Dana Chamber Orchestra Concert, Sunday February 5 at Ford Family Recital Hall (4:00 pm)
The Dana Chamber Orchestra under the direction of John Wilcox will present a winter concert, Sunday, February 5th at 4:00 pm in the Ford Family Recital Hall. Works will include a World Premiere performance of Dr. Robert Rollin’s Three Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson, titled “I Dreaded that First Robin So,” “The Brain is Wider than the Sky,” and “Musicians Wrestle.”
Dorota Sobieska
Internationally acclaimed Soprano Soloist Dorota Sobieska will join the Orchestra for this performance. The lush and moving Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams will conclude the first half. After a brief intermission the first movement of Anton Reicha’s Woodwind Quintet in C Major, Opus 91 will preclude Beethoven’s invigorating Symphony No. 1 in C Major to conclude this program. Please join us as we celebrate the fine art of live music. And for you sports fans, this program will conclude well before the start of this year’s Super Bowl!
Tickets for the concert are $5.00, $4.00, and free for anyone showing a valid YSU ID, and are available at the DeYor Box Office, 330-744-0264.
Dallas Pianist Avguste Antonov Returns to Headline at Dana’s New Music Society Annual Fall Concerts
The Dana New Music Society will feature a return visit of pianist Avguste Antonov as Guest Artist on their Annual Fall Concerts Wednesday, November 30, 12:10pm at Butler North: the main concert, 8:00pm the same evening at Bliss Recital Hall; Friday, December 2, 11:00am at Bliss Recital Hall; and Sunday, December 4, 2:00pm at Ss. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church on Covington Street in Youngstown.
Avguste Antonov
Avguste Antonov was born in Bulgaria, lived 10 years in France, then moved to the U.S. where he continued his training at the University of Kansas and Texas Christian University. He has an active career as soloist specializing in 20th and 21st Century music giving recitals in France, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio. He has premiered many new piano works and has worked with such composers as Carter Pann, John Mackey, Robert Rollin, and Michael Colgrass among others. Antonov has also appeared as soloist with the University of Kansas Symphony, Kansas City Medical Arts Symphony, University of Kansas Wind Ensemble, Hardin-Simmons University Orchestra, and San Jose Wind Symphony. He teaches at The Master’s Touch School of Music and Performing Arts in Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.
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Dana School of Music
Antonov will premiere Dana faculty composer Robert Rollin’s Toccata, which he commissioned two years ago. It is a lively and technically challenging display piece. Antonov will also play Daniel Perttu’s Sonata. Perttu is on the music composition faculty of Westminster College. In addition Antonov will play the Ohio premieres of Texas composer Matthew Saunders’ Starry Wanderers, Finnish composer Kim Diehneit’s Impromptu, and San Francisco composer Marc Parella’s Sonata El Sonoro.
Several Dana composition students will hear premieres of their works. Senior Carol Ann Smolka will sing her latest two songs: “I Am Yours,” and “Dying to Survive,” accompanied by graduate student Allyson Oyster. The two will also present Allyson Oyster’s Psalm 47:1. Sophomore Jesse Martin will perform his own Two Etudes for piano, and will also hear his String Quartet No. 1, second movement. “Clowns” the first movement of junior Samantha Hogan’s Hell’s Carnival, will be premiered by a student flute quartet. Her Thoughtbox for trombone and piano will also be played by Dana faculty trombonist John Olson accompanied by Jerry Rezanka. Cory Davis will perform his piano piece titled With Nothing Left.
New Music Society
The Dana Composers Ensemble will present two new works: Three-Legged Race for five players by Allyson Oyster, and Motion for ten players by Samantha Hogan. Dana faculty Robert Rollin’s Little American Suite will be played by a faculty/student double-reed ensemble directed by Dana faculty oboist Ted Perkins. New Music Guild Inc. member and local composer Richard Zacharias’ latest piano piece will be premiered by Cory Davis. Junior flautist Julianna Sabo and Dana faculty Diane Yazvac, piano will play English composer Mike Mower’s “Bossa Mengova” from his Sonata Latino.
The last of the four concerts will take place 2:00pm Sunday, December 4 at Ss. Peter and Paul Church on Covington Street in downtown Youngstown. The audience will have a last chance to hear Antonov perform a few of the contemporary works listed, as well as piano music by Franz Joseph Haydn and Franz Liszt.
All concerts are free and open to the public.
New Music Guild
7:00pm Monday November 28, 2011 • Meeting of the New Music Guild, Inc. in the Dean’s Conference Room, Bliss Hall. We will be electing officers and discussing the upcoming Annual Fall Concerts with Avguste Antonov. Refreshments will be served.
Westminster College Alumni Pianist to Headline in New Music Society Opener
The New Music Society opens its 2011-2012 season, “The Year of the Piano,” Wednesday, October 12 with a short noon hour concert in the Butler Institute of American Art’s Beecher Court and a second longer show the same evening at 8:00 p.m. in Bliss Recital Hall. Both concerts will feature guest artist Matthew McCright, a specialist in performance of contemporary music. McCright resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a piano faculty member of Carleton College, and maintains an active career as a soloist and chamber music performer. He has performed in this latter capacity throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific. He has premiered numerous works working with many noted composers, some of whom have written pieces especially for him. McCright has also appeared in concert in major music festivals including Dublin’s Printing House Festival of New Music, Britain’s Late Music Festival, downtown New York’s Bang on a Can Festival, and Duquesne University’s Summer Music Institute in Pittsburgh to name a few.
Matthew McCright
McCright, who was born in western Pennsylvania, earned his Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance Magna Cum Laude from Westminster College studying with Dana alumna Nancy Zipay DeSalvo. He holds a Master of Music in Piano from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, and his Doctorate in Piano from the University of Minnesota. He began his career as a traditional recitalist and concerto performer. Composer Ensemble director, Robert Rollin first encountered him as a soloist with the Greenville Symphony. Rollin reviewed the performance for the Vindicator and was very impressed with McCright’s talents. McCright subsequently specialized in New Music.
McCright has chosen to perform Blue Fantasy by Dana faculty Robert Rollin, three movements from It takes a long time to become a good composer by Timothy Andres, and the substantial four-movement Sonata for Piano by Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski. During his residency McCright will also meet with student composers to read and critique their compositions.
New Music Society & Dana School of Music
The two concerts will also feature several world premieres by area composers. Senior Carol Ann Smolka’s piano work Helen at the Water Pump will be performed by Robert Rollin, who, in addition, will accompany Smolka in her song A Prelude for the Morning. Local composer and New Music Guild, Inc. member Richard Zacharias will hear both his Second Romance and Consolation (the latter a world premiere) played by graduate student Allyson Oyster. Oyster herself will hear the world premiere of her Dialogue for Two Flutes. Freshman Michael Lynch also will attend the premiere of his Duet for Two Flutes. A student flute quartet is featured in the premiere of Samantha Hogan’s “Clowns,” the first movement of her work-in-progress, Hell’s Carnival.
Two additional works will enhance the programs. Senior tenor Neil Meloro and graduate student Andrea Dreier will present the song, What You’d Call a Dream by Craig Carnelia. This work has an unusual and personal depiction of baseball. A Dana student brass quintet will perform an arrangement of Erskine Hawkins’ Tuxedo Junction. This piece was originally released by the Hawkins band in the late ’30′s, and was taken to a number one hit by the Glen Miller Band in 1940.
Both concerts are free and open to the public.
