Crane Professors Perform on Clarinet and Piano in Faculty Recital Series

Julianne Kirk-Doyle & Kathryn Sherman Present Concert on Feb. 7

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Dr. Kathryn Sherman (left) and Dr. Julianne Kirk-Doyle (right) will be performing together in a recital to celebrate the 125th anniversary of The Crane School of Music on Feb. 7.

POTSDAM, NY (01/30/2012)(readMedia)-- Two talented professors at SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music will perform an upcoming concert together with a program that starts and ends with dance-inspired works.

Featuring Dr. Julianne Kirk-Doyle on clarinet and Dr. Kathryn Sherman on piano, the next installment of the Faculty Recital Series will be offered on Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater.

Dr. Kirk-Doyle and Dr. Sherman will perform four pieces that evening. The works include an arrangement of a suite from the ballet "Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64" by Sergei Prokofieff, the "Sonata for Clarinet and Piano" by Francis Poulenc, the 1980 work "Sequenza IXa per Clarinetto Solo" by Luciano Berio, and "Dante Dances (Dante's Inferno)" by Dan Welcher.

"I look at the recital as being framed by 'dance' music. It is also the 50th anniversary of Poulenc's Sonata," Kirk-Doyle said. "The Berio Sequenza IXa is not done very often, but is a major warhorse in the clarinet unaccompanied repertoire. Berio wrote sequenzas for most all of the instruments, and they are incredibly difficult, stretching the player to their absolute limit."

This concert is free, and the public is invited to attend.

About the performers:

Julianne Kirk-Doyle is an assistant professor of clarinet at The Crane School of Music and the director of the Crane Youth Music Camp. She coordinates the acclaimed Potsdam Clarinet Summit, which was formerly known as the Single Reed Summit. She is an active soloist and chamber musician and a member of both the Aria Reed Trio and the Eastman Triana. Both ensembles have performed on WXXI Rochester's Live at Hochstein radio broadcast. Kirk-Doyle is also the co-director of the Crane Clarinet Choir and the Crane clarinet ensembles and has given masterclasses and clinics for the Southeast Asian Youth Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, the Aria Summer Music Academy, the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and other colleges and universities nationally. Kirk-Doyle has performed with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Amici Orchestra, the Orchestra of Northern New York, Northern Symphonic Winds, Light Opera Oklahoma, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Philharmonia and Opera, Tulsa Philharmonic and Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Kirk-Doyle, a DANSR/Vandoren Performing Artist, has also performed and presented at numerous conferences, including the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, International Clarinet Association Clarinetfest, International Double Reed Society Conference, New York State School Music Association Conference and many more. She holds the Doctorate of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Oklahoma.

Kathryn Sherman is an assistant professor of piano pedagogy, director of the undergraduate and graduate programs in piano pedagogy and teaches keyboard skills courses at SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music. A nationally certified teacher of music through the Music Teachers National Association, she also serves as co-director of the biennial Crane Piano Pedagogy Conference. She frequently adjudicates for local festivals and auditions, and her teacher workshops have been presented throughout the United States. In the summer months, Sherman has taught pre-college students at the Midwestern Music Camp and Midwestern Piano Academy in Kansas, the Norman Piano Day Camp in Oklahoma, and for the Crane Youth Music Camp. Sherman previously served on the faculty of Oklahoma City University. In addition to teaching, she performs with Crane colleagues and guest artists. She has performed at the International Double Reed Society Conference, the Crane Clarinet Summit and with the Orchestra of Northern New York. While earning a Doctorate in Musical Arts in piano performance with an emphasis in piano pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma, she was awarded a prestigious campus-wide graduate teaching award through the Office of the Provost. She also holds a master's from the University of Kansas and a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

To find out more about the other events on the busy Crane School of Music concert calendar, visit www.potsdam.edu/crane.

Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music has a long legacy of excellence in music education and performance. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. The Crane School of Music is the State University of New York's only All-Steinway institution, and is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2011-12.

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