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Serenata Strings, a chamber group made up of music
faculty from Brigham Young University-Idaho, will perform Saturday, Nov.
22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Barrus Concert Hall of the Snow
Center for the Performing Arts.
Tickets
are $6 for the general public and $1 for BYU-Idaho. They can be purchased
from the BYU-Idaho Ticket Office, by calling 496-2230 or online at
www.byui.edu./tickets.
“We
typically look far and wide for professional musicians to bring to
BYU-Idaho,” says Don Sparhawk, coordinator
of the Center Stage Performing Arts Series. “This time we wanted to
highlight some of our own musicians, who live here among us and we often
take for granted. I can assure you this is a very high level of music.”
The
program will feature Ted Ashton and Marcel Bowman on violin, Kevin Call on
viola, Robert Tueller on cello, Denson Angulo on bass, Stephen Allen on piano and soprano Marci
MacKay. They will perform “The American Quartet” by Antonin Dvorak and “The Trout Quintet” by
Franz Schubert.
Ashton
is coordinator of violin studies and chamber music. Before joining the
faculty in 1998, he taught in the Logan Utah
public school system for 20 years.
Prior
to coming to BYU-Idaho this year, Bowman taught at BYU in Provo,
Utah, and played part time with the
Utah Symphony.
Call
serves as associate dean of the College
of Visual and Performing Arts.
Prior to joining the faculty in 1984, he completed a doctorate in viola
performance at the University of Michigan.
Tueller, who joined the music faculty in 2001, received
his doctor of musical arts degree in early music performance from the University
of Southern California. Active
as a professional conductor and cellist in Southern California,
he served as assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra and
played principal cello with the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra.
Angulo coordinates the bass studio, jazz combo program
and teaching jazz history. With skills in all styles of music, he has
worked extensively as a free-lance professional playing electric bass,
acoustic jazz and classical double bass.
Allen
earned his doctoral degree in piano pedagogy and literature from the University
of Indiana. His performances
include appearances throughout North America, and
recent tours of Yokosuka
and Yokohama, Japan.
MacKay,
who is a member of the voice faculty, has sung all over the world,
including many parts of the United States, Canada, Russia, the Baltic
States, Sweden, Italy, New Zealand and Australia where she has performed in
numerous operas, oratorios and concerts.
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