ART PROFESSOR OFF TO JAPAN

The Department of Visual Arts congratulates Dr. Christopher Greenman on being one of ten ceramic artists world wide accepted to participate in the IWCAT 2009 workshop this summer. IWCAT stand for The International Workshop of Ceramic Art in Tokoname - Japan. This prestigious event is in it's 25 year. Dr. Greenman will be living with a host family while participating in this 6 week workshop which will include; visiting local ceramic artists studios; demonstrations of local techniques, work and firing in one of the historic kilns, lectures on Japanese Culture, and field study tours. Again our congratulations go out to Dr. Greenman.

Guest Jazz Concert

Marcus Printup
jazz trumpet soloist
member, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

In Concert

Wilson Auditorium
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
7:00 p.m.

Free and open to the public

For information contact Dr. Doug Bristol; (334) 229-4207; dbristol@alasu.edu

http://www.marcusprintup.net/marcus_printup_jazz_trumpet/home.html

ASU Honor Band & Choir

The Department of Music will be hosting its Annual Honor Band & Choir this Thursday-Sunday, April 2-5. Approximately 300 high school students from Alabama and Georgia will come to campus to enjoy a music-filled weekend.

For more information call (334) 229-4341 or email at music@alasu.edu

Dr. Doug Bristol's recent activities

Doug Bristol's composition Conversation for Trombone and Timpani was premiered in February by Joshua Hauser and Eric Willie, faculty members at Tennessee Tech University. A video of the performance is posted on YouTube.

His article Using Computer Wave Forms in the Evaluation of Air Control and Articulation was published in the January 2009 International Trombone Association Journal.

He was also a guest artist and clinician at the 2009 Troy Brass Symposium at Troy University.

Music Faculty Fall Activities

Mr. Isaac Bell
July Featured on electronic/acoustic piano and trombone for recently released CD recording entitled “On My Way”, by Bernard Ghivan and Zandra Boswell.
August 30 Solo pianist for the ASU Black and Gold Standard Reception. Tallahassee, Florida.
September 9 Alabama State University Faculty Gala, Performer
November 19 Clinician, Baldwin Magnet Middle School. Montgomery, AL.

Dr. Walter Bragg
September 9 Alabama State University Faculty Gala, Performer
October 9 Tribute to Dr. David Bowman, Performer.
December 7 ASU University Choirs and Frederick Douglass Hall Community Choir, accompanist

Dr. Caterina Bristol
September 9 Alabama State University Faculty Gala, Performer.
September College Music Society National Conference. Community Engagement Presentation. "The Influence of the Negro Spiritual." Atlanta, GA.
September College Music Society National Conference. "Fifty for Fifty." Performer, Wiregrass Trio. Atlanta, GA
October Concerts at the Studio. Wiregrass Trio. Troy, AL.
November National Association of Schools of Music Annual Meeting. Participant. Seattle, WA
November National Association of Schools of Music Annual Meeting. Panelist. Historically Black Institutions Forum: The Challenge of Recruiting Doctorate Degree-Holding Minority Faculty. Seattle, WA.
December Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges Annual Meeting; San Antonio, TX; participant

Dr. Doug Bristol
August Completed transcription of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 (1st mvmt.) for trombone quartet.
August 26 Performance with brass quintet at Samford University.
September 9 Alabama State University Faculty Gala, Performer
October 26 Performance at Trinity Presbyterian Church.
Aug-Oct Composed Conversation for Trombone and Timpani. Commissioned composition.
November Review of Fantasy for Euphonium and Orchestra. ITEA Journal, Vol. 36 No. 1, p. 92.
Oct 27–Dec 24 A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Alabama Shakespeare Festival
November 6 Performance and clinic at ASU with the trombone quartet, Quatuor du Sud.
Dec 5 and 7 Performances with the Montgomery Chorale.
December 21 Performance at Memorial Presbyterian Church.
December 21 Performance at Trinity Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Pamela T. Burns
August National Association of Negro Musicians Annual Meeting. Memphis, TN. Presenter.
September College Music Society National Conference. Community Engagement Presentation. "The Influence of the Negro Spiritual." Atlanta, GA.

Mr. Danny Davis
December Christian Education Conference, Nashville, TN. Course: Alternative Teacher Certification

Mrs. Jamecca Hare-Tanner
August 11-15 Gospel Music Workshop of American, Participant. Nashville, TN.
October 6 Alabama National Fair Music Festival, Bellingrath Junior High Chorus. Superior Rating
November 3 National Peanut Festival Choral Competition, Bellingrath Junior High Chorus. Excellent Rating. Dothan, AL.
December 18 Christmas Musical, Bellingrath Junior High Chorus. Montgomery, AL.

Dr. Gregory Jackson
July-August West Side Story: Alabama Shakespeare Festival
September 9 Alabama State University Faculty Gala, Performer
September 27 Florida Day of Percussion, Clinician
October 12 Westminster Presbyterian Church World Day, Performer


Dr. Carly Johnson
July-August West Side Story: Alabama Shakespeare Festival
September St. John's Episcopal Church, performance
September Church of the Ascension, performance
September 9 Alabama State University Faculty Gala, Performer
October American Guild of Organists Concert, performance
October Trinity Presbyterian Church, performance
November St. John's Episcopal Church, performance
November A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Alabama Shakespeare Festival

Dr. Joel Jones
July-August West Side Story: Alabama Shakespeare Festival
September 9 Alabama State University Faculty Gala, Performer
November A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Alabama Shakespeare Festival

Brenda Luchsinger
2008-2009 Macon Symphony Orchestra. Third horn. Macon, GA.
Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra. Section horn. Tuscaloosa, AL.
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra. Substitute. Huntsville, AL.
Meridian Symphony Orchestra. Substitute. Meridian, MS.
Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Substitute. Columbus, GA.
Jan 2009 Southeast Horn Workshop. Performer. Western Carolina University.

Katrina Phillips
2008-2009 Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, 2008-2009 Season; Clarinetist/Performer.
Academic Research, Continued Research on Danish composers and their music for my thesis entitled, "The Influence of Carl Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto on the Clarinet Concertos of Jorgen Bentzon and Herman D. Koppel."
September 9 Alabama State University Faculty Gala, Performer
November 14 Concerts at the Studio; Troy, AL; Clarinetist/Performer.


Damion Womack
2008-2009 President, Alabama Vocal Association

Music Faculty at NASM

Interim Chair of the Department of Music, Dr. Caterina Bristol, was a presenter at the annual meeting of the National Association of Schools of Music on November 23, 2008. Dr. Bristol presented on the topic "Recruiting and Retaining Minority Faculty Members."

Music Faculty and Shakespeare

Music faculty members Drs. Carly Johson, Doug Bristol, Joel Jones, Caterina Bristol and student Lauren Griffin are busy sharing their mucial talents with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's production of "A Christmas Carol."

Dr. Doug Bristol's composition reviewed

Dr. Doug Bristol's Fantasy for Euphonium and Orchestra was recently performed at the International Tuba and Euphonium Association Conference at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. The performance was reviewed by Jerry Young (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) in the Fall 2008 ITEA journal. Below are the highlights of that review:

"Every serious euphonium player should find this work and study it."

". . no audience exists that would not fall in love with this work."

"It is a major work that I hope to see on concert programs with major orchestras."

". . a very special and worthwhile artistic production."

Visual Arts Graduate Accepted to AISF

2008 summer Graphic Arts graduate, Mr. Kevin Ford, has started his first semester in graduate school this past week. Mr. Ford was accepted at the Arts Institute of San Francisco, but will be starting off his graduate academic career at the east coast affiliate, Art Institute of Pennsylvania, before transferring to the San Francisco campus this spring or summer. The Visual Arts Department offers him their congratulations and wish him the best.

Visual Arts Faculty Summer Accomplishments 2008

SUMMER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Ms. Charmagne Andrews:
Attended the Tugaloo Art Colony at Tugaloo College in Mississippi for a week long art welding workshop. Participants designed and created individual art pieces using oxyacetylene units to cut the metal and then assemble the pieces using an arc welder.

Stephen Cappelli:
Exhibited in the "Exhibition 1000 Pounds of Alabama Clay" at the Artist Gallery at the Alabama State Council on the Arts, this is a two year traveling exhibition
Participated in the Raiford Gallery’s 12th Anniversary Exhibition in Roswell, Georgia

Dr. Christopher Greenman:
Participated in an anagama wood firing at the University of Montevallo
Exhibited work in an international exhibition in Lake Oswego, Oregon titled “Painting with Fire: Wood Fired Ceramics”
Exhibited work in a national exhibition in Hamilton, Michigan titles “Artful Drinking”
Participated in the Annual American Artisan Fair in Nashville, Tennessee
Conducted a Raku workshop for high school students at Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery
Exhibited in the Exhibition "1000 Pounds of Alabama Clay" at the Artist Gallery at the Alabama State Council on the Arts, this is a Two Year traveling exhibition

Mr. Kevin Patrick:
Participated in the Summer Kid/Youth College Adventure program at ASU for area youths interested in the various artistic mediums
Recognized as a founding member of the Montgomery Art Consortium and exhibited in its inaugural show at the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture on the ASU Campus
Continued his work on a large mural to be installed at the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture on the ASU Campus

Mr. Cleve Webber:
Exhibited in the National Black Arts Festival at the Mason Muier Gallery in Atlanta Georgia
Exhibited with Junor Gallery in Decatur, Georgia in two different exhibitions, “Journey 11” and “Caribbean American Coalition”

Mrs. Jackie Webber:
Exhibited in two Online Photography shows with the Capitol City Camera Club in Montgomery, Alabama, one she received a First Place Award
Exhibited with the Capitol City Camera Club in their Print show in Montgomery, Alabama
Designated Photographer for a Formula One Car Race in Jamaica West Indies