Music Faculty Recital

Thursday, November 14, 2024 7:30 PM

Ward Hall

Poster

In a prisoner-of-war camp during the early days of World War II, French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) created his chamber music masterpiece Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time). Rooted in his deeply Christian faith, it is inspired by the New Testament Book of Revelation.
 
Composer (and Lipscomb alum), Dr. Lincoln Hanks of Pepperdine University, composed a companion piece, Eden, inspired by the Old Testament Book of Genesis.
 
These two works will be performed together for the first time. 
 
 
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About the performers:
 

Carolyn Wann Bailey is a freelance artist who is thrilled to call Music City her home.  Having recently retired from the Nashville Symphony where she held the position of Principal 2nd Violin for 25 years, she currently enjoys the variety of work between recording sessions (recording artists of a multitude of genres, movies, Christian projects for print, video games, musical theater), teaching violin privately and at Lipscomb University (to a multitude of levels of students), and live performances (Nashville Opera, various chamber groups, Ray Stevens CabaRay, to name a few). 

Attending the Cleveland Institute of Music, Carrie earned both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. While in the Cleveland area, she studied with Stephen Majeske, Bernhard Goldschmidt, Paul Statsky, and David and Linda Cerone. Following school, Carrie was concertmaster of the Canton Symphony Orchestra (OH) and was active with their String Quartet for a decade, and simultaneously played in other area orchestras in various capacities.

Aside from the violin, Carrie enjoys riding her Arab/Dutch Warmblood cross horse, Sir, and traveling. She and her husband Jeff live north of Nashville in Goodlettsville on a hobby farm, where they care for a myriad of animals (dogs and cats, chickens, goats, donkeys, and a pig named Jubilee). They also enjoy time in the kitchen together, trying new recipes and typically making a rustic timpano around the holidays.

Carrie plays a violin by Francesco Lazzaretti made in 1898.

 

Clarinetist Emily Wasson Bowland maintains a dynamic career as a versatile performer and recording artist. She is a member of the Nashville Opera Orchestra, Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra Kentucky, and performs regularly with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. An enthusiastic supporter of contemporary music, Emily is a core member of Nashville-based new music ensembles Chatterbird and Intersection. In 2021, she commissioned Nashville-based composer, Dave Ragland, to compose a piece for solo clarinet/bass clarinet with spoken word, which she premiered on Chatterbird’s Virtual Chamber Music Series. Emily has performed at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest, the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, Society of Composers, Inc., and 2022 Big Ears Music Festival with Leyla McCalla. She is active in the Nashville studio scene, where she can be heard on recordings spanning from motion picture and video game soundtracks to solo artist projects. She has recorded with artists such as Joss Stone, Smashing Pumpkins, Jack White, Mandy Barnett, CeCe Winans, and Michael W. Smith. Emily holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the University of Southern California. Her principal teachers include Yehuda Gilad, Mitchell Lurie, and Richard Hawley.

She resides in Franklin, Tennessee, with her husband, saxophonist Jimmy Bowland, and children. When not playing the clarinet, Emily enjoys hiking with her family and Labrador retriever.

 

Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, Alex Krew is a cellist of great emotional depth and technical breadth. A frequent substitute with Nashville Symphony, Alex has also performed in subscription concerts with the Indianapolis Symphony and the New World Symphony in Miami Beach. A twelve-year veteran of Nashville’s booming soundtracking scene, Alex has lent his talents to countless recordings for movies, video games, and television. Recent highlights include Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Masters of the Air, and Trolls Band Together.

Alex began his studies at the age of five at Peabody Conservatory’s Preparatory Division, studying with Bai-Chi Chen and Alison Wells. He went on to attend Vanderbilt University on a full-tuition scholarship, studying with Felix Wang and winning the concerto competition. Alex completed his Master of Music at Indiana University, where he studied with Eric Kim. He has participated in some of the world’s finest summer festivals, including Brevard, Bowdoin, YellowBarn, Aspen, and Music Masters Course Japan in Yokohama. He has also performed with some of the world’s finest conductors and soloists, including Leonard Slatkin, Alan Gilbert, Joshua Bell, Johannes Moser, Seong-Jin Cho, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Principal Players of the New York Philharmonic, and Yo-Yo Ma.

Alex resides in Bellevue with his beautiful wife, Allie, and their dog, Bodhi. In his free time, Alex enjoys biking, climbing, photography, and playing chess.

 

Jerome A. Reed is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Piano at Lipscomb University. He has performed extensively on several continents, giving recitals and masterclasses in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy, England, Hungary, and Uruguay. He has performed at Steinway Hall in New York. He has recorded works for piano and tape for Capstone Records and in 2009 released a recording of sonatas for flute and piano with Deanna Little. In August 2014 Navona Records released his recording of Elizabeth Austin’s Rose Sonata. He has given over fifty performances in the U.S. and abroad of Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata, incorporating a multimedia presentation and readings from Ives’s writings. In 2003 he was awarded the Avalon Award for Creative Excellence, in 2006 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Tennessee Music Teachers Association, and in 2010 he was named Teacher of the Year by the same organization. In 2019 he was inducted into the Steinway Teachers Hall of Fame in New York. In 2024 he received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Lipscomb University.
His students have won many competitions, including first place in Tennessee Music Teachers Association competitions, the Nashville International Piano Competition, the Tennessee Tech Young Artist Competition, and Clavierfest at MTSU. His student piano trio placed third at the Music Teachers National Association Competition in New York in 2012. He has served on the faculty of the InterHarmony Music Festival in Italy and the East/West International Piano Festival in China. He is also chair of the music division of the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. He is a frequent adjudicator at local, state, and national competitions.
He holds the D.M.A. and M.M. in piano performance from The Catholic University of America, where he was a student of Béla Börzörményi-Nagy. He also studied with Jeanne-Marie Darré at the Conservatoire de Musique de Nice and coached with Yvonne Loriod. In his spare time, Jerry enjoys cooking, cars, dogs, and traveling.