{"id":26921,"date":"2019-09-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-faculty-recital-features-brian-walker-heather-hawk\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:53:22","slug":"tarleton-faculty-recital-features-brian-walker-heather-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-faculty-recital-features-brian-walker-heather-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton faculty recital features Brian Walker, Heather Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/>Friday, September 20, 2019<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas &mdash; Tarleton State University&rsquo;s Department of Fine Arts presents a faculty recital featuring trumpet professor Dr. Brian Walker and vocal professor Heather Hawk.<\/p>\n<p>The event takes place at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30, in the theater of the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center in Stephenville. Admission is free.<\/p>\n<p>The duo will present works by Wagner, Neruda and Heggie, among others.&nbsp;Enjoy various genres of music, including a multi-media piece.<\/p>\n<p>Walker has appeared with the Dallas Wind Symphony and the Dallas Opera, along with chamber orchestras in Plano, Allen, Arlington, Las Colinas, Irving, Garland and Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>He has performed with the North Texas Symphony Orchestra and the Grammy nominated UNT One O&rsquo;Clock Lab Band.<\/p>\n<p>Hawk, a soprano from Killeen, captured first place at the prestigious American Institute of Musical Studies Meistersinger Vocal Competition in Graz, Austria, in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Other honors include being a national semifinalist in the Opera Birmingham Vocal Competition in 2015 and placing first in the 2012 Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&amp;M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today&rsquo;s scholars into tomorrow&rsquo;s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Phil Riddle, News and Information Specialist<br \/>817-484-4415<br \/><a href=\"mailto:priddle@tarleton.edu\">priddle@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>Tarleton State University&rsquo;s Department of Fine Arts presents a faculty recital featuring trumpet professor Dr. Brian Walker and vocal professor Heather Hawk.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-634-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 20, 2019","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 20, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 9:53 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Clyde H. 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