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Saint Mary's College Department of Music presents:
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Admission is free and open to
the Saint Mary's College community and to the public.
All presentations will be 12:00 -1:00 pm, in the Little Theatre*, Moreau Center
for the Arts
*(unless otherwise noted)
David Eicher
• Peter Terry • Daniel Vega-Albela
• Steven M. Whiting
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September
24, 2001: 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Moreau
114* "Church Music: Vocation or Job?" This presentation will deal briefly with the following areas: discerning our call; measuring gain and growth; tensions; clergy/musician relationships; and renewing our vocation, our calling. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, the son of a Church of the Brethren minister, David graduated from Manchester College and Valparaiso University. He was ordained a ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 1981. Since that time he has served the Presbyterian Church in several different roles: as Chair of the Theology and Worship Committee for the Presbytery of Wabash Valley and organist for its stated meetings, member of the former Theology and Worship Ministry Unit Committee, Chair of the Planning Team for the Churchwide Theological Convocation in Pittsburgh, PA in April 1995, and member of the Service Music Task Force for the Office of Worship. He is currently acting as Editor for a new collection of service music to be published in the summer of 2002 entitled "Holy Is the Lord: Music for Lord's Day Worship." David currently serves as President of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians and was an Editor of its Newsletter. He directed the 1998 Albuquerque Conference on Worship and Music, and writes the column "A Church Musician's Viewpoint" for the quarterly journal "Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching & the Arts." David also holds professional memberships in the American Guild of Organists, the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, the American Choral Directors Association, and The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. David is serving The Presbyterian Church of La Porte as Organist/Assistant Director of Music and Parish Steward, a position he has held since May 1979. He also serves as the Accompanist and Assistant Director of the South Bend Chamber Singers. Relevant links: Presbyterian Association of Musicians * please note location of this event
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October
8, 2001 "Beyond MTV:
new resources in digital video and animation"
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
The Los Angeles Times describes Peter Terry as a composer with a "prodigious ability to write virtuosic melodic lines and ostinatos." The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Peter Terry's music has been performed on prestigious festivals, concert series, and in alternative galleries and concert halls throughout the United States, Asia and Europe. His teachers Include Christopher Rouse and William Kraft. He is recorded on the Cambria CD-1089, SIMPLE REQUESTS and has a solo CD of his electronic and acoustic works on Cambria CD-1103 "A HALO of DARK STARS", performed by his ensemble, Electro-Metamorphosis. In 1998 Peter received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in composition. A video artist and multi-media developer, Dr. Terry is the Director of Instructional Technology at Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio More information about Peter Terry: http://www.bluffton.edu/mediacenter/emhome.html
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Please
note: Daniel Vega-Albela,
violinist "Crossing
Borders: Mexican and American Women Composers" BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Born in Mexico City in 1971, Daniel Vega-Albela started
studying violin at the age of nine with Japanese violinist Yuriko Kuronuma.
At sixteen he traveled to New York City, where he received his BM in
violin performance from the Mannes College of Music under the guidance
of Sally Thomas. As a chamber musician he has played with many ensembles
in the United States, including the St.Cecilia Chamber Orchestra, the
Amherst Collegium Musicum, the Opus 1 String Ensemble, the Asparagus
Valley Chamber Ensemble, and the Western New York Chamber Players. He
has toured in Japan and Mexico both as a recitalist as well as a soloist.Vega-Albela
has also worked with several chamber and symphony orchestras in Mexico,
including the Orquesta de Torreon, the Camerata de Roberto Kolb and
the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria. From 1994 to 1997 he was instructor of violin at the Academiz Yuriko Kuronuma in Mexico City, and in 1997 he was invited to join the Conservatorio de las Rosas College to teach violin performance and to play with the Ensamble de las Roasa contemporary chamber ensemble. While working with the Ensamble de las Roasas, he played as concertmaster for the recording of Luis Jaime Cortez's opera "La tentacion de SanAntonio." Vega-Albela is currently an MM candidate in violin performance at Western Michigan University, where he studies with Renata Knific. In the summer of 2001 he joined the music faculty at Interlochen Arts Camp. |
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Steven Whiting (University of Michigan) teaches courses in 18th-century music and the history of musical theatre. He received a M.Mus. and Ph.D. from The University of Illinois, where he also taught before joining the Michigan faculty in 1991. Following his undergraduate education at Macalester College, he studied at Christian-Albrechts Universität in Kiel, Germany. Mr. Whiting has published a dozen articles about Beethoven, Satie, French cabaret music, and E.T.A. Hoffmann, and has co-edited A.L. Ringer's Musik als Geschichte. His book Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall, for which he received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, was published by Oxford University Press in 1999. Mr. Whiting was recently appointed Director of the University's Center for European Studies in its International Center. |
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Learn more about Past Window on Music Series Artists:
A Center for Academic Innovation Fellows Project. Contact: Zae Munn for more information: (219)284-4624, or zmunn@saintmarys.edu |
