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February 10th @ 9-11 am in Harris Recital Hall The Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music is excited to be bringing Chicago Symphony cellist Brant Taylor in to work with our cello students. The masterclass will be open to other students, so we highly encourage our students that are available to stop by and check…
The Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music is elated to announce that hybrid arts ensemble, The Fourth Wall will be coming to Memphis for a residency in January, with a special performance open to the public on January 25. The Fourth Wall explores a new hybrid of the performing arts in which musicians are also…
Date and Time: April 27th @ 4 PM CST Zoom link: https://memphis.zoom.us/j/81382933925?pwd=ZmRvNnk2WGhhcWpDWXppc3gwN244QT09 Tolga Yayalar was born in 1973 in Istanbul and started music in high school by playing electric guitar in rock and jazz bands. After finishing high school, he studied Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has majored in jazz composition, studying mainly…
The Keyboard Area will host world-renowned artist Anton Nel tomorrow in a 2:30pm masterclass and 7:30pm concert. Highlights of Mr. Nel’s four decades of concertizing include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, the symphonies of Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, and London, among many others. (He has an active repertoire of more than 100 works…
April 13th @ 4 PM CST Zoom link: https://memphis.zoom.us/j/86481050019?pwd=d3pmUUI5WGlmZkVPcE41eGFQU1FBZz09 Japanese-American composer, conductor, and clarinetist Yoshiaki Onishi received his doctorate in music composition from Columbia University in 2015 and is currently the Postdoctoral Fellow in Music Composition at the University of Missouri, serving as Assistant Conductor for the Mizzou New Music Ensemble. As a composer, he is interested…