Tyler Goodrich White, professor of composition and conducting and director of orchestras, will present a faculty recital, “Across Five Decades: A Retrospective of Solo and Chamber Music by Tyler Goodrich White,” at 3 p.m. Feb. 13 in Kimball Recital Hall.
The concert is free and open to the public. It will also be live webcast.
White said it will be the first solo faculty composition recital at Nebraska in a while.
“I can’t remember when [professor emeritus] Randy Snyder gave his last recital, but I know it’s been a long time, and nothing since,” White said.
The recital will have something for everyone, White said.
“There is a wide diversity of musical styles represented, from high modernism to lyrical American classicism, to fiddle style, to Argentine tango,” he said. “Something (I hope) for everyone.”
The recital will mark a return to Lincoln for Hyeyung Yoon and Greg Beaver, formerly of the Chiara Quartet, the former faculty quartet in residence in the Glenn Korff School of Music that ended in 2018.
“They will be joined by Karen Hsiao Savage, piano, from the faculty of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, in a performance of my piano trio, ‘Three Views from the Mountain,’” White said. “In 2020, the piece was awarded Second Prize in The American Prize Competition for Instrumental Chamber Composition.”
The recital will also feature the debut of the Glenn Korff School of Music’s newest faculty ensemble, Una Corda, which features Mark Clinton, piano; David Neely, violin; Clark Potter, viola; Karen Becker, cello; and Hans Sturm, double bass. That ensemble will also give its own faculty recital on Feb. 15.
The program for White’s recital includes “Divertimentoscuro (2001)” for piano and five strings with Una Corda; “Berceuse (Dream Sequence with Flashbacks)” for piano with guest artist Catherine Herbener; “Suite for Unaccompanied Viola (2019)” with Clark Potter; “Set Me As a Seal (Wedding Cantata) (1994; rev. 2020)” with Jamie Reimer Seaman, soprano, and Christopher Marks, piano; and “Three Views from the Mountain (2015-2018)” for piano trio with Yoon, Beaver and the Savage Trio.
“The recital makes a great way to spend the afternoon before the Super Bowl,” White said.
White has been at Nebraska U since 1994. As a composer, he has received commissions from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra, and numerous other organizations.
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