Oberlin College and Conservatory

Guest Master Class: Randall Hawes, bass trombone and Kathryn Goodson ’85, piano

Monday, October 14, 2013 at 4:00pm to 7:00pm

Bibbins Hall (Conservatory of Music), 339 - Stull Recital Hall
77 West College Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

A master class by Randall Hawes, bass trombone, followed by a master class featuring "Songs for Winds" by Kathryn Goodson ’85, piano.

Admission is free.

Stull Recital Hall (Bibbins 339).

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Randall Hawes was appointed bass trombonist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1985. He received a Bachelor of Music Education from Central Michigan University, where he studied with William Rivard. He is a lecturer of trombone and brass chamber music, as well as a member of the Faculty Trombone Quartet at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He has performed and taught in Europe, Australia and Asia, as well as since 2009 annually at the Pokorny Seminar, University of Redlands, California. Before joining the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Hawes received a Bachelor of Music Education from Central Michigan University, where he studied with William Rivard, followed by two years touring as a member of Woody Herman's Orchestra.  Throughout his career Hawes has performed, often recording and traveling with many different conductors and the orchestras of Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles and the Grand Teton Festival. He has played regularly since 1995 with the World Orchestra for Peace, under both Sir Georg Solti and Valery Gergiev, and he performs often with Music of the Baroque in Chicago and the Chicago Chamber Musicians.  Since 2011 he has been a member of the Saito-Kinen Festival Orchestra in Japan, under music director Seiji Ozawa.  

Kathryn Goodson ’85 is a pianist, coach, and concert curator based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  She maintains a schedule of recitals with vocalists and instrumentalists, and gives master classes, throughout the United States, Europe, and, several times in Japan.  In May, 2013 she spearheaded Charles Ives chamber music concerts partnering with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the complete Ives Symphonies presentation at Carnegie Hall, NYC.  Goodson's collaborations include CDs for Innova and Block-M as well as Swiss Television and Chicago WFMT Radio recordings.  Since 2005 she has served as pianist/coach at the University of Michigan School of Music, where she earned her master and doctorate of collaborative piano with Martin Katz.  She received her bachelor of music in piano performance from Oberlin Conservatory in 1985 as a student of Robert Shannon. A recipient of two Fulbright Scholarships to Germany, she received the Konzertexam and highest honors in Liedgestaltung with Hartmut Höll at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, where she returns regularly to teach American Art Song.  Ms. Goodson organized music festivals for the Internationale-Hugo-Wolf-Akademie of Stuttgart; in Ann Arbor, she is pianist/co-founder of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra KinderConcerts, and co-founder of Concerts4aCause at Northside Community Church. 
 

 

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