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Masterclass: Dr. Nicholas Susi, piano
Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 - 12:30pm Loyola welcomes Dr. Nicholas Susi for a virtual masterclass featuring current Loyola students. Pianist Nicholas Susi enjoys a multifaceted career as performer, clinician, adjudicator, and lecturer. His artistry has been recognized through top prizes in such competitions as the NFMC Young Artist Award, while his research has been awarded prestigious grants from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst amongst others. Noteworthy appearances include two concerts for the Princess von Hohenzollern, his semifinalist recital during the 2014 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition (Utrecht, The Netherlands), and concerto solos with several orchestras across the United States and Germany. His debut recording, Scarlatti Now, has received critical acclaim and international radio airplay. Dr. Susi is currently based out of Duluth, Minnesota, where he is Assistant Professor at The College of St. Scholastica. He received his doctorate from the University of Michigan, with previous studies at the University of Kansas and Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Primary teachers include Zena Ilyashov, Jack Winerock, Nina Tichman, and Arthur Greene. For more information, please visit www.nicholas-susi.com.
Please contact Dr. Brian Hsu, khsu@loyno.edu, for Zoom meeting information.
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Dr. Eric Dickson: Mindfulness in Performance and Practice
Date: Monday, April 12, 2021 - 2:30pm Eric Dickson, D.M. serves on the music faculty at Truman State University, where he teaches applied trumpet and jazz appreciation in addition to directing the Truman Brass Choir and the Truman Trumpet Ensemble. A strong advocate for mental health and general wellness, Dickson is a Certified Teacher with the Institute for Mindfulness Based Wellness and Pedagogy. He was initially drawn to the practice of mindfulness after experiencing firsthand the positive impact it can have on music performance.
Prior to his appointment at Truman, he was a member of the Richmond (IN) Symphony Orchestra, the Lafayette (IN) Symphony Orchestra, and an active freelance performer and educator based in Indianapolis, IN. He has performed internationally on Broadway tours of The Drowsy Chaperone and A Chorus Line, and as principal trumpet of the Hollywood Concert Orchestra.
Dickson holds degrees from Minnesota State University–Moorhead and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He is a former student of John Rommel, Ed Cord, Joey Tartell, Kevin Kjos, and William Adam.
For information about joining the Zoom class, please contact Dr. Nick Volz nrvolz@loyno.edu.
Mostly Mondays: Dr. Victoria Vega, MT-BC, "Trauma: Music Therapy Informed Care"
Date: Monday, April 12, 2021 - 7:00pm Welcome to Mostly Monday: Faculty Research Lecture Series, where faculty can share their current research projects and expertise. On April 12, we welcome Dr. Victoria P. Vega, MT-BC, Charles E. Braswell Distinguished Professor of Music Therapy.
This presentation will explore implications for music therapy practice including the effect of trauma on physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. It will provide the definition of trauma and the resulting clinical diagnoses. Acute, Chronic & Complex Traumas will be discussed. Music therapy techniques when working with clients who have survived physical and psychological traumas will be presented. Finally, indications and contraindications for music therapy treatment will be reviewed.
For Zoom information, please email Dr. Vega at vpvega@loyno.edu.
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Dr. Peter Webster: Creativity in Music, Music Teaching, and Music Learning
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 - 5:30pm Peter R. Webster is currently Scholar-in-Residence at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and is a Professor Emeritus of Music Education at the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He holds degrees in music education from the University of Southern Maine (BS) and the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester (MM, PhD). He has taught in the public schools of Maine, Massachusetts, and New York. Following 14 years of teaching at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, he moved to Northwestern in 1988 and was there for 25 years prior to his retirement in 2012 from that school. His current position at USC includes half-time teaching in the Department of Music Teaching and Learning and assists the School as a Vice Dean for the Division of Scholarly and Professional Studies. He offers online courses for the graduate programs at the University of Florida at Gainesville. He assists with the music education doctoral program at Boston University.
We welcome Dr. Webster to Loyola on April 13th for the Music Education Guest Lecture Series for a virtual talk on Creativity in Music, Music Teaching, and Music Learning.
Email Dr. Ed McClellan, emcclell@loyno.edu, for Zoom meeting information.
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Masterclass: Dr. Jihea Hong, piano
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 12:30pm Loyola welcomes Dr. Jihea Hong-Park for a masterclass featuring current Loyola students.
Korean American pianist Jihea Hong-Park enjoys a versatile and active career as a recitalist, educator, chamber musician, teaching artist, workshop presenter, and interdisciplinary arts collaborator. Hong-Park currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Piano at Brigham Young University. Prior to her appointment at BYU, she taught on the piano faculty at The Juilliard School’s Evening Division for 14 years and was a lead teaching artist at the New York Philharmonic.
Recently, she has been invited to present a workshop entitled “A Year of Experimentation: Piano Studio as a Place of Belonging, Engagement, and Ownership” at the 2021 National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. Her scholarly interests include the integration of performance and education through teaching artistry, career development, and entrepreneurship skills for musicians, student-centered teaching in applied instruction, the music of women and composers of color, and social consciousness, activism and advocacy through the arts.
Please email Dr. Hsu and khsu@loyno.edu for Zoom meeting information.
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Keys2Inclusion: Piano Masterclass
Date: Friday, April 23, 2021 - 1:00pm "Keys to Inclusion" is an initiative between the piano departments at NEIU, UMBC, Loyola University New Orleans, Denison University, and SDSU to commit to learning about the piano compositions of African American composers throughout the 2020-21 school year.
Performers include:
Jacqueline Smedley: Etude #1 by H. Leslie Adams (UMBC)
Gabriela Kupry: Sketches in Sepia by Florence Price
Liliana Córdoba Valenzuela: Swing Low Spiritual by Price
Gerardo Albarran: Tangamerican by Margaret Bonds
Jin Hyun Hannah Yang: Troubled Waters (excerpt) by Bonds
Dennis J. P. Costanzo: Bells or Valley of bones by Bonds
For Zoom information, please email Dr. Hsu at khsu@loyno.edu.
For more information about the project, please visit Keys2Inclusion on Facebook.
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The Impresario by W. A. Mozart
Date: Saturday, April 24, 2021 - 3:00pm Mozart’s delightful 45-minute comedy will be set in New Orleans and sung in English, with a brand new translation of the dialogue, updating the age-old headaches of producing opera to reflect the challenges of making art during the COVID era! In-person attendance is extremely limited and by invitation only, but both performances are also available via FREE livestream at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Featuring:
MR. SCRUPLES - Ken Weber
MME. GOLDENTRILL - Michelle Guillot Lane/Isabella Vanderhoof
MISS SILVERPEAL - Elizabeth Peters/Allie Waguespack
MR. ANGEL - Andrew Burgmayer/Nick Smith (Jeremiah Tyson, cover)
MR. BLUFF - J.C. Barker/Nathaniel Richard (Sam Ater and Lukas Kolb, covers)
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