PSU Magazine Spring 1990

Fred Sautter, fac ulty member, has garnered success as an international performer and dedicated teacher. He is principal trumpet of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and has just released a video on how to pl ay the trumpet, "Sound the Trumpet. " Tomas Svoboda*, professor, is an interna– tionally-known composer. Hi s works have been commissioned and performed by major North American and European orchestras . He has been li sted in the International Who's Who in Music. Svoboda's "Land Below Waves" premiered in March with Boston Ballet. Hi s 6th Symphony for Clarinet and Orchestra is a commissioned piece for the Syracuse (N .Y. ) Symphony Or– chestra's 1990-1991 season. Trio Viento is an increasingly recognized woodwind group made up of PSU fac ulty. Marilyn Shotola , flute, was a long-time member of the Peter Britt Festi val Orchestra . She has appeared with local chamber ensembles and has been a member of Duo Allegro and the Woodwind Conspi racy. Stan Stanfo rd , clarinet, is cha ir of PSU's Department of Music, a prominent music educator and chamber music performer. Gordon Solie , bassoon, is first bassooni st with Portl and Opera Orchestra . He has performed at the Peter Britt music festi vals and toured . South America with the Robert Shaw Chora le and Orchestra and with the Orquestra Filarmonica de las Americas of Mex ico City. Members of the Trio will spend their second year as resident woodwind teachers at the Britt Academy thi s August. Theater Actors From the London Stage*, a troupe of fi ve actors hailing from the ranks of the Royal Shakespeare Co . and National Theatre of Great Britain , have been brought to PSU for a one-week residency two years in a row. Their master cl asses have been invaluable to theater students and their public performances have in spired rave reviews. PSU 10 w eal actors Kelly Brooks and Scott Parker gave memorable pe1fon11ances in the 1985 Summer Festival Theater 's ''A Flea in Her Ear." Kelly Brooks*, lecturer and forn1er student , is a Willie Award winning actress, well-known in the Portland area. She appeared thi s year in the Oregon Shakespeare Festi val Portl and produc– tions of "Holiday" and " Noises Off." Jack Featheringill, head of PSU's Theater Arts Department , spent 15 years in New York as a perfo rmer, production manager and casting director, with 18 Broadway productions plus telev ision , film and summer stock to hi s credit. At PSU he has directed more than 60 productions, including three American College Theatre Festival winners. He has been the moving force behind Summer Festi val Theater Company, PSU 's summer repertory theater, channeling some of the best student theater talent into the Portland area. Beth Harper, former graduate student , is a Willie Award winning actress who also serves as arti stic director of the Oregon One Act Festival and The Training Ground Actors Studio . Nancy Klementowski, fo 1111er student , is a Northwest Pl aywrights' Guild Award winner and an intern at ActorsTheatre of Loui sville, one of the fo remost theaters for new works. Terence Knox, former student , appeared as Dr. Peter Wh ite in Telev ision·s "S t. Elsewhere," and pl ays Sgt. Anderson in "Tour of Duty." Scott Parker* (' 77 MA), fac ulty member, was nominated for Willie Best Actor awards for hi s portrayals in PSU productions of "A Flea in Her Ear" and " Buried Child. " He is a founding member of the comedy improv group "Waggie and Friends." Parker's recent portrayal of Elwood P. Dowd for PCT's "Harvey" has been declared the rod again st which all other performances are sure to be measured . Victoria Parker, instructor and former student , is known in the Portland theater community fo r her prowess as an actor and director. She is also one of the founding members of the Waggie and Friends improv group . Pauline Peotter, professor, teaches a pl aywriting class which has influenced and inspired some of Portland 's finest.