March 2015

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This Month at Setnor    
  

March at Setnor is full blown recital season! Other than one week of spring break, Setnor Auditorium will be hosting performances non-stop, with over 25 recitals and concerts in just three weeks. Speaking of spring break, students will be returning to New York City for Gilbert Week. 

 

Gilbert week was launched last year by Michelle Taylor, Setnor's Assistant Director for Operations. This week-long immersion program will include visits to many indelible performing arts institutions, including Carnegie Hall, the League of American Orchestras, Lincoln Center Theater, the Metropolitan Opera, Orchestra of St Luke's, Steinway & Sons, and more. Last year, the trip was extremely successful and students were able to make important professional contacts, as well as learn about the wide variety of career opportunities in music. We are grateful to Dennis and Nancy Gilbert (Dennis - BM '73 Music Education and Nancy - BS '74 Education and English) for once again making this opportunity possible for our students.

Alumni News 

 

Mimi Bornstein BM '89 (Music Education) has launched an impressive career since studying at Syracuse University.  She is currently the founder and artistic director of Midcoast Community Chorus (MCC) of Rockport, Maine, a non-profit community arts organization which uses music and singing as a vehicle for creating meaningful change in our local communities. With a mission to "sing as a community for the community" and a belief that every voice has value and deserves to be heard, this organization's programs include a 140 voice non-auditioned multigenerational chorus, a 60 voice auditioned Chorale, non-auditioned children and youth choirs, and music literacy and voice classes. Based on the concept that powerful things happen when people sing together, MCC's annual benefit concerts raise awareness and an average of $10,000 for local non-profit organizations doing good, important work in our local communities. MCC has donated over $65,000 since its founding in 2007. 

Faculty/Staff Feature

 

Stephen Ferre is a composer, arranger, and music engraver, as well as conductor and performer on trombone and euphonium. In December, Dr. Ferre completed a re-orchestration for sinfonietta of Per Nørgård's viola concerto, Remembering Child, for Edition Wilhelm Hansen, and also completed his third symphony in January. Works in progress by Dr. Ferre include a short movement for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, to be performed in May, which will form part of a longer work that will be performed late this summer. It will eventually form the basis of a double concerto for violin and cello, Labyrinth, which will be performed in an 8-instrument chamber version next year.

 

The SU Contemporary Music Ensemble, which Dr. Ferre directs, will be performing two movements of Marco Giusto's Violin Concerto, and a new work by Stephen A. Taylor, Shindychew Dances, from his 2012 opera Paradises Lost. Just last month they recorded a new work by Dr. Ferre, Chaos Theory.

Student Spotlight        

      

Kaziah White MM'16 (Composition) did his undergraduate work at Shepard University, earning a Bachelors of Arts in Music degree with a Concentration in Composition. This past February through April, he was the musical director for the 2011 Revival edition of Godspell, put on by a student-organized, student-run group called Scene Stealers in his hometown of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In January, Kaz was commissioned by the orchestra and band directors of Northfield Elementary School in Ellicott City, Maryland, to write a piece for the fifth grade band students, and another for the fourth and fifth grade string students. The rehearsals and final concerts for these compositions were in May. He worked with both their band and orchestra as composer, guest conductor, and clinician, where he found that the kids were all extremely talented and it was an absolutely wonderful experience. This year, Kaz is a teaching assistant for freshman music theory.
Calendar of Events
  

Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra and four Setnor Choirs

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

8:00 PM

Setnor Auditorium

Free and open to the public

 

Soyars Lecture Series Presents: Jon Cohen

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

6:30-7:50 PM

SOM 007

 

Matteo Longhi, Violin: Student Recital

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

8:00 PM

Setnor Auditorium

Free and open to the public

 

Mass of Reconciliation (Jazz Mass): Malmgren Series - Hendricks Chapel

Thursday, March 5, 2015

7:30 pm

Hendricks Chapel

Free and open to the public

 

Andrew Henderson, Organ: Guest Artist Series

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

8:00 PM

Setnor Auditorium

Free and open to the public

 
For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.
  
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