storytelling in art and song

storytelling in art and song
Justin Hayward, portrait artist
The Mildred Zahradnicek Gallery
Friday, February 28, 2014, 6:30 p.m.
Karen Clift, soprano
The Richard E. and Linda S. Wheeler Concert Hall
Friday, February 28, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
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Casper College Departments of Music and Visual Arts
mi ssi o n
The Casper College redStone Recital and Gallery
Series shall provide educational enrichment and cultural
opportunities for the college and the greater community.
Justin Hayward
Family Portrait
Oil on canvas
2013
Mildred Zahradnicek GALLERY EXHIBITION
storytelling in art and song
Justin Hayward, portraits
“My portraits display how
I have been inspired and
influenced by the work of
other artists (contemporaries
and art historical figures),
as well as by my own
past. Specifically, my work
represents a contemporary
interpretation of other
artist’s work as applied to
experiences in my own
life. As a result, the effects
of the skills, techniques,
compositions, and
symbolism of others’ pieces
are seen throughout.”
Justin Hayward
Young Marriage
Oil on canvas
2007
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Karen Clift, soprano
Eric Unruh, piano
The Richard E. and Linda S. Wheeler Concert Hall
Casper College
Friday, February 28, 2014
7:30 p.m.
Please silence all electronic devices
Program
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Sweet Polly Oliver
English Folk Song
arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Over the Rainbow FROM The Wizard of Oz
E. Y. Harburg (1896-1981)
Harold Arlen (1905-1986)
The Love of My Life FROM Brigadoon Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)
Frederick Loewe (1901-1988)
O mio babbino caro FROM Gianni Sichicchi
Giovacchino Forzano (1884-1970)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
At Last
Mack Gordon (1904-1959)
Harry Warren (1893-1981)
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Dirty No-Gooder’s Blues
Bessie Smith (1894-1937)
The Glamorous Life FROM A Little Night Music
Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)
The House Carpenter
Scottish Ballad
Solvejg’s Song FROM Peer Gynt, Op. 23
Edvard Grieg (1845-1907)
The Saga of Jenny FROM Lady in the Dark
Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)
Kurt Weill (1900-1950
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Last Rose of Summer
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
When I’m 64
Paul McCartney (b. 1942)
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Traditional Spiritual
Dear Harp of my Country
arr. Marvin Mills (b. 1958)
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
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Adele’s Laughing Song FROM Die Fledermaus
Carl Haffner and Richard Genée
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
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…a reception follows on the True Atrium
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Musicians and Portrait Artist
Karen Clift
Photo © 2013 Adam Jahiel
Since the start of her career in 1989,
singing “Messiah” with the Saint
Paul Chamber Orchestra, Wyoming
soprano, Karen Clift has performed
with numerous symphony orchestras
throughout North America, including the
Cleveland Orchestra, Montreal Symphony,
Philadelphia Orchestra, SPCO, Boston
Baroque, Minnesota Orchestra, Baltimore
Symphony, Detroit Symphony, The
Atlanta Symphony and Robert Shaw
Chorale, Vancouver Symphony and
many other American symphonies and
choral arts societies. She was soloist with
the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie
Hall and the Baltimore Symphony at the
Kennedy Center. Her live performances
have been featured on public radio
stations throughout the country.
A devoted recitalist and chamber musician,
Clift performs American song, beloved
lieder and song from many countries and
eras. Last year she performed “From
Baroque to Broadway,” a recital and
master class tour of Sweden with pianist
Stephanie Wendt. She has toured the
American Midwest and West performing
countless recitals over the past two
decades with her friend and collaborator
John Churchwell, currently the head
of music at San Francisco Opera and
faculty member at Music Academy of
the West. She was a featured chamber
soloist at Music in the Vineyards, Music
in the Parks, The Grand Teton Music
Festival, and Festival of the Lakes, and
frequently sings with Minnesota’s Blue
Baroque Band. She performed in recital
at New York City’s Ethical Cultural Society
with cellist Andre Emelianoff, and she
frequently premieres and programs the
work of American composer David Evan
Thomas. She was a featured recitalist in
The Saint Paul Summer Song Festival,
which concluded the Schubert Club’s
125th Anniversary Season; the recital was
broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
Always eclectic, Clift has performed
with Casper native blues artist, Spencer
Bohren, Bobby McFerrin, and the
Wyoming Symphony at the Indian
Paintbrush Festival at the Canyon Ranch
near Sheridan. She performed Haydn’s
“Lord Nelson Mass” as soprano soloist
with the Casper College Collegiate
Chorale, Pat Patton, director. After
singing the soprano solo in Eric Unruh’s
“Magnificat,” she and her students have
collaborated with Unruh, pianist, for the
past 15 years.
Her recordings, both nominated for
Grammy Awards, are “Handel Messiah”
and Monteverdi’s “Vespers of 1610” with
Boston Baroque on the Telarc Label. In
addition to her classical singing career,
Clift is a committed voice teacher of more
than 20 years, is a member of the National
Association of Teachers of Singing, and
currently sings and plays keyboard in the
eclectic pop trio, Wren.
Reviews
“Karen Clift took the part Mozart wrote for
Constanze. She was sure in intonation
and bright of voice (even her softest
entrances were like a beam of light). Her
ease in coloratura passages was a wonder
to hear, and if Constanze did as well, she
was a formidable singer indeed.” – St.
Paul Pioneer Press
“No one is going to upstage Haydn,
although Karen Clift came close on this
occasion. The American soprano bathed
her music in radiance, sounding free,
open, perfectly tuned and agile. She
caressed every phrase and conveyed
Haydn’s expressive needs to disarming
effect.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer
“The star was clearly Karen Clift as
Pamina. Her shimmering vocal quality
and her smoothly connected registers
perfectly suited Mozart’s demanding
music. Her calm, regal stage presence
was well-suited to the part.” – The Augusta
Chronicle
“Radiant in her phrasing and …
infectiously joyous.”
“The evenness of her singing, the ease
of her high notes and the archness of her
musicality were little less than miraculous.
Grammy Nominated Discography
“Martin Pearlman
is to be thanked...
one of the happiest
‘Messiahs’ on disc.”
“A spontaneity an
agility, and a vitality
that most other
performers either
neglect or fail to
achieve”
– CD Review
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and awards, Hayward was a finalist in the
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition,
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in
Washington D.C. “Justin Hayward is a
virtuoso painter of stories through realism.
His portraits go beyond the image he
presents in lush color and texture on
canvas, leaving the viewer with a deeper
internal experience that taps into the
feeling of a particular moment in time,”
says Linda Ryan, visual arts program
director at Casper College.
Justin Hayward
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas
2012
Justin Hayward is originally from
Traverse City, Mich., portrait artist Justin
Hayward joined the Casper College Visual
Arts Department faculty in 2007, where he
teaches drawing and painting. Recently
he was named Wyoming Artist of the Year
by the Twin Cities’ TOSCA (Theatre Opera
Shakespeare Culture and Art) located in
Edina, Minn. Among numerous exhibitions
Hayward states, “My work represents a
contemporary interpretation of other artist’s
work as applied to experiences in my own
life.” He received the Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree in illustration at Brigham Young
University (2003) and the Masters of Fine
Arts degree from the New York Academy
of Art in painting (2005). Hayward has also
studied at the Florence Academy of Art,
the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York, and with several renowned
artists throughout the country. He resides
in Casper with his wife and three children.
Eric Unruh is founder of the new
RedStone Recital and Gallery Series,
and serves as dean of the School of Fine
Arts and Humanities at Casper College,
where he has taught piano, led the music
department, and the division of fine arts
during the past 25 years.
As pianist, he has collaborated with
soloists, chamber musicians, choral
organizations, and symphony orchestras.
In addition to accompanying for Karen
Clift’s voice studio in Sheridan, Wyo.,
he has performed under the auspices
of ARTCORE and the Casper Chamber
Music Society with Monica and Chad
Reagan, Tenors Unlimited, the Equinox
Trio, Darren Lougee, and many others. He
served as musical director for eight years
for the Gertrude Krampert Theatre musical
productions. As piano soloist, he has
performed with the Wyoming Symphony
Orchestra, the Powder River Symphony,
and the Orquestra Filharmônia de Goiás,
Brazil.
Unruh is a recipient of the Casper College
Rosenthal Outstanding Educator award,
the WMEA Music Teacher of the Year
award, the WMTA Music Teacher of the
Year award, and is listed in Who’s Who
Among America’s Teachers.
Unruh holds the Doctor of Music and
Master of Music degrees in piano
performance and pedagogy from
Northwestern University, and the Bachelor
of Arts degree in piano performance from
Bethany College, Kansas.
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r e c i t a l a n d g a l l e r y s e r i e s COMMITTEE
Eric Unruh
Founder and Director
Jennifer Cowell-DePaolo
Music Program Accreditation Coordinator
Valerie Innella Maiers
Gallery Director
Kristen Lenth
Music Faculty Representative
Simon Marshall
Community Representative
Even Gwin
Music Student Representative
The RedStone Recital and Gallery Series is supported in part by
a grant from the Wyoming Arts Council through funding from the
Wyoming State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Additional funding is provided by the Casper College Foundation.
Casper College
RedStone Recital and Gallery Series
Music Building
125 College Drive
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-268-2606
caspercollege.edu
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r e c i t a l a n d g a l l e r y s e r i e s EVENTS
The University of Wyoming Connection
Saturday, April 26, 2014
6:30 p.m.
EXHIBITION – Ricki Klages, paintings
7:30 p.m.
RECITAL – Verismo Trio
Theresa Bogard, piano
Scott Turpin, saxophones
Nicole Riner, flutes
more
up coming
EVENTS
March 1, 5-8, 7:30 p.m.
“Amadeus,” McMurry Mainstage
March 2, 3 p.m.
Music of the World Choral Concert, Wheeler Concert Hall
March 4, 7 p.m.
Haass and Sanders Student Recital, Wheeler Concert Hall
March 9, 2 p.m.
“Amadeus,” McMurry Mainstage
March 26, 6:30 p.m.
“String Synergy,” Wheeler Concert Hall
March 27-29, 7:30 p.m.
Contemporary Dance Concert, Scifers Dance Theatre
March 29, 3 p.m.
Band Concert, Wheeler Concert Hall
March 30, 2 p.m.
Gwin Vocal Student Recital, Wheeler Concert Hall
April 1-24
Olsen, Brown, Pattae, Woodfired Ceramics,
Goodstein Art Gallery
April 2-4, 6, 7:30 p.m.
Contemporary Dance Concert, Scifers Dance Theatre
April 23, 7:30 p.m.
Casper Contemporary Singers Jazz Night,
Wheeler Concert Hall
April 24, noon
Brown, Olson, and Pattae Artist Lecture, Goodstein Art Gallery
April 24-26, 30, 7:30 p.m.
“Lend Me a Tenor,” McMurry Mainstage
April 28, 7:30 p.m.
Andrew Stonerock Jazz Quintet, Wheeler Concert Hall
May 1-3, 7:30 p.m.
“Lend Me a Tenor,” McMurry Mainstage
May 4, 2 p.m.
“Lend Me a Tenor,” McMurry Mainstage
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