Before
the Concert
Performance Preludes
Kevin
Salfen
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Musicology
Southern Methodist University
Come
early for each concert and join the fun! Performance Preludes, informal
talks about the music to be performed, will begin at 7:15 PM on the lower
level of the Greenville Municipal Auditorium prior to all evening programs.
This
year's speaker is Kevin Salfen. A native Texan who has lived in England
and Japan, he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University
of North Texas, completing his Ph.D. in Musicology in 2005. His chief
area of research is the music of Benjamin Britten, with particular focus
on text-music relationships. Kevin's first two degrees were in composition-his
Master's thesis was an opera (to his own libretto) about fast food culture.
He continues to be a very active composer. His Flute Sonata No. 1 will
be recorded in August 2009, and his Solo Cantata No. 1 (Hagoromo-Trope)
will be premiered in October. Kevin is currently a visiting Assistant
Professor of Music History at Southern Methodist University.
Another
of Kevin's research interests is Japanese noh theater. Working with the
Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth and the Crow Collection of
Asian Art, Kevin arranged a three-week residency in March-April 2009 for
Theatre Nohgaku, a troupe that performs Japanese-and English-language
noh.
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