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Department of Music and Dance presents jazz concert

The Music and Dance Department in the School of Fine Arts will present a fall concert featuring three KU Jazz Ensembles at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 19, at the Lied Center of Kansas.

This is the first concert of the year for KU's award-winning jazz studies program. The concert will feature Jazz Ensembles I, II and III performing a wide variety of music. The program for the evening includes pieces from Grammy Award-winning composers Jim McNeely, Bob Florence and Clare Fischer, as well as more contemporary pieces by Chick Corea, and more. Steve Leisring, KU assistant professor of trumpet, will be a featured soloist with Jazz Ensemble II.

Dan Gailey, the director of jazz studies and associate professor of music and dance, leads Jazz Ensemble I. James Hudson, KU's director of athletic bands and the Marching Jayhawks, directs Jazz Ensemble II, and Justin White, a graduate teaching assistant in jazz studies and trumpet, directs Jazz Ensemble III.

Tickets for this performance are $7/general admission and $5/students and senior citizens. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Lied Center Box Office at 785-864-ARTS (2787).

For more information about the KU Jazz Ensembles concert, please contact the Department of Music and Dance at 785-864-3436.

Music and dance department welcomes award-winning guest soloist to campus

The music and dance department welcomes to KU horn player Andrew Pelletier, a Grammy award-winning soloist and chamber musician. He will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, in Swarthout Recital Hall. This event is free to the public.

Pelletier is currently an assistant professor of horn at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, and performs with the Toledo and Ann Arbor symphonies. Pelletier also is a member of Southwest Chamber Music, and he won the 2005 Grammy award for Best Classical Recording for a Small Ensemble performing with this group. Pelletier has won numerous additional awards, including the 1997 and 2001 American Horn Competition, and he also has appeared as a soloist at the International Horn Society Annual Symposia in 1997, 2003 and 2005. He is a former member of the Santa Barbara Symphony and has performed with the Ann Arbor Ballet Theatre, the Portland Opera Repertory Theatre and the Long Beach Camerata, to name a few. Pelletier has also recorded for Cambria Master Classics and Delos labels.

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Visiting Artist Schedule 2005 – 2006

FALL 2005:

Teresa Mucha James
Lecture - Nov. 17 th (Thursday) 4PM Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium

Teresa Mucha James is founder and owner of White Wings Press in Chicago, IL. From 1991-2002 Teresa was Master Printer at Big Cat Press, printing for such artists as: Tony Fitzpatrick, Ed Paschke, Gladys Nilsson, Jon Langford, Jim Nutt, Sam Messer, Wes Mills, Martin Mull, and Tom Huck. Her work is included in collections across the U.S. including Northwestern University's Block Gallery and the Portland Museum of Art. Teresa makes intimate scale drawings, large scale drawings and color intaglio prints. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and galleries around the country and abroad including, Blab Magazine, Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, New York, NY, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA & the Vedanta Gallery, Madrid, Spain. She is represented by the Aron Packer Gallery in Chicago.

Allison Smith – Installation / Performance
Lecture - Nov. 29 (Tuesday) 7:00PM - Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium

Allison Smith is a Brooklyn-based artist; she is interested in the notion of “authentic reproductions” – a common if oxymoronic phrase describing contemporary objects or tableaux that conjure historical aesthetics and episodes. In her sculptures, performances and mixed-media installations, Smith investigates the ways in which a simple prop, bridging past and present, can come to signify more than its appearance suggests. Smith was born in Manassas, Virginia in 1972. She received a BA in psychology from the New School for Social Research in 1995, a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1995, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1999. She participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program from 1999-2000. She has had solo exhibitions at Bellwether gallery, New York, NY, the Eldridge Street Project, New York, NY and Artpace, San Antonio, TX.

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