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February 2015
Floyd plays with world's largest steel band

Dr. Chad Floyd, associate professor of music, performed tenor pan with the Birdsong Steel Orchestra at "Panorama," the world's largest steel band competition, in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in early February.

 

Floyd took part in an 11-day program which provided the opportunity to study and participate in musical art forms indigenous to Trinidad and Tobago during the musical-arts season.

 

Activities included workshops and masterclasses on Caribbean music at the Birdsong Academy of Music, rehearsing and performing with the 120-member Birdsong Steel Orchestra under the direction of Grammy Award winner Andy Narell, and performing with the Birdsong Steel Orchestra at Panorama.

 

Floyd also visited several cultural attractions and took a guided factory tour of Gill's Pan Shop, Trinidad's largest exporter/distributor of steel drum instruments. 

Three keyboard concerts to be presented at CU

CU will host three keyboard concerts - two organ and one piano - in the next few weeks.  Each program is free and the public is invited.

Dr. Paul Detterman, national director of the The Fellowship Community an accountable community of evangelicals based in Louisville, Ky., will give the Noon Organ Series Concert at 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, March 3 in Ransdell Chapel, 401 N. Hoskins Ave., Campbellsville.The concert will end at 12:50 p.m. Detterman will be playing works by Gordon Jacob, J.S. Bach, Louis Vierne, John Philip Sousa and himself.

Dr. Javier Clavere, assistant professor of music theory and applied piano and college organist and carillonneur of Berea College, will present a guest piano recital Thursday, Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. in The Gheens Recital Hall in the Gosser Fine Arts Center at 210 University Drive, Campbellsville.  The program will include a group of Sonatas for piano solo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).

Dr. Wesley Roberts, professor of music at Campbellsville University, will host a faculty organ recital March 24 in Ransdell Chapel at 8 p.m. Selections by Arthur Foote, J.S. Bach, Jacques Ibert, L�on Boellmann, Gustav Holst, and Denis Bedard will be included.
CU to host chamber music summer camp June 7-9

High school musicians looking for a new summer experience can find just that at the Campbellsville University Chamber Music Camp.

This three-day resident camp gives young musicians the opportunity to learn and perform chamber music under the guidance of CU School of Music faculty.  The camp culminates with a recital given by the students.

The camp is open to rising freshmen through outgoing seniors who play piano, brass, woodwind or string instruments, and vocalists.

The camp fee of $130 includes instruction, materials, room and board. Discounted tuition is available for those who register before March 31. 

Click the image to register online, or visit www.campbellsville.edu/music.
In the Spotlight

On Jan. 26, the online learning site, Theta Music Trainer, held a special competition, the Theta Music Winter Games 2015. Over one hundred people participated from all over the world. Each participant played a special five-minute-long version of the "More Tones (Major)" game, which presented a series of melodies in the key of C major, four to six notes in length. Participants listened carefully to each melody then played it back on an on-screen piano keyboard. Scoring was based on speed and accuracy. Current CU music student Saori Kataoka won fourth place, a spectacular accomplishment! She won a gift certificate from TMT for $15. Congratulations to Saori!
Congratulations to Yuri Kim (MM 2011) for winning the 2015 Concerto Competition (Piano) at the University of Kentucky. She will perform Gershwin's "Concerto in F" at the winners concert on Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Singletary Center for the Arts on UK's campus.
Yawen Ludden (MA 2005) has secured an adjunct teaching position at Georgia Gwinnett College just outside of Atlanta. She has also been invited to guest lecture at the University of Kentucky for a Chinese Opera Symposium this coming October.
Calendar of Events
All events are free of charge and occur in The Gheens Recital Hall in the Gosser Fine Arts Center unless otherwise indicated. For information, contact the School of Music at (270) 789-5237. Schedule is subject to change. Check the School of Music website for up-to-date information.
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