FSU Student Alexa Bashaw to Present Senior Recital

2016 Oct 5

Frostburg State University student Alexa Bashaw, a mezzo-soprano, will present her senior voice recital on Sunday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU's Performing Arts Center. This event is free and open to the public.

Bashaw will be accompanied by Joseph Yungen on the piano. Additional performers include Cheyenne Jeffries on drums, Trace Livengood on bass, Zee Mollon on alto saxophone and Garrett Yoder on guitar.

Selections will include "Qui sedes ad dextaram Patris" from "Gloria in D" and "Un certo non so che" by Antonio Vivaldi, "Gia il sole dal Gange" from "L'honesta negli amori" by Alessandro Scarlatti, "Me voglio fa 'na casa" by Gaetano Donizetti, "J'ai pleure en reve" by Georges Adolphe Hue, "Jardin d'amour" by Frederick Keel, "Faites-lui mes aveux" from "Faust" by Charles-Francois Gounod, "Ich liebe dich" by Edvard Grieg, "Standchen" by Johannes Brahms, "Where the Music Comes From" by Lee Hoiby, "Ah, Love but a Day!" by Amy Beach, "When a Merry Maiden Marries" from "The Gondoliers" by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, "When Daffodils Begin to Peer" from "The Winter's Tale" by Roger Quilter and "House of the Rising Sun," a folk song arranged by Bashaw.

Bashaw, a choral assistant in the Department of Music, studies voice at FSU with Lawren Hill. She is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, President's Leadership Circle and the National Association for Music Educators (NAfME), as well as president of NAfME's FSU chapter. She has also been on the dean's list.

Bashaw expects to graduate in May 2017 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education and plans to teach choir or guitar at the middle school or high school level. She hopes to earn her master's degree within the next few years and eventually a doctorate.

A graduate of Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va., she is the daughter of Nicole and Kevin Daughters.

For more information, contact the Department of Music at 301-687-4109.