Thursday, September 22, 2011, 8 p.m.
Fine Arts Recital Hall

Contact: Thomas Moore
Director of Arts Management
410-455-3370
tmoore@umbc.edu

This release is available as a pdf file.

The UMBC Department of Music presents a concert by flutist Lisa Cella and pianist Deborah Allen, who will perform on Thursday, September 22 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall.

Their program will feature J.S. Bach's Sonata in E major, BWV 1035; Samuel Barber's Canzone; Robert Muczynski's Flute Sonata, Op. 14; Olivier Messiaen's Le Merle Noir; and Sergei Prokofiev's Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94.

As a champion of contemporary music, Lisa Cella has performed throughout the United States and abroad. She is Artistic Director of San Diego New Music and a founding member of its resident ensemble NOISE. With NOISE she has performed the works of young composers all around the world including at the Acousmania Festival in Bucharest, Romania in May of 2004, the Pacific Rim Festival at the University of California, Santa Cruz in May of 2005 and as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2007. NOISE also presents a three-day festival of modern music entitled soundON. Dr. Cella also performs in the flute duo inHale, a group dedicated to developing challenging and experimental repertoire for two flutes. inHale was an invited ensemble at the National Flute Association Convention in San Diego in August of 2005. She is a founding member of C2, a touring flute and cello duo that has commissioned and premiered many new works. As a soloist, she has performed around the world and is a faculty member of the Soundscape Festival of Contemporary Music in Maccagno, Italy. She is an associate professor of music at UMBC and a founding member of its faculty contemporary music ensemble, Ruckus. Her undergraduate work was completed at Syracuse University under the tutelage of John Oberbrunner and she received a Master of Music degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody Conservatory where she studied with Robert Willoughby. She received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in contemporary flute performance under John Fonville at the University of California, San Diego.

Deborah Allen is an active accompanist and piano teacher in Howard County, Maryland. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees in Piano Performance from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she studied with Thomas Schumacher. During her time there, she won the graduate school division of the Homer Ulrich Piano Competition. She was also selected to perform on WGMS radio in Washington D.C., and in a masterclass at the university's International Piano Festival and Competition. Allen's performing and accompanying experience spans over 30 years. She has performed as a collaborative pianist in vocal, instrumental and chamber music recitals, and has years of experience accompanying choral groups, church services and musical theatre productions. She currently works with some of the most well respected teachers in the area, accompanying many talented young musicians in state and local competitions and recitals. Most recently, she has enjoyed accompanying students in the Department of Music at UMBC.

Admission
Admission is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through Missiontix at www.missiontix.com, or by calling MissionTix at 410-752-8950. Tickets will also be available at the door (cash or check only) immediately prior to the concert.

Public Information
UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts

Images for Media
High resolution images for media are available online:
http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/
Photo of Lisa Cella by Richard Anderson; photo of Deborah Allen ©Chrystopher Robinson.

Directions
• From I-95 between Baltimore and Washington take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to public parking.
• From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to public parking.
• Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/

UMBC congratulates sociology professor Leslie Morgan on being named the Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for academic year 2011-12. In endowing this professorship, Roger C. Lipitz and the Lipitz Family Foundation sought “to recognize and support innovative and distinguished teaching and research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences” at UMBC.

Dean John Jeffries writes, “Professor Morgan has achieved an extraordinary record as a scholar, teacher and citizen of the university since joining the UMBC faculty in 1979.” One of the nation’s foremost scholars of aging, Morgan is author, co-author or editor of six books, 33 peer-reviewed articles and 16 book chapters. She has won substantial research support from the National Institute on Aging as well as numerous national teaching awards. Among her many roles at UMBC, Morgan is co-director of the UMB/UMBC Ph.D. program in gerontology, which she helped create.

For additional details on this honor and Professor Morgan, see the full press release.

A screening and discussion of the film “A Community of Gardeners” at the Creative Alliance, Wednesday, September 14, will feature alumnus Katie Dix ’10, American studies and political science, now with the Parks and People Foundation. The film explores the history of community gardening across the US. In addition to Dix, the discussion panel will include community gardeners and advocates from the Duncan Street Miracle Garden, Sandtown Gardens, Baltimore Green Space and Baltimore City Farms. As an AmeriCorps VISTA at Parks and People, Dix is supporting the development of the Community Greening Resource Network (CGRN).

The Homecoming Decorating Contests are back this year, and offices are encouraged to deck their spaces out in black and gold to share in the spirit of Homecoming! Departments registered by Friday, September 16, will have spirit packs delivered to their offices by students from our Spirit Street Team on Monday, September 19. All offices and halls must register by Monday, October 3.

If you are a department or residence hall, wanting to participate in the contest, visit http://alumni.umbc.edu/homecoming_spirit for more information and to register.

What does it cost when you are tense or have trouble concentrating at work, are unsure about your ability to perform a task, feel overwhelmed about having too much to do or avoid having an honest conversation about a challenging situation?

This year’s Professional Development Day is dedicated to helping you develop calm, confident power at work. New findings about the brain show that staying calm in challenging times can help our minds think more clearly, prioritize our workload and accomplish tasks more easily.

When we can talk honestly, our stress decreases and productivity improves. In this program participants will learn and practice specific tools to use on the job including how to calm the naturally negative mind, push the “reset button” to refocus your mind in a few minutes, notice and neutralize stressful stories that make a challenging situation even more difficult and use a four-step formula for giving and receiving feedback and making requests of co-workers or your boss.

This workshop for faculty and staff will be held Thursday, September 22, 8:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m., in the University Center Ballroom.

Continental breakfast will be provided. Supervisors are asked to encourage employees to attend.

Register by Tuesday, September 13, at www.umbc.edu/training.

Get a flyer with details at www.umbc.edu/hr/T&OD/schedule.htm.

From ClickZ:

“Sean has been recently appointed to develop the Center for Digital Communication, Commerce, and Culture at the University of Baltimore and is chief creative officer at idfive in Baltimore. He has colorfully chronicled digital advertising trends for ClickZ in a fortnightly column first published Nov. 11, 1998. Ever since, Sean has served ClickZ’s readers well thanks to his prescient observations and candor. He’s examined hassles of doing business on the early web, such as “Bandwidth Blues,” back in the day. Other columns are still relevant today, such as “Applications Not Ads,” that he wrote in 2003.”

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Kay Kostopoulos ’72 was featured in O, the Oprah Magazine for a class on body languages that she co-teaches at Stanford University. From the article:

“Kostopoulos starts by leading us through a series of warm-up exercises. At first, the scene is yoga-esque. We step out of our shoes and stand tall, close our eyes, and take deep, slow breaths. But before long, the tempo changes, and Kostopoulos has us jumping up and down, shaking our arms, swinging our hips, blowing raspberries, and making kooky faces, alternately sticking our tongues out and then scrunching up our noses. All the while, we’re huffing out husky ha-ha-ha sounds from deep in our bellies. Kostopoulos encourages us to experiment with a deep voice. ‘You don’t want Mary Tyler Moore,’ she squeaks, then drops her tone an octave: ‘You want Diane Sawyer.'”

Read the full story.

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The Geography and Environmental Systems Seminar presents Michael Studinger, project scientist for Operation IceBridge, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), UMBC and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The seminar, “NASA’s Operation IceBridge: Using Instrumented Aircraft to Bridge the Observational Gap Between ICESat and ICESate-2 Laser Altimeter Measurements,” will be held Wednesday, September 7, at noon in Sondheim Hall Room 001.

For more information, contact Dawn Biehler at dbiehler@umbc.edu or ext. 5-2095.