Prof premiers composition, "Industrial Renaissance"

The Concert Band and Percussion Ensemble of Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music perform 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26, in Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown.

Tickets are available at the door for $7 for adults; $6 for senior citizens and students from other schools. Tickets are free for anyone with a valid YSU ID.

Music performed by the Percussion Ensemble includes compositions by living contemporary composers David Skidmore, Drew Worden, Ivan Trevino, Andrew Beall and Michael Burritt, and features YSU percussion students Evan McCreary and Tommy Starr on marimba.

The Concert Band continues with selections from predominantly contemporary composers including Frank Ticheli, David Holsinger, Ralph Vaughan Williams and YSU faculty member Paul Louth, who will guest conduct his own piece in its world premiere titled “Industrial Renaissance”.

Louth is associate professor of Music Education at Dana. He earned bachelor’s of Music and Education degrees from the University of Toronto and a master’s of Music and a PhD. from Western University. Louth studied composition with the Canadian jazz icon Phil Nimmons, and he has had commissioned work for school ensembles performed at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago.

For more information, call 330-941-2307.