158 FREE OCT. 29 RECITAL AT MTSU FEATURES PIANO-CLARINET WORKS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 26, 2007
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493

FREE OCT. 29 RECITAL AT MTSU FEATURES PIANO-CLARINET WORKS
Concert Features Music that Varies from the Obscure to Contemporary, Says Waldecker

(MURFREESBORO)—MTSU Faculty clarinetist Todd Waldecker will perform a free and open recital with pianist and local church musician, Jackson Henry, at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
The concert will feature a variety of works for clarinet and piano, from the obscure Rhapsody manuscript written in 1941 by the Russian-Jewish composer Grigori Krejn to the more contemporary sounds of Paul Reade’s soundtrack for a 1990's BBC television gardening documentary.
"Monday evening's program demonstrates the flexibility of the clarinet and piano repertoire," Waldecker said. "Our selections display how tender music can be in Tedesco's Lullaby and how fierce we can play in the Jewish wedding sounds of Sargon's Klezmusik. There should be something that appeals to everyone."
Waldecker has been associate professor of clarinet in the MTSU School of Music at since 1998 and also serves on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. He holds a Doctor of Music from Indiana University, Master of Music from Yale University and a music education degree from the University of Missouri.
Active as a chamber musician, he performs with The Crescent Trio and The Stones River Chamber Players. As principal clarinetist with The Nashville Chamber Orchestra, he has worked with such diverse artists as Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Sharon Isbin, Allison Krauss, The Nashville Bluegrass Band and Phish’s Trey Anastasio. Waldecker frequently performs as a guest with The Nashville Symphony Orchestra and The Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Pianist Henry serves as director of music ministries in Murfreesboro at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church and also as an adjunct accompanist on the keyboard faculty of the MTSU School of Music. He is a graduate of the Master of Sacred Music program at Perkins School of Theology/Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, where he received the Prothro Promise for Ministry Scholarship, the Roger Deschner Prize in Sacred Music and the Master of Sacred Music Award, respectively.
While at SMU, Henry also was assistant director of the Seminary Singers under Dr. C. Michael Hawn. Before coming to Murfreesboro, he served as director of music ministries at the United Methodist Church of the Disciple in DeSoto, Texas.
For more information on this and other events in the music school at MTSU, please call 615-898-2493 or visit www.mtsumusic.com.

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