UNL Glenn Korff School of Music Flute Professor John Bailey will present his faculty recital, Something Old, Something New, on Tuesday, January 31 at 7:30 p.m. in Westbrook Recital Hall, Room 119.
Bailey is accompanied on three pieces by Christopher Marks, fortepiano and piano, and on one piece by Suna Gunther, soprano.
“My concerto includes some standards of flute repertoire as well as a world premiere,” said Bailey. “All are melodic, interesting works, and the entire program lasts about an hour.”
The program includes the premiere of Kurt Knecht’s Sonata for Flute and Piano. Knecht received his DMA in composition from UNL in 2009 and is an active performer and composer based in Kansas City. His DMA document Missa Prolationem won the Folsom Award for Most Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in the University of Nebraska System. He received his BM in piano playing and theory from the University of Tampa and MM in composition from Southern Methodist University.
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Also on the program is Ludwig van Beethoven’s Serenade, Op. 41, where Bailey is accompanied by Marks on fortepiano, a forerunner of the modern piano Beethoven knew.
Gunther will use it in Albert Roussel’s “Deux Poèmes de Ronsard, op. 26.”
The program is rounded off by André Caplet’s “Rêverie et petite valse”.
Bailey is the Richard H. Larson Distinguished Professor of Music (flute) and a member of the Moran Woodwind Quintet, the resident faculty quintet of the Glenn Korff School of Music. He is Principal Flute of Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra. He is also an active recitalist, lecturer and master class teacher. From 2003 to 2004 he was President of the National Flute Association. For more information on Bailey, visit https://go.unl.edu/bailey.
Marks is Professor of Organ Music and Associate Dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. With his string of recordings of music by Seth Bingham and his many performances on historic American instruments, Marks has earned a reputation as an expert on American organ music, both old and new. For more information on marks, see https://go.unl.edu/marks.
Gunther is an assistant professor of vocal music. She began her career teaching applied voice at Berea College in Kentucky while also serving as a coach and pianist at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. She has also taught at the University of North Dakota and the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. She joined the faculty of the Glenn Korff School of Music in 2021. As a performer, she has spent the last decade as the US State Department’s “Cultural Ambassador”. For more information on Gunther, see https://go.unl.edu/gunther.
The concert is free and public. There will also be a live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts for the link on the day of the performance.
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