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April 29, 2008
Notice: Cheryl Studer has canceled her performance due to illness
INTERNATIONAL OPERA DIVA CHERYL STUDER TO PERFORM DURING HINDEMITHON FESTIVAL AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY
—Special concert will be held on Thursday, May 8 in Shea Center
Hindemithon 2008, the 6th annual festival celebrating the life and works of the German composer Paul Hindemith, will be held at William Paterson University in Wayne on May 7 and 8. The public is invited to attend the special evening concert on Thursday, May 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Shea Center for Performing Arts on campus. Admission is free.
Grammy Award-winning American soprano Cheryl Studer is featured guest artist. She will perform works of Hindemith and Brahms at the May 8 evening concert. Studer performs and records opera and concert works internationally. Her repertoire includes more than 70 roles. Among her recent accomplishments, she sang the role of Sieglinde in Richard Wagner's first-ever Ring Cycle in China, at Beijing's Poly Theatre.
William Paterson University faculty, students, alumni and guest artists will perform a wide selection of Hindemith’s works at the concert. Performers will include Garth Greenup, principal trumpet player for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; pianists Gary Kirkpatrick and Itay Goren; violinist Brett Deubner; saxophonist David Demsey; and flutist Karen Demsey. Frank Pavese, a music instructor at William Paterson, is the founder and artistic director of the Hindemithon. He will accompany Studer at the Hindemithon and in upcoming U.S. appearances.
Studer will offer a master class to William Paterson University students and singers from our area on May 7 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. and from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Shea Auditorium. The classes will feature songs by Hindemith and standard operatic repertoire. Garth Greenup will offer a master class to William Paterson trumpet students on Hindemith's “Sonata for Trumpet and Piano” on May 8 from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. in Shea Recital Hall 101. The master classes are free and open to the public. Hindemith’s quote, “People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts,” will serve as a motto for the event.
Hindemith, who was born in 1895, was a leading exponent of the neoclassic movement. Considered a musical radical as a young man, from the mid-1920s onward he was acknowledged both as one of the key modernist composers of the 20th century and as a teacher and theorist whose influence on younger musicians was unmatched.
Contributions to the William Paterson University Music Department Scholarship Fund, which was initiated more than 25 years ago, will be accepted. For additional information on the concert, please contact Frank Pavese at pavesef@wpunj.edu or access www.hindemithon.com.
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