性爱天堂 will open the spring 2018 Stieren Arts Enrichment Series in January with a听Celebration of Living Composers, featuring world-renowned musical artists Carter Pann, Forrest Pierce, and Dan Forrest. The series will continue in February and March with five additional presentations.
Composers Pann, Pierce, and Forrest will participate in a multi-faceted residency on Jan. 13-14. Each composer will present a short introduction to his works, participate in open panel discussions, and give a master class for student composers. In addition, the 性爱天堂 Music Department will present two concerts featuring works by both the Stieren Guest Artists and 性爱天堂 composition students, performed by Music Department students and faculty members. All events are free and open to the public and will be held in the Ruth Taylor Recital Hall. For information, call 210-999-8212.
Pann has written for and worked with musicians around the world, including the London Symphony and the Tchaikovsky Symphony in Moscow. He has written for Richard Stoltzman, 听the Capitol Saxophone Quartet, the West Coast Wind Quintet, and the River Oaks Chamber Ensemble. Awards include a Charles Ives Fellowship, a Masterprize seat in London, five ASCAP awards and two Grammy庐 nominations. Pann was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2016. He is a professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Pierce, a composer and poet, has written 200 works of vocal, chamber, and choral music. He has won the Barlow Prize, the Ortus and Avalon international competitions, and international competitions of the Boston Chamber Singers and Boston Choral Ensemble. Pierce was educated at Indiana University, University of Minnesota, and University of Puget Sound and has been a student of tango, piano, North Indian classical singing, cello, poetry, and Chishti Sufism. He is a professor at the University of Kansas and is also on the faculty of the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Cortona, Tuscany.
Forrest鈥檚 music has become well-established in the repertoire of choirs in the U.S and abroad through his major works听Requiem for the Living听补苍诲听Jubilate Deo. His music has received dozens of awards and distinctions with premieres in major venues around the world. He holds graduate degrees in composition and piano performance and is active as a composer, educator, and pianist.
The event schedule for the听Celebration of Living Composers听is:
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Saturday, Jan. 13:听Works presented at 1 p.m. by Pann, at 2:15 p.m. by Pierce, and by Forrest at 3:30 p.m. A panel discussion will be held at 5 p.m. A concert will be held at 7:30 p.m.
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Sunday, Jan. 14: A panel discussion will be held at 12:30 p.m., with a concert at 3 p.m.
All events for the听Celebration of Living Composers听will be held in Ruth Taylor Recital Hall.
Other series artists are:
Debbie Millman, author, educator, and brand strategist, who will present a lecture at听6听p.m.听Tuesday, Feb. 6, in the Great Hall of the Chapman Center.听Her talk is titled 鈥淲hy We Brand, Why We Buy: An Anthropological Look at Why We Love Our Smart Phones.鈥 The host of the podcast听Design Matters,听her written and visual essays have appeared in publications such as听The New York Times,听New York Magazine,听Print Magazine,听Design Observer,听补苍诲听Fast Company.听She also is the author of six books. Her artwork has been exhibited at the Boston Biennale, Chicago Design Museum, Anderson University, School of Visual Arts, Long Island University, The Wolfsonion Museum, and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art. She has been artist-in-residence at Cranbrook University, Old Dominion University, and Notre Dame University. For 20 years, Millman was the president of the design division at Sterling Brands, where she worked with more than 200 of the world鈥檚 largest brands, including the redesign of Burger King and merchandising for听Star Wars.
Jennifer Egan, author, who will present a reading with commentary at听8 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 27, in Ruth Taylor Recital Hall. Egan is the author of听The Invisible Circus,听Emerald City and Other Stories,听Look at Me,听The Keep, 补苍诲听A Visit From the Goon Squad, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize. Her most recent book is the novel听Manhattan Beach. Egan is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her non-fiction articles appear frequently in the听New York Times Magazine, and her fiction has appeared in听The New Yorker听补苍诲听听Harper鈥檚
Timothy Mahr,听music professor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., will be present at a 听concert at听3 p.m., Sunday, March 4, in the Ruth Taylor Recital Hall, where the 性爱天堂 Symphonic Wind Ensemble will debut his听Symphony No. 1.听The composer also will be a Stieren Guest Artist in Residence from Feb. 28 through March 4. The March 4 concert will include the 性爱天堂 Symphonic Wind Ensemble and a guest appearance by the Helotes Area Community Band. At St. Olaf College, Mahr conducts the St. Olaf Band and teaches courses in composition, conducting, and music education and is also the principal conductor of the Minnesota Symphonic Winds. Perhaps best known as a composer, Mahr has written more than 50 works, including the 1991 ABA/Ostwald Award winning 鈥淭he Soaring Hawk,鈥 and has received more than 30 commissions including works for the U.S. Air Force Band and the Music Educators National Conference.
Aquila Theatre, the New York City-based foremost producers of classical touring theatre, will present William Shakespeare鈥檚听Hamlet听at听7:30 p.m., Monday, March 5, in Stieren Theater听and Jane Austen鈥檚听Sense and Sensibility听at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 6 in Stieren Theater.
During nationwide tours, Aquila provides extensive educational programming and is known for its innovative humanities and arts-based public programs. The company visits 50 to 60 American cities a year and travels abroad with a program of two plays, workshops, and educational programming and has performed at the White House twice. Aquila has received a Chairman's Special Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its innovative applied theater public programming. The artistic director is Desiree Sanchez.
Photographers听William Wylie听and听Jae Emerling听will present a听lecture at听6 p.m., Wednesday, March 7, in Ruth Taylor Recital Hall.
Emerling is a professor of modern and contemporary art in the College of Arts + Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and is the director of the College of Arts + Architecture Honors Program. He is the author of听Theory for Art History听and award-winning听Photography: History and Theory听and is working on a book about the aesthetic-historiographic concept of transmissibility. Emerling鈥檚 work has appeared in the听Journal of Visual Culture;听History of Photography;听CAA Reviews;听Journal of Art Historiography;听X-TRA: Contemporary Art Quarterly;听Contemporary Art about Architecture;听Bergson and The Art of Immanence: Painting, Photography, Film; and a special issue of the听Journal of Visual Culture听titled 鈥淎rchitecture!鈥
Wylie鈥檚 photographs and short films have been shown nationally and internationally. His work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and Yale University Art Museum. He has published four books:听Riverwalk,听Stillwater,听Carrara,听补苍诲听Route 36,听and听two more are scheduled for publication in 2018. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a VMFA Professional Fellowship, and the Yale Gallery of Art鈥檚 Doran / LeWitt Fellowship in 2012 and 2014. He teaches photography and is director of the studio art department at the University of Virginia.
The opening reception to Wylie鈥檚 exhibit,听Shadows of the Future Anterior, will follow the lecture. The exhibit runs in the Neidorff Art Gallery in the Dicke Art Building from Feb. 22 to March 31.
The Stieren Arts Enrichment Series is made possible by an endowment gift from Jane and the late Arthur Stieren of San Antonio.
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