Hayes School of Music

Faculty Announcements, April 8, 2015

  1. Home
  2. Faculty and Staff
  3. Faculty Announcements
  4. Faculty Announcements, April 8, 2015
Submitted by templelw on Wed, 04/08/2015 - 6:07pm

Under summer-like skies, the HSoM and all Appalachian resumed activities this morning, following the four-day Easter weekend.

Faculty and Staff Business

  • All full-time faculty should sign up through Lauren for an annual conference with me. Please schedule a time between now and the end of May, if at all possible. Please see Faculty Announcements for January 26 for details about the annual evaluation procedure.
  • At the April 24 HSoM full faculty meeting, colleagues from Information Technology will present information regarding the upcoming "migration" of our communication systems to Google. Please see the following URL for further information about the change: http://support.appstate.edu/news/going-google-update-cio

Events

For complete listings of Spring 2015 performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: www.music.appstate.edu/calendar and www.music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streams

  • The HSoM Music Therapy Student Association Benefit Concert "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" occurs Wednesday, April 8, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
  • HSoM Curriculum and Assessment Committee meets Thursday, April 9, at 1 pm.
  • The Graduate Honors Reception occurs Thursday, April 9, at 5 pm, in the Plemmons Student Union Solarium. Graduate students Chelsea Stith (Music Therapy) and RJ Wuagneux will be inducted into the Cratis Williams Society.
  • Jazz Ensembles I and II perform Thursday, April 9, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
  • The HSoM Guitarfest Gala Concert occurs Thursday, April 9, at 8 pm, in Rosen. $
  • Guitarfest concerts continue Friday-Sunday, April 10-12, in Rosen. $ See http://music.appstate.edu/news-events/guitarfest for more information about the festival.
  • Blazing Bassoons performs Sunday, April 12, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
  • The Saxophone Chamber Recital occurs Monday, April 13, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
  • Brass Chamber Ensembles perform Tuesday, April 14, at 6 pm, in the Recital Hall.
  • HSoM faculty composer Andrew Hannon's works will be performed in recital on Tuesday, April 14, at 8 pm, in Rosen.

Looking Ahead

  • Percussion Ensemble performs Thursday, April 16, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
  • Dr. Sheri Everts will be formally installed as Appalachian's Chancellor on Friday, April 17, at 10 am, in the Holmes Convocation Center. Classes will be canceled that morning.
  • Treble Choir performs Friday, April 17, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
  • Symphony Band performs Sunday, April 19, at 2 pm, in Rosen.
  • The American Music Review occurs Sunday, April 19, at 6 pm, in the Recital Hall.
  • Guitar Orchestra performs Sunday, April 19, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
  • Wind Ensemble performs Monday, April 20, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
  • Repertory Orchestra performs Tuesday, April 21, at 8 pm, in Rosen.

HSoM On the Road and Around Campus (upcoming)

  • The Steely Pan Steel Band will perform for community events twice during April:
  • On Saturday, April 11, from 4-5 pm, the SPB will play during the NC Odyssey of the Mind state competition at the Holmes Center, and they'll perform for ASU's Diversity Day on Tuesday, April 14 at 4:00 - 5:00 in the Summit Trail Solarium in the Plemmons Student Union.

Kudos and Other News and Events

  • At the March 27 meeting of the Appalachian State University Board of Trustees, the following HSoM colleagues were honored:
  • HSoM Associate Professor of Viola Eric Koontz was awarded permanent tenure.
  • Retired HSoM faculty trombonist Harold McKinney was awarded the rank of Professor Emeritus.
  • Retired HSoM faculty composer Scott Meister was awarded the rank of Professor Emeritus.
  • The UNC Board of Governors has honored HSoM trumpet professor James Stokes with the ASU School/College Excellence in Teaching Award.
  • HSoM faculty music theorist Jennifer Snodgrass's new textbook Contemporary Musicianship has just been released by Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/contemporary-musicianship-9780199990870?cc=us&lang=en&
  • HSoM faculty bassoonist Jon Beebe and pianist Rodney Reynerson's performance of HSoM faculty composer Bill Harbinson's "Sonata for Bassoon and Piano" was featured on NPR station WUOT-FM (Knoxville, TN) on April 8, 2015. The recording is one of five performances that comprise Bill Harbinson's new CD, Five for Two to Five: Chamber Music of William G. Harbinson.

With best wishes for week twelve of the spring semester,

Bill
_____________________
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.