Guest Artist Alison Shaw to Perform a Solo Marimba Recital
October 26, 2005
Alison Shaw will present a solo marimba recital on Monday, November 7 at 8 p.m. in Esber Recital Hall, Music Building I on Penn State's University Park campus. She will perform works by Bach, contemporary American composers and compositions by Japanese marimbists. The recital will be free and open to the public.
Alison Shaw enjoys a celebrated reputation as a performing percussionist, master teacher and clinician. She has embraced chamber music, orchestral performance and solo artistry, and has distinguished herself as an award-winning soloist and interpreter of new music. She has performed and premiered solo and chamber music throughout the United States and Europe. An advocate of contemporary chamber music, she is executive Director and Co-Founder of Quorum Chamber Arts Collective, a mixed-instrumentation sextet devoted exclusively to commissioning, recording and performing new works. Shaw also tours extensively with the percussion/tuba duo, Balance, a collaboration that has produced several commissions for this unique combination in addition to transcriptions of popular and folk music. She has also served as principal percussionist with many American orchestras, and currently serves as principal timpanist with the Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra and tours and records as principal timpanist with the Brass Band of Battle Creek. Her recordings can be heard on the Equilibrium, Dorian, Albany, Mark, BBBC and FIM labels, and her debut solo CD, Prelude and Flight is in production and soon to be released.
Currently on the music faculty of The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, she has served on the music faculties of Michigan State University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Eastern New Mexico University, the Interlochen Center for the Arts and Musikverein und Festival in Estenfeld, Germany. She is active on the International Percussive Arts Society College Pedagogy Committee, and is an Associate Editor (keyboard) of Percussive Notes. In addition, she has served PAS as the New Mexico chapter vice-president, and Michigan chapter president.
Dr. Shaw earned her undergraduate degree from The University of Arizona, where she was awarded The College of Fine Arts Creative Achievement Award, and received her Masters and Doctoral degrees from The University of Michigan School of Music, where she was named The James Salmon-Charles Owen Memorial Percussion Scholar.
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Contact: Candace Bishop cjb289@psu.edu