Faculty News

May 2009: Performances

Robert Gillespie, Music, (Professor of Violin and String pedagogy) in January worked with teachers and students in Kansas City and in Lake Erie, OH, along with presenting two sessions at the Ohio Music Educators state conference. In February he was the School of Music Lyceum Series speaker at Baylor University and conducted the Colorado All State Philharmonic Orchestra. In March he was clinician and adjudicator for Disney in Tampa, FL and for the American String Teachers Association at its national conference in Atlanta. This month he conducted the 25th Anniversary Celebration concert of the founding of the Columbus Symphony Chamber Strings youth orchestra in Columbus, and he will be working with teachers in orchestras in Philadelphia and Long Island, NY.

Steven Glaser, Music, was an adjudicator for the Grieg International Piano Competition held in Orlando, Florida in January. In April, Professor Glaser was the artist-in-residence for the 2009 Wysong-Joplin Young Artist Competition held in Mckinney, Texas.  He performed a solo recital, adjudicated the competition and gave nine public master classes. Also in April, Glaser collaborated with Kia-hui Tan on Jennifer Higdon's String Poetic for Violin and Piano on the 2009 SOM Contemporary Festival. In May, he performed chamber and solo recitals in Jerusalem, Israel and give master classes at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.  Also in May, A Bridge Life, a documentary about Hurricane Katrina, will be shown at the Newport Film Festival in California.   Glaser composed and recorded the music for the film.

Katherine Borst Jones, Music, performed the first movement of the Concerto for flute and wind orchestra by Mike Mower with the Kent State Stark Concert Band, with Dr. Patricia Grutzmacher, (MM '73) as conductor on May 5, 2009 at the Kent State Stark campus in North Canton, Ohio.  She also gave a clinic for the Tuslaw

High School band in Massillon, Ohio.  

Susan Powell, Music, and Joe Krygier, Music, recently appeared at the Percussive Arts Society Maryland/Delaware 'Day of Percussion' in Baltimore Maryland.  They each presented separate clinic sessions (Powell: "Improving Performance Potential at the Xylophone"; Krygier: "Hand Drum Basics") and then presented a full concert as the Pendulum Duo.

Kia-Hui Tan, Music, was featured in a guest artist recital at the Festival of Contemporary Music at the University of Iowa on April 2 where she also taught violin masterclasses. On April 4 she was in Santa Fe performing at the Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference. Locally, besides 5 performances in Weigel Auditorium to date in 2009, she has been active in downtown Columbus and broadcast on WOSU as concerto soloist on St. John's Triune Concert Series in January and in recital with piano on Sunday at Central Recital Series in February. Her next engagement is in May as soloist with the Salisbury Orchestra in Maryland where she will also work with university and high school students.