285 MTSU’s FIFTH ANNUAL DOUBLE REED DAY BLOWS IN FEB. 23

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 15, 2008
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, (615) 898-2493

MTSU’s FIFTH ANNUAL DOUBLE REED DAY BLOWS IN FEB. 23
Daylong Event Features Two Free & Open Performances

(MURFREESBORO)—Saturday, Feb. 23, marks the day that the MTSU School of Music will present its fifth annual Double Reed Day, a daylong event for double reed players (oboes, bassoons) of all ages, which will feature a 10 a.m. concert of professional players and a 4 p.m. finale concert showcasing participants.
Both concerts, which are free and open to the public, will be held in the T. Earl Hinton Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus. Additionally, the special-event day is open to K-12, college and professionals players. Registration, $10 per player, will begin at 8 a.m. in the lobby of the WMB.
Maya Stone, MTSU bassoon instructor and co-host for the event, said Double Reed Day is a well-attended event that is one of a kind in the middle Tennessee Region.
Among the events scheduled for the day are master classes, double-reed ensemble rehearsals with the registered participants and visiting exhibitors including Fox Products, Hana Reeds, Miller Marketing (bassoons) and Onks Woodwind Repair.
"The MTSU Double Reed Day is always a special day for oboists and bassoonists across the region,” Stone said. “The participants always have a more than memorable and inspirational experience."
The day’s 10 a.m. concert will feature Kristin Wolfe Jensen (bassoon), Laura Ann Ross (oboe) and Stone (bassoon).
Jensen is on faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, the International Festival Institute at Round Top and the Eastern Music Festival, where she is principal bassoonist of the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra. She is also currently principal bassoonist of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston. She received her Bachelor of Music Performance and Music Education degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and her Master of Music from the Juilliard School of Music.
Ross, an active freelance oboist and teacher in the Nashville area, is an adjunct professor of oboe at MTSU. She is acting principal oboist of the Murfreesboro Symphony Orchestra and a substitute for both the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and the New World Symphony in Miami, Fla. Ross has played principal oboe in the Philadelphia area with the Great Hall Chamber Orchestra and served as a substitute for the Haddonfield Symphony (N.J.) and Reading Symphony in Pennsylvania. She earned a Master of Music degree from Temple University in 2006 and a Bachelor of Music in 2004 from Miami University in Ohio. She was also a founding member of the Athena Ensemble, an all-female oboe, clarinet and bassoon trio based in the Philadelphia area.
The 4 p.m. finale´ concert will feature double-reed ensembles composed of the event’s participants.
For more information on this and other events in the MTSU School of Music, please visit www.mtsumusic.com or call 615-898-2493.


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