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Lipton to perform euphonium music at BPAC

The Delta State University Department of Music presents an afternoon of euphonium music with Dr. Jamie Lipton March 29 at 3 p.m. in the recital hall of the Bologna Performing Arts Center.

The Delta State University Department of Music presents an evening of euphonium music with Dr. Jamie Lipton Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the recital hall of the Bologna Performing Arts Center.

Lipton is an assistant professor of music (euphonium/low brass) at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Ark. She will be joined by fellow Henderson State colleagues, Dr. Mao Tsao-Lim (piano) and Todd Cranson (tuba). The performance will feature works by Neruda, Shostakovich, Sparke, Censhu and Gillingham.

Lipton is also co-director of the recently reformed Henderson State University Brass Band. She has also been a faculty member at Texas Woman’s University and Tarrant County College, held a prestigious teaching fellowship at the University of North Texas, and taught private lessons and master classes for several of the top high school band programs in Texas. Additionally, she has instructed at numerous summer workshops throughout the United States, including the Low Brass Bootcamp (Phoenix, Ariz.), the International Euphonium Institute (Atlanta, Ga.), Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (Twin Lake, Mich.), the Brass Chamber Music Workshop (Arcata, Calif.), the Cosmopolitan Tuba/Euphonium Workshop (Beverly, Mass.), and various events throughout Texas and Arkansas.

She has won many of the major euphonium competitions, including the 2006 Leonard Falcone Competition, the 2006 International Tuba and Euphonium Conference (ITEC) Competition, the 2006 Tubonium Competition and the 2005 Potomac Festival Competition. She also received third place in the Japan Wind and Percussion Competition in 2007. An active soloist, Lipton has been a featured artist at concerts and clinics all over the country, including the last three International Tuba/Euphonium Conferences in Denver, Cincinnati and Tucson. She has performed solos with the “President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band and “Pershing’s Own” Army Orchestra.

In 2009, Lipton helped establish the all-female Sweet Thunder Tuba Quartet, which debuted at the 2009 Tubonium workshop and also appeared at the 2010 ITEC in Tucson. She plays euphonium in the Lone Star Wind Orchestra in Dallas.

Originally from the Chicago area, Lipton received her bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, where she was a student of Rex Martin. She completed her master’s degree and doctorate at the University of North Texas, studying euphonium with Dr. Brian Bowman and trombone with Dr. Vern Kagarice. She is a Willson artist and performs on a Willson TA-2900 euphonium. She currently resides in Arkadelphia with her shetland sheepdogs, Emma and Sassy.

The recital is free and open to the public. For more information, call 662-846-4615.