The Fulbright College department of music will feature guest artists Felice Farrell, cello and Michael Carenbauer, guitar, joined by UA cello professor, Dr. Stephen Gates, in concert on Wednesday evening, March 17, at 8:00 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. They will be performing cello/guitar duos by Bach, Villa-Lobos, and Piazolla; and duets for two cellos by Bartok, Boccherini, and Barriere.
Cellist Felice Farrell has been featured in several very well received performances at the University of Arkansas. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees of Music with a Performer’s Certificate at Indiana University and has served as principal cellist with the Minnesota Orchestra and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. She has served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Central Arkansas, as well as being accepted into the Affiliate Artist Management of New York City. Farrell began a chamber music at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and continues to perform locally and statewide with colleagues.
Tradition and technology happily coexist in the music of guitarist Michael Carenbauer, with a repertoire which ranges from Bach to contemporary American music. He received a performance degree in Jazz Guitar from Berklee College in Boston and a Master of Music in Classical Guitar from the University of South Florida and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards for music performance, composition, and education, including a Faculty Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a Fellowship for Music Composition from the Arkansas Arts Council. His progressive use of technology in teaching was acknowledges with the first place award in the UA Little Rock’s first Teaching with Technology Fair. Michael Carenbauer is currently Professor of Music and director of Guitar Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Stephen Gates, cellist, is a native of Boston, where he began his study of the cello at age seven. His education includes degrees from Harvard College, the Yale School of Music and the University of Texas at Austin. He has performed with the Boston Opera Company, and the Boston Pops Orchestra, as well as serving as Associate Principal cellist with the New Haven, Connecticut, and Austin, Texas, Symphony Orchestras, and was the principal cellist of the North Arkansas Symphony for 22 years. Dr. Gates joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas in 1973, as Professor of Cello, and served as Music Department Chair from 1998 until 2008. He is the organizer of the very successful Summer Chamber Music Festival.
The Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall is located in the Fine Arts Building on the UA campus. Free parking is available in the parking deck, which can be accessed from Stadium Drive and is located directly to the west of the Fine Arts Building. The admission is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, please call the department of music at (479) 575-4701 or visit us on the web at http://music.uark.edu.
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