MUSIC 100 Events

Spring 2012

Unless specified otherwise, all events are free and open to the public, and take place in Brendle Recital Hall in the Scales Fine Arts Center.

JANUARY 2012

Thursday, January 19
5:00-6:00 pm
Room M208
Information Session for Music Students: WFU Research Fellowships and Richter Fellowships

Thursday, January 26
7:30 pm
Secrest Artists Series - Wait Chapel
The Rose Ensemble
A program entitled "Land of Three Faiths: Voices of Ancient Mediterranean Jews, Christians, and Muslims." Founded in 1996 and based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, The Rose Ensemble reawakens the ancient with vocal music that strives to stir the emotions, challenge the mind, and lift the spirit. A Secrest Signature talk by Brian Gorelick, Director of Choral Ensembles, will be at 6:40 pm in the Balcony Room.

FEBRUARY

Friday, February 3
3:30 pm
Repertory Hour

Saturday, February 4
1:00-3:00 pm
Masterclass with Susan Terry
Terry, an original Broadway production performer in City of Angels, will be offering a master class for WFU student cast members in Brendle Recital Hall. The masterclass will be followed by a Q&A session and a reception in the Brendle lobby. See the listing in our Concert Calendar for more information on Ms. Terry.

Friday, February 10
3:30 pm
Repertory Hour

Friday, February 17
3:30 pm
Repertory Hour

Saturday, February 18
10:00 am and 1:00 pm
The 35th Annual Christopher Giles and Lucille S. Harris
Competitions in Musical Performance
In this annual competition, open to all music students, performers will compete for cash prizes made possible by our generous donors. This year's Piano Competition will feature music of each performer's choice, and the Open Competition will feature Music in the Romantic Styles.

MARCH

Thursday, March 1
7:30 pm
Secrest Artists Series - Brendle Recital Hall
Imani Winds
More than North America's premier wind quintet, Imani Winds has established itself as one of the most successful chamber ensembles in the United States. Since 1997, the Grammy nominated quintet has taken a unique path, carving out a distinct presence in the classical music world with its dynamic playing, culturally poignant programming, genre-blurring collaborations, and inspirational outreach programs. A Secrest Signature talk by Eileen Young, instructor of clarinet and saxophone, will be at 6:40 pm in Room M308.

Friday, March 2
10:00 am
M208, Scales Fine Arts Center
Guest Artist Masterclass: Imani Winds
Grammy-nominated wind quintet Imani Winds holds a masterclass for WFU student chamber music ensembles.

Monday, March 5
4:00-6:00 pm
Kulynych Auditorium, Byrum Welcome Center
The Poteat Lecture Series
Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence Dan Locklair participates in the Poteat Lecture Series.

Tuesday, March 6
7:30 pm
University Jazz Ensembles Concert
Philip Morgan and Jay Meachum, directors
The WFU "Deacon Jazz Machine" performs swing and standards.

Tuesday, March 20
4:00 pm
ZSR Library Auditorium
Faculty Lecture-Recital: Jacqui Carrasco, violin: "Mixing Electronic Sounds with a Romantic Violin: The Pioneering Work of Mario Davidovsky"
In the 1960s, Argentine-born composer Mario Davidovsky began his series of Synchronisms, which were some of the first compositions to integrate electronic sounds with acoustic instruments. In a discussion and performance of Davidovsky's Synchronisms No. 9 (1988), Dr. Jacqui Carrasco will highlight the composer's skill in combining romantic violin style with sophisticaed pre-recorded sounds to create a lush and beautiful modern masterpiece.

Tuesday, March 20
7:30 pm
Room M208
Faculty Recital: Louis Goldstein, piano: "Sonatas and Interludes"
In 1940, John Cage invented the prepared piano while looking for a way to make the piano sound like a drum ensemble. From 1946 to 1948, he composed one of the masterpieces of 20th-century piano literature, using an expanded version of his original prepared piano, a keyboard-controlled orchestra of gongs, bells, chimes, rattles, drums, and woodblocks—a magical sound garden. Hear a complete performance of this 20-part marvel.

POSTPONED TO APRIL 21 Thursday, March 22:
7:30 pm
Presidential Scholar Recital: Jorge Méndez-Estrada, double bass
with Thomas Turnbull, piano and Jacob Eichhorn, clarinet
Featuring Méndez-Estrada's original transcription of Pablo de Sarasate'sZigeunerweisen, Bottesini's Gran Concerto, and the world premiere of a piece for double bass, clarinet, and piano composed by Jacob Eichhorn.

Saturday, March 24
3:00 pm
Senior Recital: Mary Beth Freitag, soprano
with Jean T. Blackwood, piano, and Jacob Eichhorn, clarinet
Featuring works by G. F. Handel, Reynaldo Hahn, W. A. Mozart, Franz Schubert, Thomas Pasatieri, Frank Wildhorn, and Adam Guettel.

Tuesday, March 27
7:30 pm
Concert Choir Home Concert
Brian Gorelick, conductor
Concert Choir's Home Concert appearance in Brendle Recital Hall will be a fundraiser for the Concert Choir International Touring Fund.  In March 2010, the ensemble toured Rome and Italy, performing internationally for the second time in its over-60 year history.  The theme of this year's Home Concert is Visions. The program will present choral works whose texts and music paint pictures of the ideal world, both physical and spiritual.  The singers will close with a performance of Dan Forrest's In Paradisum with the University Wind Ensemble, the first choir-band collaboration in the Music Department's history. The admission charge for this concert will help cover the choir's travel expenses when the group takes its third international tour in 2013 to Chile and Argentina.  Tickets will be on sale at the door, but may be reserved in advance by calling 758-5026.

General Admission Adults: $10
Students: $5
WFU Students with ID: FREE

Wednesday, March 28
7:00 pm
Room M305 SFAC
Piano Tuning Lecture Demonstration: John D. Chapman, RPT (Registered Piano Technician)
Sponsored by WFU IPLACe (Interdisciplinary Performance and Liberal Arts Center)

Friday, March 30
3:30 pm
Repertory Hour

Friday, March 30
7:30 pm
Senior Honors Presidential Scholar Recital: Kayla Shipley, clarinet
with Peter Kairoff, piano
Featuring the Sonata No. 1 in F by Johannes Brahms and music by Tartini, Osborne, Ponchielli, and d'Rivera.

Saturday, March 31
2:00 pm
Presidential Scholar Recital: Ilchan Fraser Song, piano
Program includes works by Bach, Chopin, Brahms, and Debussy.

APRIL

Wednesday, April 4
7:30 pm
Collegium Musicum Concert
Stewart Carter and Brian Gorelick, directors
The Collegium Musicum Vocal Ensemble and Collegium Instrumentalists will present an early music concert featuring Renaissance Music of Spain and the New World.

Friday, April 13
3:30 pm
Repertory Hour

Friday, April 13
7:30 pm
Senior Honors Recital: Jacob Eichhorn, clarinet
with Norris Norwood, piano, and Mary Beth Freitag, soprano
Featuring the Concerto in A Major for Clarinet by W. A. Mozart and music by Ištvan and Schubert.

Thursday, April 19
7:30 pm
String Chamber Music Concert
Jacqui Carrasco, coordinator
Featuring a jazz setting of Gershwin's "Summertime" and J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 with faculty soloists Jacui Carrasco, violin and Kathryn Levy, flute.

Saturday, April 21
3:00 pm
Senior Recital: Ingrid Goelst, mezzo-soprano
with Ann Listokin, piano
The program will feature works by Joseph Haydn, Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Jules Massenet, Francis Poulenc, Jamie Leon, Gisela Hernandez, Edward Kilenyi, and musical theatre selections by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lislie Bricusse.

Saturday, April 21
7:30 pm
Presidential Scholar Recital: Jorge Méndez-Estrada, double bass
with Thomas Turnbull, piano and Jacob Eichhorn, clarinet
Featuring Méndez-Estrada's original transcription of Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, Bottesini's Gran Concerto, and the world premiere of a piece for double bass, clarinet, and piano composed by Jacob Eichhorn.

Sunday, April 22
3:00 pm
Wind Chamber Music Concert
Student Chamber Ensembles

Sunday, April 22
7:30 pm
Jazz Improvisation Concert
Students of Matt Kendrick perform in trios and quartets.

Monday, April 23
7:30 pm
University Jazz Ensembles Concert
Philip Morgan and Jay Meachum, directors
The WFU "Jazz Ensemble Too!" performs, followed by performances by WFU faculty, adjunct jazz faculty, and guests including:
Jay Meachum, trumpet
Chris Hankins, saxophone
Wiley Porter, guitar
Matt Kendrick, bass
Nate Beversluis, piano
Philip Morgan, drums

Tuesday, April 24
7:30 pm
University Jazz Ensembles Concert
Philip Morgan and Jay Meachum, directors
The WFU "Deacon Jazz Machine" performs with guest artist Jerry Tyson, guitar.

Thursday, April 26
7:30 pm
Spring Choral Concert
Brian Gorelick, conductor
The Wake Forest Concert Choir, Collegium Vocal Ensemble, and the Wake Forest Chamber Choir will combine to present A Spring Choral E-Concert.  The compositions chosen for the program will be Enterprising, Entertaining, Eclectic and Electronic.  Each ensemble will learn a new set of pieces for this program after having presented a full concert earlier in the semester.  The featured work combining all three choirs will be Libby Larsen's O Magnum Mysterium for SATB chorus and prerecorded solo voice, sitar, vibraphone, and bells performed during the concert by a laptop computer.

Friday, April 27
3:30 pm
Room M308 SFAC
Senior Research Presentation: Christina Jones

Sunday, April 29
3:00 pm
University Wind Ensemble Concert
Kevin Bowen and Philip Morgan, conductors
Featuring guest composer-in-residence and clinician Nathan Daughtrey. Daughtrey, percussionist and composer, is a native of Greensboro, NC and has performed and held masterclasses and clinics around the country and abroad. The University Wind Ensemble has commissioned a piece (their first ever exclusive commission) by Daughtrey and at the conclusion of Daughtrey's week-long residency, the ensemble will perform the world premiere.

MAY

Wednesday, May 2
7:30 pm
University Orchestra Concert
David Hagy, conductor
Featuring winners of this year's Concerto Competition:
Jacob Eichhorn, clarinet
Mary Beth Freitag, soprano
Harrison Grunwald, alto saxophone
Cecilia Kucera, violin
Matthew Martin, trumpet
Jorge Méndez-Estrada, double bass
George Story, trombone
The program will include works by Mozart, Handel, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, and Barber, as well as William Alwyn's Fanfare for a Festive Occasion and Beethoven's Symphony No. 2.