Maryville College’s Gavin Lester ’24 to present senior recital on Oct. 17

Sept. 26, 2023

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Gavin Lester

Maryville College senior Gavin Lester ’24 will present a recital titled “Love’s Melancholy Deception” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17.

The recital, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall of the Clayton Center for the Arts on the MC campus.

The program will include selections by Gabriel Fauré, Roger Quilter, Stefano Donaudy and more. The recital is based around “the sweet but sometimes deceiving nature of love,” according to Lester.

“Ultimately, the selections in the recital tells a story that love can bring both joy and sadness, and the journey that comes with that,” he said.

Chase Hatmaker ‘14 will serve as the collaborative pianist. 

“The repertoire that I have chosen for my recital are pieces that have helped me grow, not only vocally, but personally over my time at Maryville College,” Lester said. “These pieces present such powerful messages that I will be communicating.

Lester, a Vocal Music Education major with teaching licensure from Maryville, is a 2020 graduate of Heritage High School.   

Maryville College is a nationally-ranked institution of higher learning and one of America’s oldest colleges. For more than 200 years we’ve educated students to be giving citizens and gifted leaders, to study everything, so that they are prepared for anything — to address any problem, engage with any audience and launch successful careers right away. Located in Maryville, Tennessee, between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the city of Knoxville, Maryville College offers nearly 1,200  students from around the world both the beauty of a rural setting and the advantages of an urban center, as well as more than 60 majors, seven pre-professional programs and career preparation from their first day on campus to their last. Today, our 10,000 alumni are living life strong of mind and brave of heart and are prepared, in the words of our Presbyterian founder, to “do good on the largest possible scale.”