MUSIC 2023 | 2024
2023 | 2024
Lucienne Scully, soprano
Senior Recital
Patricia Dinkins-Matthews, piano and harpsichord
From the studio of Bethany Mamola
MUSIC
Saturday, April 6, 2024, 5:00 p.m.
Emerson Concert Hall
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Please turn off phones and all electronic devices. Photography, recording, or digital capture of this concert is not permitted.
Program Design: Lisa Baron | Cover Photo: Mark Teague
Program
“Rossignols amoureux” from Hippolyte et Aricie Jean Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
with Julia Nagel, flute
Four Folk Songs
Alan Louis Smith
I. I know where I am Going (b. 1955)
II. Early One Morning
III. I Once Loved a Boy
IV. Oh, Johnny with Rachel Lee, viola
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen D. 965
with Eli Parrish, clarinet
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
—Intermission—
Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Jake Heg gie
I. Ophelia’s Song (b. 1961)
II. Women have loved before
III. Not in a Silver Casket
IV. Spring
“Me voilà seule . . . Comme autrefois”
Georges Bizet from Les Pêcheurs de Perles (1838–1875) This recital is presented by the Department of Music at Emory University music.emory.edu
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Performer Biographies
Lucienne Scully, soprano
Lucienne “LuLu” Scully, 21, is from Denver, Colorado. She is a fourthyear double major in music on the vocal performance track and philosophy, politics, and law. She is a Robert Woodruff Music Scholar. Scully currently studies voice under Bethany Mamola and has studied voice for 10 years. At Emory, she serves as co-president of the Emory Concert Choir and sings the soprano II voice part. Scully was previously one of the co-presidents of BridgeEmory and acts as the secretary of Phi Sigma Tau. Scully was a finalist in the 2022–2023 Emory University Concerto and Aria Competition. She most recently performed as a soloist at the Cremona Music Festival in Cremona, Italy. Scully currently works as a voice teacher for children and adults at Guitar Shed in Atlanta. Previously, she worked as an alto staff singer at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Atlanta. She has also worked as an intake intern at the Georgia Innocence Project and as an investigator intern at the Colorado Public Defender’s Office.
Patricia Dinkins-Matthews, piano and harpsichord
Patricia Dinkins-Matthews joined the faculty of Emory in 1998, where she is an associate professor of teaching in piano, vocal coaching, piano skills, and collaborative piano. She has been a member of the piano faculties at the University of Florida, Baylor University, the American Institute of Music Studies (Graz, Austria), and McLennan College. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Dinkins-Matthews has a bachelor of music education degree from the University of Tennessee and both a master of music degree in piano performance and a doctor of musical arts degree in piano pedagogy and performance from the University of Colorado. Dinkins-Matthews is an active solo and chamber music recitalist and has performed both in the United States and Europe, including recitals in England, France, Austria, Belgium, and Germany. Among others, Dinkins-Matthews has been the pianist for the Florida Arts Trio and the American Chamber Winds, and she has appeared as soloist with the Colorado Symphony, the University of Tennessee Orchestra, and the Florida Symphony Orchestra. Dinkins-Matthews is the pianist for the Aevia Trio and the associate pianist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus. She is an approved adjudicator for the National Federation of Music Clubs and the Music Teachers National Association.
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Rachel Lee, viola
Rachel Lee is a third-year biology major and music minor from Atlanta. She is currently a violist in the Emory University Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of other ensembles such as the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Interlochen Arts Camp. Lee has been taught and played in master classes with renowned violists including Marilyn Seelman, Sheila Browne, Jennifer Stumm, and James Dunham, and she is currently studying under Joe Skerik. Lee plans to enter medical school and she enjoys participating in research and other extracurricular activities at Emory University.
Julia Nagel, flute
Julia Nagel is a third-year student at Emory University double majoring in music and philosophy, politics, and law. She began studying flute at age eight with Angela Kelly and currently studies flute under Christina Smith. Nagel is a member of the Emory University Symphony Orchestra and Emory Wind Ensemble. She has been selected for various regional, state, and national honor ensembles. Nagel attended the summer orchestra program at the Interlochen Arts Camp in 2019 and 2020. In 2020, she won the Youth Orchestra of Central Virginia Concerto Competition and she received an honorable mention in the 2022 Emory University Concerto and Aria Competition.
Eli Parrish, clarinet
Composer, conductor, and clarinetist Eli Parrish (b. 2001) has conducted his original compositions, contemporary chamber premieres, and standard orchestral repertoire across the United States and Europe at venues including the Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli & Cortile Palazzo Fodri (Cremona, Italy), Emory University’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts (Atlanta), and the University of the South’s Guerry Hall (Sewanee, Tennessee). Parrish’s works for symphony orchestra, wind ensemble, chamber, voice, and solo instrumentalists explore the intersections of environmentalism, activism, theatrics, and sound-to-color.
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Upcoming Emory Music Concerts
Many concerts at Emory are free to attend. Visit music.emory.edu or schwartz.emory.edu to view complete event information. If a ticket is required for attendance, prices are indicated in the listings below in the following order: Full price/Emory student price (unless otherwise noted as the price for all students).
Sunday, April 7, 7:00 p.m., Emory Chamber Ensembles, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Thursday, April 11, 6:00 p.m., Jazz on the Quad, Emory Quadrangle, free
Friday, April 12, noon, Juilliard String Quartet with Vega Quartet and William Ransom, piano, ECMSA: Cooke Noontime Series, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Saturday, April 13, 8:00 p.m., Emory Gamelan Ensemble, Performing Arts Studio, free
Saturday, April 13, 8:00 p.m., Juilliard String Quartet, ECMSA: Emerson Series: Fentress Waits Concert, Cannon Chapel, free, registration required
Sunday, April 14, 2:00 p.m., Rebecca Goodwin, violin/Rachel Seong, cello, student recitals, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Sunday, April 14, 3:30 p.m.,Sanjay Aiyar, piano/Jonathan Luo, piano, student recitals, Performing Arts Studio, free
Sunday, April 14, 7:00 p.m., Emory Concert Choir, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Tuesday, April 16, 8:00 p.m., Emory Big Band, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Friday, April 19, 8:00 p.m., Emory Wind Ensemble, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Saturday, April 20, 5:00 p.m., Doowon Kim, violin, student recital, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Saturday, April 20, 8:00 p.m., StageWorks 2024, Performing Arts Studio, free
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We hope you enjoy sampling an assortment of work from our student ensembles, community youth ensembles, artists in residence, professional faculty, up-and-coming prodigies, and virtuosos from around the world.
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