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Publication Date

2-3-2008

Year of Release

2008

Note(s)

Dale Capehart, Jeanie Lee, Paul Whear, judges

Nicholas Amis, horn

Mitchell Spurlock, tenor

Kristen Pino, soprano

Patrick Billups

Assisted by Stephen Lawson, Yesim Dikener, Mark Smith, Mila Markun

Biographies

After his graduation from Marshall University with a Degree in Music Education, A. Dale Capehart directed Choir and later Band at Ceredo-Kenova High Schools in Kenova. Over the last 40 years Dale has directed the Choirs at: Twentieth Street Baptist Church in Huntington; the First Baptist Church of Kenova; Kenova Presbyterian Church, and at First Presbyterian Church in Huntington. For the last twenty years he has been at First Presbyterian Church of Huntington where he serves as Music Director.

Capehart also sang for several years with the West Virginia Opera Theatre and played bass trombone with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra now known as the West Virginia Symphony. Over the years he has sung as chorister and/or soloist with many groups in and around the Huntington Tri-State Area. He sang the role of Noah in ''Noey's Fludde" and Captain Clark in "Corps of Discovery" both with the MU Opera Theatre here in Huntington.

Dr. Jeanie Lee is Associate Professor of Trombone at Morehead State. Lee's previous positions include Principal Trombone of Midland-Odessa Symphony, Big Spring Symphony and Anchorage Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed as a member of Lone Star Brass Quintet, Anchorage Symphony Brass Quintet and was a founding member of the Borealis Brass. As a free-lancer, Lee has performed with groups such as After Six Orchestra (Anchorage, AK), the Broadway touring production of Chorus Line, Natalie Cole, Moody Blues, and Manhattan Transfer.

Lee now performs as a regular .member of the Horizon Brass Quintet and freelances throughout Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. She has performed recently with Lexington Philharmonic, Huntington Symphony Orchestra, Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra, and the DiMartino Osland Jazz Orchestra.

Lee has given recitals and master classes at high schools and colleges throughout the United States. She is an Edwards Instrument clinician, and she performs exclusively on Edwards instruments.

Paul W. Whear is an emeritus professor of music and resident composer at Marshall University. He is a winner of nine composition contests, a conductor, has received an honorary doctorate in music and continues to be active as a composer and conductor throughout the United States. In 2007 seven of his compositions were published and released and an archive for his music was created in the Library of Congress.

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Smith Recital Hall

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts | Music | Music Performance

Marshall University Music Department presents a 2008 Competition, for the, Belle and Lynum Jackson, and, Paul A. Balshaw Awards

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