SECOND SUNDAYS @ 6

This Sunday the 2009 Jane A. Meyer Carillon Series features Music's Assistant Professor
Jeremy Chesman.

June 14

Suite No. I — John Courter (b. 1941)
Fantasia Octatonica
Sonorities
Toccata Festevole

Five Folk Songs arr. Milford Myhre
Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Go Way From My Window
All the Pretty Little Horses
Shenandoah
The Wonderful Crocodile

Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 101 — J. S. Bach
Prelude (1685–1750)
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Bourée I and II
Gigue

Folksong from the British Isles arr. Wendell Westcott
Londonderry Air
Slane (Be Thou My Vision)
Scarborough Fair

Rhythmendans — Staf Nees (1901–1965)

Jeremy Chesman, university carillonist and assistant professor of music at Missouri State University, is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he was the first person to earn a master of music degree in carillon performance. His performances have been broadcast in the United States, the Netherlands and Japan, and he has performed throughout the United States, as well as in the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Portugal, where he played a recital of American music at the National Palace in Mafra on the European Union’s day of mourning for the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

A specialist in American music, Mr. Chesman has premiered works by Steven Sodders and Augustus O. Hill. He has also lectured on American carillon music in Belgium and at congresses of the Guild of Carilloneurs in North America.

Mr. Chesman studied carillon with Margo Halsted and Todd Fair at the University of Michigan. As a fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, he studied carillon with Eddy Mariën and composition with Geert D’Hollander at the Royal Carillon School of Belgium. He serves on the membership committee of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America and is the editor of English-language publications for the new carillon in Alverca, Portugal.