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Alumni University of New Hampshire Newsletter Department of Music Fall 2013 Greetings from the Chair During the past year the Department of You may recall from my message conclusion of the 2014-15 academic Music remained a vibrant center for the last year that we are in the process year, completing a remarkable career composition, performance, teaching, of reaccreditation from the National of 43 years as a member of the UNH study, and research of music. On Association of Schools of Music (NASM). Department of Music, and 52 years campus, we presented some 14 faculty This past spring, we received the NASM as a college professor. David Seiler’s recitals, 28 large concert ensemble Visitor’s Report, which expressed accomplishments over the years concerts, 8 jazz ensemble concerts, 6 concerns regarding NASM standards have been unparalleled, not only as Traditional Jazz concerts, 17 daytime to which we were required to respond. an educator, but in service to the student potpourri recitals, and 49 junior, We were able to secure many items as Department and University. He was senior, and graduate recitals. The a result: more access to the Johnson responsible for the establishment of Department also hosted 6 guest master Theater for rehearsals and concerts, an both the Dorothy Prescott Endowment classes, and 5 guest recitals. upgrading of audio/visual equipment in and the Terry – Seiler – Verrette our classrooms, and an improvement Endowment. In an extraordinary We continue with 4 weeks of summer of building security for our majors. We demonstration of support from the instruction offered to young musicians now have an up-to-date electronic music University, the Provost’s office has through SYMS (high school age), Jr. studio that we have named the John funded a new position in the field of jazz SYMS (middle school), and SYMS Prep Rogers Electronic Music Studio, in honor studies to begin next fall, allowing the (elementary). Our Piano Extension of Professor Emeritus Rogers for his new person a year overlap with “the Program continues with great success. many years of devotion to the genre master” to learn all of David’s duties and We are most fortunate that we are and service to the Department. responsibilities. able to fund the maintenance and replacement of our piano inventory in Perhaps the most comprehensive Finally, I would like to acknowledge great part through profits from PEP. change we made as a result of the the exceptional work of all of our Other major outreach activities included NASM process is the complete overhaul faculty and staff. Through their efforts, the UNH Jazz Festival, the Choral Gala, of our Master of Arts in Music degree we continue to offer the high-quality the Band Extravaganza, the Seacoast programs. We now offer MA programs education that our students expect and Jazz Band, the New Hampshire Youth in Composition, Conducting, and deserve. Our Calendar of Events 2013- Band, Double Reed Day, and the String Musicology. 14 is available to all upon request, and Project. The third annual Fall Orchestra our web site contains all information Festival was held in October, and last Dr. Elizabeth Gunlogson, who has been regarding upcoming concerts, special April the second New Hampshire Wind teaching clarinet and theory for the events, auditions, etc. We are always Band Invitational. past six years, has been notified by the happy to hear from you, and if you Board of Trustees of her promotion happen to be in Durham, please stop by. This fall our orchestra conductor, to Associate Professor with tenure. Dr. David Upham, began the New Congratulations! Nicholas Orovich Hampshire Youth Symphony Orchestras. Professor and Chair The initial enrollment for this fall is 29 Professor David Seiler has informed string players split into two ensembles: the Dean of the College of Liberal the Symphony Orchestra and the Arts of his intention to retire at the Concert Orchestra. We recently received a generous gift from Linda and Dwayne Wrightsman, “to provide an opportunity for UNH students to perform chamber music for younger students”. Both the Wrightsmans are graduates of UNH, and Dwayne is Professor Emeritus of Finance and Economics, having taught at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics for many years. As a result, our students will have the opportunity to perform chamber music throughout the state and region. 1 Scholarships and Awards Brian Fanning Presser Scholar 2013 A lifelong resident of New Hampshire, Brian grew up in Epping and attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover. He started playing the oboe in eighth grade and began studying with Margaret Herlehy in his junior year of high school. Brian is a member of the National Association for Music Education and is currently the president of the UNH collegiate chapter. Brian studied abroad in Utrecht, The Netherlands in Fall 2012 where he performed Stravinsky’s Mass on oboe in Amsterdam with the Utrecht Blazers Ensemble, and sang Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, K. 626 in Amsterdam and Utrecht with the Utrecht Studenten Koor en Orkest. Brian hopes to go to graduate school after completing his Bachelor’s degree in Music Education this spring 2014. When Brian is not in Undergraduate Research music classes, he works at the UNH Computer Repair Services, where he is also Awards provide the an Apple Certified Mac Technician. During the summer breaks, Brian continues to work at Computer Repair Services and participates in the Manchester financial resources for Community Music School Summer Band. Other activities Brian enjoys include, students to design and biking, sailing, and hiking in the White Mountains. He has completed nine of execute research projects the forty-eight White Mountain Four Thousand Footers. during the academic SURF year. Undergraduates Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships who have received these Victoria Santospago awards have followed their academic curiosity Moving Freely: at UNH and off-campus A Flutist’s Exploration of Body Mapping research facilities such as a museum, archive, art Vicky’s summer research consisted of three weeks of intensive study gallery, archaeological of Body Mapping. She worked with site, research library, Dr. Jenni Cook and Dr. Lea Pearson laboratory, medical in body mapping lessons, read over fifteen body mapping books, facility, or business. All observed and recorded her own students in good academic playing, and interviewed six certified body mapping professionals to gain standing are invited to insight. Changes in her body map and apply. her mental representation of how she looks and moves have enhanced her playing and kinesthetic awareness. 2 Event Highlights Body Mapping with Dr. Amy Likar This academic year Dr. Cook welcomed guest artist Dr. Amy Likar for a week-long residency on Body Mapping, a discipline that emphasizes anatomical study of body movement to prevent injury and promote facility. Dr. Likar working with Elizabeth Blood, piano and Abigail Arenstam, soprano Victoria Santospago Richardson Smith Matthew Casazza Dr. Likar, an accomplished flutist in the Oakland East Bay Orchestra, was featured on Jenni Cook’s recital for the UNH Faculty Concert Series. They reprised some works from their CD, Live at McLean Chapel (available on Amazon.com), four Bach arias, and Spirits of the Dead (http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=HS-lXQ2wtQM), a work for soprano, alto flute, and piano composed especially for Jenni and Amy by Holy Names University Department of Music Chair and composer, Dr. Stephen Hofer. Faculty Concert Series: Jenni Cook and Amy Likar performed with Peggy Vagts and Arlene Kies 3 Visiting Artists 2012-2013 Charlie Powers Susan Hatch Tomkiewicz William Ludwig “THE PRESIDENT’S OWN” of Oboe at the Schwob School of Music A noted chamber musician he has MARINE STRING QUARTET at Columbus State University. An active performed in a wide variety of proponent of contemporary music, settings in the United States and gave a spectacular performance on the she has commissioned, premiered, Europe, including the Prague Spring Johnson Theater stage on November and recorded several new works for International Music Festival, Highlands 6, 2012. The group is comprised oboe and English horn. Dr. Hatch also (NC) Chamber Music Festival and of members of the United States presented a reed making class. Hot Springs Music Festival, and with Marine Band and Chamber Orchestra. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Timm Established by an Act of Congress in Wind Quintet, and Ars Nova Wind 1798, the Marine Band is America’s WILLIAM LUDWIG Quintet. He was artist-in-residence oldest continuously active professional William Ludwig was the guest at the State University of New York- musical organization. “The President’s bassoonist for Double Reed Day 2013. Stony Brook Department of Music Own” has a unique mission: to provide We were fortunate to have William from 1989 to 1994 concurrently with music for the President of the United Ludwig visit the Music Department a his LSU appointment and taught at the States and the Commandant of the second time, in the spring, with a recital University of South Florida from 1979 to United States Marine Corps. on March 21, 2013 in Bratton Recital Hall. 1985. This US Marine String Quartet program William Ludwig joined the faculty of He holds degrees from Louisiana State featured some of the most beloved and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and Yale School of Music virtuosic pieces for quartet; Schubert’s University as Professor of Bassoon in and has had the privilege of studying String Quartet No 12 in C minor, August of 2007 and was appointed Chair with John Patterson, Sol Schoenbach, Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C minor, of the Woodwind Department in 2010. Leonard Sharrow, Bernard Garfield and and Debussy’s monumental Quartet Previous to this appointment he had Arthur Weisberg.