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Bradley hosts nearly 150 employers at Job Fair
The exhibit area for the Fall Job Fair at Bradley University has been expanded to two tents on the quad in addition to the first and second floors of the Michel Student Center to accommodate the nearly 150 employers attending the annual event today.
Twenty-five employers are attending the Fair hosted by the Smith Career Center for the first time.
"This year we are able to accommodate more employers and as a result offer Bradley students and alumni an increased number of employment opportunities," said Jane Linnenburger, Executive Director of the Smith Career Center.
The Job Fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Recruiters who are Bradley alumni will be hosted at a breakfast in the Alumni Reunion Dining Room in the Michel Student Center at 10:15.
The Smith Career Center also will host a Graduate and Professional School Fair on September 27 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Michel Student Center ballroom.
Faculty and staff recognized for years of service
Twenty eight Bradley faculty and staff members will be recogized for their many years of service to the University at a luncheon on September 27.
Those being honored are:
Forty Years
Betty Church
Claire Etaugh
Thirty five years
Peter Dusenbery
Heather Fowler-Salamini*
Edward Kaizer
Jim Seckler
Larry Stratton
Bernard Zant
Thirty Years
Jeffrey Hibbard
Nial Johnson
David Pardieck
Marina Savoie*
Margaret Scott
Robert Scott
Twenty five years
Charles Brown
Larry Cornwell
Charlene Harris
Bonnie Hinrichsen
Poleane Knight
K. Krishnamoorthi
Eugenia Kyle
Beth Linn
Diane Rigley
George Shipp
Charles Stoner
Kami Tiernan
Robert Weinstein
*no photo available
Bradley for Bradley Campaign is underway
The 2005 Bradley for Bradley Campaign is continuing on campus through October 12.
The goal of the 2005 campaign is to reach $230,000 in gifts and pledges with a 63% participation rate. Solicitation for the Bradley for Bradley Campaign will be done by a representative in each campus office or department.
Many faculty and staff have already made their commitments to the effort. The University Relations staff is the first to reach a 100% participation rate this year. See Bradley for Bradley Update
"Music Among Friends" is first MSCS concert for 2005
"Music Among Friends: Selections for Two Flutes and Piano" opens the 2005-2006 Bradley University Music Scholarship Concert Series on Sunday, September 25, at 3 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue.
Bradley flutist Kyle Dzapo and University of Nevada-Las Vegas flutist Richard Soule will perform pieces by Lukas Foss and Ernest Bloch as well as duets by Jean Baptiste Loeillet and Friedrich Kuhlau for the program. They will be joined by North Park University pianist Terree Shofner-Emrich.
The Music Scholarship Concert Series is comprised of eight Sunday afternoon performances held in Dingeldine Music Center on the Bradley campus. To purchase tickets call 677-2650 or visit the Cultural Events Box Office in the Hartmann Center.
Bradley University Theatre opens season today
Bradley University Theatre will present "Cabaret" on September 22, 23, 24,25, 29 and 30 and October 1 and 2 in the Meyer Jacobs Theatre in the the Hartmann Center on campus.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday performances begin at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. To reserve tickets call the Cultural Events Box Office at 309 677-2650.
One of the most daring of Broadway musicals, this revolutionary reinvention of Kander and Ebb's explosive hit Cabaret, brings the seedy glamour of the legendary Kit Kat Club, and its seductive star, Sally Bowles, to life.
Set against the background of a crumbling Germany as the Nazi party rises to power, the colorful goings-on inside the Kit Kat Club offer an escape to everyone from the harsh realities of a world rushing to war - a place where everyone and everything is beautiful: "life is beautiful -- the girls are beautiful -- even the orchestra's beautiful!"
Featuring some of the best known songs in musical history, including Willkommen, Maybe This Time, and Money (Makes the World Go Around), Cabaret will dazzle and electrify you!
Ticket prices are $15 for the general public, $12faculty/staff/seniors, and $7 students.
Guest artists to present chamber music recital
Bradley alumnus Dr. Benjamin Moritz, piano, and cellist Ozgur Elgun will present a recital of chamber music on Tuesday, September 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker. Admission is free and open to the public.
The program will include works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig von Beethoven, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Robert Schumann, and selections from Turkish composer Ulvi Cemal Erkin's "Duyuslar" (Impressions). They also will present a transcription of a traditional Turkish folk song.
Performing as MorEl Duo, Moritz and Elgun have presented chamber music recitals throughout Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, performing Turkish and American composers and other standard chamber music. They are active in performing new works and presented the world premiere of a composition by Russell Sarre. Their 2005 performing tour in Turkey, joined by UW-Green Bay faculty clarinetist Rebecca Tout, was partially sponsored by the American Embassy.
Moritz, a 1997 Bradley graduate, who began teaching at UW-Green Bay in fall 2004, previously was on the faculty at Eastern Mediterranean University in Turkey. He has performed extensively in the U.S. and abroad. He has won several local and national competitions and frequently performs at summer festivals. He has done extensive research into the music of Friedrich Nietzsche and gives lecture-recitals and talks on connections between Nietzsche's philosophy and music. Moritz is keyboard coordinator at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. He earned a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University.
Elgun teaches cello and coaches chamber music at the Uludag University, Bursa State Conservatory in Turkey, and also teaches chamber music at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. He has appeared as soloist with numerous ensembles in Turkey and with the Tempe Symphony Orchestra in Arizona. He earned Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in Turkey and earned a second master's degree and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University.
For more information, call the Bradley Music Department at 677-2595.
Zimmerman to give saxophone recital on September 30
Keith M. Zimmerman, saxophone professor at Bradley and saxophone and music education professor at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, will present a faculty recital on Friday, September 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue. Admission is free and open to the public.
Joining Zimmerman will be William R. West, pianist, who is an Illinois Wesleyan professor and member of the Opera Illinois orchestra where he plays flute. Zimmerman and West have performed together for nearly 20 years.
Composers featured in the program are Georg Phillipp Telemann, Paul Creston; Paule Maurice; Pierre Lantier and Rudy Wiedoeft.
Zimmerman continues to be in demand as a private saxophone teacher for many students from throughout central Illinois and has served the Illinois Music Educators Association as saxophone auditioner for the All State festival bands for 29 years. A founding member of the World Saxophone Congress and the North American Saxophone Alliance, he has frequently performed for regional, national, and international meetings of those bodies. He has appeared in concert in Canada, France, England, and Germany and many parts of the U.S. as a soprano, alto, and tenor saxophonist. In 1972, he joined in founding the Illinois Saxophone Quintet which he played in until the quintet disbanded in 1994.From 1982-1995 he frequently played lead alto saxophone for the Ringling Brothers Circus and since 1994 has been first alto saxophonist with the Pekin Municipal Band.
For more information, please call the Music Department at 677-2595.
Bradley Chamber Orchestra gives concert October 1
The Bradley Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Seong-Kyung Graham, will give its first concert of the year on October 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue. Admission is $5 for adults with free for students.
The program will include "My Many Colored Days" by Richard Einhorn and the Symphony no. 41, "Jupiter," by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
"My Many Colored Days," is a fairly new piece, originally commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra, and based on a story by Dr. Seuss. Each movement represents different colors expressed by different moods or feelings. It has strong rhythmic energy and some jazz elements as well. Both "My Many Colored Days" and the "Jupiter" Symphony have strong upbeat energy that would appeal especially to young audiences as well as adults.
Seong-Kyung Graham was born in Korea where she received her Bachelor of Music degree from Sungshin Women's University before moving to the United States in 1989. After earning the Master of Music degree in choral conducting from the University of North Texas, she pursued additional graduate studies in conducting at the University of Illinois and in orchestral conducting at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.
Violinist Marcia Henry Liebenow to give faculty recital
Violinist Marcia Henry Liebenow, Concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony and Bradley University faculty member, will present a Faculty Recital on Sunday, October 2, at 3 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue. Ms. Henry Liebenow will be joined in the program by guest pianist Jean Roberts. Admission is free and open to the public.
The program will feature sonatas by Beethoven, Robert Schumann, and Claude Debussy, as well as North Hungarian Peasant Songs and Dances, Op. 5 by Hungarian composer Miklos Rozsa. Ms. Roberts and Ms. Henry Liebenow have performed chamber music together each summer for the past ten years at the Red Lodge Music Festival in Montana. The duo also will present this recital at Mercer University on September 25. In addition, Ms. Henry Liebenow will present a master class during her residency at Mercer University.
A native of New York, Jean Roberts is a senior lecturer in the Department of Music at Mercer University. She holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Yale University School of Music, and earned a Doctorate in Piano from the University of Texas at Austin. As a collaborative artist, she often performs duo-piano recitals with her husband John Roberts, and chamber music with the Mercer Chamber Players. She previously taught at universities in South Carolina, and at the Western Australian Conservatorium of Music in Perth. Her performances have been broadcast on NPR as well as Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She has performed in Malaysia, Japan, and most recently gave a featured recital in Italy for the Calaria International Piano Competition. She participates regularly in the Winter Chamber Music Festival in Perth.
Ms. Henry Liebenow has been the Concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony since 1992. She is active as a performer and a teacher across the U.S., and has also performed in Europe and Russia. She was a featured soloist in the Peoria Bach Festival, and played numerous concerts at the Red Lodge Music Festival in Montana, the Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Wisconsin, and with her Concordia String Trio at the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival in Vermont. The Trio will perform in Peoria and several cities in Missouri next February, and will play a series of concerts in Boston in March and April. Ms. Henry Liebenow was honored as the Outstanding Studio Teacher by the Illinois American String Teachers Association in 2003, and has been nominated three times for the Bradley Parents Association Award of Excellence.
For more information, call the Music Department at 677-2602.
Of Note
Kasambira recognized by alma mater
Dr. K. Paul Kasambira, professor of education, was awarded the 2005 Outstanding Black Alumni Award by the Black Alumni Society of the Ball State University Alumni Association on August 6. Dr. Kasambira earned a M.A. in 1976 and a Ed.D. in 1979 from Ball State.
Klotz is SBDC State Star
Ken Klotz, director of the the SBDC at Bradley, was recognized as the Illinois State Star at the annual conference of the Association of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) in Baltimore, Maryland on September 9. The award was presented to Ken for his outstanding service as a SBDC Director, his commitment to serving Illinois small businesses, and his tremendous support of the Illinois Entrepreneurship Network and the Illinois SBDC.