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Please join the UP Music Program’s Music at Midweek class for a presentation on spirituality in the music of John Coltrane by jazz author and educator Ashley Kahn. Mr. Kahn will be in Portland giving lectures on jazz history as part of the PDX Jazz Festival and is appearing at UP as part of that residency. We hope to see you there!
Wednesday, February 28, from 12:30-1:25 p.m. in the Mago Hunt Recital Hall
Please contact Dr. Don Norton (nortond@up.edu) with any questions.
Please join the UP Music Program for our weekly Music at Midweek performance class held on Wednesdays from 12:30-1:25pm in the Mago Hunt Recital Hall unless noted otherwise. All performances and presentations are free and open to the public, and all members of the UP community are invited and encouraged to attend.
Our remaining performances and guest presenters for the rest of the semester are as follows:
Please contact Dr. Don Norton (nortond@up.edu) with any questions
Please join the UP Music Program this Wednesday for our weekly Music at Midweek performance class held from 12:30-1:25 p.m. in the Mago Hunt Recital Hall. All performances and presentations are free and open to the public, and all members of the UP community are invited and encouraged to attend. Our remaining meetings for the rest of the semester are as follows:
Please contact Don Norton (nortond@up.edu) with any questions.
Let UP’s extraordinary music students fill your need for an enriching respite from all those looming deadlines. For the next two Wednesdays (4/19 and 4/26) at 12:30 p.m., be treated to the vocal and instrumental talents of student musicians sharing the fruits of their artistic labors, as they perform at Music at Midweek in Mago Hunt Recital Hall. All are welcome to these free concerts.
As crunch time looms just about everywhere and you see de-stressors and beauty, consider attending the totally free entertainment that is Music at Midweek, each Wednesday, 12:30–1:30 p.m. in Mago Hunt Recital Hall and is open to all. The eclectic schedule includes:
The next Music at Midweek performance will feature mandolinist Tim Connell on Wednesday, March 11, 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. The event is free and open to all.
Tim Connell is well-known to acoustic music fans as a top-tier, virtuoso mandolinist, touring nationally with Don Julin, Eric Skye, and Mike Marshall’s Ger Mandolin Orchestra. Tim has also spent many years putting together a set of solo arrangements for the mandolin, from Brazilian choros to Irish jigs, from Beatles to Broadway. Tim couples these flights of virtuosic picking with heartfelt American songs, giving audiences an intimate window into his virtuosic yet emotional style and his deep passion for music and life.
For more information contact PFA at x7228 or pfa@up.edu.
Music at Midweek will feature a presentation about music therapy by alumna Jessica Steinhebel on Wednesday, February 26, from 12:30-1:25 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. The event is free and open to all. The previously scheduled appearance of pianist Thomas Otten has been cancelled.
Steinhebel is the CEO and Owner of Sound Wellness Music Therapy, LLC. She is a board certified and licensed professional music therapist, which is a recognized licensed health care profession in Oregon. Jessica’s business strives to help the community incorporate music into everyday wellness through music therapy, music wellness classes, and performance. Jessica’s music therapy focus supports adults and elders with psychosocial, emotional, life enrichment, pain management, physical, quality of life, cognitive, and spiritual needs in hospice and palliative care. She received the Western Region Chapter of the American Music Therapy Association 2019 Internship Scholarship and is an on-call resource music therapist with Seasons Hospice-Portland. Learn more about Sound Wellness Music Therapy, LLC and music therapy at www.soundwellnessmusictherapy.com.
For more information contact performing and fine arts at x7228 or pfa@up.edu.
The next Music at Midweek event will feature Trevor New, a Brooklyn-based electro-acoustic viola musician, on Wednesday, February 19, from 12:30 to 1:25 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to all.
Trevor New has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as a soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. He has appeared as a soloist performing the Elgar Cello Concerto transcribed for Viola, and premiering the Henderson Viola Concerto with the Chelsea Symphony of New York. As a chamber musician he has played with the Balkan Chamber Orchestra on a multi-city tour of Japan, Chris McNulty on her Jazz album “Eternal”, Joe Daley’s “Portraits and Virtues”, David Chesky’s “Joy and Sorrow”, Feist’s “Metals”, Hip-hop Violinist and Emmy award winner Damien Escobar, and in the TV Orchestra of television’s first drama about life in a symphony, “Mozart in the Jungle.” In 2018 Trevor performed a concert series with Academy Award winner Joe Hisaishi, playing his film scores, including “Spirited Away” at Carnegie Hall.
For more information contact performing and fine arts at x7228 or pfa@up.edu.
The next Music at Midweek performance will feature bass-baritone Carl Dupont and pianist Gregory Thompson (pictured) on Wednesday, Oct0ber 23, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. Dupont and Gregory will present a recital of songs by African-American composers. They will also perform a concert that night in Mago Hunt at 7 p.m. Both are free and open to all.
This week’s Music at Midweek performance will feature renowned pianist Andreas Klein, who will present “Bach, Beethoven, and Beyond” on Monday, October 9, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. Music at Midweek is free and open to all.
Klein will present a master class at 12:30 and a recital later that evening at 7 p.m. His recital will be the first Fr. Claude Pomerleau Memorial Concert.
Andreas Klein is widely admired as a pianist of rare sensitivity and musicality. The Washington Post has praised his “articulate and flowing pianism” while the New York Times called him “a pianist who makes silences sound like music.”
For more information contact PFA at x7228 or pfa@up.edu, or visit https://www.andreasklein.com/