It's Leap Day, quite an interesting anomaly in our calendar, though it mainly affects those with birthdays. One colleague here in the HSoM just celebrated a 16th "real" birthday! We're in our last week of classes before Spring Break, with concerts scheduled through Wednesday night (see Events).
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 annual "Women Composers Recital" occurs Monday, February 29, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- HSoM faculty organist Joby Bell performs in recital on Tuesday, March 1, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Jazz Ensemble II performs on Wednesday, March 2, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Looking Ahead
- Saturday, March 5, through Sunday, March 13, is Appalachian's spring break.
Kudos and Other News and Events
- HSoM music education student Mitchell Townley has been accepted as a semi-finalist for the National Trumpet Competition for the 2nd consecutive year. He will compete with other undergraduate trumpeters from across the country. The competition will be held on the Columbus State University (Columbus, GA) campus in March. He will perform Intrada by Arthur Honegger.
- Congratulations and thanks go out to HSoM colleagues who provided leadership and participated in events of this past weekend's Western Regional Orchestra festival.
- Thanks, also, to HSoM colleagues and students who made this year's audition season so successful. Saturday featured our fifth and final audition day, as well as our Hayes Young Artist Competition. To date, we've heard 423 auditions in all areas of study, including our first round of online submissions from prospective voice students, a record number for the HSoM. Now we'll look forward to learning who will join us as members of the Fall class of 2016.
With best wishes for the eighth week of the spring 2016 semester,
Bill
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William L. Pelto, Ph.D.
Dean, Hayes School of Music
Appalachian State Universit
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.