Department of Music

The University of Virginia's McIntire Department of Music presents an evening recital featuring Rachel Childers and John Mayhood performing works for horn and piano, with performances by UVA faculty and students.  This free recital is part of BrassFest 2019 and takes place at 7:30pm on Saturday, September 7 in Old Cabell Hall. 

Michigan native Rachel Childers has been a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2011. As Second Horn of the BSO, she occupies the John P. II and Nancy S. Eustis chair. She is notably the first female member of the Boston Symphony brass section. Prior to moving to Boston, Ms. Childers was the Acting Assistant Principal/Utility Horn of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Rachel holds the distinction of being in the first class of admitted horn players to the Colburn School, in Los Angeles, where she studied with David Jolley and David Krehbiel. Rachel received her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Michigan, where she studied with Søren Hermansson.

Currently on faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music, Rachel has also taught at Boston University and has presented masterclasses at the Manhattan School, Mannes School of Music, the University of Michigan, Colburn School, and Boston Conservatory. In 2014, she was a featured artist at the Southeast Horn Workshop at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a visiting artist at the University of Montana. Ms. Childers has taught at the Tanglewood Music Center, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and Bar Harbor Brass Week. She and her husband Sam, a bassoonist, have two lovely children with great pitch and volume.

Pianist John Mayhood enjoys a busy performance schedule that in recent seasons has taken him across the North America and Europe in a wide variety of solo and collaborative settings and in repertoire that spans from the English virginalists to music of the present day. John holds the Master of Music degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied with Ian Hobson; his other major teachers are Caio Pagano and Jean-Paul Sévilla.  He has taught piano at the University of Illinois and philosophy at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design.  He currently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is head of the piano faculty at the University of Virginia.

PROGRAM

This concert is part of the 2019 BrassFest, a day long line-up of events including masterclasses with the guest artists, sessions from UVA faculty, and two performances. The afternoon performance features Tubular performing the Beatles album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band".

For a full listing of BrassFest events please visit: https://music.virginia.edu/fall19brassfest
All BrassFest events are free and open to the public. Registration is requested but not required. Register here.

Supported by the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts and the Eleanor Shea Music Trust. 

Old Cabell Hall is located on the south end of UVA's historic lawn, directly opposite the Rotunda. Parking is available in the Central Grounds parking garage on Emmet Street, in the C1 parking lot off McCormick Road, and in the parking lots at the UVA Corner.

Please call the Music Department at 434.924.3052 for more information.
All events are subject to change.