Faculty recital tomorrow

National Park Community College Music Program will present a Music Faculty/Student Recital on Sunday, October 14, 3 p.m., at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church as part of the Hot Springs Music Club’s October meeting.

Denise Edds, coordinator of the NPCC Music Program and the program chairman for the Hot Springs Music Club’s October meeting, stated that she wanted to highlight the great music instruction that is being delivered at National Park Community College each semester. The music instructors at NPCC are mostly adjuncts who have other full time positions in music throughout the area and they are not only excellent instructors, but accomplished performers as well. NPCC is so lucky to have musicians of this caliber to teach our students.

In the fall of 2010, NPCC started the Associate of Arts degree in the Music Field of Study and added several new classes to the curriculum including: Music Theory I-IV and Ear Training/ Sight Singing I-IV. Fundamentals of Music is also on the music track as the prerequisite to the other music classes in the sequence. Students working on the AA in the Music Field of study can also take class and/or private lessons in piano and voice and private lessons in flute, strings, guitar, brass, and saxophone. Music majors can choose to either sing in the NPCC Singers or play in the Hot Springs Community Band for lab credit. 

The upcoming recital will feature solos by music faculty Lynn Payette on the organ; Steve Suter on trombone; James Arthur Smith on violin; Denise Edds, soprano; Amanda Young, soprano; and Elsen Portugal on piano. Featured students are Rebecca Seewald, soprano; Taylor McClard, tenor; Shakedra Hammock, soprano; Zach Mercer, baritone; and Kristin Harmon, soprano.

This concert is free and open to the public. Members are encouraged to bring a guest with them to the concert that might be interested in enrolling in the AA in Music at NPCC. Scholarships are available to qualified students. For information contact:  Denise Edds, Coordinator, Music Program, National Park Community College.