Classical Guitarist Virginia Luque Performs at the College of Saint Elizabeth, March 31, 2011

Classical guitarist Virginia Luque performs in concert in Dolan Performance Hall, Annunciation Center, on the campus of the College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J., Thursday, March 31, 2011, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for senior citizens and students with a valid identification and can be obtained by calling 973-290-4378 or by emailing events@cse.edu.

Luque plays classical and flamenco music in a Spanish romantic style. She has recently recorded Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios. She has been awarded First Prize at several international competitions, including the "Manuel de Falla" Competition for Classical Guitar in Granada, Spain, and has received the Lincoln Center Scholarship, among other awards.Her concerto performances have included the Concierto de Aranjuez with the New York Virtuosi Orchestra, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the NorthWest Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Riverside Symphony, the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, the Izmir Symphony Orchestra, and Antalya Symphony Orchestra. She also premiered her own concerto with the Alexandria Symphony.She has performed in Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, The Metropolitan Opera House, The Frick Collection in New York City, and other concert halls throughout the United States. She was also invited by Christopher Parkening to do a special guest recital at the Christopher Parkening International Master Class at Montana State University.

A native of Algeciras (Cadiz), Spain, Luque began playing the guitar when she was four, started formal training when she was six, and gave her first concert at the age of seven. After hearing her playing, the legendary Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia invited her to study privately with him. She received her master's degree in Spain and at Segovia's suggestion came to America, where she also received a master's degree at the Juilliard School in New York City.

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls more than 2,100 full- and part-time students in more than 25 undergraduate, 10 graduate and one doctoral degree programs. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.

Internationally Renowned Poet, Essayist, and Memoirist, Mark Doty Visits College of Saint Elizabeth as Part of Visual Phrasing Program, March 28, 2011

Award-winning poet, essayist, and memoirist Mark Doty will give a reading, hold a Q&A session, and sign his books, on Monday, March 28, 2011, at 7 p.m. in the Octagon, located in the Mahoney Library, on the campus of the College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J., at 7 p.m. At 3:15 p.m., also in the Octagon, Doty will present a master class on The Phrase in Poetry.

Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, call Lynne McEniry, 973-290-4413.

Doty is the only American poet to receive the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is also the recipient of the National Book Critics Award and is recognized as one of the most accomplished poets in America with his syntactically complex and aesthetically profound free verse poems. His writing translates the art of visual appearance into words. Doty s most recently the author of Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poetry, The Art of Description, and Dog Years, A Memoir.

“Doty is a master teacher, revered poet, and one of the most perceptive writers on the conversations between and among visual art and the written word,” says Dr. Laura Winters, CSE professor of English and the person instrumental in bringing renowned writers to campus each semester.

Doty’s appearance is funded by the CSE Poet and Writers Fund and is one of a series of events from the CSE Culture and Humanities area. It is part of a four-pronged project combining art, music, dance and poetry under the collective umbrella called The Phrase in Art. It is funded in part by a first-time grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, bringing the arts to all Americans, and providing leadership in arts education.

“The College is grateful to the NEA for its vision, recognition, and support of this project,” says Dr. Virginia Butera, chair of the CSE art and music departments and director of the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery. “Since the Annunciation Center opened with the Maloney Art Gallery and Dolan Performance Hall, we have been able to create innovative, multi-disciplinary programs that explore intellectual ideas and the artistic experience in ways that larger museums and galleries are unable to do. The CSE art exhibitions and cultural programs are often based on the curricula and events on campus that re-enforce the important role that the arts play in daily life and also reflect the College’s emphasis on liberal arts education.”

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls more than 2,100 full- and part-time students in more than 25 undergraduate, 10 graduate and one doctoral degree programs. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.

New York Musicians to Perform Contemporary Music at the College of Saint Elizabeth, March 22, 2011

Musicians Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan will present From Phrase to Music, a concert of contemporary music, Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in Dolan Performance Hall, Annunciation Center, on the campus of the College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J. CSE music faculty member Pamela Stein will present a pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m. and the concert will start at 7:30 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public.

Annunciation Center is a barrier-free facility and fully ADA compliant. Individuals needing special accommodations should call 973-290-4378 or email, events@cse.edu.

Perich and Flanigan will explore the physical and sculptural nature of sound in their contemporary compositions. New York-based Perich is inspired by the aesthetics of math and physics, and works with simple forms and complex systems. The challenge of elegance provokes his work in acoustic and electronic music, and physical and digital art. Flanigan is a New York-based sound sculptor, composer, vocalist, and performer. Inspired by the physical materiality of sound, she focuses on amplification itself as the subject of her performances, which weave sound from her voice with hand-built feedback electronics.

CSE music faculty and students will then join Perich and Flanigan in the second half of the concert to perform In C, Terry Riley’s 1964 semi-aleatoric musical piece, which means an element of composition is left to the determination of its performers. Their asynchronous performance of a series of musical phrases will create a unique performance of the piece for the audience.

From Phrase to Music is part of a four-pronged project highlighting art, music, dance and poetry under the umbrella term The Phrase in Art, produced and presented by the CSE Culture and Humanities Area and CSE Presents. The art exhibition, Visual Phrasing, is currently on display in the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, Annunciation Center, until April 17. Poet Mark Doty will present The Phrase in Poetry, Monday, March 28, in the Octagon, located in Mahoney Library, at 3:15 and 7 p.m. The Phrase in Motion features Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, April 16 at 7 p.m. in Dolan Performance Hall.

The Phrase in Art is funded in part by a first-time grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, bringing the arts to all Americans, and providing leadership in arts education.

After being invited to apply under the Arts Education Invitational Grants Initiative, Dr. Butera collaborated with CSE colleagues Laura Winters, Ph.D., professor of English; Pamela Stein, M.M., adjunct instructor of voice; and Janice Hill, M.A., development associate for Institutional Advancement, to develop The Phrase in Art project.

“The College is grateful to the NEA for its vision, recognition, and support of this project,” says Dr. Virginia Butera, chair of the CSE art and music departments and director of the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery. “Since the Annunciation Center opened with the Maloney Art Gallery and Dolan Performance Hall, we have been able to create innovative, multi-disciplinary programs that explore intellectual ideas and the artistic experience in ways that larger museums and galleries are unable to do. The CSE art exhibitions and cultural programs are often based on the curricula and events on campus that re-enforce the important role that the arts play in daily life and also reflect the College’s emphasis on liberal arts education.”

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls more than 2,100 full- and part-time students in more than 25 undergraduate, 10 graduate and one doctoral degree programs. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.