Percussion and Strings
Brandon Christensen & Shane Mizicko
Martin Reynolds • Chris Crawford • Matt Yount
Elizabeth Ansberry • Alex-Anne Troxel • Chris Skyles • Jennifer Samuels • Kyle Clay
The Southeast Percussion Ensemble
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite No. 2 in D Minor
(transcribed for solo marimba)
- Prelude
- Sarabande
Gabriel Musella
Sweet Dreams, Elizabeth Lee
(percussion ensemble, piano, and cello)
David P. Jones
Legal Highs
(marimba and violin)
- Mister Coffee
- Menthology
- Sweet Thing
Antonin Dvorak
Largo
(from the New World Symphony,
transcribed for eight marimbas and string bass)
David Madeira
Minus Nine
(marimba trio, vibraphone, and string quartet)
Michael Daugherty
Lex
(solo electric violin, percussion ensemble,
synthesizer, and electric bass)
Performer Bio: Shane Mizicko
Dr. Shane Mizicko, associate professor of music, is the director of Percussion Studies at Southeast Missouri State University. Before joining the faculty at Southeast in 2005, he was instructor of Percussion Studies at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, from 2000 until 2005.
Dr. Mizicko's formal training includes: Northwestern University (DM), Evanston, Ill.; Indiana University (MM), Bloomington, Ind.; and Kent State University (BM), Kent, Ohio. He has studied percussion with Michael Burritt, James Ross, Ruben Alvarez, Gerald Carlyss, Jonathan Wacker and Ted Rounds. Dr. Mizicko has also studied composition with Eugene O' Brien, John Ferritto, Frank Wiley and Thomas Janson. As a percussionist and a composer, Dr. Mizicko specializes in contemporary chamber music. He has performed chamber music under the baton of Pierre Boulez and has been coached by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Marta Ptaszynska, Augusta Read Thomas, William Kraft, Bob Becker, Donald Erb, Michael Daugherty, David Gillingham, Karel Husa, Jack Gallagher and Daniel Godfrey. Compositions by Dr. Mizicko are published by HoneyRock Publishing in Everett, Penn. and Mesa Music Publishing in Liege, Belgium.
Performer Bio: Brandon Christensen
Brandon Christensen completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony-Brook University in New York in December, 2002, where he studied violin with Mitchell Stern and studied chamber music with Timothy Eddy, Gilbert Kalish, and Julius Levine. He joined the faculty of Southeast Missouri State University in the fall of 2002 where he is currently a tenured associate professor. Before moving to Missouri, Dr. Christensen was a visiting professor of violin and viola at Dickinson College, and a member of the artist-faculty at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician throughout the United States as a former member of the West-End Chamber Ensemble, and was a chamber music fellow at the Banff summer festival as a member of the Stony-Brook graduate piano trio. He maintains a vigorous concert schedule and in recent seasons he has performed regularly throughout the region, as well as in Italy, Finland, and China. Last season he was a featured artist on both the Southern Illinois Music festival and the “Ascoli Piceno” international music festival in Italy. Dr. Christensen is the founder and artistic director of the "Chamber Music Sundays at Three" concert series in Cape-Girardeau, Missouri.
