Vocal Events
Vocal Events
10/16/12
7:30 PM
Ware Center
Steinman Hall
MU Dept. of Music Faculty Recital
Licorice and Lyricism:
Kristin Sims, Soprano
Dr. Christy Banks, Clarinet
Dr. Anita Renfroe, Piano
Works by Spohr, Schubert, McCabe, Harris, Sargon, Barnett,
and a world premiere by MU Music Faculty Member Rusty Banks
Tickets
$10, Free with MU ID
11/1-3/12
7:30 PM
11/4/12
2:00 PM
Winter Center
Clair Performance Hall
University Theatre and Music Department Production:
The Pirates of Penzance
Tickets:
$10 Adults
$7 Senior Citizens (60+) and MU ID at the door
$5 MU ID (2 per ID) in advance
11/7/12
3:30 PM
Ware Center
Steinman Hall
Melva S. Mcllwaine Music Master Class:
Ruth Kenote, Soprano
11/11/12
2:30 PM
Winter Center
Muley Recital Hall
Junior Recital:
Jenn Kelman, Mezzo-Soprano
Kelly Davis, Guitar
11/17/12
2:00 PM and 7:30 PM
Ware Center
Steinman Hall
Opera Lancaster presents
Mozart's "The Impressario" and Samuel Barber's "A Hand of Bridge"
Tickets:$20 Adults
$15 Seniors, Students, Groups 10+
12/1/12
7:30 PM
Winter Center
Biemesderfer Concert Hall
Josh Albright, Singer-Songwriter, in an acoustic concert
12/5/12
7:30 PM
Ware Center Steinman Hall
Andreas Scholl, Countertenor
in conjunction with Gretna Music
Andreas Scholl has released a series of extraordinary solo recordings: the most recent being Wanderer - a disc
of German Lied. Other notable releases include Bach cantatas with kammerorchesterbasel, O Solitude an all-Purcell album with Accademia Bizantina which won the 2012 BBC Music Magazine award, Arias for Senesino - for which he won the 2006 Classical Brit Singer of the Year award, Heroes - a disc of arias by Handel, Mozart, Hasse and Gluck, Robert Dowland's A Musicall Banquet, Vivaldi Motets with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Wayfaring Stranger - a selection of specially arranged English and American folksongs with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Arcadia - a collection of rare and unpublished cantatas by composers from Rome¹s Arcadian Circle - allof which are released on Decca. His discography also includes recordings for Deutsche Grammophon - Handel¹s Solomon and Saul with Paul McCreesh and for Harmonia Mundi including the Gramophone Award-winning Vivaldi Stabat Mater; Caldara's Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo; Il duello amoroso, a selection of Handel¹s Italian cantatas with Accademia Bizantina; Crystal Tears - lute and consort songs by John Dowland and Songs of Myself - the songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein. His DVD releases include productions of Giulio Cesare (for both Decca and Harmonia Mundi), Rodelinda (Warner) and Partenope (Decca). This season Andreas Scholl embarks on a major recital tour of Europe and North America including Berlin¹s Konzerthaus, London¹s Wigmore Hall and the Lincoln Center New York (promoting his Wanderer CD). He also sings the St Matthew Passion at King¹s College, Cambridge (under Stephen Cleobury) and Bach Cantatas at Vienna¹s Musikverein with Concentus Musicus (under Nikolaus Harnoncourt). Andreas Scholl performs in the world's leading concert venues and festivals. Operatic roles include the title role in Giulio Cesare at Royal Danish Opera, Opéra de Lausanne, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the 2012 Salzburg Festival (opposite Cecilia Bartoli), Bertarido (Rodelinda) at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Metropolitan Opera (opposite Renée Fleming) and Arsace (Partenope) at Royal Danish Opera. His concert performances have included appearances with Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester, Münchner Philharmoniker, the English Concert and at the 2005 Last Night of the Proms - the first counter-tenor ever to have been invited.
Born in Germany, Andreas Scholl's early musical training was with the Kiedricher Chorbuben. He later studied under Richard Levitt and René Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He is a winner of the 1999 ECHO Awards, Prix de l'Union de la Presse Musicale Belge and the Middle Ages/Renaissance category of the 2002 Edison Awards for his recording of A Musicall Banquet. He won a second ECHO Award in 2005 for his composition for Deutsche Grammophon's audio-book of Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes and The Nightingale.
12/7
7:30 PM
Ware Center
Steinman Hall
Seventh Annual Glorious Sounds of the Season Scholarship Concert
12/9/12
2:30 PM
Winter Center Clair Performance Hall
Seventh Annual Glorious Sounds of the Season Scholarship Concert
Feb. 23,
2013 at 4:00 in Murley Recital Hall.
Julie Urbanik¹s senior recital
Julie, soprano, is a senior Music Business and Technology major.
3/24/12
2:30 PM
Ware Center Steinman Hall
MU Department of Music Faculty Recital:
Marcia Englar, Guitar
Kristin Sims, Soprano
This recital features works for solo guitar, and pieces for voice and guitar with fellow faculty member Kristin Sims, soprano. Marcia L. Englar, a member of the Millersville University music faculty since 1983, is chair of the Guitar Studio - teaching guitar lessons, guitar master class, and directing the MU Guitar Ensemble. A native of York, PA, she received Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Music Education degrees from Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), and a Master of Music degree in guitar performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD). Her musical training includes mentoring with guitar pedagogues Aaron Shearer and Ray Chester, and performing in master classes with classical guitarists Manuel Barrueco and Christopher Parkening. Ms. Englar has performed in ensembles and as a soloist in concerts throughout the United States and Europe. She enjoys many styles of music, also enjoys playing electric guitar, and has performed with Spring Garden Concert Band, Spring Garden Stage Band, The York Symphony, the Cres Ottemiller Orchestra, Classified, The Citations, and with famous entertainers including Regis Philbin, Engelbert Humperdinck, the Mills Brothers, Bob Hope, Bobby Vinton, The Fifth Dimension, and the Lettermen. She completed additional studies in Music Technology and Production at Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA). In addition to her activities at MU, Ms. Englar received an Associate of Science degree in computer science from the Pennsylvania State University (York, PA campus), and is an Applications Developer Administrator in the Bureau of Information Systems for the PA Department of Revenue.
Kristin Sims, a member of the Millersville University music faculty since 2005, is chair of the Voice Studio - teaching voice lessons, voice master class, and a course in Foreign Language Diction. A native of Missouri, she received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music (Cincinnati, OH). Ms. Sims has appeared as a soloist with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States. Regionally, she has sung leading operatic roles with the Harrisburg Symphony, Lancaster Symphony, Lancaster Opera, Bel Canto Lyric Opera and Trinity Opera Theatre. She has also enjoyed the opportunity to perform with the New Jersey Pops, the Philadelphia Orchestra Society, the Muniere Mandolin Orchestra in various venues around the Philadelphia area performing Mimi in La Boheme, Liu in Turandot, Gilda in Rigoletto, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly and Nedda in Pagliacci. Recently, Ms. Sims was seen in the role of Mimi in Opera Lancaster's production of La Boheme, appeared as soprano soloist with Allegro Chamber Orchestra in Beethoven's NinthSymphony, and with the Lancaster Symphony as the soprano soloist in Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass. In November 2011, she directed the MU Opera production of Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief. She was a guest artist performing with the MU Guitar Ensemble in 2010 and 2011.
The recital is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Ms. Englar: marcia.englar@millersville.edu or 717-872-3357.
April 7, 2013 at 3:00 in Murley Recital Hall.
Kayla Klase and Jessica Schroeder¹s junior recital
Kayla Klase, soprano, is a junior Bachelor of Arts major and Jessica Schroeder, soprano, is a music minor.
April 13,
2013 at 7:30 in Steinman Hall.
Millersville University will present the comic one-act opera, Meanwhile Back at Cinderella¹s, as part of Opera Lancaster¹s Community Opera Series.
April 14,
2013 at 1:00 in Murley Recital Hall.
Paula Batdorf and Jeremy DeLong¹s junior recital
Paula, soprano, and Jeremy Delong, tenor, are both junior Music Education majors.
April 17, 2013
MU Department of Music Student Junior Recital
Julia Gyory, Soprano
April 20, 2013
12:00 PM
MU Department of Music Student Junior Recital
Ashley Lynch, Soprano and Chad Winn, Tenor
April 27,
2013 at 4:00 in Murley Recital Hall.
Julia Melbert's junior recital.
Julia, mezzo-soprano, is junior Music Education student who will share a recital with Alexis Kopicz, flute.
April 27, 2013
7:00 PM
MU Department of Music Student Junior Recital
Logan Ressler, Tenor
Marcus Tavani, Bass-Baritone
