Three recitals this weekend mark the start of a total of 16 solo recitals performed by third-year and graduating music students at venues around Windsor this spring.
Most of these events will be juried recitals performed for credit, but some students will perform purely for the experience. Each recital incorporates one hour of music, the repertoire representing a variety of styles and periods.
This weekend’s events include:
A mother-daughter act featuring the University of Windsor’s own Elsie Inselman will perform works by composer Richard Hundley in a program titled “American Art Songs – Delights through the Decades,” Friday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Assumption University Chapel.
Elsie Inselman, an adjunct associate professor of voice at the University of Windsor, will take to the piano to accompany her daughter Rachel Inselman, a soprano who teaches voice at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
Against the backdrop of a city on the verge of financial ruin and staring down the possibility of an even bigger disconnect from its Canadian cousins thanks to a recently approved U.S. budget bill, a group of artists and researchers will gather here this weekend looking for ways to encourage people to think of Detroit and Windsor as a singular cross-border metropolitan environment.
The Windsor Symphony Orchestra will feature music grad Marc Funkenhouser (BMus 2010) on alto saxophone in four performances this weekend.
Funkenhauser will perform the Concerto in E flat major for alto saxophone and string orchestra, Op. 109, composed by Alexander Glazunov, as part of a program titled “French Connections.” The orchestra will present the concert Friday, March 1, in two performances at Assumption University Chapel; Saturday at Leamington United Mennonite Church and Sunday at St Anne’s Church in Tecumseh.
A concert this weekend will bring together music from the three faith traditions—Christianity, Judaism and Islam—associated with the city of Jerusalem.
The concert, billed as “a musical adventure to build bridges between people and cultures,” will feature performances by the University Women’s Chamber Choir, music professor David Palmer and former music professor Gillian MacKay, as well as individuals and groups from the broader community.
The event is free and open to the public and begins at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 3, in Assumption University Chapel.
UWindsor music student Adam Iannetta, who sings baritone, is a featured performer for a series of Windsor Symphony Orchestra concerts this weekend that will introduce Windsor audiences to a unique guitar that has travelled all across Canada, celebrating the unique stories and voices that weave the nation together.
Euphonium virtuoso Steven Mead will perform in recital Thursday, February 14, at Windsor’s Mackenzie Hall.
Mead’s career as a professional solo performer continues to break new ground. With over 75 solo performances a year, his relentless schedule sees him touring almost constantly.
For his program Thursday, he will be accompanied by pianist Emily Lai, and even joined by UWindsor’s own euphoniumist Robert Benton for a duet of Philip Sparke’s Two Part Invention.
Intermedia artists Elke Utermöhlen and Martin Slawig of Germany’s blackhole-factory will join Noiseborder Ensemble for a performance entitled “Master Control,” on Thursday, February 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Lambton Tower’s Studio A.
Pianist Yoko Hirota, chair of the music department at Sudbury’s Laurentian University, will perform works by six Canadian composers at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 5, at Mackenzie Hall.
The recital shares its title, “Voces Boreales (Northern Voices),” with Hirota’s most recent CD.
“Having performed contemporary music in Canada and abroad for almost two decades, I have had the privilege of meeting composers whose aesthetics and musical universes are helping to shape Canada’s musical identity,” she says.
The program for a concert today offers something unusual—works arranged for performance by four pianos.
The recital will bring together UWindsor alumni Alde Calongcagong, Margaret Thuring Deneau and Sarah D’Agnolo Villella, as well as piano teacher Otello Haddad, to perform works by Edward Elgar, Charles Gounod, Richard Wagner, Moritz Moszkowski, and John Philip Sousa.
Part of the Take 4 series of presentations, this event is free and open to the public. It begins at 4 p.m. in the Music Building’s room 126.
