For Immediate Release

STANTON & FRIENDS CONCERT AT MARYGROVE COLLEGE MARCH 16

DETROIT, FEBRUARY 15, 2007 -- Associate Professor and Composer-in-Residence Geoffrey Stanton bands together with friends and colleagues to present a memorable evening of eclectic music on Friday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Marygrove College’s Sacred Heart Chapel. An annual event, the program features electronics and projections and the historic chapel pipe organ performing works by Stanton, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Milhaud and Tatum.

Dr. Stanton will introduce a new song cycle that he set to the poetry of fellow faculty member, Dr. Donald Levin, an award-winning poet and writer. Joining Dr. Stanton will be fellow faculty members Jacqueline Csurgai-Schmitt, piano; Victoria Bigelow, soprano, and Anthony McGlaun, tenor, as well as Gail Jennings on organ and Eugene Zenzen on cello. Stanton and his friends are all known performers in the greater Detroit area.

Geoffrey Stanton is an award-winning multi-genre composer for solo instruments and full orchestra and an active recitalist and clinician who plays the organ, piano and synthesizers. He has performed in Germany and England as well as across the U.S. and has been in residence at the Tanglewood (Lenox, Massachusetts) and Aspen, Colorado, Music Festivals as well as the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Drs. Stanton and Levin will give a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m.

The “Stanton and Friends” performance is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Dr. Stanton at 313-927-1310 or gstanton@marygrove.edu.

Marygrove College is located at 8425 W. McNichols, Detroit (Corner of Wyoming and W. McNichols). The Sacred Heart Chapel is located on the first floor of the Liberal Arts Building. In addition to offering Bachelor’s Degrees in Music, Marygrove provides undergraduate and graduate programs in education, art and art therapy, dance, forensic science, criminal justice, mathematics, social work, social justice, human resource management, business and computer information systems, among many others. Visit us at www.marygrove.edu.