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Dr. Suzanne Tirk – professor of clarinet, Oklahoma University Recital and masterclass
Tue, 01/31/2012 - 11:30am - 3:00pm
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Dr. Suzanne Tirk – professor of clarinet from Oklahoma University
11:30 am – performance in Rm. 139
1:00 pm – masterclass in Rm. 126
No charge for either event!
Dr. Suzanne Tirk joined the University of Oklahoma's School of Music faculty as Assistant Professor of Clarinet in the fall of 2011. Her duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate applied clarinet and performing with the woodwind-quintet-in-residence, Oklahoma Woodwind Quintet. A dynamic performer and teacher, Dr. Tirk has taught at several universities including Wichita State University, Bemidji State University, and Lawrence University, among others. Dr. Tirk holds a Bachelor of Music degree in clarinet performance from Lawrence University (WI), and a Master of Music degree and Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from Michigan State University.
Dr. Tirk has presented many performances and masterclasses throughout the United States and abroad. In January 2011 she performed as a concerto soloist in collaboration with clarinetist David Shifrin and the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, and in May 2011 performed a concerto with the Wichita State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble at their performance in Carnegie Hall. Dr. Tirk has performed at the International Clarinet Association Conferences, the Potsdam Clarinet Summit, and the Southern Mississippi University Clarinet Symposium, among others. In 2006, she was a guest soloist with the Astana Filharmonia and Karaganda Symphony Orchestra both of Kazakhstan.
A committed advocate of new music, Dr. Tirk has commissioned and premiered several works for clarinet. She has been invited to perform a recital at the 2011 International Clarinet Association Conference in Los Angeles, CA featuring a co-commissioned work, Bright Angel (2009) by Roshanne Etezady and a new trio for clarinet, viola, and piano, Scarlattiana (2010), by Walter Mays. In summer 2010, she and her husband, Dr. Richard Tirk, were invited to perform the world premier of a work they commissioned for clarinet and trumpet by Robert Levy at the 2010 International Trumpet Guild Conference in Sydney, Australia. They performed the U.S. premier at the 2010 International Clarinet Association Conference in Austin, TX.
Recital Program:
Suzanne Tirk, clarinet
Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, piano
Dr. Karen Bauman Schlabaugh is Professor of Music at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College, a Master of Music degree in piano performance from Ithaca College, and the Doctor of Musical Arts in piano from the University of Iowa. While at Ithaca, she spent a semester studying at the Royal College of Music in London, England, with the support of an Alumni Fellowship from Oberlin. Her teaching assignments have included piano, music theory and history courses, and piano pedagogy. She has been chair of the Music Department at Bethel College since the fall semester of 1998. Previous to her appointment at Bethel, Dr. Schlabaugh served on the faculties of Skidmore and Tabor colleges and has participated as a teacher and collaborative pianist in summer institutes in Michigan, Wisconsin and New York. She performs frequently as a soloist and collaborative musician with colleagues from Bethel and the Wichita area, and has appeared on two occasions as soloist with the Newton Mid-Kansas Symphony Orchestra, most recently in the Piano Concerto No. 1 in C by Beethoven. She has performed in many of the Harvey Festival summer concerts sponsored by the Newton Mid-Kansas Orchestra. Her CD of French Recital Favorites with Wichita clarinetist James Jones was released in June 2005 under the Centaur Records label. In addition, Dr. Schlabaugh regularly serves as an adjudicator and clinician at piano festivals and contests throughout Kansas and the region.
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