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2007-2008 moore hall recital series

Admission is free and, unless otherwise indicated, will be held in the Moore Hall Auditorium. Performances are sponsored by the University Music Society. For further information contact Mr. Aaron Vandermeer, series coordinator at 910-521-6310.

 

Andrew Cooperstock

Andrew Cooperstock, Piano

Concert: October 17, 2007

Heralded as a “technically impeccable and musically profound” pianist, Andrew Cooperstock performs widely as soloist and chamber musician and has appeared throughout five continents and in most of the fifty states.

Winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs Artist Competition and the New Orleans International Piano Competition, Andrew Cooperstock has performed at New York’s Alice Tully, Merkin, and Weill concert halls, and at the United Nations.  He has been featured in recitals and concerto appearances at the Chautauqua, Brevard, and Round Top international music festivals, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, and in such global centers as Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Baltimore, London, Hamburg, Nice, the Hague, Riga, Canberra, Lima, Kiev, Beijing, Seoul, Sapporo, and Vladivostok.

An advocate for new music, Andrew Cooperstock has premiered works by such American composers as Lowell Liebermann and Aaron Copland.   He has also commissioned works by Robert Starer and Dan Welcher.

 

Steven Schick

Steven Schick, Percussion

Concert: November 7, 2007
Additional Concert: November 8, 2007 7:30 PM

For the past thirty years he has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher. He studied at the University of Iowa and received the Soloists Diploma from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany.

He has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for percussion and has performed these pieces in major concert series such as Lincoln Center's Great Performers and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella concerts as well as in international festivals including Warsaw Autumn, the BBC Proms, the Jerusalem Festival, the Holland Festival, the Stockholm International Percussion Event and the Budapest Spring Festival among many others.

Schick is Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego and Lecturer in Percussion at the Manhattan School of Music. Schick was the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars of New York City from 1992-2002. From 2000 to 2004, he served as Artistic Director of the Centre International de Percussion de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland. Steven Schick is the founder and Artistic Director of the percussion group, "red fish blue fish."

 

Rachel Price

Rachel Price, Jazz Vocalist and Trio

Concert: February 20, 2008

Rachel Price has dedicated her life to her love. She is a graduate in jazz studies from the New England Conservatory in Massachusetts. In 2003, Price was tapped by the Grammy Foundation as a vocalist with the High School Grammy Jazz Choir, and she was a semi-finalist at the Montreux International Jazz Vocal Competition in France. In 2004, Price wowed the audience (and was the youngest competitor) at the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition (this year for vocalists which last time around brought Jane Monheit to prominence and Terry Thornton to resurgence). And August 2005 brought her professional U. S. jazz festival debut – opening for Joshua Redman (another Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition alum)!

 

Faculty Music Fare

Concert: March 26, 2008

Together on stage for the first time, the members of the UNCP Department of Music will present a sampler of their fine work and many talents.

 

Updated: Monday, February 4, 2008

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