Belmont University School of Music presents
Belmont University School of Music
Faculty Woodwinds Sextour I. Allegro Vivace II. Divertissement III. Finale
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sciarada Spangnuola A. Entrata B. Pavane C. Gagliarda D. Passamezzo E. Frottola F. Finale
Jurriaan Andriessen (1925-1996)
Brief Intermission Sextet, Op. 45 I. Veranderung – Improvisation II. Veranderung - Capriccio III. Veranderung - Pastorale IV. Veranderung – Slavischer Tanz V. Veranderung - Romanze VI. Veranderung - Humoreske VII. Veranderung - Finale
Monday October 5, 2026 7:30 P.M. McAfee Concert Hall
Theodor Blumer (1881-1964)
Ensemble Personnel Jessica Dunnavant, flute Rebecca Van de Ven, oboe Daniel Lochrie, clarinet Dong-Yun Shankle, bassoon Tara Johnson, horn Bernadette Lo, piano Jessica Dunnavant teaches flute at Belmont University, Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music, and Lipscomb University. She is second flute in the Jackson Symphony (TN) and for twenty years has been the primary Baroque flute and recorder player for Music City Baroque, where she is also a board member and Concert Operations manager. She is a regular substitute musician with Orchestra Kentucky and an occasional sub with the Nashville Symphony, and she deeply enjoys the range of playing opportunities available in Nashville, from recording sessions to chamber music to church gigs to musical theater pit orchestras. In addition to her current university positions, Dunnavant has served on the faculties of MTSU, the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Florida State University and Texas A&M University Kingsville, and her degrees are from the University of Maryland College Park (DMA 2004), Florida State University (MM 2000) and MTSU (BM 1998). Dunnavant is the founding President of the Flute Society of Greater Nashville, and she also serves on the board of Ethos Youth Ensembles Rebecca Van de Ven joined the faculty at Belmont University in 2018 and the faculty of the University of the South in 2011. Prior to that, Van de Ven taught at Middle Tennessee State University, Albion College, and Spring Arbor University. For many years, she was on faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival where she coached and organized the wind chamber music program. Van de Ven frequently records music in Nashville and can be heard playing English Horn on season three of the Emmy winning hit TV series Fargo as well as the 2016 Evanescence Album. Her orchestral engagements have included orchestras such as Nashville Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Grand Rapids Symphony, as well as many others. She can also be found playing regionally in Orchestra Kentucky and Huntsville Symphonies and in staged works at Tennessee Performing Arts Center. On a full tuition scholarship, Van de Ven received the Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory in oboe performance where she was a student of Eugene Izotov, current Principal Oboe of the San Francisco Symphony. She attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison on a full tuition scholarship where she earned both a Bachelor of Arts degree and Bachelor of Science degree. She was a student of Professor Marc Fink. Van de Ven attended the Pierre Monteux Music Festival in Maine and was awarded a full scholarship to the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. She currently resides in Sewanee, Tennessee with her husband and two children and maintains a private studio.
Dr. Daniel Lochrie is an adjunct instructor in the School of Music, teaching applied clarinet, classical woodwind seminar, and woodwind techniques. Lochrie received degrees from The University of Michigan, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and The Ohio State University, where he studied with James Pyne. Other teachers included Paul Schaller, Brian Schweickhardt, John Mohler, Franklin Cohen, and bass clarinetist, Oliver Green. Before entering graduate school, he joined the National Orchestra of New York, studying with Leon Russianoff and performing regularly with the orchestra in Carnegie Hall. In addition to teaching experience at Lipscomb University, Middle Tennessee State University, The Ohio State University, and the Corsi Internazionale di Musica, Lochrie has been a member of the Nashville Symphony (with recent recordings on the Naxos and Decca labels) since 1992. His chamber music activities include regular appearances on clarinet and bass clarinet at several area universities, recital appearances throughout the US, and performances at summer festivals in Ohio, Colorado, and Italy. With further experience as a Nashville studio musician, managerial experience in the Nashville Symphony, and with success as a composer and arranger (performances by ensembles such as the Tennessee Tech faculty woodwind quintet and the Pacific and Nashville Symphonies) Lochrie maintains a multifaceted musical career. Dong-Yun K. Shankle is an adjunct bassoon professor at Belmont and Trevecca Universities. She is a member of Belmont’s faculty woodwind quintet. She has also taught at Western Kentucky and Campbellsville Universities. She is the principal bassoonist in the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, and Parthenon Chamber Orchestra. She has also been principal in Orchestra Kentucky, Jackson Symphony, Owensboro Symphony and Western Kentucky. Shankle has had a distinguished career as a symphony bassoonist, recording artist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras in Asia, Europe, Russia and America. During her 20year career in Korea, she has worked in the Seoul KBS Symphony Orchestra. She was the principal bassoonist in the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Asian Six Nations Orchestra in Fukuoka, Japan. She has appeared as a soloist with the Russia St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Sofia Orchestra both in Bulgaria, Seoul KBS Chamber Orchestra, Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, Paducah Symphony Orchestra and many other orchestras all over Asia, Europe and America. Shankle had the honor of playing principal bassoon in some of the world's greatest concert halls such as: Carnegie Hall in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur Hall in Malaysian. Also, she performed recitals with internationally known performers such as Emmanuel Abbuel (Principal Oboist/London Philharmonic), Kirill Sokolov (Principal bassoon/St. Petersburg Philharmonic), Valeri Popov (Principal bassoon/Moscow Symphony), Otto Eifert (Principal Bassoon/Cincinnati Symphony), and many more. Shankle graduated from Daegu Catholic University, where she received the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Bassoon Performance and Music Education. After that, she studied in Holland for the Performance Soloist Degree from the Rotterdam Conservatorium. While in school she won the prestigious Seoul Dong-A
International Music Competition. Dong-Yun has three solo CDs on the Sung-Eum label. Her CD’s have received favorable reviews from Ron Klimko of the IDRS. Tara Johnson is an Adjunct Instructor of Music at Belmont University, teaching Horn and Aural Skills courses. Originally from Hudsonville, Michigan, Johnson began her studies in French horn at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. From there she moved to Nashville to attend Belmont University, where she received the Bachelor of Music degree in Horn Performance, with a minor in Music Business. She worked in Nashville as a freelance music transcriber and copyist. Johnson earned the Master of Arts in Music degree in Horn Performance from Middle Tennessee State University in 2012, where she studied with Angela DeBoer, and worked as a teaching assistant in the brass department in general music and music theory courses. Johnson currently plays as 2nd Horn in the Owensboro Symphony in Owensboro, Kentucky. Additionally, she has performed with the Nashville Symphony, Nashville Opera, Huntsville Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony, Evansville Philharmonic, Louisville Symphony, Orchestra Kentucky, and Jackson Symphony. She has taken her horn playing to China with the Hollywood Film Orchestra, and to other parts of the world such as Israel, Romania, and Hungary. As an active freelance horn player, she can also be heard on several soundtrack recordings for movies, video games, and television shows, recorded in Nashville at Ocean Way Studios and elsewhere. She maintains a private studio of horn students across the Nashville area and enjoys sharing her expertise by teaching virtual horn lessons and music theory tutoring to students nationwide. Taiwanese pianist Bernadette Lo (Lo, Wei-Chun) has become a much sought-after collaborative pianist, with extensive experience in both vocal and instrumental music. She has worked in the studios of such renowned artists as Carol Vaness, Cynthia Haymon and Martina Arroyo, and for several years has been an official accompanist for the Orpheus National Vocal Competition in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She has been engaged by the Sugar Creek Festival, Opera Illinois, Illinois Opera Theatre and the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre. She has performed in recital with acclaimed instrumentalists such as Yuri Mazurkevich, Dale Clevenger and David Griffin (both of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Ronald Barron (of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and flutist Tadeu Coelho. She has concertized nationally with violist Hillary Herndon, which whom she has recorded two compact discs of works featuring female composers such as Harrison, Decruck, Clarke, and others. She is regularly invited to collaborate with guest artists at the Tennessee Cello Workshop, Tennessee Viola, and was one of three invited collaborative pianists to perform for the 41st International Horn Symposium.
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