As part of the 2012 Student Honors Celebration at Gustavus Adolphus College, the Department of Music will present its Senior Honors Recital at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 5. The recital in Jussi Björling Recital Hall is free and open to the pubic and will include the work of six student musicians on piano, trombone, horn and voice.
Saturday’s Honors Recital will open with pianist Anne Thielman, a senior English major with minors in mathematics and music from Menominie, Wisc. Anne will perform Astor Piazzolla’s “Cafe 1930” from L’Histoire du Tango. Music education major and alto saxophonist Andy Phillips will follow Thielman’s performance with two movements from Roger Boutry’s Divertimento. Phillips, a senior from Rochester, Minn. and a graduate of John Marshall High School, will be accompanied by pianist Ben Marti.
Brittney Raasch, a music and French double major from Appleton, Wisc., will continue the recital with Nocturno by Franz Strauss on the French horn. Brittney will be accompanied by pianist Brenda Moore. She will be followed by pianist Nicole Wamma, a music major from Mankato in a performance of the first movement (Largo-allegro) of Beethoven’s Sonata in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2.
Next on the program, senior trombonist Christopher Gough, a music education major from Edina, will present Thoughts of Love by Arthur Pryor accompanied by pianist Brenda Moore. Soprano Erianna Reyelts, a sociology and anthropology major with a music minor from Duluth, will conclude the honors recital by singing “The Jewel Song” (Ah! Je ris de me voir) from Charles Gounod’s opera Faust. She will be accompanied by pianist Beth Winterfeldt.
A reception for the honors recitalists will follow the recital in Björling Recital Hall lobby. The 2012 Senior Honors Recital at Gustavus will begin at 1:30 p.m. It is open to the public at no charge.
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