EUGENE–A faculty recital and a guest artist concert are scheduled this week at the University of Oregon School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave.

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.

Tenor Mark Beudert, accompanied by pianist Peter Grunberg, will give a Faculty Artist Series recital 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.

Beudert’s recital is devoted to works by British composers Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams. On the program are both solo and chamber works including Vaughan Williams’ song cycle "Along the Field" for violin and voice, featuring violinist Fritz Gearhart; settings of English folk songs for voice and piano by Britten; and Britten’s cycle "Seven Sonnets of Michaelangelo" for voice and piano.

Beudert will be accompanied on these selections by pianist Peter Grunberg, former head of the music staff at the San Francisco Opera. An internationally known conductor, accompanist and coach, Grunberg has appeared frequently with Brian Ozawa and other acclaimed singers.

Britten's "Nocturne" for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra, also on the program, dates from 1958. His work is developed in eight sections with poems on sleep and dreams written by various English authors.

Grunberg on piano will substitute for the string orchestra for this performance. The other instrumentalists will be Steve Vacchi, bassoon; Jeffrey Parsons, harp; Douglas Campbell, horn; Charles Dowd, timpani; Robert Moore, English horn; Mike Anderson, clarinet; and Jasmine Hedrick, flute.

Beudert joined the UO voice faculty in 1995. He has studied voice with Franco Corelli, George Shirley and Spiro Malas, and received coaching from 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.

A leading tenor with the New York City Opera, English National Opera, Turin Opera and Scottish Opera, Beudert made his Italian debut in 1995 at the Teatro Reggio in Kurt Weill’s opera "Street Scene." In 1997, he performed the role of Pinkerton in "Madame Butterfly" in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Grunberg has played concertos by Bach, Mozart, Poulenc and Gershwin with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and he has recorded several CDs of solo piano works. As a collaborator in lieder repertoire, he has performed with such artists as Frederica von Stade, Franz Grundheber, Deborah Voigt and Gösta Winbergh.

Grunberg is particularly active as a chamber musician in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent concerts included a solo piano recital of works of Liszt, Bartok and Ligeti, and a program with members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra that included Stravinsky’s concerto for two solo pianos, which he also performed at the San Francisco Symphony’s Stravinsky Festival.

Thursday, Oct. 5–Student Forum Guest Artist: Valerie Zamora, piano

Valerie Zamora, a classically trained concert pianist who is also deaf, will be featured at a Student Forum at the School of Music. The forum begins at 1 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Admission is free, and the general public is welcome.

Zamora will perform and discuss with the audience the challenges of her career and those of other disabled artists. She has performed and taught in Europe and across the United States, becoming increasingly aware of the discrimination exhibited toward disabled artists. In recent years, her exposure to the sometimes harsh prejudices has led her to embark upon a new path: to dispel the myths. She now performs recitals and holds workshops not only on the marvels and beauty of the classical repertoire, but also to promote an awareness of the accomplishments and achievements of those with disabilities.

Zamora received her studio training from pianists from a variety of traditions, and her career has taken her to several schools, most notably the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover, Germany, the Juilliard School in New York City, and the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. While minimizing or hiding her disability, she was recipient of numerous scholarships and grants from universities, festivals and state offices, including the North Carolina Emerging Artists Grant. In 1998 she received her first grant as a disabled–or uniquely abled–artist, the "Career in the Arts" grant from the Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Zamora’s repertoire extends to some of the most demanding solo and chamber works. She prefers playing large works or entire sets of short works because of their storytelling or structural capacity. In addition to playing and preparing for her concerts, she is also now making two CDs.

Zamora’s appearance on campus is co-sponsored by the UO Disability Services Office and the School of Music.

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