PERCUSSION The Southern Miss Percussion Ensemble was honored to be chosen by Ney and the Vic Firth Stick and Mallet Company to record Ney Rosauro’s Second Marimba Concerto, his Vibraphone Concerto, his composition Mother Earth, Father Sky and
Two Brazilian Steel Dances with SoMiSPO. Two Brazilian Steel Dances was commissions
by SoMiSPO in 2001.
The Pride Drum Line videotaped all of their street beats, and they were featured on the Vic Firth website: www.vicfirth. com/features/VFU/usm. php Marc Rivet won the Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. James Long was the winner of the Mississippi State Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society undergraduate marimba competition.
PIANO Patience Coats received Honorable Mention in the 2013 Young Artist Competition held at the Mississippi Music Teachers Association fall conference.
VOICE Angeley Butler Azzarra has been accepted into the Master of Music program at the Manhattan School of Music with a full tuition and housing scholarship. Cody Laun has been selected to be an apprentice artist with the Des Moines Metro Opera Summer Festival for 2014. Grace Claire Cordes has been selected to be an apprentice artist with the Manhattan Opera Studio Summer Festival for 2014, and will sing the role of the Queen of the Night in their production of The
Magic Flute.
Ja’Marvae Lard was the Regional NATS First Place Winner for Freshman Men. He was also a finalist in the State NATS Conference and was requested to sing for National Competition at National Convention.
Demetrius Robinson has been accepted into graduate school, Choral Conducting, program for M.M. at The University of Southern Mississippi. Courtney Gammill won first place at State NATS in Category 12 (Upper Student Adult) and has been accepted to the University of Montana for a Master of Music degree in voice performance. She was awarded a graduate teaching assistantship. Stephanie Miles, a student of Maryann Kyle, won the state NATS competition for the fourth consecutive year.
MUSIC THEORY Tae Young Hong lectured on Shostakovich’s music at the South-Central Society for Music Theory 2014 conference. His paper was titled, “Dual-Interval Spaces: Interrelations Between Interval Classes 1 and 5, Local Pitch Centers and Form in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 12.”