Week of free music on campus
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Welcome guest artists
OSU offers week of free musical concerts
Oklahoma State University’s Music Department is offering five free concerts in four days this week featuring guests artists performing with a variety of musical instruments in several genres.
Tuesday, March 25 - Guest Artist Series featuring Netherlands duo Brandt Attema on the bass trombone and Astrid Haring on the harp, starts at 7:30 p.m. in Seretean Center Concert Hall, free admission. Read more below.
Wednesday, March 26 - Guest Artist Series featuring “today’s most exciting flutist” Brad Garner, starts at 7:30 p.m. in Seretean Center Concert Hall, free admission. Read more below.
Thursday, March 27 – Guest Artist Series featuring The Puget Sound Piano Trio , starting at 7:30 p.m. in the Willard Hall Lounge, free admission. Read more below.
Thursday, March 27 – Guest Artist Series featuring saxophone and bassoon by the Post-Haste Reed Duo, starting at 7:30 p.m. in Bennett Chapel, free admission. Read more below.
Sunday, March 30 - Guest Artist Series featuring Matti Raekallio, Juilliard professor of piano, Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in Seretean Center Concert Hall, free admission. Read more below.
Netherlands duo to debut their unique music combination in Stillwater
An incredible music duo from the Netherlands will debut their unique combination of trombone and harp in the U.S. with a free recital at Oklahoma State University on Tuesday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the concert hall of the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts.
Bass trombonist Brandt Attema and harpist Astrid Haring will display the virtuosity that they are known for throughout the world by performing the music of Ezequiel Menalled, Diego Ortiz, Diego Soifer, Philip Glass, Rodney Sharman, Radiohead, Martijn Padding, Chiel Meijering and Eva Cassidy.
The duo debuted at the 10th World Harp Congress in 2008 and were so well received
that they have continued as a duo ever since, giving performances around the world
and even inspiring composers to write music for their unusual combination. The duo
released their first CD in 2012. Attema has played for the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
and the New Trombone Collective. Haring has also performed solo, chamber and as an
orchestral harpist. For more information on the ensemble please visit: http://duoattemaharing.com/en/
This event is made possible by support the OSU Institute for Creativity and Innovation,
the Atherton Hotel, the OSU College of Arts and Sciences Arts and Humanities Lecture
Series and the OSU Department of Music. For more information, phone (405) 744-8998.
“One of today’s most exciting flutists” to perform
Brad Garner, described as "one of today's most exciting flutists," will perform live on Wednesday, March 26, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Seretean Center Concert Hall as part of Oklahoma State University’s guest artist series, which is free and open to the public.
Garner has played concerts and recitals throughout the world with great acclaim. He is an active soloist, teacher and recording artist in the Cincinnati and New York City areas. He has frequently played with the New York Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and has been principal flutist with the Atlantic Sinfonietta, the New York Virtuosi and the Virtuosi Quintet and the 20th-Century Chamber Orchestra. He received his B.M. and M.A. degrees from West Texas State University where he studied with his father, Dr. Gary Garner and Sally Turk.
Garner was the first flutist to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the
Juilliard School where he studied with Julius Baker. Garner has performed as soloist
in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, with Julius Baker and Jean-Pierre
Rampal and was recently the first American flutist to be invited by the Russian government
to perform in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall. He has performed and given master classes
in Asia, Europe, and throughout North America.
Garner is on the faculties of The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of
Music, Queens College, New York University and the Juilliard School. His students
have won positions in noted orchestras throughout the world and numerous prizes in
competition.
Garner has recorded for the Koch International, Yamaha, Capstone, EMI, Golden Crest, Newport Classics, Vienna Modern Masters and the Collins Classics labels. He is a Yamaha performing artist and clinician.
Guest artists in the series are invited to campus to perform by their counterparts at OSU. This performance is sponsored by the OSU Department of Music. For more information, phone (405) 744-8998.
Sax and bassoon duo set for Bennett Chapel
The pair will offer acoustic and electroacoustic works specifically composed for sax and bassoon by several talented composers including Nansi Carroll, Stephen Coxe, Edward J. Hines, Simon Hutchinson, Michael Johanson, Joshua Keeling, Lanier Sammons, John Steinmetz, and Ethan Wickman.
Post-Haste has toured throughout the United States performing as featured artists at festivals and national meetings and presenting master classes in woodwind performance and chamber music.
Recently serving as ensemble-in-residence for Classical Revolution PDX’s inaugural Outreach Series Program, Post-Haste presented concerts in the Portland metro area with specific emphasis on social outreach and education.
Fredenburg is dedicated to promoting new music for the saxophone, interacting and collaborating with composers searching for a new voice in todayʼs musical current. He has both commissioned and premiered many new works from all genres and styles of music, from solo saxophone to large chamber works. He currently serves as the instructor of saxophone and chamber music at Portland State University, where he received a doctorate in musical arts.
Rodriguez is lecturer in bassoon at the University of Texas at San Antonio where he teaches studio bassoon and courses in woodwind instrumental techniques and world music. He has held several orchestral positions, including the Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, and Valdosta Symphonies. He earned a doctorate in music from Florida State University. Rodriguez teaches bassoon and world music in the summer at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Mich.
Guest artists in the series are invited to campus to perform by their counterparts at OSU. This performance is sponsored by the OSU Department of Music. For more information, contact: Kim Loeffert (405) 744-3964 or kim.loeffert@okstate.edu
Puget Sound Piano Trio to play and teach at OSU
The Puget Sound Piano Trio will present a free concert on Thursday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Willard Hall. The three award-winning faculty members from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington are lauded for their “impressive skill, expressive sound and thoughtful programming.” They include cellist David Requiro, violist Maria Sampen and pianist Duane Hulbert.
Earlier in the day, the trio will work with OSU music students in a chamber music master class, scheduled for 3 p.m. in the concert hall of the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts. The trio has a strong educational mission and regularly gives master classes, clinics and performances in the public school system. The class and concert are free and open to the public.
Along with performances of standard repertoire, the trio is committed to bringing new works to the stage. They perform frequently on concert series in the Northwest United States and Canada.
Guest artists in the series are invited to campus to perform by their counterparts at OSU. This performance is sponsored by the OSU Department of Music. For more information, contact Laura Talbott at laura.talbott@okstate.edu. For more information, phone (405) 744-8998.
Juilliard School of Music professor to offer piano recital
Matti Raekallio, professor of piano at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, will play a solo piano recital on Sunday, March 30, at 2:30 p.m. in OSU’s Seretean Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall in Stillwater. He will perform works by Beethoven, Wagner-Liszt, and Finnish composers Jan Sibelius and Einojuhani Rautavaara.
Raekallio will also present a master class with OSU student performers in the Seretean Center Choir Room the evening before the concert, Saturday, March 29, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Seretean Center Choir Room.
A native of Finland, Raekallio made his American debut in 1981 at the Carnegie (Weill) Recital Hall. Since then, he has made regular tours of the U.S., including solo recitals and performances with numerous American symphony orchestras. He has recorded 20 CDs of varied solo repertoire including an acclaimed set of the complete Prokofieff sonatas on the Ondine label. Before he started work at Juilliard in 2007, he was a full professor at the University for Music and Theater (Hochschule für Musik und Theater) in Hanover, Germany, and at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland.
Raekallio’s visit was made possible through the generosity of a grant from the OSU College of Arts and Sciences Arts and Humanities Lecture Series. Both the recital and the master class are free and open to the public.
For more information, please call (405) 744-6133.