North Star Music Festival Kicks Off Oct. 24
William Averitt (upper left), Cherie Sampson (upper right), Jorge Montilla (lower left) and Vinola Trio (lower right).
The annual North Star Music Festival is scheduled for Oct. 24-25.
Organized by the Music Department and Truman’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, North Star is a festival of modern music. William Averitt will be the featured guest commissioned composer with Vinola Trio, Cherie Sampson and Jorge Montilla as guest performers.
The festival will begin at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in the Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall with an opening concert by the Vinola Trio featuring works by Averitt, Libby Larsen and Lowell Liebermann.
At 11:30 a.m. Oct. 25 a student recital will take place in Ophelia Parrish 2340. At 2 p.m. Sampson will perform “EVERY.SINGLE.ONE” in the Black Box Theater featuring original music by Charles Gran. A second show will take place at 2 p.m. Oct. 26. At 4:30 p.m. a clarinet recital by Montilla featuring music by Amanda Harberg, Andres Barrios, Valerie Coleman and Victor Marquez-Barrios, associate professor of music, will take place in the Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall.
The festival will conclude with a concert at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall. The concert will feature performances by Truman students, faculty, Voci and Cantoria, including the premiere of a new work written by Averitt for this edition of the festival.
