Malone University - Classic Touch Strings to Perform

The Malone University School of Arts and Sciences – Department of Music continues its popular faculty artist series with the Classic Touch Strings, Monday, February 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Stewart Room of the Randall Campus Center located on the Canton campus. The program, featuring Amy Glick, violin I; Mark Polanka, violin II; Marlene Moses, viola; and Sharon Nauman, cello, is free and open to the public.

OVER THE RAINBOW
"The Colors of Music"

Music has as many colors as a box of crayons, an array of paint on a palette and the vibrant hues in a rainbow. Feast your ears on a program designed for the everyday music-lover to show how a string quartet can play more than just classical music. Like an art museum guide, the narrator will take you from gallery to gallery of musical paintings, an assortment of familiar favorites. Be ready for some surprises and musical humor. There is something for everyone with selections of bouncy Bach and light Mozart to flowing Viennese waltzes. Blues, ragtime, jazz, rock-and-roll explode with character along with our wildly popular Broadway show tunes and movie themes. From elegance to the informal fun of audience participation including finger clicking and toe tapping, the evening is sure to uplift and make you feel a part of the music. Highlight your night with songs full of spectacular colors. Cross Over the Rainbow with The Classic Touch Strings!

THE CLASSIC TOUCH STRINGS

Amy Glick, violinist, performs extensively as an orchestral player, chamber musician and soloist in Northeast Ohio. She holds degrees from the Manhattan and Eastman Schools of Music, where she studied with Burton Kaplan and Camilla Wicks. Ms. Glick studied chamber music with members of the American String Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio, including a master class at Steinway Hall in New York City. As an advocate of contemporary music, Ms. Glick has premiered and recorded works by Christian Hege, and consistently programs works by contemporary composers. She has served on the faculties of the Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance (NY, NY), the Daniel Hochstein Memorial Music School (Rochester, NY), the Brevard Music Center (Brevard, NC), and Central Christian High School (Kidron, OH). In addition to her membership with the Akron Symphony, she is the Assistant Concertmaster of the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestra. Ms. Glick has appeared as soloist with the Tuscarawas Philharmonic, the Wooster Symphony, the Akron Lyric Opera Chamber Orchestra and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestra, and has appeared in numerous chamber recitals in Ohio, New York, Louisiana, Virginia and West Virginia. She and her husband and two sons live in Orrville, Ohio.

Dr. Mark Polanka, second violinist with the Classic Touch String Quartet, serves on the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Akron and Kent State University where he teaches music theory, sight singing, and ear training. Previous teaching positions include: School of Music Faculty at DePauw University in Indiana and Fine Arts Faculty at Malone University. Dr. Polanka received his Ph.D. in Music Theory and Composition from Kent State University where he studied composition with Frank Wiley and James Waters. While at Kent he studied violin with Si-Hon Ma (Cleveland Orchestra) and Marcia Ferritto (Cleveland Institute of Music). He has held section violin positions with the Mansfield Symphony and the Terre Haute Symphony in Indiana.

Dr. Marlene Moses, violist, received her Bachelors in Violin Performance from Baldwin Wallace College, her Masters in Violin & Viola Performance from Kent State, completed her long-term Suzuki training at The Cleveland Institute of Music, conducted research for Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, and earned a Ph.D. in Early Childhood Music Education from The Union Institute in Cincinnati. She has also played in Akron Symphony and is a member of The Classic Touch Strings quartet. Marlene taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Sato Center for Suzuki Studies from 1991 until 1995. In 1995 Marlene co-founded and is currently Director of the Western Reserve Suzuki School. Additionally, Marlene has served as faculty at the Capital University Suzuki Institute in Columbus and the International Music Festival in Cleveland. Marlene is a member of and has served boards of the Suzuki Association of Ohio and the Suzuki Association of Northeast Ohio and is a member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. Marlene also presented papers at the Suzuki Association of the Americas national conference. Marlene lives in Stow with her husband Greg and is a Suzuki mom to their two daughters, cellist Hannah and violinist Aurelia.

A cellist, Sharon Nauman began her professional career in the Canton Symphony at an early age of 15. She traveled extensively, nationwide, playing 10 years with road shows for Perry Como, Natalie Cole, Henry Mancini, Julie Andrews, Pia Zadora, Norm Crosby and the Montovani Strings. As an orchestra member, concerts include performances for CBS’s "Sunday Morning" and in such acclaimed places as Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. Currently, Sharon heads a popular wedding music business in the Akron area. The Classic Touch Strings has grown in notoriety since 1992 and was featured on Fox 8 TV! The group includes quartet, trio and duet combinations offering a variety of familiar classical music to pop and show tunes. As an expansion to the quartet’s success, The Classic Touch Strings & Orchestras became a division of the wedding business and enjoys a long list of loyal clientele. Sharon is one-of-a-kind in “artistic management” for the Akron area, hiring orchestra personnel for shows at the Akron Civic Theater, area churches, choral groups and schools. Sharon is also a teacher at The University of Akron and Malone University in Canton.

You can visit The Classic Touch Strings at www.e-classictouch.com