College of the Ozarks to host guest artist recital featuring andPlay

Point Lookout, MO. — College of the Ozarks will host andPlay, which is comprised of Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Newman Recital Hall in the Gittinger Music Building at College of the Ozarks.

Luke Carlson, associate professor of music at the College of the Ozarks, will have his work, Timepieces, premiered at this event. Regarding his work, Carlson says, “The 10 movements of Timepieces are inspired by different qualities, aspects, and notions of time. ‘Before…’ and ‘…After’ are peaceful yet slightly mysterious bookends for the piece. ‘Micro,’ ‘Nano,’ and ‘Pico’ are shorter and more punctuated than their surrounding movements. ‘Phase I,’ ‘Phase II,’ and ‘Phase III’ are fast, frenetic, and fiery. ‘Chronos’ and ‘Kairos,’ the emotional centerpieces of the work, are contemplative and lyrical.

Though each movement explores different musical ideas and techniques, the violin and viola frequently play in rhythmic unison, creating gestures that are simultaneously focused and unified, yet rich and multi-faceted—much like how our perception of time shifts from simple linearity to contemplative complexity.”

About andPlay

andPlay is committed to expanding the existing violin/viola duo repertoire by commissioning new works and actively collaborating with living artists. The New York City-based duo of Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola, first played to an eager crowd on Fire Island in the summer of 2012 and has since commissioned over 45 works.

Beyond the concert stage, Maya and Hannah are passionate educators offering in-person and virtual workshops in contemporary string techniques, chamber music coaching and composition notation for strings. They have given performances and masterclasses at Arizona State University, UC Santa Cruz, Western Connecticut State University, Otterbein University, Bowling Green State University and were Artists-in-Residence at the Snow Pond Composers Workshop (Sidney, Maine) and the Wildflower Composers Festival (Philadelphia). Since 2019, their audience engagement series, andPlay (in) Conversation, presents free events for adults and children to look inside the collaborative process of creating new music.

For more information, contact the College of the Ozarks Public Relations Office at (417) 690-2212.

About College of the Ozarks

College of the Ozarks is a private, Christian, liberal arts college, located in Point Lookout, Missouri, on a 1,000-acre campus. Christian values, hard work, and fiscal responsibility comprise the fundamental building blocks of the “Hard Work U.” experience. The College earns numerous accolades yearly, including No. 2 Best Performers on Social Mobility-Regional Colleges in the Midwest and No. 4 Best Regional College in the Midwest by U.S. News & World Report for 2024-2025 and No. 3 Best Bang for the Buck by Washington Monthly, 2024. To achieve its vision, the College pursues academic, vocational, Christian, patriotic, and cultural goals. These goals are mirrored in School of the Ozarks, a laboratory school that completes the K-college model.

The Keeter Center — the College’s award-winning lodge, restaurant, and conference facility — earns awards consistently, including the TripAdvisor Best of the Best Award 2024 and the Readers’ Choice Awards 2023 from ConventionSouth magazine. The Keeter Center features historic lodging, fine dining, and meeting rooms. With more than 350 student workers, it is the largest workstation on campus.