EMAC recebe o Dr. Escalante e Dr. Little, professores da Morehead University.

Esta semana, a EMAC recebe o Dr. Escalante e Dr. Little, professores da Morehead University.
Eles vêm pelo Projeto de Intercâmbio CAPES-FIPSE, entre duas universidades brasileiras e duas americanas. As brasileiras somos nós e a UDESC. As americanas são a Marshall University e a Morehead State Univesity.

A coordenação brasileira está com a UFG, sendo o projeto coordenado nacionalmente pelo Prof. Eduardo Meirinhos. O intercâmbio envolve não somente alunos, mas também professores que vêm ao Brasil em missão artística, além das visitas recíprocas de missões de trabalho.
Os professores Dr. Escalante e Dr. Little, estão em missão artística.

Programação na EMAC:
Quinta: ensaio;
Sexta: recital, 9h20;
Master class com os alunos de canto (quinta-feira 15:30h) e com os de regência (sexta-feira 13:30h).
Os docentes americanos trabalharão quinta e sexta-feira com nossos coros, alunos de canto e regência.


Bio Dr. Little
Dr. Ricky Little is a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  He attended Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama where he earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music.  As a University Fellow at The Ohio State University, Dr. Little earned the Master of Arts Degree in Vocal Pedagogy and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance.  During this time he also completed studies in opera performance at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.

Dr. Little has been engaged in hundreds of creative productions in North America, Europe, Asia and South America. He has given more than one hundred international performances on four continents, which include eighteen countries and over twenty-five major cities. To date he has participated in twenty major professional tours, encompassing over twenty international music festivals.  He has performed in some of the most prestigious music halls in the world, and before royalty and heads of states, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

His work has been reviewed in national and international newspapers, and has been aired over the ABC, TBN, KET and BET television networks. Performances given by Dr Little on the international stage have been broadcast over radio and television in Italy, Spain, East Germany, Great Britain, Brazil and other countries in South America. He can be seen in the films “Impresario”, and “The Spirituals”, and can be heard on four CD recordings.  Dr. Little has also been recognized by the Alabama Music Hall of Fame for his work as conductor with the Aeolians of Oakwood College. In 2003, the Aeolians were given a bronze star in the Hall of Fame.

Currently Dr. Little holds the position of Associate Professor of Voice at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, and is assistant conductor of The American Spiritual Ensemble.

  

Dr. Roosevelt    Escalante, Jr.

Roosevelt Escalante, Jr. is an assistant professor of music and the assistant director of choral activities at Morehead State University. Under his direction are the University Chorus, Black Gospel Ensemble, and Jazz Vocal Ensemble. Some of his duties also include teaching private voice and vocal methods. Dr. Escalante came to Morehead State University after teaching at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC and at Van Horn High School, Kansas City, MO. He received a BM in piano performance from Stetson University, a MM degree in piano performance and a DMA in choral conducting from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. While at the UMKC conservatory, he studied with well known pianist Richard Cass and choral visionary Eph Ehly.

Dr. Escalante is an active conductor and choral clinician. Some of his recent guest appearances include the Kentucky Music Educator’s District 8 Honor Chorus, the Kentucky Music Educator’s Annual Conference, the Stetson University Honor Chorus, the Wilkes County Honor Choir, the Brownsburg High School Choral Festival, and the New Albany High School Gospel Celebration, and KY- NFL Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Additionally, Dr. Escalante is an avid composer of Gospel music and has held several music ministry positions. His professional affiliations include Phi Mu Alpha, Kentucky Music Educator’s Association, and the American Choral Director’s Association.