Guest Artist Masterclass: Hunter Hensley - Chants and Songs: A Window into the Middle Ages
Venue: Squires Recital Salon, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
Dr. Hunter Hensley presents a master class about singing Gregorian Chant and a solo recital – “Chants and Songs: A Window into the Middle Ages”.
He is Professor of Music at Eastern Kentucky University teaching applied voice and vocal diction. Hensley’s Gregorian chant recordings number almost 100 chant melodies of the 500 included in “A Gregorian Archive: a study edition on compact disc”, produced by Richard Crocker, Emeritus Press, Berkeley, CA. Other recordings made for Emeritus Press include: “The Trouvère Songs of Adam de la Halle;” and “Project Motet,” Motets from Montpellier fasc. 6. Companion recordings for Judith Peraino’s most recent book “Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self-Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut” is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in November, 2011.
Hensley is also commissioned to make modern critical performing editions for Edizione Nazionale dell’Opera Omnia di Alessandro Stradella– (Modern Performance Editions with Critical Notes). Serie I Cantate: vol. 1 & 2, Cantata profane a 1 voce e basso continuo (volume for the male voice in preparation). Editione ETS, Pisa. (tba)
This masterclass is free and open to the public.
For more information, visit: http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php
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