9-15 Guest Recital: Fenning & Strawser

GUEST RECITAL: Andria Fennig, Piano & Ashley Strawser, Piano Sunday, September 15, 2019 | 2:00 pm LLOYD ULTAN RECITAL HALL

PROGRAM

BIOGRAPHIES

FRANCIS POULENC | 1899-1963

Élégie à la mémoire de Marie-Blanche pour 2 pianos L'embarquement pour Cythère, valse-musette pour 2 pianos CLAUDE DEBUSSY | 1862-1918

Petite Suite

I. En bateau (Sailing): Andantino II. Cortège (Retinue): Moderato III. Menuet: Moderato IV. Ballet: Allegro giusto

DARIUS MILHAUD | 1892-1974

Scaramouche, Suite Op. 165b II. Moderé III. Brasileira

• INTERMISSION •

GEORGE GERSHWIN | 1898-1937

3 Preludes

I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso II. Andante con moto III. Agitato

DAVE BRUBECK | 1920-2012

Points on Jazz I. Prelude II. Scherzo III. Blues IV. Fugue V. Rag VI. Chorale VII. Waltz VIII. A La Turk

Andria Fennig received her doctor of musical arts degree in piano performance from Arizona State University. She has served on the faculties of Arizona State University, the University of HawaiiManoa, the Maricopa Community College District, and Grand Canyon University. Fennig’s broad and allencompassing artistic activities include solo, collaborative piano, and chamber music performance. She regularly appears in pit orchestras of nationally touring Broadway productions (Wicked, Book of Mormon, Matilda, Aladdin, Phantom of the Opera, The Color Purple, and Beautiful), and with entertainer acts (America’s Got Talent finalist, Jackie Evancho, The Voice finalist, Chris Mann, Il Divo, and the Three Irish Tenors). She recently began working with New York-based performing organization National Concerts, which provides unique choral and instrumental performance experiences to pre-college and college musical organizations in major performing venues (Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center). Other major collaborations include the Brahms’ Requiem, and Copland’s American Songs with the two-time Grammy Awardwinning Phoenix Chorale. She is the staff accompanist for the Big 12 Trombone Festival at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Fennig founded and serves as representative for Paradisa!, a flute, cello, piano trio; and the piano duo Dueling Divas. Both ensembles perform several concerts annually throughout the southwestern United States.

Ashley Strawser received her doctor of musical arts degree in organ performance in 2014 from Arizona State University where she studied organ with Dr. Kimberly Marshall and collaborative piano, harpsichord, and fortepiano with Professor Russell Ryan. Strawser also holds a bachelor of science degree in music education from the Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Formerly serving at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Scottsdale, Arizona as interim Choirmaster and Organist as well as Youth and Children’s Music Associate and Handbell Director, Strawser is currently organist and director of music and arts ministries at Paradise Valley United Methodist Church. She accompanies and performs regularly with various musical groups, theaters, and churches throughout Paradise Valley, notably the Phoenix Women’s Chorus and Phoenix Chorale.

Strawser has also performed in recital on organs across the U.S., Mexico, Spain, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands.

She regularly collaborates with Dr. Andria Fennig as part of Dueling Divas, performing and recording repertoire for Piano FourHands. The duo was recently featured at the Red Rocks Music Festival in Sedona, Arizona.

Please TURN OFF all electronic devices.

Even on vibrate, these can interfere with our recording process.

This event & other ensemble events will be live-streamed at z.umn.edu/musicstream

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PROGRAM

BIOGRAPHIES

FRANCIS POULENC | 1899-1963

Élégie à la mémoire de Marie-Blanche pour 2 pianos L'embarquement pour Cythère, valse-musette pour 2 pianos CLAUDE DEBUSSY | 1862-1918

Petite Suite

I. En bateau (Sailing): Andantino II. Cortège (Retinue): Moderato III. Menuet: Moderato IV. Ballet: Allegro giusto

DARIUS MILHAUD | 1892-1974

Scaramouche, Suite Op. 165b II. Moderé III. Brasileira

• INTERMISSION •

GEORGE GERSHWIN | 1898-1937

3 Preludes

I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso II. Andante con moto III. Agitato

DAVE BRUBECK | 1920-2012

Points on Jazz I. Prelude II. Scherzo III. Blues IV. Fugue V. Rag VI. Chorale VII. Waltz VIII. A La Turk

Andria Fennig received her doctor of musical arts degree in piano performance from Arizona State University. She has served on the faculties of Arizona State University, the University of HawaiiManoa, the Maricopa Community College District, and Grand Canyon University. Fennig’s broad and allencompassing artistic activities include solo, collaborative piano, and chamber music performance. She regularly appears in pit orchestras of nationally touring Broadway productions (Wicked, Book of Mormon, Matilda, Aladdin, Phantom of the Opera, The Color Purple, and Beautiful), and with entertainer acts (America’s Got Talent finalist, Jackie Evancho, The Voice finalist, Chris Mann, Il Divo, and the Three Irish Tenors). She recently began working with New York-based performing organization National Concerts, which provides unique choral and instrumental performance experiences to pre-college and college musical organizations in major performing venues (Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center). Other major collaborations include the Brahms’ Requiem, and Copland’s American Songs with the two-time Grammy Awardwinning Phoenix Chorale. She is the staff accompanist for the Big 12 Trombone Festival at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Fennig founded and serves as representative for Paradisa!, a flute, cello, piano trio; and the piano duo Dueling Divas. Both ensembles perform several concerts annually throughout the southwestern United States.

Ashley Strawser received her doctor of musical arts degree in organ performance in 2014 from Arizona State University where she studied organ with Dr. Kimberly Marshall and collaborative piano, harpsichord, and fortepiano with Professor Russell Ryan. Strawser also holds a bachelor of science degree in music education from the Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Formerly serving at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Scottsdale, Arizona as interim Choirmaster and Organist as well as Youth and Children’s Music Associate and Handbell Director, Strawser is currently organist and director of music and arts ministries at Paradise Valley United Methodist Church. She accompanies and performs regularly with various musical groups, theaters, and churches throughout Paradise Valley, notably the Phoenix Women’s Chorus and Phoenix Chorale.

Strawser has also performed in recital on organs across the U.S., Mexico, Spain, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands.

She regularly collaborates with Dr. Andria Fennig as part of Dueling Divas, performing and recording repertoire for Piano FourHands. The duo was recently featured at the Red Rocks Music Festival in Sedona, Arizona.

Please TURN OFF all electronic devices.

Even on vibrate, these can interfere with our recording process.

This event & other ensemble events will be live-streamed at z.umn.edu/musicstream

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