Our first Music Under the Dome concert pf the 2021-22 season, The Solo Vision, features both amazing visual designs and incredible performers who will present a series of beautiful solo works for marimba, guitar, piano, French horn, and viola. Our first two works by Eric Sammut, Spirals 1&2, feature athletic virtuosity on the marimba as played by Dominican percussionist, Angel Valenzuela. Angel’s marimba colleague, Costa Rican Juan Retana, will next perform Prokofiev’s colorful Dance of the Knights. After this, prize-winning guitarist and conductor Ying Xu will perform Tarrega’s hauntingly beautiful Recuerdos de la Alhambra, followed by Schwob pianist Walter Cornwell performing Poulenc’s playful Trois Pieces. The next two works feature Schwob faculty members, starting with Dr. Anne-Marie Cherry, who will present Visions for Horn and Mixed Media, a wildly inventive piece by James Naigus. Her wonderful viola colleague, Dr. Katrin Meidell will finish this first concert with a fiendishly challenging piece by Shawn Renzoh Head entitled Burning Roots No. 2.  The visual designs will be produced by artist and Omnisphere Theater director Lance Tankersley, who will create imaginative full-dome effects to accompany these fantasitc solo works!

Reception at 5pm with wine and cheese, and 45 minute concert at 5:37pm!

Our second Music Under the Dome concert, entitled Synesthesia on the Dome features a number of prize-winning performers. The concert will begin with fabulous clarinetist Daniel Garcia performing Eric Mandat’s Sub(t)rains O’ Strata’sfears, a jazzy work with contemporary effects that require dazzling technique. Next is a series of pieces performed by Lizst Competition Winner Alexey Trushechkin including three etudes by Alexander Scriabin, two preludes by Sergiu Rachmaninov, and L’isle Joyeuse by Claude Debussy. Each work has a universe of color that Alexey will bring powerfully out of our amazing Yamaha Disklavier piano. The program will conclude with James Beckel’s Clouds of the Cosmos, played by our internationally acclaimed Schwob Trombone Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Bradley Palmer. Visual designs for this concert will be created by Jessica Mongeon, Assistant Professor of Art and Foundations Coordinator at Arkansas Tech University.

Reception at 5pm with wine and cheese, and 45 minute concert at 5:37pm!

This Wintertime concert, Four Leaf Clovers, features a number of incredible artists and performers, starting with the highly acclaimed Irish band Wolf and Clover, headed by Dr. Matthew McCabe. They will perform a number of Irish arrangements including The Congress, The Walton Jig, and Phrygian Whistle that will be delivered with a variety of instruments and singing, all with a nod to the rich musical history of Ireland. Next, Schwob pianist Longfei Li will perform Mendelssohn’s stunningly wonderful Variations, op. 54. This works uses the incredible colors our Yamaha Disklavier offers to its fullest. The program will conclude with our  Schwob Clarinet Quartet, who will offer the American premiere of Victoriano Valencia’s Negro y Oscuro, and wildy colorful and rhythmic piece. Visual designs will be done by Mercer Professor of Art and Chair of their Art Deparment, Craig Coleman, a gifted artist with a history of creating unique visual designs.

Reception at 5pm with wine and cheese, and 45 minute concert at 5:37pm!