MSU School of Music at the Shane
Sunday, April 7, 3PM|
Father’s Day: The Four Fathers
1st half: Lukas Graf, voice, and Gregory Young, piano, Broadway hits with some classical.
2nd half: Ryan Matzinger, jazz sax, and Cheyenne John-Henderson, jazz piano.
Lukas Graf is a singer and conductor who specializes in teaching voice through vowel formation, body alignment, and musical interpretation. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Montana State University, two Masters of Music degrees in Voice Performance and Choral Conducting from University of Colorado (CU), Boulder, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Voice Performance and Pedagogy, also from CU. Dr. Graf has performed and conducted opera, musical theater, in concert, and in ensembles in Europe and the United States. He is currently the chorus director for the Intermountain Opera, Bozeman, maintains a private voice studio, and is the Worship Arts Director at Connect Church, Bozeman. He previously taught voice, choir, and opera at Minot State University. Dr. Graf currently teaches as a Faculty Fellow through the Honors College, directs the University Chorus, Tenor Bass Choir, and holds a voice studio through the School of Music.
Ryan Matzinger Jazz, Race and Gender issues in America; Coon Song and Ragtime Jazz; The Black American Experience, Bebop and World War II; The new American Studies tradition out of Yale and New York University supporting a theory of Jazz as American Studies, and American Studies as Jazz;
Understanding Poverty and the urbanization of black culture in America
Diversity in Academia and strategic recruiting for land grand universities
Completed Masters Degree Spring 2019 in American Studies with Theses focus on: “Coon Song and The Construction of Race in America." My research looks into the process of resolving the ideological contradiction of race in America through viewing and unpacking the construction of race as it relates directly to early American music and the evolution of the uniquely indigenous American art form of jazz, as it relates directly to American sociological conditioning and the moral and socially catastrophic legacy of slavery.
Other current and forward looking research involves how to facilitate the best outcomes for teaching jazz in academia and conveying the music of the big band era--for middle school through college level students.
Music Therapy philosophy and practices
Cheyenne studied jazz piano and Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles and completed his master's degree in composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has composed music for a variety of settings from mobile video games to jazz ensembles. As a performer he has performed in numerous jazz groups and extensively as a soloist as well. He began teaching at Montana State in 2016.
Gregory Young joined the music faculty at Montana State University in 1988 and was the founding director of the Undergraduate Scholars Program. In 2009 he got a U.S. Department of Education grant to start the MSU McNair Scholars Program. He has served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Assistant Dean of the College of Arts & Architecture, and Director of the School of Music. Currently clarinetist with the Intermountain Opera and Bozeman Symphony Orchestras, he received a bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Western Ontario, and master's and doctoral degrees in music from the University of Michigan. Young has taught at the University of Prince Edward Island, Memorial University of Newfoundland, the University of Western Ontario, and has lectured or performed on five continents. The United States Information Agency sponsored his concert tour of Brazil with the Kreutzer Trio and soprano Elizabeth Croy, and he has toured as soloist and conductor of the MSU Cello Ensemble throughout Europe and China. As clarinet soloist and composer, he toured Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand with the MSU Symphony in 2009. His book, “Creative Inquiry in the Arts & Humanities: Models of Undergraduate Research”, with co-editors Shanahan and Yavneh, was published in 2011 by the Council on Undergraduate Research. In 2017 Routledge Press released Shanahan and Young’s textbook, “Undergraduate Research in Music” and the MSU Wind Symphony performed his “Rocky Mountain Elk Suite” at the Kennedy Center.
Sunday, June 16, 3PM | Sunday, September 15, 3PM
MSU School of Music at the Shane features faculty from the School of Music at Montana State University. Join us in the Dulcie Theatre for world-class musicianship during this three-part series.
MSU School of Music at the Shane is generously sponsored by Carol Glenn & Sal Lalani.
