[274] MTSU’s 11th Annual Flute Festival Set Jan. 29

FOR RELEASE: Jan. 24, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493

MTSU’S 11th ANNUAL FLUTE FESTIVAL SET JAN. 29
Guest Flutist Bradley Garner Featured Throughout the Day

(MURFREESBORO)—The eleventh annual MTSU Flute Festival, featuring guests Dr. Bradley Garner and John Steele Ritter, will be held Saturday, Jan. 29, with registration beginning at 8 a.m. in the Wright Music Building lobby on the MTSU campus.

The day’s events include:
• a 9 a.m. master class with guest flutist Garner;
• exhibits on flute products and repair;
• a high-school solo and junior solo competition with cash prizes;
• a festival flute choir of participants;
• a 1 p.m. flute recital with featured guests Garner and Ritter;
• a 2:15 master class with Garner; and
• a final concert at 4:30 p.m. featuring solo winners, the festival flute choir and more.

“I am excited and honored to have Dr. Garner as this year’s guest artist for the 2011 festival,” said Dr. Deanna Little, professor of flute at MTSU. “He has been a truly positive influence in my life and career as a musician. He is a dynamic performer and a highly motivating teacher.”

Garner teaches on the faculties of The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Queens College, New York University and the Juilliard School. His students have won positions in orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Korean Broadcasting Symphony, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Charlotte Symphony, and in major festivals throughout the United States and abroad. He has been described as one of today's most exciting flutists and has played concerts and recitals worldwide with great acclaim. He is an active soloist, teacher and recording artist in Cincinnati, Ohio, and New York City.

Guest pianist Ritter has recorded 11 classical CDs and currently is teaching at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. He performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1972 to 1974 and in 1975 commenced his longstanding association with French flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal.

“I have no doubt that this year's festival will be a true musically and ‘flutistically’ inspiring event,” Little said.

Admission for the flute festival is $10 to preregister online as a participating flutist or $15 at the door. Members of the general public may register as a guest for one or all of the public concerts and public competitions for only $5.

For more information, please visit www.mtsu.edu/~drhahn/flutefest11.html or call Little at 615-898-2473.

Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. MTSU recently unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.

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IN BRIEF: The eleventh annual MTSU Flute Festival, featuring guests Dr. Bradley Garner and John Steele Ritter, will be held Saturday, Jan. 29, with registration beginning at 8 a.m. in the Wright Music Building lobby on the MTSU campus. The day’s events include master classes with guest flutist Garner, exhibits on flute products and repair, a high-school solo and junior solo competition with cash prizes, a festival flute choir of participants; and a final concert at 4:30 p.m. Admission for the flute festival is $10 to preregister online as a participating flutist or $15 at the door. Members of the general public may register as a guest for one or all of the public concerts and public competitions for only $5. For more information, please visit www.mtsu.edu/~drhahn/flutefest11.html or call Dr. Deanna Little at 615-898-2473.


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