Caprock Early Music Association  

 

Kirsten Yon, President

Kirsten Yon is currently in residence at Texas Tech University where she serves as Assistant Professor of Violin.  She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan and the Cleveland Institute of Music before pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.  During her studies, her principal teachers have included Stephen Shipps, David Updegraff, William Preucil, and Kathleen Winkler.  The winner of multiple competitions, Kirsten Yon has served as soloist, concertmaster and performer with numerous professional orchestras worldwide.  Ms. Yon was a founding member of the Champlain Trio, the Athena Quartet, and the Archiano Ensemble, giving concerts and masterclasses throughout the United States and Brazil to critical acclaim.  Her students of all ages have won numerous solo competitions and awards.

In 2004 Ms. Yon was awarded a Texas Tech University Alumni Association New Faculty Award for her work at the School of Music.  Currently the concertmaster of the Caprock Pro Musica Sinfonietta, she also performs with the Botticelli String Quartet.  In May 2005 she premiered a work by composer Peter Fischer at the International Viola Congress, held in Reykjavik, Iceland.  Recent 2006-2007 performances included concerts in Paris, France, and throughout Brail with the Botticelli String Quartet and clarinetist David Shea.  Ms. Yon will be performing a concert tour of Germany and Norway with her husband, organist Sigurd Øgaard, in July of 2007.  In addition, Ms. Yon is the founder and faculty advisor of Cuerdas de Enlace (String Connection), a Texas Tech University pedagogical/performance outreach program with ties to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 

In the city of Lubbock, Ms. Yon is a Master Teacher of the Texas Tech String Project, a participating teacher in the STELR (Suzuki Talent Education of the Lubbock Region) program, and the concertmaster of the Caprock Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra.  She also greatly enjoys her involvement with the Caprock Early Music Association.

During the summer months, Ms. Yon has taught at the Interlochen Center for the Arts as an assistant to William Preucil in the Valade Program and at the Texas Tech University Orchestra Camp.

 

Angela Mariani, Vice President

 

 

Angela Mariani is Visiting Assistant Professor of

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Musicology at Texas Tech University and directs the Texas Tech Collegium Musicum (early music ensemble.) A singer and player of guitar, medieval harp, and keyboards, she records and tours internationally with Altramar medieval music ensemble (with seven recordings on the Dorian label). Since 1991, Ms Mariani has also written, produced and hosted the nationally-syndicated public radio program Harmonia (heard locally on KOHM-FM), in addition to providing radio and CD production services to top artists in the field. She received her BA from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, and her Master's Degree in Early Music Performance from Indiana University's prestigious Early Music Institute. Ms Mariani is also a member of the traditional Irish music group Last Night's Fun, and serves on the Board of Directors of the national service organization Early Music America.



 

Stacey Houck

Dr. Stacey Houck, Treasurer/Secretary

Dr. Stacey Houck received her Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation entitled Decoding Musical Resistance: English Vocal Music in the Service of the King, c. 1625-1660 considers the music in light of its social and political role in a war-torn society. She has taught at Illinois Wesleyan University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she received student-nominated awards for teaching excellence. Academic honors include fellowships from The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the William Nugent Foundation, as well as awards from The Huntington Library and the Newberry Library. Dr. Houck has articles in Essays on Music and Culture in Honor of Herbert Kellman, ed. Barbara Haagh (Paris: Klickieck, 2000) and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Personenteil, vols. 3 and 6 (2001), and the volume of RISM (Anthologies of Printed Music, 1500-1550: Their Contents, Repertoire International des Sources Musical, Series B. Munich: G. Henle) she co-edited with Herbert Kellman is forthcoming. She is currently involved with a critical edition of John Playford's Brief Introduction to the Skill of Music (Ashgate publishing). Dr. Houck has presented papers at meetings of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, American Musicological Society, and the North American British Music Studies Association. As a performer, she is a vocalist and practices historical dance.

 

 




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