Upcoming Music Events

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Kennesaw State University

KSU Faculty Recital: David Watkins, piano

8:00 pm Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall Saturday, March 17, 2012 Kennesaw State University

KSU Faculty Guest Recital: Kocaeli Composition Faculty & KSU Guitarists
8:00 pm Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall Monday, March 19, 2012
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presents

KSU Orchestra: Concerto Competition Winners

8:00 pm Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Kennesaw State University

KSU Jazz Ensemble I

8:00 pm Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall Thursday, March 22, 2012
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KSU Faculty Guest Recital:

Matthew Dunne, guitar

KSU Choral Ensembles

8:00 pm Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall Wednesday, March 28, 2012
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KSU Wind Ensemble

8:00 pm Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall
For the most current information, please visit http://www.kennesaw.edu/arts/events/ Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Bailey Performance Center. As a reminder, please silence or power off all mobile phones, audio/video recording devices, and other similar electronic devices. The performers, and your fellow audience members, will greatly appreciate it. Thank you, and enjoy the performance! We welcome all guests with special needs and offer the following services: easy access, companion seating locations, accessible restrooms, and assisted listening devices. Please contact an audience services representative to request services.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:00 pm Dr. Bobbie Bailey & Family Performance Center Performance Hall
Seventieth Concert of the 2011-2012 Season

Kennesaw State University School of Music Program

Twenty Miniatures for Guitar 1-6 6-10 11-15 16-20 From Jazz Etudes for Guitar 2 (swing) 3 (ballad) 6 (blues) 9 (for Roland Dyens)

Matthew Dunne

Matthew Dunne

Matthew Dunne guitar and composer Matthew Dunne, guitarist and composer, was the 2008 winner of the Tobin Grand Prize for Artistic Excellence from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio. He has performed and taught throughout the United States and Mexico in both the classical and jazz genres. The San Antonio Express News has called his playing beautiful...elegant, well crafted and sophisticated He received the DMA degree in guitar performance, jazz emphasis, from The University of Texas at Austin, the first guitarist to receive this degree, and the MM degree from Florida State University. Since 1992, he has been on the music faculty of the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is a frequent collaborator with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, having composed music for three consecutive LAGQ CDs on Telarc, including the GRAMMY winning Guitar Heroes. William Kanengiser has recorded several of his Jazz Etudes on his GSP recording Classical Cool, and more recently The Cavatina Duo recorded his composition Eleno, Kerko Eleno on their Cedille CD The Balkan Project. He also composed the set piece for the 2005 Guitar Foundation of America Competition, Appalachian Summer, which has since been recorded on Naxos by the GFA winner Jerome Ducharme. Matthew has recorded three CDs; Forget the Alamo, a collection of his compositions for jazz quintet; Music in the Mission, a classical guitar CD recorded in Mission San Jose,; and The Accidental Trio, with jazz vocalist Joan Carroll and accordionist Mark Rubinstein, Matthew directed the Southwest Guitar Festival in San Antonio biennially from 1995-2009. This festival has included collaborative projects with many arts organizations in San Antonio, including the commission and world premiere of Sergio Assads Interchange for Guitar Quartet and Orchestra, and has garnered considerable critical acclaim and international recognition. Program notes I composed the Twenty Miniatures for Guitar in the summer and fall of 2009, as a result of winning a grant from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio. Most of my prior works for guitar were commissioned by virtuoso performers and ensembles. Consequently, I wanted to write some music that many guitarists could play, including serious students, as well as professionals. My inspiration for this work has been the few sets of very high quality short compositions for guitar composed in the 20th century, especially the 24 Preludes by Manuel M. Ponce and the 20 Estudios Sencillos by Leo Brouwer. As it turned out, the Miniatures are a little longer and possibly more technically challenging than either the Ponce or Brouwer short pieces. I found it invigorating to try to write short, accessible pieces that have musical depth and focus, The compositional style of the Miniatures reflects my jazz influences, interest in harmonic development, and admiration for implied counterpoint. I have tried to stay quite focused with regards to textural and rhythmic settings, relying on those to provide continuity while allowing melodic and harmonic development to provide variety. There are bits of milonga, jazz waltz, folk music, even a touch of celtic influence. The set concludes with a theme and four variations, which explore differing moods on the same harmonic form. The Jazz Etudes for Guitar were among my first compositions for classical guitar and formed the basis for my doctoral treatise. They are intended to be stylistic explorations of various areas of jazz, many in which the guitar has played a significant role, and are loosely in chronological (historical) order from ragtime to pieces dedicated to contemporary guitarist/ composers who are likewise influenced by jazz. #2 begins with an excerpt from a Django Reinhardt solo guitar composition simply titled Improvisation that I transcribed from one of his recordings. I then composed a tune typical of 1930s era jazz based loosely on the Reinhardt composition. #3 is a very typical AABA form ballad and uses some common chord progressions found in the works of any number of American popular song composers whos works have become jazz standards. However, my textural and harmonic embellishments are a little less typical. #6 is a blues with a few choruses or variations. Jazz musicians are often most adventurous in the more common forms and settings like the blues, and my piece does have a few unusual turns, as well as some familiar motives. #9 is dedicated to Roland Dyens, combining an improvisatory opening section with a Brazilian influenced tune and some overtly guitaristic writing not unlike something Roland might have included in his own wonderfully imaginative compositions. The Twenty Miniatures for Guitar (book/CD combo) and Jazz Etudes for Guitar are published by GSP Publications in San Francisco.