Faculty Series recitals showcase CU-Boulder College of Music faculty performances. Faculty Series recitals are held at 7:30 p.m. on most Tuesdays and at 4 p.m. on selected Sundays in Grusin Music Hall in the Imig Music Building. Recitals are free and open to the public.

SPRING 2008 PROGRAMS

Tuesday, January 22, 7:30 p.m.
Bill Elliott and Friends
An evening celebrating music old and new, with works by Chopin, Gershwin, Berlin, Elliott and others; with guest performers including pianists David Korevaar and Carter Pann, clarinetist Mary Jungerman, Colorado Brass Quintet, and singer Barbara Amaral.

Tuesday, January 29, 7:30 p.m.
Keyboard Peaks
David Korevaar, piano
Highlighting two new CD releases, David Korevaar presents Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations and Beethoven’s dramatic and transcendent final Sonata, op. 111.

Tuesday, February 5, 7:30 p.m.
Judith Ingolfsson, violin; Erika Eckert, viola; and Judith Glyde, cello
Margaret McDonald joins members of the string faculty in an evening of chamber music including Schubert’s Adagio and Rondo in F Major, Dohnanyi’s Serenade in C Major, Op. 10, and Strauss’ Piano Quartet in C minor.

Tuesday, February 12, 7:30 p.m.
Messiaen Centennial 2008!
Hsing-ay Hsu, piano with friends Judith Ingolfsson, violin and David Korevaar, piano
Pianist and Pendulum New Music artistic administrator Hsing-ay Hsu performs the ecstatic music of French composer Olivier Messiaen in a series of centennial celebrations in the Boulder/Denver area.  Messiaen evokes the majesty and power of the eternal world with exotic sounds including gamelan, jewels, and birdsong.  Works include two pieces from Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jesus, Theme & Variations with violinist Judith Ingolfsson, and the final movement of Visions de l'Amen with pianist David Korevaar. Born in China, Hsu has garnered numerous awards including the William Kapell International and the Juilliard Petschek Award. For a complete concert listing of the Messiaen series visit www.hsingayhsu.com.

Tuesday, February 26, 7:30 p.m.
Mountain Music
Bonnie Draina, soprano and Carey Harwood, guitar
Bonnie Draina and Carey Harwood explore the music of Appalachia—its roots in the British Isles and influences on composers such as Bowles, Weill and Floyd, and will present traditional ballads, reels and banjo tunes in as realistic a manner as possible in a classical music hall. They will be joined by nationally-known hammered dulcimer player and autoharpist Lucille Reilly, Alex Maynegre, piano and tenor Robert Glaubitz.  The program includes Bowles’ Blue Mountain Ballads, Britten’s folk song settings for voice and guitar, songs for voice and dulcimer by John Jacob Niles, duets and arias from Floyd’s Susannah and Weill’s Down in the Valley, plus some folk, gospel, banjo tunes and reels.

Sunday, March 2, 4:30 p.m. CANCELLED
Fantastic - Phantasie - Phantasy - Fantasy
1. Imagery that is more or less coherent, as in dreams and daydreams, yet unrestricted by reality
2. A composition in fanciful or irregular form or style; often a potpourri of well-known airs arranged with interludes and florid embellishments
3. Something considered to be unreal, weird, exotic, or grotesque
Join Erika Eckert, viola and Margaret McDonald, piano for an evening of compositional fantasies for viola and piano by William Bergsma, Carl Reinecke, Carter Pann, Benjamin Dale and George Gershwin.

Sunday, March 9, 4:30 p.m.
May I Have This Dance?
Margaret McDonald, piano and Friends
Put on your dancing shoes and join Margaret McDonald for an afternoon on the dance floor. Anne Epperson, piano; Christina Jennings, flute; Tom Myer, saxophone and Christopher Zemliauskas, piano will join her for a waltz, tango, line dance, salsa, and much more. Works by Mike Mower, John Harbison, Samuel Barber, and Anton Dvorák.

Tuesday, March 11, 7:30 p.m.
Two’s Company!... Farewell
Anne Epperson, piano and Friends
In her final faculty recital at CU, collaborative pianist Anne Epperson will join with colleagues Robert Spillman, piano; Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-soprano and Judith Ingolfsson, violin in a varied program (of course...) featuring music of Franz Schubert, Jake Heggie, Claude Debussy, Henri Vieuxtemps.

Tuesday, March 18, 7:30 p.m.
Terrible Twos: 20th and 21st Century Piano Duos
Daphne Leong and Alejandro Cremaschi, pianos
Join us for musical visions of the spiritual, the fanciful, and the eternal through Andrew May’s Treacherous Marbles (2004), Maurice Ravel’s Ma Mère l'Oye (1910), and Olivier Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen (1943).  May’s duo explores our elusive glimpses of the divine; Ravel’s duet portrays the fairy-tale characters of childhood; and Messiaen’s monumental Visions span seven Amens, from l’Amen de la Création to l’Amen de la Consommation.  The Terrible Twos of our title refer, in these duos and duets, to the imagination of childhood and the awesomeness of the spiritual.  Our performance of Visions marks the centenary of the composer’s birth.

Additional Information

Parking and Transportation
Parking is available in the Euclid Avenue Autopark at a cost of $3 per evening. The Imig Music Building is conveniently located near HOP and SKIP bus routes. These buses run every 10 to 30 minutes.

CU in Broomfield
CU music faculty performances are also featured at the Broomfield Auditorium on the CU in Broomfield series.