Jared Aragón, organ
Tracy Carr, oboe
Barbara Freischlad, percussion
Friday, June 14, 2019 — 5:30pm
Music of Chaminade, Smith, Aragón, Schroeder, and Snyder
Sonidos Sagrados
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Oboist Dr. Tracy Carr, a founding member of Trio Encantada, is active as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and clinician. Her performance and presentation venues include the IDRS International Conference, CMS National and International Conferences & the Hawaii International Arts and Humanities Conference. She has also presented recitals and masterclasses at Texas Tech University, West Texas A & M University, Abilene Christian University, Hardin-Simmons University, UT-Brownsville, University of Southern California, Chapman University, Chicago State University, Southern Utah University, & the Sichuan Conservatory of China. Her articles on performance and pedagogy have been published in the NACWPI Journal, IDRS Journal, NM Music Educator’s Magazine, and The Instrumentalist magazine among others. Tracy has also authored three book chapters, is Immediate Past President of the College Music Society Rocky Mountain Chapter and is Professor of Double Reeds and Music History at Eastern New Mexico University.
Percussionist Barbara Freischlad grew up singing folk songs around campfires. Her father taught her to play chords on the guitar when she was very young so that she could also accompany the singing. Barbara dabbled a bit with clarinet and violin lessons, and spent a few years studying voice and piano, before finally finding the joy that is playing percussion instruments.
Barbara studied percussion for many years with Homero Cerón, principal percussionist for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. She continues to study with Brian J. Harris, also formerly of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. She has played with concert bands, orchestras and choirs around the Tucson area. She has performed as a soloist with the Civic Orchestra of Tucson and with the Santa Cruz Summer Winds. She played in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Academy under the baton of Marin Alsop, and in Tócalo Tucson Chamber Percussion Seminar with artists Morris Palter, Bill Cahn and Casey Cangelosi. Currently, Barbara is Director of Children’s Music at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church in Tucson, where she enjoys the distinct pleasure of working with sonidos encendidos partner Jared Aragón.
Composer and organist Jared Isaac Aragón has been surrounded by music his entire life. Growing up in Central New Mexico, his parents owned a music store where he was given his first musical instrument: a glockenspiel. Soon after, he began piano lessons under Bobbi Carbajal and discovered a love for writing his own music. This passion led Aragón to pursue degrees in music composition from Eastern New Mexico University, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Arizona where he has studied under composers Mark Dal Porto, Robert Mueller, Daniel Asia, and Pamela Decker. As a performer, he has performed in concerts across the U.S. and in Italy where he has presented recitals and concerts promoting new music and the music of Latinx composers.
His music has won awards from the DissonArt Ensemble (Thessaloniki, Greece), Les amis de l’orgue de Montréal (Montréal, Canada) and the Santa Fe Community Orchestra (Santa Fe, NM) and is published by Jeanné-Inc. and Firehead Editions of London. Now living in Tucson, AZ, Aragón is organist and director of handbells at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church, serves as Sub-Dean of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and is a member of the organ and percussion duo sonidos encendidos.
