January 11, 2012
Former Distinguished Professor of Music Louis Roney will be inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He joins such legendary artists as Ray Charles, Ernest Hemingway and Zora Neale Hurston. Roney was football captain at Winter Park High School and honor graduate of Harvard University before serving four years in the U.S. Navy during…
November 22, 2011
Jeff Rupert has been invited to perform at the Midwest Clinic, an international band and orchestra conference, on December 15 in Chicago. Performing with the Downers Grove South High School Jazz Band, Rupert will be a featured soloist along with Rowan University’s Dennis DiBlasio. Both Rupert and DiBlasio toured with Maynard Ferguson and currently direct…
October 19, 2011
Dr. Laszlo Marosi will shortly be en route to Argentina as guest conductor of the Banda Sinfónica de la Provincia. The band, together with two choirs, the Coro Polifónico de Córdoba and the Coro "Delfino Quirici", and four soloists will perform the Requiem by Frigyes Hidas. The performance will take place in the "Teatro Libertador"…
September 26, 2011
On September 28th Dr. Laszlo Marosi flies to Cordóba, Argentina where he has been invited to take part in the First International Conference of Conductors, Composers and Performers of Youth Bands. Among his duties will be a masterclass on score presentation and rehearsal technique. He will also direct the conference youth band in the closing…
August 31, 2011
It was the “BRPPBBBB” sound that blasts from a trumpet—“so appealing to a 5th grader”— that got Donny Allen hooked on music. Today, as the director of the Marching Knights and the Jammin’ Knights, it is music’s power to inspire and connect that keeps him playing his passionate tune. “94% of our band members are…
August 15, 2011
On Sunday evening, September 11, UCF Music faculty members Kimberly Saunders Randall and Thomas Potter will be featured soloists in a special concert to remember and honor those who perished on “9-11” ten years ago. This First United Methodist Church of Orlando Chancel Choir and orchestra concert, entitled “We Remember Them,” is free of charge…
July 8, 2011
Robert Reedy and Thomas Potter are featured in the July/August 2011 edition of Orlando Arts Magazine. The latest issue profiles Reedy as a fine artist and a teacher and spotlights Potter’s professional career as well as the local outreach events he organizes through the UCF Opera program. Orlando Arts Magazine, the official publication of United…
April 27, 2011
Ayako Yonetani will be a featured soloist for the Beethoven concerto in two concerts during the Kosice Spring Music Festival in May in Slovakia. Yonetani has a concert in Spisska Nova Ves on May 17th, and Humenne on May 18th. This will be the orchestra’s 50 year anniversary season. For more information, see http://en.sfk.sk/index.php?context=417&den=17&mesiac=5&rok=2011 and…
February 14, 2011
Baritone Thomas Potter will sing the two roles of Dr. Bartolo and Antonio in a fully staged production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro on Sunday, March 20. The performance will take place in the Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Center. Tickets available through calling 772-564-5537. Also see: http://www.verobeachopera.org/Marriage-of-Figaro-2.html
November 4, 2010
John Almeida has been invited to present a clinic at the 64th Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, IL. The event will take place Dec. 15–18, 2010. Mr. Almeida’s clinic is entitled “Sound Ideas on Playing the Trumpet” and will be presented on Friday morning Dec. 17. The clinic is designed to showcase teaching…