FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuscaloosa, AL – The University of Alabama College of Arts & Sciences School of Music presents the faculty ensemble Cavell Trio in concert on Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building on the campus of The University of Alabama. The ensemble features UA Assistant Professor of Oboe Shelly Meggison, UA Assistant Professor of Clarinet Osiris Molina, and UA Assistant Professor of Bassoon Jenny Mann. The program will include “Divertimento” by Antoni Szalowski, “Six Studies in English Folk Song” by R. Vaughan Williams, “Obsession” by Makoto Shinohara, “Andantino Pastorale” by Mátyás Seiber, and “Trio per oboe, clarinetto e fagotto” by Jindrich Feld. UA Instructor of Piano Kevin Chance will accompany them. The concert is FREE and open to the public. For more information visit: www.music.ua.edu/calendar or call 348-7111.
Shelly Meggison serves not only as Assistant Professor of Oboe, but also as the Assistant Director, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Coordinator of Introduction to Listening for non-music majors at the University of Alabama School of Music. Prior to joining the University of Alabama faculty, Ms. Meggison earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Lethbridge, and a Master of Music degree from the University Of Cincinnati College Conservatory Of Music, where she has also pursued doctoral studies. She currently serves as principal oboist for the Tusacloosa Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with the Alabama Symphony, the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, the Meridian Symphony, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble. In February of 2004, she was guest soloist with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, performing Marcello’s “Oboe Concerto in d minor” and Albinoni’s “Concerto for Two Oboes op. 9 no. 12.” In May of 2009 she performed as the oboe soloist in Mozart’s “Sinfonia Concertante” with the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra
Ms. Meggison has toured throughout the United States and Canada as both a soloist and chamber musician. She is a member of the Capstone Woodwind Quintet and the Cavell Reed Trio both made up of University of Alabama faculty. Ms. Meggison is also an active chamber music coach and educator. She recently contributed to online resources provided by the publisher McGraw Hill to enhance study guides for students learning about music and is assisting in the creation of a new online music appreciation course. Ms. Meggison previously held the position of Adjunct Professor of Oboe at the Northern Kentucky University.
Dr. Osiris J. Molina is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at The University of Alabama. A native of Elizabeth, New Jersey, he has considerable experience as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. Dr. Molina’s recent professional accomplishments have taken him overseas and across the country. In 2009 he performed a concerto with the Beijing Wind Orchestra at the 2009 Beijing International Band Festival in China and served as a judge for the festival woodwind competition. That performance led to a return engagement, and he will appear again with the BWO at the National Arts Center in Beijing in July 2010. In December 2009 he was the featured soloist in Scott McAllister’s Black Dog at the MidWest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago with Alabama’s Hillcrest High School Wind Ensemble. Dr. Molina has also performed concerti with the University of Alabama Wind Ensemble, including Michael Daugherty’s Brooklyn Bridge at the Alabama Music Educators Convention, and recently recorded Black Dog with the ensemble for commercial release. His most interesting performance this year was as featured soloist with the University of Alabama Million Dollar Marching Band at the BCS National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California for an estimated audience of over 30 million viewers on ABC.
In addition to his solo work, Dr. Molina is an active orchestral and chamber musician. He is currently Principal Clarinet of the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly with the Alabama, Huntsville, Mobile and Meridian symphony clarinet sections, in addition to work with the Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Greater Lansing, and Bridgeport (CT) symphony orchestras. His chamber music performances include the concert series at the Southampton Cultural Center (NY), the Banff Centre, and the Hot Springs Music Festival (AR), where his performance with the Festival Orchestra of the music of Edmond Dédé was released on compact disc on the Naxos label. Dr. Molina is clarinetist in the Capstone Woodwind Quintet, the faculty quintet at the University of Alabama. They are committed to outreach efforts in the Alabama schools, evidenced by tours in the Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Huntsville and greater-Atlanta regions. Their most recent concerts were in Havana, Cuba as part of the university’s Alabama in Cuba initiative. Dr. Molina also gave a master class at the Instituto Superior de Arte, the national conservatory of Cuba. Dr. Molina is also a member of the Cavell Trio, a reed trio dedicated to the music of this unique combination. They have performed nationally and internationally, including an invitation to perform at the International Villa-Lobos Conference in Richmond, Virginia in 2007. The trio is currently preparing for their first recording project to be released through Hackberry Records, an independent music label from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dr. Molina’s commitment to new music is seen through his participation in commissioning consortiums. He has participated in group commissioning efforts for Roshanne Etezady (Bright Angel); David Maslanka (Eternal Garden), which he premiered in April 2010 with the composer in attendance, and the upcoming trio for clarinet, bassoon and piano by Bill Douglas. In addition to premiering these works, he will premiere the new clarinet and piano piece by Frederic Goossen in 2011.
In addition to his performance schedule, Osiris will teach at the New England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine. Dr. Molina holds degrees from Michigan State University (DMA), Yale School of Music (MM), and Rutgers University (BM), where he studied with Dr. Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, David Shifrin, Charles Neidich, Ayoko Ashima and Dr. William Berz. Osiris has been active in music education at all levels. He has taught middle school general music and high school instrumental music in the Beacon City School District (NY). Dr. Molina has previously served on the faculties of Kean University (NJ), Spring Arbor University (MI), and Albion College (MI). He teaches applied clarinet, chamber music and clarinet methods in the Music Education curriculum.
Dr. Molina has recently been added to the roster of Endorsing Artists for the Conn-Selmer Corporation, and will begin performing on the Selmer Paris Recital series clarinet in Fall, 2010.
Jenny Mann is Assistant Professor of Bassoon at The University of Alabama. She is Principal Bassoonist with the Tuscaloosa Symphony and is an active performer in both surrounding orchestras and chamber ensembles. Dr. Mann is a member of the Cavell Reed Trio and Capstone Woodwind Quintet that perform around the country and are committed to the commissioning of new works for the genre as well as educational outreach for young minds. Her interests have extended into Cuba where she has been an active teacher and performer and is working to increase national interest in all modern chamber music genres with the Capstone Woodwind Quintet through public collaborative concerts with the Havana Woodwind Quintet. In addition to her teaching, Dr. Mann coordinates the thriving Chamber Music Program at The University of Alabama and is Executive Editor of the magazine, Alabama Music Notes. She is also active with the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition and Symposium for bassoonists. Dr. Mann studied with Kristin Wolfe Jensen, John Hunt, David Van Hoesen, Jennifer Speck, Kent Moore and Janis McKay. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baylor University and a Master of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She began her doctoral studies at the Eastman School of Music and completed them at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Mann continues to be an active clinician and teacher for young musicians.
