All For Not An Interdisciplinary Performance Featuring Music NOT Written for Trombone Dr. Robert Pippin – Trombone Dr. Jiwon Choi – Piano Dr. Michael Faris – Assistant Professor of Art Education ~ and Special Guest ~ Madeline Langenfeld – Dance
Presented by Northwest Missouri State University College of Arts and Sciences Department of Fine and Performing Arts Wednesday, April 17, 2019 – 7:30 p.m. Charles Johnson Theatre Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building 1
Program Concerto for French Horn and Orchestra, Op. 8 (1865)
Romance for Horn and Orchestra, Op. 36 (1874)
Franz Stauss (1822-1905) ed. Barry Tuckwell Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Song For A Friend for Trumpet and Piano (2015) Commissioned by the friends of John Wacker
Kevin McKee (b. 1980)
Spiegel im Spiegel for Violin and Piano (1978) Dr. Michael Faris – Painter Madeline Langenfeld – Dancer Nessun Dorma from Turandot (1924-26) Georgia On My Mind (1930)
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Music By Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981) Words by Stuart Gorrell (1901-1963) With Surprise Special Guests
~Dr. Robert Pippin is Assistant Professor of Low Brass and Music Education, Director of the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, and is Co-Director of the Northwest Summer Music Camp. A veteran public school educator, Robert taught high school band for thirteen years, while remaining an active trombone performer in Colorado and Wyoming. He was a tenured member of the Fort Collins Symphony, and was in demand as a freelance artist in classical, jazz, and chamber music in the Rocky Mountain Region. Immediately prior to his appointment to Northwest, Robert was Director of The Johns Hopkins University Wind Ensemble, and assistant conductor for the Peabody Wind Ensemble while pursuing the Doctor of Music degree at the Peabody Conservatory. His applied students have been selected to the Missouri All-Collegiate Band, All-Collegiate Orchestra, and have been awarded graduate assistantships. Robert completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Wind Band Conducting at Peabody, studying with Dr. Harlan Parker. While in residency at Peabody, he held the Graduate Assistantship in Wind Conducting, and the Graduate Assistantship in Music Education. He earned a Bachelor of Music Education, and a Master of Music in Conducting from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Robert studied conducting with Dr. J. Steven Moore, Wilfred Schwartz, and Dr. Michael Schaff; and studied low brass with Dr. Robert Brewer. In recent years, Dr. Pippin has been a performer and clinician with bands, orchestras, and jazz ensembles in Colorado, Missouri, Maryland, and Idaho – conducting honor bands, clinics, and adjudicating for music events. Robert is co-faculty advisor of the Upsilon Chi chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and is a member of NAfME, MMEA, CBDNA, MoASTA/ASTA, MBA, the Conductors Guild, and Pi Kappa Lambda.
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~Born in Busan, South Korea, Dr. Jiwon Choi won First Prize of the 2014 American Protégé International Competition of Romantic Music and made her debut at the Carnegie Hall. She was also selected as a Finalist in the professional division of The American Prize national competition in the performing arts. Her performances as a soloist and a collaborative pianist have spanned many venues throughout the United States, South Korea and Italy. She was invited to perform in the inaugural event of the 2017 Seattle International Piano Competition and Festival and world premiere compositions at the 2013 International Beethoven Festival in Chicago. She has also joined Italian Operatic Experience as a coach in Urbania, Italy. Most recently, she has been invited to perform at the Weill Recital Hall of the Carnegie Hall as a First Prize winner of the 2018 Golden Classical Music Awards International Competition. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Kansas, where she served as Graduate Teaching Assistantship and a faculty at the University of Kansas Community Music School. She received her Master of Music at Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and her Bachelor of Music at Dong-Ah University in South Korea. She is currently collaborative pianist and coordinator of collaborative piano at Northwest Missouri State University. She regularly serves as Music Director at Korean Presbyterian Church of Kansas. ~Dr. Michael Faris is an artist and art instructor and is Assistant Professor of Art Education at Northwest. He has also taught at Shawnee Community College in Ullin, Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (SUIE) and Centralia High School in Centralia, Illinois. He has also taught at various community art centers, including the Centralia Cultural Society, the Little Egypt Art Association, the Hartley Art Gallery and Event Center, and Carbondale Community Arts. Faris has exhibited his paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, the Evansville museum of Arts and Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, the Indianapolis Art Center, The Springfield Art Association, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Swope Art Museum, Carbondale Community Arts, the Centralia Cultural Society, South Suburban College, Southeastern Illinois College, and other locations. Faris also started the Summer Art for All programs in 2012, which offer free summer art classes for children from minority population and children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. The programs are held in various schools in Southern Illinois. Faris earned his PhD in art education at Indiana University, Bloomington, and earned his MS and BS in art education at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He was named SIUE art education student of the year in 1996, and was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society the same year. He was awarded the Della Fricke Art Education Scholarship at IUB. His dissertation explores racial inequity in community arts centers in the United States, with part of the study involving a specific arts center in the Midwest. Faris has given several professional presentations for organizations in Indiana and Illinois involving art with a social agenda, racial issues in the arts and art education, multicultural art education, curriculum development, and historical issues in art. Faris lives in Maryville, Missouri with his wife, Debra. 3
Northwest Administration Dr. John Jasinski – President Dr. Jamie Hooyman – Provost Dr. Michael Steiner – Associate Provost of Undergraduate Studies; Dean, College of Arts & Sciences Dr. Kathryn Strickland – Chair, Fine and Performing Arts Dr. William Richardson – Dennis C. Dau Endowed Professor of Music / Assistant Chair
Northwest Music Faculty Alyssa Bell – Violin, Viola John Bell – Director of Wind Symphony, Music Education Dr. Debra Brown – Music Education Dr. Jiwon Choi – Collaborative Pianist Dr. Rebecca Dunnell – Flute, Musicology Andrea Stanton – Horn Dr. Ernest Kramer – Piano, Harpsichord, Music Theory, Composition Dr. Brian Lanier – Madraliers, Celebration Show Choir, Univ. Chorale, Music Education Matthew McGrory – Cello, Double Bass Andrew Morales – Percussion Dr. Anthony Olson – Piano, Organ Dr. Sheila Phillips – Applied Voice Dr. Robert Pippin – Director of Orchestra, Low Brass, Music Education Dr. William Richardson – Trumpet, Jazz Studies Dr. Pamela Shannon – Applied Voice Dr. Kathryn Strickland – Director of Athletic Bands, Percussion, Music Education Joseph Tomasso – Reed Woodwinds, Composition, Foundations of Theory Dr. Stephen Town – Tower Choir, Applied Voice, Music Theory
Northwest Summer Music Camp June 9 – 14, 2019 https://www.nwmissouri.edu/camps/music/index.htm https://www.facebook.com/nwmusiccamp/
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