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The Fulbright College department of music will feature the UA Jazz Ensembles, under the direction of James Greeson, in their Fall concert on Friday evening, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m.in the Arkansas Union Theater.  The two 17 piece big bands will be performing music by Count Basie, Matt Harris, Neal Hefti, and Horace Silver.

A number of undergraduate and graduate musicians will be featured in solo roles throughout the concert, including trombonist Matthew Shipes, trumpeter Michael Howland, drummer Chris Wylie, and saxophonists Jameson Burton and Sid Windford.  Undergraduate vocalist Jayne Jackson will also be featured, singing the classic Gershwin song, “A Foggy Day”.  Two jazz combos led by pianist Claudia Burson will perform a short set featuring well known jazz standards.

The Arkansas Union Theater is located on the UA campus.  Free parking is available in the parking deck, which can be accessed from Stadium Drive and is located next to the Arkansas Union.  The admission is free and the public is cordially invited to attend.  For more information, please call Dr. James Greeson at (479) 575-4190 or visit us on the web at www.uark.edu/dept/uamusic.
UA JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Saxophones
Jason Cooney, Molly Steen, Jonathan Howland & Aaron Nolley; altos
C.J. Weatherford, Jameson Burton; tenors
Melanie Nolen & Barrett Barker, baritone sax

Trumpets
Kyle Russell, Johnathan Paape, Dan Castellanos,
Jack Teague & Brant Gorham

Trombones
Michael Olefsky, Joe Wilhelm, Lance Grigsby,
Matt Cope, Gary Sloan, & Jim Wilson

Rhythm Section
Eric Flagg, Tasuku Itoh; piano
Trevin Russell, Joel Paul, & Joel Schisler; guitar
Reed Faitak, John Hysell & Gary Sloan;  bass
Oliver Molina, vibraphone and percussion
Chris Wylie, Matt Heffron, & Derek Faires: drums

The Fulbright College department of music will feature the University of Arkansas Saxophone Chamber Ensemble in concert on Thursday evening, November 20, at 7:00 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.  The ensemble will be performing works by Bach, Caravan, Henderson, Grieg, and Dankner.

The University of Arkansas Saxophone Chamber Ensemble was organized in 1992 by the university’s resident saxophonist, Stan Morris.  The ensemble, comprised of saxophone students who are currently studying saxophone at the University of Arkansas, varies in size from a compliment of six to eleven instrumentalists.  However, the instrumentation remains constant: soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass saxophone.

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.

The Fulbright College department of music will present the Lyrique Quintette in concert on Wednesday night, Nov. 5th at 8:00 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

The Lyrique Quintette is the faculty woodwind chamber ensemble in residence at the University of Arkansas. Members of the ensemble are Dr. Ronda Mains, flute, Dr. Theresa Delaplain, oboe, Dr. Nophachai Cholthitchanta, clarinet, Dr. Timothy Thomposon, French horn and Richard Ramey, bassoon.  A versatile troupe, the ensemble has been invited to perform throughout the U.S. and abroad. The members perform chamber music as chamber music should be heard–in an intimate, personal, and comfortable setting–bringing the performers and audience together as partners in the creation of an art form.

Featured on the November 5th concert will be the first performance of the Quintet for Winds by music department member Christopher Lacy.  Lacy, who serves as artistic director of the Opera Theater, is a 2009 winner of an Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Composition.  Lacy’s Quintet was inspired by the Italian Commedia dell’Arte, whose well known operatic characters include Harlequin and Pierrot.

A member of ASCAP, Lacy has won numerous awards with his compositions, including the 1989 Virgil Thomson Award.  His compositions have been performed worldwide, and he has received grants and commissions from major funding organizations such as the Sosland Foundation and The Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation. Upcoming publications include Three Mediterranean Landscapes  for Flute Choir and Percussion from Falls House Press. The Quintet for Winds and Stick Figures for Two Clarinets and Two Bassoons are published by Trevco Music.

The Lyrique Quintette is also performing Debussy’s Children’s Corner suite, arranged by university graduate Richard Bobo, from the original piano work. A suite of six pieces, this work evokes an adult view of childhood.  Originally written for Debussy’s daughter, each piece has a descriptive title, among them “Golliwog’s Cakewalk” and “The Snowflakes are Dancing.”

Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition rounds out the evening.  A walk through an exhibit of paintings, originally for solo piano, inspired this work. The quintet’s performance will include a slide show of some of the original paintings, which include the famous “Hut of Baba-Yaga” and the “Great Gates of Kiev.”

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 cordially invited to attend.  A reception in honor of Lacy’s Quintet will follow the concert, sponsored by the John Harrison Opera Foundation.  For more information, please call the department of music at (479) 575-4701 or visit us on the web at www.uark.edu/depts/uamusic.

The Fulbright College department of music will present the Inspirational Singers in concert on Saturday evening, Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Walton Arts Center.  They will be performing pieces by Donnie McClurkin, Mark Condon, and Richard Smallwood.  The Inspirational Singers are conducted by Dr. Eddie Jones.

The Inspirational Singers, founded at the University of Arkansas in 1977, have garnered national distinction through performances at State and National conferences.  They have performed for dignitaries and Heads of State such as President Bill Clinton and have received numerous invitations to represent the state of Arkansas at Festivals across the country.  Most recently they returned from a performing tour of China. In addition to hearing lovely voices performing music from the black American sacred music tradition, the Inspirational Singers will also feature a Drama team, a Dance team, and a Step team.

Admission for this event will be $10 for the general public, $5 for senior citizens and $1 for UA students. The Walton Arts Center is located at 495 W. Dickson Street in Fayetteville, AR.  Free parking is available across the street from the Walton Arts Center on a first come, first serve basis.  For more information, please call the department of music at (479) 575-4701 or visit us on the web at www.uark.edu/depts/uamusic.  To purchase tickets, call the Walton Arts Center at (479) 443-5600.

Program:
I Will Sing            Donnie McClurkin
I Came To Magnify        Mark Condon
Journey            Richard Smallwood
Fare Ye Well            arr. Eddie Jones
Total Praise            Richard Smallwood

The Fulbright College department of music will feature guest cellist Felice Farrell in concert on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.  She will be accompanied on piano by Hee-Kyung Juhn.  Pieces by Beethoven, Bartok, and Rachmaninoff will be performed.

Felice Farrell received her early musical education on the piano, violin, and cello with her parents and grandfather in Utica, New York. After studying at the University of Syracuse and Eastman School of Music, she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees of Music with the Performer’s Certificate at Indiana University. Her first major appointment, at age twenty-three, was with the Minnesota Orchestra as assistant, associate, and then acting principal cello. Later she was the principal cellist in the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. She taught throughout that period at the University of Minnesota.
She was also accepted into the Affiliate Artist Management of New York City and was on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music. In New York she met Dr. Robert Farrell and moved to Little Rock, Arkansas. Farrell began a chamber music series at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, taught at the University of Central Arkansas, and continues performing locally and statewide with colleagues.

Pianist Hee-Kyung Juhn is the Director of Keyboard Studies at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia. She joined Henderson after six years of teaching at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She has degrees from Juilliard School (MM) and Indiana University (DM); and she has participated in music festivals such as Tanglewood, Aspen, Bowdoin, and Yale Piano Summer Institute.

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 cordially invited to attend.  For more information, please call the department of music at (479) 575-4701 or visit us on the web at www.uark.edu/depts/uamusic.

Program

Sonata, Op. 5, No. 1, in F major    Ludwig van Beethoven
Adagio sostenuto – Allegro    (1770-1827)
Rondo – Allegro vivace

Duos, originally for two violins    Bela Bartok
Transcribed for two cellos by Gates/Farrell    (1881-1945)

Sonata, Op. 19, in g minor    Sergei Rachmaninoff
Lento – Allegro moderato    (1873-1943)
Allegro scherzando
Andante
Allegro mosso

The Fulbright College department of music will present Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in a performance featuring University Choral Ensembles the Schola Cantorum, the Concert Choir, the Chamber Singers and the Master Chorale, with orchestra.  The concert will be held on Friday evening, Nov. 7 at 8:00 p.m. in the Walton Arts Center.

More than 200 singers will take the stage to perform Fauré’s majestic and sublime work for chorus and orchestra. The first half of the concert will feature the Schola Cantorum, which will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, one of Bach’s earliest compositions.

Admission for this event will be $10 for the general public, $5 for senior citizens and $1 for UA students. The Walton Arts Center is located at 495 W. Dickson Street in Fayetteville, AR.  Free parking is available across the street from the Walton Arts Center on a first come, first serve basis.  For more information, please call the department of music at (479) 575-4701 or visit us on the web at www.uark.edu/depts/uamusic.  To purchase tickets, call the Walton Arts Center at (479) 443-5600.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Free Fall Festival of the Arts committee is pleased to present this year’s fall programming with a kickoff event in the Arkansas Union Connections Lounge with live art, free food and more, 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 3. Read more…

The Fulbright College department of music will feature the University of Arkansas Wind Symphony and the University Symphony Orchestra in concert on Monday evening, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Baum Walker Hall at the Walton Arts Center.  Pieces by Aaron Copland, Gustav Holst, Kevin Walczyk, Ron Nelson, Dmitri Shostakovich, Carl Maria von Weber, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Guiseppe Verdi will be performed.  Read more…

The Fulbright College department of music will feature guest pianist, Vitaly Margulis in concert on Thursday evening, Nov. 13 at 8:00 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.  He will be performing pieces by Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Schumann, Grieg, Scriabin, Debussy, and Chopin.  Read more…

The Fulbright College department of music will feature the UA Trumpet Studio in a recital on Wednesday evening, Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.  This recital features select members of the trumpet studio in a joint recital.  Compositions range the spectrum of the repertoire from Haydn’s famous trumpet concerto to today’s most beloved sonatas.  Kristin Harwell will accompany on piano and organ.

Students performing will be Patrick Oliverio, Joseph Pullara, Alan Andrae, Adam Vanderbush, Kris Still, Will Nash, Robert Kain and Brian Glass.

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 cordially invited to attend.  For more information, please call the department of music at (479) 575-47011 or visit us on the web at www.uark.edu/depts/uamusic” href=”http://www.uark.edu/depts/uamusic”>www.uark.edu/depts/uamusic.

Program

Carl Alexius (1928-2000)             Sonatina for Trumpet and Piano
I. Allegro
Patrick Oliverio, trumpet

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)        Concerto
III. Allegro
Joseph Pullara, trumpet

Alan Hovhaness (1911- 2000)        Prayer of Saint Gregory
Alan Andrae, trumpet

Kent Kennan (1913-2003)         Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
III. Moderately fast, with energy
Adam Vanderbush, trumpet

Eric Ewazen (b. 1954)            Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
I. Lento, Allegro Molto
Kris Still, trumpet
II. Allegretto
Will Nash, trumpet

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)         Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
I. Mit kraft
Robert Kain, trumpet

Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)        Intrada
Brian Glass, trumpet