March 26- Artist Series: Northern Accord

3/26/2012
8:00 p.m.

Artist Series: Northern Accord
Monday, March 26
Ward Hall, 8:00 p.m.
$15 Adults, $10 Students, Free with Lipscomb ID
Tickets will be available at the door. 

Northern Accord, a chamber music trio comprised of Kirsten Gunlogson (mezzo-soprano), Liz Gunlogson (clarinet), and Eileen Cornett (piano), performs both well-loved classics and little-known contemporary pieces.

The ensemble connects with audiences through works ranging from Brahms, Spohr, Mozart and Stravinsky to folk songs by lesser-known modern day composers. With each member having special ties to Alaska, Northern Accord includes in its repertoire a collection of pieces written by Alaskan artists, often on Alaskan themes, such as the exploration of human relationships to nature.

The March 26 performance will feature “The Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska,” five songs set to the texts of Alaskan poets and composed by Lipscomb University Music Chair Sally Reid.

“The Edge of Great Quiet,” celebrates the cold, personal struggle and loneliness, the renewal/forgiveness of spring and the glories of the midnight sun in musical settings of poems that appeared in poetryALASKAwomen: Top of the World, a collection published in 1993.

About Northern Accord

Mezzo-soprano Kirsten Gunlogson recently debuted at Carnegie Hall and has performed as soloist with the Nashville Symphony, Fairfax Symphony and Indianapolis Symphonic Choir. She holds the position of assistant professor of voice at the University of Utah.

Clarinetist Liz Gunlogson is on the faculty of the University of New Hampshire. She performs regularly with ensembles throughout the United States including Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band, the Tallahassee Symphony, the Annapolis Opera and Opera Vivente.

Cornett is director of the Graduate Vocal Accompanying Program at Peabody Conservatory and a faculty coach with the Peabody Opera Theatre. She began her professional career as music director of the Croswell Opera House in Adrian, MI, and has subsequently conducted, coached, written, and arranged musical and operatic productions for companies ranging from the Kennedy Center’s theatres to the Theatre an der Wien in Vienna, Austria.