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Music at Noon Series
Gregory Brookes (Texas Tech University) & Deanna Oye, piano
12:15 pm, October 10, 2017
University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome!

The artists will present a selection of vocal repertoire including music by Mozart, Mahler, Kohn and Canadian composer André Mathieu.

Baritone Gregory Brookes has been praised for his “rich baritone sound” and “Shakespearian acting.”  After receiving a BMus in clarinet performance from the University of Calgary, he pursued graduate work at the Eastman School of Music where he earned a Master of Music in vocal performance and literature. He subsequently earned a Performer’s Diploma and a Doctor of Music from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.  He has earned praise for both his operatic and musical theatre roles some of which include, Don Giovanni, the title role in Sweeney Todd, The Mikado, Simone in Gianni Schicchi, the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, Cervantes in Man of LaMancha, Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Billus in South Pacific. In addition to his lyric theatre performances, he is a frequent collaborator with numerous choral societies having sung the baritone solos for the Brahms's German Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation, the Orff Carmina Burana, the Duruflé Requiem and the Mozart Requiem.  Gregory’s performances have been heard on NPR, CBC and the BBC and he has performed internationally in China, Honduras, Canada, England and France.  He is currently an Assistant Professor of Voice at Texas Tech University where he teaches applied voice, graduate and undergraduate vocal pedagogy, Italian and English diction and directs opera.

Pianist Deanna Oye is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Lethbridge where she teaches Studio Piano, Musicianship Skills, and directs the Collaborative Piano/Guitar area, a unique course series which she designed and implemented.  Born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, she first pursued studies in journalism at Carleton University before turning to the full-time study of the art of music.  She holds a doctorate in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music from the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY), and maintains a busy and diverse performing schedule as both solo and collaborative artist.  She has given performances and papers at major conferences such as the International Musicological Society (Amsterdam), Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Canadian University Music Society, and the World Saxophone Congress.  Additionally, she was the official pianist for the Richard Miller Vocal Performance and Pedagogy Institute, an event that brought the internationally-renowned pedagogue to southern Alberta.  Recent performances include the University of Lethbridge's Music at Noon series; Lakehead University's LUMINA concert series; collaborative recitals in Rochester, Syracuse, and Geneseo, New York; the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine; and broadcasts on Buffalo's National Public Radio program, Opus: Classics Live.