Music Department Opens Fall Season
The Department of Music has been recognized for its dynamic concerts and recitals and this year follows the tradition of presenting cultural events on the UWG campus to the community.
“This fall the music department is offering a wonderful array of high quality performances and concerts,” said Dr. Kevin Hibbard, professor of music and chair of the music department. “The students and faculty are preparing for an outstanding season and we hope everyone takes advantage of this opportunity to hear and see the talent at West Georgia.”
Guest pianists Kevin Hampton, professor of music at Armstrong Atlantic State University, and Lyle Indergaard, professor of piano at Valdosta State University, will open the season by performing together on one piano on Thursday, Oct. 4, at 8:15 p.m. in the Kathy Cashen Recital Hall in the Humanities Building.
The Piano Four-Hands Program will include works by Alfredo Casella, “Pupazzetti;” Harald Genzmer, “Sonata in D Major;” John Corigliano, “Gazebo Dances;” Franz Schubert, “Fantasy in F minor, Op. 103,” and Paul Schoenfield’s “Boogie.”
Hampton studied piano and harpsichord at the Conservatoire National in Toulouse, France, and has performed throughout the U.S. He will appear with the Savannah Sinfonietta and Chamber Players in January.
Indergaard has studied at the Freiburg Conservatory of Music in Germany and the Eastman School of Music. He received a Fulbright Scholarship and an Annette Kade Foundation Grant to study piano in Germany and has performed Germany and throughout Europe.
The Fall Concert Choir and Chamber Singers Concert will perform on Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 8:15 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts.
Hibbard will direct the event and conduct the Concert Choir, which is accompanied by Jan Adams, instructor of piano, and will perform classic choral pieces such as “The Last Words of David” by Randall Thompson, timeless Negro spirituals and several contemporary selections.
The Chamber Singers, a select group of 14 UWG music students, will perform compositions that span 400 years, including a 16th-century motet by Luca Marenzio, a composer of both secular and sacred compositions.
The Chamber Singers will also perform contemporary selections by Knut Nystedt of Norway and Leong Yoon Pin of Singapore, both known for their outstanding choral and orchestral compositions; and American and Hungarian folk songs.
Other upcoming music events include the Annual A DAY Faculty Concert on Oct. 15, a Faculty Chamber Music Concert on Oct. 22, two opera performances, several jazz recitals and ensembles and the award winning “The Sound that Lights the South” UWG Marching Band. For more information, call 678-839-6516 or visit www.westga.edu.
