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Faculty
Artist Series
All
programs start at 8:00 P.M. and will be held in Fulkerson Recital
Hall. Tickets may be purchased two weeks prior to the performance
at HSU Ticket Office or at the door the night of the recital.
Proceeds
from Faculty Artist Series help fund scholarships for our students.
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1/21/06
(Saturday) Gyan Riley, guitar
Gyan
Riley, born in northern California in 1977, has emerged
as a prominent figure of guitar and contemporary music,
both as a performer and composer. In 1999, he became the
first graduate level guitarist ever to be awarded a full
merit-based scholarship from the San Francisco Conservatory
of Music. Gyan’s awards include First Prize in the
Portland International Guitar Festival Competition, First
Prize in the San Francisco Conservatory Guitar Concerto
Competition, and First Prize in the Music in the Mountains
Young Musicians Competition. Gyan played in the American
premiere of John Adams’ El Nino, with David Tanenbaum,
soprano Dawn Upshaw, and the San Francisco Symphony. Concert
tours have taken him to some of the world’s most prestigious
concert halls in the UK, Germany, Austria, Italy, France,
Croatia, Turkey, Norway, and throughout the United States.
Gyan tours regularly with the Europe based World Guitar
Ensemble, the Los Angeles based Falla Guitar Trio, and father/composer/pianist
Terry Riley. Gyan has been commissioned to write various
works, some of which were released on Gyan’s debut
CD Food for the Bearded, on the New Albion record label.
Following Gyan’s recent solo appearance at Carnegie
Recital Hall, he was invited to premiere a newly commissioned
solo original work as part of a performance for the 2006
New York Guitar Festival. Gyan served as the artistic director
for the San Francisco Classical Guitar Society from 2002-2004.
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1/28/06
(Saturday) Mozart's 250th Birthday Celebration
You're
invited to a Party!
Why:
Mozart's 250th Birthday
When:
8:00 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28, in Fulkerson Recital Hall
Featuring:
HSU faculty performing some of Mozart's greatest works
- Songs, music for solo piano, and Chamber music featuring
strings, winds, and piano, all interspersed with readings
from Mozart's letters.
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2/4/06
(Saturday) Elizabeth Rau McCubbrey, soprano
Elizabeth
Rau McCubbrey is a lecturer at Humboldt State University.
Formerly an accompanist and vocal coach at HSU, she currently
teach voice. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Central
Michigan University, and a Master of Music degree from Arizona
State University.
Ms.
Rau McCubbrey has a passion for Early Music and has performed
extensively in the San Francisco Bay Area as a free lance
singer and in various ensembles. SHe has been a featured
soloist in Baroque concerts at Dominican College in San
Rafael, Mills College in Oakland, and with the Hausmusik
concert series affiliated with the San Francisco Early Music
Society. SHe has also performed with the American Bach Soloists,
the California Vocal Academy, and in the American Music
Week concerts at Dominican College. Ms. McCubbrey has appeared
as soprano soloist with the Marin Chamber Orchestra in performances
of the Messiah.
Ms.
Rau McCubbrey has sung the lead role on the CD, Marigold
and the The Leprechaun King, a celtic children's musical.
Active
as a performer in Humboldt County, Ms. McCubbrey has performed
regularly in the Rhododendron Festival Concerts in Eureka,
the Concerts at the Fellowship in Bayside, and as a soprano
soloist in the Messial Sing-Alongs at the Morris Graves
Museum of Art.
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2/11/06
(Saturday) Faculty Artist Series Colloquy
Colloquy:
Contemporary Chamber Music Ensemble
‘Music and Text’
The
Texas Monitor wrote that Colloquy "worked together
to create a truly magic spell" and described the
performance as a "tour de force."
In
this program Colloquy musicians and actors join in a program
where music and texts are integrated.
Music by Stravinsky, Gordon Jacobs, Jason Haney, Libby
Larson, Khatchaturian, William Walton.
Poetry
by Shakespeare, Ranier Maria Rilke, Edith Sitwell
Lynne
Garrett, piano
Karen Dannessa, clarinet
Dorothy Madison, soprano
Wanchi Wang, violin
Karen Davy, viola
David Davis, violincello
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3/24/06
(Friday) Guest Artist Tony Baker, trombone
Tony
Baker is currently a faculty member at the University of
North Texas College of Music. He has performed with orchestras
such as the Minnesota Opera Orchestra, the New Hampshire
Music Festival Orchestra, and the Columbus, Akron, Arkansas,
and Duluth-Superior symphonies. Mr. Baker is currently the
second trombonist of the Dallas Opera Orchestra. Mr. Baker
is a faculty member at a number of summer jazz workshops
and is also a member of the Dallas Jazz Orchestra. He has
been a soloist with ensembles such as the Ohio Valley Symphony,
the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, the University
of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Wind Symphony, and the Ouachita
Baptist University Wind Ensemble. Mr. Baker was the director
of the 2002 International Trombone Festival at the University
of North Texas and was a guest artist at the 2003 and 2004
International Trombone Festivals, held in Ithaca, New York
and Helsinki, Finland, respectively. Mr. Baker has performed
guest recitals at schools such as the Oberlin Conservatory
of Music, the University of Kentucky, the University of
Texas at San Antonio and the University of Missouri at Kansas
City Conservatory of Music.
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3/25/06
(Saturday) Guest Artist Peter Takács
Mr.
Takács has performed as guest soloist with major
orchestras in United States, Europe, and the Far East
and at prestigious summer festivals at Tanglewood, Eastern
Music Festival, La Gess Festival in Toulouse, France,
and the Chautauqua Institution. The New York Times has
written: "Peter Takács proved to be a marvelous
pianist. His command of the instrument is outstanding.
His emotional resources are lively and diverse. His musical
intelligence is acute." The Milwaukee Sentinel describes
him: "Takács represents the best strain of
today’s younger virtuoso pianists. Not only does
his playing bespeak a formidable intelligence and limitless
technique, but it also radiates a deep humanity, a mercurial
spirit that waxes from passion to serenity with no small
measure of wit mixed in." Mr. Takács is presently
on the piano faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory (Ohio)
and the Chautauqua Institution. He is also the Music Director
of the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra.
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5/7/06
(Sunday) Cindy Moyer, violin
Cindy's
current performance activities are varied, from solo recitals,
to various chamber music projects, to concerto appearance
with the Lancaster, Eureka, and Humboldt Symphonies. Her
orchestral performance experiences include playing in
the Rochester Philharmonic, the New Haven Symphony, the
Sinfonia da Camera (Urbana, IL), the Mendocino Music Festival
orchestra, and summer workshops with the National Repertory
Orchestra, the National Orchestral Institute, and the
Festival-Institute at Round Top. A recent review in the
Lancaster Sunday News states that "Moyer's playing
approached flawless achievement in her execution, with
impeccable intonation and an attractive, tuneful approach
to the phrasing."
In addition to her performance activities, she serves
as a clinician and adjudicator for pre-college students,
is a frequent presenter at the California Music Educators
Conference, was one of the authors of the American String
Teachers Association String Syllabus, and has served as
president of the California Orchestra Director's Association.
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9/24/05
(Saturday) Faculty Guest Artist: Tomm Roland, percussionist
Tomm
Roland, percussionist, holds Bachelor and Master of Music
degrees from California State University, Sacramento and
a D.M.A. in percussion performance from SUNY Stony Brook.
His principal teachers have been Ronald Holloway, Daniel
Kennedy, and Raymond DesRoches. He has performed in a
variety of musical settings throughout the United States,
Europe, India, and Japan. While pursuing his doctorate
he was awarded a Fulbright grant to study the classical
drumming of Southern India where he studied mridangham
and thavil with Sri T.H. Subashchandren and Sri K. Sekar.
Tomm has also participated in a variety of music festivals
including Music From Bear Valley, The Festival of New
American Music, and most recently the Percussive Arts
Society International Convention. In addition to sessions
for various regional rock and pop projects he has recorded
for Summit, Capstone, and CRI records. His most recent
recordings are Take Flight, by the Omaha Symphony and
Rave On: Live at the Drew. Tomm is currently Assistant
Professor of Percussion/Multicultural Music at the University
of Nebraska, Omaha where he coordinates the percussion
program and teaches courses on world musics and rock 'n'
roll. In addition to his teaching duties Tomm is an Education
Artist for Vic Firth inc., endorses Mountain Rythym percussion
instruments, is on the Nebraska Arts Council Touring Artist
roster, and is an active performer and clinician. Tomm
resides on Omaha Nebraska with his wife Lesley and sons
Zachary and Dhani.
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10/1/05
(Saturday) Helmholtz Trio, Terrie Baune, violin;
Carol Jacobson, cello; Deborah Clasquin, piano
The program
features two masterpieces from the Romantic era. Hailed
by Schumann as 'the Mozart of the 19th century', Mendelssohn
balances refined symmetry with exuberant passion in his
c minor trio. The Dvorak trio in f minor captures the brooding,
dramatic expressiveness of Slovanic music.
Terrie
Baune, violin, is concertmaster of the North State Symphony
and Associate Concertmaster of the Oakland-East Bay Orchestra.
She is currently a member of the Empyrean Ensemble, a new-music
ensemble in residence at UC Davis. She has been on the faculty
of UC Davis, CSU Stanislaus and UC Santa Cruz. Her other
professional credits include four yours as a member of the
National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C., violinist
in the Gabrielli Trio, a National Ensemble in New Zealand,
and the Concertmaster position with the Fresno Philharmonic,
the Rohnert Park Symphony and the Santa Cruz Symphony.
Carol
Jacobson, violoncello, has attended the University of the
Pacific and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Her chamber studies
include the Royal Danish Conservatory, as well as the Royal
Conservatory-the Hague. She is current Conductor of the
ArMac Orchestra and the Eureka Symphony. She has been a
member of the Amicelli Cello Quartet and the North Coast
Chamber Players.
Deborah Clasquin, piano, enjoys an active career as a recitalist,
as well as orchestral soloist, and has appeared in concert
in Paris, Moscow, Kiev, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C.,
San Francisco and throughout Northern California. Numerous
prizes and awards have marked her performing career, as
well as being broadcast nationwide by National public Radio's
Performance Today. She is a Professor of Music at Humboldt
State University.
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10/29/05
(Saturday) Cindy Moyer, violin
Cindy
Moyer, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She began
her violin studies at the age of six, at first with her
mother, Carolyn Moyer, and later in the Philadelphia area
with Linda Wear Fiorre. Her education continued at the
Eastman School of Music where she studied with Gerardo
Ribiero, Catherine Tait and William Preucil while earning
a B.M., M.M. and D.M.A in performance and a M.A in Music
Theory.
Currently Cindy is an Associate Professor of Music at
Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA, where she teaches
violin, viola, chamber music, music theory, ear training,
and music appreciation. Prior to moving to California,
Cindy had taught at the Bethwood Suzuki School in New
Haven, CT, and Eastern Illinois University. In the summertime,
she has taught at the Sequoia Chamber Music Workshop,
the Humboldt Chamber Music Workshops, Camp Encore/Coda
(in Sweden, ME) and Appel Farm Arts and Music Center (Elmer,
NJ).
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