Guest Speaker - Dr. Sandra Stewart, Piano Faculty, Florida State College at Jacksonville

Dr. Sandra Stewart will give the first MUSIC MASTERS Lecture/Recital of the EMMA Concert Association’s 2011 MUSIC MASTERS series on the topic “Romantic Masters of the Piano.”

Dr. Sandra Stewart, NCTM, received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Pedagogy from the University of South Carolina and also holds degrees from Norfolk State University and Indiana University. She has served on the faculties of the University of North Florida, Jacksonville University and Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. Currently, Dr. Stewart is an adjunct professor at Florida State College. She is a Certified Teacher of Music in Piano at both the National and State levels by the Music Teachers National Association and is also a Certified Piano Teacher by the American College of Musicians.

Dr. Stewart is the immediate past president of the Jacksonville Music Teachers Association and serves as the Chairperson for Piano Guild in the Jacksonville area. She is also a participating member of the Federation of Music Clubs and regularly adjudicates for music organizations throughout Florida and the Southeast. Her articles have been published by state and national journals, and she writes reviews new music publications for Piano Guild Notes.

Dr. Stewart’s biography appears in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in Entertainment, Who’s Who in Education, The Dictionary of International Biography, and Who’s Who in the 21st Century. She was a recipient of the Florida First Lady‘s Art Scholar award in May 2000. She was a 2004 nominee for the Florida State MTA Excellence in Teaching Award and was nominated at UNF for the 2007-2008 Outstanding Teaching Award. Dr. Stewart resides in Jacksonville, FL with her husband, Bill.

Guest Speaker - Dr. Daniel Fulmer, Composer

As a part of the 2011 EMMA Music Masters lecture series, Dr. Daniel Fulmer discusses various ways with which a composer conceptualizes new compositional works and alliances with performers in the creative process. Pre-compositional planning and discussion of the creative process involved in writing his current work for the Trio Bel Canto is included in the lecture accompanied by a recent DVD performance recording of Part I.  A few additional examples of his Symphony No. 2 for soprano and orchestra will be included as a part of his discussion of the composer’s generative creative process.

Dr. Fulmer’s compositional education began at North Carolina School of the Arts and continued at Stetson University where he received a Bachelor of Music Theory and also studied percussion for two years with Will Hudgins, now percussionist with the Boston Symphony. He went on to complete an MM in composition at Florida State University and a DMA from the University of Miami. His doctoral research, Composition as a Generative Process, is included in the widely used textbook Psychological Foundations of Musical Behavior by Boyle and Radocy.

Fulmer is a composer of orchestral and choral works with many performances including A Mortuis Excitare Et Obviam Domino in Aera (In Memory of Loved Ones Who Passed Away), which premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York, April 2002, and was read by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra as part of their 2004 Fresh Ink Florida Composers Symposium.

Raised in Florida, Fulmer is inspired from the topography of the land with vast seascapes, wilderness swamps, wooded areas, rivers, and natural springs. His doctoral dissertation, Symphony No. 3, is a four-movement pastoral symphony for two narrators, choir, and large wind ensemble based on the Everglades region of South Florida, setting text of select early twentieth-century Florida poets.

Tuesday November 8, 2011 at the Flagler Room, Flagler College

Guest Speakers - The Musical Trio Serafini Brillanti

The musical trio Serafini Brillanti will present the third 2011 MUSIC MASTERS lecture/recital.  Randall Tinnin, trumpet, Rhonda Nus Tinnin, soprano and Erin Bennett, keyboards comprise Serafini. They will be presenting a variety of music from the 18th through 21st centuries, including new works created for Serafini, and some Broadway show-stoppers.

Serafini Brillanti is a versatile ensemble performing works for Soprano, Trumpet and Keyboard, from the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Serafini has appeared at Merkin Hall, Juilliard, Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, Louisiana State University, the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, the Honolulu International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, the 2006 International Trumpet Guild Conference at Rowan University, and the International Brass Symposium in Cornwall, U.K.

Randall Tinnin is the Associate Professor of Trumpet and the director of the Brass Ensemble at the University of North Florida. He received degrees in music from the University of North Texas, Juilliard and Rutgers. In 2006 he won the North American Brass Band Association Solo Contest. Dr. Tinnin’s New York area engagements include appearances with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Queens Philharmonic, and WQXR-NY radio broadcasts. Other appearances include the American Bach Society, San Francisco Bach Choir, and St. Bartholomew’s Chamber Orchestra. His research has been published in the International Trumpet Guild Journal and the Journal for the Arts in Society.

Rhonda Nus Tinnin is often called upon to interpret florid Baroque masterworks, but she is equally at home with the sustained lyricism of an Italian opera aria and the energetic exuberance of a Broadway show tune. Among her many appearances in New York Ms. Tinnin has performed at such well-known venues as Town Hall, Symphony Space, Javits Center, Manhattan Center, and the Kaufman Center's Merkin Concert Hall. Of her "Mimi" in Puccini's La Bohème, the Italian publication Corriere Aretino called her portrayal "very convincing ... interpreted with a rare naturalness seldom associated with an operatic performance."

Erin Bennett is the Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy at UNF. She has appeared throughout the U.S. and in the Czech Republic, Belgium, France, and Spain and has performed as a soloist with the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra and in collaboration with members of the Oregon Mozart Players. Engagements for 2009-2010 include solo and collaborative concerts in Oregon, North Carolina, and Georgia. Dr. Bennett received degrees in piano performance from Rice University, the University of Florida, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Guest Speaker - Helen Morin, Violin and Peter Morin, Director of Music, St. Anastasia Catholic Church

Tonight's program will feature Philip Glass' First Violin Concerto.  The Morins will provide a brief survey of late 20th Century American composers, leading to a discussion of Philip Glass and the concerto within his works.  The lecture will include some basic music analysis and discussion with examples from the piece.  They will then perform the concerto and respond to any questions near the conclusion of the event.  The audience will enjoy a little history, a little theory, and a great performance.

Violinist Helen Morin holds degrees from Boston University and Trinity College of Music, London. Ms. Morin has performed in Europe with the Britten Peers Orchestra, the Fine Arts Sinfonia of London, and as Concertmaster of the Trinity Sinfonia. She has been a guest artist at the Dartington International Music Festival, Brevard Music Festival, and toured Europe with the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra and is a recipient of the Cavatina Trust Award as well as the Licentiate Trinity College London Teaching Diploma. While in Massachusetts spent five seasons as a first violinist for the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra. Since moving to St. Augustine in September 2010, Helen has substituted on several occasions for the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, freelanced with local chamber orchestras in St. Augustine and the Jacksonville area. She has a private violin and piano studio and currently teaches piano at the St. John’s County Center for the Arts at St. Augustine High School. Ms. Morin performs on a 1750 Georg Klotz violin.

Peter Morin serves as Director of Music and Organist at St. Anastasia Catholic Church, St. Augustine. Since his arrival Mr. Morin has developed the foundation for a strong choral and music program on Anastasia Island with its principal focus around the daily liturgy of the Church. Over 100 singers and musicians are involved in the music making at the parish which includes a full adult choir, contemporary youth choir, children’s chorus, a chamber choir, a classic acoustic ensemble with singers, and singers coming together to prepare regularly monthly music sing-a-longs at local nursing homes. The success of three experimental concerts early in 2011 has led to the formation of a monthly concert series at St. Anastasia’s. Mr. Morin holds degrees from Emory University and Syracuse University. He was awarded the Arthur Poister Prize, Emory University Research Grant, and a Mark and Pearle Clements Internship Award which allowed him his first four month summer of observation and performance based at Worcester Cathedral, U.K.. While in England he assisted in BBC recordings, a choir tour of Ireland and performances within the Three Choirs Festival. Most recently, Mr. Morin has performed at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine, Saint Anastasia Church, and Emory University.