Middle of a Moment: Graduate Voice Recital Featuring Mijiang He

carthage music department presents

Middle Of A Moment Graduate Voice Recital Featuring Mijiang He with Guest Pianist Yu-Mei Chang

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 | 7:30 p.m. | Recital Hall

program There is no intermission Middle of A Moment

From Roald Dahl’s James And The Giant Peach The Butterfly From The Story Of My Life

Benj Pasek & Justin Paul Neil Bartram

Live Alone and Like It From Dick Tracy

Stephen Sondheim

Class From Saturday Night

Stephen Sondheim

Wondering

Jason Robert Brown

From The Bridges of Madison County Words Fail From Dear Evan Hansen

Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (Pause)

Marry Me A Little

From Company

Stephen Sondheim

Drift Away From Grey Gardens

Scott Frankel & Michael Korie

My Eyes Adored You

by The Four Seasons

Bob Crewe & Kenny Nolan arr. Ron Melrose for Jersey Boys

City Medley

I Cannot Hear The City Marvin Hamlisch & Craig Carnelia From Sweet Smell Of Success Hundred-Story City Adam Gwon From Ordinary Days Beautiful City Stephen Schwartz

From the movie musical Godspell Finishing The Hat From Sunday In The Park With George

Stephen Sondheim

This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Music (M.M.) in Music Theatre Vocal Pedagogy. Mijiang He is a student of Jeremy Mossman and Corinne Ness.

performer biography Mijiang He (M-Jay) is a Chinese actor, director, choreographer, and teacher of musical theater. An accomplished triple-threat performer, M-Jay joined the Chinese national production of “Cats” in 2012 and 2014. While continuing to perform, M-Jay also began to add professional directing and choreography credits to his resume. He co-choreographed “Neverland: Peter Pan” with Broadway Asia and China Broadway Entertainment, as well as productions of “Murder Ballad” and “Fosse.” M-Jay created the original Chinese translation of “42nd Street,” which premiered at the Beijing Dance Academy, China’s premier music theatre training program.

Prior to coming to Carthage, M-Jay was a visiting professor and director at the Beijing Dance Academy, where he taught jazz dance, music theatre history, and music theatre techniques. He also developed the music theatre dance curriculum for the music theatre program at the Communication University of China. At Carthage, M-Jay has choreographed music theatre workshop productions and taught music theatre movement courses.

M-Jay earned a Bachelor of Art in Hunan Normal University, and a Master of Art in Beijing Dance Academy.

Yu-Mei Chang (May) is a music director and keyboard player who is active around theatre stages in Taiwan and Mainland China.

She is best known for her music direction of the musical theatre in Mandarin productions, such as Avenue Q (2013-2014), How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying (2015), Laundry (South Korea, 2015), Daddy Long Legs (2018), Midnight Diner (South Korea, 2018), Murder Ballad (2017-2019), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (2021), etc. As a keyboard player, May participated in Mamma Mia! (the Mandarin production, 20132014), Thrill Me (the Mandarin production, 2016), Jekyll and Hyde (the Mandarin production, 2017), and The Phantom of the Opera international tour (Guangzhou & Beijing, 2015-2016; Taipei, 2020), etc.

thanks First of all, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Corinne Nelson Ness, for her constant encouragement and guidance. She helped me to build my singing techniques and teaching philosophy.

Secondly, high tribute be paid to Professor Jeremy Ryan Mossman, whose profound knowledge of music theatre triggers my love for contemporary musicals, special in pop/rock musicals. I am also deeply indebted to Prof. Linda Madonia, Prof. Lorian Stein-Schwaber, Prof. Dimitri Shapovalov and all those who helped me during my one year and half in Carthage College.

Lastly, my thanks would go to my beloved family and my piano-girl, best friend, soul mate Yu-Mei Chang, for their loving consideration and great confidence in me all through these years.

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