Performer Profiles - Spring 2016 Season
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Jeremy Ukena, Adjunct Lecturer in Music at Utica College, is presently the Department Head of Fine Arts at Proctor High School. He has been teaching in the Utica City School for 31 years: string instruments, orchestra, Proctor's "Moose" Ensemble, and music theory. He just became a contracted 'cello player with the Utica Symphony, is a member of Local 78 Music Union and play's with the Saranac String Quartet. 
Paul Leary is currently Assistant Professor of Music SUNY Oswego in Oswego, NY where he currently teaches electronic music, theory, composition, music business, and popular music. After earning a Bachelor degree in music composition at the University of Michigan in 1999, Dr. Leary earned a Master of Music at the Cleveland Institute of Music, finally completing his education by earning a PhD from Duke University in December 2012. His choral music has been performed widely and his electronic music has been featured at over forty concerts and festivals over the last few years including SEAMUS, The Florida State New Music Festival, the New York City Electro Acoustic Music Festival, and Electronic Music Midwest.
Robert Marshall Auler is an award-winning pianist who maintains a national and international performing and recording career. Auler has won numerous competitions, including the Society of American Musicians First Prize. Following his success in the Young Keyboard Artists’ Association Piano Competition, Auler was invited to perform on a fifteen-city tour with orchestra throughout Germany, France, the Netherlands and Denmark. He has recently presented concerts in Venezuela, New Zealand, Austria and the Czech Republic. Recent projects include concerts in China and South Africa and an Albany solo piano CD. Auler has also appeared throughout the U.S. and Canada and made his Carnegie Hall debut in June of 2004.
Sar-Shalom Strong is well known to east coast audiences as both a soloist and a collaborative pianist. In a career spanning over 25 years, he has had the privilege of collaborating with international artists such as flutists Judith Mendenhall and Gary Shocker, trombonist Joseph Alessi, violinist Sarah Crocker, singers Helen Boatwright, Peter Vandergraaf, and Sanford Sylvan, as well as a multitude of the fine musicians who live and perform throughout upstate New York. In March 2013, he performed a solo recital for the Walker Lecture Series in Concord, NH, where he has also appeared several times as a collaborative artist. Locally, he performs with the Society For New Music, where he has been involved in the premiere of many new works, and also appears on programs for Civic Morning Musicals, the Skaneateles Festival, A Little Summermusic, The Oasis Center of Syracuse, Hamilton College, and Utica College. He has performed orchestral keyboard with virtually all the orchestras in the area, most notably for almost ten years with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, and is a founding member of both the Jewell Piano Trio and the Southwick Trio. Recorded performances with Society for New Music on Innova Records and with soprano Janet Brown on Russetbush Records have met with considerable acclaim.
Albanian born and raised, pianist Ida Tili Trebicka performed throughout the United States, Europe and China, as orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She performs regularly under the auspices of Syracuse University, Civic Morning Musicals, and Society for New Music etc. and has collaborated frequently with Syracuse Symphony Orchestra members in annual chamber music concerts. Ida has been featured on Albanian National Radio-Television, Italian Broadcasting Corporation RAI 2, Radio Ancona, Italy, and locally on WCNY in Syracuse, WBFO in Buffalo and WCCA TV 13 in Boston. She is a winner of several competitions and awards, such as the Albanian National Piano Competition, the Civic Morning Musicals Pianist Prize, the Syracuse University’s Concerto Competition, etc. Ida is a board member of the Central New Your Music Teachers Association (CNYAMY) and on the Board of Directors for the Civic Morning Musicals, and a member of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). As an artist and teacher she is also in demand and has served regularly as judge in various competitions. Ida is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at Syracuse University's Setnor School of Music and serves as Music Director at Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cazenovia, NY. 
Flutist Dana DiGennaro has performed throughout the United States, continually displaying her versatility as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player. Her performances have been hailed by the Houston Post as “keenly focused, joyous and energetic” and by the Southampton Gazette as “breathtakingly beautiful”. Ms. DiGennaro, a native of Southern California, received her Master of Music Degree from the Mannes College of Music in New York City. She has performed with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida, the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado and for five years was the second flutist of the Westchester (NY) Symphony Orchestra. She performs frequently with Symphoria, and has also played with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic and the Albany Symphony. She is an active freelance musician and has played flute, alto flute and piccolo with the touring company of the musicals “Wicked”, “Peter Pan” and in 2016, “Phantom of the Opera”. Ms. DiGennaro is a member of the flute faculty of Syracuse University and LeMoyne College and maintains a private flute studio at her home in DeWitt, where she lives with her husband, trombonist David DiGennaro, and their two musical children.
Carol Hebald enrolled as a Freshman at the City College of CUNY in 1965 where she studied full time as an English Major. She received her B.A. in 1969: Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, with High Honors in English. She was awarded also at CCNY the William Bradley Otis Fellowship for "Distinguished Contributions to American Literature" (1969), The Elias Lieberman Poetry Award (1969), The Ralph Weinberg Poetry Award (1968), and the Theodore Goodman Short Story Award (1968). Subsequently granted a Teaching and Writing Fellowship in Fiction Writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1970. She received her M.F.A. in 1971. Having taught Creative Writing at the university level for the next thirteen years, she resigned a tenured associate professorship in English at University of Kansas in 1984 to write full time. Among a rich and varied list of works, Hebald has published three poetry collections, the most recent a chapbook entitled Colloquy, released in October 2015 by Finishing Line Press. 
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Brought to you by The Department of Performing and Fine Arts, A Taste of the Arts will showcase student art work from the 2015-16 academic year. This is a multimedia event, including visual artwork, poetry, theatre, and music. The event will included an eclectic roster of musical performances. In addition, we will be providing a sampling of various cultural cuisines represented at Utica College, and in the local community. The Utica College Chemistry Department will be creating foods for sampling using Molecular Gastronomy. 
Laura Donnelly’s first full-length collection of poems, Watershed, won the 2013 Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize. Donnelly is also the author of a chapbook, Nocturne – Schumann’s Letters (Finishing Line Press, 2010), and her poems have appeared in such places as Passages North, Indiana Review, Rhino, Poets.org, Cimarron Review, Typo, Midwestern Gothic, Pank, and others. She received an MFA in poetry from Purdue University and a PhD in English/Creative Writing from Western Michigan University, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the national literary journal Third Coast. Originally from Michigan, she now lives in Central New York and is an Assistant Professor at SUNY Oswego.
Alane Varga, piano accompanist, is a native of Pittsburgh, PA. Alane attended Slippery Rock State College for her Bachelor’s degree in Special Education and her Master’s in Counseling Services. Alane began her career at Utica College in fall 1983, as a counselor in the Academic Support Services. She was cofounder with Dr. Della Ferguson of the Womyn’s Resource Center at Utica College. In 2011, Alane was appointed Dean of Students at Utica College. She is now the College's Dean for Diversity and Student Development. Alane's musical experience includes serving as accompanist in a variety of venues, including community coffee houses, musicals performed at Utica College reflecting her love of Broadway, and the UC Lunch Hour Series.School of Arts and Sciences
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