News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
The performing and fine arts department will kick off its Fall 2015 lunchtime concert series, Music at Midweek, with a performance by soprano Katrina Galka and pianist Nicholas Fox on Wednesday, September 9, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center recital hall. The recital is free and open to all.
For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7229 or pfa@up.edu.
Music at Midweek performers for Wednesday, March 5 are sopranos Rebecca Wascoe from Texas Tech University and Nicole Leupp Hanig, performing and fine arts (pictured). They will be joined by pianist Richard Bower. Their free performance begins at 12:30 p.m. in Mago Hunt Center recital hall. Music will include operatic duets and solos from the romantic era and the 20th Century. For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.
This week’s Music at Midweek performance will feature Adam LaMotte and colleagues, playing music that focuses on English composers, on Wednesday, February 19, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center recital hall. The concert is free and open to all. For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.
This week’s Music at Midweek performance will feature pianist Aszemar Glenn on Wednesday, February 12, at 12:30 p.m., in Hunt Center recital hall. Glenn will perform “Waltz in A Minor Op. 12, No. 2” by Evard Grieg, “Sonata in Eb Major, Hob. XVI No. 53 by Joseph Haydn, “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Modeste Mussorgsky, and his own composition, “Distant Bells.” The performance is free and open to all. For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.
Ken Kleszynski, performing and fine arts, will present a brief lecture about the British composer George Lloyd (1913-1998), followed by the short film “Strange Storms and Symphonies,” about Lloyd’s life and music, on Wednesday, January 29, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center recital hall. His presentation will be this week’s “Music at Midweek” event, which is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.
The performing and fine arts department will present Elisa Doughty, soprano (pictured), and Susan McDaniel, piano, in the next Music at Midweek performance on Wednesday, January 22, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center recital hall. The performance is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. Selections will include Six Elizabethan Songs by Dominick Argento; Myrthen Lieder, Op. 25 by Robert Schumann; Le Rossignol des Lilas (Dauphin) by Reynaldo Hahn, and others. For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.
The next Music @ Midweek performance will be “Music Therapy: Sounding the Bridge Between Art & Science,” on Wednesday, October 23, at 12:30 p.m. in Mago Hunt Recital Hall. Christine Korb, interim director of music therapy at Pacific University, will join Alexis Bron.
The voice faculty will be performing at Music @ Midweek on Wednesday, October 30, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. Nicole Hanig, Jill Soltero, Wade Baker, and John Boelling will be featured. For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.
Music at Midweek will feature the following performances during March on Wednesdays, 12:30-1:25, Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. Free Admission, all are welcome:
For more information contact Micheal Connolly, performing and fine arts, at 7228 or connolly@up.edu.