“Solos, Duos, and Combos: SUU Music Faculty Showcase” is a concert that highlights Southern Utah University’s music faculty. The SUU Music Faculty Showcase is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 12, in the Thorley Recital Hall in the music building at SUU. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
The solo portion of the evening’s program includes Dr. Lucas Goodrich, tenor, singing “Dicitencello Vuie” by Rodolfo Falvo and “La Ricordanza” by Vincenzo Bellini. Flutist Adrienne Read performs “Syrinx” by Claude Debussy and “The Great Train Race” by Ian Clarke.
The next section of the SUU Faculty Showcase will feature duets. Dr. Christian Bohnenstengel, piano, and Jessica Lindsey, clarinet, join together for “Ritual” by Katherine Hoover, and Dr. Adam Lambert, trumpet, and Michelle Lambert, trombone, collaborate on highlights from Eric Ewazen’s “An Elizabethan Songbook.” Additional duets include Dr. Lynn Vartan, percussion, and Shane Summer, piano, performing John Ling’s “Third Rail,” and Dr. Xun Sun, violin, and Ling Yu, viola, collaborating on “Three Short Pieces for Violin and Viola” by Elizabeth Maconchy.
The third section of the evening, which features combos, includes a performance by Kind of Blue, the SUU faculty jazz combo, which features Dr. Thomas Herb on alto saxophone, Lambert on trumpet, Bohnenstengel on piano, Carlyle Potter on bass, and Shane Owens on percussion.
For more information on the SUU Faculty Showcase of the College of Performing and Visual Arts events, please visit suu.edu/pva/arts.
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