The program, sponsored by the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, will “give the community an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the special musical gifts of area students,” according to Mary Kay Adams, Bach Festival coordinator.

“The students that are selected are quite talented and the level of playing continues to rise each year,” said Adams. “Last year’s program was exceptional and I expect no less of this year’s performers.”

The event is open to the public; admission is free.

For more information, contact Mary Kay Adams at 540-432-4652; bach@emu.edu; or visit emu.edu/bach.

91短视频 the artists

Anna Armstrong is an 11-year old resident of Bridgewater, Va. A purple belt in karate and a member of the Black Belt Club, Armstrong enjoys camping, fishing, roller-skating and swimming. She has taken violin and piano lessons for six years and has performed in the 91短视频 Piano Festival and the National Guild Auditions.

Eric Bame has been a member of the Robert E. Lee High School Symphonic and Jazz Bands for four years. Bame has participated in the all-district symphonic band, South Central Regional Orchestra and all-Virginia Symphonic Band. A student of Robert Harrold at Valley Music Academy, Bame has played trombone for over six years.

Hannah Deal is a sophomore violinist at Albemarle High School. Deal enjoys singing, playing volleyball on school and club teams and swimming. She won a Wednesday Music Club camp scholarship and attended a music camp at the University of South Carolina.

Kirsten Ferguson is a junior at Harrisonburg High School. She has performed in school productions of Les Miserables; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying!; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, among others. Ferguson is a member of the marching band, church youth group, Tri-M Music Honor Society, and the ski/snowboarding club.

Morgan Fogler is a junior at Charlottesville High School. Fogler has studied piano for seven years – the last four of which have been with Linda Blondel. She attended the Music Education Center for seven years and has studied for two years with Emily Thomas.

Lillian Hughes is a freshman at Eastern Mennonite School. Hughes has studied violin for 10 years with Sharon Miller. In 2011, Hughes participated in the South Central Senior Regional and Junior Regional orchestras. She has been a member of the Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony and her school orchestra. Hughes studies classical ballet, modern dance and musical theater and is a member of the Shenandoah Contemporary Dance Theatre.

Breton Nicholas is an eagle scout and a senior at Harrisonburg High School. Nicholas attended two summer Governor鈥檚 School programs, several summers at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and an exchange program in Costa Rica. An avid bicyclist and swimmer, Nicholas plays horn and violin and was selected principal horn in the 2012 all-state festival. He is a member of the Shenandoah Valley Youth Orchestra and high school band.

Abe Nouri is a sophomore at Harrisonburg High School. Nouri has performed in school productions of Les Miserables, Honk Jr., Sir Nose the Burger Rat, and Tom Sawyer. He has participated in summer theater camps with Shenan Arts and Broadway at Bethel (Kan.) College. A trombonist and baritone horn player, he plays in the Marching Band and Massanutten Youth Brass Band and has also studied piano, oboe and the erhu.

Natalie Sheffield is a homeschooled senior who attends Piedmont Virginia Community College. Sheffield studies violin with Susan Black. A member of the Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra and a fiddle player in the Charlottesville area old-time music group, she recently performed solo and chamber music works with Morgan in a joint recital.

Courtney Stout is a junior at Wilson Memorial High School and the Shenandoah Valley Governor鈥檚 School. Stout has played violin for eleven years. A student of Sonja Dillard, Stout plays in the Augusta County Junior Orchestra, at local churches, museums, concerts and charitable events.

Celia Quinn Turner, a senior at Broadway High School, began playing violin at the age of three in the Suzuki Program at 91短视频. A seven-year member of the Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra, she was selected to solo with the group last year. Having completed the Pedagogy Training for Suzuki Instruction, she instructs beginning violinists through the preparatory music program.

Dr. Mackey will perform “Sonata in B minor” by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Hungarian composer’s birth and selections of Claude Debussy and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Mackey teaches applied piano, pedagogy, and music theory at 91短视频 as well as private piano. She has performed in solo and chamber music settings in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands, and she is currently on the Tour Roster of the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

Mackey performs in solo and chamber music settings in the United States and Europe and currently tours as an artist for the Virginia Commission of the Arts and serves as director of the Virginia Baroque Performance
Academy. She gave a concerto performance at the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival in June, 2010.

Mackey also performs in the Gee-Mackey Duo with cellist David Gee. They performed a concert tour in Spain and Morocco in 2008 and perform widely in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.

A graduate of The Juilliard School with her doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, she also holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree from the University of Michigan.

Admission to the program is free; donations are welcomed for the 91短视频 music student scholarship fund.

The music department shines the performance spotlight on one of its own, , pianist, in a faculty recital 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23 in Martin Chapel of the seminary building at 91短视频.

Dr. Mackey, an associate professor of music, will present a program of music by Spanish composers as well as composers of France, the United States and Argentina who were strongly influenced by the culture and musical idioms of Spain.

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Program highlights include Book I of the "Iberia Suite" of Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz, French composer Maurice Ravel’s "Alborada del gracioso" from "Miroirs," Cry of the Mothers" by American composer Amy Rubin and "Sonata for Piano" (1952) of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera. Mackey will also play "Valses Poeticos" of Enrique Granados and "Danza de la Pastora" of Ernesto Halffter.

91短视频 Lynne Mackey

Mackey performs in solo and chamber music settings in the United States and Europe and currently tours as an artist for the Virginia Commission of the Arts and serves as director of the Virginia Baroque Performance Academy.

She holds a graduate degree from The Juilliard School and a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music. She has appeared with the Grand Rapids and Flint Symphonies as well as with the Lynchburg Symphony in Virginia. Upcoming engagements include a concerto performance at the 2010 Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival in June this year.

Mackey also performs in the Gee-Mackey Duo with cellist David Gee. They performed a concert tour in Spain and Morocco in 2008 and perform widely in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.

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Admission to the recital is free. Donations are welcomed for the 91短视频 music student scholarship fund.

Senior Bebhinn Cecilia Egger will present a violin recital 1 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 28, in Martin Chapel of the seminary building at 91短视频.

Ms. Egger will perform “Concerto Op. 7 No. l by Jean-Marie LeClair, “String Quartet No. 13 by Franz Schubert, “Concerto No. 2” by Henryk Wieniawski and “Siete canciones populares espanoles” by Manuel de Falla.

She will be assisted by Monica Carlson, Maurita Eberly, Briana Eshleman, John Fast, Emily Sims and Jeremiah Vallotton.

Egger, from Front Royal, Va., is a music performance major with minors in Spanish and political studies.

Admission to the recital is free.

An eclectic and entertaining program awaits listeners when music professor and pianist Lynne Mackey presents a unique recital 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 21, in Lehman Auditorium at 91短视频.

In her program, titled "NEW?? A Century of Piano Experiments," Dr. Mackey will perform pieces that require a variety of techniques, inside and outside the piano, to present some inventive uses of the instrument.

A recital highlight will be excerpts from John Cage’s "Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano." This piece requires the piano be "prepared" with more than 60 bits of hardware – screws, bolts, pieces of jar rubber, etc. – fit between the strings at strategic points. This preparation "completely transforms the piano," according to Mackey, "producing a phenomenon of percussion and unconventional sounds."

Other selections will include the "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues" of Frederic Rzewski and Ann Silsbee’s "Doors," both requiring unusual techniques. The Rzewski piece utilizes large and small clusters of tones to imitate the driving sound of the mill machinery, Mackey noted. The "whimsical piece" of Ann Silsbee is "a musical dialogue involving non-traditional gestures and knocking on the piano frame, resulting in a visual choreography of arms and elbows at the keyboard," she noted.

She will also play pieces by composers Henry Cowell, Charles Griffes, Emma Lou Diemer and Robert Evett.

Mackey joined the 91短视频 faculty as an associate professor of music the fall of 2008. A graduate of the University of Michigan, The Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music, she has long been involved in performing contemporary music. She has coached repertoire with composers such as Joan Tower, George Crumb and Samuel Adler, and her performances include three New York premiers.

In addition to her work as a soloist, Mackey performed this past season in the US and overseas with cellist David Gee in the Gee-Mackey Duo, and also traveled to Brazil to perform concerts and masterclasses with the chamber ensemble, Musica Harmonia.

Admission to this recital is free of charge. Donations are welcomed for the 91短视频 music scholarship fund.

Kara S. Glick, senior music education major at 91短视频

Ms. Glick will play selections on the theme, “Summer Shadows, including “‘Summer’ Concerto in G minor” from Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.”

he will be accompanied by 91短视频 students Bebhinn Egger, Matthew Tieszen, Amy Histand, James Hall and Eojin Lee and 91短视频 graduate Benjamin Tyson.

She will also perform “Preludio” from “Partita No. 3 in E major” by J.S. Bach, “Andante” and “Allegro molto vivace” from “Violin Concerto in E minor” by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and “Danse Espagnole” from “La Vida Breve” by Manuel de Falla.

Monica H. Carlson will provide piano accompaniment.

Glick has violin students in 91短视频’s Preparatory Music Program, teaches a class of violin students at Keister Elementary School in Harrisonburg and is concertmaster of the 91短视频 orchestra. She ran three seasons of cross country and two of track.

Glick is from Pekin, Ill., and is a member of Hopedale Mennonite Church.

A reception will follow the program. Admission is free.

Joan Griffing, music professor and department chair, and Lynne Mackey, associate professor of music

Joan Griffing, violinist, and Lynne Mackey, pianist, will play a varied repertoire including music by Piazzolla, the Argentinian composer known for his tangos, and Milhaud, a French composer influenced by his visits to Brazil.

They will be assisted by Leslie Nicholas on clarinet and Lisa Wright on cello.

Dr. Griffing teaches violin and viola, coaches chamber music and conducts the 91短视频 orchestra. She is also concertmaster of the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestra and the Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra and is a violinist with the Virginia Symphony and the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, N.C.

She earned her bachelor and master of music degrees from Indiana University and her doctor of musical arts degree in violin performance from Ohio State University.

Dr. Mackey has performed in solo and chamber music settings in the United States and the Netherlands and is currently on the tour roster of the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She is a member of the Gee-Mackey Duo with cellist David Gee, a duo formed in 2004 that performs widely in the Mid-Atlantic states.

A graduate of The Juilliard School, Mackey holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music.

Admission to the program is free; donations are welcomed for the 91短视频 music student scholarship fund.

An 91短视频 music department faculty member will give an organ recital 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, at Park View Mennonite Church, N. College Ave. in Harrisonburg.

John W. Fast, an assistant professor of music at 91短视频, will play works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell, Felix Mendelssohn, Alexandre Guilmant, Dan Locklair, Robert Hobby and James Woodman.

Fast, who joined the 91短视频 faculty in 1975, received his undergraduate bachelor’s degree from Bethel College, N. Newton, Kan., and a master’s in music degree from Indiana University. He is the organist at Park View Mennnonite Church and a frequent accompanist for the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival and the Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir.

The two-manual Dyer organ with 20 ranks of pipes was installed in the Park View church sanctuary in early 1996.

The recital is open to everyone at no admission charge.