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Goshen College alumna Rebecca Martin to give a recital with former professor, Oct. 10
Rebecca Martin and Marvin Blickenstaff
Date and time: Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Cost: $7 adults, $5 seniors/students. GC students free with valid ID. Available at the door only.
For more information: contact the Welcome Center at (535) 574-7566 or by e-mail at welcomecenter@goshen.edu
GOSHEN, Ind. – American mezzo-soprano singer Rebecca Martin, a 1988 Goshen College graduate, has performed around the world, but she will return to the college to give a recital with former music professor and pianist Marvin Blickenstaff on Friday, Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center's Sauder Concert Hall.
Martin and Blickenstaff will perform works by Franz Schubert and Gustav Mahler and Blickenstaff will perform works by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt and Maurice Ravel.
Martin was born in Saigon, Vietnam. Since graduating from Goshen College in 1988, she has performed in many roles, including in Santader, Spain, Hong Kong, Leipzig's Gewandhaus, Munich's Philharmonie am Gasteig, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Grant Park in Chicago and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. She worked with the conductors Mariss Jansons, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marek Janowski, Riccardo Chailly and Ulf Schirmer, among others. In 2004, Martin began teaching singing at the Music University in Nuremberg, and continues to balance this with her many performances. She is the alto soloist on two CDs released this year: "Das Paradies und die Peri" (Schumann), with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bayerischer Rundfunk conducted by Harnoncourt (Harmonia Mundi), and "Mendelssohn's Elijah" with the Windsbach Boys Choir conducted by Karl-Friedrich Beringer (Sony).
Blickenstaff, who taught at Goshen College for more than 20 years, is known among piano teachers throughout the country for his teaching, lecturing, performing and publishing. He appears frequently as soloist and lecturer at state conventions of music teachers and at the national convention of the Music Teachers National Association. In 1992, he was honored by the Indiana Music Teachers Association with the citation of "Teacher of the Year." Blickenstaff holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Indiana University where he received both performing and academic honors. He now resides in the greater Philadelphia area and is teaching at The College of New Jersey, the Westminster Choir College and Conservatory of Rider University and The New School for Music Study at Princeton.
Tickets for the recital are $7 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. Goshen College students are free with a valid ID. Tickets are available at the door only.
Editors: For more information about this release or to arrange an interview, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.
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