Unrau, Mich musicians to present faculty recital Oct. 25
Dr. Lucia Unrau, a pianist and professor of music at Bluffton University, will present a faculty recital with Michigan musicians Sandra Jackson and David Jackson at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, in Bluffton’s Yoder Recital Hall. The recital is free and open to the public.
The performance is one of several this fall featuring Unrau and Sandra Jackson, an assistant professor of clarinet at Eastern Michigan University and Unrau’s summer colleague at Interlochen (Mich.) Arts Camp.
Among their recital numbers will be “Whispers and Evocations,” a commissioned work by Dr. Peter Terry, chair of music and an associate professor of information technology and music at Bluffton, and Unrau’s husband. They will also present pieces by Brahms and Horovitz, and David Jackson, an associate professor of trombone at the University of Michigan, will collaborate on four other numbers.
Unrau is chair of the communication and fine arts division at Bluffton. She is former president of the Ohio Music Teachers Association and was its 2009 Collegiate Teacher of the Year. She has been on the Interlochen piano faculty since 1993 and has served as camp keyboard coordinator, overseeing the keyboard curriculum, since 2005. Also a recording artist, concert performer, adjudicator and presenter, she holds a doctorate from the University of Texas-Austin.
Sandra Jackson is former principal clarinet of the Symphony Orchestra of the State of Mexico and has been a featured performer at the International Festival “Week of the Clarinet” in Mexico City. She was a prizewinner at the Kurpinski Clarinet Competition in Warsaw, Poland, and has also performed with many other symphonies, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Toledo Symphony. She is a former University of Toledo faculty member.
David Jackson has also been a faculty member at Eastern Michigan and Toledo, and at Baylor University. He has performed with the Chicago, Dallas and Detroit symphonies, among others, and has been guest soloist with the Los Angeles Symphonic Winds. He is a member of the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings and of Chicago’s Fulcrum Point New Music Project.
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