Logan Canyon Winds, Utah State University’s faculty wind quintet in the Department of Music, performs Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Performance Hall on the USU campus (approximately 1090 E. 675 North, Logan). The concert is presented by the Music Department and the Caine School of the Arts.

 

The program, Inspired by Bach, features works either written by Johann Sebastian Bach or based on those by the most famous of all Baroque composers. In addition to regular ensemble members Leslie Timmons (flute), Bonnie Schroeder (oboe), Nicholas Morrison (clarinet), Steve Park (horn) and Carolyn Bodily (bassoon), the quintet is joined by guest pianist Mark Neiwirth.

 

Neiwirth, adjunct professor of piano at Idaho State University in Pocatello, has maintained a busy career for the last 30 years as piano soloist, concerto soloist, collaborative musician, studio teacher, lecturer, adjudicator and arts administrator. He served as chair of the piano department at the Sun Valley School of Music for six years and has performed 36 different piano concerti with orchestras throughout the Northwest region. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, he was represented for many years by Columbia Artists Management in New York and is a Distinguished Steinway Artist.

 

Neiwirth joins the quintet for Fantasy on a Fugue of J. S. Bach by Lowell Liebermann. Neiwirth will also perform Bach’s B minor Prelude and Fugue, on which the Liebermann work is based.

 

Prior to Neiwirth’s appearance, which concludes the program, the quintet will perform a transcription of Bach’s chorale prelude “Abide With Us, Lord Jesus Christ,” followed by David Maslanka’s Quintet No. 3, a work that is based on three Bach chorales.

 

Tickets, $8 general admission, are available at the Caine School of the Arts box office (caineschool.usu.edu) or at the door. USU and public school students are admitted without charge.

 

 

Source: USU Music Department