March 21: Coastal Carolina Concert at First Baptist Church in Hartsville

Coastal Carolina Concert, Chamber and Flute Choirs will present a concert on Sat., Mar. 21, at 7:00 pm, at the First Baptist Church, Hartsville.

The Coastal Carolina University Department of Music will be on tour throughout SC and Georgia on Mar. 19-22, with performances in Hartsville and Columbia, SC, and in Augusta and Atlanta, Ga. The music to be performed will primarily be selected from their on-campus Winter Concert on Mar. 18, entitled "The "Music" of William Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Renaissance Themes." The concert will feature two original, unpublished compositions, commissioned for performance by the CCU Concert, Chamber, and Flute Choirs, as well as several guitar and percussion students. These new pieces were written by Coastal Carolina faculty members Dr. Donald Sloan and Dr. Andrew Fowler. In addition to these featured works, the concert will include published compositions based on Shakespeare texts for choir and flute by mainstream contemporary composers.

In Hartsville, SC the CCU ensembles will present a concert on Sat., Mar. 21, at 7:00 pm, at the First Baptist Church.   This concert will be hosted by Dr. James Beaumier, director of the Hartsville Community Choir and Choral Director at Hartsville High School.

The director of the Concert and Chamber Choirs is Dr. Terri Sinclair, a native of NC and a graduate of Florida State University (MM) and UNC-Greensboro (DMA). She is in her tenth year as Director of Choral Activities at CCU and is Associate Professor of Music. Highlights of her career include performances at state and regional music conferences, the Washington National Cathedral, and the Lincoln Center. She is a published author of multiple articles in scholarly journals and a soon-to-be published composer of an original musical composition. She has presented workshops and reading sessions for state and regional professional conferences and is in high demand as a guest conductor/clinician and choral adjudicator in the southeast. In her first year at CCU, she was the recipient of the CCU Teacher of the Year award. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women, 26^th ed.

The CCU Flute choir is directed by Dr. Amy Hardison Tully, who is an Associate Professor of Music at Coastal Carolina University. She is principal flutist with Long Bay Symphony in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and as a chamber musician she performs with the Tully Hull Flute and Guitar Duo. She has performed internationally on orchestral and wind symphony tours in Germany, Austria, Italy, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic and regionally she has performed at the South Carolina Flute Society, Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair, the Florida Flute Association, the National Flute Association at the 2012 Piccolo Spoleto Festival. As a strong advocate of new music, she performed the world premiere of Paul Rice Songs by composer Beth Wiemann, a song cycle for soprano, flute, and guitar that she helped commission and most recently she gave the world premiere of Dance Suite for Flute by South Carolina composer, Andrew Fowler. In addition to performing and teaching, research continues to be an important focus of Amy’s scholarship, as she has numerous published and edited articles on flute and music history. She is an artist endorser and clinician for Azumi Flutes by Altus and Jupiter Flutes and she holds the B.A. in Flute Performance (with Honors) from the University of North Carolina - Wilmington, the M.M. in Musicology from Northwestern University, and the Artist Diploma and D.M.A. in Flute Performance from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where she studied with Constance Lane and Donna Shin.