer is currently adjunct professor at Luther College and assistant conductor of wind ensemble at University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition, Dr. Schlomer has twelve years of experience teaching at Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School and Sheboygan North High School.</div>
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Dr. Schlomer studied wind conducting with Scott Teeple and dance with Kate Corby. He holds a doctor of musical arts degree and master of music degree in instrumental conducting with a minor concentration in dance from the University of Wisconsin, a bachelor of music in education from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a gold medal in saxophone from Bordeaux Regional Conservatory in France. In February of this year, he presented his research, “Essential Movement Lessons from Dance Pedagogy,” at the College Band Director’s National Association.</div>
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In addition to his outstanding conducting background, Dr. Schlomer has worked extensively as a saxophone performer, dancer and visual artist. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Matthew Schlomer to Interlochen.</div>
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Frederick "Fritz" Schenker, a doctoral student in ethnomusicology at the<a href="http://www.music.wisc.edu/" style="color: #be070c; text-decoration: underline;">School of Music</a>, has received one of 17 Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources.</div>
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He will use the fellowship to pursue research in Manila and Singapore for nine months beginning in September 2012 for his dissertation topic, "Performing Empire: Music and Race in Colonial Asia's Jazz Age."</div>
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According to the Council on Library and Information Resources, which administers this program, the fellowships are intended to help graduate students in the humanities and related social science fields pursue research wherever relevant sources are available and gain skill and creativity in using primary source materials in libraries, archives, museums and related repositories.</div>
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In a summary of his dissertation, Schenker begins with the observation that in the early 1920s, American jazz proliferated in southeast Asia in tandem with the expansion of American empire, and that the convergence of the two developments had far-reaching ramifications for both.</div>
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He writes, "Jazz moved along the same routes and circuits as U. S. empire, on the same ships that carried soldiers, goods and capital to port cities worldwide. ... Wherever colonialism and global capital traveled, jazz seemed to follow, and wherever jazz appeared in these Asian contexts, Filipino musicians were conspicuously present."</div>
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Schenker will spend eight months in Manila and the final month in Singapore, attempting to contact local collectors who may have photos, recordings, newspaper articles, letters and diaries, and others who are descended from those who lived there in the 1920s for their personal recollections of their forebears' accounts. In addition, he will examine newspapers, recordings, playbills and photos at museums, libraries and archives. He will receive a total of $19,000 from the Mellon fellowship to cover travel, living and research expenses.</div>
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Schenker is concluding the second year of his Ph.D. degree program, having received the M.A. in ethnomusicology at UW-Madison in 2010.</div>
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He has done considerable research into his topic at UW-Madison's Memorial Library and Cutter Collection, reviewing historical newspapers on microfilm and travelogues of American and European tourists to southeast Asia. Last summer, he studied Tagalog for eight weeks through the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute.</div>
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Shenker's dissertation adviser is Ronald Radano, professor of musicology and ethnomusicology; he has also worked with R. Anderson Sutton, professor of ethnomusicology and former director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.</div>
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Tuscaloosa, AL Associate Professor of Music at the University of Alabama<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Demondrae Thurman hits
so many notes in his busy life that the cadence belies the mellow tones of his
horn, the euphonium. A brass instrument smaller than a tuba, the euphonium is
rarely called upon in a symphony orchestra's repertoire, but Thurman's solo and
quartet prowess has brought the instrument onto center stage. Its sound has
taken him across the world for performances and clinics: France, Germany,
England, Norway, Hungary, and China.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Temptations to performing at Madison's Chazen Art Museum, Thurman acts as a
role model for young African-American musicians, keeps a busy teaching
schedule, and recently became director of the University of Alabama Symphony
Orchestra. Thurman also excels at the trombone, baritone, and bass trumpet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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member and musical leader of the internationally acclaimed Sotto Voce Quartet,
which features two euphoniums and two tubas. The group has three recordings on
a major brass recording label with Thurman featured on two solo efforts. <a href="http://www.demondrae.com/Listen.html"><span style="color: #a81d14;">(Hear
him play at demondrae.com.)</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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renowned, and his students in low brass performance have been nationally
recognized. John Stevens, UW professor of music and a mentor to Thurman, says
his former student is highly regarded internationally as a performer and
teacher: "In reality, he has occupied a position of extremely high esteem
in the field since his mid-twenties," Stevens says. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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commissioning or premiering more than ten new works for solo euphonium or
euphonium in a chamber setting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">The musician's ties to
Madison, his colleagues, and teachers is tight, despite the fact that he had
never visited Madison or even spent more than two weeks outside of his hometown
of Tuscaloosa before his graduate studies began. His former classmates are now
his musical collaborators. Stevens, whom Thurman says "is like a father to
me," wrote the music for Sotto Voce's first CD and Thurman's first solo
CD. The Alabama professor's most recent CD features Martha Fischer, UW
associate professor of collaborative piano. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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impact on my professional life have also become some of my dearest
friends," Thurman says.</span></div>
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nothing like that anywhere!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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like to have offered his mind and body the notion that with hard work,
dedication, and a good environment along with his talent, he could have been
the greatest boxer and one of the greatest ambassadors the world has seen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Matthew Annin is currently Principal Horn of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Matthew previously held the position of Assistant Principal Horn of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Under the direction of Paavo Jarvi, Matthew performed on several tours with the CSO, including tours to Japan and Carnegie Hall, as well as several recordings. Matthew has also been a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Louisville Orchestra. He has also performed with the Saint Louis Symphony, the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and has served as guest Principal Horn of the Buffalo Philharmonic. Matthew was a fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida.</div>
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Matthew received a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Matthew has been a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and the Music Academy of the West, where he performed Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417 as a Concerto Competition winner. He has also participated in the Sarasota and Aspen Music Festivals, in addition to the Henry Mancini Institute. In his spare time, Matthew enjoys spending time with his wife, Christine, and spoiling their cat, Zoe.<br />
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Isaac Roang is 34 years old and has a library named after him.<span id="goog_2006050802"></span><span id="goog_2006050803"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a></div>
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The addition to a school in the bush country of Kenya was built on his resolve to do something important during his time on earth and the unique talents Roang applies to that goal.</div>
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As a Peace Corps volunteer teaching math and physics, he saw a problem — only five books in a classroom of 50 students — and built a solution.</div>
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Those who work with Roang in Milwaukee have become familiar with his sincere, understated approach.</div>
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It extends across his professional work as a real estate attorney, to his pro bono services at Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity and the Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic, and his devotion to his wife and two daughters.</div>
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"You see no ego here," said Ann Murphy, managing partner at Quarles & Brady. "He wants to really give back in a way to make our community a better place."</div>
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The only child of a musical and creative couple, Roang grew up in Madison. He helped out at his father's fruit stand, and traveled with his mother to sell clothing at art fairs.</div>
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From elementary school to the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Georgetown University, he developed interests in classical music, math and physics, and tai chi.</div>
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His legal work crafting real estate transactions exercises his intellect. Playing French horn in Milwaukee's Concord Chamber Orchestra releases his emotions.</div>
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Roang uses the metaphor of a single butterfly creating great change by flapping its wings to express his mind-set about his volunteer work, helping low-income people find affordable housing or answers to their legal problems.</div>
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"It's what I tried to do in the Peace Corps," he said. "You're not going to change the world, but to the extent you can help one person take one step in the right direction, you're doing something."</div>
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If Roang has a selfish motive, it's the near universal desire to see and touch the fruits of his labor.</div>
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Even in doing that, he keeps the butterfly wings beating.</div>
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When he and his wife traveled 8,000 miles to visit the Isaac John Roang Library two years ago, they delivered 15 boxes of books.</div>
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Local pianist and composer <a href="http://www.amywurtz.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">Amy Wurtz</a>approached the ensemble with her String Quartet No. 2 in early fall of 2011. By November they had embarked on a major recording project of Wurtz’s Quartets No. 1 & 2. The debut album, <i>Amy Wurtz String Quartets, </i>will be officially released on April 15, 2012 at 3pm during their CD release party hosted at Jennifer Norback Fine Art, 217 W. Huron St. in downtown Chicago.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">Recording projects are often understood as a major collaborative effort between composer and musician. This project, however, was collaborative in the fullest sense by engaging the community to help fund the various costs involved in producing an album. Using the increasingly popular fundraising platform, Kickstarter, Wurtz and the ensemble raised just over $3,000 from individual donations, surpassing their goal. Take a closer look at their campaign <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1942002780/chicago-q-ensemble-amy-wurtz-collaboration-debut-r" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">here</a> . </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">The ensemble considers this recording to be part of the ongoing effort to bring awareness to the music of women composers. Chicago Q Ensemble violinist Ellen McSweeney shares, “We immediately felt that we wanted to help share Amy’s music with the world. The two quartets were head and shoulders above other contemporary works that we'd read. They are full of challenging harmonies, textures, and techniques found in most 21<sup>st</sup> century music, but also have the qualities of great traditional string quartet works.” McSweeney continues, "We saw this not only as an opportunity to premiere two outstanding pieces, but also to help change the under-representation of women in new music."</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><b>CD Release Party - <i>Amy Wurtz</i> <i>String Quartets</i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><b>Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 3pm</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><a href="http://www.jennifernorbackfineart.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); "><b>Jennifer Norback Fine Art</b></a><b> | 217 W. Huron St. Chicago, IL 60654</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><b>Reception with Live performances by Chicago Q Ensemble</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><b>Free Admission</b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">To <b>hear samples</b> and <b>learn more</b> about <i>Amy Wurtz String Quartets, </i>visit the Chicago Q <a href="http://www.chicagoqensemble.com/press.php" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">Press Page</a>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">You can also learn more about Amy by visiting her website <a href="http://www.amywurtz.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">www.amywurtz.com</a>.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">For artist interviews or CD copy requests, contact Stephanie Photakis at <a href="tel:%28815%29%20342-7666" value="+18153427666" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">(815) 342-7666</a> or email <a href="mailto:stephanie@littlelightmarketing.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">stephanie@littlelightmarketing.com</a>.</div></span></div></div></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><span style="color:#888888;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><br /></div></span></div></div></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div>Ian Melrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02043408285933705695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034116470820758150.post-61093987408358593872012-04-06T04:44:00.002-07:002012-04-06T04:47:30.693-07:00Madison Opera Appoints Anthony Cao as Chorus Master<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO6IM15J1i1pNGbCsuPwmbFfLHfMiCv9HpQRI3avhIhsgq8l6OyK0fsAw2ELES3zKCkimDUImNdLJXirBtGpHE9LQ9S4LSzgBOHQ9QfWKcC2qOOBGCzTnlv74nLrDUQmz-QV9DzfkiZrQ/s1600/Anthony+Cao.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 135px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO6IM15J1i1pNGbCsuPwmbFfLHfMiCv9HpQRI3avhIhsgq8l6OyK0fsAw2ELES3zKCkimDUImNdLJXirBtGpHE9LQ9S4LSzgBOHQ9QfWKcC2qOOBGCzTnlv74nLrDUQmz-QV9DzfkiZrQ/s200/Anthony+Cao.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5728253023835524786" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:serif;font-size:14px;"><p>Madison, Wis. – When the Madison Opera Chorus began music rehearsals for their upcoming performances of Rossini’s <em>Cinderella</em> on March 12, they had a happy surprise: Anthony Cao, who has been interim chorus master since fall 2010, has been officially appointed to the position, effective with<em>Cinderella</em>. As interim chorus master, Cao has conducted the chorus in <em>The Marriage of Figaro</em>, <em>La Traviata</em>, Opera in the Park 2011, and <em>Eugene Onegin</em>. He also sang the role of the Messenger in <em>La Traviata</em>. Cao succeeds Andy Abrams, who resigned to pursue his career as a composer.</p><p>“Anthony is an enormously gifted musician, with a beautiful singing voice of his own,” says John DeMain, Madison Opera Artistic Director. “The chorus will be in superb hands, and I look forward to a long and productive relationship with him.”</p><p>Cao received his Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in Music Education from U.W.-Madison, where he was named winner of the annual student concerto competition. He also won the National Association for the Teachers of Singing auditions in 2000 and 2001. Cao has worked as a guest clinician and composer with choirs throughout Wisconsin and the Midwest and also stays active as a pianist /vocalist, including his all-request show every Saturday at The Ivory Room in downtown Madison. Cao has been director of choirs at Madison West High School since 2004 and artistic director of Madison Chamber choir since 2007.</p><p>General Director Kathryn Smith says, “I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Anthony this year. It’s a pleasure to watch him conduct the chorus, and I know that he will continue to build on their excellence as we go forward.”</p><p>Rossini’s <em>Cinderella</em>, set in 1930s Hollywood, will have performances on April 27 and 29, 2012 at Overture Hall. Opera in the Park will be held on July 21, 2012.</p><p>For more information, please contact Manager of Marketing and Community Engagement Ronia Holmes at <a href="mailto:holmes@madisonopera.org" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(117, 117, 117); ">holmes@madisonopera.org</a> or 608.238.8085.</p><p><a href="http://ourlivesmadison.com/categoryblog/310-madison-opera-appoints-anthony-cao-as-chorus-master.html">http://ourlivesmadison.com/categoryblog/310-madison-opera-appoints-anthony-cao-as-chorus-master.html</a></p></span>Ian Melrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02043408285933705695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034116470820758150.post-74182057703078965532012-04-06T04:39:00.002-07:002012-04-06T04:44:01.737-07:00Jerry Hui: composer, conductor, teacher, and lover of music<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcwExh2cazfo345YpShHZT0KZenNgbQ4022ai8Jwl8Khkow9onsrhFEAZbdNwvs_dn0tvwMcDeIYSdNv_5_XUrm4MFo5fXGagDdgjfXQvp5EMMihh0kIxJQeoEC1k7UNK2MQ6l1HMu_4/s1600/Jerry+Hui+.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcwExh2cazfo345YpShHZT0KZenNgbQ4022ai8Jwl8Khkow9onsrhFEAZbdNwvs_dn0tvwMcDeIYSdNv_5_XUrm4MFo5fXGagDdgjfXQvp5EMMihh0kIxJQeoEC1k7UNK2MQ6l1HMu_4/s200/Jerry+Hui+.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5728252095005486738" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 17px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:initial;">Jerry Hui talks about music with a palpable joy. Utterly down to earth in the face of remarkable success, Hui—an adjunct instructor for <a title="Continuing Studies music programs" href="http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/music/index.html" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(71, 65, 52); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Continuing Studies music programs</a>—simply loves sharing many kinds of music with the widest possible audience.</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:initial;">Hui’s development into a composer and choral conductor has taken a somewhat unusual path in that he had no formal training in music as a child or teenager. “In high school in Hong Kong I started writing music for some video games that my friends and I were designing, which led me to read several music-theory and music-history books on my own.”</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:initial;">Still, when Hui moved to Wisconsin in 1999 it was to study not music but computer engineering. But under the guidance of Jim Aagaard, professor of music at UW-Richland, he quickly found himself drawn to UW-Madison’s renowned School of Music.</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:initial;">Soon after enrolling at UW-Madison in 2000, he switched from computer engineering to computer science so he could complete a double major within the College of Letters and Science. After completing his <span class="caps" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size:13px;color:initial;">BA</span>, Hui enrolled one summer in the <a title="Madison Early Music Festival" href="http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/memf/index.html" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(71, 65, 52); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Madison Early Music Festival</a>.</p><p color="initial" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="dquo" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -0.4em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:initial;">“</span>Finally I had a summer when I didn’t have to worry about a job or a course schedule, and I could find out what early music was all about.” Hui’s approach to music would never be the same.</p><p color="initial" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="dquo" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -0.4em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:initial;">“</span>Early music has something for everyone. If you like sacred music, you can find some of the most serene music ever written. If your tastes lean toward the secular, early music has plenty of bawdy songs, too.”</p><p color="initial" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Hui later attended the University of Oregon’s graduate program in composition and choral conducting, returning from Eugene to Madison every summer for the festival.</p><p color="initial" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="dquo" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -0.4em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:initial;">“</span>Over the years I’ve played a number of roles for the festival, including stage manager, house manager, and audio-video technician. This year for the first time I’ll serve as assistant conductor.”</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">After completing his master’s, he moved back to Madison to begin the doctor of musical arts (<span class="caps" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size:13px;color:initial;">DMA</span>) program. In 2008 Hui, whose own voice can range from bass all the way to alto, founded his own early music ensemble on campus, <a title="Eliza's Toyes" href="http://www.toyes.info/" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(71, 65, 52); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Eliza’s Toyes</a>. The group’s current configuration features eight voices, three recorders, and a lute.</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="dquo" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -0.4em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:initial;">“</span>We’ve performed in some rather unusual venues,” Hui notes, “including the stacks of Memorial Library. And in one of my Schola Cantorum: Singing Gregorian Chant classes the students and I sang chant in a stairwell of the Humanities Building, which gave a wonderfully resonant sound.”</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Eliza’s Toyes is one of the featured groups at a special preview of the Early Music Festival set for the evening of April 26 at the Chazen Museum of Art. The preview includes a lecture on the Chazen’s early American collection and a reception with performances by several School of Music faculty as well as Eliza’s Toyes.</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Hui began teaching for Continuing Studies in 2010 and completed his <span class="caps" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size:13px;color:initial;">DMA</span> last year. Along the way he also used his computer expertise to help Prof. Chelcy Bowles—director of music programs for Continuing Studies—design and develop an online portal for the North American Coalition for Community Music.</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Intended for people who work with community music groups—from municipal orchestras to prison choirs to ethnic ensembles—the portal will make available a wide range of resources on starting a group, working with people who don’t read music, building an audience, and many other topics. It goes live this spring.</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">This winter Hui realized the dream of many a classical composer when his opera, <em style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Wired for Love</em>, had its world premiere. Performed in January at the Carol Rennebohm Auditorium of Music Hall, the work allowed Hui to bring together many of the “extremes” of his musical study, from early forms to the most contemporary. This coming weekend brings yet another milestone in Hui’s career: <em style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Wired for Love</em> will be recorded for compact disc.</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Meanwhile, Hui continues to prepare for this year’s Early Music Festival. Set for July 7–14, “Welcome Home Again! An American Celebration” focuses on early music of our nation and Canada. The musicians in residence will include Anonymous 4, the most famous early-music ensemble in the world, as well as such other notables as The Rose Ensemble and Newberry Concert.</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="dquo" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -0.4em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:initial;">“</span>One of the interesting changes this summer is that all the vocal music will be in English,” says Hui. “Well, unless we introduce some French songs from colonial Quebec!”</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a href="http://news.continuingstudies.wisc.edu/?p=739">http://news.continuingstudies.wisc.edu/?p=739</a></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><br /></p></span>Ian Melrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02043408285933705695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034116470820758150.post-75772403455373838542012-03-04T07:14:00.001-08:002012-03-04T07:16:13.771-08:00UW Alumni in Concert at UW!<blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT'; font-size: medium; "><div><span style="font-family:Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">Greetings from the Concert Office!<br /><br />Three concerts are coming up that feature School of Music alumni. All should be awesome! And all are free :)<br /><br />This Sunday, February 26 at 12:30 pm in the Chazen Museum: Kangwon Lee Kim, violin (DMA 05) and Eli Kalman (MM 03, DMA 06), in Sonata for piano and violin in D major, Op. 12, No. 1 by Beethoven; Sonata for violin and piano by Ravel; and Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 1 by Dohnanyi, with violinist David Rubin, violist Matthew Michelic and cellist Janet Anthony.<br /><br />Saturday, March 10 at 3 pm in Morphy Hall: Hein Jung, soprano (MM 03, DMA 07) and Grigorios Zamparas, piano, in works by Handel, Liszt, Chopin and Mozart.<br /><br />Monday, April 9 at 7:30 pm in Morphy Hall: Mark Carlson, euphonium (MM 05, DMA 08) and Kirstin Ihde, piano; program TBA.<br /><br />For More information please go to the UW School of Music Website:<br /><a href="www.music.wisc.edu">www.music.wisc.edu</a></span></span></div></blockquote>Ian Melrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02043408285933705695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034116470820758150.post-23455522952745048522012-03-04T07:11:00.002-08:002012-03-04T07:14:16.906-08:002010 Alum Jennifer Sims writes for Opera Pulse<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; ">A native of Lockport, NY, Jennifer Sams recently received her DMA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Voice Performance and a minor in Opera Production. She completed her Master’s Degree as a member of the Knoxville Opera Studio with the University of Tennessee and her Bachelor’s Degree from Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music. Equally at home in opera and musical theater, Jennifer has performed a wide variety of roles - 'Mrs. Lovett' in Sweeney Todd to directing and starring in the role of ‘Ethyl Wormvarnish’ in the world premiere of Jerry Hui’s opera Wired for Love. Last summer, Mrs. Sams studied baroque gesture and performance as a participant in Early Music Vancouver’s Compleat Singer Baroque Vocal Programme. She has been a participant, soloist and teacher with the Madison Early Music Festival for the past 3 consecutive years, and as a soloist with the Madison Early Music Festival’s performance of Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610. Mrs. Sams teaches privately in Madison, Wisconsin and at Beloit College.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; ">Jennifer wrote an article "Grammy Worthy: Why We Love Joyce DiDonato" for the online opera magazine, Opera Pulse. To view the article, please click here:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.operapulse.com/reviews/2012/02/22/grammy-worthy-why-we-love-joyce-didonato/">Grammy Worthy: Why We Love Joyce DiDonato</a></span></h1></span>Ian Melrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02043408285933705695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034116470820758150.post-57071008902467240972012-03-04T07:07:00.001-08:002012-03-04T07:09:51.775-08:00St. Norbert's Faculty Focus - Dr. Yi-Lan (Elaine) NiuDr. Yi-Lan (Elaine) Niu completed her master's degree in voice at the Eastman School of Music and her doctoral degree in vocal performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Throughout her academic career, Dr. Niu has been the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships including the Joyce and William Wartmann Scholarship, UW-Madison Opera Props Award, and scholarships to the Hot Springs Music Festival, the Madison Early Music Festival, and the Vancouver Early Music Festival.<br /><br />Dr. Niu joined the music faculty at SNC in 2007. During the past five years, she has taught applied voice, vocal diction and pedagogy, vocal literature and the general education class Introduction to Opera. Dr. Niu is a passionate educator and enjoys preparing courses and helping students. In addition to teaching, Dr. Niu performs both nationally and internationally; her performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio in both the United States and Taiwan. She actively premieres new works written for her and regularly collaborates with professionals in different artistic fields to create unique performance experiences.<br /><br />Dr. Niu just recently completed her faculty collaborative project "The Shape of Words" with Professor April Beiswenger from Theater Studies in which they combined the art of vocal music and costume design. Past projects have included "Image & Sound: A Reproduction" (2011) in which Dr. Niu and Professor Brian Pirman explored the possibilities of using photography to add meaning to musical text, and "Turning Old Pages, Singing New Notes" (2009) in which Dr. Niu collaborated with Norbertine priest Father James Neilson in the presentation of new music and book art.<br /><br />As an advocate of new music, Dr. Niu has premiered the epic "Requiem" for solo voice and orchestra and "A Star" for voice and guitar by Alexander Nohai-Seaman and the Chinese "Yuan Songs" for soprano and guitar by Jerry (Chi-Wei) Hui. As an early music enthusiast, Niu has performed masterworks by J.S. Bach, J. Dowland, H. Schütz, C. Monterverdi, B. Strozzi, and A. Scarlatti. Her numerous operatic roles have included Clorinda in "Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda," Costanza in "La Griselda," Serpina in "La Serva Padrona," and Papagena in "The Magic Flute."<br /><br />Dr. Niu is very happy to be part of the SNC family, a place she calls "her second home." In addition to her busy teaching schedule, Dr. Niu's scholarship activities and projects include two recitals in Iowa and South Dakota this spring, an early music concert in the fall, and a New York concert series during the spring of 2013.<div><br /></div><div>To view original story:</div><div><a href="http://www.snctimes.com/features/faculty-in-focus-dr-yi-lan-elaine-niu-1.2791209#.T1OFLZi4LzI">http://www.snctimes.com/features/faculty-in-focus-dr-yi-lan-elaine-niu-1.2791209#.T1OFLZi4LzI</a></div><div><br /></div>Ian Melrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02043408285933705695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034116470820758150.post-62778533688242024362012-01-23T19:42:00.000-08:002012-01-23T19:48:08.436-08:00SCHOOL OF MUSIC ALUMNA TO PLAY GALILEO’S DAUGHTER IN PHILIP GLASS’S ‘GALILEO GALILEI’ --- JAMIE-ROSE GUARRINE REFLECTS ON CAREER SINCE GRADUATION<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiss_A8x-62bMJZoZz-o_eMRejYEliKFRnbd45GOT_a5vFEkGc9GMdo48Vvxr86nGN8vuP7YNdFW0eeS1nNb28lRiLDUbBC7fsGrisD_3ujR-ao1sP_c3qCkwcMtYyUSU0UtdYyeHWrUsQ/s1600/Jamie+Rose+Guarrine.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiss_A8x-62bMJZoZz-o_eMRejYEliKFRnbd45GOT_a5vFEkGc9GMdo48Vvxr86nGN8vuP7YNdFW0eeS1nNb28lRiLDUbBC7fsGrisD_3ujR-ao1sP_c3qCkwcMtYyUSU0UtdYyeHWrUsQ/s200/Jamie+Rose+Guarrine.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701040258275039810" /></a><br />When the Madison Opera http://www.madisonopera.org/ presents Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” in four performances, January 26-29, the role of Galileo’s daughter will be performed by soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine. Guarrine received both the M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in voice performance from the UW-Madison School of Music, where she was one of the first group of six graduate students honored with the Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. Her teacher was James Doing, professor of voice.<br />Since graduating with her doctoral degree in 2005, Guarrine has appeared on the stages of Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Utah Opera, Kentucky Opera and the Chicago Opera Theater. She has been a guest soloist with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Madison Symphony, where she appeared last month in the “Christmas Spectacular” program. She was a first-place winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2005 (Wisconsin district) and 2007 (Minnesota District).<br />The Concert Office at the School of Music asked Guarrine about her role in “Galileo,” highlights of her career to date and a few words of advice for current music students.<br /><br />Q: Your thoughts (so far) about the character you play in “Galileo” or about the opera in general.<br />A: I have enjoyed preparing the role of Galileo’s daughter Maria Celeste very much. She is a kind and loving character to play and I’m moved each time I sing her beautiful soaring lines.<br />I’ve enjoyed researching her short but meaningful life that is well presented in Glass’s score. From the convent in which she lived Maria Celeste wrote many letters of support and encouragement to her father (which still exist in the Vatican Library today) throughout his trial and imprisonment.<br /><br />Q: The musical activities you’ve done since leaving UW that you’ve particularly enjoyed or felt were highlights/challenges that were particularly fulfilling.<br />A: The first engagement after leaving UW I particularly enjoyed was my Santa Fe Opera debut. My first contract was singing Barbarina in “Le nozze di Figaro.” The opera house’s location is wrapped in natural beauty. Each night as I waited to make my first entrance, with the sunset, mountains and stars at my back, I had a sense of awe and appreciation that we were participating in something truly greater than ourselves.<br />The gig that was the greatest challenge was my Opera Company of Philadelphia debut. Halfway through my performance run as Susanna (also “Le nozze di Figaro”) at Utah Opera I got a call from my manager that the artist singing the soprano roles in “L’enfant et les sortilèges” as well as Nella in “Gianni Schicchi” had to pull out due to health troubles. Could I learn and memorize both operas in two weeks? Well, I said yes, and it was a very intense time accompanied by sleeping with scores under my pillow, but I showed up at the first rehearsal totally prepared. I learned that I am capable of learning music quickly under pressure and this has opened many doors.<br /><br />Q: A couple of upcoming engagements that you’re looking forward to.<br />A: I’m very fortunate that I have a great season in spite of the economic difficulty the arts are facing in this country. After singing with Madison Opera I head straight to<br />L. A. for my Los Angeles Opera debut in “Albert Herring” as well as a recital at USC; sing my first Brahms “Requiem” with the Santa Fe Symphony; and then am off to Fort Worth for Mark Adamo’s “Lysistrata.” Then I’ll be ready for a break back in Fairbanks!<br /><br />Q: Handling the demands of career and family, with a professional musician-spouse.<br />A: While making the aforementioned debut at Santa Fe, my husband [cellist Karl Knapp] called me from Minneapolis where we were living as starving artists, saying that he had won a tenure-track job at the University of Alaska Fairbanks! We made the difficult decision to uproot from the lower 48 (as we’ve come to call the contiguous U. S.) and move to Alaska. This has presented its own challenges, since coming home in between engagements is now a luxury. But as my job takes me out of state, this gives my husband a chance to visit me in warmer places!<br /><br />Q: Advice for current students at the School of Music.<br />A: Practice. Have faith in yourself and your abilities. Know that if you want to be an opera singer in America, you’re going to be away from home a lot. Learn to love auditioning because you’re going to do it A LOT. Everyone has their own career path, and some singers rise faster than others, so surround yourself with people who believe in you and give you the best advice to hone your craft.Ian Melrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02043408285933705695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034116470820758150.post-87113358564805460072012-01-14T21:29:00.000-08:002012-01-14T21:40:02.077-08:00Two UW-Madison Grads at Lyric Opera of Chicago share recital<a href="http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/host.madison.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/93/39322f26-37e3-11e1-8289-001871e3ce6c/4f061aba361c2.image.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 140px;" src="http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/host.madison.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/93/39322f26-37e3-11e1-8289-001871e3ce6c/4f061aba361c2.image.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Two singers have gone from performing in drafty Mills Hall on the UW-Madison campus to singing for a world class opera company in the windy city.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">At noon this Saturday, Jan. 7, soprano Emily Birsan and tenor James Kryshak performed a recital under the auspices of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. (The full name is the Ryan Opera Center Recital Series at Merit School of Music, part of The Lyric Opera of Chicago's Renée Fleming Initiative.)</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Birsan and Kryshak both earned masters degrees in music (opera performance) at the UW-Madison School of Music.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Birsan and Kryshak performed at Anne and Howard Gottlieb Hall with pianist Yasuko Oura. Both are ensemble members of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">According to a press release from the Lyric, the hour-long recital was part of Merit's ongoing Live from Gottlieb Performance Series and is presented exclusively to the Merit community.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">In November, Birsan performed at the Lyric in Mussoursky’s "Boris Godunov;" this month, Kryshak plays a priest in Mozart's "<a href="http://host.madison.com/entertainment/arts_and_theatre/theatre/winter-in-the-windy-city-offers-something-sweet-something-strong/article_77ea9be3-dbae-5ddb-8ead-98bdb92c0774.html" rel="external" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(59, 84, 89); text-decoration: none; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">The Magic Flute</a>," running through Jan. 22. And Maestro John DeMain of the Madison Symphony Orchestra conducts "Showboat" for the Lyric opening on Feb. 12.</p><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border- font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;color:initial;"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://host.madison.com/entertainment/arts_and_theatre/blog/on-the-aisle-two-uw-madison-grads-at-lyric-opera/article_fee4f7ce-37e0-11e1-b971-001871e3ce6c.html#ixzz1jVBX8c4F" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">http://host.madison.com/entertainment/arts_and_theatre/blog/on-the-aisle-two-uw-madison-grads-at-lyric-opera/article_fee4f7ce-37e0-11e1-b971-001871e3ce6c.html#ixzz1jVBX8c4F</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; border-style: initial; border- border-style: initial; color:initial;"><br /></span></span>Ian Melrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02043408285933705695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034116470820758150.post-14623267936008966122011-12-19T12:08:00.000-08:002011-12-19T12:19:49.717-08:00UW-Madison Music Alumni: keep in touch with class notes & WAA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://ls.wisc.edu/" target="_blank"><img border="2" height="67" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvb4yFbgDHkp9uqI_1f0xgpnpohqekGPCRU2eDonTFvPa02CKqevwqlUlRfFAY9UcCGJhCiVYedge2ZshyphenhyphenTQmt-2QnAClm3ysL_UtD7OfjZyS6FdjX0TUYoxOiLN3bU9YNddvcLvc5z7c/s320/Screen+shot+2011-12-19+at+2.17.33+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<a href="http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=33478"><i><b><span class="paperArticleTitle serif">The Weather Duo update the chamber ensemble</span></b></i></a><br />
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<span class="byline"><a href="http://www.thedailypage.com/search/searchAuthor.php?authorID=20">Rich Albertoni</a> on Thursday 05/12/2011 </span><br />
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<b>The Weather Duo</b> are actually a trio, and they take an experimental approach to chamber music. The group's live performances feature sonic and visual elements, and they blend improvisation with contemporary classical music. The 10 compositions on their forthcoming album range in length from less than two minutes to more than 11.<br />
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All three members are 23. Double bass player <b>Ben Willis</b> and cellist <b>Pat Reinholz</b> are roommates who spent four years studying together at the <a href="http://music.wisc.edu/">UW-Madison School of Music</a>. "We both kind of geek out over string music," says Reinholz. "We actually have conversations about things like subharmonizing." The group's sound brings together influences of jazz, classical, electronic and folk music.<br />
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Musical improvisation isn't the only thing that's spontaneous about their performances. The video components added by Anna Weisling are also improvised, based on the way the music sounds as it unfolds. "I've got a bank of hundreds of videos that I can pull from," says Weisling. "I'll have to be ready to go someplace I've never heard them go before, so I use a program called MAX/MSP/Jitter that allows me to combine any kind of footage that I have with live footage of them."<br />
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<a href="http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=33478"><b>Continued on The Daily Page >> </b></a>WiscMusicNewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245281573260886595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034116470820758150.post-86473886323445671732011-05-09T11:55:00.000-07:002011-05-09T11:55:00.277-07:00SOM Alumnae Lai and Dunn-Adams Appointed Assistant Professors<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Two UW-Madison School of Music alumnae, <b>Ching-Chun Lai</b> (DMA '10), director of instrumental ensembles at Mount Holyoke College, and <b>Kimberly Dunn-Adams</b> (DMA '11), director of choral ensembles at Mount Holyoke College, will be starting new tenure-track positions this fall. Lai has been appointed assistant professor of music at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, where she will conduct the Crane Symphony Orchestra and teach conducting. Dunn-Adams has been appointed director of choral activities and assistant professor of music at Western Michigan University, where she will conduct several choirs and direct a graduate program.<br />
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</tbody></table>WiscMusicNewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245281573260886595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034116470820758150.post-24346502735984089512011-04-29T12:54:00.000-07:002011-04-29T13:18:42.250-07:00Interview: Maureen O'Brien Baker '03<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times;">Angela Krainz</span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times;">, UW Class of ’05, is Associate Director of Patron Engagement for the <a href="http://www.mso.org/">Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra</a>. She recently interviewed</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Maureen O’Brien Baker,</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> UW Class of ’03 who is Manager for Individual Giving at the <a href="http://themim.org/">Musical Instrument Museum (MIM)</a>, Phoenix, AZ. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">What year did you graduate and with what degree?</span></b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5034116470820758150&postID=2434650273598408951" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">I graduated in 2003 with a B.A. in Music performance (flute) and French and a certificate in Western European studies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">What has been your field of study since graduating? </span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">During college and since graduating, I have worked in arts management, particularly in fundraising/development. During college, I had part time jobs at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the Madison Repertory Theater, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and the Wisconsin Foundation for School Music. After graduating, I moved to New York City where I worked at the Orchestra of St. Luke's, first as the assistant to the Executive Director and development department, then Manager of Development and Special Events, and finally Assistant Director of Development. Next, I took a newly created position as Director of Development for Midori & Friends, a music education organization founded by renowned violinist Midori. In 2009, I relocated to Phoenix, Arizona where I now work as the Manager for Individual Giving at the new Musical Instrument Museum (MIM). MIM is a phenomenal, world-class museum that houses a collection of over 10,000 instruments representing every country and territory in the world, and also features an intimate 299-seat music theater that showcases artists from around the globe in a wide array of musical genres. It is a privilege and a fantastic learning opportunity to work at a brand new institution of this size and scope. I encourage everyone to visit if/when you are in Phoenix! You can learn more at <u><span style="color: blue;">www.theMIM.org</span></u>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">What made you decide to go into this particular field?</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">My first job in arts administration was somewhat of a fluke, as I was placed at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center by a local temp agency. I had always been involved in the arts as a performer but the job at JMKAC gave me my first taste of the behind-the-scenes world of arts management and I was hooked. I first started working in development at Orchestra of St. Luke's and found that it really suited me. I love coming to work each day and being engaged in a cause about which I am deeply passionate and sharing that passion with people who want to invest in the arts. For a musician, having a steady paycheck can be hard to come by, so for me this career provides the perfect balance. I am building a solid career that is still rooted in the arts and affords me the ability to continue to pursue performing on the side. To me, nothing could be better than being surrounded by wonderfully creative people, advocating for the arts, helping to make the arts more accessible, and helping to ensure that we are developing the next generation of artists and audience members.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">What is your favorite memory from UW School of Music? </span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">I have many fond memories of the school of music but my fondest are of my weekly private lessons with flute professor Stephanie Jutt. Having regular one-on-one time with a professor is something to which students in most other degree programs don't have access. I learned a great deal about the flute, about performing, and about life from Stephanie and am pleased to still keep in close touch with her. In fact, she performed at my wedding last year in Madison!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">What is the most valuable thing you learned from the School of Music?</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">The most valuable thing I learned from the SOM were performance skills. During my studies, I was able to perform in a wide variety of band, symphonic, choral, and chamber music settings. Through these experiences, I learned to be comfortable making music in many configurations, venues, genres, and styles. Continuing to perform as a flutist and singer has remained very important to me and since graduating, I have been pleased to perform as the principal flutist with the Astoria Symphony in New York and in various chamber ensembles. In Phoenix, I now perform as the flutist with a new woodwind quintet, Sirocco Winds, and with various local orchestras, and recently joined the soprano section of the Scottsdale Choral Artists. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Any advice for current music students interested in your field?</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">I can't emphasize enough the importance of networking and the value of informational interviews. Don't be afraid to ask someone in the field to spend 20 or 30 minutes over coffee talking with you about their work - most people are more than happy to share about their experiences and will often pass along the name of a colleague or friend whom you can also contact. I also encourage you to consider joining the board of a performing arts organization. Job experience is fantastic, but serving as a board member brings you a different perspective and set of responsibilities that can really enhance your understanding of how nonprofits function. I am happy to speak to any SOM students who are interested in going into the arts management or fundraising fields - feel free to send me an email at <u><span style="color: blue;">maureenuw@gmail.com</span></u>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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