MURFREESBORO — The
Greenbrook Ensemble, featuring MTSU faculty saxophonist Paula Van Goes and
pianist Lillian Pearson and former MTSU flutist Jessica Dunnavant, will present
a special free recital at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23, in Hinton Hall inside MTSU's
Wright Music Building.
Van Goes
said their performance will showcase three compositions created specifically
for the ensemble, including the world premiere of Tom Dempster's "To
Correspond with Sparrows."
Dempster’s
piece “features rhythmic Morse-code-like sections interspersed with bird song imitations
and more traditional melodies," Van Goes explained, adding that his music
showcases the instruments’ modern techniques, “but never in an arbitrary way.”
The
ensemble, which Van Goes and Dunnavant founded in 2007 to specialize in
woodwind music from around the world, also will perform works they commissioned
by composers Phillippe Geiss and Ingrid Stolzel and a final piece by Paul
Hayden.
Van Goes teaches saxophone and other classes in
MTSU’s School of Music, and her colleague Pearson teaches piano and harpsichord
courses. Formerly an adjunct music faculty member, Dunnavant is now teaching
flute privately in Nashville.
For more information on this and other MTSU
School of Music events, call 615-898-2493 or visit www.mtsumusic.com and click on the "Concert Calendar" link.
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