The BGSU Collegiate Chorale will be going on tour throughout Ohio, Michigan and Illinois! Check out their Facebook page for more details about the individual events and tour stops.
February 20: St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, 871 E Boundary St, Perrysburg, OH
7:30 p.m.
February 21: Central Mennonite Church, 21703 Ohio State Route 2, Archbold, OH
7:30 p.m.
February 22: Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake St, Oak Park, IL
7:30 p.m.
February 24: Sweetest Heart of Mary Church, 4440 Russell St, Detroit, MI
3 p.m.
Free for students, faculty/staff and older adults. Each day includes social opportunities, an educational session, an activity session and free lunch. Each month, a different door prize and incentive is offered, including a water bottle, journal, resistance bands, and T-shirts.
Thursdays at the BGSU Perry Field House | 11:30 AM - 1 PM
February 21: Line Dancing
March 28: Yoga
April 18: Strength and Balance
May 9: Dance Fitness
Questions/RSVP:
Karyn Smith, Health Educator: karync@bgsu.edu | 419.372.9309
Do’s and Don’ts and Dinner: How to Present Your Best Self at an Academic Interview will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union. This event is for third- and fourth-year doctoral students only who are about to enter into the academic job market.
Featured panelists will present information such as how a candidate should conduct themselves during the academic job interview process particularly during a meal whether it is breakfast, lunch or dinner, what to expect during an academic job interview, what not to do during an interview, etc.
Register by Feb. 5 at:
https://www.bgsu.edu/graduate/campus-resources/MIGSS/migssdinner.html
The Inclusive Leadership Certificate (ILC), offered by the Center for Leadership and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, is a foundational program that will help you develop the attitudes, knowledge, and skills for inclusive leadership in an increasingly diverse world. Employers are looking for leaders who value & develop inclusive leadership skills. This is a perfect way to incorporate that competency into your leadership toolkit, meet people who share your interests, and contribute to making BGSU a more inclusive community. These sessions are foundational and aimed at providing introductory context to the multiple aspects of being an inclusive leader. All voices, experiences, and perspectives are appreciated and welcome in our conversations.
Session 3 - "Intercultural Communication" focuses on helping participants understand the need to reflect on their own culture and how it impacts their view on others, helps participants recognize cultural differences, and shows how those differences effect communication.
Inspired by the literary concept of the unreliable narrator and the medieval bestiary, which gave every living thing a spiritual purpose, The Unreliable Bestiary is an ark of stories about animals, our relationships with them, and the worlds they inhabit. Deke Weaver’s life-long project is presenting a performance for every letter of the alphabet – each letter representing a threatened animal or habitat. Beyond the live performances the project includes a book and digital-film/DVD documenting each performance, and solo versions of each performance. The slow accumulation of books and digital-films/DVDs will form an encyclopedic set, transforming the work, giving longer life and physical form to this ephemeral practice.
Take a study break with Hillel and help out a good cause at the same time! We'll be making fleece blankets for children and adults in need in our community. United Way in Wood County will help us distribute the blankets to Project Connect Wood County as well as the Wood County Health Department.
Guest artists William Street and Daniel Kientzy, saxophones, will present a recital in Bryan Hall with pianist Viktoria Reiswich-Dapp. This event is free and open to the public.
Program
Nishi Asakusa................................François Rossé
Tour de France................................Alfred Joel Fisher
Nature morte ave noir...............Piotr Grella-Mozejko
Torus..........................................................Marcos Balter
Nekrotzar's Answer.......................Andriy Talpash
Bios
Viktoria REISWICH-DAPP, pianist
Viktoria was born in Uzbekistan and grew up in Germany. Viktoria has been lauded for her “high-profile skills”(Frankfurter Neue Presse) and her “enormous pianistic culture and exuberant expressivity” (Badische Neueste Nachrichten). She honed her skills at the University of Music in Karlsruhe, the University of Music Frankfurt/Main, and the University of Alberta from where she holds a Doctor of Music degree in piano performance. Her artistry across a wide range of genres and styles earned her recognition for her performances around the world and makes her a regular guest at New Music festivals and international conferences. Besides winning numerous national and international prizes and scholarships, Viktoria is the first and only performer who has won the highest Canadian graduate scholarship, the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Viktoria has recorded several CDs in Germany, Canada, and Poland, and has extensive teaching and vocal coaching experience in three languages. She teaches piano, vocal and instrumental chamber music, and piano literature at the University of Alberta.
Daniel KIENTZY, saxophonist and lecturer
Daniel Kientzy was born in Périgueux in 1951. A professional musician before the age of 16, he played the bass guitar in dance and pop bands. Later, by chance, and almost beyond the age limit, he came into contact with classical music, entering the saxophone class of the Limoges Conservatory thanks to M. René Decouais who admitted him in the middle of the academic year. While attending the Paris Conservatory, he also studied the double bass at the Versailles Conservatory. A year or two later he was playing this instrument with a provincial opera company. He later studied early music and period instruments: the viola da gamba, the crumhorns, the cornamuses and recorders, forming the ensemble Musica Ficta, the repertory of which covered the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods. Various circumstances led him to study acoustics, electro-acoustics, recording techniques and signal processing. This also led him to pursue a doctoral degree in aesthetics, sciences and art technology. His training in contemporary music took place with composers themselves. When the necessity arose, in 1979/80, of devoting himself entirely to contemporary music, he chose the family of saxophones as his sole instrument group. His identification with the avant-garde and the absence of a repertory very soon led him to become the ‘inventor’ of what we now know as the modern saxophone. He undertook unprecedented research into the seven members of the saxophone family. Thanks to impeccable logic, a rare eye for detail and remarkable intuition, he succeeded in establishing a fundamental renewal of the potential of these aerophones, a renewal that concerns both tone-colour and expression. The fruits of his research are to be found in several works, most notably the monumental and revolutionary Saxologie, a book unique in the history of music.
William STREET, saxophonist and lecturer
William Street has performed and lectured in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Federation of Russia, France, Great Britain, Japan, Italy, Mexico, Spain, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine and the USA. He tours with pianists Roger Admiral, Ian Chen and Viktoria Reiswich-Dapp and the Quatuor International de Saxophones emphasizing the importance of both solo and chamber music making. Recent chamber performances took place in Alberta (Edmonton, Red Deer, Camrose, Calgary, Lethbridge), as well as in the US mid-west in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Champaign, Illinois, California, Taiwan, Thailand, Croatia and China, Bordeaux and Strasbourg, France. He is Past President of the North American Saxophone Alliance and the International Committee of the World Saxophone Congress. Currently he serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Alberta.
