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Tuscaloosa, AL—The University of Alabama College of Arts & Sciences School of Music presents oboist Rebecca Henderson in concert with guitarist Alan Goldspiel on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building. The program will include “Sonatine” by Karl Pilss, “Sonetto Quasi Una Notturna” by Jospeh Landers, “Elogio de la Danza” by Leo Brouwer, “Consolation, Romance sans paroles” by Napoleon Coste, “Aspects of Cassiopeia” by Joseph Landers, “Tale of the Bird Mound” by Alan Goldspiel, “Atardecer” by Frederic Costantino, and :Aldodao Doce” by Celso Machado. The event is FREE and open to the public. For more information, call 205-348-7111.
A prize winner in the 1995 New York International Competition for Solo Oboists and in the 1988 Lucarelli International Solo Oboe Competition, Rebecca Henderson has performed as Acting Principal Oboist with the National Symphony and Colorado Symphony orchestras, as Guest Principal
Oboist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, and the Rochester Philharmonic, and has been a member of the Colorado Symphony and the Santa Fe Opera Orchestras. She has performed as concerto soloist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony of Ecuador, and the Philharmonia Northwest Chamber Orchestra in Seattle. Festival performances include the Aspen,
Cabrillo, Bellingham, and Boulder Bach Festivals, and she is currently on the faculty of the International Festival Institute at Round Top in Texas. She has been featured on numerous film scores, including Imax films such as “Everest” and “Olympic Glory,” as well as feature films and network television mini-series. As a soloist and chamber musician she has recorded for the Boston Records, Centaur, RCA Masterworks, and RCWinds labels. Her solo CD, ”…is but a dream,” has been hailed by
critics as “exquisite…a CD that you will play over and over” (Gramophone), and “superb…a wonderfully vibrant, almost luscious sound” (American Record Guide). Ms Henderson holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music, where she was also awarded the distinguished “Performer’s Certificate.” Her teachers include Richard Henderson, James Caldwell, Richard Killmer, John Mack, John de Lancie, and Grover Schiltz. Ms. Henderson serves on the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin, where she has been an Associate Professor since the fall of 2001.
As a solo and chamber music performer, classical guitarist Alan Goldspiel has concertized throughout the United States and in the Caribbean and Europe. He has given the world premieres of From Faraway Nearby for guitar duo at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and Rhapsody for solo guitar at New York’s CAMI Hall, and has been featured on KQED (CA) radio, WNYC (NY) radio, KEDM (LA) radio, and (NY) television’s News 12 Long Island. He has been a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, Monroe Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Philharmonic, Sinfonie-by-the-Sea, and served as an Artist-in-Residence for North Carolina’s prestigious Visiting Artists Program, presenting over eighty concerts throughout that state. ??Dr. Goldspiel was the first and only guitarist to be honored with the Marshall Dodge Award from the Performing Artists Associates of New England. He was selected for the Louisiana State Artist Roster and Touring Directory, and accepted as a touring artist on the rosters of the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. His four CDs with Richard Provost have been favorably reviewed by Fanfare, Soundboard, Classical Guitar Magazine and the American Record Guide.??At Louisiana Tech University (1995-2008), he was the 2006 recipient of the James Alvey Smith Endowed Professorship for excellence in teaching, the 2002 recipient of Louisiana Tech’s University Senate Chair Award for excellence in teaching, research, and service, and given the Louisiana State Arts Council’s 2004-2005 Artist Fellowship Award for artistic excellence. ??Currently, he is Professor of Music and Chair, Department of Music at the University of Montevallo. He has also been a faculty member of the International Guitar Festival held each summer at The Hartt School, University of Hartford. ??This past year, Dr. Goldspiel recorded a fifth duo CD entitled Latin Magic, gave the world premieres of his Day at the Beach for clarinet and guitar and From Birds to the Flying Machine for soprano and guitar, and a read his paper “Background Structure, Syntax, and Idiomatic Device in the Solo Music of Heitor Villa-Lobos” at the International Villa-Lobos Conference.??In 1994, he was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Hartt School, University of Hartford. His unique research involved contemporary analysis and the solo guitar music of Heitor Villa-Lobos. He received his Master of Music degree in 1984 from Yale University’s School of Music. In 1981, he graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree from the Hartt School of Music where he was honored with the title “University Scholar” for his performance of and published research on the guitar music of Heitor Villa-Lobos.