Missouri Western State University music faculty members Stephen Molloy and Jerry L. Anderson will be featured at the First Thursday Downtown Noon Concert Series at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Sanctuary of the First Presbyterian Church, 7th and Jules in St. Joseph. The performance will feature Molloy on trumpet and Anderson on organ.

First Presbyterian Church sponsors the series with the cooperation of Missouri Western’s department of music. The audience is invited to bring lunch to eat during the performance. Beverages will be provided. There will be an opportunity to meet the musicians after the concert.

Molloy is an artist in residence at Missouri Western, where he provides instruction in applied trumpet, jazz lab, perspectives in American popular music, high brass methods, and chamber brass ensembles. He is also an applied brass instructor at Kansas City Kansas Community College. He has held similar positions at Mid America Nazarene University and as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Kansas. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from St. Cloud State University and a Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Kansas.

A busy freelance schedule keeps him occupied with a wide variety of musical tasks. He is the section leader and lead trumpet player with the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, a founding member of the award-winning Fountain City Brass Band, and he can be found playing as a pit orchestra musician for many theatrical venues, including the Starlight Theater, KC Repertory Theater, Kansas City Music Hall, the New Theater, and the Musical Theater Heritage.

His passion for performing both classical and commercial music has resulted in performances with the Kansas City Symphony, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, the St. Joseph Symphony, the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, the Topeka Symphony, the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra, the Kansas Brass Quintet, the Kansas City Brassworks, the Brookside Brass, the Boulevard Big Band, the Trilogy Big Band, the New Vintage Big Band, the New Red Onion Jazz Babies, and a former appointment as lead trumpeter with the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

He has performed as a backup musician for Natalie Cole, Lou Rawls, Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow, They Might Be Giants, the Manhattan Transfer, the Temptations, the Drifters, and the Ojays. He has also been a musician for Walt Disney World. He is a member of the Kansas City Federation of Musicians and the International Trumpet.

Since 1974, Anderson has been director of music at First Presbyterian Church where he plays the 46-rank Visser-Rowland pipe organ installed in 1989. He retired in 2007 as a professor emeritus of piano at Missouri Western where he was director of keyboard studies. Many of his students have won awards in piano performance, completed graduate degrees and are in successful performance and teaching careers in the United States and abroad. The Missouri Music Teachers Association named him as Missouri Music Teacher of the Year in 2004 and selected him to be a Music Teacher National Association Scholarship Foundation Fellow in 2008.

Anderson has been active as a performer in the Midwest and as a researcher in performance practices as well as the development of keyboard technique. He holds an undergraduate degree with diploma in piano from Missouri State University and a master’s degree in piano performance from Wichita State University. He also did extensive doctoral study at the University of Iowa in piano performance with John Simms and performance practices with Robert Donington and Gerhard Krapf as well as studying musicology with William S. Newman at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

In order to help defray expenses and to insure the continuation of the series, a freewill offering will be taken. The suggested minimum donation is three dollars. Additional financial assistance has been provided by the Commerce Bank of St. Joseph.

The future concerts for this year are:

         Nov. 1: Missouri Western’s Choral Ensembles, David Benz and Roger Hale, directors

         Dec. 6: Jason Riley, guitar

         Feb. 7: Matthew Edwards, piano

         March 7: First Presbyterian Church Sanctuary and Bell Choir, Jerry L. Anderson and Judy Long, directors

          April 4: Missouri Western’s Symphonic Winds Ensemble, Jeff Hinton, director.

For further information, contact the First Presbyterian Church office at 816-232-3358 or the Missouri Western music office at 816-271-4420 or Jerry Anderson, Noontime Concerts coordinator, at 816-262-0800.

Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit www.missouriwestern.edu.

 

 Missouri Western State University music faculty members Stephen Molloy and Jerry L. Anderson will be featured at the First Thursday Downtown Noon Concert Series at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Sanctuary of the First Presbyterian Church, 7th and Jules in St. Joseph. The performance will feature Molloy on trumpet and Anderson on organ.

First Presbyterian Church sponsors the series with the cooperation of Missouri Western’s department of music. The audience is invited to bring lunch to eat during the performance. Beverages will be provided. There will be an opportunity to meet the musicians after the concert.

Molloy is an artist in residence at Missouri Western, where he provides instruction in applied trumpet, jazz lab, perspectives in American popular music, high brass methods, and chamber brass ensembles. He is also an applied brass instructor at Kansas City Kansas Community College. He has held similar positions at Mid America Nazarene University and as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Kansas. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from St. Cloud State University and a Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Kansas.

A busy freelance schedule keeps him occupied with a wide variety of musical tasks.  He is the section leader and lead trumpet player with the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, a founding member of the award-winning Fountain City Brass Band, and he can be found playing as a pit orchestra musician for many theatrical venues, including the Starlight Theater, KC Repertory Theater, Kansas City Music Hall, the New Theater, and the Musical Theater Heritage.

His passion for performing both classical and commercial music has resulted in performances with the Kansas City Symphony, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, the St. Joseph Symphony, the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, the Topeka Symphony, the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra, the Kansas Brass Quintet, the Kansas City Brassworks, the Brookside Brass, the Boulevard Big Band, the Trilogy Big Band, the New Vintage Big Band, the New Red Onion Jazz Babies, and a former appointment as lead trumpeter with the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

He has performed as a backup musician for Natalie Cole, Lou Rawls, Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow, They Might Be Giants, the Manhattan Transfer, the Temptations, the Drifters, and the Ojays.  He has also been a musician for Walt Disney World.  He is a member of the Kansas City Federation of Musicians and the International Trumpet.

Since 1974, Anderson has been director of music at First Presbyterian Church where he plays the 46-rank Visser-Rowland pipe organ installed in 1989. He retired in 2007 as a professor emeritus of piano at Missouri Western where he was director of keyboard studies. Many of his students have won awards in piano performance, completed graduate degrees and are in successful performance and teaching careers in the United States and abroad. The Missouri Music Teachers Association named him as Missouri Music Teacher of the Year in 2004 and selected him to be a Music Teacher National Association Scholarship Foundation Fellow in 2008.

Anderson has been active as a performer in the Midwest and as a researcher in performance practices as well as the development of keyboard technique. He holds an undergraduate degree with diploma in piano from Missouri State University and a master’s degree in piano performance from Wichita State University. He also did extensive doctoral study at the University of Iowa in piano performance with John Simms and performance practices with Robert Donington and Gerhard Krapf as well as studying musicology with William S. Newman at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

         In order to help defray expenses and to insure the continuation of the series, a freewill offering will be taken. The suggested minimum donation is three dollars. Additional financial assistance has been provided by the Commerce Bank of St. Joseph.

The future concerts for this year are:

         Nov. 1: Missouri Western’s Choral Ensembles, David Benz and Roger Hale, directors

         Dec. 6: Jason Riley, guitar

         Feb. 7: Matthew Edwards, piano

         March 7: First Presbyterian Church Sanctuary and Bell Choir, Jerry L. Anderson and Judy Long, directors

          April 4: Missouri Western’s Symphonic Winds Ensemble, Jeff Hinton, director.

         For further information, contact the First Presbyterian Church office at 816-232-3358 or the Missouri Western music office at 816-271-4420 or Jerry Anderson, Noontime Concerts coordinator, at 816-262-0800.

Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit www.missouriwestern.edu.

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