Chicago musicians return for hometown recital, Oct. 31

 

Community School of the Arts concert: J. Austin Wulliman, violin; Mary Rose Jordan, piano; Laura Weiner, horn
Date and time: Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center

Cost: $7 adults, $5 seniors/students, available at the door one hour before the concert. GC students free with ID.

 

GOSHEN, Ind. – Goshen natives J. Austin Wulliman, a violinist, and Mary Rose Jordan, a pianist, will return to Goshen College to perform a chamber music recital in the Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall on Saturday, Oct. 31 at 7:30 p.m. As youth, Wulliman and Jordan both participated in the college's music preparatory programs – the precursor to what is now the Community School of the Arts. Wulliman and Jordan will also be joined by hornist Laura Weiner.

 

Their recital program will include "A Hard-Top With a Decent Engine, and Make Sure It's Got a Big Trunk" by Christopher Fisher-Lochhead, "Interstellar Call" by Olivier Messiaen, "Sonata for Piano and Violin in E minor, K. 304" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52" by Fryderyk Chopin and "Horn Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 40" by Johannes Brahms.

 

A former pupil of Marvin Blickenstaff, Jordan is completing her doctorate in piano performance with James Giles at Northwestern University. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in music from Indiana University, under the tutelage of Emile Naoumoff. Her 2008 solo performances of Modest Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition on Chicago's award-winning Millennium Park stage earned her the Chicago Tribune's favorable review: "...Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, played live and beautifully by Mary Rose Jordan on a Steinway in the center of the stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion." An international performer, Jordan has most recently given recitals in Oxford, England and Vienna, Austria; and looks forward to performing in Lithuania, as well as various universities in the states in the coming months.

 

Wulliman received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from the University of Michigan and his master of music degree from Northwestern University. He has been a featured performer at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center and on WFMT. He has appeared in concert and masterclass at the University of Chicago, Northwestern and Roosevelt universities and Columbia College. He works with leading composers including William Bolcom, Pierre Boulez, John Harbison, Lee Hyla, Bernard Rands, Augusta Read Thomas and Kaija Saariaho. Wulliman recently gave solo performances at the Aspen Music Festival and in New YorkÕs Tenri Cultural Institute, and attended the Lucerne Festival. He played in the Chicago Civic Orchestra and is a product of the Goshen College Strings Preparatory program.

 

Weiner graduated summa cum laude in June 2009 from Northwestern University where she studied with Gail Williams and William Barnewitz. While at Northwestern, she performed as principal horn with the Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra and Contemporary Music Ensemble. As a chamber musician, she was a semi-finalist in the Plowman Chamber Competition, and attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Colorado College Music Festival. Currently residing in Chicago, she plays with various local ensembles, and recently performed with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.

Tickets for the recital cost $7 for adults and $5 for seniors/students. They will be available at the door one hour before the recital.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

 

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Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college's Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron's Best Buys in Education, "Colleges of Distinction," "Making a Difference College Guide" and U.S.News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" edition, which named Goshen a "least debt college." Visit www.goshen.edu.