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2011-2012 Moore Hall Recital Series  

Admission is free and, unless otherwise indicated, will be held in Moore Hall Auditorium. Performances are sponsored by the University Music Society. For further information contact Dr. Tracy Wiggins, series coordinator, at 910-522-5705.

 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011– 10:10 AM
The Marine Band Tuba and Euphonium Quartet

The Marine Band Tuba and Euphonium Quartet is one of several ensembles formed from within “The President’s Own” to present chamber concerts and educational clinics. Members of the quartet perform regularly as part of the Marine Band, Marine Chamber Orchestra, and Marine Chamber Ensembles, and are frequently featured as soloists. In 2005, the quartet performed at the U.S. Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conference in Arlington, Va., and the Potomac Festival’s International Tuba and Euphonium Competition in Fairfax, Va. In 2006, they performed at the International Tuba-Euphonium Conference in Denver, and in 2007 the members of the quartet were guest artists at the Leonard Falcone International Tuba-Euphonium Festival and featured at the 2008 International Tuba Euphonium Conference in Cincinnati.

 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011– 7:30 PM
The Stephen Anderson Trio

Stephen Anderson, composer and pianist, is a recording artist for Summit Records. His recent Forget Not (2008) trio CD received 4½ stars (out of 5) from the All Music Guide, was nominated by for best jazz “Debut CD” (3rd Annual Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll 2008), and has been widely performed on radio nationally and internationally. As a composer, Anderson has been performed by the West Point Military Academy Band, the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, Lynn Seaton and the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, the Crested Butte Chamber Orchestra, the One O’ Clock Lab Band, Two O’clock Lab band, North Carolina Central University Percussion Ensemble, UNC-Charlotte Percussion Ensemble, UNC Wind Ensemble, Duo XXI, and a film score broadcast nationally on PBS.
Anderson holds a D.M.A from the University of North Texas (2005), served as Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano at Western Illinois University (2003-2005), and is currently Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Jazz Studies and Composition.

 

Tuesday, October 25, 2011– 7:30 PM
Michele Gingras, clarinet

Michele Gingras is Professor of Clarinet at Miami University (OH) where she was named Curry Distinguished Educator and Distinguished Scholar of the GraduateFaculty. She performed and taught masterclasses worldwide and released over a dozen CDs, including duos with Emmy Award winner Richard Stoltzman in 2008. She published over 180 articles and reviews in numerous publications, translated a 650-page textbook about French classical saxophonist Jean-Marie Londeix, performed for over a dozen ICA conferences, and authored two books: Clarinet Secrets—52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Clarinetist, and More Clarinet Secrets—100 Quick Tips for the Advanced Clarinetist (scarecrowpress.com). She joined the Cincinnati Klezmer Project in 1995, and founded two chamber music groups, Duo2go and Miami3, in 2007. Gingras is Past-Secretary of the International Clarinet Association and is an Artist Clinician for Buffet-Crampon USA and Rico International. She received her degrees from the Montreal Conservatory and Northwestern University. In 2010, she expanded her artistic vocabulary through creating Abstract acrylic painting. Subscribe to her free videocasts on iTunes and visit her online at: Michelegingras.com.

 

Tuesday, February 14, 2012– 7:30 PM
Anna Vikre, soprano; Rod Nelman, bass-baritone

Much sought after for her beautifully detailed and moving characterizations as well as her stunning vocal talents, soprano Anna Vikre is equally at home spinning a seamless vocal line or singing coloratura fireworks. The petite soprano is an audience favorite who not only looks the part but lures them in with her easy acting style. Originally trained as an actress, Ms. Vikre's performance of Violetta Valery in La Traviata with Sacramento Opera was called "stirring." "Her tragic illness in the last scene had been so musically and emotionally convincing that her curtain call almost seemed miraculous."
She has performed the role of Rosalinda (Sacramento Opera,) in Die Fledermaus, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Memphis, and Madam Goldentrill from The Impressario with Lake George Opera. In New York's Caramoor Festival Ms. Vikre portrayed Melissa in Handel's Amadigi. She recently returned to Des Moines Metro Opera to perform Birdie in Regina, and sang Norina with Paul Plishka as Don Pasquale in Vero Beach, Florida. This coming March she will appear as Elvira in L'italiana in Algeri for Utah Opera with her husband Rod Nelman appearing as Mustafa.
Recent Concert appearances include highlights from La Traviata, and Candide at Avery Fisher Hall, and Madame Mao from Nixon in China in a concert gala for Long Beach Opera.
Ms. Vikre studied Drama at Sacramento State University in California, and is the winner of many competitions including the Palm Beach Opera competition, Birmingham Opera Competition, Boca Raton Voice Competition, and Florida Grand Opera's Young Patroness of the Opera Competition. She was also chosen as a National Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and has received two Support Grants from the Metropolitan Opera Educational Fund.

 

Rod Nelman is one of America’s most versatile basses with a repertoire that encompasses roles by Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, and, more recently, Wagner and Strauss. He has also earned critical acclaim as Wotan in Long Beach Opera’s condensed “Ring” cycle which he repeated with Pittsburgh Opera Theater.
Rod has appeared with the Indianapolis Opera as Fasolt in Das Rheingold, Fort Worth Opera as Magnifico, Utah Opera as Ben in Regina, and Skylark Company as Don Pasquale. Last season, he appeared with Kentucky Opera as George in Of Mice and Men, Michigan Opera as Leporello, Utah Opera as Mustafa, and Fort Worth Opera as Dulcamara.
In the 2011-2012 season, Rod covered Kissinger in Nixon and China at the MET, as well as the Sacristan.  He will sing Monterone with the Michigan Opera Theater. Rod will sing both Sacristan and Bartolo in Nozze di Figaro at the Fort Worth Opera.  Rod returns to the MET  in this season to cover Bartolo in  the Barber of Seville.
Mr. Nelman has sung at New York City Opera the roles of Crespel in Les Contes d’Hoffman, Zuniga in Carmen, Kublai Kahn in Marco Polo, Bonze in Madama Butterfly, Farfarello in The Love for Three Oranges, and Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata the Washington National Opera the roles of Padre Anton in El Gato Montes,and the Sacristan in Tosca, In Europe, he has appeared in Nantes, France in their production of Gurlitt’s Die Soldaten and as Henry Kissinger in Nixon in China in Verona, Italy.
On the concert stage, he has appeared with the Milwaukee Symphony as bass soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Mozart’s Mass in C-minor, Virginia Symphony for Handel’s Messiah, El Paso Symphony in Mozart’s C-minor Mass, and Jacksonville Symphony for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Mr. Nelman is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and was awarded the Verdi Prize in the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition as well as First Prize in Orlando Opera’s Heinz Rehfuss Singing Actors Competition. He was also a member of the Pittsburgh Opera Center and Cincinnati Opera’s young artists program.

Thursday, April 12, 2012– 7:30 PM
Stephen Drury, piano: A tribute to John Cage

Pianist and conductor Stephen Drury has performed throughout the world with a repertoire that stretches from Bach to Liszt to the music of today. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Barbican Centre and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and from Arkansas to Seoul. A champion of contemporary music, he has taken the sound of dissonance into remote corners of Pakistan, Greenland and Montana.

Stephen Drury is artistic director and conductor of the Callithumpian Consort, and he created and directs the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at New England Conservatory. He teaches at New England Conservatory, where he has directed festivals of the music of John Cage, Steve Reich, and (in 2010) Christian Wolff.

Updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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