Jessie Fillerup, who is getting his PhD in music, recently presented on 2/25/06 at the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (Northwestern University), a paper entitled "Ravel's Poe-etics: Effect and the Grotesque in La Valse"
Katrina Mitchell, a PhD student in musicology, won the Paul Revitt Award for giving the best student paper at the College Music Society Great Plains Chapter meeting the weekend of March 11-12. The paper was entitled "Church Radicals: The Introduction of Harmonic Experimentation in Liszt's Late Sacred Works."
Mark Perry, a PhD student in musicology, gave a paper at the national meeting of the Society for American Music, in Chicago from March 16 to 19, 2006. His paper was entitled "Vinyl Art: The Improvisation of DJs."
Emily Hanako Momohara, an art graduate student, will show a 40 second video entitled "The Hills of Idaho" in the upcoming 2006 International Video Shorts Screening Festival held by Women's Caucus for Art. This festival will be held on Monday, February 20, 2006, from 8-9:30 p.m. in Boston, MA
Aaron Pergram, a senior bassoon performance major, was awarded second prize in the Arapahoe Philharmonic Concerto Competition held in Denver on January 14, 2006.
ASHLEY WOOD (M.M., 2005, Clarinet Performance) won the regional MTNA Young Artist competition, held in Lincoln, Nebraska on January l4, 2006. Ashley will now progress to the finals, which are scheduled in Austin, Texas in February in conjunction with the MTNA national convention. She won the Kansas State competition in Pittsburg in November, 2005. She is currently teaching in the Lawrence-Kansas City area and continuing her study at the University of Kansas.
Michael Walsh, an undergraduate clarinet student studying with Professor Larry Maxey, was one of the winners of the Philharmonia of Kansas City Concerto Competition. Walsh will perform the Debussy Premiere Rhapsody with the orchestra in February, 2006 at Park College in Parkville, MO.
Mary Fukushima, a music student studying flute, will perform the Ibert Concerto with the Thailand Philharmonic in Bankok, Thailand on July 14, 2006.
Dan Forrest, a Music and Dance graduate student pursuing a D.M.A. in composition, was recently awarded an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Standard Award, a cash award given to composers whose work generates activity through publications, awards and performances.
Several University of Kansas opera students this year are participating as apprentice artists in the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Four of them have roles in the Lyric Opera’s upcoming production of Bizet’s Carmen.
David Lara, who earned his B.M. in voice in 2001, is a baritone singing the role of Morales; Joo-Hee Park, a graduate student studying voice, is a mezzo-soprano appearing as Mercedes; Diane Kalinowski, a graduate student studying voice, will sing the part of the gypsy, Frasquita; Jonathan Thomas, a graduate student studying voice, is the gypsy smuggler, Dancaire.
Performance dates and times are listed below. Ticket information can be found by visiting www.kcopera.org or calling the Lyric Opera Ticket Office at (816) 471-7344. Due to heavy advance sales for this opera, some performances may be sold out.
LAWRENCE- Dan Forrest, a Music and Dance graduate student pursuing a D.M.A. in composition, recently won the prestigious Raymond M. Brock Memorial Student Composition Contest sponsored by the American Choral Directors Association.
The contest was established by the Raymond M. Brock Memorial Student Composition Fund in 1999. The intention of the contest is to encourage young composers and reward student composers under the age of 28 for their excellence in choral composition. There are approximately 400 entrants per year and the prize for the winner includes $1,000, airfare and hotel accommodations for the ACDA convention and the premiere of the piece at the convention. Forrest won with his composition "Selah," a piece from his doctoral recital.
"This is the kind of contest that one enters even though you know you won't win, but just because there's a chance. I actually entered last year, too, and I didn't win," Forrest said. "I went through the roof when my wife told me that (ACDA Executive Director) Gene Brooks had called the house asking for me. When I called him back and found out I had won, I couldn't believe it. This is the sort of thing every aspiring choral composer only dreams of winning."
"Selah" will be premiered by the KU Chamber Choir at the School of Fine Arts' sixth annual Collage Concert. The concert will take place at the Lied Center on Friday, September 16, at 7:30 p.m. The piece will also be performed at the ACDA Division Convention in St. Louis in March 2006.
Forrest holds a B.M. and M.M. in piano performance from Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. While pursuing his D.M.A. at KU, he is on leave as a faculty member in the Music Theory and Piano Department at BJU. Forrest has published church music for choir, piano, vocal solos, various instrumental solos, string and brass ensembles. Most recently, Forrest was the recipient of the $5,000 John Ness Beck first- place award for his outstanding sacred choral anthem.
For more information about Forrest's award, please contact the School of Fine Arts Music and Dance Department at 785-864-3436.
Written by Laura Watkins
A photograph by a University of Kansas School of Fine Arts graduate student will appear on the cover of Toshiko Ito's newest book.
The image by Emily Hanako Momohara, an art graduate student, will appear on the cover of the novel Endure. She also wrote a foreword to the book, which is a story about a young girl whose family is forced into a Japanese American internment camp during World War II.
Momohara's photograph, titled "Foundation," was taken at the Minidoka internment camp in 2001. "Foundation" was a part of a series of photographs Momohara took at ten Japanese American internment camps and was inspired by her grandmother, who was 15 when she was sent to Minidoka during World War II. The book's publishers found Momohara's photograph during an Internet search of images from Minidoka and approached her about using her work for the cover of the book.
"I felt very honored to have my photograph serve as the cover. This book was really important to me because Toshiko Ito and my grandmother have such similar experiences; they were both young when they entered Minidoka," said Momohara. "Ito wrote this for her granddaughter because she had never wanted to talk about what the internment camp was like. This has been a sort of outlet for her and that means a great deal to me."
Momohara is studying expanded media in the Department of Art in KU's School of Fine Arts. She is from Seattle and received a B.F.A. in photography from the University of Washington.
For more information about Momohara's artwork, please contact the Department of Art at 785.864.4401. Written by Laura Watkins
David Werdin-Kennicott, a graduate student in the School of Fine Arts Department of Art, recently completed a Buddha statue that will be consecrated at the residence of Dr. Dave and Gunda Hiebert in Lawrence.
Werdin-Kennicott created this carving at the Hiebert residence on a tree stump where a dying locust tree once stood. The creation was inspired by Dr. Hiebert's love of the wooden Standing Amida Buddha sculpture in KU's Spencer Museum of Art collection, which was created in Japan in the 15 th century. Werdin-Kennicott's Buddha is a larger version of the original, standing about 8 feet tall and sitting on a 10-inch lotus-flower base.
Werdin-Kennicott was recommended for this work by John Hachmeister, Associate Professor of Sculpture at KU. Werdin-Kennicott is a KU graduate student studying sculpture, and he earned his bachelor's degree in design at KU in 1990, where he specialized in metalsmithing. He is also a graduate teaching assistant for Professor Hachmeister.
Werdin-Kennicott's sculpture will be consecrated by the Venerable 7th Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, a Buddhist High Lama from Nepal.
For more information on this event, please contact the School of Fine Arts Department of Art at 785.864.4401.
Emily Hanako Momohara, a graduate student in art, has an upcoming show at the Quest Community Center in Seattle, Washington, at 3223 15th Avenue West. This show is up through August 2005. Emily also gave a lecture July 30th , and the show and lecture are part of the Faith and Race conference held that weekend. More information about the Faith and Race conference can be found at www.seattlequest.org/faithandrace.html.
Gail Ralston, a Department of Design graduate student in metalsmithing and jewelry design, recently received the June Herman Award from the WJA ( Women's Jewelry Association). This scholarship award is for a total of $5,000.
Nichole Bowes, a Department of Design student studying metalsmithing & jewelry, was recently awarded a $1,000 by The Society of North American Goldsmiths Educational Endowment Grant. Bowes was the only undergraduate student to receive the award.
Lee Sewell, a Fort Scott, Kansas, incoming KU student and intended Interior Design major, recently received the Robert J. Dole Public Service Scholarship. This scholarship recognizes students who have demonstrated involvement in volunteer community and public service.
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Matthew Lewis, a senior in Printmaking, received a scholarship from Studio Art Centers International (SACI) for study during the Fall 2005 semester at SACI in Florence, Italy. Lewis received this award in recognition of his high quality artistic and academic achievement.
SACI is an independent school accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and SACI offers study programs in such disciplines as painting, drawing, printmaking, design, architecture, sculpture, ceramics, photography, filmmaking, conservation and art history.
Under the guidance of Jon Keith Swindell, Professor of Foundations in the Department of Design, seventy-four art and design freshmen created pedal-powered 'art cars' for their final project. These art and design students worked on approximately thirty-five pedal-powered vehicles, made entirely from found, recycled and/or discarded materials. Each vehicle transports two people, and each car has a function that is connected to the concept/theme of the vehicle. These 'art cars' were presented at Wescoe Beach on Jayhawk Boulevard on Wednesday, May 18, 2005. The students also entered the pedal-powered vehicles in the Annual Art Tougeau Parade, held on Saturday, May 21, 2005, in downtown Lawrence.
LAWRENCE, KS- Heather Brown, a University of Kansas Music & Dance student, was awarded the 2005-2006 Elin J. Stene Music Scholarship certificate on Saturday, May 7, 2005. The Elin J. Stene Scholarship was awarded to Brown at the annual Sigma Alpha Iota Beta Beta and Lawrence Alumnae and Patronesses Chapters' Rose Luncheon.
Brown, a senior from Topeka studying Music Education, has been a member of the Beta Beta chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI) for several years. She currently serves as the Vice President of Membership of the organization.
LAWRENCE, KS -Rachel Moses, a native of Great Bend, Kansas, graduated from the University of Kansas on Sunday, May 22, as a double major studying Dance and Human Biology. Moses is a KU Honors Program student with a 3.85 GPA. She graduated summa cum laude, with highest distinction.
Moses has been a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society at KU since 2004. While studying at KU, Moses received the 2004 Phillips-Stone Dance Award and the 2003 Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements in dance.
LAWRENCE, KS -Nathaniel Beau Hancock, a native of Hugoton, Kansas, graduated on Sunday, May 22, from the University of Kansas as a double major studying Dance and American Studies. Hancock graduated from KU as an Honors Program student with a 4.0 GPA. He graduated summa cum laude, with highest distinction.
While studying at KU, Hancock was selected in 2004 as a Kansas Asia Scholar and traveled to Japan in May 2004 as part of this program. Hancock also received the 2004 Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Award and the 2003 Phillips-Stone Dance Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in dance performance and scholarship.
Hancock was recently selected as a KU nominee for the Marshall Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in dance at the Laban Centre in London. A formal announcement of all nominees for this scholarship will be made in October of 2005.
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Zahra Knott, a senior in Textiles in the Department of Art, recently exhibited a textile project, Circles in Squares, on the northeast corner of the Art & Design Building. This exhibit was up from May 9 through May 20, 2005. Knott's textile exhibit was an installation artwork showcasing three of Knott's textile hangings.
Knott was very excited to show her art to the public. This installation was meant to be viewed and enjoyed by all KU students, staff and visitors. It was also meant to enhance the beauty of the KU campus.
Heather Baker, a Music Education major studying flute with Professor David Fedele in the Department of Music and Dance in KU's School of Fine Arts, is the 2005-2006 recipient of the Presser Scholarship, an award given to an outstanding music major at or after the end of his or her junior year. The Presser Scholarship is the only music award that is voted on by the entire Music faculty, and the Presser Scholar is selected solely by consideration of excellence and merit.
Jun Kuribayashi, BFA in Dance, December 2004, recently signed a 2-1/2 year contract with the dance company, Pilobolus. Kuribayashi is a graduate of the KU School of Fine Arts and will participate in the School of Fine Arts convocation ceremony held on Saturday, May 21, 2005.
Kuribayashi passed a highly selective New York City audition for Pilobolus in July 2004 and worked with Pilobolus from July through November 2004. In November of 2004, Kuribayashi auditioned for Momix dance company and was accepted into this company where he performed on tour in Tokyo, Japan, and Sydney, Australia. Kuribayashi has since returned to Pilobolus and will begin performing for Pilobolus in May 2005.
Numerous KU School of Fine Arts students won awards at the 2004 Kansas City American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Student Awards :
Jane Huschka (Graphic Design, 2005), Existentialist Book Covers
Jake Steele (Graphic Design, 2004), Tad Carpenter (Graphic Design, 2004), Jessica Megan, for Kiosk
Katherina Espinosa (Graphic Design, 2005), Detective Work Identity
Garrett Owen (Graphic Design, 2005), Sapperdigs.com
Garrett Owen (Graphic Design, 2005), Book Cover Series
Garrett Owen (Graphic Design, 2005), Modern Vision
KU School of Fine Arts design students were chosen to appear in the 2005 Dallas Society of Visual Communications 1st Annual National Student Show & Conference.
Chris Jones (Graphic Design, 2005), appeared for his Packaging Design. Garrett Owen (Graphic Design, 2005), appeared for his Gallery Selection.
In 2005, Sarah Heath (Sculpture, 2005) and her KU sculpture team won Most Innovative Cupola Design at The Southern Conference on Cast Iron Art Student Awards at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama.
Ashley Wood (MM in Clarinet Performance) won The Mary Louise Lightfoot Memorial Scholarship Award at the 2005 Kansas City Alumnae Scholarship Competition
Student Awards.
Heather Brown (B. Music Education), won a scholarship at the 2005 Kansas City Alumnae Scholarship Competition Student Awards.
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