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Music is an important instrument
UTM has one of the best learning environments for students.
That is the reason why UTM has many more students who enroll
in the fall semester as compared with last semester. The Music
Department of UTM plays a very important role on the campus.
Music is one of the most important elements that students need
to relax after studying. Music can be used to release anger
and to calm ourselves down so we won’t become very aggressive.
The Music Department provides a series of concerts during each
semester. Each concert will be held at Harriet Fulton Theatre
in Fine Arts Building. Students should get themselves involved
in these activities. There is no fee to attend the events.
The music department of UTM invited two guests Lisa Oberlander
and Amy Griffiths over to perform only for one night. Both of
them are music industries Stars. Lisa Oberlander’s instrument
is the clarinet. She went to Japan with some founding members
of the Fountain City Ensemble in 2005 and performed in Tokyo.
There were two other performances in which she played with the
famous international pianists Jon Kimura Parker and Andre Gaskin
which included two performances of the Brahms Trio.
Griffiths recently recorded her single for the clarinet.
The record will be released in early 2007. She also played
with some symphony groups, including the Phoenix Symphony
Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Aspen Music
Festival Orchestra. She has been invited to perform live on
WTVM (ABC). Her performance pieces are always the best choices
on Georgia Public Radio. She has worked on the faculty of
the Georgia Governor’s Honors Program from 2001-03.
Griffiths is more interested in playing the saxophone. She
has toured all over the United States, Canada, Europe and
as far away as Japan. She founded a group known as The Fountain
City Ensemble with three of her best friends, who include
Lisa Oberlander (clarinet), Andree Martin (flute), and Paul
Vaillancourt (percussion) in 2003.
They toured Japan and presented the world premiere of their
group in the city of Tokyo in 2005. She also has a saxophone
CD which is going to be released in the winter of 2006. She
is in the Columbus State University Percussion Ensemble and
is working on their recording of Charles Griffin’s Fist
Through Traffic for alto saxophone and percussion. She has
worked for the Orquesta Panamericana band in Phoenix, Ariz.
for the past two years.
When she was in Arizona, she was also in the Jazz group Dixie
Devil. Dixie Devil specializes in early New Orleans-style
Jazz. She enjoys working as a performer. As soon as she moved
to Georgia, she was playing in several soul bands. They include
Saints and Sinners and Maxwell Lummus. She also works at Columbus
State University. She teaches saxophone quartets, chamber
music, small-group Jazz and woodwind methods as well. She
has her own feeling about music, and maintains a dynamic saxophone
studio.
It was quiet in Harriet Fulton Theatre because there were
not many people who showed up to the concert. Most viewers
were UTM students who were Music majors, except a few people
who were from outside of campus. The show lasted an hour,
and there was a ten-minute break between the two sections.
Professor Elaine Harriss performed with Griffiths and Oberlander
during the concert. Her role is the piano part of the performance.
She is a fine pianist, and she has been teaching at UTM for
a long time.
Source: pacer.utm.edu
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