ISU hosts Viola Day Oct. 1
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Indiana State University music department will host Viola Day Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Center for Performing and Fine Arts.
Events will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., ending with a concert performed by all attending violists, high school age or younger. The cost is $30 for a day of fun and learning under the direction of guest artist Michael Hall, president of the Chicago Viola Society.
In conjunction with Viola Day, Hall will perform as part of ISU's Visiting Artist Series at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Center for Fine and Performing Arts. The concert is free and open to the public.
Hall has given the Chicago premieres of Alfred Schnittke's Monologue and Stephen Paulus' Exotic Etudes with the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble. Dedicated to the education of young violists, Hall is initiating a composition contest sponsored by the Chicago Viola Society in order to encourage the creation of high-quality, student-level viola literature.
In 2003, Hall was awarded a Neighborhood Arts Program Grant from the City of Chicago in 2003. This grant allowed him to develop the "Young Composer's Project," a program combining the concepts of multiple intelligences with music to teach over 150 urban elementary school students creative writing, the basic building blocks of music, and composition via iconographic notation. Hall serves as a strong advocate for viola research, having published articles in both the Journal of the American Viola Society and the Chicago Viola Society Newsletter.
VIOLA DAY is part of a state-wide Indiana ASTA with NSOA (American String Teachers Association with National School Orchestra) initiative called Indiana String Days.
Clinics on violin, viola, cello, and double bass will be held at four universities throughout the state.
For more information, contact Kurt Fowler at (812) 237- 2743 or the ISU Music department at (812) 237- 2771.
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Contact: Kurt Fowler, ISU Music Department, (812) 237-2743 or kurtfowler@indstate.edu
Writer: Paula Meyer, ISU Communications & Marketing, 812.237.3783 or devmeyer@isugw.indstate.edu
ISU Communications and Marketing: (812) 237-3773 or http://www.indstate.edu/news
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