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Music at Midweek

Music at Midweek: Tim Connell on Mandolin, March 11

March 6, 2020

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.

Filed Under: 03-02-2020, 03-09-2020, Academics, Music at Midweek, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Music at Midweek, Performing and Fine Arts, Tim Connell

Music at Midweek: Music Therapy with Jessica Steinhebel

February 21, 2020

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.

Filed Under: 02-24-2020, Academics, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Jessica Steinhebel, Music at Midweek, Performing and Fine Arts

Music at Midweek: Trevor New

February 14, 2020

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.

Filed Under: 02-17-2020, Academics, Music at Midweek, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Music at Midweek, Performing and Fine Arts, Trevor New

Music at Midweek: Carl Dupont and Gregory Thompson

October 18, 2019

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.

 

 

 

Filed Under: 10-21-2019, Academics, Music at Midweek, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Music at Midweek, Performing and Fine Arts

Music at Midweek: Andreas Klein, Oct. 9

October 4, 2019

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/

Filed Under: 10-07-2019, Academics, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Andreas Klein, Music at Midweek, PFA

Music at Midweek: Rhythmic Workshop

September 27, 2019

The next Music at Midweek event will feature TaKeTiNa, a rhythmic workshop with Mary Kogen (pictured) and Jacob Stein, on Wednesday, October 2, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. All are welcome to attend.

According to Kogen’s website, “TaKeTiNa invites everyone to be a beginner again. It lets people re-experience the resilience , perseverance, and joy of a baby learning to walk. TaKeTiNa begins with the voice speaking rhythmic syllables and the drum is added to establish the beat. We then add steps to those syllables. Soon everyone is moving and stepping, some to the beat, some not. Tensions ease and the atmosphere lightens as we explore how our bodies move in and out of rhythm. We often share our thoughts as we solidify our steps. As the drum  continues, we add a more complicated polyrhythmic clap, and then eventually a call and response of singing.”

For more information contact PFA at pfa@up.edu or go to marykogen.com/ or peaceinrhythm.com/.

 

 

Filed Under: 09-16-2019, 09-30-2019, Academics, Music at Midweek, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Music at Midweek, Performing and Fine Arts, TaKeTiNa

Music at Midweek: The Alexander Technique, Sept. 25

September 20, 2019

The September 25 Music at Midweek event will be “Introduction to Alexander Technique,” with Rebecca Robbins, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. The event is free and open to all.

Robbins will speak on the Alexander Technique, invented by Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955). An account of Alexander’s self-experimentation and discovery is related in his book, The Use of the Self, which describes his groundbreaking work in changing movement techniques in everyday life. According to alexandertechnique.com:

“The Alexander Technique is a way of learning to move mindfully through life. The Alexander process shines a light on inefficient habits of movement and patterns of accumulated tension, which interferes with our innate ability to move easily and according to how we are designed. It’s a simple yet powerful approach that offers the opportunity to take charge of one’s own learning and healing process, because it’s not a series of passive treatments but an active exploration that changes the way one thinks and responds in activity. It produces a skill set that can be applied in every situation. Lessons leave one feeling lighter, freer, and more grounded.”

For more information contact PFA at x7228 or pfa@up.edu. Also find out more at http://www.oregonalexander.com/

Filed Under: 09-23-2019, Academics, Music at Midweek, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Music at Midweek, Performing and Fine Arts

Music at Midweek: Laura Loge & Steven Luksan

September 6, 2019

The next Music at Midweek performance will feature soprano Laura Loge and pianist Steven Luksan on Wednesday, September 11, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to all.

For more information contact performing and fine arts at x7228 or pfa@up.edu.

Filed Under: 09-09-2019, 09-09-2019, Academics, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Music at Midweek, Performing and Fine Arts

Music at Midweek: Voice Technique Master Class, March 27

March 22, 2019

The next Music at Midweek will feature a master class lecture on “Contemporary and Commercial Voice Technique” by Matthew Edwards on Wednesday, March 27, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. Music at Midweek is free and open to all.

Edwards is one of the leading voice teachers for commercial and musical theatre styles in the United States. He serves as associate professor and coordinator of musical theatre voice at Shenandoah University, artistic director of the Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute, and much more.

For more information contact performing and fine arts at x7228 or pfa@up.edu.

Filed Under: 03-25-2019, Academics, Music at Midweek, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Matthew Edwards, Music at Midweek, Performing and Fine Arts

Music at Midweek: Dan Balmer & Friends, March 20

March 15, 2019

The next Music at Midweek will feature a jazz combo, Dan Balmer and Friends, on Wednesday, March 20, 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. Music at Midweek is free and open to all.

Balmer is a renowned guitarist who has worked with the Tom Grant Band in the 1990s, on world tours with two-time Grammy Award winner Diane Schuur, and in countless contemporary jam-bands. His playing spans nearly one hundred CDs including twelve as a leader from which his original works have appeared internationally in television, film and radio. He is the director of jazz combos at Lewis And Clark College while also serving on music faculty at virtually every other college in the greater Portland area. See Balmer in action at this link.

For more information contact performing and fine arts at x7228 or pfa@up.edu.

 

Filed Under: 03-18-2019, Academics, Music at Midweek, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Dan Balmer & Friends, Music at Midweek, Performing and Fine Arts

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