Past: Recital: Chris Wilson, Marimba

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO – Thursday, December 8 from 7 to 8 p.m., the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri will host a recital for Christopher Wilson, percussionist, for solo marimba.

The performance will be free and open to the public. The marimba is a large keyboard instrument with rosewood bars, played with yarn-wrapped mallets. The repertoire for this program will include original Classical compositions for the marimba, all by living composers.

Christopher Wilson is a Doctoral candidate in Percussion Performance at the University of Northern Colorado who has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and clinician throughout the United States. As a soloist, Wilson has helped to introduce the marimba to public audiences in settings outside of the concert hall. He has also appeared as guest artist at the Western Colorado Percussion Festival, College Music Society conferences, and many collegiate campuses including Monmouth College, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Waldorf College, Iowa State University, and University of Northern Iowa. He is also an active chamber musician, most notably as a member of the Wilson Duo with wife, bassoonist Jacqueline Wilson. The Wilson duo has presented recitals at the 2013 International Double Reed Society Convention, the Ashland Chamber Music Society, and on Wisconsin Public Radio.

Wilson has been equally active as a writer, clinician and pedagogue. He has had articles published by Percussive Arts Society's Percussive Notes. As an in demand educator, Wilson has given workshops and assemblies on all areas of percussion at hundreds of K-12 schools throughout the Midwest. He has taught music courses at University of Northern Colorado (as a teaching assistant), Southeast Missouri State University, Laramie County Community College, Lakeland College, and Kirkwood Community College.

This will be Wilson’s second performance at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, the first was earlier this year during the July First Friday with the Arts. Before, he was interviewed for the Arts Council’s series “Let’s Talk Arts” which can be found at .

Please join us in welcoming Christopher Wilson for a recital of music for solo marimba. The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri is located at 16B North Spanish Street in Cape Girardeau, MO.