Chen Yi, Jennifer Higdon, Paula Robison, Igor Stravinsky, Carl W. Stalling, Shulamit Ran, Pablo Ortiz, Ross Bauer, Michelangelo Buonaroti, Artemisia Gentileschi, Anthony and Sandra Guzzo, Giotto, Jackson Pollock, Martha Graham, Brit punk from the 70s and 80s
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SPANK is a dynamic chamber ensemble dedicated to presenting music from the fringe. Nicole Riner, flutes; Anne Guzzo, clarinets and composer; Maureen Sorensson, soprano; and Theresa Bogard, piano specialize in performing contemporary music and music by women and minority composers for diverse audiences in an interactive setting. They champion the music of our time and enjoy collaborating with emerging composers.
Founded in 2007, their first season included performances at the University of Wyoming's New Frontiers: The Laramie Contemporary Music Project, and world premieres of music by Rocky Mountain composers
Richard Faith, Anne Guzzo, and Randall Shinn. Award-winning composers David Brinkman and Beth Custer have also written original pieces for the group, and in December they were honored with the 2009 Social Justice Research Center Grant from UW. This grant will be used to record Anne Guzzo's Haddayr Blogs, composed for the SPANK in 2008.
NICOLE RINER is a nationally active recitalist, clinician, and freelance flutist. She been a member of various chamber ensembles and orchestras in Michigan, Indiana, Colorado, and Wyoming and has performed at summer festivals in the United States and Germany. She currently teaches at University of Northen Colorado and University of Wyoming. ANNE GUZZO is an award-winning composer whose music has been played by the San Francisco Bay Area modern music group, the Empyrean Ensemble; the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra; Third Angle in Portland, Oregon, and a number of other ensembles. Guzzo currently serves as assistant professor of theory and composition at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. THERESA BOGARD has performed internationally as a soloist and a collaborative artist. She has presented lecture/recitals on music by American women composers at the Scripps College Inaugural Symposium on Women in Music in California and at the American Music, American Women Susan Porter Memorial Symposium in Colorado. Bogard is featured on a compact disc recording of piano works by Louise Talma which was released by CRI records in 1999. She currently serves as Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the University of Wyoming. MAUREEN SORENSSON soprano, a member of the Vocal Arts faculty at UW, has been performing in the central states for 25 years in oratorio and opera and is a member of the Central City Opera Ensemble resident soloist with the Denver Bach Festival.
Hi! Nice to see you here. I got a grant to run parts for that piece and so I should have them for you early fall. It'll be great to work together (I mean, your name is SPaNK!).
