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BYUH, Yamagata Foundation Sponsor 2nd Japan Competition

By Mike Foley April 17, 2007 12:18 PM
The BYU-Hawaii Mark and Laura Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship and the Gene and Allyson Yamagata Foundation recently sponsored the second annual Japan Business Plan Competition, which drew 29 teams, and are planning to extend the program to several other Asian countries. Read Full Story

Concert Choir Fact Sheet | 杨百翰大学夏威夷分校合唱团简介

April 17, 2007 11:48 AM
      杨百翰大学夏威夷分校合唱团,由音乐与声乐教授Michael K. Belnap(迈克尔·贝尔纳普)指挥,是大学主要的乐团之一. 合唱团既可以表演无伴奏清唱,也可以表演伴奏合唱,曲目不仅涵盖古典清唱剧目,也包含世界各国民间音乐,以及美国音乐剧场选段,欧洲艺术音乐,美洲和南太平洋音乐.

     合唱团包括大约60名经过声乐专业人士严格遴选的大学生. 杨百翰大学夏威夷分校是一个多元文化汇集的大学,其留学生人数占学生总数的比例为全美最高.合唱团的成员来自超过15个国家和地区,包括中国,新西兰,韩国,关岛,美国大陆,日本,马来西亚,汤加,萨摩亚群岛以及其它国家和地区.

     音乐导演迈克尔·贝尔纳经常把夏威夷土著和波利尼西亚的传统舞蹈和乐器融合到表演之中.


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Professor Michael Belnap: Concert Choir Conductor, Tenor

April 16, 2007 05:56 PM
Michael Belnap, originally from Valier, Montana, is a Professor of Music and Voice and director of the Concert Choir at Brigham Young University Hawaii. Read Full Story

BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir Tour Roster May 2007

April 16, 2007 04:04 PM
SOPRANOS      
 NAME STATE/COUNTRY YEAR MAJOR
BOYD, Mary Washington Junior Theatre
CLARK, Collette Idaho Senior
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Ford Seeks Understanding of Peace Process

By Rosemarie Howard April 16, 2007 03:18 PM
As a student at BYU-Hawaii, Chad Ford first heard President McKay’s prophecy when President Shumway was inaugurated. “I remember sitting in that audience,” he said, “and really feeling the Spirit and being overpowered by all of this—the first time I’d heard it forcefully talked about that way. My first reaction was to look around the auditorium. I knew a lot of cool students from a lot of cool places—people I thought were going to go back and be prime ministers and CEOs. I wondered which of these people President McKay was talking about.” Read Full Story

BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir Tours Mongolia

By Mike Foley April 16, 2007 11:58 AM
Mike Foley |University Advancement | May 2007

The 64-voice Brigham Young University Hawaii Concert Choir will perform in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Friday, 25 May in a joint concert with the Mongolian College of Music & Dance in the Opera Theatre at Sukhbaatar Square and Saturday, 26 May, in the Cultural Palace, following a three-week tour in China. (choir performance schedule )

The BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir has previously performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world, including Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Metropolitan Opera City Concert Hall in Tokyo, and the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea.



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Professor Michael Belnap: Concert Choir Conductor, Tenor | 合唱团指挥、男高音 迈克尔·基思·贝尔纳普 介绍

April 16, 2007 12:00 AM
       来自蒙大拿州维丽镇(Valier)的迈克尔·基思·贝尔纳普(Michael Keith Belnap),现为杨百翰大学夏威夷分校声乐教授、音乐会合唱团指挥. 早先在杨百翰大学本部(位于犹他州普柔佛)获得音乐学学士、硕士学位,后在印第安纳大学和比利时欧洲戏剧中心攻读博士学位,其间随瓦洛尼皇家剧团访问德国、比利时、荷兰和法国等国家.

       贝尔纳普曾被里克斯大学(现为杨百翰大学爱达荷分校)授予埃利萨·R·斯诺表演艺术奖. 1999年,在耶稣基督后期圣徒教会的百人音乐榜中,他名列歌手类前五名.


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BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir: Related Facts & Story Ideas

By Mike Foley April 15, 2007 03:53 PM
Mike Foley | University Advancement | May 2007

•    The 64 student members of the Concert Choir come from 13 different countries, including: USA, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand

•    Two of the choir members come from China: Ning Sun (Frank), Shanghai; and Lau Kit Ming (Hong Kong)

•    Four of the choir members come Mongolia: Dashdavaa Bayarma, Enkhbaatar Narangarvuu, Purevsuren Enkhtugs and Purevsuren Erdenebileg.

•    16 or about one-fourth of the choir members speak English as a foreign language
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BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir: Related Facts & Story Ideas | 杨百翰大学夏威夷分校合唱团: 相关题材与故事

April 15, 2007 12:00 AM
       64名合唱团成员分别来自13个不同的国家,包括: 美国,中国,泰国,马来西亚,蒙古,日本,韩国,菲律宾,萨摩亚,汤加,新西兰.

       其中两名来自中国的成员分别是:孙宁(Frank)来自上海,刘洁明来自香港.

       其中四名来自蒙古的成员是: Dashdavaa Bayarma, Enkhbaatar Narangarvuu, Purevsuren Enkhtugs和Purevsuren Erdenebileg.

       对于其中十六名成员而言,英语是他们的第二语言.

       其中三十四名,即一半以上的成员,最少可以熟练掌握两种语言,包括法语,塔加路语,乌克兰语,泰语,中文普通话,中文广东话,俄语,蒙古语,日语,萨摩亚语,西班牙语,汤加语,手语,兵邦果语,马来语,葡萄牙语,夏威夷土语,韩语,英语.


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BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir Tour Repertoire May 2007

April 12, 2007 05:39 PM
The concert numbers performed by the BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir will be selected from this repertoire:

 
Traditional Literature


Kyrie on “Logan Dell” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Ben Allaway
Five Hebrew Love Songs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     Eric Whitacre
If You Were Coming in the Fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Frederick Silver
Canite Tube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Giovanni da Palestrina Read Full Story