News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
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/
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/.
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/
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.
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.
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.
This week’s Music at Midweek event will feature the piano duo, XX Digitus Duo, on Wednesday, March 13, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. The performance is free and all are welcome.
Made up of Maria Garcia and Momoko Muramatsu, XX Digitus Duo is based in Portland and has gained wide acclaim for enthralling performances of four-handed piano pieces (hence “20 Fingers” Duo). Find out more about XX Digitus Duo at this link.
This week’s Music at Midweek featured Jackie Glazier on clarinet and Ivan Ugorich on piano on Wednesday, February 27, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. Music at Midweek is free and open to all.
Glazier is an active soloist, chamber musician, orchestral clarinetist, pedagogue, and advocate of new music. She was appointed assistant professor of clarinet at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music in 2016. Ugorich has performed with full-time orchestras including the Florida Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra and Orlando Philharmonic. Additionally, he served for two seasons as principal violist of Symphony Orchestra Augusta, Georgia. He also teaches at the Fred Fox School of Music.
For more information contact performing and fine arts at x7228 or pfa@up.edu.
The next Music at Midweek will feature composer Evan Mack lecturing about his compositional process on Wednesday, February 20, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. Music at Midweek is free and open to all.
Mack is an American composer, librettist, and pianist. He is highly esteemed as a gifted composer by music industry members and colleagues, and composed the music and libretto for his opera, Angel of the Amazon, which will be presented on campus on Saturday, February 23, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. The opera presents the story of Sr. Dorothy Stang and her 2005 martyrdom as she worked to help the poor in the Brazilian rainforest.
For more information contact performing and fine arts at x7228 or pfa@up.edu.