Dr. Naomi Andre, assistant professor of musicology and women’s studies at the University of Michigan, presented a lecture entitled "Veiled Messages and Encoded Meanings: Exoticism, Verdi, and Women's Lower Voices."
Auryn String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at the Schubert Festival at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., presented a recital.
Cello Plus chamber music series guest artists:
Ruggero Allifranchini, professor of violin, New England Conservatory
Roger Chase, professor of viola, Oberlin College
Francis Gouton, principle cello, Stuttgart State Orchestra (Germany)
Ilya Kaler, professor of violin, Indiana University
Adrian Oetiker, professor of piano, Basel Conservatory, Switzerland
Stephen Prutsman, concert pianist
Boris Slutsky, professor of piano, Peabody Conservatory
Nobilis Trio: Stephen Prutsman, piano; Ruggero Allifranchini, violin; and Suren Bagratuni, cello
The Embassy Brass Quintet , an official ensemble of the United States Army Field Band of Washington, D.C., presented a recital.
Clare Fischer, MSU alumnus and renowned composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, jazz educator, and international performer, wrote an arrangement entitiled “Serenada” for Sunny Wilkinson, MSU jazz vocal instructor, and the MSU Wind Symphony. At the performance of the premiere in Fall 2003, Mr. Fischer performed two solo piano pieces.
Dr. Martha Folts, member of the Adrian College faculty, presented a lecture-recital entitled “Scarlatti and the Gypsies: Flamenco Influences on the Keyboard Sonatas.”
Dr. Michael Gould, assistant professor of percussion at the University of Michigan, presented a lecture demonstration of Japanese shakuhachi to Professor Michael Largey’s course on Music of East and Southeast Asia.
The Guarneri Quartet, recognized as one of the best chamber music groups in the world, presented a master class. Members are Arnold Steinhardt, violin; John Dalley, violin; Michael Tree, viola; and Peter Wiley, cello.
Dr. Charlotte Leonard, associate professor at Laurentian University’s Huntington College, presented a lecture entitled “The use of the corvo groave (low chair) in the music of Schütz and his early German contemporaries.”
MSU Jazz Studies guest artists:
Wynton Marsalis, music director of the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, trumpeter and composer, presented a master class with MSU Jazz Band I as part of MSU’s ‘Jazz Spectacular’ at the Student Union for a standing-room only crowd.
Other guest artists who presented master classes and/or concerts at Jazz Spectacular were: drummer Harvey Mason, saxophonist Andrew Speight, pianist Buddy Budson, and vocalist Ursula Walker. Throughout the year, the jazz area also did master classes with pianists “Vana” Gierig, Eric Reed and Kenny Baron. Maya Orr, vocals, and Ali Jackson, drums, performed at MSU’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative concert: Jazz: Spirituals Prayer & Protest Toward Peace II.
Dr. Ann Howard Jones, director of choral activities at Boston University, presented a lecture entitled “The Legacy of Robert Shaw” as part of MSU’s Paul and Martha Niland Endowed Lectureship in Choral Music.
Charles Neidich, internationally renowned clarinetist, presented a recital with MSU piano professors Deborah Moriarty and Ralph Votapek.
MSU Saxophone Weekend guest artists:
Jean-Marie Londeix, French saxophone virtuoso and professor emeritus of saxophone, Bordeaux Conservatory (France), performed and presented a master class and lectures.
William Street, professor of saxophone, University of Alberta (Canada) presented a master class and performed with pianist Roger Admiral.
James Umble, professor of saxophone, Youngstown State University (Ohio), performed with his ensemble, the Cleveland Duo, and presented lectures.
Capitol Quartet, comprised of former saxophonists of the premiere U.S. military bands, and teaching faculty from leading schools of music throughout the country, performed.
Dr. Phyllis Weliver, assistant professor in English at Wilkes University and editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review, presented a lecture entitled “The Perfect Disciplinary Apparatus: Musical Ensembles and Nation-Building in the Victorian Novel,” as part of the MSU Musicology Colloquium.
Carol Wincenc, professor of flute at the Juilliard College of Music, performed and presented master classes at MSU’s Mid-Michigan Flute Festival.
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from left to right: Ruggero Allifranchini, violin; Ilya Kaler, violin; Suren Bagratuni, cello; Cesar Soarez, viola; and Roger Chase, viola.
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