Guenther Performs 20th Annual Organ Recital at AU

Dr. Timothy Guenther, University organist, will perform his 20th annual organ recital at Ashland University on Sunday, Jan. 29 at 4 p.m. in the Jack and Deb Miller Chapel. His concert will focus on North German organ music in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, and in preparation for the Ashland University Choir tour to North Germany in March 2017.

Featuring the University's M.P. Moeller Pipe Organ, the concert will include Martin Luther's A Mighty Fortress Is Our God and Lord, J. S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, along with Felix Mendelssohn's How Vast Is God the Father's Goodness along with compositions by Buxtehude, Scheidt, Tunder, Kerll, Walther, Krebs, Zimmerman, Rheinberger, Distler, Ahrens and Reger.Free & Open to the Public.

Eleven AU Students Selected for OPCICA

Five Ashland University Jazz Orchestra students (Alex Sandwisch, Jaylynn Buchmelter, Derek Rangel, Jason Wolf, Cody Henderson) and six Ashland University Concert Band students (Emily Minns, Emily Dine, Chanel Bluntschly, Nikolaus Psota, Jessica Shrider and Stefan Jonsson) have been selected to perform in the Ohio Private College Instrumental Conductor's Association concert this weekend, January 28 and 29) at Marietta College. More information here.

Garlock Faculty Recital, Monday, Jan. 23

Ashland University Department of Music's first event of the busy 2017 Spring semester is a faculty recital featuring trombonist Dr. Scott Garlock, Professor of Music, on Monday, January 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Elizabeth Pastor Recital Hall.

Titled "Variations in C and His Relative," the concert will feature music in the key of C and its relative minor (a), while two of the works are theme and variation sets.  The program includes Charles Tournemire's Legendé, Arthur Frackenpohl's arrangement of Variations on a Theme by Shostakovich, Pastorale for tenor and bass trombone by Eric Ewazen, The Felix Variations for solo bass trombone by David Del Tredici, and Franz Joseph Haydn's Achieved is the Glorious Work from "The Creation."

With Garlock playing the tenor and bass trombones, he will be assisted by pianist Mark Koehler and Susan Gregg, trombonists Jaylynn Buchmelter and Cody Henderson, and Eileen Navratil on euphonium.