ISU Music Professionals release CD
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - With the support of an Indiana State University Arts Endowment Grant, two Indiana State music faculty members have collaborated to release a compilation of works adapted for the horn.
"Vox Corno," features works by Brahms, Mahler, Rachmaninov, and Tchaikovsky performed by associate professor Brian Kilp and staff accompanist Martha Krasnican.
Inspired by a gift he received while in China on a University Faculty Travel Grant, Kilp began work on "Vox Crono" as a way to illustrate the opportunity transcription gives musicians to perform great works written for voice or other instruments.
"The inspiration for this project came in 2002, when a horn teacher at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Cui Binzhe, presented me with a book of transcriptions of Rachmaninov and Glink vocal and piano pieces he had obtained in St. Petersburgh, Russia," Kilp said.
"I was so excited at the prospect of collaborating on a CD with Martha, as she is such a fantastic pianist," he added.
"Vox Corno" is available online from CDbaby (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/briankilp) and TAP music sales (http://www.tapmusic.com). Copies of the CD are available for purchase directly from Kilp, by calling (812) 237-2759. Proceeds from the CD will go to the ISU Music Department Scholarship Fund.
Kilp joined the faculty of Indiana State in 1998. Currently principal horn with the Terre Haute Symphony, 2nd horn with the Sinfonia da Camera in Champaign, Ill., and a member of the Danville Symphony, Kilp is also a member of Keith Brian's Touring New Sousa Band.
A very busy freelance hornist in the Indianapolis region, he has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony, Indianapolis Opera, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Lafayette Symphony, the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, and various other ensembles. Over the past six years he has commissioned 12 new works featuring the horn, including one that premiered at the 2000 IHS Beijing International Horn Festival, and another premiered at the 2003 IHS International Symposium in Bloomington, Ind.
During the summers of 2001-04, Kilp performed and conducted clinics at Conservatories in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shenyang, China; Thailand, and Singapore. In 2002 was a recitalist at the Fifth International Foreign Music Cultural Exchange Festival in Shenyang, where he was named visiting guest professor of the Shenyang and Dalian Conservatories. He is a frequent clinician for Conn-Selmer and has worked extensively with Jim Decker on the IVASI project, an interactive video guide for orchestral preparation.
Kilp is currently working on another collaborative project with several ISU faculty members and musicians from the North Carolina School for the Arts to record pieces he commissioned from composer Sue Dellinger, a former member of the ISU music department who currently resides in Charlotte, NC.
Krasnican, a native of Bethesda, Md., received both her bachelor's and master's degrees in piano performance from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. While there, she studied with Brooks Smith, Barry Snyder and Frank Glazer, and has also worked with John Wustman of the University of Illinois and Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio. She supervises the accompanying program at Indiana State and regularly performs with faculty and guest recitalists and for guest master classes. She has also performed as a soloist with the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra in a concerto written for her by her husband, Daniel Powers, and will premiere Dan Powers Second Piano Concerto in March 2005.
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Contact: Brian Kilp, ISU Music Department, (812) 237-2759 or bkilp@indstate.edu
Writer: Paula Meyer, ISU Communications & Marketing, 812.237.3783 or devmeyer@isugw.indstate.edu
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