Guest Soloists

Mark Hartman (Brandenburg No. 5)

MARK HARTMAN (violin) is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the University-Community Orchestra at Shippensburg University. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Violin Performance and the Master of Music degree in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He performs as a violinist in the Southeastern Pennsylvania and VA region with the Shippensburg Festival, the Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. He has taught at the Intermuse International Music Institute and Festival, Scor! String Camps for Adults, and Blue Lake fine Arts Camp. Conducting studies have been with Stuart Malina, of the Harrisburg Symphony, William LaRue Jones at the University of Iowa, and Robert Gutter, at UNC-Greensboro. He has explored performing, teaching, and researching the use of string instruments in jazz and contemporary styles as well as the pedagogy of improvisation and has presented his research at American String Teachers Association national conferences in Reno and Kansas City.

Suzanne Thierry (Brandenburg No. 5)

Suzanne Thierry (flute) directs the Flute Choir at Shippensburg University. She has appeared as a soloist or chamber musician on a variety of venues, including National Public Radio, and has worked with composers from around the United States as a performer of contemporary music. A former faculty member of Bowling Green State University, she served as an administrator for the University’s New Music & Art Festival and MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, and as an instructor of flute. Thierry has also worked on several projects with the National Flute Association including competition coordinator, newly-published music judge, and convention program book designer, and has served as a reader for the AP National Music Theory Exams. As an active freelance musician, she has performed with the Shippensburg Summer Festival Orchestra, the Celtic Women troupe, Chambersburg Ballet Orchestra, Mercersburg Chorus Orchestra, Maryland Symphony, Camp Hill Light Opera Experience Orchestra, and the Hagerstown Band. She has also taught at Wilson and Dickinson Colleges. Currently, she works full time as a music teacher in the Chambersburg Area School District and does adjudication for area music competitions. Thierry earned a bachelor’s degree in performance from the University of Alabama, and masters’ degrees in performance and music history from Bowling Green State University, with additional course work in Nice, France, at the International Summer Academy. Her teachers include Sheryl Cohen and Judith Bentley, and master class experience with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Alain Marion, and Samuel Baron.

Margaret Lucia (Brandenburg No. 5)

Pianist MARGARET LUCIA performs a wide range of keyboard repertoire, from the traditional—concertos of Mozart and Beethoven and romantic works of Chopin and Schumann—to the highly gestural, uniquely tonal or atonal compositions of contemporary composers. A passionate advocate of new music, she has premiered several works, appearing at festivals and in concert throughout the United States as well as in Japan and Europe.  As a Fulbright Scholar in 2016-17, she collaborated with women composers in Spain, and performed their works in several concerts in Madrid, Salamanca, and Palma de Mallorca.  She was invited to return to Spain in 2019 for a concert tour, in which she presented contemporary works by both Spanish and American women composers.  This tour was partially supported by a Seed Grant from the New York Women Composers in NYC.  In November, 2011, she was a featured performer on the Festival Internacional de Música Contemporanea in Havana and has recorded music by Cuban women composers of the 19th and 20th centuries.  in 2009 she formed the Vox Terra Ensemble, which performs new chamber music works in honor of Earth Day, as well as additional concerts throughout the year.  In June of 2003, she performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in New York City with tenor Jon Robert Cart in a joint recital featuring vocal and solo piano music of Spain and Latin America; they performed there again in May 2005, in works by Mexican composers of the 20th century. As a member of the Lucia Duo, she has performed frequently with her husband, violinist Anthony Lucia, including a concert of the violin and piano sonatas of Joaquin Turina in Spain in 2005. Currently a Professor in the Department of Music and Theatre Arts at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, she has also taught at the University of Redlands, the University of California, San Diego, and Grinnell College in Iowa.

Fred Dade (Soloist, Piano Concerto No. 20)

FRED DADE (piano) is Assistant Professor of Music at Shippensburg University where he teaches Introduction to Music, Fundamental Music Skills, Class Piano, and American Music.  A native of Chicago, Mr. Dade is currently pursuing completion of the Ph.D. Degree from the University of Michigan, Anne Arbor. Prior to relocating to Pennsylvania, Mr. Dade served as a Teaching Assistant in the School of Music at the University of Michigan, and served as the Minister of Music at Amistad Community Church – United Church of Christ in Ann Arbor. Mr. Dade directed college gospel choirs at Aurora University (IL) and Concordia University (IL), and founded, accompanied, and directed the Gospel Choir at Wheaton College (IL). Additionally, Mr. Dade worked with the church choirs in the Chicago area, including the First Progressive Church of Christ, and he taught elementary general music in the Chicago public schools for seven years. Mr. Dade has extensive experience accompanying many different types of choirs and soloists, including the opportunity to accompany mezzo-soprano Marietta Simpson for a recital in February 2002, as well as accompanying George Shirley, Professor of Voice at the University of Michigan. He studied piano with Lynn Bartholomew and Louis Nagel, and he holds the Master of Music Degree in Music Education from Roosevelt University and the Bachelor of Science Degree from Wheaton College.