The opposites of a Boone winter are obvious this month as temperatures change from nearly 60 degrees last week to a predicted high of 17 (F) on the day after tomorrow. In spite of the cold, great music making continues in the Broyhill Music Center as HSoM ensembles gear up for first performances of the semester.
Faculty and Staff Business
- Recordings of the November HSoM ensembles performances at NCMEA in Winston-Salem are now available on a SoundCloud site: https://soundcloud.com/hsom-asu
Events
For complete listings of performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: http://music.appstate.edu/calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streams
- The HSoM Advisory Board meets Friday, February 12.
- "Todd Wright's Valentine Evening" occurs Friday, February 12, at 8 pm, in Rosen
- Saturday, February 13, is the HSoM's fourth audition day for selecting the incoming class for Fall 2016.
- The Appalachian Symphony Orchestra performs on Sunday, February 14, at 2 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
- Symphony Band Performs on Tuesday, February 16, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center, featuring guest artist Chief Musician Kelly Watkins of the United States Coast Guard Band and Brass Quintet. Chief Watkins is also the Music Director and Conductor of the Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band in New York. She will be performing Richard Peaslee's "Nightsongs" on flugelhorn and conducting the famous march "National Emblem" by E. E. Bagley.
Looking Ahead
- Guest pianist Eleonora Karpukhova performs in recital on Wednesday, February 17, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- The Rucco/James Duo (featuring HSoM faculty guitarist Doug James and guest artist Pascuale Rucco) performs in recital on Thursday, February 18, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Jazz Ensemble I performs on Friday, February 19, in the Schaefer Center, at 8 pm, as part of the NW District All-State Band festival.
- Wind Ensemble performs on Saturday, February 20, in the Schaefer Center, at 8 pm, as part of the NW District All-State Band festival.
- Concert Band performs on Monday, February 22, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- HSoM faculty pianist Rodney Reynerson performs in recital on Tuesday, February 23, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
HSoM On the Road and Around Campus (upcoming)
- HSoM undergraduate Grant Smith will perform as one of three finalists for the Texas State Trombone Symposium—Michael Rath Jazz Trombone Solo Competition, on February 21 in San Marcos, TX.
Kudos and Other News and Events
- HSoM flutist Devin Glasgow, student of Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham, won the HSoM Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition.
- HSoM alumnus Phillip Riggs is one of ten finalists for the GRAMMY Foundation's Music Educator Award, which will be announced Wednesday on CBS Morning.
- Dr. Betty Anne Younker, dean and professor of the Don Wright Faculty at Western University (Ontario, Canada) and current president of the College Music Society will be the HSoM's Commencement Speaker at our May 13 ceremony, in Rosen Concert Hall at 3 pm.
- HSoM faculty composer Ben Hjertmann will have many of his works performed during this current semester:
- February 4, Premiere of Last Lights in the North by Northwestern University's Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Mallory Thompson, conductor.
- March 12, Awake, Alive, Amok, Ajar by Zzyzx Quartet at the North American Saxophone Alliance National Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
- March 19, Co-Premiere of Awake, Alive, Amok, Ajar by PRISM Quartet at University of Pennsylvania, Rose Recital Hall, Philadelphia
- March 20, Awake, Alive, Amok, Ajar by PRISM Quartet at Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC.
- April 4, Premiere of a new work for voice & live electronics and group improvisations with networked live electronics featuring students and faculty of Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
With best wishes for the fifth week of the spring 2016 semester,
Bill
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William L. Pelto, Ph.D.
Dean, Hayes School of Music
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-3029
**If you'd like to have something included in future iterations of these announcements, please send me an email with "announcements" in the subject line. Please feel free to send me information about artists (HSoM colleagues and others) who will collaborate in faculty recitals. My listings here sometimes miss those details. I'll be happy to add family/personal announcements, too. Please submit announcements as pdf's or in plain text, unformatted (no special spacing, bullets, etc.). Please include hyperlinks as appropriate.
**Please send information about upcoming off-campus performances and presentations by faculty and students. I'll include them in this "HSoM On the Road..." section.