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Ithaca, NY--Four concerts held in conjunction with the Ithaca College School of Music Flute Institute--a five-day workshop focusing on the standard flute repertoire--will be offered free to the public during the first week in July. All four performances, including a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Karel Husa, will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.
A new sonatina for flute and piano by Husa, a former longtime School of Music faculty member, will be performed for the first time on Thursday, July 4. Special guest Leone Buyse, formerly acting principal flute with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and now professor of flute and chamber music at Rice University, will be assisted by her husband, clarinetist Michael Webster, and assistant professor of piano Diane Birr. Also on the program are works by Aitken, C.P.E. Bach, Gottschalk, Dohnanyi, and an arrangement of a song by Schubert. The performance on Monday, July 1, will feature flute professor Wendy Herbener Mehne. She will be assisted on guitar by adjunct professor of classical guitar Pablo Cohen and pianist Birr in performing works by Ibert, Bach, Copland, Sierra, and Bizet. The flute duo of Jill Felber and Claudia Anderson--known also as ZAWA!--will perform on Tuesday, July 2. The program will offer works by Monteverdi, Bach, Larson, Doppler, and Chopin. ZAWA! has appeared at New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Wigmore Hall, and many colleges and universities nationwide. On Wednesday, July 3, the institute students will perform some of the works they have studied in their workshop instruction. Under Mehne's directorship, the flute institute will offer instruction concentrating on such topics as stage presence, intonation, breathing, and 18th-century ornamentation. In addition to performing, Buyse, Felber, and Anderson will serve as instructors. Contact: Erik Kibelsbeck Office: (607) 274-3717 ekibelsbeck@ithaca.edu Reference: 979 |
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