Department of Music Presents: Faculty Recital

On Friday, April 12, the Department of Music presented Brent Weber’s saxophone faculty recital in the Performing Arts Center. Weber is a saxophonist, performer, and educator. He earned degrees in saxophone performance from Southern Oregon University and University of Georgia. He is currently the department chair and an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Frostburg State University.

His first piece was called “Sho-Myo” by Jakob ter Veldhuis. He played the baritone/alto saxophone and used a soundtrack to play along with. The next song was called “Fun With Teeth” by Nate May. Along with Weber, Mackenzie LaMont played with him on the drum set. LaMont is a composer, performer, music educator, music copyist, and an owner of a small music recording company. He teaches percussion and composition lessons at Frostburg State. Their performance was very upbeat and shared numerous tempos. The next song was call “Epitaphe de Jean Harlow, Op. 164” by Charles Koechlin. Eftihia Arkoudis, an adjunct flute professor at Frostburg State, accompanied on the flute. Joseph Yungen, a soloist and performer of chamber music, art song, new music, and full time music faculty member, played the piano along with Weber. The audience liked the song, and it shared a lot of different tones considering that there were three different instruments blending together.

After a ten minute intermission, Yungen and Weber came back with a duo piece called “San Antonio Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano” with three connecting pieces called “The Summons,” “The Line,” and “Couples’ Dance” by John Harbison. The last song was called “Black” By Marc Mellits. Weber played his baritone with his student Eric Foreman, a senior graduating in May as a music major. Before they played, Weber said that the song shares a lot of different patterns and has a lot of funk involved.

He also thanked everyone for coming out and supporting him and his other faculty members.