ANNUAL REPORT Music and the High School Shakespeare Competition Beginning in the fall of 2009 the SUU Music Department will be joining in the High School Shakespeare Competition with events in two areas: Madrigals and Minstrel. The objective of the music component of the Shakespeare Competition is designed to allow students to explore and develop a relationship with the music of the Renaissance with flexibility and creativity in the performance of these works. Students will be encouraged to come up with their own creative combinations of instruments while not being required to use only period instruments. Dr. Lynn Vartan and her colleagues in the Music Department will be joining the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, the Theatre Arts and Dance and the Art and Design Departments, in this new partnership. This year will mark the first time that all of the departments in the College of Performing and Visual Arts will be part of this very successful program. The High School Shakespeare Competition will be celebrating its 33rd year October 8-10, 2009 and is under the direction of Michael Bahr from the Utah Shakespearean Festival.
Summer 2009 Music Faculty Highlights Dr. Keith Bradshaw, chair of the Music Department, had his composition entitled "Merediths' Lament" premiered in Thorley Recital Hall on March 28, 2009 by Meredith Morris and Meredith Morse, sopranos, with Tracey Bradshaw at piano. The piece was commissioned for the recital with text by Meredith Morris' father, Roland Morris. Dr. Bradshaw has been commissioned to write a piece for the Orchestra of Southern Utah and pianist Tracey Bradshaw, which will be premiered in November 2009. Under Dr. Bradshaw's direction, Opus toured Southern California in May 2009, performing in Diamond Bar, Fullerton, Knott's Berry Farm and Newport Beach. Choir members were given the opportunity to meet with high schools in Diamond Ranch and Fullerton to work with choral students. Lastly, Dr. Bradshaw will direct the Southern Utah Heritage Choir on a tour to China in October 2009. The choir has been invited to sing in the Shanghai Music Festival and will tour through Shanghai, Beijing and Xi'an. Dr. Kirill Gliadkovsky was featured at the Heber Valley Piano Festival with a recital March 18, 2009 (which included a piano duet debut with his 10-year old daughter, Anastassia, performing Brahms' Waltzes) and a master class for the local teachers association March 19, 2009. Kirill’s studio class presented a recital at Duck Creek Community Church April 4, 2009. Savannah Sommers, Josh Infiesto, Annie Powell, Heather Tebbs, Randy Dulaney and Cicely Brown all successfully performed solo and duo piano pieces for a campus and community audience. This is the first known SUU studio class recital in the area. Dr. Gliadkovsky provided introductions to pieces and historical background on the repertory performed. Kirill, Anna and Anastassia Gliadkovsky were featured at the Patriotic Piano Concert July 4, 2009 at Duck Creek Community Church. Classical and Patriotic repertory for solo, duo and trio piano (one piano, six hands) were performed. Professor Carol Ann Modesitt gave a recital in the St. George Tabernacle Friday, July 17, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. accompanied by Tracey Bradshaw. After a busy year, which included directing Mozart’s The Magic Flute and taking students to the National Opera Association Conference in Washington, D.C., she still found time to prepare and perform a faculty recital held March 23, 2009 in Thorley Recital Hall. Professor Modesitt also adjudicated at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada April 25, 2009.
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