Clarksville’s First Thursday Art Walk scheduled for November 6th, 2014
November 4, 2014
Clarksville, TN – Produced by the Downtown Clarksville Association, First Thursday Art Walk is a free, self-guided tour spanning a 5-block radius that combines visual art, live music, engaging events and more in the heart of Downtown Clarksville.
With 10+ venues, bars and businesses participating each month, the First Thursday Art Walk in Clarksville is the ultimate opportunity to savor and support local creative talent.
First Thursday Art Walk in downtown Clarksville scheduled for July 3rd.
Cello percussion duo New Morse Code visiting Austin Peay State University on October 31st
October 28, 2014
Clarksville, TN – In a brief YouTube video clip, Hannah Collins is seen playing the cello while Michael Compitello taps his drumsticks against different sized flowerpots. The performance could be seen as a novelty act if the resulting music wasn’t so beautiful.
This mixture of playfulness and serious music making is what defines New Morse Code, a music duo of Yale University graduates who are using inventive performances to expand the reach of classical music to a younger generation.
New Morse Code to visit Austin Peay on Friday, October 31st. (Photo: Michiko Tierney)
New Watauga Summer Arts Camp at APSU now accepting applications
March 9, 2014
Clarksville, TN – Applications are now being accepted for the Watauga Arts Academy, a new summer arts camp hosted by Austin Peay State University, in cooperation with the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts.
This two-week summer program is designed for high school students (grades 9-12) who have a passion and interest in the creative arts.
New Watauga Summer Arts Camp now accepting applications
Austin Peay State University Choral activities hosting 4th Holiday Dinner on December 7th
November 9, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Every year, thousands of people stop by Austin Peay State University to attend athletic events, lectures and performances, and the atmosphere is usually relaxed, with visitors dressed casually as they stroll through campus.
But at 7:00pm on December 7th, the community is invited to come out and enjoy a more formal evening with the APSU choral program’s fourth annual Holiday Dinner.
APSU 4th Annual Holiday Dinner December 7th.
Clarksville Community Concert Association kicked off 2013-14 Community Concert Series with a performance by the Toomai Quintet
September 30, 2013
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville Community Concert Association (CCCA) held this season opener at the George and Sharon Mabry Concert Hall on Austin Peay State University Friday evening. The concert featured the Toomai String Quintet and what was the first quintet to be featured in a Clarksville community concert series event.
The program was entitled songs without words and featured a selection of choral music played with their five instruments performing the role of the voices. It was sublime. These five performers were able to draw the emotional complexity from the music with apparently effortless ease.
The Toomai Qunitet at the George and Sharon Mabry Concert Hall
Clarksville Community Concert Series kicks off 2013-14 season with Toomai String Quintet on September 27th
September 25, 2013
Clarksville, TN – The New York-based Toomai String Quintet will perform a program titled “Songs Without Words” at 7:30pm on Friday, September 27th, in the Austin Peay State University Mabry Concert Hall.
The evening marks the first concert of the 2013-14 Clarksville Community Concert Series, and it also is a component of the University’s annual Honors Orchestra Festival.
Toomai String Quintet
APSU concert to showcase beauty and versatility of the cello in Britten Suites
March 3, 2013
Clarksville, TN – In the early 1960s, the famed English composer Benjamin Britten attended a London concert featuring a young Russian cellist named Mstislav Rostropovich. According to the Colorado Britten Society, the English composer bobbed “up and down like a school boy” as he listened to Rostropovich.
That concert was a fortuitous event in the development of modern classical music. The two men became friends, and Britten went on to write three stunningly beautiful cello suites for Rostropovich.
Eli Lara, APSU cello professor.
Virtuoso pianist Gloria Chien to open Clarksville Community Concert Association’s 2012-13 season on September 21st
September 18, 2012
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville Community Concert Association will kick off its 2012-13 season at 7:30pm on September 21st with a performance by piano virtuoso Gloria Chien.
Richard Dyer of the Boston Glove praised Chien for “a wondrously rich palette of colors, which she mixes everything with dashing bravado and with an uncanny precision of calibration.”
32 new tenure-track faculty join APSU
September 10, 2011
Clarksville, TN – A total of 32 new tenure-track faculty members have become part of the Austin Peay State University community.
College of Arts and Letters
New faculty members are Dr. Eric Branscome, Beatrix Brockman, Paul Collins, Barry Gresham, Daniel Austin Humberd, Johnny Jones, Dr. Eli Lara, Tracy Shearon Nichols and Margaret Rennerfeldt. [Read more]
