FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                              October 21, 2003

ALEK SHRADER TO PRESENT SENIOR RECITAL

            Tenor Alek Shrader will present his senior recital at 3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 26, in Room 200 of the Fine Arts Building at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. A student of Aija Shrader, assistant professor of music, he will be accompanied by Charla Parker on piano.

             The recital will begin with French art songs by Martini, Lully and Mozart. They will be followed by the song cycle “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” (Songs of a Wayfarer) by German composer Gustav Mahler. Then Shrader will sing “Ich Baue Ganz” from Mozart’s opera “The Abduction from the Seraglio” and a group of British arts songs by Michael Head. The recital will end with “La Danza” by Rossini.

            At Northwestern, Shrader has been a member of the Concert Choir, University Chorale, University Singers, Northwestern Studio Singers and Phi Delta Music Society. He has written three Madrigal Feaste scripts and arranged “Just a Gigolo” for the University Singers. He competed in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) collegiate auditions, placing first at the state level and fifth at the regional level. He participated in the annual Evening of Song concerts and Swing Cabaret.

In opera workshop, Shrader played the role of Toby in Menotti’s “The Medium,” Frederick in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” and Aristeus/Pluto in Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld”.  This spring, he will perform the role of Ferrando in Mozart’s “Cosí fan tutte” (Women are like that).

During the summer of 2002, Shrader attended a Vocal Pedagogy and Performance Institute co-hosted by Aija Shrader and Dr. Ken Prewitt at Emporia (Kan.) State University.  The clinician was Richard Miller, a world-renowned vocal pedagogue, who invited Shrader to study with him this summer at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.  After graduating from Northwestern, Shrader plans to continue his vocal studies with Miller at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio.

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