By MEGAN MAHARRY, Student Reporter
Chance Mayhall will have his junior recital on Sunday, Dec. 4 at 2 P.M. in the Fine Arts Building in room 200 at Northwestern Oklahoma State University.
Linda Newell has been working with Mayhall since his freshman year at NWOSU. She gives him voice lessons, and has helped prepare him for this recital.
Newell said Mayhall is singing a variety of chorale pieces, such as Handle, songs in German and French and Musical Theatre pieces.
Newell said she enjoys working with Mayhall. She said he is a wonderful performer, and an exciting performer to watch. She said he will have a great junior recital.
Mayhall will be accompanied by Susan Duell, an Adjunct Instructor of Music at NWOSU.
Chance Mayhall is a junior at NWOSU from Ponca City, Oklahoma. Mayhall was involved in many different music programs growing up, such as church choir and high school choir.
Mayhall originally studied pre-optometry at University of Science and Arts in Chickasaw, but decided that was not the career path he wanted to follow anymore. Mayhall chose to come NWOSU because he had many family members graduate from there, and it was familiar to him.
Mayhall is a vocal performance major. His future plans include attending a Master’s program. He plans to study vocal pedagogy, which is the science and teaching of voice.
Mayhall said he is looking forward to his junior recital. He is singing songs he has learned in the past, and also songs he has learned this semester. Mayhall said his favorite piece he is Last One Picked from a musical theater show called Whoop-Dee-Doo. The song is about a kid who is always picked last for a sports team. Mayhall said it is a fun piece to perform.
Mayhall said music has always been a part of his life. He took many trips involving music and participated in other choir events such as All-State and Honor choirs. Mayhall said the more into music he got, the more he realized music was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.
“It was something I always wanted to spend time doing,” Mayhall said.