Faculty chamber recital features five musicians from The College of Wooster Free public performance scheduled for Oct. 11 in Gault Recital Hall of Scheide Music Center

  • October 7, 2009
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Five faculty members from the department of music at The College of Wooster will present a recital of chamber and solo music on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 3 p.m., in Gault Recital Hall of Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St. Admission is free and open to the public. Amanda Bekeny, Christina Mathews, Karen Roll Gardener, Denise Rotavera-Krain, and Julie Stuneck will join together for a program that features music for various tastes, ranging from a Baroque concerto by Tomaso Albinoni to the contemporary compositions of Madeleine Dring and Greg Underwood. Works to be performed represent music from Germany, Italy, Britain, France, and the United States. Bekeny is the trumpet instructor at Wooster and Ashland University, where she directs the University Brass Ensemble and teaches courses in musical style. She is a member of the Ashland Symphony Orchestra and the Olympic Brass, as well as a freelance performer. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Ohio State University; a Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and a Bachelor of Music Education from Wooster. Mathews came to The College of Wooster as a staff accompanist in the spring of 2003. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed a master’s degree in accompanying at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In addition to her work at the college, she is a freelance accompanist in the Wooster area. Gardener became an adjunct faculty member at Wooster in 2001. She teaches private lessons, coaches the Eleventh Hour and Half Past saxophone quartets, gives clinics, and helps with the Wooster Summer Music Camp. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in music performance from Michigan State University. Rotavera-Krain serves as the flute instructor, as well as the director of Tremolos, the flute choir at Wooster. She performs regionally as an orchestral musician with the Ashland Symphony and as a substitute with the Mansfield Symphony. She also was a member of the Ohio Light Opera Orchestra in 2003. She holds a Master of Music degree in flute performance from Temple University. Stuneck holds a Bachelor of Music performance in bassoon from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Master in Music Education from Case Western Reserve University. She is currently director of music ministries at the United Methodist Church in Stow, adjunct professor of bassoon at The College of Wooster, director of the Fishcreek fourth-grade choir, and instructor of preschool music at Children’s Place in Stow. Additional information about the concert is available by phoning 330-263-2419 or e-mail dswartz@wooster.edu.


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