Dear Dewberry School of Music Family,
As we approach March, we are looking forward to the joyful promise of spring! We hope you will join us for our Spring 2021 musical events featuring our Mason Music students and faculty. We are thrilled to launch the Dewberry Faculty Artist Series (virtual concerts) on Tuesdays at 7 pm highlighting Woodwind Faculty on March 2nd and Percussion, Saxophone and Steel Pan Faculty on March 16th. We are also pleased to host virtual lectures and masterclasses for our students led by fabulous guest artists Joe McCarthy, percussionist; Lawrence Brownlee, operatic tenor; Will Schofield, cellist; and Thomas Lessels, clarinetist.
Please know how much we value your support of our Dewberry School of Music students through your virtual presence at our concerts and through your gifts of scholarship assistance. We are grateful to our Friends of Music at Mason for their marvelous support of our Mason Music students. If you are interested in joining our Friends of Music at Mason, please reach out to Linda Harber, President of FOMM [lharber@gmu.edu].
And now...let the music continue! I look forward to seeing you on-line for our virtual Spring Concert Series at Mason!
|
|
Dr. Linda A. Monson, Director
Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music
|
|
Dewberry Faculty Artist Series
March 2021
|
|
Dewberry Faculty Artist Series:
Wonderful Woodwinds!
Tuesday, March 2nd, 7:00 PM
Recorded from the Center for the Arts Concert Hall, this performance features the woodwind faculty, including clarinetist Kathy Mulcahy, flutist Julianna Nickel, saxophonist Ed Fraedrich, oboist Emily Foster, and bassoonist Chris Jewell. Along with piano collaborators Eunae Ko Han and Sophia Kim Cook, they will perform works by Barber, Higdon, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, and more.
|
|
Dewberry Faculty Artist Series:
Percussion, Saxophone, and Steel Pan!
Tuesday, March 16th, 7:00 PM
Recorded from the Center for the Arts Concert Hall, this concert will feature Mason faculty John Kilkenny and Jonathan Bisesi on percussion; Victor Provost on steel pan; and John Kocur on saxophone. Mason alumnus Cristian Perez will accompany Kocur on guitar. The program will feature composers including Alex Brown, Stanley Cowell, Carlos Aguirre, Chick Correa, Irving Berlin, Astor Piazzolla, Carlos Gardel, Kenny Garret, Sean Tilburg, and Peter Klatzow, as well as faculty compositions from John Kocur and Victor Provost.
|
|
Upcoming Virtual Lectures and Masterclasses |
|
Mason Jazz Mondays with Latin Grammy
Award Winner Joe McCarthy
Having a Plan: The Transition From the Classroom
to the Professional World of Music
Monday, March 1st, 12:30 PM
Zoom link will be posted on the
|
|
The Artist Activist: Centering Black Voices:
Lawrence Brownlee
Monday, March 1st, 7:00 PM
The Artist Activist: Centering Black Voices speaker series returns with one of America’s foremost modern opera singers Lawrence Brownlee in conversation with distinguished Mason Opera Professor and Director of Vocal Studies Patricia Miller. The evening will continue the series’ mission to discuss the intersection between the arts industry and social justice movements, highlighting the opportunity to change the future of the field the be more diverse and inclusive. The live conversation will include videos of Brownlee in performance and questions from current students of the Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music.
|
|
Cello Masterclass with Will Schofield, Associate Principal Cellist of The Academy of
St Martin in the Fields
with Dewberry School of Music Strings Students
Monday, March 8th, 9:00 - 11:00 AM
|
|
Clarinet Masterclass with Thomas Lessels,
sub-principal clarinet of The Academy of
St Martin in the Fields
with Dewberry School of Music Wind Students
Monday, March 8th, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
|
|
View Upcoming
Student Recitals
|
|
We are proud to present many wonderful virtual student recitals this semester! Be sure to mark your calendars for upcoming recitals, including:
Kanako Chikami, Doctoral Percussion Lecture Recital - February 27th at 2:00 PM
Marcia McCants, Master's Percussion Recital - February 27th at 5:00 PM
Gregory Freeman, Doctoral Trombone Recital - February 28th at 4:00 PM
Gabriel Rivera-Martinez, Junior Jazz Saxophone Recital - March 14th at 1:00 PM
Dominique Bianco, Junior Jazz Voice Recital - March 14th at 4:00 PM
Kristina Bhardwaj, Junior Piano Recital - March 20th at 5:00 PM
View the full recital calendar here!
|
|
Spring 2021 Dewberry
Faculty Artist Series
|
|
The Weilenmann Family Shares a Generous Gift of Music |
|
When he passed away in 2017, Mr. Richard Weilenmann left another exceptional legacy: a personal collection of more than 1,600 published pieces of music—including sheet music, conductors scores, and orchestral scores—spanning opera, classical, and other genres from the late 1800s to the present. Now, thanks to Mr. Weilenmann’s vision and the generosity of his wife Elisabeth and son Peter Weilenmann, MEd ’07, that notable collection will reside with the Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music at George Mason University. The Richard and Elisabeth Weilenmann Performance Music Library will be a resource for music research as well as for live performances at Mason.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
