Guest Artist Recital and Reception in Curitiba, Brazil
Sunday, October 16, 2022 , 6:30 - 9:30 BRT
Location: Capela Santa Maria Espaço Cultural
Contact: Brazil Gateway
Join The Ohio State University School of Music and Brazil Gateway for a guest recital from Susan Powell, professor of percussion, and Michael René Torres, assistant professor of practice, saxophone and composition, at the Capela Santa Maria Espaço Cultural. Musicians will perform individual pieces and duets during the hour-long recital.
Powell, Torres, David Hedgecoth, associate professor of music education and associate director and chair of undergraduate studies, School of Music, Michael Ibrahim, director, School of Music, and Scott Schwenter, director, Ohio State Center for Latin American Studies, will be in Curitiba, Paraná for a four-day residency in collaboration with Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Colegio Estadual do Paraná and other institutions. Columbus and Curitiba are sister cities, and Ohio and Paraná are sister states.
Registration is required. Pick up your ticket one hour in advance at the venue.
Program
Book of Dances and Other Diversions – Leonard Mark Lewis
I. Simple Blue Toccata
II. Waltz – Saying Goodbye
III. Tango Triste
IV. Songs in Pieces
Wings – Joan Tower
Ornate Wobbegong – Susan Powell
I. Provoked
II. Captured
III. Stepped On
Fantasie 2 in A Minor – Georg Philipp Telemann
I. Grave
II. Vivave
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro
Memoriale – Paul Siskind
Voices of Contempt – Michael René Torres
Mosaics – Susan Powell
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Shadows of Wood – Eckhard Kopetzki
III. Limes in the Wind
Michael René Torres: Saxophonist, composer, educator and curator. Torres currently serves as a saxophone assistant professor of practice at the School of Music. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Columbus Ohio Discovery Ensemble (CODE); a non-profit dedicated to the promotion, performance and perception of new music in Central Ohio. Additionally, Torres serves as the program director and an advisory board member of the Johnstone Fund for New Music which advances the performance of new music for the benefit of the Central Ohio community.
Torres has presented recitals, clinics and master classes at conferences and universities throughout the United States. He is a member of the Tower Duo with flutist Erin Helgeson Torres. Tower Duo specializes in creating engaging musical experiences and commissioning new concert works by living composers to advance the growing repertoire of the flute and saxophone duet. A winner of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and the Greater Columbus Arts Council Composition Fellowship, Torres' compositional interests are in chamber music that explores the juxtaposition of consonance and dissonance and is often inspired by psychology and poetry. He describes his music as dramatic and theatrical with complex, intricate moments and calm, introspective moments.
Torres holds degrees from The Ohio State University (DMA–saxophone, MM–composition), Northwestern University (MM–saxophone), and Stetson University (BME–education). He has studied saxophone with James Bishop, Frederick L. Hemke, James Hill and Joseph Lulloff and studied composition with Thomas Wells and Kari Juusela. Torres is a Conn-Selmer Endorsing Artist and performs exclusively on Selmer Paris saxophones. Visit Torres' website for more information.
Susan Powell: Powell is currently a professor and director of percussion studies at the School of Music. Powell is well known as a mallet keyboard specialist and is considered one of the foremost ragtime soloists of her generation. Having a particular interest in increasing the repertoire and visibility of the xylophone as a featured musical voice, Powell has commissioned and composed multiple works for the instrument in this setting.
She is the founder and director of LULU & Co. Novelty Ragtime Band, where she is featured as a xylophone soloist, arranger, and composer. She has presented showcase sessions and clinics at the Percussive Arts Society International Conventions, the Midwest Clinic, as well as the Ohio Music Educators Association conferences. An active chamber performer, she often appears with the Pendulum Duo and Sympatico Percussion Group at festivals, universities and Percussive Arts Society events across the globe, most recently with Pendulum in Sweden (Hulebäcksgymnasiet-Mölnlycke, Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg, Royal College of Music-Stockholm, Ingesund Musikhögskolan-Arvika) and Finland (Sibelius Academy of Music-Helsinki).
She has performed as a solo and chamber musician across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil. and Europe. Powell is the recipient of both the Ohio State Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and the School of Music Distinguished Teacher. She currently serves as Secretary for the Ohio Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society and her compositions are published by Keyboard Percussion Publications and Musicon Publications.
Powell holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music (BM) and Northwestern University (MM, DM) and is an artist/educational endorser for Malletech, Zildjian, Remo and Grover Pro Percussion.
