Linfield College senior Logan Mays will present his senior music capstone project on Sunday, May 1, at 4 p.m. in Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield.
Mays will perform eight original compositions as well as read from his thesis paper.
The compositions that he will present are for a variety of ensembles, including a choral piece, a brass quartet, solo piano, B-flat clarinet with piano, voice with piano and a mixed ensemble. Mays will perform with other Linfield students as well as accompanist Susan McDaniel. His thesis paper is titled “Exploring the Relationship Between Text and Melody, Harmony, Rhythm, and Texture in Felix Mendelssohn’s ‘Nunc Dimittis.’”
Mays, of Rocklin, Calif., is a music major with an emphasis in composition and a double minor in mathematics and education. He has studied voice with Professor Anton Belov, choir with Professor Anna Song and composition with Professor Andrea Reinkemeyer. He has performed in numerous ensembles and productions, including the role of Ernst in the Linfield Theatre production of “Spring Awakening,” and Leporello in “Don Giovanni” and Figaro in “La nozze di Figaro” in the Opera Workshop.
As an active performer on campus, Mays has presented both original and cover songs during CatCabs. In 2014, he released an EP, “Fade,” followed by an 8-track album in 2015, “I Still Remember,” featuring songs with themes of love, loss and life.
This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Linfield Department of Music. For more information, call 503-883-2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
