304 ROYAL PHILHARMONIC FLUTIST SUSAN MILAN VISITS MTSU DURING U.S. TOUR

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 15, 2007
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493

Free and Open Lecture, Master Classes and Performance

(MURFREESBORO) – Susan Milan, principal flutist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, will give a recital stop on her U.S. tour with pianist Lillian Pearson at 8 p.m. March 21 in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
Milan will also present a lecture on historical recordings at 10 a.m. and a master class at 11:15 a.m. earlier March 21 in the adjoining Saunders Fine Arts Building (SFA) Room 301. In addition, there will be a second master class at 10:30 a.m. March 22 in SFA’s Room 117.
The 8 p.m. concert featuring Milan and Pearson will include Phillipe Gaubert’s Sonata No. 3, Gabriel Faure’s Fantaisie Op.79, Edwin Roxburgh’s Stardrift, Robert Muczynski’s Sonata, Georg Philipp Telemann’s Sonata in F Minor, Franz Albert Doppler’s Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise Op.16 and Frank Martin’s Ballade.
Dr. Deanna Little, MTSU associate professor of flute, said that Milan’s 10 a.m. lecture will be from her lecture series titled “Master Classics Flute Archive Series.”
“She restores old recordings of famous flute players such as Marcel Moyse, Rene LeRoy and Phillipe Gaubert, among others,” Little said.
In the March 21-22 master classes, MTSU students will play for Milan and she will, in turn, work with them individually.
During her current tour, Milan has visited Seattle, Canada, Utah, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Houston, Lake Charles, La., and Baton Rouge. After her MTSU visit, she will travel to Colorado to end her tour.
Milan was the first woman to be appointed a member and principal of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, beginning a broad career as an orchestral principal, chamber musician, soloist, teacher and lecturer. She is a professor and fellow of the Royal College of Music, where she was a scholar at the age of 16. She is regularly invited to give master class courses in the United Kingdom, U.S., South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
Pianist Pearson is associate professor of music and coordinator for keyboard studies at Western Carolina University. She has served as an official accompanist for the International Horn Workshop, the International Double-Reed Society, the International Trumpet Guild, the Southeastern Horn Workshop and others. She has also appeared as a soloist with groups such as the Ashville Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony and the Breckenridge Festival Orchestra.
The March 21 and 22 events, including master classes, are free and open to the public.
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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