SHEPHERD Spring 2015 UNIVERSITY Volume 15 MUSIC On the Move! Issue 2 SHEPHERD INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL Manuel Barrueco William Feasley Marcelo Ferraris José Manuel Lezcano This spring, Shepherd University has been continually described as Barcelona. In Asia he has completed Music will premier the Shepherd that of a superb instrumentalist and close to a dozen tours of Japan and International Guitar Festival, a superior and elegant musician, made repeated appearances in featuring Manuel Barrueco, possessing a seductive sound and Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, China, and internationally recognized as one of uncommon lyrical gifts. During three Hong Kong. Barrueco’s tours of Latin the most important guitarists of our decades of concertizing, he has America have included performances time. The four-day festival—the only performed across the United Sates in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Costa one of its kind in the region—will from the New World Symphony in Rica, and Puerto Rico. He has also be held Thursday, May 14 through Miami to the Seattle Symphony, performed as a guest soloist with Sunday, May 17, 2015, in and and from the Hollywood Bowl with other international orchestras such as around the Shepherd University the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the Russian State Symphony, Helsinki campus in Shephersdtown, WV. New York’s Lincoln Center. He has Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Open to professional adults, appeared with such prestigious NHK Symphony, New Japan college students, and high school orchestras as the Philadelphia Philharmonic, Auckland Symphony and middle school students, the Orchestra and with the Boston in New Zealand, and the radio festival will include master classes, Symphony under the direction symphonies of Munich and Frankfurt. individual guitar lessons, guitar of Seiji Ozawa, in the American ensemble rehearsals, and concerts premiere of Toru Takemitsu’s “To Manuel Barrueco began playing by international artists and guest the Edge of Dream.” In addition, the guitar at the age of eight, and instructors William Feasley, Marcelo he appears regularly with the he attended the Esteban Salas Ferraris and José Manuel Lezcano, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Conservatory in his native Cuba. He Nightly concerts by guest artists, with San Francisco Performances. immigrated with his family to the as well as a culminating concert by His international tours have taken United States in 1967, as political the festival participants, will be the him to the Royal Albert Hall in refugees. Later, he completed his centerpiece of the festival, and are London, Musikverein in Vienna, advanced studies at the Peabody free and open to the public. Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Conservatory of Music, where he now Philharmonie in Berlin, Teatro Real shares his love for music with a small Manuel Barrueco‘s unique artistry in Madrid, and Palau de la Musica in number of exceptionally continued on page 6 INSIDE Dr. James Pantle Honored 5 Opera Double Feature 9 From the Chair 2 FOM Gala 5 FOM Fellows 9 Notes from the Choral Area 3 Guitar Festival cont’d 6 Faculty News 10 Honors Recital 3 Salon Series 7 Alumni News 10 Instrumental Area News 4 Preparatory Chorus 7 FOM Concert Series 11 Senior Recitals 4 Preparatory Division News 8 Italy Tour 12 2 FROM THE CHAIR Dear friends, expertise provided by my colleagues in this region. This message brings with it many wishes for a joyous and warm spring. Our students have been busy What began as a relatively mild preparing for their concerts December winter soon transformed and recitals, which have been into months of record snowfall in extraordinary as of late—especially some regions of the east coast, the composition recitals. Many of our and long stretches of days with students are preparing to perform temperatures below freezing. While solo and chamber works at the Alba weather like this is not unusual in our International Music Festival in May, region, our recent, more temperate including instrumental movements winters have lulled us into believing from Kurt Weill’s Three Penny Opera, otherwise. Perhaps because of which should be a refreshing and that, our current music students challenging addition to the music and faculty have been prodigiously we’ll provide. productive at their craft. In the curricular area, we admitted weekday between the hours of 8 am Dr. Yu-Hsuan Liao has travelled our first class of Bachelor of Music and 5 pm, you’ll see our doors extensively throughout the United (BM) in Performance majors this open, and students sitting down States giving recitals as a solo pianist fall, prepared our self-study for our with us. Amid the cacophony of and collaborator. Dr. Kurtis Adams accreditation visit by members instrumentalists and singers spilling has busied himself performing in the of the National Association of down the from rehearsal and practice region and recording a new album. Schools of Music (NASM), and rooms, you’ll see students and faculty Walton Music just accepted Dr. Erik worked collaboratively in a two-day discussing Kodály or practicing Jones’s arrangement of “I’ll Tell My assessment retreat to explore how solfege exercises, conducting pieces, Ma” to publish in their 2016 choral to increase specific music skills in examining music, or engaged in catalog. Dr. David Gonzol is busy our students earlier in their college discussions about the music life editing his latest journal submission. careers. We await the formal results in general. It is a vibrant, creative Dr. Scott Hippensteel is preparing to of the NASM visit, but are encouraged atmosphere from which future attend a collegiate band festival next by the high praise we received for professionals in music emerge week, and is working on an article the skills our students demonstrated confident in their ability to create, on David Maslanka. Dr. Mark Cook at all levels of development, superb affect, and inspire. This activity, this continues to arrange and perform in classroom and applied instruction, energy keeps us warm in the chilly notable venues throughout the mid- and careful attention paid to months of winter. Atlantic region, and has enjoyed visits career guidance, just to name a from his most recent composition few factors. We are planning future If you are in the region, we want you students now pursuing composition developments in our curricular and your family to be a part of this in graduate school. This year, I have offerings. Our goal is evolve into a vibrant, evolving creative educational been fortunate to appear as guest program that clearly features what environment. If you do not have our soloist with the Maryland Symphony Shepherd Music does best, not to be concert calendar, please contact me Orchestra in their Salute to a smaller version of what one finds in to receive one. Please do contact me Independence and Holiday concerts, the larger schools in the mid-Atlantic in advance if you’d like a tour of our and am preparing for two concert region. Evidence of this can be found facility or to visit with our teachers. engagements in Montana in March by our re-focus on undergraduate As usual, we keep ourselves very and June, a recital with Dr. Bobb music education with the elimination busy, and delight in any opportunity Robinson at the Alba International of our Master of Music in Music to reconnect with Shepherd alumni. I Music Festival in Italy, and another Education, launching the new BM in wish you and your family a bright and in South Carolina in the fall. This is Performance, and the programs we prosperous spring. You are always just the tip of the proverbial iceberg are exploring now—more about this welcome to return home. (which I may have seen floating in the fall newsletter. down the Potomac last week). The Sincerely, work of the part-time faculty is The close relationships we build with featured within the pages of On the our students remain the hallmark Move, and I continue to be grateful of music education at Shepherd Robert W. Tudor, DMA for the professional experience and University. If you visit us on any Chair, Department of Music 3 NOTES FROM THE CHORAL AREA The fall 2014 semester was a very the organ, as that was his primary one of my favorite works by this exciting one in the choral area at instrument, and only added the ingenious composer. Written Shepherd University. We had some orchestral parts at the insistence for the 50th anniversary of the wonderful performances. The of his publisher. After his death, Boston Symphony Orchestra, this guest handbell choir from Charles Duruflé’s widow, Marie, worked hard challenging and astonishing work Town Presbyterian Church, under to convince anyone she spoke to has delighted and inspired listeners the direction of Ceil Frazier, did a the organ version of the Requiem for almost a century. Beginning the brilliant job and we were thrilled was the only way to truly hear the concert are two lesser-known but to have them as our guests. Most greatness of the work. equally wonderful pieces, Howard exciting of all, the Masterworks Hanson’s “Song of Democracy” and Chorale sang for over 1300 people The Chamber Singers will perform Persichetti’s “Celebrations,” both on in two nights at St. James Catholic this piece on Tuesday, March 31 texts by Walt Whitman. Continuing Church and the Frank Center. at 8 pm, the perfect time to hear the recent tradition of guest Eighteen student soloists, a fantastic this work, as the next day is Ash conductors with the Masterworks orchestra, a chorus of 130 strong… Wednesday and Christians begin Chorale, our own Dr. Scott it was a terrific weekend, and I hope their preparation for Holy Week and Hippensteel takes the podium to you were able to be a part of it.