Handmade/Homemade ExhibitionThe Mildred Zahradnicek GalleryFriday, September 26, 2014, 6:30 p.m.

Music Faculty in RecitalWheeler Concert HallFriday, September 26, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

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Casper College Departments of Music and Visual Arts

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The Casper College RedStone Recital and Gallery Series shall provide educational enrichment and cultural opportunities for the college and the greater community.

Linda Ryan“Breathing Freely from the Heart”

The Casper College Mildred Zahradnicek Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of altered books curated by artist Deborah M. Poe. The works are diverse in media and were created by artists across the country.

This show, titled “Handmade/Homemade,” was first hosted at Pace University as part of an annual altered book display. This year, the exhibition features the

work of two Casper artists, Linda L. Ryan and Caren Hegna, along with Megan Burns, Jody Gladding, Lee Gough, Janice Lee, Deborah Poe, Robbin Ami Silverberg, and Kate van Houten. The art works include handmade, homemade and letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions, and broadsides that will be in the gallery until October 23, 2014 in conjunction with the Equality State Book Festival and the RedStone Recital and Gallery Series.

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Mildred Zahradnicek GALLERY EXHIBITION

Handmade/HomemadeMegan BurnsJody GladdingLee GoughCaren HegnaJanice LeeDeborah PoeLinda RyanRobbin Ami SilverbergKate van Houten

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Wheeler Concert HallCasper CollegeSaturday, April 26, 20147:30 p.m.

Please silence all electronic devices

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Street Songs Charles Ives (1874-1954)In the Alley The Circus Band

Zach Vreeman, tenorPaula Flynn, piano

Two Medieval Danses Michael Amorosi (1947-2000)Delores Thornton, flute

Jane Ann Hamman, harp

On Chestnut Hill from Eternal Garden David Maslanka (b. 1943)Joshua Mietz, clarinet

Eric Unruh, piano

Peeping Tom (1987) Dan Senn (b. 1951) Ron Coulter, percussion

Menelaus from Four Last Songs Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)Nathan Baker, trombone

Paula Flynn, piano

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Meditation from Thaïs Jules Massenet (1842-1912)Jennifer Cowell-DePaolo, violin

Jane Ann Hamman, harp

De rêve from Proses Lyriques Claude Debussy (1862-1918)Alicia Roberts, soprano

Eric Unruh, piano

Suite No. 3 for Piano Left Hand (1926) Erwin Schuloff (1894-1942)I. PreludioII. AirIII. Zingara

Peter Ryan, piano

Five Hebrew Love Songs Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)TemunaKala KallaLarovEyze Shelleg!Rakut

Veronica Turner, sopranoJennifer Cowell-DePaolo, violin

Paula Flynn, piano

Prelude et Allegro Antonio Donato (1919-1990)Douglas Bull, trumpet

Paula Flynn, piano

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In the Alley and The Circus Band from Street SongsCharles Ives was an eccentric American composer of the early 20th century. Technically, he was an amateur musician, composing music on evenings and weekends during his free time from his career as an insurance salesman. Ives’ father was a bandmaster, and trained Charles’ ear to be accustomed to unusually dissonant sounds. For instance, he would play accompaniments to songs and have Charles sing the solo lines in a different key, or even have him practice microtonal melodies. As a result, Ives’ music can be described as quirky—it is replete with chord clusters, polytonality, bizarrely mixed meters, and even his choices of texts were at the very least odd. These two selections from “Street Songs” are early works, and more reserved, but his unique style is heard clearly in the unexpected closing chords of “In the Alley,” and the ‘extra notes’ that seem to be everywhere in “The Circus Band.”

Two Medieval DansesThe literature of the medieval period was hand-written and illuminated with complex designs and beautiful colors. “Two Medieval Danses,” written in 1976, reflects not only the harmony of the time, but the color or timbre of the illuminated manuscripts of the period. Amorosi utilizes the various colors and ranges of the flute and harp. Being a harpist himself, Amorosi utilizes harp timbre with harmonics, playing low on the strings and actually tapping on the soundboard. “Two Medieval Danses” reflect the music of the Middle Ages when harmony was based on intervals of perfect fourths and fifths creating an open sound. Rhythms of this early dance music were based on rhythmic modes rather than the stricter meters developed in later periods. The first danse is a slow, lyrical composition reflecting the music of the troubadours and trouveres of the medieval period. The second danse is a fast, syncopated piece with harmonies based on open fourths and fifths intervals in which the melody is passed back and forth between the flute and harp.

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On Chestnut Hill from Eternal GardenMissoula, Montana resident David Maslanka is well known for his works for wind band. Among his vast output, he has written nine symphonies and four woodwind quintets. His 2006 concerto for clarinet and wind ensemble, “Desert Roads,” was a large inspiration for “Eternal Garden” (2009). Many of Maslanka’s works reflect his deep connection with the earth. “Eternal Garden,” which references a cemetery, is a four-movement work with movements titled: “Lamentation,” “On Chestnut Hill,” “Elegy: August 6, 1945,” and “Eternal Garden.” The second movement began as a rescoring of Maslanka’s work for clarinet, vibraphone, and choir—“A Litany for Courage and the Seasons” (1988). The text by Richard Beale follows:

On Chestnut Hill I lean against the wind.I walk among the grass and the Solomon’s SealAnd watch the yellow moon begin its rise.I lie where the deer have lain, and ask the skiesImpossible questions: is this phantom realWho made both night and day?Is it wise to wish the night away?

Menelaus from Four Last SongsVaughan Williams wrote four songs between the years 1954 and 1958, intended for one or two song cycles. After his death, his widow published the songs into the cycle “Four Last Songs.” All four songs, inspired by Homer’s “Odyssey,” are musical settings of poems, written by his wife, Ursula. “Menelaus” refers to the king of Sparta who, after his wife Helen was abducted by Paris of Troy, launched the Trojan War with his brother Agamemnon to return his wife to Sparta. After the Trojan War, Odysseus’s son Telemachus visited Menelaus to obtain news of his missing father; Menelaus’s reply to Telemachus describing the things Odysseus must do to return home inspired the resulting poem and song. The musical setting evokes images of the sea (a favorite musical image for Vaughan Williams) and the playing of an ancient lyre. The text is as follows:

You will come home, Not to the home you knewThat your thought remembers,Going from rose to rose along the terracesAnd staying to gaze at the vines and reeds and irisBeside the lake in the morning haze.Forgetting the place you are inWhere the cold seawinds goCrying like gulls on the beachWhere the horned sea poppies grow.Homesick wanderer,You will come homeTo a home more ancient,Waiting for your return.Sea frets the steps that lie green under wavesAnd swallows nest below lintel

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and eaves:There lamps are kindled for you,They will burn ‘til you come,However late you come,‘Til the west wind’s sheltering wingFolds ‘round your sail and brings you to land.Stretch out your hand,Murmuring, lapping seaAnd the lamps and the welcome waitTo draw you home to rest.You shall come homeAnd love shall fold you in joyAnd lay your heart on her breast.

Meditation from Thaïs Massenet’s opera, “Thaïs,” premiered in Paris, France in 1894. The opera libretto by Louis Gallet (1835-1898) comes from a novel of the same name by Nobel Prize winning author, Anatole France (1844-1924). The story tells of Thaïs, a beautiful courtesan who trades her libertine, pagan life to convert to Christianity and lead the life of an aesthetic hermit in the desert. The “Meditation” occurs between scenes in act two to set the mood for Thaïs’ conversion to Christianity. The “Meditation” is considered one of the most popular pieces for violin. This particular version for violin and harp was transcribed from the original score by harpist/composer, Carlos Salzedo (1885-1961).

De Rêve from Proses Lyriques“De Rȇve” (Dreams) is the first song of four in the cycle entitled “Proses Lyriques,” for which Debussy authored the poems as well as composed the music. The listener will detect a Wagnerian influence in the melodic material, a sign of Wagner’s popularity in Paris during the 1890s. The translation follows:

The night is as sweet as a woman,and the old trees dream under the golden moon.They didn’t know how to call to the one who just passed,her head crowned with pearls,now and forever distraught.All have passed now,the frail, the foolish,sowing their laughter in the sparse grass,breezes brushingthe flowering hips’ charming caress.Alas! Only a white shiver remains of all this.The old trees weep their gilded leavesunder the golden moon.No more will anyone dedicate to themproud golden helms.Now and forever tarnished,the knights are deadon the Grail quest.The night is sweet as a woman.Hands seem to stroke the souls,such foolish, frail hands,in the days when swords sang for them!Strange sighs rise under the trees.My soul they are from an old dream that holds you.

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Suite No. 3 for Piano Left HandErwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) was a Czech composer and pianist whose life was one of many prematurely cut short by the Holocaust. In his youth, he studied with Claude Debussy and Max Reger, among others. Like many of his generation, he was greatly influenced by the American jazz movement, and also pushed musical boundaries with his use of avant-garde composition techniques. Despite serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, Schulhoff’s career ran into trouble in the 1930’s when the Nazi regime blacklisted his works due to his Jewish descent and Soviet sympathies. In 1941 he was sent to the Wülzburg concentration camp near Weißenburg, Bavaria, where he died in 1942 from tuberculosis. Schulhoff’s “Suite No. 3 for Piano Left Hand” (1926) was composed for pianist Otakar Hollmann (1894-1967), who sustained a bullet wound through his right hand in World War I. The five-movement suite demonstrates a number of different styles, ranging from the impressionistic “Preludio” to the Bartók-esque “Zingara.” Each new movement contrasts greatly with the last, and Schulhoff manages a wide range of colors and techniques through the use of only one hand.

Five Hebrew Love SongsThe songs were written in 1996 by Eric Whitacre with poetry by his wife Hila Plitmann, and were performed by the couple and violinist Friedemann Eichhorn in Germany.

“Temuna” (A Picture)A picture is engraved in my heart;Moving between light and darkness:A sort of silence envelopes your body,And your hair falls upon your face just so.

“Kala Kalla” (Light Bride)Light brideShe is all mine,And lightlyShe will kiss me!

“Larov” (Mostly)“Mostly,” said the roof to the sky,“the distance between you and I is endlessness;But a while ago two came up here,And only one centimeter was left between us.”

“Eyze Shelleg!” (What Snow!)What snow!Like little dreamsFalling from the sky.

“Rakut” (Tenderness)He was full of tenderness;She was very hard.And as much as she tried to stay thus,Simply, and with no good reason,He took her into himself,And set her downIn the softest, softest place.

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Nathan Baker is the music theory coordinator at Casper College, where he teaches music theory, aural skills, music technology, and composition. In addition to his academic interests, Baker is an active trombonist with the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, the Casper Municipal Band, and the Dem Bones trombone quartet. He has performed with the Blues Brothers, the percussion quintet Sympatico, the Casper Brass and Storm Door Company, and in various musical theatre productions at Utah State University, the University of Oregon, and the Krampert Theatre. Originally from Missoula, Montana, Baker received the B.M. in music education and composition from Utah State University, where he studied trombone with Todd Fallis. He earned the M.A. in music theory from the University of Oregon, where he studied trombone with Jeff Williams. He has completed the coursework for the Ph.D. in music theory and music history at the University of Oregon.

Douglas Bull is director of bands and instructor of brass at Casper College, where he also serves as the chair of the music department. Bull has studied with Dominic DiGangi, Ton Tison, Raymond Moore, and Emerson Head. Bull was a soloist and lead trumpet for the U.S. Army Touring Show Band of the United States Army in Europe. Upon returning from Europe, he continued to study with Moore, completing a double major in music education and trumpet performance from Towson University. Thereafter, he was selected to fill the utility trumpet chair with the Baltimore Symphony. Bull then pursued a career in commercial music in the Baltimore area, performing, recording, or conducting for Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra,

Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, as well as top artists from other genres. He has recorded original Broadway cast albums, film soundtracks, national commercials, and many other albums. For his work as a conductor in musical theatre, he won multiple PBS Critic’s Choice Awards for Best Musical Direction and Show of the Year. He is an endorsing artist for Phaeton Trumpets.

Megan Burns is the publisher at Trembling Pillow Press (tremblingpillowpress.com) and edits the poetry magazine, Solid Quarter (solidquarter.blogspot.com). She has been most recently published in Jacket Magazine, Callaloo, New Laurel Review, Trickhouse, and the Big Bridge New Orleans Anthology. Her poetry and prose reviews have been published in Tarpaulin Sky, Gently Read Lit, Big Bridge, and Rain Taxi. She has two books “Memorial + Sight Lines” (2008) and “Sound and Basin” (2013) published by Lavender Ink. She has two recent chapbooks: “irrational knowledge” (Fell Swoop press, 2012) and “a city/ bottle boned” (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Her chapbook “Dollbaby” was just released from Horseless Press.

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Ron Coulter is instructor of percussion at Casper College. He has performed internationally with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Four Aces, New Arts Jazztet, L2Ork, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Tatsuya Nakatani, Michael Zerang, Sean Jones, Al Martino, Sandy Duncan, Improvisation Unit, Bolokada Condé, Youngstown Percussion Collective, Paducah Symphony, Music from China, Tone Road Ramblers, and many others. He is co-founder of the Percussion Art Ensemble, REDVIXA, duende entendre, Marble Hammer, and curated the Southern Illinois Improvisation Series. Additional interests include noise, intermedia, interdisciplinary collaboration, and organizing Fluxus concerts. As a composer, Coulter has composed more than 240 works for various media.

Jennifer Cowell-DePaolo is a Casper native who joined the faculty at Casper College in 2001. Cowell-DePaolo directs the Casper College Chamber Orchestra and teaches studio violin, music education, and class piano. She serves as the music accreditation coordinator for the department. Cowell has studied with Joseph Genualdi, Kathryn Lucktenberg, Fritz Gearhart, Lucie Robert, and acclaimed baroque specialist, Japp Schröder. In the orchestral field, she has performed with various orchestras including the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, the Cheyenne Symphony, the Helena (Montana) Symphony, and the Black Hills Symphony. She often performs in musical theatre productions at the Krampert Theatre. Cowell-DePaolo has been an active chamber musician, frequently performing with the Equinox Trio. In 2009-11, she served as the

conductor of the Casper Youth Orchestra. Cowell-DePaolo is an active member of the American String Teachers Association and served as president in 2007-2009. She performed in Carnegie Hall in 2012 with the Casper Children’s Chorale, premiering a work by acclaimed choral composer, Lee Kesselman. Cowell-DePaolo holds the B.M. degree in violin performance from DePaul University (Chicago), and the M.M. in violin performance with an emphasis in string pedagogy from the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon).

Paula Flynn has served as staff accompanist for the Casper College Music Department since 2004. She completed the A.F.A. in music education with an emphasis in piano from Casper College in 2006. Flynn has toured six European countries as pianist with the Wyoming Music Ambassadors, and is the collaborative pianist for the Casper Children’s Chorale, performing and touring with the choir, including a Carnegie Hall performance in New York. She also serves as piano accompanist for the Converse County School District No. 2. Currently, she is pursuing the B.A. in music with Valley City State University (North Dakota). She maintains a private piano studio at her residence in Glenrock, Wyoming, and is a member of the Wyoming Music Teachers Association.

Jody Gladding lives in Vermont, translates French, and teaches in the M.F.A. program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her newest book of poems, “Translations from Bark Beetle,” is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. She has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Stegner Fellow, a Yale Younger Poet, and the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. Her work also includes site-specific installations that explore the interface of language and the environment.

Lee Gough is a poet and multi-disciplinary visual artist working in printmaking, drawing, animation and most recently, letterpress. She is the author of “Mary and Shelley’s Fair Copy Book and Future Occupations.” Her prints and drawings are in many individual and public collections, including at the University of Hawaii, Hilo and Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België. Other visual work has also been shown in Peru, India, and Australia as well as many places in the United States. In 2004, she was a Puffin Foundation grantee for her linocut portfolio series, “The War Went Well.”

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Jody Gladding“Stitch”Photo by Emma Norman

Lee Gough(Little Red Leaves)

“Future Occupations”

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Jane Ann Hamman is an accomplished musician and music educator. Her professional career began as principal harpist with the Casper Symphony, Casper, Wyoming. She performed with the Wyoming Children’s Chorale, Casper College Theater, and various Casper ensembles. Upon moving to Texas, she became the restaurant harpist at the famous Driskill Hotel and Ricco’s in Austin, Texas. While in Austin, she performed for Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, Sen. John Tower, and humorist and writer, John Henry Faulk. She taught music in the public schools for 27 years in Tomball, Texas. She balanced her career as a music educator in the public schools and as a freelance harpist. She received the Tomball Independent School District Outstanding Teacher Award in 1998. In 2012, she moved back to Casper, and teaches harp at Casper College. She has performed classical works with the Montgomery County Chorus, the Masterworks Chorale, Pasadena Community Chorus, Symphony North, and the Sam Houston State University Orchestra and Chorale. She was featured

with the Creighton Theater and Center Stage Theater in “The Fantasticks.” In 2000, she premiered “Te Deum” a work for harp, mixed choir, and piano by Eric Unruh. She toured Eastern Europe and China with the Sam Houston State University Orchestra. In 2009, she was a guest artist with the Sam Houston State University Wind Ensemble at the Texas Music Educators Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas. She performed frequently at The Brownstone, Cafe Chino, La Tour D’Argent, The Mucky Duck, the St. Regis Hotel, and other Houston area restaurants. Hamman is principal harpist for the Powder River Symphony Orchestra for the 2014-15 season. She holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Colorado Women’s College and a B.M., summa cum laude, from The University of Texas at Austin. She studied harp with Helen Hope of the Denver Symphony, Gayle Barrington of UT Austin, Joan Eidman of the Houston Ballet and Paula Page of the Houston Symphony. In addition, she studied with Alice Chalifoux, Suzann Young Davids, and Donald Hilsberg.

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Caren Hegna’s attitudes and approach to living and creating has been influenced by growing up as a Wyoming native. She is an explorer, a dabbler, and has come to see herself as a jack-of-all-trades in the realms of art, work, and thought. Drawn to the obscure, she finds herself collecting odd and disparate elements, skills and ideas that tend to sift themselves into whatever she does through a sort of accidental alchemy. For the last 12 years Hegna has occupied herself as an artist and an independent contractor in construction, woodworking, and landscape design. She lives along the Oregon Trail near Casper, Wyoming. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across Wyoming, the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, and can be seen in private collections.

Janice Lee is the author of “KEROTAKIS” (Dog Horn Press, 2010), “Daughter” (Jaded Ibis, 2011), and “Damnation” (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), a book-length meditation on the films of Béla Tarr, as well as several chapbooks: “Red Trees, Fried Chicken Dinner,” “The Other Worlds,” and “The Transparent As Witness” (a collaboration with Will Alexander). She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is co-editor of [out of nothing], reviews editor at HTMLGIANT, editor of the new #RECURRENT Novel Series for Jaded Ibis Press, and founder/CEO of POTG Design. She currently teaches at CalArts and can be found online at http://janicel.com.

Joshua R. Mietz is currently the instructor of woodwinds, Jazz Ensemble 1, and concurrently serves as the executive director of the Kinser Jazz Festival at Casper College. Prior to arriving at Casper College, Mietz served as the instructor of clarinet at Fort Lewis and San Juan Colleges, the instructor of saxophone at San Juan College, as well as the director of choirs at the First United Methodist Church in Durango, Colorado (2011-2014). He also coached and arranged music for a clarinet choir comprised of Fort Lewis College students and area clarinetists. His arrangements vary from rock/pop, church hymns for weekly worship, and reorchestrations of large-scale works. The clarinet choir from Fort Lewis College performed Mietz’s arrangement of “Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 1” at the 2014 International Clarinet Association’s annual ClarinetFest ® in Baton Rouge, Louisiana this past summer. In his spare time, Mietz enjoys ultra-marathon running, vegan cooking, mountaineering, fly-fishing,

Caren Hegna“Passage”

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and is a member of Lancaster 54 AF & AM. He has finished the Bighorn 100, Hardrock 100, the Leadville Trail 100, and qualified for the Boston Marathon six times. At the time of this writing, he has run to the summit of nine of the 54 Colorado 14-ers. He would also like to give a recital on a summit above 14,000’ and is looking for collaborators up to the challenge.

Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections: “the last will be stone, too” (2013), “Elements” (2010), and “Our Parenthetical Ontology” (2008). Her visual work––including video and handmade book objects––has appeared with Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here (New York City) and ONN/OF “a light festival” (Seattle). Poe is an assistant professor of English at Pace University and founder and curator of the annual “Handmade/Homemade Exhibit.”

Alicia Danielle Roberts, a Casper native, received a B.M. in vocal performance from the University of Wyoming and a M.M. in vocal performance from the University of Denver, Lamont School of Music. Previous performances include the Casper Chamber Music Society, Telly in Casper College’s production of “Godspell,” Casper’s ARTCORE Music and Poetry soloist, soprano soloist for Beethoven’s “Mass in C” at Park Hill United Methodist Church in Denver, alto soloist for Haydn’s “Harmonie Mass” with the Lamont Symphony Orchestra, and several performances as a soloist with the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra. Roberts has participated in summer programs throughout Europe and

Italy including Oberlin in Italy’s Summer Program. She was the recipient of the University of Wyoming’s Arts & Sciences Summer Research Grant, which funded her trip to Italy. Roberts has also had the unique opportunity to participate in master classes in Brasilia, Brazil. Roberts is currently teaching at Casper College and maintains a private voice studio. She works as a human resources specialist at Uranerz Energy Corporation, and enjoys performing locally in Casper.

Linda Ryan teaches sculpture, 3-D, and metals at Casper College, and has studied art at the Internationale Sommerakademie für bildende Kunst in Salzburg, Austria, and participated in the Institute for Public Art and Design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Ryan has been active in arts advocacy, co-chairing the Arts 500 Advocacy group in Wyoming for three years and serving two terms on the board of trustees for the Nicolaysen Art Museum. She is a recipient of the Tom West Award from the Nicolaysen Art Museum.

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Peter Ryan is instructor of piano at Casper College. He has worked with faculty from Carnegie Mellon University and the Eastman School of Music, including Rebecca Penneys. Accepted to the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2001, he continued his studies with Elizabeth Pridonoff. In 2004, Ryan left school to join the United States Marine Corps, where he attained the rank of sergeant as an infantry mortarman. After his honorable discharge from active duty in 2008, Ryan resumed his piano career at the University of Florida with Kevin Sharpe and received the B.M. He performs both in the United States and internationally. He has appeared many times at the Mirabell Palace in Salzburg, Austria, and participated in the Prague International Piano Institute in the Czech Republic. He has performed in multiple masterclasses, working with artists such as Leon Fleisher and Jennifer Hayghe. He holds the M.M. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is currently pursuing the D.M.A. in piano performance with Doris Pridonoff Lehnert.

Robbin Ami Silverberg is founding director of Dobbin Mill, a hand-papermaking studio, and Dobbin Books, a collaborative artist book studio. Her artwork is divided between artist books and installations. The work conceptually focuses on word cognition and interlinearity, with an emphasis on process and paper as activated substrate. Silverberg has exhibited and taught extensively in the US, Canada, South Africa, South Korea, Mexico, and Europe. She is an associate professor at Pratt Institute.

Robbin Ami Silverberg“Staff 6”

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Delores Thornton attended the University of Arizona, where she received a B.M. degree in flute performance, with a double major in mathematics. She went on to receive her secondary education degree in math. While she was in Tucson, Arizona she performed with the Tucson Opera Company and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Since 1976, she has been a member of the Wyoming Symphony (then the Casper Civic Symphony), serving both as 2nd flute and principal flute, the position she currently holds. She has twice soloed with the Wyoming Symphony, and has performed for the Casper Chamber Music Society, ARTCORE, as well as several regional churches. Thornton has been an adjunct flute instructor for Casper College since the mid 1980s, and has played in the Casper Municipal Band since 1977.

Veronica (Roni) Turner, originally from northern Montana, earned the B.M. in vocal performance at the University of Denver and the M.M. at the University of Montana. She is currently completing the D.M.A. in vocal performance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A recent transplant to Casper, Turner taught at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado as the visiting instructor of voice and music theory. During her time in Durango, she also served as the director of choirs at the First United Methodist Church with her husband, Joshua Mietz, who is also a Casper College instructor. Prior to her time in Colorado, she served as an adjunct voice instructor at Concordia College in Seward, Nebraska, and staff accompanist at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska.

Eric Unruh is founder of the RedStone Recital and Gallery Series, and serves as dean of the School of Fine Arts and Humanities at Casper College, where he has taught piano, led the music department, and the division of fine arts for the past 25 years. As pianist, he has collaborated with soloists, chamber musicians, choral organizations, and symphony orchestras. In addition to accompanying for Karen Clift’s Voice Studio, he has performed with Monica and Chad Reagan, Tenors Unlimited, the Equinox Trio, Darren Lougee, and many others. He served as musical director for eight years for the Krampert Theatre musical productions at Casper College. As piano soloist, he has performed with the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, the Powder River Symphony, and the Orquestra Filharmônia de Goiás, Brazil. Unruh holds the D.M. and M.M. degrees in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University, and the B.A. in piano performance from Bethany College, Kansas.

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Kate van Houten is an American artist living in Paris. After studying sculpture in Italy she came through Paris intending to return to New York. She sought out S.W. Hayter, painter and printmaker at the Atelier 17. Here was a serious workplace and a new approach where she was introduced to printmaking. The first one-of-a-kind books documented her paintings in small cloth reproductions under a canvas cover. Working with the multiple, as she had done for many years as a printmaker, expanded to producing editions of books. This is an ideal space for collaborations between artists, writers/poets, translators and artisans. ESTEPA EDITIONS, her independent press was created in 1996.

Zach Vreeman is in his second year as the director of choral activities at Casper College. He conducts all four choirs, including the flagship ensemble Collegiate Chorale, and the Contemporary Singers (Triple-C). He teaches courses in music history and music education, and teaches voice students. Vreeman previously taught at the University of Wyoming and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as well as choirs and bands at Grace Christian School in his hometown of Anchorage, Alaska. Despite moving frequently in the past several years, he has continued to sing professionally in every community of which he’s been part, and currently with the Colorado Bach Ensemble. In Casper, he also directs the choir at First Presbyterian Church, and has collaborated with the Chamber Music Society and the Wyoming Symphony.

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