We're at full speed as the semester nears its end, though everyone will gladly enjoy the coming four-day University holiday.
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
Brass Studio Ensembles perform Monday, April 10, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Woodwind Chamber Ensembles perform Tuesday, April 11, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Jazz Ensembles I and II perform Wednesday, April 12, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center
Percussion Ensemble performs Thursday, April 13, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
April 15-18 is a University holiday.
LOOKING AHEAD
Woodwind Chamber Ensembles perform Wednesday, April 19, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Blazing Bassoons performs Thursday, April 20, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
The 22nd Annual Appalachian GuitarFest and Solo Guitar Competition occurs Friday-Sunday, April 21-23, 2017.
Concert Band performs Monday, April 24, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Guitar Orchestra performs Tuesday, April 25, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
KUDOS AND OTHER NEWS AND EVENTS
HSoM faculty composer Ben Hjertmann's work Catclaw Mimosa, which won the Third International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest—Category Three, Concert Band Music Grade 5-6. is discussed in the most recent issue (Issue #7) of MBM Times.
HSoM director of bands John Stanley Ross recently guest conducted three performances of the Symphony of the Mountains in programs entitled "A Sound Palette." During the performances, three visual artists created performance-inspired paintings and drawings in front of the audience.
On March 31, director of bands John Stanley Ross led a Conducting Symposium in collaboration with Separk Music for conductors whose students were performing the Piedmont Wind Symphony. Twenty high school wind conductors collaborated in the project.
The Hayes School of Music was well represented at the recent conference of the Southeastern Region of the American Music Therapy Association (SER-AMTA) held in Chapel Hill, NC. Highlights include the following:
- Faculty music therapist Christine Leist, who has served for the past 2 years as president-elect of the region, began her 2-year term as president of the SER-AMTA.
- Music therapy graduate student Reece Jennings was the winner of the regional intern scholarship for an Equivalency student. He will complete his music therapy internship in the Fulton County, GA schools during the 2017-2018 academic year.
- Graduate student Katie Komorek won the intern scholarship offered to an Equivalency student by the Music Therapy Association of North Carolina.
- Faculty music therapist Melody Schwantes with alumni Ezekiel Bautista, BM ’16, Freddy Perkins, BM ’13, and Katie Long Muir, BM ’16, and graduate students Hannah Lingafelt and Jessica Donley presented a 3-hr workshop "Exploring Cultural Humility in Music Therapy: Continuing Courageous Conversations."
- Graduate alumna Carlyn Waller-Wicks, BM ‘13 presented a 3-hr continuing education workshop, "Arts-Based Learning; Applications for Supervision and Higher Education."
- Faculty music therapist Katurah Christenbury with graduate student music therapists Kendra Bodry, Amy Mercier, Chris Spence and undergraduate students Caroline Valitutto and Emily Wills presented "I’ve Got Rhythm! At Least I Think I Do . . ."
- Faculty music therapist Katurah Christenbury and Allison Rayburn, BM ’10, MMT ‘13 presented "I Can Hear Your Privilege from All the Way Over Here: How to Acknowledge Your Privilege to Be a Better Music Therapist."
- Graduate student Hannah Lingafelt ’13 presented "Taking Pains with Music Therapy and Mental Health: Current Trends and Future Directions Concerning Psychological Factors and Music Therapy in the Treatment of Pain."
- Faculty music therapist Christine Leist and graduate students Hannah Lingafelt and Jake Keller presented "Heavy Metal to Hip-Hop: Sounding Authentic Within Your Guitar Skill Set."
- HSoM faculty music therapists Christine Leist and Cathy McKinney will serve as two of eight delegates from SER-AMTA to the AMTA Assembly of Delegates for the 2017–2019 term.
With best wishes for week twelve of the Spring 2017 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