Alfred University student performers to showcase talents

Alfred University student performers to showcase talents 11/10/14

Alfred University (AU) students will perform at a recital on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 3pm in Susan Howell Hall. The recital will feature singers and instrumentalists from the studios of Laurel Buckwalter, Luanne Crosby, dance accompanist Peter O&Connor, adjunct of private music lessons Genie Meltzer, Daisey Wu of the Confucius Institute, and adjunct of private music lessons Amanda Robbins.

Buckwalter will provide piano accompaniment. This event is open to the public free of charge and refreshments will be provided after the recital.

The student recital will feature Vanessa Englerth and Lin Ju on the guzheng, a traditional Chinese instrument;

Guzheng Ensemble members Yulu Chen, Weiming Liu, Yanxi Liu, Xiao Luo, Charles Miller, and Zhehai Zhangl;

Tober Arnon, piano; Rosalyn Nardella, flute and piano; Hannah Paas, piano; Ian Obermann, piano; soprano Elaine Kalinowski; Abby Schmeichel, soprano; Nate Yard, Rachel Romack and Rebecca Montelli, piano; Kan Chit Lam, piano; and Maxwell Mustardo, bass guitar, playing alongside Peter O&Connor, piano.

Buckwalter is a music specialist in AU&s Performing Arts Division. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Houghton College and a M.S. degree from AU. She has been the AU carillonneur since 1994 and is a member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. She serves as AU&s piano accompanist and is the organist at the Union University Church, Alfred.

Luanne Crosby, professor of voice and chorus, holds bachelor&s and master&s degrees in music education from the State University of New York at Fredonia and a doctor of musical arts degree in vocal performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music/Case Western Reserve University. She has sung professionally with the Cleveland Opera, Aspen Opera Theater, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, and the Fredonia Chamber Players. She also directs the Alfred University Chorus and Chamber Singers.

Zhongbei (Daisey) Wu holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education from Hunan Normal University in Hohhot, and a Master of Arts degree in musicology from the Graduate School of the Chinese National Academy of Arts. She is currently deputy chair of the Guzheng Branch of the Hunan Musicians Association and has previously been a music teacher and associate professor of art at the Art Center of Hunan University of Commerce.