Cayla Gavin, piano - Senior Recital

PETER B. LEWIS TO PRESENT FACULTY ARTIST SERIES RECITALFSU Department of Music Faculty Artist Series presents Peter B. Lewis, string bass, in recital on Sunday, April 6, at 3:00 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public; it will also be livestreamed, click the red “Join Stream” button on this page to view the live performance.PETER B. LEWIS is the Director of Bands at Frostburg State University and conducts the Marching Bobcats, Chamber Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble, as well as teaches coursework in conducting and music education. Previously, he served as the Assistant Director of Bands at the SUNY Potsdam Crane School of Music. He holds dual bachelor's degrees in performance (percussion) and music education from Kent State University where he studied conducting with Wayne Gorder, and dual Masters of Music degrees in research in music education and wind conducting from UMass Amherst where he studied with Malcolm W. Rowell, Jr. He has additional study in conducting with Shanti Simon, Mark Davis Scatterday, Courtney Snyder, Craig Kirkhhoff, Michael Haithcock, Emily Thrienen, Col. Jason Fettig, and H. Robert Reynolds.He is the founder of the chamber wind ensemble, Bay State Winds, and served as their artistic director and conductor from 2016 until 2022. As a champion of new music for winds and percussion he commissioned several new works for chamber winds including compositions by composers Robert Spittal (Winsome Variations - 2020) which premiered in Boston, and Jake Gunnar-Walsh (Tower of the Winds - 2018).During his tenure as a public high school music educator, his ensembles performed at Boston Symphony Hall (2014), Chicago Symphony Center (2014, 2018), and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. (2015). His ensembles also had the privilege to work with composers/conductors John Mackey, Frank Ticheli, Brian Balmages, Robert Spittal, Anthony Maiello, Malcolm W. Rowell, Jr., and Lt. Col. Arnold Gabriel.Peter has had the distinct privilege to share the stage with performers such as jazz piano legend Hank Jones, Irish Tenor Ronan Tynan, and Nexus Percussion Ensemble founding member Bob Becker. Many of his students have enjoyed successful careers in music including Sean Rosati, guitarist for pop music stars Ava Max and Doja Cat.For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music at 301-687-4109.

FACULTY ARTIST SERIES PRESENTS CLARINETIST DR. MARK GALLAGHER AND JAY DEWIRE, ASSISTED BY SAXOPHONIST BRENT WEBERFSU Department of Music Faculty Artist Series presents clarinetist Dr. Mark Gallagher, and pianist Dr. Jay DeWire, assisted by saxophonist Dr. Brent Weber, on Monday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed; click the red “Join Stream” button on this page to view the live performance.Clarinetist Mark Gallagher is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he received a B.M. degree and studied with Lawrence McDonald. He also holds a M.M. degree from the Eastman School of Music having studied with D. Stanley Hasty and D.M.A degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he studied with Dr. Linda Bartley. Other major teachers included Robert Marcellus and Alfred Zezter, both of the Cleveland Orchestra. Dr. Gallagher has performed with the Contemporary Music Forum of Washington, Washington Opera, United States Navy Band, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Bronx Symphony, New York City Ballet Orchestra, and the Skylight Opera Theatre Orchestra.He made his New York recital debut performing with violinist Sylvia Rosenberg at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and is also a winner of the Artist International Competition in New York City being award a solo recital in Weill Hall. An active chamber musician and co-founder of I Venti Semplice, Dr. Gallagher has performed throughout the United States, Europe and China, with recent concert tours of the Netherlands, which included a live national radio broadcast from the Concertgebouw, and performances in Beijing and Changsha, China. He has also had solo and chamber appearances in Germany and the Czech Republic. Other performances include appearances in Washington, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, Wisconsin Public Radio, as well as a concert tour of Sweden. Dr. Gallagher has recorded with the Albany Records label and can be heard on the Eastman “American Music” Series.In addition to a busy performance schedule, Dr. Gallagher is an active teacher and clinician, lecturing on occupational health issues for musicians and the Alexander Technique. Currently he is an instructor of clarinet and music theory at Frostburg State University and has held pedagogical posts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Carroll College. During the summer, Dr. Gallagher has been the director of faculty at the Semplice Harbor School of Music and Chamber Music Festival on Washington Island, Wisconsin and director of the Savage Mountain Summer Arts Academy at Frostburg State University.Dr. Jay DeWire, pianist (bio): https://www.frostburg.edu/academics/colleges-and-departments/music/faculty.php#DeWireDr. Brent Weber, saxophonist (bio): https://www.frostburg.edu/academics/colleges-and-departments/music/faculty.php#Weber

FSU’s Department of Music Presents Jazz Combo in ConcertFrostburg State University’s Department of Music will present its Jazz Combo, directed by Tom Harrison, in concert on Tuesday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed; the link will be posted at www.frostburg.edu/concerts.In addition to Harrison on bass, performers will include Gabe Hick on alto sax, Vincent Hangarter on tenor sax, Sam White on trumpet and piano, Doug Holtz on trombone, vocalist Cat Owens on piano, Matt Alexander on bass and Daniel Hicks on drums.The repertoire of the Jazz Combo focuses on jazz standards which includes some vocal as well as instrumental selections with Cat Owens singing three of the selections in the concert – “500 Miles High”, “At Last” and “It Could Happen to You.”“500 Miles High” appeared on the album “Light as a Feather” recorded in 1972 by Chick Corea and Return to Forever and was written by pianist Corea and lyricist Neville Potter.The tune “At Last”, composed by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the 1941 movie “Sun Valley Serenade”, was performed by the Glen Miller Orchestra and later made popular in the 1960 version recorded by rhythm and blues singer Etta James.“It Could Happen to You”, written by Jimmy Van Husen and Johnny Burke, was first heard in the film “And the Angels Sing” in 1944 and has become a classic jazz standard. The Jazz Combo will perform this and the Dexter Gordon favorite “Fried Bananas” as a medley with both tunes sharing the same chord progression, thus making Dexter’s tune a contrafact.“Gazelle”, written and recorded by saxophonist Joe Henderson on his 1971 album “In Pursuit of Blackness” features a rhythmically deceptive pattern which has the listener guessing the meter.One of jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine’s most popular albums is “Sugar”, recorded in 1970. The title song could be considered soul-jazz and may have reached a wider audience than his straight-ahead jazz albums.Pianist Horace Silver composed and recorded the swing tune “Strollin’” for his album Horace-Scope in 1960.A second Chick Corea selection, “Sea Journey”, will be performed as an instrumental and is stylistically like a Bossa Nova, but with Corea’s Spanish flavor. It was first released on a 1973 album of bassist Stanley Clarke and appeared on an album by vibraphonist Gary Burton as well.“Someday My Prince Will Come” was first heard when Snow White sang it to the seven dwarfs as a bedtime story in the 1937 animated film. Composed by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey, the song became a jazz classic recorded by Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis and many more jazz greats. In 1978 guitarist Jim Hall wrote a contrafact called “Waltz New” over the same chord changes and the Combo will perform both melodies together.The modern jazz standard “Solar” is credited to Miles Davis and the first two measures are engraved on his tombstone. The song may have originally been from the pen of Chuck Wayne, although Davis changed a few things and had it copyrighted in his name in 1963 after having already recorded it on his 1954 album “Miles Davis Quintet.” Pianist Bill Evans’ version from the album “Sunday at the Village Vanguard” may be the best-known version of the song.With the 1959 release of the album “Kind of Blue”, Davis pioneered the modal jazz movement abandoning the complexities of the bebop style giving the performers more freedom to create melodic ideas over basic chord progressions. “Freddie Freeloader” is a blues from that album which is known possibly as the most definitive jazz album ever recorded.For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music at 301-687-4109.Situated in the mountains of Allegany County, Frostburg State University is one of the 12 institutions of the University System of Maryland. FSU is a comprehensive, residential regional university and serves as an educational and cultural center for Western Maryland. For more information, visit www.frostburg.edu or facebook.com/frostburgstateuniversity. Follow FSU on X @frostburgstate.FSU is committed to making all its programs, services and activities accessible to persons with disabilities. To request accommodations through the ADA Compliance Office, call 301-687-3035 or use a Voice Relay Operator at 1-800-735-2258.