Department of Music to present
Faculty Recital Series Concert

Feb. 16, 2005--The Department of Music at ASU will present a Faculty Recital Series concert featuring Matthew Carey, Dr. Lauren Schack Clark, and Dr. Tim Crist on Monday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Fowler Center, Riceland Hall, 201 Olympic Dr.

The concert will include “Seven Gipsy Songs” by Antonin Dvorak; “Three Chansons de Don Quichotte a Dulcinee” by Maurice Ravel; “Deh, vieni alla finestra” from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni, Molasses to Rum” from the Broadway musical 1776, music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards; “Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables, music by Claude-Michel Schoenberg; and “Toreador Song” from Bizet’s Carmen.

Performing these pieces will be Carey on baritone and Clark on piano. There will also be three songs for guitar and voice by John Dowland performed by Carey with Crist on the guitar.

The concert is free and open to the public.

A veteran of the concert and opera stage, Carey has been a member of the voice faculty at ASU since 1997. He also teaches German and French diction, vocal pedagogy, song literature, and music appreciation. He is  the music director for the ASU Theatre Department’s annual musical and co-hosts the College of Fine Arts radio program “Spotlight on the Arts” on public radio NPR member KASU 91.9 FM.

Spanning a career in which he has performed more than 40 roles, Carey has sung with opera companies throughout the United States, including the San Diego Opera, Greensboro Opera and the Mississippi Opera.

From 1992-1996, he was principal baritone with the prestigious opera ensemble at the Theater Lubeck in Germany. Most recently, Carey was seen in Jonesboro as Victor Velasco in Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” and played the title role in the “Will Rogers Follies.”

As a concert artist, Carey has performed with the symphony orchestras of Hamburg,  Kotka (Finland), Santa Barbara, the NDR Orchester of Bremen, Pine Bluff, the Northeast Arkansas Symphony and the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.  He is also a regularly featured soloist with the choral ensembles at ASU. Carey continues to perform recitals throughout the region in which he programs a wide variety of repertoire from the song cycles of Schubert and Schumann, Ravel and Faure to popular standards of Gershwin, Kern, Berlin, and Rogers.

Carey has conducted vocal master classes the Opera in the Ozarks, University of Arkansas, John Brown University, Ouachita Baptist University, California State University at Northridge and the University of Southern California. He is also a frequent clinician at the ASU Choir Camp as well as area high schools. He is a regular adjudicator at state and regional NATS competitions and his students frequently reach the final round.

Carey completed his bachelor of music degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1982, and received his master of music degree in 1985 from the University of Michigan. He has done post-graduate study at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Yale University.

Clark is assistant professor of piano and keyboard activities supervisor at ASU.  She performs frequently as a soloist and collaborative artist. She has played with principle players of the Boston Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Scottish National Symphony, Slovenian Radio Symphony, Cincinnati Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, and with faculty members of the Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, Cincinnati-College Conservatory, Oberlin College, the University of Memphis, and ASU.

She concertized in Paris in 1997 in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Vocal Study, and again at the 2001 French Piano Institute. With her husband, bassoonist Dr. Dale Clark, she has played at the Cork School of Music in Ireland, Florida State University, the University of Washington-Seattle, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Nebraska, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and the Boston Conservatory.

She has appeared with the Marian Anderson String Quartet and the Memphis Chamber Music Society, and was the pianist for Opera Memphis during the 1998-99 seasons.  Schack Clark holds a doctor of musical arts degree from Boston University, a master’s in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University, a graduate diploma from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Mass., and a bachelor of music degree from the Hartt School of Music.

Crist is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts 2003 Individual Artist Fellowship for Music Composition.  Crist presently holds an assistant professor of music rank at ASU where he teaches composition, electronic music, theory, classical guitar, and conducts/directs the ASU New Music Ensemble and Guitar Ensemble.  He has composed musical works for various media including solo, chamber, orchestral, and electronic, and is published by Cimarron Music. 

Crist received a master’s degree and doctoral degree from the University of Georgia in Athens. While his composition teachers include Lewis Nielson, Leonard Ball, and William Davis, Crist has also attended master classes with Pulitzer Prize winning composers Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, George Crumb, and William Bolcom.

Crist’s music continues to be played throughout the United States and has been featured on National Public Radio, SEAMUS conferences, Southeastern Composers League, The Electronic Music Midwest Festival, the Florida Electro acoustic Music Festival, and the Society of Composers Inc., conferences.  As a guitarist, Crist has given concerts throughout the Eastern United States and has studied with John Sutherland, Lyman Golden, and Missy Rankin.

For more details, please call the Department of Music at (870) 972-2094.

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