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March
Saturday, March 1st
8:00pm
  • Location: Van Meter Hall
  • Time: 8:00pm

General Admission $18 Students $15

Sunday, March 2nd
3:00pm
  • Location: Van Meter Hall
  • Time: 3:00pm

General admission $18 Students $15

Monday, March 3rd
7:30pm
  • Location: FAC Recital Hall
  • Time: 7:30pm

Ching-Yi Lin, violin and Kevin Class, piano

For additional information - please call 745.3751

Wednesday, March 5th
5:30pm
  • Location: FAC Recital Hall
  • Time: 5:30pm

Rebecca Henry is on the faculty at The Peabody Conservatory, where she teaches violin and viola minor, violin pedagogy, and mentors students in the Masters of Performance/Pedagogy degree, and at The Peabody Preparatory, where she chairs the Preparatory String Department, teaches violin and viola, and is co-director of the Peabody Chamber Camp.  In 2007 she received funding fromt he Dorothy and Richard Starling Foundation to develop Peabody's Pre-Conservatory Violin Program, which she directs.  She holds the Scott Bendann Chair in Classical Music at The Peabody Institute.

For additional informaiton, please contact Dr. Ching-Yi Lin 745.5939

Thursday, March 6th
7:30pm
  • Location: Van Meter Hall
  • Time: 7:30pm

Admission $5 Students $2 with ID

Contact 745.3751 for additional information

 

Mark Ford is the coordinator of percussion activities at The University of North Texas in Denton, Texas and a Past-President of the Percussive Arts Society. He is a marimba specialist and the coordinator of one of the largest percussion programs in the United States at UNT. Ford is an active performer on the marimba and he has been featured throughout the United States at universities and music conferences. He also regularly performs at International Music Festivals in South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.
With several marimba and percussion CDs to his credit, Mark’s recordings have further established his dedication to excellence in music. Ford’s solo marimba CDs, Stealing a Moment, Motion Beyond and Polaris, have received outstanding reviews including The Instrumentalist which stated Ford's performance is "superb and his compositional style is equally outstanding." Mark has also recorded two DVDs and a CD with Japanese virtuoso marimbist Keiko Abe and the UNT Wind Symphony.
As a composer Mark Ford has written several popular works for solo marimba and percussion ensemble including Marimba Heritage, Head Talk, Polaris, Kingdom Lore Fanfare, Stubernic, Afta-Stuba!, Heads Up!, The Surface of Life and Coffee Break (co-composed with Ewelina Ford).  His recent concerto, Stubernic Fantasy (2012) was premiered in Poland (orchestra version) and the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Convention (wind ensemble version) and has been performed on tour by the US Navy Band. His compositions have been performed at universities and concert halls throughout the world and also featured on National Public Radio. Ford is also the author of Marimba: Technique Through Music, a four-mallet marimba method book published by Innovative Percussion, Inc. 
Ford has been recognized as a leading percussion educator.  Under his direction the UNT Percussion Ensemble has toured in Poland, Croatia, France and Belgium and also won the PAS International Percussion Ensemble Competition. Mark Ford proudly represents Dynasty Percussion, The Zildjian Company, Evans Drum Heads, Latin Percussion and Innovative Percussion Inc. as performing artist and clinician.
For more information on Mark Ford and the UNT Percussion Area, please go to www.music.unt.edu/percussion and www.youtube.com/user/untperc.
Friday, March 7th
All Day
  • Location: Van Meter, Music Hall, IRH, CRH, RH
  • Time: All Day

Specific information & schedule provided by Dr. Gary Schallert, 745.5893 or gary.schallert@wku.edu

Sunday, March 16th
7:30pm
  • Location: Recital Hall
  • Time: 7:30pm

Free

Contact 745.3751 for additional information

Wednesday, March 19th
7:30pm
  • Location: FAC Recital Hall
  • Time: 7:30pm

FREE

 

For additional infomation, please call 745.3751

Sunday, March 23rd
4:00pm
  • Location: Van Meter Hall
  • Time: 4:00pm

A collection of varied repertoire from several style periods.

 

General Admission $5 students $3

For information call 745.3751

Wednesday, March 26th
6:00pm
  • Location: FAC Recital Hall
  • Time: 6:00pm

FREE

For additional informaiton, please call 745.3751

Thursday, March 27th
7:30pm
  • Location: FAC Recital Hall
  • Time: 7:30pm

Don Speer, piano

Liza Kelly, Mezzo Soprano

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For additional information:  745.3751

Friday, March 28th
11:30am
  • Location: Choral Rehearsal Hall
  • Time: 11:30am

FREE

Contact 745.3751

7:30pm
  • Location: Van Meter Hall
  • Time: 7:30pm

Admission $25 at the door $22 in adance and $10 students 18 and over, $5 students under the age of 18

Tickets  745.7681 or www.TheSymphonyatWKU.org

Saturday, March 29th
9:30am
  • Location: Music Hall, Choral Rehearsal Hall and FAC Recital Hall
  • Time: 9:30am

CRH - 9:30 - 3:30 pm

RH - 2:00 - 5:00

Sunday, March 30th
3:00pm
  • Location: Van Meter Auditorium
  • Time: 3:00pm

Suggested donations are appreciated

For additional information please call 745.3751

Monday, March 31st
7:30pm
  • Location: FAC Recital Hall
  • Time: 7:30pm

Lee Blakeman, Steven Brown, Bryan Heath, Donna Parkes

FREE

For additional informaiton please call 745.3751

Current Month - March 2014
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