Junior clarinet performance major Taylor Clolinger will present her junior clarinet recital on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, at 1:40 PM in the Recital Hall of the Bologna Performing Arts Center. The recital, presented by the Delta State University Department of Music, is free and open to the public.
She will perform compositions by Krommer and Gershwin.
Since entering DSU in 2016, she has performed with the DSU Wind Ensemble, the DSU Marching Band, the DSU Women’s Choir, and the DSU clarinet quartet. Clolinger also traveled abroad and performed in Busan, South Korea in 2018. From Hernando, Miss., she studies with Dr. Bret Pimentel, associate professor of music.
Junior Saxophone Recital
Junior saxophone performance/education major Ethan Baker will present his junior saxophone recital on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, at 1:40 PM in the Recital Hall of the Bologna Performing Arts Center. The recital, presented by the Delta State University Department of Music, is free and open to the public.
He will perform compositions by Singelée, Bach, and Glazunov.
Since entering DSU in 2018, Baker has been involved and performed with the DSU Marching Band, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, and Saxophone Quartet. From Senatobia, Miss., he studies with Dr. Bret Pimentel, associate professor of music.
Senior Piano Recital
Senior piano performance major Young Hye Min will perform her senior piano recital on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, at 7:30 PM in the Recital Hall of the Bologna Performing Arts Center. The recital, presented by the Delta State University Department of Music, is free and open to the public.
She will perform compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Bartók.
Since entering DSU in 2016, she has received many accolades. She earned first prize as the Mississippi representative in the Young Artist Piano Division of the Music Teachers National Association competitions last year. She has been a finalist at the 2019 Delta Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition in Jonesboro, Ark. She won first prize at the annual chamber ensemble competition at Delta State’s Music Department in 2019. She has been selected as a performer at the Honors Recital at Delta State each year since 2017. And she has been on the Dean’s and President’s Lists for academics. Last summer, she participated and performed in the Orford Summer Music Academy and Festival in Québec, Canada. She studies piano with Dr. Jung-Won Shin, associate professor of music.
Delta State Chorale Performs in Concert at DeSoto County Festival
The Delta State Chorale under the direction of Dr. Julia Thorn performed for the DeSoto County District Choral Festival on October 21, 2019. The festival represents the best middle and high school choir students from across the district that are selected to come together for two days of diligent rehearsal with guest clinicians to perform a concert of advanced choral repertoire. These students prepare music diligently in advance before coming to the festival to sing together.
Two invited college ensembles were selected to perform for these students and their teachers as models of what college choral groups can accomplish. Featured in this concert were the advanced choir from Delta State and a male a cappella ensemble for the University of Southern Mississippi. These choirs represented contrasting styles of music that might be available for study in college.
The DSU Chorale performed sacred and secular choral works in a variety of styles for this performance. Semi Dong, Sung-Eun Ryu, and Andrew Wasylina, pianists from the Department of Music that also sing in the Chorale were featured as collaborative artists in different pieces. Tenor soloist, Timothy Peoples, brought the students to their feet in a standing ovation for the gospel work City Called Heaven.
The center piece of the concert was a setting of Come Sweet Death which features the traditional Bach chorale performed with choral movement and improvisational singing by each individual choir member. The piece performed without a conductor is quite an aural as well as visual work of art that requires independence of all students before ending all together in a set death pose and musical chord that seems to come from out of nowhere. The Chorale members embraced the work while the young students of DeSoto County were mesmerized by what they were seeing and hearing.
Included in the concert was a set of pieces by the DSU Chamber Singers which included a Renaissance French Chanson, a challenging complex contemporary work by African-American composer Adolphus Hailstork, and a lovely arrangement of Crescent Noon by Richard Carpenter, of the famed Carpenters, a pop group from the 1970s.
This performance was a wonderful recruitment opportunity for the Chorale. Students from Horn Lake High School, Kaitlyn Pigniataro and JaMareus Freeman, shared reasons for choosing to come to DSU and why they are appreciative of the excellent academic coursework, close relationships with music faculty and outstanding performances available at Delta State.
You are invited to hear this ensemble at their Christmas concert on December 5, 2019 at 7:30 in the Bologna Performing Arts Center. The performance is free and open to the public.
Guest Lecture Recital
Dr. JoAnne Stephenson, Associate Professor of Music at University of Central Florida, will present a lecture recital on the life and works of African-American composer Florence Price on Monday, October 28 at 7:30 PM in the BPAC Recital Hall. Florence Price is the first African-American woman to have a work performed by a major symphony orchestra; she also wrote several art songs for voice and piano, some of which will be sung by Dr. Stephenson with Dr. Karen Fosheim at the piano. The concert is presented with support from A World Class Experience and the Diversity Committee, and is free and open to the public.
JoAnne Stephenson is an active performer, lecturer, adjudicator, and choir director. International performances include Denmark, Beijing, China, London, England a tour to various venues in Leipzig, Prague, Vienna and Melk, where she sang the Mezzo Soprano solos in the J.S. Bach, “Magnifcate,” and the W.A. Mozart, “Mass in c Minor”. Other European engagements include four solo recitals, two of which were sung at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England, and two at the University of London. Additional European performances include solo recitals and performances in Paris, France, Ragusa, Italy and Vevey, Switzerland.
Dr. Stephenson has presented several lecture/recitals around the United States. One lecture of note was her presentation in conjunction with a grant for the National Endowment for the Humanities where she lectured on “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Music by African Americans.” Other lecture recitals include her research on Florence Price where three presentations were given for the College Music Society’s International, National and Regional meetings Additional presentations include lecture recitals at Hampton University, University of Dayton, and Agnes Scott College where her presentation was recorded and aired on Atlanta’s classical station, WABE.
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