2008

Summer Carillon Concert Series

Campanile Tours are available after each concert.

SATURDAY, JUNE 21 at 3:00 PM

Laura Ellis  University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

TUESDAY, JULY 8 at 7:00 PM

Suzanne Magassy  National Carillon, Canberra, Australia

TUESDAY, AUGUST 5 at 7:00 PM

Marc van Eyck  Sint-Geertruitoren, Leuven, Belgium

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 at 7:00 PM

Trevor Workman  Bournville Schools, Birmingham, England

SATURDAY, JUNE 21 at 3:00 PM
Laura Ellis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

PROGRAM

George Frideric Handel: Solemn Sinfonia --- Entrance of the Queen of Sheba

Emma Lou Diemer: Reflections from the Tower

Sjef van Balkom: Sonatine II

Geoffrey Cook: A Country Collage

Laura Ellis serves the University of Florida as associate professor in the School of Music. Dr. Ellis teaches undergraduate and graduate organ, harpsichord, and carillon. In addition to her duties as university organist, Ellis serves as curator for the Andrew Anderson Memorial Pipe Organ in the University Auditorium, the Carillon in the Century Tower, and the historic keyboard instruments housed in the School of Music.

A native of Minnesota, Ellis is a magna cum laude graduate of Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) and holds a Master of Music degree in church music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in organ performance from the University of Kansas. Her major organ teachers have been William Kuhlman and James Higdon. While in residence at the University of Kansas, she studied carillon with Albert Gerken.

Prior to her Florida appointment, Ellis served as professor of music at McMurry University and held the position of parish organist at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest in Abilene, TX. Ellis began her teaching career at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arkansas.

In October 2007 Ellis traveled to Australia for a series of five recitals, including a solo organ recital on the Great Hall Organ at the University of Sydney. She also performed solo carillon recitals at the University of Sydney and at the National Carillon in the capital city of Canberra. Earlier this month, Ellis performed as guest artist at the 47th International Carillon Festival held in Springfield, Illinois. In July, she will perform solo recitals on both organ and carillon at The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist in Spokane, Washington.

In addition to her regular performances on the carillon in Century Tower on the University of Florida campus, Ellis has performed solo carillon recitals at House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, MN, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, the University of Chicago, the Millennium Carillon (Naperville, IL), the Chicago Botanic Gardens, the University of Toronto, and the Metropolitan Church, Toronto. Recital engagements as organist have included appearances with the Jacksonville (FL) Symphony, Piccolo Spoleto (Charleston, SC), Westminster Abbey, and various locations throughout Florida, Texas, and the South.

Ellis is active in the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America (GCNA) and holds the position of director of the Music and Publications Committee. In addition, she currently serves the American Guild of Organists as District Convener for the state of Florida and Dean of the Gainesville (FL) chapter.

More information about the carillon at the University of Florida may be found at www.arts.ufl.edu/carillon. Ellis may be contacted at: LREllis@ufl.edu

TUESDAY, JULY 8 at 7:00 PM
Suzanne Magassy, National Carillon, Canberra, Australia

PROGRAM

Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Leen 't Hart: Festival of the Bells from Berkeley Suite for Carillon
Australian: The Shearer's Dream
American: House of the Rising Sun
Camille Saint-Saëns: My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice from Samson & Delilah
Christopher Lyndon-Gee: Per la morte di un secolo (For the death of a century)
Hoagy Carmichael: Stardust
Claude Debussy: Claire de lune
John Courter: Prelude from Prelude & Fugue in Baroque Style for carillon
Paul Anka / Jacques Revaux: My Way

Suzanne Magassy began carillon studies with John Gordon (Carillonneur at the Sydney and Canberra carillons) in 1979 and became an Assistant Carillonneur in 1980 at the National Carillon in Canberra. Further studies have been with Milford Myhre in Florida , and at a carillon summer school in the Netherlands.

Suzanne has performed as a recitalist in many carillon guest series in the USA, and also in Europe and Denmark. She was the first foreign carillonneur to pass requirements for 'Carillonneur' member status of the Guild of Carillonneurs of Nth America (1997), and is the one Australian to perform as guest artist at a GCNA Carillon Congress (2000). She has also been a representative recitalist at World Carillon Congresses

Suzanne's music background began with piano, then related study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Sydney Teachers' College. She has taught music at High school and College levels and for the last two decades at schools for the disabled.

During 2005-7 Suzanne has been the Visiting International Carillonneur to Trinity College, Hartford, CT and co-planned the Trinity College 3 day 75th Anniversary Carillon Festival in summer 2007.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 5 at 7:00 PM
Marc van Eyck, Sint-Geertruitoren, Leuven, Belgium

PROGRAM

Jef Denyn: Prelude in g
From the Carillon book of Joannes de Gruytters (1746): Menuet, Air & Giga
Ricahrd Rodgers: The Sound of Music, Something Good & My Favorite Things
Johann Sebastian Bach: Bist du bei mir
Franz Schubert: Ave Maria
Three Love Songs: Love Me Tender, Besame Mucho & Hi-Lili Hi-Lo
Evergreens: Fly Me to the Moon, Song for Guy & Thank You for the Music
R. Parker & H. Charles: We'll Meet Again

Marc van Eyck is the carillonneur at the Sint-Geertruitoren in Leuven, Belgium. Van Eyck's interest in the carillon began in 1968 when he studied at the Scheppersinstitute in Mechelen, where the Sint-Rombouts carillon tower is located in front of the institute. After he received his masters degree at the Hogeschool-Universiteit-Brussel in 1984, he studied at the Royal Carillon School Jef Denyn in Mechelen and received his diploma in 2001. Van Eyck is the author and founding father of the Quality Carillon Standard and inventor of the vertical transmission system for carillons.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 at 7:00 PM
Trevor Workman, Bournville Schools, Birmingham, England

PROGRAM

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Prelude to a Te Deum --- Trumpet tune
Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio in G minor
Edward Elgar: Salut d'amour & Nimrod from Enigma Variations
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio from Laudate Dominum & Voi Che Sapete from The Marraige of Figaro
Frederic Chopin: Romance from Piano Concert No. 1, Prelude No. 7 & Nocturne in E-flat
Matthias van den Gheyn: Prelude No. 5 in D minor
Gustav Nees: Rythmendans
John Philip Sousa: The Liberty Bell March --- an American tribute

Trevor Workman was appointed Carillonneur by Bournville Village Trust upon the retirement of Clifford Ball who had occupied the position since 1924 having gained a worldwide reputation as master of the Carillon. Clifford Ball was the first student outside Belgium to gain a Diploma from the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium, having received tuition from the pioneering Carillonneur Jef Denyn. As an accomplished pianist Trevor went on to receive Carillon tuition from Clifford Ball before taking over the position in Bournville in 1965. Trevor is now the longest serving Carillonneur in Bournville and is recognised as Carillonneur on the world stage having represented Great Britain in numerous European and World Carillon events.

Trevor has previously played extensively in the USA having been guest recitalist in the International Carillon Festival at Bok Tower Gardens, Lake Wales, Florida and given recitals in numerous States including Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, Vermont etc. Trevor has played the Naperville Millennium Carillon on 2 previous occasions in 2000 and 2001. Unfortunately a third occasion failed to materialise in 2006 when the Carillon was out of action during construction work. Trevor Workman has also completed extensive recital tours of Europe and regularly plays in Holland, Belgium and France. He also participated in 2005 in a series of Inaugural Concerts in celebration of the new Carillon in Alverca, Portugal.

Trevor Workman is currently President of the British Carillon Society and is active in promoting the carillon and the carillon art in England. His major priority at present having celebrated the Bournville Carillon Centenary in 2006 is in developing the “George Cadbury Carillon School”, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, which was inaugurated in October 2006 by Sir Adrian Cadbury. This venture is being developed in conjunction with the “Royal Carillon School 'Jef Denyn' Mechelen”, and the “Netherlands Carillon Institute Dordrecht” and with professional music establishments in the UK.