The program includes two pieces by local Huntsville composers, a solo piano piece by Don Bowyer and a piece for electric cello and speaking cellist by Bryan Page. Full details are below.

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Event: Birmingham Art Music Alliance Concert
Where: University of Alabama at Huntsville Department of Music
When: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 7:30 pm

On Tuesday, May 15th at 7:30 pm, the Birmingham Art Music Alliance will present a concert of newly composed works by its members. The concert will take place in the Music Department Recital Hall of the University of Alabama at Huntsville. The performers of the Alliance will be Adam Bowles – piano, Craig Hultgren – cello and Yulia Sakharova – violin. The concert is free and open to the public.

The Birmingham Art Music Alliance has a twofold mission of promoting music by Alabama composers and presenting concerts of recently created art music. Members of the Alliance include composers, professional performers, students, and enthusiasts who wish to preserve and maintain the long tradition of music as a living art form. The Birmingham News said, “The Birmingham Art Music Alliance has proved time and again that the experimental and avant-garde are still healthy and relevant.” The group’s web site is <www.artmusic.org/>.

The program includes compositions by Monroe Golden – 81 for solo piano, Bryan Page – may i feel said he for ecello and speaking cellist based on an e.e. cummings poem, Donald Bowyer – Five Preludes for solo piano, Bill Denton – China Sonata for cello and piano, Matthew Scott Phillips’ Morning for piano trio and Sean Hickey’s Ampersand for violin and piano.

Monroe Golden, who lives in Pell City, uses a series of patterns in based on the 81 keys of the piano keyboard. Bryan Page is Minister of Music at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama. This is one of the latest installments of his various settings of the poetry of e.e. cummings. Don Bowyer is Chair of the University of Alabama at Huntsville Department of Music. Bill Denton is Assistant Principal Trumpet of the Alabama Symphony. He wrote China Sonata for his wife Wei Liu who is a cellist in the Alabama Symphony. Matthew Phillips is pursuing a doctorate in music composition at the University of Georgia in Athens. Sean Hickey lives in New York City and is a composer with an international reputation. He wrote Ampersand for Yulia Sakharova.

Violinist Yulia Sakharova is Assistant Concertmaster of the Alabama Symphony. Cellist Craig Hultgren is also a member of the Alabama Symphony and together with pianist Adam Bowles are the original members of Luna Nova a new music ensemble with one of the largest selections of contemporary music available for downloading on iTunes.

Bowyer will be leaving UAH at the end of June to begin a position as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Arkansas State University. He has served on the UAH Music Faculty since 1998.

Musicians featured in the concert will include many of the best-known jazz musicians in the Huntsville area, including Ken Watters, Mike Thomas, Jim Cavender, Keith Taylor, Tom Branch, Josh Couts, Billy Orton, Billy Bargetzi, Danny Hutson, Russell Bundy, Pete Allison, Ron Roberts, and many others.

General admission to this concert will be $10. Students (from any school) will be admitted free. Proceeds from the concert will go to music scholarships at UAH.

For more information, please contact the UAH Department of Music at 256-824-6436.

General admission will be $10. Students (from any school) will be admitted free.

For more information, contact the UAH Department of Music at 256-824-6436.

• Sunday, April 15
• 3pm
• Roberts Recital Hall

The recital will feature music composed and arranged by Bowyer in a “contemporary classical” style. Bowyer will perform on trombone or bass trombone on several pieces, while other pieces will feature Megan Poff, soprano; Keith Taylor, piano; Jim Cavender, bass; Danny Hutson, trombone; Kevin Bounds, trombone; Billy Bargetzi, trombone, and the First Baptist Church Saxophone Ensemble.

This will be Bowyer’s final recital as a member of the UAH Faculty, as he has accepted a position as Dean of Fine Arts at Arkansas State University beginning this summer.

General admission for the recital is $5.
Students (from any school0 will be admitted free.

The concert will include approximately 100 student performers and more than a dozen music faculty members:

• UAH Wind Ensemble, C. David Ragsdale, conductor
• UAH Chamber Choir, Erin Colwitz, conductor
• UAH Jazz Ensemble, Ken Watters, conductor
• UAH Percussion Ensemble, Debi Loach, conductor
• Sarkis Baltaian & In-Sook Park, piano duo
• Carolyn Sanders, trumpet; & Karen Young, soprano
• Consonare Guitar-Piano Duo: Phil Weaver, guitar; & Ingrid von Spakovsky, piano
• UAH Faculty Jazz Group: Ken Watters, trumpet; Steve Motz, saxophone; Don Bowyer, trombone; Keith Taylor, piano; Jim Cavender, bass; & Tom Branch, drums

Tickets are available in the UAH Department of Music office.

General admission is $5. Students (from any school) will be admitted free.

For more information, call the Department of Music at 256-824-6436 or email music@uah.edu.

The concert will last about an hour. Further information about the guitarist as well as video is available at philweaverguitar.com. Tickets that were purchased for the Rosewood, Fire, and Steel concert that was canceled because of the weather will be honored at this performance.

Please join the choir for their final concert in Huntsville before they depart for sunny SoCal.

The concert will be held of St. Mary’s Church of the Visitation in downtown Huntsville on Friday, March 16 at 730pm.

http://smvparish.org/

L.A. tour dates are as follows:

• Monday, March 19
  Workshop with Dr. Scheibe at the University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, CA
  1030am
• Tuesday, March 20
  Choir Exchange with Cal State Fullerton’s University Singers
  Fullerton, CA
  4pm
• Thursday, March 22
  w/Cincinnati Boy Choir (Chris Eanes, conductor)
  St. James Episcopal, Pasadena, CA
  730pm
• Friday, March 23
  w/Cincinnati Boy Choir and Horizon Music Group (Christian Campos, conductor)
  Riviera United Methodist, Redondo Beach, CA
  730pm
• Saturday, March 24
  w/Cincinnati Boy Choir and Horizon Music Group (Christian Campos, conductor)
  Immanuel Presbyterian, Los Angeles, CA
  730pm

Tarik O’Regan, Grammy-nominated composer and winner of two British ComposerAwards, will visit Huntsville as a composer-in-residence and Eminent Scholar at UAHuntsvilleduring the week of Feb. 20. He will present lectures on both Thursday, Feb. 23 and Friday, Feb.24 at Roberts Recital Hall. The UAHuntsville Concert Choir, along with the University of North Alabama’s Concert Choir (Ian Loeppky, conductor), Nativity Episcopal’s Choir (Suzanne Purtee, conductor) and the Huntsville Youth Orchestra (Joe Lee, conductor) will perform the U.S. premiere of his work, Martyr, for choir, orchestra and soloists.  This stirring work, along with Haydn’s timeless “Lord Nelson Mass”, conducted by HYO director, Joe Lee, will be performed on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 3pm at Asbury Methodist Church in Madison.  Erin Colwitz will conduct the Martyr premiere.  Other performances will include the Huntsville Youth Orchestra performing Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition; the UAHuntsville Chamber Choir singing O’Regan’s work for a cappella chamber choir, Threshold of Night; and organ works by O’Regan performed by local musicians, Suzanne Purtee and Mark Moorhead.  Soloists are Christie Weber, soprano, Melanie Scalfano, Mezzo-Soprano, Stephen Smith, tenor, Lee Jackson, baritone.  All are welcome to attend.

Schedule of Events for Week of O’Regan’s Residency

Thursday, February 23: O’Regan Lecture to UAHuntsville Music Students; UAHuntsville Music Department Forum

• 1110am – 1205pm
• Roberts Recital Hall

Friday, February 24: O’Regan Lecture (Composition as an Academic Discipline with the Humanities)

• 300pm
• Roberts Recital Hall

Sunday, February 26: U.S. premiere of Tarik O’Regan’s Martyr, Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis “Lord Nelson Mass”, Hob. Xxii:11 in D Minor, and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, featuring the UAHuntsville Concert Choir, the University of North Alabama Concert Choir, the Nativity Choir of the Church of the Nativity Episcopal Church, Huntsville, Alabama, and the Huntsville Youth Orchestra.  Erin Colwitz and Joe Lee, conductors.

Biography

Born in London in 1978, Tarik O’Regan was educated at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. His work has garnered two Grammy® nominations (including Best Classical Album) and two British Composer Awards. 2012 sees the opening of a new ballet, set to his orchestral music, by the Dutch National Ballet and a commission from the Australian Chamber Orchestra, which will be premiered and toured late in the year. 2011 marked the premiere Heart of Darkness, O’Regan’s opera based on Joseph Conrad’s novel of the same name, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the release of Acallam na Senórach¸ his third album on the Harmonia Mundi label. He has held the Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship at Columbia University and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard. Other appointments in recent years include positions at Trinity and Corpus Christi Colleges in Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Yale University. Tarik O’Regan’s music is published by Novello & Company.

The Huntsville Youth Orchestra

The Huntsville Youth Orchestra (HYO) is in its 50th year of providing North Alabama’s finest ensemble experience for young musicians. Please take some time to browse our site and see how we initiate and foster one of life’s happiest combinations: young people and beautiful music. We hope you’ll also find ways that you can share in HYO’s many benefits: as a player, a parent, a concertgoer or a sponsor.

HYO’s mission is to provide a rewarding and challenging experience for its members by means of active participation in the performance of good music. This is accomplished through learning, rehearsing, and giving public performances under the direction of highly qualified, professional conductors (who are also teachers and performing musicians). For each performance, the pieces are carefully selected to challenge and stimulate development of the particular skills of each group of performers.

http://huntsvilleyouthorchestra.org