Kenyon Wilson’s ‘Five’ featured in concert
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra will present a free concert in the UTC Fine Arts Center on Sunday night, Nov. 4.
The 65-member orchestra includes music majors and nonmajors from UTC and Chattanooga State, UTC music faculty members, area music educators and other experienced amateur and professional musicians from the region. The orchestra is conducted by Sandy Morris.
Sunday’s program will feature “Five,” a composition by Dr. Kenyon Wilson, interim chairman of the UTC Division of Music, to commemorate the five soldiers killed in Chattanooga in 2015.
Principal Horn Christine Pope will be featured in Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 3. The concert begins with the English Folk Song Suite written by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and concludes with “Capriccio Italien,” a piece by Tchaikovsky that includes richly contrasting folk themes and dance melodies.
Pope is a native of Dalton, Georgia, who has performed with orchestras throughout the United States, including the Eastern Connecticut Symphony, The Napa Valley Symphony, the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra, the Chattanooga Symphony, the Rome Symphony and the Gadsden Symphony.
She teaches piano and brass at the Creative Arts Guild in Dalton and has many years of experience as a piano technician, tuning and repairing pianos.
A former Fulbright Scholar to Azerbaijan, composer Wilson was the winner of the 2014 Heartland Symphony Orchestra Composition Contest and the 2013 Hillcrest Wind Ensemble Composition Contest.
He has received commissions from the University of North Dakota, Hokusho University (Japan), Morehead State University, Tennessee Technological University, Charlotte Tuba Ensemble, International Music Camp in North Dakota and the International Tuba/ Euphonium Association.
“Five,” written in response to the July 2015 terrorist attack in Chattanooga, was a finalist for the American Prize in Composition and winner of the 2016 Carolyn Thompson and Roger Brown Community Engagement Award.
Principal tubist of the Augusta Symphony and Tuscaloosa Symphony orchestras, he has performed solo recitals in the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. He serves on the board of directors for the International Tuba/ Euphonium Association.
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