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Songbird - Student Composition Recital

Date: April 17 2010 2:00pm Location: Evans Music Auditorium

The concert features an exciting new collaborative project involving students in
the Composition and English programs.  Faculty members Doug Erickson (Special
Collections Head/Archivist), Mary Szybist (Assistant Professor of
English), and Michael Johanson (Assistant Professor of Music) developed this
collaborative project, in which students in Professor Johanson’s Beginning
Composition class worked with the students of L&C Professor Szybist’s Poetry
class.  The composers set students’ poems to music, and it is these works that
will be premiered at the concert.

Student, faculty, and guest perfomers will appear on this recital.  Featured
guest and faculty perfomers are soprano Renéee Favand, soprano Barbara
Skipworth, and pianist Lourdes Johanson.

The concert will also feature works by students studying private composition.
The concert is free and open to the public.  A small reception will follow the
concert.

Some of the featured pieces include:

“My Night Before a New Year”: poem by Sydney Viles  Composer:Ryan Morrow
Performers: Barbara Skipworth, soprano; Renato Fabbro, piano

“Drive”: poem by Kelly Aldinger
Composer: Jerred Blanchard
Performers: Barbara Skipworth, soprano; Renato Fabbro, piano

“Shortness of Breath”: poem by Brad Jonas
Composer: Patrick Beaulieu-Hardin
Perfomers: Barbara Skipworth, soprano; Renato Fabbro, piano

“One Afternoon in the Columbia River Gorge”: poem by Lauren Furnish
Composer: Joshua Rolv Dunham
Performers: Renée Favand, soprano; Renato Fabbro, piano