The McCutcheon Honors Recital
Each year the recital participants are chosen
by the applied faculty in their respective areas as the most outstanding based
on their fall juries. The School of Creative and Performing Arts
presented the first “Honors Recital” in 1998.
In 2002, the recital was re-named in honor of
Jim McCutcheon, a retired band teacher, who was active in instrument repair at
NSU.
Because Mr. McCutcheon wanted to do something
to recognize outstanding student performance at NSU, he began offering a
financial prize to those students selected to perform on the
recital.
After his death, his wife, Mrs. Jo Lapeyrouse,
chose to continue this tradition and has funded a scholarship in his name.
PROGRAM
Snare Drum: Etude No. 39 ... Fred Albright
Marimba: Cello Suite, Eb Major Preludium ... J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Adam Trupp, percussion
Student of Mr. Ken Green and Mr. Oliver Molina
Partita in A minor movements I and IV ... J. S. Bach/Cooley (1685-1750)/(b.1948)
Justin Garretson, Tuba
Student of Dr. Masahito Kuroda
Estudio Melodico, op. 33 ... Miguel Yuste (1870-1947)
Jorge Ojeda Munoz, clarinet
Dr.Chialing Hsieh, piano
Student of Dr. Malena McLaren
“Is Not His Word Like a Fire” from Elijah ... Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Michael Martin, baritone
Michael Rorex, piano
Student of Mr. Michael Rorex
Solo Cello Suite #2 in D minor, BWV 1008, Movement I: Prelude ... J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Alejandro Restrepo, cello
Student of Mr. Paul Christopher
Alejandro Restrepo is a
native of Cartagena, Colombia. He is currently pursuing a double major at
Northwestern State University in Business Administration and Violoncello
Performance. Alejandro is a member of the cello studio class of Paul
Christopher and of the Natchitoches-Northwestern Symphony Orchestra. He has
participated in a number of summer music programs including a tour of Paris,
France with the Binational French-Colombian Orchestra in 2017 and the Renova
Music Festival in Pennsylvannia in 2018. Also, at the beginning of this year
Alejandro was part of two orchestras in which he played alongside international
artists Alexis Cárdenas (violin), and Santiago Cañón Valencia, (cello) as well
as members of the London Philharmonia Orchestra.
