The Department of Music at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro will present a Faculty Recital Series performance featuring Dr. Ed Owen, tuba; Dr. Dan Ross, oboe; Julia Lansford, soprano; and Dr. Lauren Schack Clark and Harriet O’Neal, piano; on Thursday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fowler Center, Riceland Hall, 201 Olympic Dr. 
  
The performance will include compositions by A.M.R. Barret, Bruce Broughton, Warren Gooch, Paul Hindemith, John Lennon, Anthony Plog, and  Robert Spillman.    

Dr. Ed Owen is assistant professor of tuba & euphonium at ASU where his primary duties include serving as coordinator of graduate studies, teaching applied tuba and euphonium, and conducting the ASU Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble.  He currently performs as principal tuba of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Brass Quintet, the Delta Symphony Orchestra, and the ASU Brass Quintet. A native Arkansan, he received the bachelor of arts in music education from Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, and a master of music in tuba performance and his doctorate of musical arts in performance and Literature from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.  
      
Dr. Daniel Ross received his bachelor’s and master’s degree from ASU, and his doctorate from the University of Mississippi at Oxford.  Dr. Ross is well known throughout the double-reed world for his research, design and construction of reed gouging machines.  He performs regularly as a soloist with the Forum Sinfonia of Krakow, Poland, and throughout the U.S., Poland, and central Europe.  He has performed and presented classes at numerous International Double Reed Society conventions and also teaches and presents master classes at major music schools in the U.S.

Julia Lansford, associate professor in music, began her teaching career at ASU in 1964. She received a bachelor’s degree from then Arkansas State College and her master’s in vocal performance from North Texas State University with post-graduate studies in Freiburg, Germany. Along with a successful vocal studio, she serves as director of opera and coordinator of vocal studies within the ASU Department of Music.  As a solo performer, Lansford has performed recitals throughout the U.S. and has been a frequent soloist with orchestras in both oratorio and operatic repertoire. She has sung leading roles with the Memphis Opera Theater, Arkansas Opera Theater, American Opera Company in New York and the Summer Vocal Institute in Germany. As an Outstanding Performer of Arkansas, she has performed at The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and was chosen to sing at The White House for former President Bill Clinton and the Prime Minister of Ireland. 

Dr. Lauren Schack Clark is active as a pianist, both in solo and collaborative performances. She has performed with principle players of the Boston Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Scottish National Symphony, Slovenian Radio Symphony, the Cincinnati Orchestra, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and with faculty members of the Eastman School of Music, the New England Conservatory, Cincinnati-College Conservatory, Oberlin College, and the University of Memphis.  A recent visit to the Cork School of Music in Ireland involved a recital, teaching, lectures to faculty, and school concerts in the area. Dr. Clark holds a doctor of musical arts degree from Boston University, a Master's in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University, and a bachelor of music degree from the Hart School of Music.

This concert is free and open to the public. For more information, please call the ASU Department of Music at (870) 972-2094.

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