{"id":53223,"date":"2019-02-07T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=53223"},"modified":"2019-02-06T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T02:00:00","slug":"pianist-baritone-to-perform-schubert-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_07_2019\/pianist-baritone-to-perform-schubert-work","title":{"rendered":"Pianist, baritone to perform Schubert work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo Dorothy MacKenzie Price Piano Series will feature guest pianist Dr. Gabriel Dobner and baritone Kevin McMillan to perform Franz Schubert\u2019s \u201cDie Sch\u00f6ne M\u00fcllerin\u201d (\u201cThe Miller\u2019s Daughter\u201d).  <\/p>\n<p>The free concert will be held Sunday, Feb. 10, at 3 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=53296\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/piano-art.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53296\" \/><\/a>Dobner and McMillan also will present a free master class Saturday, Feb. 9, at 10 a.m. in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall. <\/p>\n<p>The recital program will be \u201cDie Sch\u00f6ne Mu\u0308llerin op. 25, D. 795\u201d by Franz Schubert. Also known as \u201cThe Miller\u2019s Daughter,\u201d the work is based on poems by Wilhelm Mu\u0308ller that tell the story of a young man who pursues to the bitter end his love for a miller\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Both Dobner and McMillan are on faculty members in the School of Music at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. <\/p>\n<p>A professor of piano, Dobner joined the faculty at James Madison University in 2001. Previously, he taught at Indiana University and the N\u00fcrnberg\/Augsburg Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in Germany. He received his bachelor\u2019s degree in piano performance from Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University. Dobner then went on to Indiana University in Bloomington and earned master\u2019s and doctoral degrees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=53297\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/piano-art-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/piano-art-2.png 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/piano-art-2-300x107.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>Dobner has recorded and performed nationally and internationally. He performs regularly with pianist Lori Piitz as part of a piano duo. These musical collaborations have led to concerts in many major venues throughout the United States \u2014 including an appearance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. \u2014 as well as in Europe and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>After preliminary schooling at the Universities of Guelph and Western Ontario in Canada, McMillan studied at the Britten-Pears School in England and earned a master&#8217;s degree at the Juilliard School in New York. His primary focus has always been the oratorio and orchestral repertoire, and his vocal flexibility and scholarly musicianship have afforded him a broad range of styles and periods \u2014 from Monteverdi and Bach to Britten and Penderecki. McMillan joined the faculty of James Madison University in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have praised McMillan\u2019s &#8220;elegant lyric baritone voice&#8221; and &#8220;singularly remarkable interpretive skills&#8221; in appearances with virtually every major North American orchestra, including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony.<\/p>\n<p>He also has established a presence in Europe, with appearances in London, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris and Prague. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Dr. Michael Boyd, UT professor of music, at <a href=\"mailto:michael.boyd@utoledo.edu\">michael.boyd@utoledo.edu<\/a> or 419.530.2183.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Gabriel Dobner and baritone Kevin McMillan will perform Franz Schubert\u2019s \u201cDie Sch\u00f6ne M\u00fcllerin\u201d (\u201cThe Miller\u2019s Daughter\u201d) this weekend for the Dorothy MacKenzie Price Piano Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,5,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53298,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53223\/revisions\/53298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}