School of Music Faculty Artist Series

Saturday, March 2nd
4pm
Wiedemann Recital Hall

While attending Wichita State University, Warren performed extensively, including a performance of the first Tchaikovsky piano concerto with WSU Symphony Orchestra. He has participated with a chamber group that won many competitions, including the Konrad Wolff-Bing Chamber Music Competition, and traveled to different states to perform. His collaborative highlights include a performance with Dr. Nicholas Smith, a retired Horn Professor from Wichita State University, at the International Horn Festival in Illinois to world-premiere Dr. Walter Mays’s composition, a collaboration with acclaimed violinist Chee-Yun Kim, and a four-hand piano performance with Dr. Julie Bees, that was broadcasted on Kansas KWCH-TV. In 2021, he was an artist-in-residence at the Really Spicy Opera Aria Institute, Minnesota, and was invited to the Miami Music Festival with a full scholarship as a collaborative pianist. He has performed across North America and Eastern Asia. He was recently invited by the Karis Orchestra Program, in South Korea, to perform a recital.

Friday, April 5th 
7:30pm
Wiedemann Recital Hall

Phillip Black serves as Assistant Professor of Tuba at Wichita State University and is principal tubist with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and Wichita Brass Quintet. He has held the position of principal tuba with the Flint Symphony Orchestra, Galliard Brass Ensemble, New Mexico Symphony, and New Mexico Brass Quintet, substitute tubist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and was tuba instructor with the Flint Institute and at the University of New Mexico. Mr. Black has recorded with the Galliard Brass Quintet on the Music Heritage Society label and has performed numerous recitals at regional and national Tuba conferences.
Mr. Black received his BM from Ball State University and his MM from the University of New Mexico.

Saturday, April 20th
3pm
Wiedemann Recital Hall