193 CONCERT BY MTSU ORCHESTRAS, PHILHARMONIA PROMISES ‘SLEIGH RIDE’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 19, 2007
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493

CONCERT BY MTSU ORCHESTRAS, PHILHARMONIA PROMISES ‘SLEIGH RIDE’
Free & Open Dec. 1 Concert Performance Features Violinist Andrea

(MUFREESBORO)—The MTSU Symphony Orchestra, MTSU Chamber Orchestra and MTSU Philharmonia will present a Dec. 1 concert beginning at 8 p.m. that will include the holiday favorite, Sleigh Ride, in the T. Earl Hinton Hall of the Wright Music Building on the university’s campus.
Also featured at this performance will be violinist Andrea Dawson in the second movement of Rimsky-Korsakov’s orchestral masterpiece titled Scheherazade.
"Dawson's supremely beautiful tone and phrasing are perfectly matched to the demands of the magical and lush solo violin melodies of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade," said Carol Nies, music director of the MTSU Symphony.
The orchestra will also present works by Mozart, Ravel, Handel, Dvorak and M. L. Daniels. The season favorite, Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride, will conclude the concert.
This concert’s featured artist, Dawson, joined the MTSU music faculty as assistant professor of violin in August. Before moving to Tennessee in 2007, she served as assistant professor of music at the University of Texas-Pan American and associate concertmaster of the Valley Symphony Orchestra in South Texas.
Dawson received her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she was awarded the coveted Performer’s Certificate.
Nies, director, has served as a cover conductor and conducting assistant for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, as well as the associate conductor and assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. She received a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and a professional studies diploma in Orchestral Conducting from the Mannes College of Music, ads well as a master’s degree in music in double bass from the Yale School of Music and a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Miami.
This concert is free and open to the public.
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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