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January 31, 2008 issue

Hayes School of Music Showcases Students and Teachers

Story by Anna Oakes

From young, budding musical artists to experienced professionals, the Hayes School of Music has a slate of performers in its talent showcase in the next couple of weeks. Students in elementary school, high school and college will join ASU music faculty on the concert schedule.

Concerts take place in the Broyhill Music Center on the ASU campus. For more information about any of these performances, call 828-262-3020.

 

Community Music School Recital Sunday

Students in Appalachian State University’s Community Music School will present a recital on Sunday, February 3, at 3:00 p.m. in the Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Students ranging from elementary to high school will perform.

Guitar students performing are Ben Toub and Joshua Warren. Piano students are Jo Hill,

Sabrina Oliver, Hannah Bates, Noelle Miller, Tiana Oliver, Mackenzie Beshears and Samuel Oliver.

String players performing are cellist Patrick Coston, accompanied by pianist Laura Coston, and violinists John DeSautels, Shayla Miller, Demi and Belinda Wang, Ledah Finck and Maura Shawn Scanlin, accompanied by pianist Baron Fenwick. Natalie Cerny will perform on viola.

The Community Music School is a program of Appalachian’s Hayes School of Music. The school provides noncredit music instruction for children and adults in the local community as well as surrounding western North Carolina counties.

 

Student Voice Recital Sunday

Hayes School of Music student Rachel Hall will perform a voice recital on Sunday, February 3, at 6:00 p.m. in the Recital Hall. Admission is free.

 

Faculty Recital Series February 5

Mezzo soprano Priscilla Porterfield will be joined by faculty guests during the Faculty Recital Series program Global Expressions on Tuesday, February 5, at 8:00 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall. Admission is free.

Porterfield and pianist Bair Shagdaron will perform three German folk poems from The Youth’s Magic Horn by Gustav Mahler.

Flutist Kay Borkowski will join Porterfield for three Irish folksongs by John Corigliano.

Porterfield, oboist Alicia Chapman, Borkowski and guitarist Douglas James will perform three songs by Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo.

Porterfield also will sing a variety of folksongs from Armenia, France, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and the United States. Flutist Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham, harpist Jacqueline Bartlett, clarinetist Douglas Miller, violist Eric Koontz and percussionists Robert Falvo and Bobby Fish will accompany Porterfield.

 

Faculty Piano Recital February 12

Rodney Reynerson will present a piano recital in Rosen Concert Hall on Tuesday, February 12, at 8:00 p.m. Admission is free.

Reynerson is a graduate of Murray State University and Indiana University. Among his principal teachers were Jorge Bolet and Menaham Pressler. Formerly a member of the Indiana State University music faculty, Reynerson joined the Appalachian faculty in 1980. Reynerson has performed solo literature, chamber music and piano concerti throughout the eastern United States.