Amy Glick, violinist, will perform as part of the 2017-2018 Faculty Artist Series, Jack Ballard works featured

Her concert will be Monday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Stewart Room of the Randall Campus Center (“the Barn”) on Malone’s campus.

The majority of Glick’s program features the works of Jack Ballard, professor of music at Malone. Pieces to be performed include Chrystalin, Colorado Romances, Tardes de Segovia, American Dances for Solo Violin, Aquafina for Violin and Four Hands, and Gigue.

Amy Glick performs actively as an orchestral player, chamber musician and soloist in Northeast Ohio.  A member of Akron (OH) Symphony and Akron Baroque, she is also a charter member of the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestra, where she performs as assistant concertmaster.  She has appeared as soloist with Akron Baroque, the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestra, Tuscarawas Philharmonic, Wooster Symphony and the Akron Lyric Opera Chamber Orchestra, and has appeared in numerous chamber recitals in Ohio, New York, Louisiana, Virginia and West Virginia.

A devoted teacher, Glick has served on the faculties of the Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance (NY, NY), the David Hochstein Memorial Music School (Rochester, NY), the Brevard Music Center (Brevard, NC), and Central Christian Schools (Kidron, OH). She has performed and recorded new music by Christian Hege (NY, NY) and Jack Gallagher (College of Wooster, OH), and is currently enjoying working on a project of works by Jack Ballard (Malone University). She studied chamber music with members of the American String Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio, and her primary teachers include Burton Kaplan (Manhattan School of Music) and Camilla Wicks (Eastman School of Music).

Glick currently lives in North Canton, OH, with her husband and four children.

Jack Ballard, professor of music, has composed, performed and produced music in a variety of genres, from classical and film music to jazz and bluegrass. He worked with Gunther Schuller, Wendell Jones, Arthur Post, David Maddux, and Frank Wiley, and received B.A.Ed and M.M. degrees from Central Washington and Eastern Washington Universities. His half-dissertation on hyperextended tertian sonority is from Kent State University. Its initial research received the Bruce Benward Student Music Theory Award in 2007. His ballet, The Castle for orchestra, received the Ipark Foundation’s Thanatopolis Prize for Memorial Composition for the movement, “Lament,” and in 2012 was the winner of GBE competition for his piece, Dances for solo violin. A selection from his oratorio, Incarnatus Dei won Honorable Mention with the Vanguard Premiers competition, and he is presently working on the fourth movement to his fifth symphony.

He has released albums in instrumental and vocal jazz, bluegrass, and electronic music, and is working on an album in classical chamber music with violinist Amy Glick.  As a Fulbright Scholar in African Music (Kenya, 2013), he wrote an evaluation of the Kenyan music industry and education, is a repeat evaluator for the Young African Leadership Initiative and the Fulbright Scholarship.  His research interests include Spanish, African and Irish music, and experiential education issues.

Ballard currently teaches music production, ethnomusicology, and composition at Malone.