Music faculty recital to be presented by Concord University Department of Fine Arts
ATHENS, WV (WVNS) — A musical performance will take place at Concord University on March 12, 2024.
At 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 in the Alexander Fine Arts Center’s Anderson Family Theatre, a voice recital will be presented by Concord University music faculty Jordan Stadvec and Dr. Jacob Womack. The event is free and the public is welcome to attend.
The recital will celebrate Women’s History Month and will include a wide range of musical styles- such as classical, funk, blues, and more. The songs chosen for the recital were either inspired by important women or composed by a woman.
The beginning of the program will include Libby Larsen’s “Try Me Good King”, which are five songs made from the last letters and gallows speeches of the first five queens of Henry VIII. Evan Mack’s “Preach Sister Preach” will also be included in the recital and will involve quotes from famous women like Tina Fey, Ellen DeGeneres, and more.
Those will not be the only songs performed at the recital, there will also be a performance of Lili Boulanger’s “Clairières dan le ciel,” which is a group of songs by the first woman to win the Prix de Rome scholarship. The Académie Royale created the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1663 so that sculptors and painters could study in Rome, and in 1803 musical composition was added to the award.
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Jordan Stadvec (left), a Princeton native, is Concord University’s Choir Director. She graduated from Concord University in 2012 and then earned her Master’s Degree and Artist Diploma from the University of Cincinnati: College-Conservatory of Music.
Concord University’s Marsh Endowed Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Department
of Fine Arts and Communication is Dr. Jacob Womack (right). Womack has piano performance and pedagogy degrees from WVU and Penn State Universities.
Dr. Womack and Jordan Stadvec have worked together before for the West Virginia Department of Fine Arts, Culture, and History, curated by Randall Reid-Smith, at the Granada Theater in Bluefield, West Virginia.
For more information about the event, Dr. Jacob Womack can be contacted by phone at 304-384-5306.
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