Calendar of Events
Spring 2012
BACH RECITAL AT HIRAM
Sunday, January 22, 2012
3:00 pm ~ Frohring Music Recital Hall
Michael Sponseller, harpsichord, and Douglas Kelley, viola da gamba, will play a program of works by J.S. Bach on Sunday, January 22 at 3 p.m. Location is Frohring Recital Hall, 11746 Dean Street, Hiram. The free event is sponsored by Hiram Community Trust and the Hiram College Music Department.
MICHAEL SPONSELLER is recognized as one of the outstanding American harpsichordists of his generation. Since his training at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, Mr. Sponseller has had a highly diversified career which brings him to festivals and concert venues all around as recital & concerto soloist, and partner to several of today’s finest musicians. He appears regularly as harpsichordist and continuo organist with several of American’s baroque orchestras and chamber groups such as Bach Collegium San Diego and Les Délices. He is heard on many recordings from Delos, Centaur, Eclectra, Vanguard Classics, RMAP and Naxos. Behind the scenes, Michael has been a regular presence in the orchestra pit for several productions of Handel (Alcina, Amadigi, Ariodante) and Rameau operas, including repetiteur for the Netherlands Opera production of Rameau’s Castor et Pollux, conducted by Christophe Rousset. At home, Michael is a regular presence at the Handel & Haydn Society, and Boston’s Emmanuel Music, where he has performed over 90 works on their well-known weekly performances of sacred cantatas of J.S. Bach. In addition to his performance schedule, Mr. Sponseller teaches Continuo and Figured Bass at the Longy School of Music, and is artistic director of Ensemble Florilège.
DOUGLAS KELLEY has performed on viola da gamba throughout Europe from Amsterdam to Zagreb, and has made numerous tours in Asia including award-winning performances at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition (Japan). He has taught at summer courses in Italy and for the German, Austrian and Swiss viola da gamba societies (Viola da gamba-Gesellschaft), and was teaching assistant at the Vienna Musikhochschule. In 2000, he was awarded a career grant by Early Music America. He is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and returns to his alma mater as a member of the Oberlin Consort of Viols. Since 2009, he has made his home in rural Connecticut, which allows him to be closely involved with projects in both Boston and New York City, as well as further afield. Mr. Kelley will perform on an original viola da gamba made by Johann Hasert in 1723. It was built in Eisenach, Germany, the town of J.S. Bach’s birth. The instrument is available courtesy of the Caldwell Collection of Viols, Oberlin, Ohio.
Sunday, February 12
Vocal Studio Recital
Voice students of Rachael Pavloski
7:00 pm ~ Frohring Recital Hall
Wednesday, February 15
Library Forum Talk: Dr. Tina Dreisbach
The Jazzy Hour: Gladys Bentley, Lesbian Blues,
and the Harlem Renaissance
4:15 pm ~ Pritchard Room - Library
Wednesday, February 29
Junior Recital
Brian Shivers, percussion
Percussion Ensemble
7:30 pm ~ Frohring Recital Hall
Thursday, March 22
Convocation
“Harmony (and the Occasional Dissonance):
Famous Musical Friendships”
Alice McCue Cable, ’02; Carolyn Baker Dubiel,’03
Dr. Tina Spencer Dreisbach
12:15-1:15 pm ~ Frohring Recital Hall
Thursday and Friday, March 22 & 23
The Marcia Kenyon Bissell
Opera/Musical Theatre Workshop
presents Pietro Mascagni’s
Cavalleria Rusticana
7:30 pm ~ Hiram Christian Church
College Chamber Orchestra
Tim Staron, director
3:00 pm ~ Frohring Recital Hall
Monday, March 26
Music Department Student Recital
7:30 pm ~ Frohring Recital Hall
Wednesday, March 28
Hiram College Wind Ensemble
Kenneth Young, director
7:30 pm ~ Hayden Auditorium
Friday, March 30
Hiram College Choral Concert
Chamber Singers
Western Reserve Women's Chorus
Dr. Dawn Sonntag, Director
7:30 pm ~ Hiram Christian Church
Monday, April 2
Hiram College Jazz Ensemble
Paul Ferguson, Director
Hiram College African Ensemble
Olugbala Manns, Director
7:30 pm ~ Hayden Auditorium
Tuesday, April 3
Convocation
Spring Honors Recital
Outstanding Student Performers
12:15-1:15 pm ~ Frohring Recital Hall
Wednesday, April 4
John M. Watson Memorial Concert
Gayle Martin Henry, pianist
7:30 pm ~ Hayden Auditorium
Thursday, April 5
Convocation
Masterclass: Gayle Martin Henry, pianist
12:15-1:15 pm ~ Frohring Recital Hall
Sunday, April 22
Traditional Irish Session
Informal Playing & Singing
2:00 Learn tunes - 3:00 Open session
Frohring Recital Hall
Friday, April 27
Senior Recital
Jasmine Marks, mezzo-soprano
7:30 pm ~ Hayden Auditorium
Frohring Recital Hall
Sunday, May 20
Spring Community Chorus Concert
Hiram Women’s Chorus
Damaris Peters-Pike, Director
Hiram Men’s Chorus
José Gotera Director
3:00 pm ~ Hiram Christian Church
Music Department events are free of charge and open to the public
unless otherwise noted.
Programs and dates are subject to change.
For current concert information:
Email: Music@hiram.edu
or call the Music Office at 330.569.5294