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UST Voice Professor To Perform At Carnegie Hall
1/29/2009
UST Adjunct Professor of Music Marion Russell Dickson is on her  way to New York. Russell Dickson, a soprano who teaches Studio Voice and Diction in English, French and Italian, will take the stage at the famed Carnegie Hall on March 14.
Russell Dickson, tenor Todd Randall Miller and pianists Shannon Hesse and Jay Whatley will give a preview performance of the Carnegie recital entitled “A Faculty Recital of 20th Century American Song,” at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in Cullen Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.
“We are overjoyed that one of our faculty members will be singing at Carnegie Hall where so many great musicians have performed,” Music Program Chair Tom Crow said.
Russell Dickson earned a Master of Music from Eastman School of Music and holds an undergraduate degree in voice performance from Westminster Choir College. She joined UST as a faculty member in 2008. Dickson teaches Art Song Literature and Master Classes at UST. Prior to joining the UST faculty, she taught at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, Lone Star College-Kingwood and Lone Star College–Montgomery, Houghton College in Houghton, New York, Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, and as a graduate assistant at the Eastman School of Music.
Though she has performed with a choir on the Carnegie stage as a student of Westminster Choir College, this is her Carnegie recital debut at Weill Recital Hall, the intimate hall at Carnegie which is appropriate for the song recital. Russell Dickson was invited to sing in the recital by friend and colleague Dr. Todd Randall Miller of Lone Star College Kingwood. The recital is presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York.
Miller and Russell Dickson will perform one duet, the “Love Duet,”from Sleeping Beauty by Richard Faith, and “One Hand, One Heart” and “Tonight” from the earlier operatic version of West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein. Russell Dickson will perform several solos including Four Dickinson Songs by Lori Laitman, selections from Chasms by Randolph Partain, selections from Metamorphosis by Benton Hess, The Silver Swan by Ned Rorem and Della’s Aria from The Gift of the Magi by David Conte.
Many of the selections on the program were written by composers whom Miller and Russell Dickson know personally.
“When Todd Miller and I selected the music for the program, we wanted to highlight American composers who were meaningful to us,” Russell Dickson said. “When I was working at Sam Houston State with Randolph Partian, he wrote Chasms specifically for my voice. Metamorphosis is also special to me because Benton Hess was one of my coaches at Eastman School of Music. I chose to sing these pieces to celebrate American composers and to, hopefully, motivate other singers in the audience to explore their music.”
For more information about Marion Russell Dickson visit www.marionrusselldickson.com.
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