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The start time for this event is non-typical – it will begin at 7:00 pm in Helen Pierce Elbin Auditorium in College Hall.  This even coincides with the department’s 3-day Tri-State Honor Music Festival (also in its ninth year).  Talented and highly select students from the Tri-State region will be on campus and will present their own concert on Saturday afternoon.  All events in the department of music at West Liberty are FREE and OPEN to the public.

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Matthew Inkster conducting members of the Berlin Philharmonic

Wheeling musician and educator Dr. Matthew Inkster traveled to Provence, France, to conduct 12 members of the Berlin Philharmonic – widely considered the world’s best orchestra. Inkster was one of only a handful of conductors worldwide to take part in the workshop, which is a joint project between the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University and musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.  Other conductors were from Germany, Russia, Australia, Belgium, England, and the U.S.

“I am still so excited about this experience,” Inkster said. “The musicians coming from Berlin were themselves from six different countries, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Albania, Scotland, and Austria. This speaks to the universality of music, and their passion for the art and their own commitments to teaching from the conductor’s podium was a life-changing experience.”

The Conductors Lab is hosted by the Vanderbilt Center in Aix-en-Provence, France, and provides a weeklong cooperative learning environment for experienced conductors. Inkster had to submit a curriculum vitae and a 30-minute DVD of live performance work to be considered for the honor.

Participants conduct an ensemble of Berlin Philharmonic musicians and receive comments and critique in real-time directly from the musicians themselves. Unlike other workshops Inkster has attended in Colorado and Minnesota, the French lab has no master-conducting teacher. Instead, all feedback is contextualized in follow-up sessions between the musicians and participant conductors, offering conductors a rare opportunity for growth and improvement of skills.

Inkster, who also is the conductor of the , a post he’s held for the last eight years, is entering his 11th year as the director of instrumental activities and professor of music at West Liberty University where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and coordinates the brass area.

He is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician—most recently conducting honor and select groups in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, California and New York. He has specialized in conducting the music of our time, and he has led ensembles on several compact disc recordings of new music on American and European labels. His performances have been heard on national and regional NPR and worldwide on the BBC.

Inkster also is active as a trumpet soloist, recitalist and clinician and has performed in 45 states and across Europe. For 12 years, he was principal trumpet of the Symphony of the Mountains (Tennessee/Virginia), and he has held similar positions with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, the Chapman and Redlands Symphony Orchestras (Calif.). He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and he has competed in a number of the most prestigious trumpet competitions across the world: the Prague Spring International Music Competition, the International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition, the National Trumpet Competition and the Music Teachers National Association’s National Collegiate Artist Competition.

Inkster is the West Virginia Music Educators Association Research and Grants chairman and has recently served as the composition contest chairman for the International Trumpet Guild.

He holds the degrees of Doctor of Music from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla., Master of Music from University of Redlands, Redlands, Calif., and Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo. Inkster also has taught in the public schools of Wyoming, California and Florida.

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Wed, October 29, 2014 – Sat, November 1, 2014

The Bel Cuore Saxophone Quartet will present two programs and spend time working with music students. More information coming soon!

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The Electronic Music Concert begins at 7:30pm in Elbin Auditorium on the West Liberty University campus. All Division of Music concerts are free and open to the public.

The concert features the World Premiere of a new work by Dr. Matthew Harder called Power for gyil and electronic sound. Dr. Michael Vercelli, from West Virginia University, will be performing on the gyil, a West African xylophone. Dr. Vercelli is widely known as a master performer and scholar of the gyil.

The concert also features solo performances by students from the Live Electronic Music class, as well as student “tape” pieces.

Below is a 30-second promotional video featuring an excerpt from Power.

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