230 GUEST OBOIST AND PIANIST PERFORM FREE RECITAL AT MTSU

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 7, 2008
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, (615) 898-2493

GUEST OBOIST AND PIANIST PERFORM FREE RECITAL AT MTSU

(MURFREESBORO)—Guest artist Laura Ann Ross (oboe), along with pianist Jackson Henry, will perform a free recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, in the Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
The artists will perform Handel's Sonata No.1 in C minor, Howell's Sonata for oboe, Dutilleux's Sonate pour Hautbois et Piano and Pasculli's Concert sopra Motivi from the opera La Favorita by Donizetti.
Ross is a freelance oboist and teacher in the Nashville area. She is the acting principal oboist of the Murfreesboro Symphony Orchestra and a substitute for both the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and the New World Symphony in Miami.
Before moving to Tennessee, she played principal oboe with the Great Hall Chamber Orchestra in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and served as a substitute for both the Haddonfield Symphony in New Jersey and the Reading Symphony in Pennsylvania. Ross holds a Master of Music degree from Temple University and a bachelor’s degree in music from Miami University, where she was a student of with Louis Rosenblatt and Andrea Ridilla, respectively.
Pianist Henry is a church musician and pianist who hails from Kingsport, Tenn. He now serves in Murfreesboro at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church as director of Music Ministries. He holds a Bachelor of Music performance from Tennessee Technological University, where he studied with Drs. Catherine and Herman Godes. While At TTU, Henry received the Joan Derryberry Award, the Charles F. Bryan Award, and the Charles C. Young Fine Arts Award.
The Jan. 15 concert is free and open to the public.
For more information on this and other concerts in the MTSU School of Music, please visit www.mtsumusic.com or call 615-898-2493.


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