to the second-floor entrance will be

demolished and replaced with a

much more functional, safe, and

attractive approach. Also, we are

making plans and raising funds for a

renovation of Daniel Recital Hall

next summer that will provide addi-

tional space for classes, rehearsals,

the Music Media Center, and the

Piano Laboratory.

We hosted our National Association

of Schools of Music Visiting Evalu-

ators in March. They provided a

detailed report that affirms our mis-

sion and operations and provides

insightful guidance on improve-

ments that will continue to strength-

en our program.

I hope you will enjoy the articles

about the year that is past and catch

the hopeful enthusiasm of our fu-

ture!

We have just closed the book on

the 2011-2012 academic year and

it was a busy and successful one

for us! We saw an increase in the

quality and number of freshman

music majors this year and will

retain 63% of them into the sopho-

more year. This is a vast improve-

ment over the 33% retention rate

from the freshman to sophomore

year in 2011. So far, the fall 2012

freshman class of music majors

looks very promising. We have

awarded this incoming class the

highest number of large music

scholarships in the last eight years.

We presented excellent concerts

and recitals this year featuring an

array of musical styles from the

last 500 years of music history. For

the fourth year in a row, our aver-

age concert attendance increased.

Students and area residents recog-

nize the quality of our programs

and make attendance at them a

priority.

The Department of Music

launched a Facebook page this

year that is called Music at Chow-

an. So next time you’re on Face-

book, be sure to “like” us so you’ll

be able to see what’s going on

around here, listen to recent com-

positions and performances, and

communicate with us.

Daniel Hall has become a much

more comfortable building due to

the excellent HVAC system that

was installed last summer. Also,

classrooms are brighter because of

the new lighting and ceilings that

were installed. This summer, the

porch, planters, and steps leading

From the Department Chair

I N S I D E

T H I S I S S U E :

Meherrin

Chamber Orchestra

2

Pep Band Per-

forms At CIAA

Tournament

2

Alumni

Updates 2

Choral Area

News 3

Alex Welch

Wins

Composition

Award

3

Music

Education: Making a

Difference

4

Music

Education

Students

Attend NCMEA

Conference

4

Faculty

Highlights

5

Music

Industry News 5

Friends of

Music Report

6

Friends of

Music at Chowan

7

Department of

Music Events 2012—2013

8

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Upbeat! News from the Chowan University Department of Music

V O L U M E 3 - I S S U E 1

The 2011-2012 music events certainly had something to offer for all tastes – from those who enjoy the sounds of

a virginal or a jazz favorite, to those who’d rather hear some electro-acoustic beeps or the pounding of trashcans. Since an exhaustive list of concert highlights would take hours to read, let’s quickly revisit just a few moments

from the many meaningful musical experiences offered this year.

Starting things off was the Faculty Gala, where we heard Dr. Guthrie on the viola da gamba and Dr. Parker sing-

ing works by Jacques Ibert and Albert Hay Malotte. This wasn’t the only pastiche-style concert of the semester, as the Christmas at Chowan concert offered diverse selections from Vivaldi played by Michelle Jacobson to a

new choral work by James Green, Class of 1990.

The faculty members were busy with their own concerts as well, preparing three solo recitals over the course of the year. Mrs. Pressnell’s solo piano recital was first, where she played a mammoth Schubert sonata and a Bol-

com work employing some percussive extended techniques. Dr. Guthrie’s solo harpsichord recital offered the

audience a chance to hear a myriad different fugue styles from the immensely difficult and awe-inspiring Art of

Fugue by J.S. Bach. Dr. Moser finished the year off with a joint concert with Dr. Niky Hughes from High Point

University, setting minimalist piano music to an evening of performance art.

Our ensembles were busy this year, too, preparing concerts as diverse as any university. The Meherrin Chamber

Orchestra provided the community with two successful premieres: Dr. Amy Wethington’s A Little Water Music

and Dr. Guthrie’s Meherrin Symphony No. 2. Dr. Parker’s choirs, in addition to touring around the state, com-

bined for the Choral Showcase concert entitled, What A Wonderful World, presented at Chowan and at the Suf-

folk Center for Cultural Arts, where the audiences were treated with works from around the globe, including Isra-

el, Zambia, Italy and Scotland. Finally, Mr. Butrico organized the very enjoyable Prism concert, where members

of the Chowan Winds performed a variety of music in equally varied array of ensembles, from bossa nova to

flute choirs, marimba to garbage cans. continued on page 5

A Year of Memorable Performances

Dr. Gregory Parker

Alumni Updates

Meherrin Chamber Orchestra The Meherrin Chamber Orchestra presented two concerts this

year in Turner Auditorium. The fall 2011 concert featured Con-

certmistress Michelle Jacobson as soloist in Vivaldi’s

“Autumn” Concerto from the Four Seasons, and the world

premiere performance of Amy Wethington’s original 2011 sym-

phony, A Little Water Music.

A Little Water Music is a

three-movement work that

depicts biological themes

connected with life in water.

The first movement begins

in a mountain stream and

leads us down the mountain

to the second movement - a

manatee habitat (Manatee

Song). Finally, we end in

the ocean in the third move-

ment entitled “Waves.”

A Little Water Music

I. Carried Along by Stream Currents

II. Manatee Song

III. Waves

The spring 2012 concert featured Concertmistress Michelle

Jacobson as soloist in Vivaldi’s “Winter” Concerto from the

Four Seasons, and the world premiere performance of James M.

Guthrie’s Meherrin Symphony No 2, a neo-classical four-

movement work.

Meherrin Symphony No. 2

I. Allegro ma non troppo

II. Adagio

III. Scherzo

IV. Rondo

Next year the orchestra plans to complete the Vivaldi cycle with

Michelle performing the “Summer” Concerto. We are also

looking forward to a new composition by Bruce Moser, and

works by J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart and many others.

Here’s what some of our graduates are doing. What about you? Email us at music@chowan.edu to let us know where you are and what you are up to!

Josiah Antill, Class of 2011, has been working in Campus Ministries at Chowan and recently went on the Spring Break Cuba Mis-sion Experience. In June he will become an assistant in Whitaker Library. This coming August, Josiah will begin commuting to Campbell Divinity School to work on a Master of Divinity degree. He continues to play piano and sing for churches in the area. He is constructing a website at http://sites.google.com/site/nightpilgrimmusic/ and invites you to look him up! Maria Cox, Class of 2011, just completed work on the Rod Lumpkin worship CD entitled “The Intimate Realm”, which is available on iTunes, CD Baby, and Amazon.com. She has begun working with a manager and has performed a number of solo gigs. She has been offered the opportunity to perform overseas with the band Groovefactor. If she accepts, she will leave in mid-July on a six-month tour of Asia and the Middle-East. Chris Jernigan, Class of 2009, resides in Aulander. He is still employed at Halifax County Schools as an elementary music teacher and he plans to begin an elementary guitar program for the 2012-2013 school year. Ashley Hamrick, Class of 2007, is the music teacher at Davidson Elementary School in Davidson and David Cox Elementary School in Charlotte. The Davidson Elementary Honors Chorus was selected to perform the National Anthem for some Davidson College basketball games this year and six of her Honors Chorus students were chosen for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools District-Wide Elementary Honors Chorus. Ashley was included in the Biltmore Who’s Who in North American Education for 2012. James E. Green, Class of 1990, is now the In-House Music Editor at Hinshaw Music Company in Chapel Hill. In 2012, His “Gloria a Dios” was released by Hinshaw Music and his “Cherokee Rose” and a new SATB version of “Morning Song (Cherokee Amazing Grace)” were released by Walton Music. The three-part version of “Morning Song (Cherokee Amazing Grace)” has become the ninth-best-selling title in the 62-year history of Walton Music Company. James has begun making and playing Native-American flutes. You can hear him play “Meditations” on one of his flutes at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itXzHWxoHi4.

The Department of Music has an Alumni Survey available. If you would be willing to help us out by completing one, email us and we’ll send it to you. It’s quick and easy!

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Pep Band Performs At CIAA Tournament 2011-2012 was an academic year full of many

exciting firsts; the first graduating class from the

Master of Education (M.Ed.) program, record

enrollment, and the construction of new student

housing.

Another first was the Chowan University Pep

Band’s attendance at the CIAA Basketball Tour-

nament in Charlotte. Thanks to the generous

financial support from the university, this trip

was made possible.

The tournament was exciting on many levels;

the women’s basketball team advanced to

the semi-final round before bowing out to the

eventual conference champion, as well as

being in attendance for First Lady Michelle

Obama’s visit.

Perhaps the most important outcome from

these three days was the heightened sense of

pride in Chowan University by the students,

and the general excitement around the instru-

mental music area. That enthusiasm is conta-

gious and will prove invaluable as the pro-

gram continues to grow.

P A G E 3 Choral Area News Chowan Singers presented nineteen

concerts during the year. In addition to

performances on campus, the choir

sang for school and church groups

throughout central and eastern North

Carolina. We presented eleven concerts

over the six days of our spring tour,

including our first performances in

North Carolina community colleges.

Enthusiastic audiences welcomed us to

Johnston Community College in Smith-

field and Coastal Carolina Com-

munity College in Jacksonville.

Cantare undertook a bold experi-

ment this year in the form of

moving rehearsals to 8:00 am on

Wednesdays and Fridays. Close

scrutiny of the University’s

schedule of classes revealed that

the 8:00 am time slot would have

the fewest class conflicts (big

surprise, right?). Also, it would

mean that the students chosen to

sing in Cantare would have to

possess a strong desire to be in

the group in order to haul them-

selves out of bed for an eight o’clock

rehearsal. The experiment was a huge

success and this edition of Cantare was

the best one yet! The group sang very

well all year long and excelled in the

performance of their jazz selections.

Chowan Chorus continued to provide a

great opportunity for students and area

residents to lift their voices together in

song. Student participation in the choir

was excellent and more community

members joined our ranks. The Chorus

sang very well in its performances on the

Christmas Choral Concert and the

Spring Choral Showcase.

Dr. Parker was once again invited to

lead the North Carolina Baptist Singers

Fall Retreat at Caraway Conference

Center in September. This is a wonderful

group of talented and dedicated singers

from Baptist churches all over the state.

In addition to the retreat, he had the priv-

ilege of serving as a guest conductor of

their October 24 concert at Unity Baptist

Church in Gastonia and at their Novem-

ber 7 concert at the Annual Meeting of

the Baptist State Convention of North

Carolina in Greensboro.

We ended our year by taking the Choral

Showcase Concert on the road to the

Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts on

April 24. A very receptive audience of

338 people gathered in the beautiful

Birdsong Theater to hear our presenta-

tion of “What a Wonderful World”, a

concert featuring a wide array of musi-

cal offerings from around the globe. We

will perform at the Suffolk Center once

each year and excitement is already

building towards our presentation of

Handel’s Messiah there on

December 4. We anticipate a

sold-out house!

Finally, we announced our

plans to take Chowan Singers

on a concert and sightseeing

tour of Ireland in March 2013.

In conjunction with World

Cultural Tours, we have devel-

oped an outstanding itinerary

that will take us from Belfast

to Dublin, down the Boyne

River Valley, and to the an-

cient Hills of Slane and Tara

as we take in the wonders of the Emer-

ald Isle. The choir will present full con-

certs in Belfast and Dublin as well as a

noonday program at St. Patrick’s Cathe-

dral, the national cathedral of Ireland.

Chowan Singers at Olive Chapel Baptist Church in Apex

Dr. Parker directs the North Carolina Baptist Singers

Choral Showcase

Alex Welch Wins Composition Award Alex Welch was a first place winner in the Arnold Salop Memorial Composition Contest spon-sored by the Southeastern Composers’ League. Founded in 1950, the Southeastern Composers' League is an organization comprised of new classical and electronic art music composers and scholars located throughout the southeastern United States. It is one of the oldest organizations of its kind in America. The annual contest is open to full-time undergraduate students who study with faculty members who are members of the SCL. Alex studies composition with SCL member, Dr. James M. Guthrie, Associate Professor of Music. Welch won the contest with a percussion trio entitled Hypnogogia which was performed for the first time at the New Music Concert on November 17, 2011 in Daniel Recital Hall. Alex received a cash award, a performance of his composition at the annual SCL Conference, and recognition as a composer throughout the Southeastern United States. A native of Charlotte, Alex is a senior majoring in Music with an Emphasis in Music Industry.

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Faculty Highlights

Music Education: Making a Difference

“Embrace the community and provide for those in need.” That’s the mantra of Chowan’s Music Education students. As most music teachers will likely attest, public school music programs have a great many needs. Unfortunate-ly, modest budgets make it nearly impossible to meet those all-important needs. With that in mind, the Chow-an University chapter of NAfME (National Association for Music Education) set out to raise funds for an area public school music program, while also doing a service project for the Murfreesboro community. On Saturday, March 31st members of our NAfME stu-dent chapter held a free car wash at Colonial Pharmacy

on Main Street in Murfreesboro. With the help of music education students Spencer Adams, Vaughn Byrd, Cal-vin Carter, Frankie Daniels, Charly Sparks, Juan Win-stead, and faculty sponsor Michael Butrico, the organi-

z a t i o n washed 62 cars and raised a total of $553.60 through dona-tions and sponsorships over a period of six hours. Quite impres-sive, indeed! This year’s recipient was Chowan Uni-versity music alumnus, Chris Jernigan, Class of ‘09. During the April

Instrumental Showcase concert, Mr. Jernigan was invited to the stage and presented a check for full amount raised through the car wash. Mr. Jernigan plans to use the money to purchase eleven new gui-tars to use in his teaching positions at Aurelian Springs and Hollister Ele-mentary Schools in Hali-fax County. Congratula-tions to NAfME students for a job well done, and to Chris Jernigan for the fine work he does in support of his students!

April and with the Tar River Symphonic

Band in November. He attended the North

Carolina Music Educators Association

Conference in November. He and his wife,

Alessandra, welcomed Matthew Francesco

Butrico into the world on December 29.

James M. Guthrie, Associate Professor

of Music, attended an online webinar pre-

ented by Kevin Becka, Technical Editor of

Michael Butrico, Associate Professor

of Music, made two presentations during

the year: “Trombone Slide Technique:

The Use of the Natural Slur” for North

Carolina Trombone Day at Salem Col-

lege in October and “Appearance Emo-

tionalism: Interpretations of Life through

Music” at the Roanoke Canal Museum in

March. He performed with the Tar River

Philharmonic Orchestra in October and

Mix Professional Audio and Music Pro-

duction Magazine, entitled "Digital

Converters for Today's Studio". He

completed the requirements for the Spe-

cialist Studio Production Certificate

from the Berklee College of Music dur-

ing the summer of 2011. He will serve

as a judge for the Rosen-Schaffel

Young Artist Competition at Appalachi-

an State University in July.

Music Education Students Attend NCMEA Conference

Seven music education students from Chowan University’s Department of Music attended the North Carolina Music Edu-

cation Association (NCMEA) conference in Winston-Salem, NC. Those selected to go were Spencer Adams, Vaughn

Byrd, Calvin Carter, Frankie Daniels, Kenton Jolliff, Mark Puckett, and Juan Winstead.

NCMEA’s annual Conference provided our future music educators with an opportunity to participate in sessions focused

on various topics relating to the field of music education. The exhibits provided by music businesses, software providers,

colleges and universities, fundraising, camps, and touring and performance venues gave them a chance to see both estab-

lished products as well as materials just appearing on the market.

Thank you to the Friends of Music for your support that made this experience possible!

Music Industry News P A G E 5

Gregory Parker, Professor of Music,

performed at the Lasker Summer Music

Festival in July and attended the Ameri-

can Choral Directors Association South-

ern Division Conference in March. His

article, “Incorporating Improvisation

into Your Choral Rehearsal” was pub-

lished in the May edition of The Caroli-

na Caroler, journal of the North Caroli-

na Chapter of the American Choral Di-

rectors Association.

Bruce Moser, Assistant Professor of

Music, presented a lecture on the Chowan

Salon series entitled “John Cage: Minimal-

ist?” He has been selected to present this

lecture at the nief-norf Research Confer-

ence at Furman University in July. He

served as a judge for the Young Artists

Association Piano Competition at Mere-

dith College in March.

Paula Pressnell, Artist in Residence,

presented a solo piano recital at

Gatesville United Methodist Church in

September. Also in September, she at-

tended a piano workshop at Music &

Arts in Chesapeake, Virginia, featuring

clinician, Robert Vandall. In January,

she made a presentation on the intersec-

tion of faith and career for the youth of

Murfreesboro Baptist Church.

The Music Industry Club attended several informative webinars in the fall semester, including

Mixing Drums with Yoad Nevo, Producing and Mixing Country with Joe West, and Waves

Plugins with Eddie Kramer.

Kramer has been behind the boards for the biggest names in music - The Rolling Stones, Traffic,

Peter Frampton, Carly Simon, Joe Cocker, Johnny Winter, David Bowie, The Beatles, and Bad

Company, just to name a few.

Four music industry students presented electro-acoustic compositions at the Spring New Music Concert in

Daniel Hall. They composed the music using Propellerhead’s new Reason 6 Digital Audio Workstation

software, a featured program of study in the Computer Applications for Music course.

Presentations included: Alex Welch, Apoptosis (Winner of Best Musical Performance, Chowan University

Student Research Conference, 2012), Jordan Harrell, Branches, Courtney Baggett, Waves, and Tyrell Gal-

lop (aka Biscuit) presented The White Heron.

The guest Music Industry Day speaker this year was Nikki Marshall of Red Clay Clearances in

Atlanta, Georgia. She spent time with the music industry students and answered many questions

about the legal side of the music industry, copyright law and how to obtain clearances for music

for use in video, film, television and games.

Our guest Music Industry Day presenter for next year will be songwriter Shane Adams, who will give a concert featuring his

original songs as the culmination of his day with us on February 7, 2013.

Shane Adams, a Berklee College of Music alumnus ('95), entered the music business by making tape copies at Lyle Lovett's

music publisher. A few years later he contributed to the 1999 Grammy marketing campaign for Jack

Jones at Honest Entertainment. He ran two successful publishing companies (as Creative Director with

Harold Shedd and as Vice President with Mike O'Rear Publishing) before co-founding the internet record

label, Songwriter Records, as CEO. Most recently, Shane served as Creative Director/Catalog Manager

for Sea Gayle Music in Nashville. He is currently producing several songwriters, writing film scores, and

teaching songwriting and lyric writing courses for the Berklee College of Music’s online school.

Memorable Performances continued from Page 1. Ensembles were not the only place in which our students shined this year, as many of them prepared solo performances themselves. Two

seniors presented recitals in culmination of their tenures here. Mark Puckett’s performance of Beethoven’s Pathetique and Alex Welch’s

performance of Tenney’s Having Never Written a Work for Percussion were both quite stirring. In addition to the countless memorable

performances during Thursday’s Performance Labs, multiple students presented world premieres of their own electro-acoustic composi-

tions, including Welch, Lauren Snyder, Courtney Baggett, Tyrell Gallop, and Jordan Harrell.

Finally, in addition to the performances by the local talent, our department brought in some out-of-towners as well. To celebrate the

bicentennial of Franz Liszt’s birth, Paul Hanson and Joanne Kong presented a smattering of two-piano works, including some transcrip-

tions of his beloved Symphonic Poems. Also, the David Esleck Trio excited the audience with some familiar jazz standards, hymn ar-

rangements, and even a jazz-version of a movement from a Beethoven symphony.

These moments barely scratch the surface of the numerous musical experiences this year. It is our hope that the diversity of musical of-

ferings will only increase, and that you will be able to share even more of them with us next year.

Niki Marshall with students

Friends of Music Report

2011-2012 was a very successful year for the Friends of Mu-

sic at Chowan. The generous support of our donors is making

a dramatic impact on the Department of Music! Funds raised

this year have sent students to conferences, purchased instru-

ments and software, hired professional musicians, launched a

new music scholarship, and increased the corpora of existing

music scholarship funds.

Here’s a list of this year’s accomplishments:

1. We purchased a new Yamaha P22 upright piano for prac-

tice room 108

2. We provided financial assistance for Frankie Daniels,

Vaughn Byrd, Juan Winstead, Calvin Carter, Kenton Jol-

liff, Mark Puckett and Spencer Adams to attend the North

Carolina Music Educators Association Conference in

Winston-Salem in November

3. We hired professional orchestral musicians for the Me-

herrin Chamber Orchestra concerts on November 29 and

April 17

4. We purchased the following instruments: a clarinet, con-

gas, bongos, a 14” djembe (African drum), and a shekere

(African rhythm instrument)

5. We launched the Daniel Hunt Music Scholarship fund

6. We had additional gifts made to existing music scholar-

ship funds

7. We received a Senftleben clavichord from Ernestine An-

derson of Scotland Neck

8. We received a 1798 copy of solo vocal works by British

composer William Jackson from alumnus John Long of

Mineral, VA

9. We purchased Reason 6 (music production software) for

the music industry program

10. We brought Nikki Marshall of Red Clay Clearances in

Atlanta, GA to campus for Music Industry Day in Febru-

ary

11. We purchased a number of replacement parts for string

and wind instruments

12. We brought Joann Kong and Paul Hanson to campus for

their duo-piano concert in August commemorating the

200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt

13. We brought the David Esleck Trio to campus for a jazz

concert in February

2011-2012 Financial Report (June 1, 2011-April 30, 2012):

Total scholarship gifts $13,825.00

Mail Campaign gifts $15,057.00

Choir Tour gifts $3,838.87

Gifts in Kind $2,700.00

Total raised $35,420.87

Total Music Scholarship

Corpus Value $490,386.35

We would like to extend our gratitude to Jane Newsome of

Winton who served as the Honorary Chair of the 2011-2012

Mail Campaign and we welcome Betty Duke of Ahoskie as

the Honorary Chair of the 2012-2013 campaign.

Here are our goals for 2012-2013:

1. The purchase of new band and orchestra instruments

2. The purchase of software and hardware for the music edu-

cation and music industry programs

3. Financial assistance for music students to attend confer-

ences such as the NCMEA conference and the Alpha Chi

National Convention, as well as auditions sponsored by

such organizations as the Music Teachers National Associa-

tion and the National Association of Teachers of Singing

4. Continued support of the MCO. A quintet of professional

players costs approximately $1,400 per performance and

the orchestra presents two concerts per year. One perfor-

mance of a major choral-orchestral work costs approxi-

mately $6,000, and we plan on presenting Handel’s Messi-

ah at Chowan on December 3 and at the Suffolk Center for

Cultural Arts on December 4

5. Establish at least one new endowed scholarship in music

6. Bring soprano, Sharon Munden, to campus in October for a

masterclass and recital

7. Bring Christian singer/songwriter, Shane Adams to campus

in February for Music Industry Day and a concert

8. Add a computer workstation, projector, and sound system

to the Instrumental Rehearsal Room

9. Renovate Daniel Recital Hall during the summer of 2013 to

serve as a multipurpose space for classes, choral rehearsals,

recording, and performances. This project also includes

repurposing the current choral room as a Music Media Cen-

ter and Computer Laboratory, moving the Piano Laboratory

to a larger space so more digital pianos can be added, and

providing much-needed additional studio space for the mu-

sic industry program. The estimated cost of this project is

approximately $300,000. It is essential to the continued

growth and efficacy of the Department of Music.

10. Install sound-deadening material in the practice rooms

We have a vision for the Department of Music and the Friends

of Music organization is an invaluable partner in transforming

the vision into reality! We trust that all who have given to the

organization will continue their support, perhaps at even higher

levels. We encourage you to invite your friends to join you as

members of the Friends of Music so we can continue to broaden

our base of support. Let’s make 2012-2013 our best year yet!

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Cantare sings for the

Friends of Music Dinner on April 30

Friends of Music at Chowan

Donor Rev. and Mrs. Thomas H. Caulkins

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Christison, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Early

Mr. and Mrs. Edsel W. Farless

Alice Linda Hassell

Colin D. Jones

John L. Long

Rev. and Mrs. Ronald W. McSwain

Alvin C. Newsome

Robert J. Paciocco

William L. Pollard

Bruce R. Pulliam

Gertrude Revelle

Joseph Kelly Reynolds

Brenda S. Spruill

Brandon Zoch

Mission Statement

The Friends of the Chowan University Department of Music will undergird the Department’s work in training musicians and serving the university

community and the public through performances and study opportunities by promoting the Department and its events as well as raising funds for

its operation.

Goals Support the Meherrin Chamber Orchestra

Establish music scholarships

Assist students and faculty with the expenses of participating in conferences, auditions, competitions, and tours

Assist the Department with the acquisition of instructional materials, equipment, and instruments

Assist the Department with the improvement of its facilities

Fund the performances of guest artists

Promote the Department of Music amongst prospective music majors and potential donors

Assist with the publicity of the Department’s events

Membership All people who love music and acknowledge its importance in our society are eligible for membership in the Friends of Music at Chowan. Mem-

bers receive the following benefits:

The fulfillment of knowing that you are making a positive impact on the University and the community

Recognition in a number of the Department of Music’s printed programs

Receipt of the Department of Music Newsletter

Receipt of the Department of Music Concert and Recital Calendar

An invitation to the annual Friends of Music Dinner

Membership Levels Student $20

Member $21-$99

Donor $100-$249

Contributor $250-$499

Patron $500-$749

Sustainer $750-$999

Benefactor $1000-$4,999

Philanthropist $5,000+

The Friends of the Chowan University Department of Music is a non-profit organization and all membership contributions are tax-deductible.

Please make checks payable to Chowan University.

For more information, please contact the Department of Music at 252-398-6236 or email music@chowan.edu.

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FRIENDS OF MUSIC

Member

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Bridgers, Sr.

Elizabeth Francis-Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Buskill

Betty Ann Gatrell

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Gosney

James M. Guthrie

Brownie Morgan Herbin

Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Lewis

Lloyd Maxwell Long

Henry Miller

Mr. and Mrs. Darrell H. Nicholson

Paula B. Pressnell

Dr. and Mrs. Charles J. Sawyer

Lesley Smith

Kay Mitchell Thomas

Jerry Yoder

Philanthropist

Jane Newsome

Julian Robertson

Charles B. Pond

Benefactor

Betty Rose Duke

Dan Hunt

Patron

Laurie Brook and Randy Roberts

Mr. and Mrs. Percy Bunch

James E. Farmer

Nancy Britton Lamm

Contributor Mr. and Mrs. Michael Butrico

Cecil S. Hollomon, Jr.

Lawrence W. Myers

Marvin Newsom

Dr. & Mrs. Gregory Parker

Sarah Virginia Parker

Department of Music

One University Place

Murfreesboro, NC 27855

Department of Music Events 2012—2013

September

8, Saturday, 7:00 pm – Church Choir Festival Concert, TA

13, Thursday, 7:30 pm – Faculty Gala Recital, TA

23, Sunday, 3:30 pm – Hampton Roads Wind Quintet, DRH

October

7, Sunday, 3:30 pm – NACUSA Concert, DRH

11, Thursday, 7:30 pm – Bruce Moser and Paula Pressnell

Faculty Piano Recital, TA

November

1, Thursday, 7:30 pm – Sharon Munden Guest Voice Recital, DRH

8, Thursday, 2:30 pm – New Music Concert, DRH

15, Thursday, 7:30 pm – Fall Choral Concert, TA

19, Monday, 7:30 pm – Chowan Winds Concert, TA

27, Tuesday, 7:30 pm – Meherrin Chamber Orchestra Concert, TA

December

2, Sunday, 3:30 pm – Christmas at Chowan, TA

3, Monday, 7:30 pm – Masterworks Concert, TA

4, Tuesday, 7:30 pm – Masterworks Concert, SCCA

February

7, Thursday, 7:30 pm, Shane Adams Concert, TA

21, Thursday, 7:30 pm, James M. Guthrie Faculty Harpsichord

Recital, DRH

March

7, Thursday, 7:30 pm, Chowan Singers and

Chowan Winds Concert, TA

21, Thursday, 7:30 pm, Bruce Moser Faculty Piano Recital, DRH

April

4, Thursday, 7:30 pm, Shelley Maddox Faculty Voice Recital, DRH

18, Thursday, 2:30 pm, New Music Concert, DRH

22, Monday, 7:30 pm, Choral Showcase Concert, TA

25, Thursday, 7:30 pm, Chowan Winds and Jazz Combo Concert, TA

30, Tuesday, 7:30 pm, Meherrin Chamber Orchestra Concert, TA

May

2, Thursday, 6:00 pm, Friends of Music Dinner, Chowan Room

Venues

DRH = Daniel Recital Hall

SCCA = Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts

TA = Turner Auditorium

We would love to have you in the audience for these events! Please note that the events calendar is subject to change. We will

send out concert cards at the beginning of each semester and post updated schedules on our website (www.chowan.edu). If you

have questions about an event, please call us at (252) 398- 6236 or email us at music@chowan.edu.

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