Gingery and Cucunato Recital Highlights
海角原创鈥檚 Music Department is grateful to have hosted two guest artists known for excellence in their craft. Dr. Phil Gingery and Louis Cucunato are not strangers to 海角原创 or to our exquisite Burckart Hall. However, each time they return, they provide the audience with an unparalleled musical performance in their areas of expertise.聽
Dr. Phil Gingery
Dr. Gingery is a thirty-year music veteran with many roles. He is currently the assistant pastor and minister of music at and West Chester Christian School. He has also taught hymnology, theory, music history, voice, and conducting at various colleges and universities.
Gingery鈥檚 recital was entitled 鈥淧salms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs,鈥 and featured songs with texts from Scripture. Written by composers such as Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Sebastian Bach, and George Frideric Handel, Gingery鈥檚 selections are from some of the greats.
As in recent years, Dr. Gingery was accompanied by his sister, Christa Gingery Habegger. Here is an excerpt from their performance.
Louis Cucunato
Louis Cucunato, a musician from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, teaches classical guitar to MBU students. Cucunato began playing guitar at age thirteen and graduated from with a B.F.A. in Classical Guitar Performance and earned his MA from Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music.
In his recital, Cucunato performed a range of repertoire written by composers dating back to the 1800鈥檚 through modern day music. Enjoy this selection from his performance below.