Repertoire K. Day: Fantasia No. 4 (2021)Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121 (1896)D. Gillingham: Sonata (1989)About the ArtistsNoah Roper, hailing from Aledo, Texas, is bass trombonist for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and a faculty instructor at the University of Kentucky School of Music. Prior to his CSO appointment, Roper was a Bass Trombone Fellow of the New World Symphony. He is an artist with S. E. Shires and has appeared in many ensembles, including the Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.Aram Arakelyan is senior lecturer in music in collaborative piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and has been a member of the Chamber and Collaborative Music Department since its inception in fall 2016. He has performed extensively with choirs and large ensembles and has worked with such renowned conductors as Carl St. Clair, Helmut Rilling, Barlow Bradford, and Jerry Junkin. Arakelyan's tenure with the University of Southern California Thornton Chamber Singers under the direction of Jo-Michael Scheibe yielded numerous performances of a wide range of standard and contemporary repertoire, both at home and abroad. Other choral ensembles Arakelyan has performed include the Utah Chamber Artists and IU's NOTUS Contemporary Vocal Ensemble. A versatile musician, he has performed in variety of different genres and settings, including the American Contemporary Ballet, high holy days with the Congregation Kol Ami in Los Angeles, and a fun-filled Wah-Hoo Revue! at the Sun Valley Opera House in Idaho. He has partnered such artists as tenor Hui Jin, violist Patricia McCarty, hornist Dale Clevenger, flutists Marco Granados and Alberto Almarza, and tubists Sergio Carolino and Eugene Pokorny, and regularly shares the stage with his Jacobs colleagues. He has also performed at the Festival International de Flauta Latino in Monterrey, Mexico, the Schubert Club Series in St. Paul, Minnesota, and many other venues. Arakelyan previously held collaborative piano staff positions at the Colburn School and the Meadowmount School of Music. He has served as a member of the collaborative staff at the Primrose International Viola Competition (2014) and the International Horn Symposium (2015, 2022). He has also been on faculty at the Indiana University Summer String Academy. Arakelyan earned a B.M. in Piano Performance from The University of Utah, an M.M. in Collaborative Piano from The University of Texas at Austin, and a D.M.A. in Keyboard Collaborative Arts from the University of Southern California. He received his education under the mentorship of Susan Duehlmeier, Anne Epperson, Norman Krieger, and Alan L. Smith.