GRANVILLE, Ohio—A recital featuring Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts William Osborne on harpsichord and piano and Chair of the Department of Music Andrew Carlson on violin will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, in the recital room of Denison University’s Burke Recital Hall (240 West Broadway). The recital is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Pam Hughes at 750-587-6220 or visit www.denison.edu.
The evening will feature sonatas for the violin and keyboard by composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Arcangelo Corelli, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Raynor Taylor.
With three degrees from the University of Michigan, Osborne served the faculty of Denison University for forty-two years, retiring as Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts, Director of Choral Organizations and University Organist. He founded the Denison Singers, the university's most select vocal ensemble, in 1961, and who recently held their 50-year reunion. At Denison he conducted hundreds of choral concerts on campus and on tour with the Denison Singers across much of this country and on a dozen trips abroad throughout Europe and to Venezuela. He also served as musical director for twenty-six different shows mounted by Denison’s theatre department. As an organist he has played recitals across this country and on tours of Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, as well as Australia, and made three commercial recordings. He is the author of numerous articles in professional journals and The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, as well as two books: a biography of concert organist Clarence, published by the Organ Historical Society, and Music in Ohio, published by the Kent State University Press. Osborne was music director of the Piedmont Chamber Singers for six years; he also served as an adjunct member of the Davidson College faculty during the academic year 2004-05.
Carlson has performed as a soloist and as a chamber musician throughout the United States. Of his 1998 Merkin Hall performance the New York Times wrote “Mr. Carlson is a demon fiddler and his performance here was serious and concentrated.” He has earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree of music from the University of Georgia and a doctorate in Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa. While there, he was the recipient of the Iowa Performance Fellowship and the Pelzer Competition Fellowship. Dedicated to the performance of new music, Carlson was a regular performer with the Iowa Center for New Music and the University of Georgia Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. He is featured on the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble’s ACA Digital CD “The Voice and the Virtuoso.” As a soloist he has performed with orchestras including the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Huntington West Virginia Symphony, the Welsh Hills Symphony, the Land of Legend Philharmonic, and the University of Iowa Symphony. Carlson has studied with Leopold La Fosse and Thomas Joiner.
Calendar Listing:
CALENDAR LISTING, Denison University, Granville— A recital featuring William Osborne on the piano and Andrew Carlson on the violin at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, in the recital room of Burke Recital Hall (240 West Broadway). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Pam Hughes at 750-587-6220 or visit www.denison.edu.
About Denison:
Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.
