Justin Hayward, portrait artistThe Mildred Zahradnicek GalleryFriday, February 28, 2014, 6:30 p.m.

Karen Clift, sopranoThe Richard E. and Linda S. Wheeler Concert HallFriday, February 28, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

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Casper College Departments of Music and Visual Arts

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The Casper College redStone Recital and Gallery Series shall provide educational enrichment and cultural opportunities for the college and the greater community.

Justin HaywardFamily PortraitOil on canvas2013

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Mildred Zahradnicek GALLERY EXHIBITION

s t o r y t e l l i n g i n a r t a n d s o n gJustin Hayward, portraits

“My portraits display how I have been inspired and influenced by the work of other artists (contemporaries and art historical figures), as well as by my own past. Specifically, my work represents a contemporary interpretation of other artist’s work as applied to experiences in my own life. As a result, the effects of the skills, techniques, compositions, and symbolism of others’ pieces are seen throughout.”

Justin HaywardYoung MarriageOil on canvas2007

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Karen Clift, sopranoEric Unruh, piano

The Richard E. and Linda S. Wheeler Concert HallCasper CollegeFriday, February 28, 20147:30 p.m.

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Sweet Polly Oliver English Folk Songarr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Over the Rainbow FROM The Wizard of Oz E. Y. Harburg (1896-1981)

Harold Arlen (1905-1986)

The Love of My Life FROM Brigadoon Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)

Frederick Loewe (1901-1988)

O mio babbino caro FROM Gianni Sichicchi Giovacchino Forzano (1884-1970)

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

At Last Mack Gordon (1904-1959)

Harry Warren (1893-1981)

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Dirty No-Gooder’s Blues Bessie Smith (1894-1937)

The Glamorous Life FROM A Little Night Music Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)

The House Carpenter Scottish Ballad

Solvejg’s Song FROM Peer Gynt, Op. 23 Edvard Grieg (1845-1907)

The Saga of Jenny FROM Lady in the Dark Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)

Kurt Weill (1900-1950

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Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

When I’m 64 Paul McCartney (b. 1942)

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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Traditional Spiritual arr. Marvin Mills (b. 1958)

Dear Harp of my Country Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

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Adele’s Laughing Song FROM Die Fledermaus Carl Haffner and Richard Genée Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)

…a reception follows on the True Atrium

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Photo © 2013 Adam Jahiel

Since the start of her career in 1989, singing “Messiah” with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Wyoming soprano, Karen Clift has performed with numerous symphony orchestras throughout North America, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, SPCO, Boston Baroque, Minnesota Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Detroit Symphony, The Atlanta Symphony and Robert Shaw Chorale, Vancouver Symphony and many other American symphonies and choral arts societies. She was soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and the Baltimore Symphony at the Kennedy Center. Her live performances have been featured on public radio stations throughout the country.

A devoted recitalist and chamber musician, Clift performs American song, beloved lieder and song from many countries and eras. Last year she performed “From Baroque to Broadway,” a recital and master class tour of Sweden with pianist Stephanie Wendt. She has toured the American Midwest and West performing countless recitals over the past two decades with her friend and collaborator John Churchwell, currently the head of music at San Francisco Opera and faculty member at Music Academy of the West. She was a featured chamber soloist at Music in the Vineyards, Music in the Parks, The Grand Teton Music Festival, and Festival of the Lakes, and frequently sings with Minnesota’s Blue Baroque Band. She performed in recital at New York City’s Ethical Cultural Society with cellist Andre Emelianoff, and she frequently premieres and programs the work of American composer David Evan Thomas. She was a featured recitalist in The Saint Paul Summer Song Festival, which concluded the Schubert Club’s 125th Anniversary Season; the recital was broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.

Always eclectic, Clift has performed with Casper native blues artist, Spencer Bohren, Bobby McFerrin, and the Wyoming Symphony at the Indian Paintbrush Festival at the Canyon Ranch near Sheridan. She performed Haydn’s “Lord Nelson Mass” as soprano soloist with the Casper College Collegiate Chorale, Pat Patton, director. After singing the soprano solo in Eric Unruh’s “Magnificat,” she and her students have collaborated with Unruh, pianist, for the past 15 years.

Her recordings, both nominated for

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Grammy Awards, are “Handel Messiah” and Monteverdi’s “Vespers of 1610” with Boston Baroque on the Telarc Label. In addition to her classical singing career, Clift is a committed voice teacher of more than 20 years, is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and currently sings and plays keyboard in the eclectic pop trio, Wren.

Reviews

“Karen Clift took the part Mozart wrote for Constanze. She was sure in intonation and bright of voice (even her softest entrances were like a beam of light). Her ease in coloratura passages was a wonder to hear, and if Constanze did as well, she was a formidable singer indeed.” – St. Paul Pioneer Press

“No one is going to upstage Haydn, although Karen Clift came close on this occasion. The American soprano bathed

her music in radiance, sounding free, open, perfectly tuned and agile. She caressed every phrase and conveyed Haydn’s expressive needs to disarming effect.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer

“The star was clearly Karen Clift as Pamina. Her shimmering vocal quality and her smoothly connected registers perfectly suited Mozart’s demanding music. Her calm, regal stage presence was well-suited to the part.” – The Augusta Chronicle

“Radiant in her phrasing and … infectiously joyous.”

“The evenness of her singing, the ease of her high notes and the archness of her musicality were little less than miraculous.

Grammy Nominated Discography

“Martin Pearlman is to be thanked... one of the happiest ‘Messiahs’ on disc.”

“A spontaneity an agility, and a vitality that most other performers either neglect or fail to achieve”– CD Review

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Justin Hayward is originally from Traverse City, Mich., portrait artist Justin Hayward joined the Casper College Visual Arts Department faculty in 2007, where he teaches drawing and painting. Recently he was named Wyoming Artist of the Year by the Twin Cities’ TOSCA (Theatre Opera Shakespeare Culture and Art) located in Edina, Minn. Among numerous exhibitions

and awards, Hayward was a finalist in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. “Justin Hayward is a virtuoso painter of stories through realism. His portraits go beyond the image he presents in lush color and texture on canvas, leaving the viewer with a deeper internal experience that taps into the feeling of a particular moment in time,” says Linda Ryan, visual arts program director at Casper College.

Hayward states, “My work represents a contemporary interpretation of other artist’s work as applied to experiences in my own life.” He received the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in illustration at Brigham Young University (2003) and the Masters of Fine Arts degree from the New York Academy of Art in painting (2005). Hayward has also studied at the Florence Academy of Art, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and with several renowned artists throughout the country. He resides in Casper with his wife and three children.

Justin HaywardSelf PortraitOil on canvas2012

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Eric Unruh is founder of the new RedStone Recital and Gallery Series, and serves as dean of the School of Fine Arts and Humanities at Casper College, where he has taught piano, led the music department, and the division of fine arts during the past 25 years.

As pianist, he has collaborated with soloists, chamber musicians, choral organizations, and symphony orchestras. In addition to accompanying for Karen Clift’s voice studio in Sheridan, Wyo., he has performed under the auspices of ARTCORE and the Casper Chamber Music Society with Monica and Chad Reagan, Tenors Unlimited, the Equinox Trio, Darren Lougee, and many others. He served as musical director for eight years for the Gertrude Krampert Theatre musical productions. As piano soloist, he has performed with the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, the Powder River Symphony, and the Orquestra Filharmônia de Goiás, Brazil.

Unruh is a recipient of the Casper College Rosenthal Outstanding Educator award, the WMEA Music Teacher of the Year award, the WMTA Music Teacher of the Year award, and is listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.

Unruh holds the Doctor of Music and Master of Music degrees in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University, and the Bachelor of Arts degree in piano performance from Bethany College, Kansas.

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Eric UnruhFounder and Director

Jennifer Cowell-DePaoloMusic Program Accreditation Coordinator

Valerie Innella MaiersGallery Director

Kristen LenthMusic Faculty Representative

Simon MarshallCommunity Representative

Even GwinMusic Student Representative

The RedStone Recital and Gallery Series is supported in part by a grant from the Wyoming Arts Council through funding from the Wyoming State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional funding is provided by the Casper College Foundation.

Casper CollegeRedStone Recital and Gallery SeriesMusic Building125 College DriveCasper, Wyoming 82601307-268-2606caspercollege.edu

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March 1, 5-8, 7:30 p.m. “Amadeus,” McMurry Mainstage

March 2, 3 p.m. Music of the World Choral Concert, Wheeler Concert Hall

March 4, 7 p.m. Haass and Sanders Student Recital, Wheeler Concert Hall

March 9, 2 p.m. “Amadeus,” McMurry Mainstage

March 26, 6:30 p.m. “String Synergy,” Wheeler Concert Hall

March 27-29, 7:30 p.m. Contemporary Dance Concert, Scifers Dance Theatre

March 29, 3 p.m. Band Concert, Wheeler Concert Hall

March 30, 2 p.m. Gwin Vocal Student Recital, Wheeler Concert Hall

April 1-24 Olsen, Brown, Pattae, Woodfired Ceramics, Goodstein Art Gallery

April 2-4, 6, 7:30 p.m. Contemporary Dance Concert, Scifers Dance Theatre

April 23, 7:30 p.m. Casper Contemporary Singers Jazz Night, Wheeler Concert Hall

April 24, noon Brown, Olson, and Pattae Artist Lecture, Goodstein Art Gallery

April 24-26, 30, 7:30 p.m. “Lend Me a Tenor,” McMurry Mainstage

April 28, 7:30 p.m. Andrew Stonerock Jazz Quintet, Wheeler Concert Hall

May 1-3, 7:30 p.m. “Lend Me a Tenor,” McMurry Mainstage

May 4, 2 p.m. “Lend Me a Tenor,” McMurry Mainstage

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The University of Wyoming ConnectionSaturday, April 26, 2014

6:30 p.m.EXHIBITION – Ricki Klages, paintings

7:30 p.m.RECITAL – Verismo Trio Theresa Bogard, piano Scott Turpin, saxophones Nicole Riner, flutes

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