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- Festival Series continues with NEXUS
- Lillios composition wins first prize in international competition
- Works by doctoral student composer premiere in NYC, Boston, Toledo
- Music's effects on nervous system topic of BGSU concert-lecture
- Sphinx Chamber Orchestra kicks off 2009-10 Festival Series
- BGSU to host comic, actress, 'CBS Sunday Morning' contributor Giles
- Oboist Leclair wakes up music world in Alarm Will Sound
- Maestro Benjamin Zander to conduct exploration of possibility
- Doctoral student ends year on high note
Festival Series continues with NEXUS.(full story)
The percussion group NEXUS will be in concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 8 in Kobacker Hall, as part of the College of Musical Arts’ Festival Series.
Lillios composition wins first prize in international competition.(full story)
Dr. Elainie Lillios, composition, has won first prize in the “music with instruments” section at the 36th annual Bourges International Competition in France.
Works by doctoral student composer premiere in NYC, Boston, Toledo.(full story)
Audiences from Toledo to New York City to Boston will be treated to music by up-and-coming BGSU composer Timothy Stulman this fall and next year. Stulman is pursuing his doctor of musical arts in contemporary music with Distinguished Artist Professor Marilyn Shrude.
Stulman was among five composers to receive a prestigious First Music commission from the New York Youth Symphony, an indpendent, not-for-profit institution dedicated to enriching the lives of young people through the study and performance of music. His orchestral work "Element Cycle" will be premiered by the symphony on March 7, 2010, at Carnegie Hall.
Music's effects on nervous system topic of BGSU concert-lecture.(full story)
The concert-lecture, "When Music Sings, the Brain Listens and the Heart Modulates," will be presented at 8 p.m. Sept. 30 in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. It is free and open to the public.
Sphinx Chamber Orchestra kicks off 2009-10 Festival Series(full story)
The Festival Series opens Sunday (Sept. 13) with the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra.
BGSU to host comic, actress, 'CBS Sunday Morning' contributor Giles(full story)
The College of Musical Arts will host “An Evening with Nancy Giles,” a comedian, actress and contributor to “CBS Sunday Morning,” at 8 p.m. Aug. 27 in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Open to the public, the free, BGSU Welcome Week event is part of the Hansen Musical Arts Series, created by Dorothy E. and DuWayne Hansen. Alumni and friends of the College of Musical Arts and BGSU, they are supporting Giles’ appearance and residency, which will also include visits with students in music, theatre and the campus Arts Village..
Oboist Leclair wakes up music world in Alarm Will Sound(full story)
Talking with oboist Jackie Leclair is like the proverbial breath of fresh air. The energy and enthusiasm she expresses about her work auger good things for contemporary classical music.
Leclair is in the enviable position of playing challenging and cutting-edge music, on the instrument she loves, with a group of like-minded musicians who are not only at the peak of their creativity but are also receiving great critical and audience recognition.
She is just back from New York City, where her chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound was one of three groups chosen to perform at the gala reopening of Alice Tully Hall on March 3. The famed concert hall in Lincoln Center had been closed three years for renovations. Alarm Will Sound was the youngest of the three groups to play; the others were composer Steve Reich’s ensemble and the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
For the reopening, Alarm Will Sound commissioned a piece by group member Caleb Burhans, a composer, singer and multi-instrument performer—“a Renaissance guy,” according to Leclair. Burhans typifies the new wave of classical musicians, whose interests and backgrounds also span rock, metal and electronica and who have no problem engaging in all instead of choosing just one area.
Maestro Benjamin Zander to conduct exploration of possibility (full story)
What does classical music have to offer us today? And how can it relate to business and leadership? In the hands of Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the power and spirit of the music translate into much more than a listening experience—one that inspires people to look inward and approach life with new gusto.
Zander will give a special presentation called “Experiencing the Art of Possibility” at 8 p.m. Jan. 20 in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Admission is free, but a ticket is required. To request one, call the box office at (419) 372-8171.
Based on his best-selling book, The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life, co-written with his wife, psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander, the talk has been given to corporate executives around the world to rave reviews. The energetic presentation involves audience participation, musical demonstrations and singing.
Zander’s visit is part of BGSU’s Dorothy and DuWayne Hansen Musical Arts Series and is jointly sponsored by the College of Musical Arts and the College of Business Administration.
Doctoral student ends year on high note (full story)
This has been quite the year for BGSU’s doctoral program in music, and for one of its students in particular. Katherine "Kiki" Kilburn of San Jose, Calif., a first-year student in the DMA program, has won the prestigious Thelma A. Robinson Scholarship Award from the Conductors Guild.
It is the second time in a row that a BGSU student has taken home the biennial award. Kilburn will receive a $1,000 prize, which will be presented Jan. 11, 2009, at the Annual Conference for Conductors in New York City.
In 2006 her fiancé, Octavio Más-Arocas, also a student in the University’s DMA program, won the Robinson award. Both he and Kilburn study with Dr. Emily Freeman Brown, director of orchestra activities.
The two will be married Dec. 27 near San Jose, where the globetrotting Kilburn’s family lives. “It’s where I think of when I think of home,” she said. The couple will be joined by members of Más-Arocas’s family from Spain.