Sophia Tegart & Michael Seregow
Biography Sophia Tegart & Michael Seregow
Dr. Sophia Tegart
has led a varied and award-winning career as a flutist, musicologist, and pedagogue. A popular performer, she has been soloist with the Spokane Symphony, the Washington-Idaho Symphony, Chehalem Symphony Orchestra, and the Kansas City Civic Orchestra. As a Yamaha Performing Artist, Tegart has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Competitive internationally, she was finalist in the Mu Phi Epsilon International Competition and quarter-finalist in the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition.
An avid chamber musician, Tegart has performed at National Flute Association Conventions, the Florida Flute Association Convention, College Music Society conferences, and in collaboration with numerous museums. She is a member of the Pan Pacific Ensemble, Solstice Woodwind Quintet and the Cherry Street Duo, and has collaborated with the Portland Percussion Group. Her love of chamber music has also led Tegart to arrange works for small chamber ensembles, which are currently published by Audible Intelligence Music.
Tegart won orchestral positions and performed with the Oregon Mozart Players,, the Walla Walla Symphony, and the Des Moines Metro Opera. Additionally, she was guest principal flutist in the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, and performed regularly with the Kansas City Symphony and the Portland Festival Symphony. Currently, Tegart is piccoloist with the Colorado Mahlerfest, and second flute and piccolo in the Washington Idaho Symphony.
A highly sought after pedagogue, Dr. Tegart regularly give master classes, clinics, and lectures throughout the United States. She currently teaches at Young Musicians and Artists (YMA), and has served on the faculty of the Music For All Summer Symposium and Music in May. Prior to her appointment at Washington State University, where she is Clinical Assistant Professor of Flute, Tegart served on the faculties of Pacific University, George Fox University, Concordia University-Portland, and the University of Idaho.
Tegart's research interests include nineteenth-century operatic mad scenes, representations of art and literature in music, and women in music. For her masters thesis, “An Instrumental Voice: Use of the Flute in Lucia’s Mad Scene,” she won the Mu Phi Epsilon Musicology Award. Tegart has also presented lectures about ekphrasis in the music of Jessica Rudman, specifically Anne Sexton's Transformations, a retelling of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Dr. Tegart received her Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute Performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance where she held the flute fellowship in the Graduate Woodwind Quintet. Tegart graduated from the University of Oregon with a Master of Arts in Music History and a Master of Music in Flute Performance. An alumna of Washington State University, Tegart received a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Bachelor of Music in Performance.
Michael Seregow
A native of the Pacific Northwest, pianist Michael Seregow enjoys a multifaceted career as a performer, teacher, and recording artist. Currently a member of the piano faculty at Ball State University, he has also served on the keyboard faculties at Washington State University, University of Puget Sound, and University of Oregon.
Winner of The American Prize in chamber music performance, a national competition in the performing arts, Michael maintains an active performance career, performing a diverse selection of repertoire spanning from the late renaissance through works by composers of today. A musician of uncommon versatility, he has also received formal training in a variety of keyboard instruments other than piano including harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ, in addition to studies in jazz piano, basso continuo, historical performance practice, and composition.
An avid chamber musician, Michael has performed with internationally renowned artists such as Chicago Symphony Orchestra principal bass clarinetist Lawrie Bloom and Indiana University professor of bassoon William Ludwig, as well as members of Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Eugene Symphony, Oregon Mozart Players, and many others. Recent international performances include recitals with saxophonists Nathan Bogert and Bob Eason at the XVIII Encuentro Universitario Internacional de Saxofón México in Mexico City; a world premiere performance with flutist Sophia Tegart at the 2nd International Conference on Women’s Work in Music at Bangor University in Wales, UK; and a recital as featured guest artists with saxophonist Nathan Bogert in the national theatre of Honduras for Honduras Sax Festival IV in Tegucigalpa. Michael has performed at various national conferences around the United States including those for the North American Saxophone Alliance (Tempe, AZ), College Music Society (Louisville, KY), and National Flute Association (Salt Lake City, UT). In addition, Michael has performed collaboratively as an invited guest artist at many universities across the United States including University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, The University of Texas at Austin, Stephen F. Austin State University, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Cal State Fullerton, and others.
Michael celebrates the forthcoming release on Centaur Records of his second CD titled Palouse Songbook. A collaborative project with flutist Sophia Tegart, this disc features new and recent compositions by women composers, including two works commissioned specifically for this recording by composers Emily Doolittle and Ingrid Stölzel. In June of 2017 Michael teamed up with the San Francisco Bay Area’s historically informed Sylvestris Quartet and Portland baritone Harry Baechtel to record his debut CD, The Good Song: Fauré in the 1890s. Featuring compositions from an especially important and prolific decade of composer Gabriel Fauré’s life, this disc was recorded in Seattle using a beautiful 1869 Érard piano.
An active member of Music Teachers National Association, Michael is in demand as a lecturer and adjudicator and has presented on topics including teaching tone production at the piano, effective strategies for learning and memorization, the development of healthy technique for advancing pianists, and the pedagogical repertoire of Béla Bartók. His students have been prizewinners in local and national competitions.
Michael earned a D.M.A. in piano performance with supporting studies in piano pedagogy from the University of Oregon. He was twice awarded Outstanding Graduate Performer in Keyboard as well as Outstanding Graduate Performer in Music in addition to receiving graduate teaching fellowships in piano pedagogy, collaborative piano, and opera accompanying. In the summer of 2011 he was a Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Music Academy of the West, where he worked with Jonathan Feldman. His principal teachers include Dean Kramer and Mark Westcott, and he has played in master classes for such eminent artists as Emanuel Ax, John Perry, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Jon Kimura Parker, and Angela Hewitt.
