Fall begins as we enter our seventh week of the semester. The EVENTS and LOOKING AHEAD sections demonstrate that our calendar is very full for these next weeks, including faculty recitals, guest artist appearances, and ensemble performances.
FACULTY AND STAFF BUSINESS
*Faculty search committees have been empaneled. The Music Education search, which will identify our first Sink Sykes Distinguished Professor, is chaired by Suzi Mills. Committee members include Drew Leslie, Cathy McKinney, Lisa Runner, Kevin Richardson, Jenny Snodgrass, and Kim Wangler. The combined cello/double bass/string education searches will be chaired by Eric Koontz. Committee members include Nancy Bargerstock, Christine Leist, Greg McCandless, John Ross, and Todd Wright.
*Faculty Senate informs us that vacancies exist on the following committees. Please contact HSoM faculty senator Reeves Shulstad, senator on the Committee on Committees Ben Sibley, or me if you are interested to serve on one of these committees:
- Faculty Grievance Hearing Committee: (Full Professor only)
- Faculty Grievance Assistance Committee: Members must have served on Faculty Due Process Committee or Faculty Grievance Hearing Committee but are not currently members on the Faculty Due Process Committee or Faculty Grievance Hearing Committee.
- Gifts Acceptance Committee
EVENTS For complete listings of performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: https://music.appstate.edu/news-events/performance-calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streams
The Havana Cuba All-Stars perform in concert on Tuesday, September 27, at 7 pm, in the Schaefer Center (part of The Schaefer Center Presents series) $$
The HSoM Advisory Board meets on Friday, September 30, from 10 am to 2 pm.
The Appalachian Wind Ensemble performs in concert on Sunday, October 2, at 3 pm, in Rosen. This concert will be a tribute to the late Dr. William Gora, Appalachian's Director of Bands from 1976-2006.
Symphony Band performs in concert on Monday, October 3, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Dean's Advisory Council meets Tuesday, October 4, at 11 am.
LOOKING AHEAD
The Deans' Student Advisory Council meets Wednesday, October 5, at 5 pm.
HSoM faculty oboist Alicia Chapman and hornist Karen Robertson perform in recital on Wednesday, October 5, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
HSoM faculty pianist Rodney Reynerson performs in recital on Thursday, October 6, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
The HSoM full faculty meets on Friday, October 7, at 11 am. Provost Darrell Kruger will be our guest.
Faculty Trios, including HSoM faculty bassoonist Jon Beebe, oboist Alicia Chapman, clarinetist Andrea Cheeseman, pianist Junie Cho, and pianist Christina Hayes, will perform on Sunday, October 9, at 4 pm in the Recital Hall.
Guest artist clarinetist Ed Riley performs a master class on Tuesday, October 11, at 6 pm, in the Recital Hall.
HSoM ON THE ROAD and AROUND CAMPUS (upcoming)
HSoM faculty guitarist Doug James has an active performance calendar in October as he collaborates with Pascuale Rucco in the Rucco-James Duo:
- 10/3, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV
- 10/5, UNM, Albuquerque, NM
- 10/7, Albuquerque Academy (Informances)
- 10/8, GIG! (performance venue) Santa Fe, NM
- 10/10, Albuquerque public schools (Informances)
- 10/14-15, Texas A&M Guitar Festival, College Station, TX (Concert and masterclasses)
- 10/24-25, Benevento Guitar Festival, Italy (Concert and masterclasses)
- 10/29, Piccolo Teatro Caligula, Aversa, Italy
KUDOS AND OTHER NEWS AND EVENTS
HSoM faculty clarinetist Andrea Cheeseman performed in recital and gave a masterclass at the University of Tennessee on September 20th. In addition to performing a program of electroacoustic works, she performed an improvisatory piece with UT's Electroacoustic Ensemble.
112 high school singers representing 26 school from across the state were in attendance at the 24th annual Honors Chorus Workshop on Saturday, September 24, led by HSoM director of choral activities Steve Hopkins. These students rehearsed together, had a session to help them with sight reading (led by Dr. Jennifer Snodgrass), and then went through a mock audition monitored by HSoM students.
With best wishes for the seventh week of the 2016-17 academic year,
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.