STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Mezzo-soprano Emily Howes-Heilman and pianist Galen Dean Peiskee will be in concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, in the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Theater on the Tarleton State University campus in Stephenville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Admission is free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Howes-Heilman is an Assistant Professor of voice at Sam Houston State University. She earned her doctor of music in voice performance from Florida State University, where she received the Edith S. Joel Opera Scholarship as well as the Glenys Gallaher Award and the Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition. She completed both her master\u2019s and bachelor\u2019s of music in voice performance at the University of Louisville, where she was the 2014 winner of the concerto competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She covered the role of Hannah After in Laura Kaminsky\u2019s \u201cAs One\u201d with Chautauqua Opera in 2018 and the mezzo role in Phillip Glass\u2019 \u201cHydrogen Jukebox\u201d<\/em> in 2017. She performed works by Timothy Hoekman at Carnegie Hall along with members of the Parlance Vocal Ensemble, and she premiered Quinn Dizon\u2019s 12 Haiku for mezzo and orchestra <\/a>at the University of Louisville\u2019s New Music Festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She also has premiered several roles with Thompson Street Opera, including the Executioner in Chris Kincaid\u2019s \u201cCephalophore\u201d and Wingtip in Yvonne Freckman\u2019s \u201cRootabaga Stories.\u201d She was in the U.S. premiere of \u201cWhiskers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Peiskee has established a multifaceted career as an accomplished chamber musician, soloist, orchestral pianist, accompanist and vocal coach. He has performed all over the United States as well as in Poland, Italy, Austria, Greece, Cuba and Bolivia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is a member of the Emerald Trio, Trio Vivo, the Young-Peiskee flute-piano duo, the Bold City Contemporary Ensemble, and the Cerulean Trio, finalists in the 2016 Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He has performed as a soloist with the Brazos Chamber Orchestra multiple times and was the pianist for the Singing Girls of Texas for five years. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in May 2017, performing the music of Timothy Hoekman in Weill Recital Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peiskee has a doctor of music degree in collaborative piano from Florida State University, where he earned his master of music degree in accompanying. He also has acquired an artist diploma from Texas Christian University, where he earned his bachelor of music degree in piano performance, and an associate of music degree from Kilgore College. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Mezzo-soprano Emily Howes-Heilman and pianist Galen Dean Peiskee will be in concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, in the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Theater …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":50169,"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":382,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,423,424],"tags":[442,453],"class_list":["post-50230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-academics-research","category-arts-events","tag-community-events","tag-performing-fine-arts"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"priddle","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/priddle-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2024\/02\/4670-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["_Homepage<\/a>","Academics & Research<\/a>","Arts & Events<\/a>"],"unlinked":["_Homepage<\/span>","Academics & Research<\/span>","Arts & Events<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Community Events<\/a>","Performing & Fine Arts<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Community Events<\/span>","Performing & Fine Arts<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 22, 2024","modified":"Updated on February 21, 2024"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 22, 2024 8:00 am","modified":"Updated on February 21, 2024 1:29 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Modern sculpture in front of a brick building under a clear sky.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}