https://mds.marshall.edu/music_perf/1590/thumbnail.jp

Mack, Evan

English

Marshall University

Marshall UniversityMarshall Digital ScholarAll Performances Performance CollectionWinter 2-13-2009Marshall University Music Department Presentsthe Joan C. Edwards, Distinguished ProfessorRecital, Evan Mack, pianoEvan MackFollow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/music_perfPart of the Fine Arts Commons, and the Music Performance CommonsThis Recital is brought to you for free and open access by the Performance Collection at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion inAll Performances by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact zhangj@marshall.edu.Recommended CitationMack, Evan, "Marshall University Music Department Presents the Joan C. Edwards, Distinguished Professor Recital, Evan Mack,piano" (2009). All Performances. Book 576.http://mds.marshall.edu/music_perf/576DEPARTMENT of MUSIC MUSIC presents the Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professor Recital Evan Mack, piano 8:00 p.m. Pre-concert Lecture 6:30 p.m. Friday, February 13, 2009 Smith Recital Hall This program is presented by the College of Fine Arts through the Department of Music. Dr. Mack's residency and recital was made possible through funding from the Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professors of the Arts Endowment. For more information about this or other music events, please call (304) 696-3117, or view our website at www.marshall.edu/cofa/music. Program Ballade, Op 46 Samuel Barber Fantasia on an Ostinato John Corigliano American Berserk John Adams ******** Intermission ******** Sonate Droysig Michael Slayton Droysig Forrest Droysig Castle Summer in Droysig Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin Biography A Doctor of Music from CCM, Evan Mack has studied with Michael Chertock, William Black, Craig Nies, Sergei Arzoumanov, and Jungem Kim Cafaro. Also, Evan has participated in master classes and coachings by George Crumb, Seymour Lipkin, Emanuel Ax, Louis de Moura Castro, Juraj Margulis, Diane Andersen, and James Tocco. Early in his career, Evan performed throughout the Catskills-Hudson Valley regions of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, an area steeped in classical tradition, but more known for Woodstock and Orange County Choppers! In 2001 Evan won the Vanderbilt University Concerto Competition, and later performed Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto with the Vanderbilt Symphonic Orchestra. He was also a guest artist of the Blair Woodwind Ensemble for its premiere of a composition by Dana Wilson. Evan has given solo recitals with much acclaim in Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Charleston, Nashville, and throughout the Northeast and Midwest. Most recently, Evan has performed in the Kentucky Symphony Ragtime Band, the Kentucky Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony Chamber Players, The West Virginia Symphony, the Dayton Philharmonic, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. For the last two years, Mack has been performing American piano music all over the U.S. and the world including Barcelona, Spain for the IV Forum lnterncional De Musica Barcelona Ciutat and as an artist-in-residence in The University of the Northwest in Potchefstroom, South Africa. As a composer, Evan has produced five full musicals (three of them for children's theater), as well as numerous popular songs, and numerous classical works. Most Recently, his Langston Hughes' Dream of Freedom, for choir, 2 soloists, and piano was performed at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. The work is slated to for publication in the fall. His most current project is a full-length opera called Angel of the Amazon. www.EvanMack.com. 

Marshall University Music Department Presents the Joan C. Edwards, Distinguished Professor Recital, Evan Mack, piano

https://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1590&amp;context=music_perf

Marshall University Music Department Presents the Joan C. Edwards, Distinguished Professor Recital, Evan Mack, piano

Abstract

Similar works

Full text

Available Versions

Marshall University