NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State faculty members Dr. Douglas Bakenhus and Adam Philley and NSU student Douglas Flores will perform with the Baroque Artists of Shreveport in a concert on Sunday, March 26 at 2 p.m. in the Anderson Auditorium in the Hurley School of Music at Centenary College.
Bakenhus will play a Vivaldi bassoon concerto and Philley, a bass baritone, and Flores, a tenor, are singing roles in J.S. Bach’s “Coffee Cantata.”
Bakenhus is professor of bassoon and director of orchestral activities at Northwestern State University. His music degrees are from the Univ. of Texas at Austin (DMA, B.M.Ed), Texas A&M University-Commerce (M.M.), and he has completed additional graduate courses in conducting and bassoon-performance at the University of Michigan. Bakenhus studied conducting and baroque/classical performance practice with Ivars Taurin at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute (2010 and 2015). He remains active on the bassoon, playing in several local orchestras including the Shreveport Symphony, The Baroque Artists of Shreveport, Marshall Symphony, South Arkansas Symphony and Texarkana Symphony. He regularly performs with period instrument ensembles including, the Austin Baroque Orchestra, Sonido Barroco in San Antonio, and has made appearances in Houston with Ars Lyrica, the Houston Bach Society and the Mercury Baroque Ensemble.
Philley is the associate director of choral activities and assistant professor of voice at Northwestern State. He serves as director of music ministries at Broadmoor United Methodist Church in Shreveport and music director of the B’nai Zion Congregation. He is also founder and conductor of the Prísma Vocal Ensemble, Shreveport’s only semi-professional choral ensemble, serves as secretary of the Board of Directors for the Carrefour Collaborative Music Project and is the resident music director for the Shreveport Little Theatre Academy. Philley’s choirs have collaborated with the Shreveport Symphony, the Shreveport Opera, Robinson Film Center and have sung in Carnegie Hall. He holds a Master’s in Choral Conducting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a B.M. in Sacred Music from Centenary College. Philley previously taught voice, piano and theory at Centenary College and Bossier Parish Community College.
Flores is a junior Voice performance from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He has been a member of the NSU Chamber Choir for two years and is a two-time winner of the Guillory Scholarship Competition. Flores won second place in National Student Auditions-Southern Region last fall and won third place in National Association of Teachers of Singing, Louisiana District last spring.
He has been in the NSU Opera Ensemble for two years playing the role of King Kaspar “Amahl and The Night Visitors,” Don Curzio in “The Marriage of Figaro” and Leopold in “Im Weissen Rössl.” Next month, he will play Frederick in the “Pirates of Penzance.
Flores is a member of Phi Mu Alpha and is a student of Dr. Robert Cardwell.
