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Shepherd Music Needs You to Help Us Grow SHEPHERD Fall 2016 UNIVERSITY Volume 17 MUSIC On the Move! Issue 1 SHEPHERD MUSIC NEEDS YOU TO HELP US GROW “Our greatest challenges are ahead—anticipating several additional years of fiscal challenges for the State of West Virginia, which only supports 16% of our current budget, while maintaining momentum and advancing our mission. Shepherd is in 10th (last) place for funding from the State, with a $2 million difference between us and #9 (West Liberty).” — Dr. Mary J.C. Hendrix, April of 2016 inaugural address Since I arrived here in 2012, we have Our focus on quality and growth Tamar-Marie Tipton been engaged in a careful, collab- Over the last four and a half years, we orative, and exhaustive examination have made some significant progress. of our programs, our students, and While all of us maintain busy and our passions. Some have been quiet varied professional lives as musi- discussions in retreats about pro- cians, we have been committed to gram scope, increasing musicianship further defining the transformative competency, and effective resource educational experience at Shepherd. management. Others have been We modified our curricular offerings public conversations about what our to return to being wholly focused students and community members on the undergraduate student. In need now, and aspire to have and 2014, we received approval to offer create in the future. We ask ourselves our first Bachelor of Music (BM) in like Jefferson Security Bank and not only what we do and how we will Performance degree. We refined the Integrity Mortgage, the Department accomplish it—we also ask the most Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Music to focus of Music is focusing our energy on important question—why do we do solely on the areas of composition, building scholarship resources and it? piano pedagogy, and a general liberal increasing enrollment. Since October arts experience to allow students to of 2014, we have benefitted from We believe music is essential to a pursue their music passions along the generosity of private donors of vibrant, meaningful life, and we are with other areas of interest like busi- all levels and corporate sponsors called to foster musical experiences in ness or science. This fall semester, we to raise over $70,000. These funds our students, community members, applied to the National Association of have been used to provide much- and each other. Our faculty and staff Schools of Music to offer a new jazz needed scholarships to attract and have dedicated our lives to creating a concentration within our BM in Per- keep students, replace the risers for transformative educational experience formance to offer unique educational Frank Center concerts, replace our that takes young people, passion- programming to a group of potential piano lab, support international travel ate about music, and leads them to students interested in Shepherd, but for students, and provide an Inter- make their livelihood as artists and who have often chosen elsewhere for national Guitar Festival. They have artist-educators. We inspire personal this jazz studies. been utilized carefully to improve the growth creatively, artistically, and educational experience at Shepherd, professionally by providing a climate In the spring of 2015, SUDOM exam- and to target students we believe will conducive to the development of the ined carefully our public program- be exceptional musicians of tomor- comprehensive musician and teacher. ming priorities. While Shepherd will row—students like freshmen clari- We achieve this through a highly still offer diverse programming to the netist Tamar-Marie Tipton and jazz personalized and student-centered community through programs sup- guitarist Jarrett Rolls, among many approach. ported by generous sponsorships, others. continued on page 2 INSIDE Pura Vida 4 WVMTA Conference 8 Help us Grow 1 Preparatory News 5 Christina Smith 8 Spain in 2018 2 Alumni News 6 Salon Series 9 Notes from the Choral Area 3 Special Thanks 6 Senior Recitals 9 Honor Band 3 Faculty News 7 Holiday Gala 10 Guitar Festival 4 Student News 7 2 HELP US GROW CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Our aspirations my friends, is with public-private Maybe you’re reading this as a partnerships, creative networking, graduate, a parent, a teacher, or a and new collaborations. Our com- community member and you’re munity is anxious and willing to help thinking, “They seem to be doing us succeed. They are dedicated to fine.” Here’s what you may not offering new apprentice programs know. Generally speaking, we are for our students—so they can experi- working with the same scholarship ence working environments before resources we have had for the last 10 making career commitments. Gener- years or more. Tuition has increased, ous donors are coming forward to and support from the state has provide new scholarships, support diminished. We have been receiving innovative educational programs, Jarrett Rolls generous support, but we need a and strategize about new facilities. groundswell of support if we are to Shepherd should be viewed as a Music has remained at around 100 realize the vision Dr. Mark McCoy and valuable resource for the commu- music majors for the past three my colleagues defined years ago—to nity and the state—in education, years. The department is leveraging become a comprehensive music technology, and intellectual capital. carefully all our scholarship resources, program. Mayor Auxer says “Shepherdstown which are insufficient to expand the is the hub of history,” and we must program. At least one-third of our As support for higher education preserve the knowledge associated music majors receive some form of within the State of West Virginia con- with this distinction. scholarship from the Department tinues to decline, Shepherd Univer- of Music, but we must do better. sity is actively engaged in exploring The Music Department aspires to Our goal is to raise $20,000 in new private funding sources, public- increase our enrollment. We dream scholarships this year to have a private partnerships, grants, and to create a vibrant collegiate-level positive impact on our incoming enrollment growth strategies. Our orchestra. SUDOM Music Faculty class next year. Any amount you give new president, Dr. Mary J.C. Hendrix, agree that significant resources are would be appreciated and we will use offered this in her inaugural address needed to create and maintain a it to bring more students to Shepherd in April of 2016: high-quality string program. We for the transformative experience need generous scholarships to fund that has become our legacy. Although we face financial chal- at least: 4 violins, 4 violas, 2 cellos, lenges, we cannot have a lack of 2 basses, 4 brass, 2 oboes, and 2 If you are interested in supporting aspiration, and we must continue to bassoons (20 instrumentalists). In our scholarship campaign, please do everything possible to provide our addition to our current scholarships, contact Christopher Sedlock, Senior students with the opportunities to we would need to provide a Executive Director for Development succeed. minimum of $5,000 per student Special Projects at csedlock@shep- in renewable music scholarships, herd.edu or 304-876-5378. How will this be possible at Shep- equaling $100,000 annually. herd, which receives only 16% of Thank you for supporting music edu- their budget from the state of West We need your help cation at Shepherd! Virginia? The only way forward, Enrollment in the Department of —Dr. Rob Tudor SPAIN IN SUMMER 2018 Shepherd’s Department of Music is plan to take eighty-five travelers on planning our next international tour our musical adventure. If you have for the summer of 2018. Our ten-day had the pleasure of experiencing trip to Spain will include four days in international art, cuisine, history, and Madrid with trips to Segovia, Toledo, culture, you understand the life- and other cities, and will end in with changing opportunities it will present four days in Barcelona. While there, to our students. As we plan our trip Shepherd students will offer three to Spain, perhaps you might consider performances—two in or around joining us, or offering support to our Madrid, and one in Barcelona. students. We will offer the option to extend your stay with a trip to Paris. directly to reducing the cost to our Our goal is to take our choirs, wind students. Contact Dr. Robert Tudor at ensemble, and jazz groups. With All donations are welcome and 304-876-5237, or rtudor@shepherd. community members joining us, we appreciated, and will be applied edu for more information. 3 NOTES FROM THE CHORAL AREA two Baroque masterpieces—the Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Magnificat, on Saturday, November 5th at 8:00 pm in the Frank Center Theater. A professional orchestra joined the Masterworks Chorale, and this concert featured Shepherd University’s Dr. Rob Tudor and Natalie Conte, as well as solos by some of Shepherd University’s finest vocal students. In December, the Chamber Singers, Women’s Camerata, Men’s Choir, Welcome to the 2016-2017 Following that, the Shepherd Wind Ensemble, and Jazz Ensemble academic year! We have several University Chamber Singers will join for our annual Holiday Gala, exciting performances this fall in performed one of Bach’s famous Celebrations Around the World, the Shepherd University Choral motets, Lobet den Herrn, among with performances on Saturday, Department. other works. The Women’s Camerata December 3rd at 7:00 pm and performed works by Schütz and our family matinee on Sunday, The Shepherd University Chamber Eleanor Daley. The Men’s Choir, December 4th at 3:00 pm. in the Singers, Women’s Camerata, and under the direction of Dr. Rob Frank Arts Center Theater. Men’s Choir presented our Fall Tudor, performed a beautiful Choral Concert on Friday, October modern adaptation of the Nunc We hope you can join us, and please 21st at 8:00 pm in the Frank Center Dimitis chant in nine parts and bring your family and friends! Theater.
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