Contact: Karie Patton
An English horn and piano recital March 2 at Mississippi State will feature two university faculty artists.
Dylan and Susan Savage's selections will include a mix of traditional, classical and popular music.
Their 7:30 p.m. performance in the McComas Hall theater is the latest in the 1999-2000 Faculty/Guest Artist Series sponsored by the music education department. The husband and wife musicians are visiting lecturers in music education.
Available at the door, general admission tickets are $5; $3 for university faculty and staff. MSU student admission is free with a school identification card.
Susan Savage will present "The Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49" by Benjamin Britten in a special adaptation for solo English horn. Dylan Savage will perform selected works for solo piano, including works by Chopin, Ravel and Prokofiev. Compositions by jazz artist Bill Evans also will be featured.
As Duo Savage, they will perform works by Handel, Saint-Saens and Borodin.
In addition to teaching, Dylan is the university's director of choral activities. A first-place winner of the Rome Festival Orchestra Competition, he has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, the Virgin Islands and Italy.
His groundbreaking research in using slow-motion videotaping to analyze and diagnose inefficient motion at the keyboard has led to invitations for classes and demonstrations at music schools in the United States. He has been published in Clavier Magazine and Pianoforte, and his research has been the topic of programs on NBC and public television affiliates.
Since the early 1990s, Dylan has been a regular speaker and panel member at the National and International Piano Pedagogy Conferences. He holds a bachelor's degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and master's and doctoral degrees from the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington.
Susan Savage also holds graduate degrees in music from IU, where she was awarded the Performer's Certificate. She completed a bachelor's at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in Stockton, Calif.
In addition to several appearances as an oboe and English horn soloist with the Indianapolis Men's Chorus, she has been a member of 15 professional groups, including the Indianapolis symphony and chamber orchestras.
Susan has recorded orchestral parts for Hal Leonard Music Publications, Disney on Ice, and gospel artist Sandy Patty. She has played principal oboe and solo English horn in backup orchestras for Johnny Mathis, the Moody Blues, an Andrew Lloyd Webber Concert Tour, and Marie Osmond, among others.
Future events in the 1999-2000 Guest Artist Series include saxophonist Paul Bro on March 28 and ragtime pianist Jack Oliva on May 1. Oliva is a former MSU music education department head.
For further information, telephone (662) 325-3070.