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UP Wind Symphony: Blowing Away The Competition

December 6, 2019

The University of Portland Wind Symphony has been invited to perform at the 2020 Oregon Music Education Association conference in Eugene, OR on Friday, January 17, at 4 p.m., in the Soreng Theatre at the Hult Center. The ensemble was selected through a blind audition process. The concert is free and open to the public.

The Wind Symphony consists of 55 members representing every school on campus and is conducted by Patrick Murphy, performing and fine arts. The undergraduate conducting associates for 2019-20 are seniors Mike Cleary and Bianca Salazar. The Wind Symphony is recognized as one of the finest ensembles in the region and is committed to performing diverse repertoire and commissioning new works for wind band. This performance marks the second time the Wind Symphony has been invited to perform at OMEA in the last five years.

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

Filed Under: 12-09-2019, Academics, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Patrick Murphy, Performing and Fine Arts, UP Wind Symphony

UP Wind Symphony Concert, Nov. 16: “The Legend of Maracaibo”

November 8, 2019

The Wind Symphony will celebrate the music of Spain, Portugal, and Mexico in a free concert, “The Legend of Maracaibo,” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, November 16, in Buckley Center Auditorium (this is a venue change from the original location of Roosevelt High School). The Wind Symphony is conducted by Patrick Murphy, performing and fine arts, and undergraduate conducting associates Mike Cleary and Bianca Salazar.

Filed Under: 11-11-2019, Academics, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Patrick Murphy, Performing and Fine Arts, Wind Symphony

UP Wind Symphony Invited to 2015 Oregon Music Education Conference

October 13, 2014

symphonyThe University Wind Symphony has been invited to perform at the 2015 Oregon Music Education Association conference in Eugene, Ore., in January 2015, according to Patrick Murphy, performing and fine arts. The wind symphony was selected through a blind audition process, and this will be the first time a UP instrumental ensemble has ever performed at a professional conference. They will perform at the Hult Center’s Soreng Theater on January 16 or 17, and the concert will be free and open to the public.

The Wind Symphony consists of 55 members representing every school on campus. This year’s ensemble boasts 17 freshmen, and is conducted by  Murphy. Undergraduate conducting associates for 2014-15 are seniors Brian Carter and David Yee.

The wind symphony’s next on-campus concert will be its Slavic Concert on the afternoon of December 6, featuring the American premiere of Boris Kozhevnikov’s “First Symphony” and junior mathematics major and oboist Janna Riley performing Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Variations on a Theme of Glinka.” Two hundred  tickets are being given to the Portland/Vancou­ver Russian community, so please call the PFA office at 7228 or pfa@up.edu to reserve seats.

Filed Under: 10-13-2014, Academics, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Oregon Music Education Association, Patrick Murphy, Performing and Fine Arts, University Wind Symphony

2014 Rank and Tenure Decisions

February 24, 2014

tam copyEffective July 1, 2014, the following professors will be promoted from assistant to associate professor and granted tenure, according to the provost’s office:

  • Tanya Crenshaw, Engineering
  • Andrew Golla, Performing and Fine Arts
  • Christin Hancock, History
  • Hillary Merk, Education
  • Patrick Murphy, Performing and Fine Arts
  • Craig Swinyard, Mathematics
  • Eugenijus Urnezius, Chemistry

For more information contact the provost’s office at 7105 or staten@up.edu.

Filed Under: 02-24-2014, Academics, Provost's Office Tagged With: Andrew Golla, Christin Hancock, Craig Swinyard, Eugenijus Urnezius, Hillary Merk, Patrick Murphy, Provost's Office, Tanya Crenshaw

Music At Midweek, Feb. 5

February 3, 2014

Orchestra_of_Valentin_Sporius copyPatrick Murphy, performing and fine arts, will discuss his recent trip to Moscow during this week’s Music at Midweek, on Wednesday, February 5, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center recital hall. The event is free and open to all. Murphy will focus on the trials and tribulations he faced in attempting to obtain musical materials from the Soviet era, despite the opinion of other researchers that “it simply can’t be done.” From stories of being held at gunpoint to photos of Lenin’s tomb, all are welcome to look and listen into one of the world’s greatest musical enigmas.

David De Lyser, performing and fine arts, will also present “Hosanna Filio David: The compositional process from concept to performance” (or, “How to compose a work that includes your own name”). De Lyser will discuss his process of fulfilling a commission for an original choral work written for and premiered by the Palm Sunday Chorus of Central Wisconsin. For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.

Filed Under: 02-03-2014, Academics, Events, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: David De Lyser, Patrick Murphy, Performing and Fine Arts

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Anita Gooding, social work, was selected as a 2020-2021 Field Research Scholar by the Transforming Field Education Landscape (TFEL) program at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Scholars attend regular seminars and present their own research related to strengthening field education in social work.

Ösel Plante, development, has a debut collection of poetry titled Waveland set for publication by Black Lawrence Press in April 2021. Please use this link to learn more.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering. recently shared some of his work on palindrome dates with the staff of Farmers’ Almanac which lead to an articled titled “2021: A Special Year For Palindrome Dates, Starting This Month!” See the article using this link.

Bob Butler, professor emeritus of environmental studies; Jenda Johnson, Earth Sciences Animated; and Nic Zentner, Central Washington University, published an animation titled “Ghost Forests: Evidence for a Giant Earthquake & Tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.” This animation explores how Native American oral history, geology of ghost forests in coastal Washington and Oregon, and written accounts of a tsunami that flooded Japanese Pacific Coast villages converge to document the most recent Cascadia subduction zone megathrust earthquake on January 26, 1700 at about 9 p.m. The Ghost Forest animation can be found on the IRIS website at: https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/740 or on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPbt8iiDRo&feature=youtu.be.

Steven Kolmes, environmental studies, wrote an editorial on “Sustainability and the Role of Higher Education” in Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, Vol. 62, , pp. 2-3. See the article at this link. He also contributed “On a ‘Just’ Transition, Environment” in Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 63:1, 29-31, DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2021.1842715.. See the article using this link.

Amber Vermeesch, nursing, received an Opus Prize Foundation Grant Sabbatical Support, Opus Prize Foundation, $5,000, on November 12, 2020.

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