Winter Quarter 2009 Guest Artists
David Korevaar- piano, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009 7:30 pm School of Music Recital Hall
http://www.davidkorevaar.com/bio.shtml
David Korevaar's mastery of the piano is joined with a large and varied repertoire, and enhanced by his work with living composers and his own experience writing music. He successfully balances an active performing career as a soloist and chamber musician with teaching at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is Associate Professor of Piano.
Generations Trio - Wed., Feb. 11, 2009 7:30 pm School of Music Recital Hall http://www.mgam.com/artists/generations/biography.html http://www.artsforthesoul.net/instructors/john-sant-ambrogio.php http://www.judithlynnstillman.com/
http://www.dmitripogorelov.com/
The Generations Trio came into existence out of a great love...love that three musicians felt when they made music together. This was in spite of the fact that they had diverse backgrounds, were from different generations, there being more than a50 year age difference, and often finding themselves faced with distance problems as their homes were thousands of miles apart. Their vision is to inspire and educate audiences by presenting programs that feature great compositions of all genres while demonstrating the unique joy of experiencing music that results from talented musicians of very different generations working together.The Generations Trio members include John Sant’ Ambrogio, retired cellist for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Judy Lynn Stillman, current Artist-in-Residence and Professor of Music at Rhode Island College, and concert violinist Dimitri Pogorelov.
James D. Hildreth–- organ, Friday, February 13, 2009, 7:30 pm Galbreath Chapel http://www.concertartist.info/bios/hildreth.html
A native of Buffalo, New York, James D. Hildreth received his first instruction in piano and organ from his father, Charles, who was formerly employed by the Schlicker Organ Company. Mr. Hildreth won a full scholarship to the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, where he received a Bachelors of Music degree in Organ Performance, and received a Master of Sacred Music degree with emphasis in Choral Conducting from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Since 1987 Mr. Hildreth has been Organist of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Ohio, where he accompanies an active adult choral program and gives annual organ recitals in addition to playing for weekly services. He is also Organist for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, with whom he performed in New York City's Carnegie Hall in April 2001.
Jack Schantz – trumpet, Fri., Feb. 20, 2009 - Winter Jazz Concert with Honors Jazz Bands, Jazz Ensembles II & Jazz Percussion Ensemble, 7:30 pm Memorial Auditorium
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http://www.clevelandjazz.org/schantz.asp
Jack Schantz, has been the musical director of The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra for 15 years and will be stepping down at the end of the 2008-2009 season, and has led the Bop Stop Jazz Unit, an ensemble dedicated to presenting new works by its members. He has played with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Artie Shaw Orchestra and Woody Herman band. Acknowledged as one of the great jazz trumpeters. He is now the visiting assistant professor, Co-ordinator of Jazz Studies, Director of Jazz Ensembles, and Jazz Trumpet Instructor at he University of Akron.
Thomas Rosenkranz - piano, Tues., March 3, 2009 7:30 pm School of Music Recital Hall
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/music/departments/MUSP/keyboard.html
http://www.hawaii.edu/uhmmusic/faculty/Rosenkranz.htm
Dr. Rosenkranz is currently an assistant professor of piano at Bowling Green State University. He’s a two-time Artistic Ambassador sponsored by the United States Department of State; recipient of the American Pianists Fellowship Award; tours throughout China, Mongolia, Taiwan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Italy; soloist with Indianapolis Symphony, National Orchestra of Beirut and Northwest Chamber Orchestra; master classes at Northwestern, Tunghai University (Taiwan), Shanghai and Shenyeng Conservatories (China); founder of the Hawaii Institute for Contemporary Music; judge for the Oberlin International Piano Competition and Festival; Studied with Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen in Paris, Robert Shannon at the Oberlin Conservatory and Nelita True at the Eastman School.
Ben Pierce - tuba & euphonium, Wed., March 4, 2009 7:30 pm School of Music Recital Hall
http://www.benpierce.com/bio.html
Dr. Benjamin Pierce is a member of the music faculty at the University of Arkansas, where he teaches applied tuba and euphonium and directs the tuba/euphonium ensemble. He holds a bachelors degree in euphonium performance from Bowling Green State University, a master’s degree in euphonium performance from the University of Michigan, and a DMA in Tuba Performance from Michigan. Performances with several major ensembles include the Detroit Symphony, the Detroit Chamber Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, the Toledo Symphony, and the Flint Symphony. He has served as principal tubist of the Ann Arbor Symphony and the Ann Arbor Brass Quintet and is currently principal tubist of the Northwest Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. He is also a founding member of Boston Mountain Brassworks, the University of Arkansas faculty brass quintet.
Michele Gingras - clarinet, Sun., April 19, 2009
Workshops & Concerts at School of Music All day Event
http://www.fna.muohio.edu/faculty/gingram/about/biography.htm
Michele Gingras is Professor of Clarinet at Miami University (Ohio). She joined the faculty in 1986, and was named Hays Crossen Curry Distinguished Educator in 2002 and Distinguished Scholar of the Graduate School in 2005. She earned her M.M. at Northwestern University with Robert Marcellus, a Premier Prix in clarinet performance and in chamber music from the Montreal Music Conservatory with Rafaele Masella, and she studied in the doctoral program at Indiana University with Bernard Portnoy and Earl Bates. Professor Gingras is an active recitalist, author, recording artist, and clinician. She performed as a soloist, as a member of the Miami Wind Quintet, and as a klezmer musician in Australia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Taiwan,
Singapore, and throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.