2010 Music Performance Competition Finals concert on January 28
The UPEI Music Department Recital Series will present the 2010 Music Performance Competition Finals Concert at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, UPEI, on Thursday, January 28, at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is $8.00 ($5.00 for students and seniors). Tickets will be available at the door.
The concert will feature the six finalists chosen by a panel of seven Music Department faculty members at the preliminary round of the competition, held on Tuesday, January 19. This year's competition category was music composed between 1950 and the present day.
The finalists are Sara Arsenault, clarinet, a fifth-year Bachelor of Music Education major; Nathan Keoughan, bass, a fourth-year Bachelor of Music major; Echo Lau, piano, a first-year Bachelor of Music major; Kelly Leighton, mezzo-soprano, a third-year Bachelor of Music major; Troy Martin, clarinet, a fourth-year Bachelor of Music major; and Nicole Schieck, alto saxophone, a fourth-year Bachelor of Music Education major.
'We were all very impressed with the high calibre of performance and the initiative that these students showed in tackling repertoire often challenging both interpretively and technically,' says faculty member Dr. Frances Gray. 'We are very proud of their achievements and look forward to an interesting and rewarding Finals evening.'
The judges for the Finals competition have been selected from the musical community of Charlottetown. They include soprano Sylvia Abi-Khattar-Mutch, trombonist Doug Millington, organist Alan Reesor, clarinetist Melanie Walsh-Fraser and cellist Natalie Williams Calhoun. Works by Pierre Max Dubois, Kalmen Opperman, Paul Harvey, Samuel Barber, Alexina Louie, Alasdair MacLean, and Bela Kovacs will be featured during the concert.
