WHAT: Percussion and quilting are stitched together for SUU's
highly entertaining Satellite Salon Series,
in a special two-day series of
events developed by members of the music and art and design departments
featuring series creator, Dr. Lynn
Vartan, percussionist, and art quilter Deborah
K. Snider, an SUU Professor. They will be joined by guest artist
Matthew Coley who will perform on the dulcimer. These professionals will work with students in an interactive master class, and
then join forces on a highly innovative family program, Arts Unwrapped.
WHO: Southern Utah University, College of
Performing and Visual Arts, Music Department
WHEN: September 13, 14
& 15, 2012
TIME: Master
Class, Thur., Sept. 13, 2012 at 3:00pm
"Common
Threads" Concert, Fri. Sept. 14, 2012 at 7:30pm
Arts Unwrapped, Sat., Sept. 15, 2012 at
10:30am
WHERE: All
events: Thorley Recital Hall, Music Building, Southern Utah University, Cedar
City, UT
TICKETS: Phone:
Arts Hotline: (435) 865-8800 or visit: www.suu.edu/arts
PRICES: Free
and the General Public is encouraged to attend.
SUU'S
SATELLITE SALON SERIES
SHOWCASES "COMMON THREADS"
SEPTEMBER
13, 14 & 15, 2012
Southern Utah
University, Cedar City, Utah: A special musical weekend will be stitched together when two
unique forms of percussion and quilting create Common Threads in SUU's innovative
Satellite Salon Series, in a special three-day series of events developed
by members of the Music and Art and Design departments feature series creator, Dr. Lynn Vartan, percussionist, and art
quilter Deborah K. Snider, an SUU Professor.
They will be joined by guest artist Matthew Coley who will play the dulcimer. These professionals will
participate in a master class and
Q&A at 3:00pm on Thursday, September 13, 2012 and in a joint concert on Friday, September 14th at 7:30pm. On Saturday, September 15, 2012, Vartan will participate in a family
workshop, Arts Unwrapped, at 10:30am. All events will take place at Thorley Recital Hall located on campus
in SUU?s Music Building. All events are
free and opened to the general
public.
This Satellite Salon Series
is comprised of three events over a two-day period. On Thursday, September 13,
2012, at 3:00pm, in a master class setting, Matthew Coley and Dr. Lynn Vartan
will demonstrate instrumental techniques and Coley will interact with some
students and coach their own performance. Coley and Vartan will be joined by Deborah
K. Snider and the trio will discuss their careers as working artists. The
master class is targeted to college and high school age students. On Saturday
morning September 15, at 10:30am, the casual Arts Unwrapped features a
program in which youngsters explore their creativity in a unique hands-on art and
music project featuring Coley and Vartan. Noisy children are welcome to attend
with their parents who can walk them around the family-friendly event which is
geared to young children, families and the community.
The weekend?s highlight will be Common Threads, a concert
highlighted by a vibrant collaboration of the instrumentalists and visual
artist, performed on Friday, September 14th at 7:30pm. The concert?s
first half will feature Matthew Coley and Dr. Lynn Vartan performing works that
showcase the dulcimer and various percussion instruments. In the second act, in
a special collaboration between music and art, Deborah K. Snider will create a
?community quilt? based on colorful contributions of provided cut by the
audience ? all while Coley and Vartan perform. The concert melds together music
and an art form that speaks to our community and thus, as an evening, promises
to be a vibrant work of art for both the ears and eyes.
Matthew
Coley performs regularly as a soloist throughout the US and
Europe, and has performed with such entities as the Cedar Valley Chamber Music
Festival, San Francisco Sinfonietta, Millennium Chamber Players, Moldavian
Philharmonic and Tele-Radio Orchestras, and Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester
Mannheim. He has been featured on Chicago's WFMT Classical Radio Station and has
presented concerts and master classes at universities in over 15 states, as
well as Denmark, Germany, Moldova, and Sweden. He has released a solo marimba
album in 2010 entitled Circularity that has
received very positive praise. Jason Baker wrote, "One of the most
enjoyable marimba recordings in recent memory due to its exciting repertoire,
world-class performing" in Percussive
Notes. Passionate about the symbiosis of dance and music, he has
collaborated with Co?Motion Dance Theatre, Thodos Dance Chicago, and Dance in
the Parks. In 2004 he began his own collaborative group called SONIC INERTIA, a
forum for the synthesis of dance, live music, and electronic media. This group
spawned the collaboration called CLEARLY, a multi-media dance, music, video,
and design installation inspired by all glass percussion instruments. In
addition to marimba and percussion, Coley performs on dulcimer and cimbalom and
has been committed to expanding the contemporary repertoire for the dulcimer
and percussion. He has commissioned and premiered over 25 marimba, percussion,
or dulcimer works. Coley has premiered concertos by Bjorn Berkhout, Lynn Glassock, Ghenadie Ciobanu, Marcin B?a?ewicz and Andrew
Ardizzoia. In 2008 he placed in the top three at the prestigious 5th World
Marimba Competition Stuttgart, and is the first American to ever place in this
competition. In 2005 he placed third in the Minnesota Orchestra Young Artist
Competition, and in 2000 won first in the Music Teachers National Association
Solo Percussion Competition and the Percussive Arts Society International
Marimba Concerto Competition. He has received numerous other awards as well as
grant awards from the City of Chicago Cultural Arts Assistance Program,
Illinois Arts Council, and Iowa Arts Council. Coley is currently Lecturer of
Percussion at Iowa State University, and holds degrees from Northwestern
University and the University of North Texas. He can be found on the web at www.hearMatthewColey.com.
Deborah
K. Snider holds Bachelor?s and Master?s of Arts degrees in Art
Education, Drawing and Design (Western Michigan University Honors College,
University of Colorado at Boulder) and a Master of Fine Arts in
Interdisciplinary Arts (Goddard College, Vermont). She has directed three
community art centers in Florida, Colorado, and Oregon; taught art at all age
levels; and administered many programs in higher education. She is a visual
artist in drawing, mixed-media, and art quilt/fabric collage whose work has
been shown and collected world-wide. Recent accomplishments include the 2004
Crested Butte (Colorado) Wildflower Festival poster; two art quilts juried into
the Studio Art Quilt Associate?s international touring exhibitions in 2008-9
and 2009-10; an art quilt juried into the Houston International Quilt
Association?s ?Quilts: A World of Beauty,? also winning an award (2008), and
three art quilts accepted for the Lark Books 2010 publication of 500 Art
Quilts. Most recently, her art quilt, "Bye-Bye Beautiful Bee" won
third place in the national juried "Evolutions" challenge at the
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, Colorado. She has had papers accepted
for publication in Art Education journals and magazines and is a Consulting
Editor for The Clearing House (educational research). She is frequently invited
to teach, speak, judge, and perform at local, regional, and state-wide events,
and is the recipient of the 2009 Higher Education Art Educator of the Year
Award from the Colorado Art Education Association. She is Assistant Professor
of Art Education at Southern Utah University and the curator of the forthcoming
exhibition Everything in Between: Art
Quilts, Embroidery and Fabric Collage at SUU?s Braithwaite Fine Arts
Gallery, September 27 through November 10, 2012.
Recently hailed in the Los Angeles Times for a ?fabulously
performed? solo, Dr. Lynn Vartan is percussionist
for Southwest Chamber Music, two-time Grammy® nominee in the Best
Classical Album of the Year and Best Small Ensemble with or without a
conductor categories. Vartan has been featured on the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Green Umbrella Series, the Different Trains Series and has soloed with the
Music and the Court series in Pasadena, California, and the Sierra Wind
Symphony. She is currently producing two solo albums which will be released
next year. Vartan received her master's and doctorate degrees from the
University of Southern California with special honors and recognition. She
teaches percussion at Southern Utah
University.
The Satellite Salon Series
allows for personal interaction and communication between a resident or guest musician
and or visual artist and music students from SUU and the region through master
classes, question and answer sessions and workshops. The Series is also an
educational program, designed to give southern Utah rural high school students the
opportunity to learn from professional musicians and artists during the
Master's Class. The "Arts Unwrapped" component provides a casual
concert or visual art experience for young children in the community, where
they can sit on stage and listen and watch the performer or participate in a
hands-on music or art project.
Satellite Salon Series and "Arts
Unwrapped" are made possible by funding from Arts Fusion, Arts Works for Kids!,
and a grant from the Arts In Education Program with the Utah Division of Arts
and Museums.
Experience
how music and quilting weave a spell. Do not miss Common Threads, a weekend
of events that promises to be highly entertaining. For
more information on the SUU College of Performing and Visual Arts events,
please call the Arts Hotline at (435) 865-8800, or visit www.suu.edu/arts.
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