SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 ISSUE
Hayes School of Music This Week
The annual Faculty Recital Series begins Tuesday, September 15, and this year, the series will benefit local nonprofit organizations. Also included in this week’s concerts are guest performances by a tenor and trumpeter and performances by ASU faculty.
Unless otherwise indicated, concerts take place in the Broyhill Music Center on the ASU campus. For more information about any of these performances, call 828-262-3020.
Jay Coble Trumpet Recital Thursday
This Thursday, September 10, Jay Coble will perform a guest trumpet recital at 6:00 p.m. in the Recital Hall. Coble is an ASU alumnus who now serves as an associate professor of trumpet in the School of Music at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Admission is free.
Tenor Jeremy Hunt Thursday
Tenor Jeremy Hunt will perform this Thursday, September 10, at 8:00 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall. Admission is free and the public is welcome. Pianist Bair Shagdaron will accompany Hunt.
Hunt is an assistant professor of voice at the University of Central Florida.
In addition to works by Schumann, Grieg and Sibelius, Hunt will sing Mussorgsky’s “Where are you, my little star?,” Richard Hundley’s “Waterbird” and Marc Blitzstein’s “I wish it so,” among other vocal selections.
Originally from Warner Robins, Ga., Hunt received a bachelor of music in voice performance from Mercer University. He earned a master’s degree and doctorate in vocal performance from Indiana University.
Now a tenor, Hunt began his performance career as a baritone. His Figaro in “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” was described as “delightfully entertaining and [he] filled the stage with his presence and voice” by Peter Schimpf of the Bloomington Independent. His other operatic credits include Valentin in “Faust,” Guglielmo in “Cosí fan tutte,” Lescaut in Massenet’s “Manon,” Cesare in Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” and Danilo in “The Merry Widow,” all with Indiana University Opera Theater.
Hunt has a strong interest in the Italian language and repertoire and has twice participated in the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera in Oderzo, Italy. He also attended the Scuola Leonardo da Vinci in Siena, Italy for an intensive study of the language.
Flute and Accompaniment Sunday
Dr. Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham and faculty colleagues from the Hayes School of Music will perform this Sunday, September 13, at 4:00 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall. Admission is free.
Schneeloch-Bingham is an associate professor of flute and coordinator of graduate studies in the Hayes School of Music. She will be accompanied by pianists Christina Hayes and Susan Slingland, bassonist Jon Beebe, Alicia Chapman performing on hautbois, saxophonist Scott Kallestad, violist Eric Koontz and percussionist Shawn Roberts.
The program is comprised of Bohuslav Martin?’s “First Sonata,” Olivier Messiaen’s “Le Merle Noir,” Joseph Bodin de Boismortier’s “Sonata sans basse, Op. 6, No.6,” Karl Reinecke’s “Balade, Op. 288,” and “scenes” composed by Scott R. Meister, a faculty member in the Hayes School of Music. Composed in 2008, “scenes” represents places that have had an influence on Meister’s music as a composer and percussionist. The musical scenes are an Irish pub, Moroccan streets and the open countryside.
Faculty Recital Series: ‘Encores!’ September 15
The Hayes School of Music highlights six music concerts each year performed by members of the school’s renowned and talented faculty. The concerts are presented as the Faculty Recital Series and occur in September, October, November, February, March and April.
In the 2009-10 academic year, the School of Music will accept donations at each of the Faculty Recital Series concerts to benefit a local nonprofit organization. The first concert is titled “Encores!” and will be presented on Tuesday, September 15, at 8:00 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall. This opening concert is always a potpourri of entertainment and ear candy.
The nonprofit designated to receive the donations generated from this program is Mountain Alliance, an organization based at Watauga High School that is dedicated to growing leaders through service, adventure and community. For more information about the organization, click to www.mountainalliance.org.
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