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Mark your calendars for these events this
summer, and we hope to see many of you there! Below you will find
biographical information about the performers and a schedule of events.
KENT FOSS is an active trumpet performer and educator in the Phoenix
metropolitan area. Recent performance highlights include two European
tours as featured trumpet soloist with the Midwest Ambassadors of Music, a
summer spent at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. as principal trumpet
of the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute Orchestra, and
numerous solo performances throughout the Midwest and Desert Southwest. In
the Phoenix area Kent performs as extra/substitute with the Phoenix
Symphony Orchestra, and also performs regularly with the Arizona Broadway
Theatre Orchestra, Ballet Arizona, Arizona Lyric Opera Theater and the
Salt River Brass Band.
In addition to serving on the music faculty at Chandler-Gilbert Community
College in Gilbert, Arizona, Kent Foss is currently completing work toward
the Doctor of Musical Arts in Trumpet Performance degree at Arizona State
University where he is a graduate teaching assistant under Regents'
Professor David Hickman. He holds a Master of Music degree from Arizona
State University and a Bachelors of Music Education degree from South
Dakota State University. Kent’s students regularly participate in the
Arizona All-State Band, Arizona All-State Jazz Band, Phoenix Youth
Orchestra, and have been accepted to the internationally known Interlochen
Center for the Arts.
Known for his unique musical versatility, Wyoming native MICHAEL YENNY
maintains an active schedule as concert pianist, collaborative pianist,
composer, arranger, and church musician. Dr. Yenny has recently been
appointed as staff accompanist at Angelo State University in San Angelo,
Texas. He is also a faculty member of the New England Music Camp in
Sidney, Maine, the South Dakota All-State Music Camp in Brookings, SD, and
the Yellowstone Summer Music Camp in Powell, Wyoming.
Dr. Yenny’s creative activity includes over one-hundred original major
works/opuses comprising solo, pedagogical, and collaborative genres, in
addition to an equivocal number of professional arrangements of both
secular and religious piano music. Winner of the 2002 South Dakota Music
Teachers Association Collegiate Piano Competition, Michael Yenny holds the
Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Master of Music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and
Bachelors of Music Education degree from South Dakota State University.
Schedule of Events:
Sunday July 12, 5:00 pm
Solo Concert, Tempe
First United Methodist Church
With Miriam Yutzy, piano
215 E University Drive, Tempe, AZ
*Admission is free, and a free-will
offering benefiting performance costs and Tempe First United Methodist
Church Homeless Ministries will be taken.
Tuesday July 14, 7:30 pm
Faculty Recital, Chandler-Gilbert Community
College
With Miriam Yutzy, piano
CGCC Performing Arts Center, 2626 E Pecos Road,
Chandler, AZ
*Free admission
Tuesday July 21, 7:30 pm
Solo Concert, Rapid City First United Methodist
Church
With Michael Yenny, piano
629 Kansas City Street, Rapid City, SD
*Admission is free, and a free-will
offering benefiting tour costs will be taken.
Wednesday July 22, 7:30 pm
Guest Soloist, Rapid City Municipal Band
Memorial Park Bandshell, N 5th Street and New
York Street, Rapid City, SD
*Free admission
Friday July 24, 7:30 pm
Solo Concert, Wessington Springs Opera House
With Michael Yenny, piano
Dakota Ave and 1st Street NE, Wessington
Springs, SD
*Advance tickets $5; $8 at the door.
For tickets call 605-539-1305 or 605-539-1515.
Sunday July 26, 4:00 pm
Alumni Recital, Peterson Recital Hall, South
Dakota State University
With Michael Yenny, piano
SDSU Music Building, 900 Administration Lane,
Brookings, SD
*Free admission
Tuesday July 28, 7:30 pm
Solo Concert, Sioux Falls
First Congregational Church
With Michael Yenny, piano
300 S Minnesota Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD
*Free admission; and an offering
benefiting tour costs and FCC Outreach Projects will be taken
Wednesday July 29, 7:30 pm
Guest Soloist, Sioux Falls Municipal Band
Prince of Peace Ret. Community, 4510 Prince of
Peace Place, Sioux Falls, SD
*Free admission
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