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Show 3 PACE EDITOR 7 Monday, April 22, 2013 Eric Liebhardt, 586-548- 8 OSU concert highlights young artists By SHERRI RIGGS FOR THE JOURNAL The Orchestra of Southern Utah presented their annual Roy L. Halversen Young Artist Concert Thursday night in the Heritage Center Theater. This concert showcased the talents of four young classical artists: Kristin Nielson, violin; Michael Wager, cello; Hillary Dalton, violin; and Rylee Dalton, soprano. The first song of the night did not feature any soloists. However, it did feature a guest conductor, Zheng Guo. Guo is a visiting scholar from the Music College of the Hunan Normal University in Changsha City, China. He is currently in the SUU Department of Music. Nielson showed off her talents during the second piece, Summer from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. Nielson has been playing the violin since age six and has won many awards, including 12 superior ratings at the Southern Utah Strings Festival and three gold cups, according to her biography in the concert program. Currently, Nielson teaches private lessons in violin and viola, and is a member of OSU. Fourteen-year-ol- d Rylee Dalton performed next. She sang the aria Quando men vo, from Giacomo Puccinis opera. La boheme. Stacy Dalton, the Dalton sisters' mom, said Rylee started singing four years ago, and since then has performed in many locations, such as the Tuacahn Summer Arts Institute and the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater. At the end of Ry lees performance, she received a standing ovation by members of the audience. After her performance, the master of ceremonies Plarold Shirley made a remark that had the audience laughing: If I were the Daltons, Id get a shotgun out to protect what I got. Rylee wasnt the only performer who received a standing ovation. Her sister, Hillary Dalton, received one as well. Hillary preformed fourth and had some attendees in tears at the end of her piece. Stacy Dalton said Hillary has been playing the violin since age four and has been working with the piece Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 47, by Jean Sebelius, for a year and a half. I am extremely proud and relieved, Stacy Dalton said. Its so stressful watching them, but I dont tell them that Im just sitting there, shaking and nervous until its over. And after, Im very happy and proud. The third performer was Michael Wager, a senior music major from Sandy. He performed Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, by Edward Elgar. Wager has played with OSU since 2008. He also has performed with the Utah Symphony and David Archuleta, according to his biography in the concert program. This story continues online at suunews. com. Xun Sun, OSU conductor; Hillary Dalton, violin; Kristin Nielson, violin; Michael Wager, cello; Rylee Dalton, soprano; and Harold Shirley, OSU president, following the Halversen Young Artist Concert Thursday evening at the Heritage Center Theater. Artist-iui-residen- ce discusses large art By VADE HESS whesssuunews com is a good way the public can Zion National Parks current Michael Wong, addressed an audience in the Arena Centrum Tuesday evening, primarily large-scal- e his discussing and installations that drawings he said investigate cultural mythologies and history. Wong was introduced by Michelle Haas, coordinator for the park. She said becoming an at the park is a huge honor, one that is achieved through an extensive selection process. She said each member of the SUU art faculty gets to see six images of each applicants work. The faculty members then rate each image on a scale from 1 to 20 After the numbers are crunched, the ten highest-scorin- g artists have the opportunity to interview with representatives at the park. Haas said the purposes of the interviews are to discover each finalists approach to artwork and their plans if they get the position. The most important question for me is: What is their perspective with the connection between art and 'andscape conservation, she said. four After interviewing. artists' are chosen for different four-wee- k periods throughout This story continues online at the year. Haas said the park has this program because art suu new s.com. e, artist-inresiden- artist-in-residen- Artist Kate Starling paints a cliff at North Creek near painting nature and gave tips to hike participants. SUMA Virgin, Utah on Saturdays hike. Starling was the featured Art Hikes happen quarterly and are free and open to the artist at the SUMA Art Hike and shared insights about public, regardless of hiking or art abilities. connect with nature. Wong said he has spent the last 10 years traveling, teaching and making art. He said he has gained insights into peoples, cultures and their mythology while visiting at least 27 countries, which plays a large role in his work. mediums whose Wong, of choice are drawing and printmaking, said the park drew him in with its abundant and spirituality, history mountains. Mountains mediate space between earth and sky; they show time and erosion, he said. seers and Prophets, shamans received spiritual information on them. He emphasized this concept with a picture of his 9x9 foot silkscreen, titled Gold Mountain, which he displayed on a projector. He said he likes to create large works of art filled with painstaking detail, and let the viewer discover the piece on their own. Im not a dictator in terms of your visual experience, he said. Thats why I choose to draw on this huge scale. Next, he displayed a 9x5 foot drawing, Eldorado, which he created using only mechanical The drawing depicts pencil the meeting of American east and west in the Sierra Nevadas, he said Community members take their art outside, enjoy nature By ERIC LIEBHARDT route of the water and, therefore, the whole landscape. I find it so exciting that the land is constantly changing, she said. Sometimes as Im driving around, I think that I have painted everything that there is to paint. Then something happens and there is a million new things to paint. A few people in attendance were local artists who brought their boxes containing paints and canvases. For those who did not bring anything to sketch with, Starling provided basic materials to make a very basic sketchbook: cardboard and large sketch paper. Starling said she grew up with does smaller paintings that she with the outdoors will either use to make larger and learned to love the outdoors. paintings, or they will exist on The Southern Utah Museum She said she took geology their own. of Art Community Engagement classes at Northern Arizona The location at North Creek, Committee sponsored a free art University that made her not just off Kolob Terrace Road, hike Saturday with the theme, only appreciate the outdoors, but was not appealing to Starling Make Your Own Sketchbook. understand why things look the years ago, she said. It was only Community members met on way they do. after a major flash flood in 2008 the east side of Main Street Park While studying to become an that cleared out vegetation from and traveled south to Virgin, near earth science teacher in the mid-80- s the creek bed that it became North Creek to meet with artist at SUU, she took art classes interesting. Kate Starling and Bureau of Land and told her husband she wanted Exposed faces are constantly to become a painter, she said. Management Representative changing, she said. and SUU Intergovernmental There is something in the way My husband kind of rolled his that the sun casts shadows at Internship Cooperative Campus eyes, she said. Coordinator Anne Smith. Starling said she found her different times of day that is so Smith said she wants more passion. fascinating to me, she said. SUU students to take advantage My life has been getting Starling talked about different of this great opportunity to outside to paint, she said. This erosion processes that caused collaborate with local artists and is where I gain my inspiration. large pieces of the cliff to fall said she usually into the creek and change the get outside. 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