266 FLUTE, CLARINET AND PIANO CENTERPIECE OF FREE FEB. 21 CONCERT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 14, 2007
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493


Guest Trio Known as Doubled Air Will Deliver Free & Open Performance

(MURFREESBORO)–Guest artists Linda Pereksta (flute), Michael Rowlett (clarinet) and Brian Osborne (piano) will perform under the Doubled Air moniker at 8 p.m. Feb. 21 in a free and open recital in the T. Earl Hinton Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
“The program will present an exciting variety of musical styles and combinations for flute, clarinet and piano,” said Todd Waldecker, MTSU associate professor of clarinet.
The program includes such works as Georg Philipp Telemann’s Canonic Sonata No.1 in G Major, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre’s Ecos, Leonard Bernstein’s Sonata for Clarinet, Steve Reich’s Clapping Music and Charles Ives’s At the River.
Pereksta and Rowlett have performed together for more than 10 years, most recently under the Doubled Air name. They are members of the Flute/Clarinet Duos Consortium, an organization that commissions new compositions for this combination of instruments.
They have performed together in concerts throughout the Midwest and Southeast, and have been invited to perform this summer at the National Flute Association’s convention in Albuquerque, as well as the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest in Vancouver, B.C.
Pereksta is a member of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and teaches flute at Tulane University. Rowlett teaches clarinet at the University of Mississippi, where he also performs with the Faculty Woodwind Quintet. Pianist Brian Osborne joined the music faculty at Ole Miss in 2006 as vocal coach/accompanist, where he appears throughout the year in various recitals, as well as theater and opera productions. He has served as music director and coach with the Knoxville Opera Studio and has performed with the Knoxville Symphony.
“We are thrilled to have these guest performers on the MTSU campus,” Waldecker remarked. “On Thursday, Feb. 22, the artists will (also) be presenting master classes for MTSU music students as well."
For more information on this and other events in the McLean School of Music, please visit www.mtsumusic.com or call 615-898-2493.

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