EUGENE–Performances by student singers of all ages and by faculty vocal artists will highlight the five concerts and a master class with renowned accompanist Dalton Baldwin scheduled this week at the University of Oregon School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave. Also on tap are concerts featuring romantic chamber music, and orchestral and band repertoire.

For more information, call the music school weekdays at (541) 346-5678. To confirm concert times and ticket information, call GuardLine from a Touch-Tone phone at 485-2000, ext. 2533, for a 24-hours-a-day taped message of the week’s events.

Nine members of the UO music faculty will combine forces for a Faculty Artist Series concert titled "Romantic Chamber Music" at 4 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens.

The four selections on the program are "Adagio and Allegro" by Robert Schumann, featuring hornist Ellen Campbell and pianist Victor Steinhardt; "Legende" by George Enesco, featuring trumpeter Stephen Dunn and pianist Mary Elizabeth Parker; "Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 105" by Robert Schumann, featuring violinist Fritz Gearhart and pianist Mary Elizabeth Parker; and a woodwind quintet by Walter Gieseking, featuring pianist Gregory Mason, oboist J. Robert Moore, clarinetist Wayne Bennett, hornist Ellen Campbell and bassoonist Steven Vacchi.

The UO Men’s Chorus and Women’s Chorus will share a concert at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Admission is free.

The Men’s Chorus, directed by graduate teaching fellow Genaro Mendez, will sing "At the River" by Aaron Copland, "A View of the Temple" by Daniel Belknap, "Evening Song" by Stephen Jenks and several spirituals and traditional folk songs including "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel," "Shendandoah," "Down in the Valley" and "Amazing Grace."

The Women’s Chorus, directed by graduate teaching fellow Lesa Jacobsen, will perform "Laudate Dominum" by Mozart, "Mi Shebeirach" by Debbie Friedman and "Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda" by Gustav Holst.

The UO Campus Orchestra and Campus Band will be the featured ensembles at an 8 p.m. concert in Beall Hall. Admission is free.

The Campus Orchestra, directed by graduate teaching fellow Franklin Alvarez, will perform "Prelude and Baroque Fugue" for string orchestra by Lewis Miller, "Introduzione" by Gaetano Donizetti, "Scherzo" by Sergei Rachmaninoff and a light finale titled "Plink, Plank, Plunk" by Leroy Anderson.

The Campus Band, directed by graduate teaching fellow Suzanne Gindin, will play "Dedicatory Overture" by Clifton Williams, "Elegy for a Rose" by Barry Kopetz, "Solid Men to the Front!" by John Philip Sousa and "Tribute to Grainger," featuring three pieces by celebrated composer Percy Grainger, arranged by Chalon Ragsdale: "Country Gardens," "My Dark-haired Maid" and "The Gypsy’s Wedding Day."

Pianist Dalton Baldwin, "the dean of American accompanists," will give a vocal master class featuring University of Oregon voice majors at 7 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Admission is $5, and the public is invited to attend the class to watch one of the great masters at work.

Baldwin has worked with many of the great singers of our time, including Gerard Souzay, Elly Ameling, Jessye Norman, Jose van Damm, Frederica von Stade, Theresa Bergansa, Nicolai Gedda and Arlene Auger. He also has played for instrumentalists such as Henryk Szeryng, Pierre Fournier and the Via Nova Quartet. He considers the term "accompaniment" misleading. His partnership with singers is, in his opinion, a subtle and fascinating art form which strives for a perfect synthesis of music, poetry and the artists’ personalities.

He was the permanent pianist of Gerard Souzay for more than three decades, during which time they toured extensively on five continents and made numerous prize-winning recordings. Several of these have recently been re-released on compact disc to critical acclaim. A New York Times review in 1995 cited their partnership as "a musical marriage made in heaven." Baldwin has recorded the complete songs of Faure, Debussy, Ravel, Roussel and Poulenc for EMI.

Baldwin studied at the Juilliard School of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory. He continued his studies in Europe with Nadia Boulanger and Madeleine Lipatti and frequented the classes of Walter Gieseking and Alfred Cortot. Baldwin was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Oberlin College and received the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres title from the French government.

In addition to his concert tours, Baldwin teaches at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., and gives master classes throughout the United States, Europe and the Orient, directing much of his energy towards discovering and developing the talents of young musicians.

Tenor Mark Beudert, accompanied by pianist Dalton Baldwin, will give a Faculty Artist Series recital at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens.

The program includes several groupings of songs by Henri Duparc, Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss and Richard Hondley. Also featured will be Francis Poulenc’s setting of four poems by Guillaume Apollinaire and Joaquin Turina’s "Poems in the Form of Songs."

Beudert joined the UO voice faculty in 1995 and is currently co-chair of the vocal studies department. A native of New York, he received his B.A. degree at Columbia College in New York City and his M.Mus. and A.Mus.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He has studied voice with Franco Corelli, George Shirley and Spiro Malas, and has coached with Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Giuseppe di Stefano.

Beudert won the 1986 Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition and has been a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Competition and the G.B. Dealey International Competition. He has been a leading tenor with the New York City, English National, Turin and Scottish operas. In 1995, Beudert made his Italian debut at the Teatro Reggio in Kurt Weill’s opera "Street Scene," and, in 1997, he performed the role of Pinkerton in "Madame Butterfly" in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Three choirs from the Oregon Children’s Choir organization will be featured in a children’s concert titled "Spring Sing." The one-hour program begins at 10:30 a.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $3 for adults, $2 for children and students, or $5 for a family ticket.

The three choirs on the program include the Training Choir (girls in grades 2 and 3), BoyChoir I (boys in grades 2—5), and the GirlChoir (girls in grades 6—8). They will perform a variety of songs, including "Our World," "Flying Free," "The Water is Wide," "The Glendy Burk," "Path to the Moon," "Lukey’s Boat" and "Donkey Riding."

The audience also will participate in a sing-a-long with the three choirs, under the direction of Kathleen Jacobi-Karna.

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