Thursday night the University School of Music and Dance will be putting on a special performance to honor the top talents in its department. The Emerging Artist Series@@http://music.uoregon.edu/ears/index.htm@@ is a new recital program that showcases the department’s premiere student performers.@@http://music.uoregon.edu/@@
The series initially premiered in February to high acclaim. The spring showcase promises to be equally impressive.
“We’re very proud of these students, and I’m so glad that this new series — the result of faculty conversations last year — showcases their work,” performance area coordinator Brian McWhorter said.@@http://uoregon.edu/findpeople/person/Brian*McWhorter@@
The showcase will feature both solo and group performances from students in both music and dance concentrations.
“This term there are more groups (as opposed to soloists) and we will be featuring a major jazz component, two dance performances and two fabulous chamber music groups,” McWhorter said.
The showcase will feature performances from Aaron Cain (baritone), Molly Everts (dance), Julianna Han (flute), Matthew Krein (guitar),@@names googled@@ the Bavardage Sextet, the Kodaly String Quartet@@http://www.kodalyquartet.com/@@, the Oregon Jazz Collective@@http://www.theshedd.org/dive/faculty.aspx?artist=303&series=2106@@ and several members of the Oregon Percussion Ensemble.@@http://uoregon.edu/findpeople/person/Aaron*Cain http://uoregon.edu/findpeople/person/everts/96297 http://uoregon.edu/findpeople/person/julianna*han http://uoregon.edu/findpeople/person/krein@@
The School of Music and Dance performance faculty nominates the student honorees and performers who are to be showcased. The EArS program is designed to promote musicians and dancers with distinguishing talent and skill. This term’s group boasts a diverse roster of strong, emerging undergraduate and graduate talent. Being honored in the series is considered a prestigious achievement among the faculty and students of the School of Music and Dance.
McWhorter said this term’s “show will feature a wide variety of work that, in about an hour, will exemplify the diversity of performance modalities we work on every term.” That is, each performance will display the complexities of the study of music and the ways in which diversity can come together in one unified display of creative expression.
The EArS performance will be taking place at the Beall Concert Hall at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Admission is free.@@http://music.uoregon.edu/ears/120503.html@@