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Hendrix Composers Featured in Conway Composers Guild Concert

CONWAY, Ark. (January 26, 2016) – Hendrix College composers Sydney Hickok '17 and Dr. Karen Griebling will be featured in the Conway Composers Guild Concert on Sunday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Conway.

The event is free and the public is invited. For more information, email musicianmail-ccg@yahoo.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/ConwayComposers.

The program will also feature student performers Bridget Yelk ’17, Kelsey Williams ’17, Delia De Silva, and Abby Condit ’16, as well as faculty performers Timothy Allen, Betty Lewis Coombs Cohen, Gretchen Renshaw, Alicia Williams, Lorraine Duso, and Beth Hendrix, and alumna Stephanie Smittle ’03.  

Ryan Key of Fayetteville is the winner of the 2016 McBeth Memorial Composition Competition. His winning work, "Cling" will be premiered at the event, which will also include the awards ceremony.  

The competition was offered by the Conway Composers Guild with the support of the Conway Symphony Orchestra, Israel Getzov Artistic Director, Geoffrey Robson and Philip Mann of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and Makemusic Software, whose generous support made possible the tangible award of a Finale music notation software package for the winner and Smartmusic software package for his teacher, Dr. Robert Mueller.

The CCG Annual Concert program includes:

The Gingerbread Man by Jorrell Bonner
Abby Condit, Violin; Alicia Williams, Flute; Beth Hendrix, Clarinet; Maleka Momand, Bassoon.

Typical Minor Canon by Jorrell Bonner 
Abby Condit, Violin; Sara Vaca Anaya, Cello

Do You Love Me? by Jorrell Bonner 
Abby Condit, Violin; Sara Vaca Anaya, Cello; Jorrell Bonner, Voice

Cabotaje by Michael Yoder 
Michael Yoder, Fretless electric bass and electronic effects

“Hey” The Oven Bird by Sydney Hickok

Soprano-Bridget Yelk
Mezzo-soprano- Delia De Silva
Alto- Kelsey Williams
Piano- Timothy Allen

Dialogues d’amour et de la mort Poems and Music by Karen Griebling

Stephanie Smittle, soprano
Betty Lewis Coombs Cohen, piano

Cling by Ryan Key
Gretchen Renshaw, Euphonium
Gail Robertson, Tuba
Paul Dickinson, Piano

Trio DDG by Paul Dickinson

Lorraine Duso and Leanna Booze, oboes 
Elizabeth Wheeler English horn

About Hendrix College

Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1876 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884, Hendrix is featured in Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges and is nationally recognized in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings for academic quality, community, innovation, and value. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.