Before the parade marches through town and the football team takes the field, College of Arts and Letters will host its annual master class series on Oct. 16 as part of its Homecoming event schedule.
Presenters include alumni from music, theatre and dance, and media, journalism and film. The master classes are free and open to the public. The schedule is as follows:
Sarah Tannehill Anderson
Bachelor of Music, 1996
Sarah Tannehill Anderson is an accomplished singer, pianist and violinist. She lives in Kansas City and performs with the Bach Aria Soloists, Lyric Arts Trio and the Kansas City Chorale. She is a featured soloist on the Chorale’s Grammy-winning album “Life and Breath.”
As a Missouri State student, Tannehill Anderson was a member of the University Symphony, the Concert Choir and the “Dues” Jazz Band. She went on to receive her Masters in Music at the UMKC Conservatory of Music in 1999.
This spring she will be singing with the KC Chorale at Lincoln Center in New York City, the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute in Columbia, Missouri, and performing the Soprano solo at Missouri State’s President’s Concert.
When will she present?
Date: Oct. 16
Time: 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: Plaster Student Union Theater
Susan Hiland
BS in speech/electronic media, 1981
Susan Hiland is an Emmy award-winning journalist. She co-anchors FOX 4 News at 5 and 9 p.m., and has worked at WDAF-TV since 2000. Before that, she was the morning anchor at WTNH-TV in New Haven, Connecticut, and worked at news stations across the Midwest.
A Kansas City native, Hiland graduated from Oak Park High School and was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame. Hiland travels in her spare time, especially for volunteer vacations. She has traveled to Nepal, Kenya and Brazil where she has worked with underprivileged women and children.
When will she present?
Date: Oct. 16
Time: 12:45 to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Plaster Student Union Theater
Jennifer Moore
Graduate student in international relations, emphasis in diplomacy
Jennifer Moore is a journalist and writer based out of West Plains. She is the coordinator of theatre and events for MSU-West Plains, and she recently gave Missouri State’s 2015 summer commencement speech.
Moore graduated with honors from the University of Missouri School of Journalism before spending five years in the Persian Gulf region, where she worked as a freelance journalist for CNN-International, NPR, and the largest English daily newspaper in the region, “The Gulf News.”
After returning to the U.S. in 2007, she worked as a reporter, anchor and assignment editor for the NPR station in Springfield, Missouri, KSMU Radio, where she filed local and national stories on the rural Ozarks. She has received seven Edward R. Murrow awards, the “Excellence in Legal Journalism” award from The Missouri Bar, and the 2014 Honorable Mention for the “Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Journalism” awarded by Syracuse University.
When will she present?
Date: Oct. 16
Time: 2:15 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Plaster Student Union Theater
Sandra Paola Lopez Ramirez
BFA in dance/performance, 2008
Sandra Paola Lopez Ramirez is a dancer, teacher, activist and community organizer who has travelled throughout the U.S., Colombia, Brazil, Cyprus, France, Canada and Mexico to share her craft.
An intersection between art and personal experience, her work explores issues such as relationship, gender, race, identity, awareness, kinesthetic listening and touch.
She has taught widely in both formal and non-formal education settings including the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and is currently a faculty member in the dance program at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has also presented at national and international conferences, including TEDx El Paso.
When will she present?
Date: Oct. 16
Time: 3:45 to 5:00 p.m.
Location: Plaster Student Union Theater