Award-winning musicians
The 34th annual Christopher Giles and Lucille S. Harris Competitions in Musical Performance recognize Wake Forest students for their musical talents. Winners for 2011:
Brennan Wong
Elizabeth Hartley
Ryan Wyrofsky
Jorge Mendez Estrada
Cheng Liu
Erica Fedor
Lauren Rajakovich
• The Joseph Pleasant Sloan and Marguerite Nutt Sloan Award: First Place Performance by an Instrumentalist in the Open Competition — Brennan Wong, violin, a first-year student from Austin, Texas (student of Jacqui Carrasco)
• The Patricia Sloan Mize Award: Second Place Performance by an Instrumentalist in the Open Competition — Elizabeth Hartley, alto saxophone, a senior from Ocala, Fla. (student of Eileen Young)
• The Award for Outstanding Performance by a Singer — Ryan Wyrofsky, tenor, a senior from Moorestown, N.J. (student of Richard Heard)
• The Award for Outstanding Performance by a Non-Music Major — Jorge Méndez Estrada, a junior from Kernersville, N.C. (student of John Spuller)
• The Sinal Prize: First Place in the Piano Competition — Cheng Liu, a sophomore from Hangzhou, China (student of Louis Goldstein)
• The Marc and Eric Elvy Award: Second Place in the Piano Competition — Erica Fedor, a sophomore from Ellicott City, Md. (student of Dr. Louis Goldstein)
• The Ward Virts Prize for Pianistic Expressiveness — Lauren Rajakovich, a senior from Pittsburgh, Penn. (student of Dr. Louis Goldstein)
The music department schedule offers additional opportunities to hear Wake Forest student and faculty performances.
Guest Artist Lecture/Recital “Verfremte Musik”
March 18, 7:30 p.m.
“Ostracized music” features Ulrike Anton on flute and Russell Ryan at the piano. Anton teaches music history at Flow House in Vienna.
Senior Voice Recital
March 19, 3 p.m.
Soprano Katherine Morgan with Thomas Turnbull at the piano
Concert Choir
March 22, 7:30 p.m.
Featuring important works from choral music history—a fundraiser for the Concert Choir International Touring Fund
Student Recital
March 25, 7:30
Andre Nguyen, clarinet; Thomas Turnbull, piano
Collegium Musicum Concert
March 31, 7:30 p.m.
Featuring English music of the 16th and 17th centuries.
April 2011
Senior Voice Recital
April 2, 7:30 p.m.
Soprano Caroline Wahoff with Jean T. Blackwood at the piano
Music Theater Orchestra Concert
April 10, 3 p.m.
Concert performances from some of Broadway’s finest shows
Wind Chamber Music Concert
April 12, 7:30 p.m.
Student chamber ensembles
Listen to an mp3 sample of the Wind Chamber Premier Sax Quartet (0:30)
University Jazz Ensembles Concert
April 13, 7:30 p.m.
String Chamber Music Concert
April 14, 7:30 p.m.
Student chamber ensembles
Spring Choral Concert
April 20, 7:30 p.m.
Featuring the Wake Forest Concert Choir, Collegium Vocal Ensemble and the new Wake Forest Chamber Choir in a program of music from the Pacific Northwest
University Wind Ensemble Concert
April 26, 7:30
Featuring guest composer Daniel Kallman, who has composed for the National Symphony Orchestra, the Air Force Academy Band, and the Hong Kong Children’s Choir
University Orchestra Concert
April 28, 7:30
Featuring the music of Kodály’s Hungarian folk hero fairy tale, Háry János.
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