Music department to host visiting artists
NDSU’s music department and Concordia College will host visiting artists on Monday, Sept. 20. John Sampen, professor of saxophone, and Mark Bunce, professor of composition, both at Bowling Green State University, will present a lecture on music technology and performing at 2 p.m. in Beckwith Recital Hall at NDSU and a concert at 8 p.m. in Hvidsten Recital Hall at Concordia.
Sampen is recognized as an outstanding artist in contemporary music literature. He has commissioned and premiered more than 80 works. In 1970, he was a recitalist and certificate winner at the International Geneva Concours in Switzerland. A recipient of several NEA consortium and recording awards, he regularly performs contemporary and traditional saxophone repertoire with pianist/composer Marilyn Shrude. Sampen, Distinguished Research Artist Professor, is former president of the North American Saxophone Alliance and clinician for the Selmer Company.
Bunce is a composer and recording engineer/electronics technician for MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music and director of Recording Services at BGSU. A veteran of the recording industry for more than 30 years, Bunce has engineered numerous compact discs and recordings, more than a dozen contemporary music series for Public Radio, and composed and engineered soundtracks for award-winning corporate videos and PBS signatures.
The event is sponsored by NDSU, a grant from the NDSU Development Foundation, the Selmer Corporation and Concordia College.
Sublett and Chang Sung schedule recitals
Virginia Sublett, professor of music at NDSU, and Jihye Chang Sung, pianist and lecturer at NDSU and Minnesota State University Moorhead, have been invited to present a recital of songs for soprano and piano. The program will include music by Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, R. Strauss, Messiaen and Berio. The recitals will be held at Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D., on Sept. 15; Bismarck State College on Sept. 16; and Jamestown College on Sept. 17.
Sublett and Chang Sung also will present Messiaen’s song cycle, “Chants de Terre et de Ciel,” at the National Conference of the College Music Society in Minneapolis on Sept. 25.
Miller to be guest conductor
Jo Ann Miller, professor of music, has been invited as guest conductor for the Fox Cities Choral Music Festival Oct. 18-19 in Appleton, Wis. She will work with individual choirs on their repertoire before a mass presentation of pieces by Mozart and Mendelssohn.
The festival brings high school choirs together for workshops with a guest conductor, culminating with a performance with all choirs.
Visual arts faculty fall activities
Kris Groberg, assistant professor of art history, will present a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 16, at King Hall Auditorium in Owens Hall at Minnesota State University Moorhead. The lecture, “Shamanic Influences on the Work of Kandinsky,” is free and open to the public. Groberg will explain the ethnographic work of painter Wassily Kandinsky.
Kimble Bromley, associate professor of drawing and painting, will present a creativity enhancement workshop with Moorhead Community Education Sept. 18 at 10 a.m. in Renaissance Hall. The workshop offers participants opportunity to reach their creative potential through hypnosis. The workshop is open to the public; call (218) 284-3400 to register.
Kent Kapplinger, associate professor of printmaking and drawing, was selected to include his serigraph titled “GFYS” in the Americas 2010: All Media exhibition, Aug. 20-Oct. 20 at the Northwest Art Center at Minot (N.D.) State University. His piece is one of 33 works selected from more than 300 pieces submitted.