FRIENDS OF MUSIC
Friends of Music (FOM) grew out of a need to provide
a base of community and alumni support for the
Department of Music at Methodist University. Over the
last few years, FOM has been fortunate enough to help
bring a wide variety of faculty-student concerts to campus,
establish an endowed music scholarship, and present
professional guest artist concerts and master classes. With
your continued support, we can bring this excellence in
music to everyone in our community.
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Friends of Music at Methodist
Office of Advancement, Methodist University
5400 Ramsey Street, Fayetteville, NC 28311.
2015-2016 DATES
Army Ground Forces Band Glarinet Quartet Recital
September 17, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Hensdale Chapel
Wesley Orsolic, Friends of Music Artist, Blues Guitarist
September 18, 2015 – Hensdale Chapel
11:00 a.m. Workshop
7:30 p.m. Recital
at Methodist
Fayetteville Symphonic Band and MU Concert Band
October 8, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Huff Concert Hall
Kaitlyn Lusk, Friends of Music Guest Artist, Vocalist
November 6, 2015 – Hensdale Chapel
11:00 a.m. Workshop
7:30 p.m. Recital
MU Jazz Monarchs Concert
November 19, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Huff Concert Hall
MU All-Choirs Concert
November 20, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Huff Concert Hall
Fayetteville Symphonic Band and MU Concert Band
December 1, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Huff Concert Hall
Yuletide Feaste
December 4 & 5, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Hay Street United Methodist
Church
Dr. Larry Wells, Faculty Trumpet Recital
January 22, 2016, 7:30 p.m. – Hensdale Chapel
The Second Marine Aircraft Wing Band Concert
February 2, 2016, 8:00 p.m. – Huff Concert Hall
Trineice Robinson-Martin, Friends of Music Guest Artist,
Gospel Vocalist
February 5, 2016 – Hensdale Chapel
11:00 a.m. Workshop
7:30 p.m. Recital
Methodist University Faculty Recital
February 19, 2016, 7:30 p.m. – Hensdale Chapel
Fayetteville Symphonic Band Concert
March 3, 2016, 7:30 p.m. – Huff Concert Hall
Kelly Roudabush and Jennifer Streeter, Friends of Music Guest
Artists, Early Flute and Harpsichord
March 18, 2015 – Hensdale Chapel
11:00 a.m. Workshop
7:30 p.m. Recital
MU Jazz Festival featuring Lew Tabackin
March 19, 2016 – Huff Concert Hall
Cape Fear New Music Festival
April 7, 2016 – See CapeFearNewMusic.com for more
information.
Fayetteville Symphonic Band and MU Concert Band
April 21, 2016, 7:30 p.m. – Huff Concert Hall
MU All-Choirs Concert
April 22, 2016, 7:30 p.m. – Huff Concert Hall
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
Methodist University
5400 Ramsey Street,
Fayetteville, NC 28311-1420
910.630.7100
methodist.edu/music
THE GOALS OF FRIENDS OF MUSIC AT METHODIST
◆ Increase support and donations for the Friends of Music
at Methodist Endowed Scholarship fund
◆ Provide funds for the Department of Music
◆ Provide funds for special guest artist performances, festivals,
performance series and/or professional master classes
◆ Develop projects that explore important issues
in music education
◆ Assist the Department of Music with the identification
and recruitment of prospective students
BOARD MEMBERS
Brian Harris, President
Betty Neill Parsons
Dr. Dwight House, Treasurer
Margaret Ann Player
Dr. Keith Dippre, Chairman,
Patsy Politowicz
MU Department of Music
Mary Potter
Bill Billings
Penny Schulken
Cynthia Billings
HONORARY MEMBERS
Jane Weeks-Gardiner, Founder
Carol Short
Elaine Bryant
Lou Tippett
William Jennings
Donna A. Wiggs
Mary F. Wright ’68
2015-2016
CONCERT
SERIES
WESLEY ORSOLIC
Guitar
7:30 p.m. | September 18, 2015
Hensdale Chapel
W
esley picked up the guitar at the age of six and by
age 14 was touring Europe with his own projects
Heart Of Blues, Woodoo, Had and Supersession
Group. He become a leading guitarist in his native country
Croatia. Wanting to broaden his horizons, he attended
Berklee School of Music in Boston and within two years
was invited to Los Angeles by Motown Records. It was at
that time he decided to make his new home the United
States.
From New York to Hawaii, as a player , songwriter or
producer, Wesley always leaves a lasting impression. With
his own band T.O.T., later called Raw Nature, Wesley
moved from L.A. to Las Vegas to San Francisco and finally
settled down in Lake Tahoe. Living at the Lake seems to
provide him with the kind of radiating energy that inspires
creativity.
Wesley’s musical upbringing contains a large amount of
Rock/Blues/Funk and Jazz. His unique playing style reflects
his ability to successfully combine the elements of all these
styles. Wesley’s solo album, Now And Then was released
in June 2006. It is a mixture of acoustic traditional and
contemporary blues/pop and country.
Wesley’s latest album, Carry On, was released in April
2014. This project is a blend of blues, funk, and soulful
rock, and featured several world-renowned musicians.
KAITLYN LUSK
Vocalist
7:30 p.m. | November 6, 2015
Hensdale Chapel
K
aitlyn Lusk quickly gained international acclaim
and won the hearts of audiences with her incredible
voice and captivating presence. Kaitlyn made her
major-orchestral debut with the Baltimore Symphony at
the age of 14. She was the youngest featured guest artist in
the New Years Eve showcase with the Boston Pops and her
follow-up engagement featured the refreshing renditions of
MGM songs famous by the young Judy Garland.
In addition to her live performances, Kaitlyn’s first
studio album, No Looking Back, features some of the finest
musicians and songwriters in the industry today. In her
impressive career she has demonstrated extraordinary
versatility and musical depth. Over the last decade, Kaitlyn
has been the featured vocal soloist in Howard Shore’s Lord
of the Rings Symphony, performing this role with more
than 75 of the world’s finest orchestras and many worldrenowned conductors.
At Howard Shore’s request, Kaitlyn performed the
academy award winning song Into The West as part of the
Grammy Honors in New York City. Her expanded role in
the Live to Projection Performances of the Lord of the Rings
films has brought her center stage around the world in
such legendary concerts halls as Radio City, Royal Albert
Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. Since the age of 15 she
has literally grown up singing with the finest orchestras
including the prestigious Chicago Symphony, Cleveland
Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, and the London
Symphony, just to name a few.
Most recently, she was the featured soloist in Gladiator
Live, singing for Hans Zimmer and more than 13,000 fans
at the Kracow Film Music Festival. She can be found as star
soloist on the album Lord of the Rings Symphony, released
on BR Klassik, and the newly released Western Music in
Concert, all recorded live.
TRINEICE
ROBINSON-MARTIN
Vocalist
7:30 p.m. | February 5, 2016
Hensdale Chapel
D
r. Trineice Robinson-Martin, creator of Soul
Ingredients®, holds doctoral and master’s degrees
from Teachers College Columbia University in music
education with an emphasis in contemporary commercial
music vocal pedagogy. In addition, Dr. Trineice holds master’s
and bachelor degrees in jazz studies from Indiana UniversityBloomington and San Jose State University, respectively, and is
a certified instructor in the Somatic VoiceworkTM the Lovetri
Method. Her published works are in the Journal of Singing;
Teaching in the 21st Century Eds. Harrison & O’Bryan; and
in the recently authored and upcoming publications of Voice
Training for the Gospel Soloist, and So You Want to Sing Gospel,
sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
As an accomplished performer, teacher, and scholar, Dr.
Robinson-Martin has traveled and taught students from all
over the world and lectures nationally and internationally
on a variety of Soul Ingredients® topics. Her performance
experience spans a variety of musical styles, venues and
settings: the intimacy of private parties and local clubs, the
grand stages of musical arts centers and large music festivals,
and international stages. She has performed with concert
choirs and chorales, large and small jazz ensembles, Latin
music ensembles, corporate bands, a POP orchestra, and R&B
groups, including tours with international R&B recording
group CHANGE and Standing in the Shadows of Motown Live.
Dr. Robinson-Martin currently teaches private voice lessons
and is the director of the Princeton Jazz Vocal Collective
Ensemble at Princeton University, and teaches private voice
lessons at Rider University and in her private voice studio in
New Jersey.
KELLY ROUDABUSH &
JENNIFER STREETER
Early Flute & Harpsichord
7:30 p.m. | March 18, 2016
Hensdale Chapel
K
elly Nivison Roudabush, Baroque Flute, performs
with the Durham Symphony and Carolina
Philharmonic, and is the artistic director of the
Raleigh Camerata, in addition to performing with the
Camerata, Catawba River Baroque, and North Carolina
Baroque Orchestra. She has previously performed with
Indy Baroque Orchestra’s Ensemble Voltaire and the
Bourbon Baroque Orchestra, in addition to several
modern orchestras and ensembles. Kelly has won
second place in the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra’s
Concerto Competition (2014), has been a semifinalist
in the National Flute Association’s Baroque Flute Artist
competition three times (2007, 2009, 2012), and has won
the National Flute Association’s Baroque Masterclass
Performers competition (2011). She has performed
for notable period flutists such as Claire Guimond,
Barthold Kuijken, Rachel Brown, Stephen Schultz, Janet
See, Christopher Krueger, and Stephen Preston. She is a
doctoral candidate in historical flute performance at the
Early Music Institute at Indiana University and teaches
flute and piano privately in Raleigh, N.C.
J
ennifer Streeter, Harpsichord, has performed
throughout the United States and Europe with highly
acclaimed early music ensembles Raleigh Camerata,
Three Notch’d Road, the North Carolina, Indianapolis,
and Seattle Baroque Orchestras, and the Monte Carlo
Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been featured at the
Bloomington, Magnolia Baroque and Amherst Early
Music Festivals. She holds masters’ degrees in harpsichord
and recorder from the Early Music Institute at Indiana
University, studying with Elisabeth Wright and Eva
Legêne. Originally from Europe, she now calls Cary, N.C.
home, where she is a freelance musician and bodyworker.