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Masterclass with Lynn Hileman
Wednesday, February 6
2:00 p.m.
Kimbrough Hall 346
Featuring bassoon students from WSU and the University of Idaho.
Guest Solo Bassoon Recital: Lynn Hileman
Wednesday, February 6
8:00 p.m.
Bryan Hall Theatre
Electroacoustic Music Concert
Friday, February 8, 2008
3:00 p.m.
Kimbrough Concert Hall
Piano Pedagogy Lab School Recital
Friday, February 8, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Kimbrough Concert Hall
PPLS Masterclass with Kevin Olson
Saturday, February 9, 2008
10:00 a.m.
Kimbrough Concert Hall
PPLS Workshop with Kevin Olson
Saturday, February 9, 2008
2:00–4:00 p.m.
Kimbrough Hall 101
Clinic with Kevin Olson on jazz, improv, and composition. Sponsored by the Pullman Music Teachers Association with the WSU Collegiate MTNA chapter and PPLS.
All events are free and open to the public.
Kevin Olson
Kevin R. Olson is an active pianist, composer, and faculty member at Elmhurst College near Chicago, where he teaches classical and jazz piano, music theory, and electronic music. He holds a doctor of education degree from National-Louis University and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music composition and theory from Brigham Young University. Before teaching at Elmhurst College, he held a visiting professor position at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California.
A native of Utah, Olson began composing at the age of 5. When he was 12, his composition "An American Traineride" received the Overall First Prize at the 1983 National PTA Convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Since then, he has been a composer-in-residence at the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy and has written music for the American Piano Quartet, Chicago a cappella, the Rich Matteson Jazz Festival, and several piano teachers associations around the country.
Olson maintains a large piano studio, teaching students of a variety of ages and abilities. Many of the needs of his own piano students have inspired his nearly 40 books and solos published by the FJH Music Company Inc., which he joined as a writer in 1994.
Lynn Hileman
Lynn Hileman is assistant professor of bassoon and music theory at West Virginia University, codirector of the WVU Double Reed Ensemble, and a member of the Laureate Wind Quintet. She is dedicated to the reinvigoration of concert music through performance of post-classical contemporary and experimental music, orchestral and chamber music, as well as electronic music and interdisciplinary arts.
Hileman is principal bassoonist of the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra in Binghamton, New York, and has also performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Syracuse and New Haven Symphony Orchestras, New Music New Haven, the June in Buffalo festival, and Eastman Musica Nova, with whom she appeared as a soloist in Sofia Gubaidulina's Concerto for Bassoon and Low Strings and in Charles Wuorinen's Bassoon Variations.
Hileman holds degrees from the University of Michigan (B.M.), Yale University (M.M.), and the Eastman School of Music (D.M.A.), where she was the 2004 winner of the Andrew G. Bogiages Memorial Prize in Bassoon. Her major teachers include Richard Beene, Christopher Millard, Frank Morelli, K. David VanHoesen, and John Hunt. Prior to coming to WVU, Lynn served on the faculties of Hamilton, Hartwick, and Houghton Colleges, Binghamton University, and the Hochstein School of Music and Dance.
She is a cofounder and former president of A\V, an art gallery and performance space in Rochester, New York, that specializes in interdisciplinary and multimedia works. Her current work as a curator at A\V aims to blur the distinction between classical and nonclassical genres by presenting concerts that feature contemporary concert music alongside experimental noise, folk, or laptop and turntable based music. In 2005, she exhibited a solo show of photography and instrumental installation, fag. deconstructed.
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