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THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC Presents

HOUSEWRIGHT VIRTUOSO SERIES: “TWO FLUTES AND...”

Karen Large, Flute Mary Matthews, Flute with College of Music Faculty and Friends

Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Seven-thirty in the Evening Opperman Music Hall

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PROGRAM Mimic (2014)

Nicole Chamberlain (b. 1977)

‘maya’ (2001)

Ian Clarke (b. 1964)

Deux Mouvements (1922) I. Allant II. Assez vif et rythmé

Trio for Flutes (1984) I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Vivace

Deloise Lima, piano

Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) Jonathan Holden, clarinet Jeffrey Keesecker, bassoon László Zempléni (b. 1947) Eva Amsler, flute INTERMISSION

Calling (2010)

London Trio No. 1 in C (1794) I. Allegro moderato II. Andante III. Finale

Christopher Moore, trumpet Brandon Norton, trumpet

Allison Loggins-Hull (b. 1982)

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Gregory Sauer, cello

Please refrain from talking, entering, or exiting while performers are playing. Food and drink are prohibited in all concert halls. Please turn off cell phones and all other electronic devices. Please refrain from putting feet on seats and seat backs. Children who become disruptive should be taken out of the performance hall so they do not disturb the musicians and other audience members.

Acrophobia (2017)

Geoffrey Deibel, soprano saxophone

Consort for Ten Winds (2005) I. Jeux II. Aubade III. Sautereau Luis Gallo Quintero and Noel Prokop-Seaton, oboe Deborah Bish and Jonathan Holden, clarinet Jeffrey Keesecker and Josephine Whiteis, bassoon Brianna Nay and Michelle Stebleton, horn Patrick Dunnigan, conductor

Nicole Chamberlain (b. 1977)

Robert Spittal (b. 1963)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS After 20 years of orchestra playing in Switzerland and serving on the faculty of the Vorarlberg State Conservatory of Music in Feldkirch, Austria, Eva Amsler retired in May 2021 as Professor of Flute at Florida State University. In this position she was also teaching Flute pedagogy, Baroque Flute, Dynamic Integration and directed the Flute Graduate Ensemble. Previously she was a member of St Gallen Symphony Orchestra, Switzerland and Professor at Conservatory Feldkirch, Austria. She tours Europe, USA, South America, and Far East teaching Masterclasses and performing in chamber settings and as a soloist.

Eva Amsler’s summer classes in Arosa, Switzerland and Tuscany, Italy are well known and liked as a special time for deep and holistic learning as a human being, musician and flutist.

Her CD recordings have been released on the ‘ambitus’ and Cavalli labels. Her teachers include Aurèle Nicolet, Günter Rumpel and André Jaunet. She served on the NFA and FFA board of directors. She loves Miksang Photography and to walk on the beach, hike in the mountains or hang out with family, friends and colleagues Deborah Bish is Associate Professor of Clarinet at Florida State University. Before moving to Tallahassee in 2001, she served as the professor of clarinet at Henderson State University. She has performed with orchestras throughout the United States, including the Arizona Opera (most notably in a production of the Ring Cycle), the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra under the direction of Jeffrey Siegel, the Phoenix Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, and the Arkansas Symphony. Currently, she is a member of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra.

Bish has been featured as a recitalist, clinician, and chamber musician at several festivals and conventions including performances at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall; the Shanghai Conservatory in Shanghai, China; the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFests in Lincoln, Austin, Vancouver, Atlanta, and Salt Lake City; the College Band Director’s National Association Convention in Atlanta; the Florida Music Educator’s Association Convention in Tampa, Florida; the Wallowa Lake Chamber Music Festival in Enterprise, Oregon; and the Festival Internacional de Inverno in Vale Vêneto, Brazil.

Bish is very active in the commission, research, and performance of new works. Her recent projects include a recording of the works of Gregory Wanamaker, featuring two pieces written for her by Wanamaker titled clarikinetics and Sonata.

Bish has served as an adjudicator in a variety of competitions, including both the Young Artist’s Competition and the High School Competition for the International Clarinet Association. Bish holds degrees from Arizona State University, where she studied under Robert Spring, and Florida State University, where she studied under Frank Kowalsky.

A Washington, D.C. native, Geoffrey Deibel has emerged as a leading, innovative voice for the teaching and performance of the saxophone and contemporary music. He maintains a multi-faceted career as performer, teacher, and researcher. His most recent recordings include Iannis Xenakis’ Dmaathen with percussionist Ji Hye Jung and his debut solo recording, Ex Uno Plures. He can also be heard on the Wet Ink Ensemble’s latest recording, Missing Scenes. He has performed with the Athens Saxophone Quartet, and with the International Contemporary Ensemble at the Park Avenue Armory (NYC) in the full North American Premiere of Louis Andriessen’s De Materie, and has given recitals throughout the U.S. and in Europe. Deibel has been an invited guest lecturer at Die Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart, at University College Cork, Ireland, and many Universities in the US. He has appeared at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, the International Iannis Xenakis Festival in Athens, Greece, and World Saxophone Congresses in the UK, Europe, and Thailand.

Deibel has commissioned new works by both established and emerging composers, including Drew Baker, Caleb Burhans, Viet Cuong, Nathan Davis, Claudio Gabriele, Martin Iddon, Robert Lemay, Marc Mellits, Joseph Michaels, Forrest Pierce, David Rakowski, David Reminick, Jesse Ronneau, and Eric Wubbels. He has also premiered the music of Louis Andriessen, Georges Aperghis, Jason Eckardt, Hiroyki Itoh, Pierre Jodlowski, Marc Mellits, Elliott Sharp, Jagoda Szmytka, Mari Takano, Hans Thomalla, and Amy Williams.

Deibel is a member of the critically acclaimed h2 quartet, first prize winners at the Fischoff Competition and NASA Quartet Competitions, finalists at the Concert Artists Guild Competition, and recipients of multiple Aaron Copland Fund Grants. h2 has seven recordings available, and maintains a non-profit organization to promote the creation of new works for the saxophone quartet. Deibel is also a seasoned orchestral performer, and serves as principal saxophonist with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. He previously served in the same capacity with the Wichita Symphony, and has also performed with the New World Symphony and Grant Park Symphony.

As a jazz musician, Deibel has performed with the Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra and the Truth in Jazz Orchestra, and has performed locally on the Fisch Haus Jazz Series. He has also had the opportunity to perform alongside Ruben Alvarez, Ron Blake, Allison Miller, James Moody, and Matt Wilson. For four years, he served as the President of the Board of Directors for the Wichita Jazz Festival.

Deibel holds degrees in history and music from Northwestern University and the doctoral degree from Michigan State University. His principal teachers have included Joseph Lulloff, Frederick Hemke, Leo Saguiguit, and Reginald Jackson. Deibel currently serves as Associate Professor of Saxophone at Florida State University. He also serves on the faculty of the Cortona Sessions for New Music, and the Great Plains Saxophone Workshop.

Deibel is a Yamaha, Vandoren, and LefreQue performing artist, and performs on Yamaha Saxophones, and Vandoren reeds, ligatures, and mouthpieces exclusively.

Patrick Dunnigan is Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the Florida State University College of Music. A member of the FSU faculty since 1991, Dunnigan is the principal conductor and music director of the University Wind Orchestra.

A nationally recognized guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician, Dunnigan has published numerous articles on conducting, instrumental music methodology, and research in leading journals including The Instrumentalist, Music Educators Journal, Bulletin for the Council for Research in Music Education, and the Journal of Band Research. His textbook, Marching Band Techniques, is published by The Instrumentalist Company and has become a leading college textbook of marching band methodology. His transcriptions and arrangements for concert band are performed regularly by major university, community, and professional wind bands, including the Dallas Wind Symphony. He has presented clinic sessions for the Midwest Clinic, the Music Educators National Conference, the Florida Bandmasters Association, the College Band Directors National Association, the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and many others.

Dunnigan received the PhD in Music Education from the University of Texas at Austin, the MM in Conducting from Northwestern University, and the BME from the University of Kentucky. He is an active member of the College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, Florida Music Educators Association, National Band Association, Florida Bandmasters Association, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity. He is also an honorary member of the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Tau Beta Sigma, and received the Friend of the Arts award from Sigma Alpha Iota.

Dunnigan received the prestigious FSU Teaching Award in both 2003 and 2012. In 2006, he was elected to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. He served as National President of the College Band Directors National Association from 2015 to 2017.

Jonathan Holden is Associate Professor of Clarinet at Florida State University, Principal Clarinetist of the West Michigan Symphony and a member of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. A frequent guest of numerous orchestras, he has performed with ensembles such as the Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Baton Rouge and Lansing symphony orchestras, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the Mobile Symphony and the Sarasota Orchestra. He is a founding member of the Vireo Ensemble (clarinet, violin, cello, piano) and the Argot Trio (clarinet, violin, piano).

Holden is an ardent soloist and chamber music collaborator. He has made guest appearances with ensembles such as the Degas, Ciompi and Voxare string quartets and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician by invitation of the British Clarinet Congress, Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, College Music Society, Music Teachers National Association, Festival South, Festival Contempoaneo (Brazil), Alfredo de Saint Malo Festival (Panama), Chamber Music Wilmington, American Music Festival and

Saugatuck Chamber Music Festival. He has given performances, clinics and masterclasses at collegiate establishments in the US and overseas including Vanderbilt, Michigan State University, the national conservatories of Panama and Paris and the universities of Memphis, Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas and Rio de Janeiro.

A proponent of new chamber music, Holden’s latest work with the Argot Trio has yielded notable fundraising success and the commissioning of several new trios to be included on a forthcoming CD, Made in Mississippi, featuring works inspired by the birthplace of America’s music. Contributing composers include Luigi Zaninelli, Michael Burns, Alan Theisen and James Sclater. The Argot Trio’s recording of a new work by Steven Holochwost was released in 2013 on the Albany label. Holden has also prepared and performed works for composers Bright Sheng, Peter Sculthorpe, Ricardo Tacuchian and Judith Zaimont.

Holden received the DMA from Michigan State University where he studied with eminent soloist and chamber musician Dr. Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, as well as Nathan Williams and Theodore Oien. He received BM and MM performance degrees from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama under Joy Farrall, Andrew Webster and celebrated recording artist Dame Thea King.

Professor of Bassoon Jeff Keesecker is Principal Bassoonist with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, holds the Paul W. and Phyllis G. Runge Principal Bassoon Chair with the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra and is the Bassoon Mentor of the National Music Festival (Maryland). He has been a member of the Florida Orchestra (Tampa), the Sarasota Orchestra, the St. Gallen Sinfonie (Switzerland), the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival (Asheville), and Solisti New York. He has performed as soloist and chamber musician across North America, and in Europe, South America, and Asia, and is a frequent performer at the annual conferences of the International Double Reed Society. He has taught masterclasses and workshops on three continents and has been on the faculties of the Interlochen Arts Camp, Utah Music Festival, and Animas Music Festival (Durango).

Keesecker gave the World Premiere of Eric Ewazen’s Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble in 2003, and in 2006 released a solo CD entitled Bassoon Music of the Americas.

A native of Sarasota, Florida, Keesecker first studied bassoon with Trevor Cramer. He received the Bachelor of Music from FSU, studying with William Winstead, and the Master of Music from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Steven Maxym. His training included participation in the Aspen Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, and the New York String Orchestra Seminar.

Karen McLaughlin Large is Assistant Professor of Flute at the Florida State University College of Music. She is a passionate flutist whose varied musical experiences have included performances as a concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber player, orchestral flutist, and piccoloist. She is principal flutist with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and performs regularly with AGLOW trio, Florida Flute Orchestra, and Traverso Colore: Baroque Flute Ensemble. She has enjoyed guest artist appearances throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Thailand.

Large’s research interests include Baroque flute performance practice, classical flute works inspired by popular genres, flute transcriptions of Romantic music, creation of the world’s first Virtual Flute Choirs, and translating textile weaving code into music. Her recordings, produced by Radium Recordings and Blue Griffin Recordings, include The Light is the Same with AGLOW trio, Wanderlust: The Flute Music of David Amram with pianist Amanda Arrington and flutist and composer David Amram, and String to Silver: Flute Transcriptions of Works in the Romantic Tradition with pianist Amanda Arrington. ​

Large previously served as Associate Professor of Flute and Music Theory at Kansas State University. She earned the Doctor of Music from Florida State University and her teachers include Eva Amsler, Stephanie Jutt, and Joshua Carter (under Charles Delaney).

Collaborative pianist Deloise Chagas Lima is a native of Curitiba, Brazil. She joined the College of Music keyboard faculty at Florida State University in the fall of 2005. During the summer months she has been a member of the artist faculty at the Brevard Music Center since the summer of 2008, and in 2013 she implemented a new collaborative piano program at this festival. Prior to teaching in the United States, Lima was on the faculty of the School of Music and Fine Arts of Parana for over twenty years, teaching collaborative piano and chamber music.

As a sought-after collaborative pianist and orchestral keyboardist, she has performed extensively throughout the US, Europe, and South America with many distinguished artists, including Frank Almond, Sydney Outlaw, David Pittsinger, Paul Edmund Davis, Ian Clarke, Steve Cohen, Bill Ludwig, Joe Luloff, Marianne Gedigian, Amy Porter, Bill Preucil, and Alex Klein, among others. She also performs regularly with her husband, oboist Eric Ohlsson. In Brazil, she was the pianist of the Minas Gerais Symphony for two seasons and was a soloist with that orchestra and the Curitiba Chamber Orchestra.

She was appointed principal keyboardist of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra in 2015 and she is also an official accompanist for the Florida Flute Association. She is the music director for the Evening of Music and Dance, a yearly collaboration with the Tallahassee Ballet and the College of Music at Florida State University.

She received the Bachelor of Piano Performance from the School of Music and Fine Arts of Parana, Brazil, a Performance Certificate in piano from Trinity College of Music, London, and is an Associate of the Royal College of Music in organ performance. Following her early studies, Lima received the Master of Music in Piano Performance and Literature

from University of Notre Dame du Lac and the Doctor of Musical Arts from Florida State University.

Flutist Mary Matthews enjoys an active career as an international soloist, chamber musician, orchestral flutist, and pedagogue, and has performed on four continents in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Severance Hall, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Fundação Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Festival Goethe Institut Música Nueva, and Cité Internationale des Arts. Matthews is an Assistant Professor of Flute at Florida State University’s College of Music; prior to her appointment at FSU, she served as Associate Professor of Flute at Tennessee Tech’s School of Music. She currently serves as second flute of the Tallahassee Symphony, and she performs regularly with orchestras such as the Nashville Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, and Chattanooga Symphony, among others.

An active studio musician and recording artist, Matthews can be heard on soundtracks for film, TV, and video games on Netflix, HBO, and Disney. She has released four albums including Intersections on the Ravello Records label, Three-Nine Line on the MSR Classics label, Charuhas on the Naxos Label, and Preludes & Recitations on the Tonsehen Records label. She has a fifth album forthcoming with the Maryland Chamber Winds.

An avid performer of new music, Matthews has premiered over 50 new works. She is known for her command of extended techniques and her adventurous programming. She is half of Duo Rossignol with soprano Hillary LaBonte, and the two have been featured at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the New Music Gathering, the Dairy Arts Center’s Soundscape series, and the National Flute Association convention. She also performs as a member of Khemia Ensemble, a 12-member ensemble dedicated to the programming of diverse and innovative repertoire. Khemia Ensemble is 2023 winner of the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant with composer Anuj Bhutani. They have been featured at venues and festivals including National Sawdust, the Mizzou International Composers Festival, Strange Beautiful Music, New Music Gathering, Latin IS America, the Missouri Summer Composition Institute, and the Biennial New Music Festival in Córdoba, Argentina. Passionate artist educators, Khemia has also held residencies at more than a dozen universities in North and South America.

In June of 2021 she released her first method book, co-authored by Nicole Chamberlain, titled Beatboxing and Beyond. The book is published by Spotted Rocket and was reviewed as “a revelation – it’s a worthy addition to all our libraries” (Flutist Quarterly). She was awarded the 2022 Scholastic Research Award from Tennessee Tech University for the book, and the National Flute Association named Beatboxing & Beyond a finalist in the 2022 Newly Published Music awards. The second volume was released in 2023.

A native of Rochester, NY, Matthews began her formal flute studies at the Eastman School of Music’s Preparatory Program. She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from The Hartt School, the Master of Music Degree from the Peabody Institute of the

Johns Hopkins University, and the Bachelor of Music Degree from the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music. Her primary teachers include Jan Angus, George Pope, and Janet Arms.

Professor Christopher Moore has been teaching trumpet at FSU since 2003. Prior to his appointment at FSU, Moore was Associate Professor of Trumpet at the University of Kansas, where for seven years he directed the trumpet studio, conducted the trumpet ensemble and performed as a member of the Kansas Brass Quintet. Moore also served as Assistant Professor of Music at Morningside College from 1989 to 1993, and from 1994 to 1996 was a full-time member of the Philadelphia professional brass quintet, The Chestnut Brass Company, recording 4 CDs with that group and winning the Grammy Award in their field in 2000 with Hornsmoke, a CD that featured the brass chamber music of Peter Schickele.

Moore holds the DMA in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, the MM in Performance from the University of New Mexico, and the BM in Performance from Florida State University. He has won numerous solo competitions, including top prize at the ITG competition and at state and regional MTNA competitions. Moore has also been a finalist at the Ellsworth Smith International Trumpet Competition as well as the MTNA National Finals.

Moore has presented clinics at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the National Association of Wind and Percussion Instructors (NACWPI) National Convention, and has performed at the National MENC and International Trumpet Guild Conferences.

He is past president of NACWPI and is currently on the Executive Board of the National Trumpet Competition. Moore is a Selmer Artist and can be heard on his first solo CD, Trumpeting the Stone, on the Mark Masters label as well as in the most recent edition of Sigmund Hering’s Progressive Etudes by Carl Fischer Publications. Most recently, Carl Fischer Publications released Student’s Essential Studies for Trumpet, A Sequential Collection of 42 Standard Etudes for the Advancing Student, compiled and edited by Moore.

Brianna Nay is fourth horn of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra and has performed with Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra as well as various chamber groups including Big Bend Brass Quintet and Fountain Five. She is an active educator in the north Florida region. Additionally, she has presented at regional horn conferences and International Horn Society Symposia. Nay is a student of Professor Michelle Stebleton at Florida State University as a doctoral candidate. She is a native Arizonan and has performed with the Chandler Arizona Symphony, Millennial Choirs and Orchestra, and the Phoenix Brass Collective before she moved to Florida.

Brandon Norton is an orchestral musician, soloist, chamber musician, and brass pedagogue based in Tallahassee, Florida. He currently serves as Second Trumpet of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra and has performed with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, among others.

As a chamber musician, he toured South America as part of the Cuatro Puntos Chamber Music Collective. His brass quintet, Avery Brass, was selected for the inaugural American Brass Quintet Seminar at the Aspen Summer Music Festival in 2018. He holds the Bachelor of Music Degree from Columbus State University, the Master of Music degree from The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Noel Prokop-Seaton is an active performer and music educator in North Florida.

She is currently Adjunct Oboe Professor at the University of North Florida and holds performing positions with the Tallahassee Symphony, Panama City Symphony, and Albany Symphony. She is also a regular substitute with many other orchestras including the Jacksonville Symphony. She holds a Doctorate in Music from Florida State University and a Master’s in Music Performance from the University of Southern California. Her doctoral treatise, “Audition Agendum” is available online for free and is a valuable resource for oboists entering the orchestra audition circuit.

Colombian oboist Luis Gallo Quintero arrived in Tallahassee in 2019. Luis is currently pursuing a Doctor of Music degree at FSU, studying with Dr. Eric Ohlsson. He regularly performs with the Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Panama City, Ocala, and Gainesville Symphony Orchestras. Quintero received the Master in Music Performance degree from FSU in 2021 and the Bachelor of Music Performance degree from Northwestern State University in 2019 studying with Professor Leah Forsyth. Quintero has had a vibrant carrier both as a soloist and as an orchestral musician, winning the NSU concerto competition in 2018 and performing in prominent Concert Halls such as ElbPhilharmonie (Hamburg), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), and Konzerthaus (Vienna).

Professor of Cello Gregory Sauer joined the College of Music in 2006. A native of Davenport, Iowa, Gregory Sauer attended the Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory. His principal teachers included Ada Marie Snyder, Charles Wendt, Paul Katz, Laurence Lesser, Bonnie Hampton and Colin Carr. For eleven years prior to his arrival at FSU Sauer taught at the University of Oklahoma, where he was named Presidential Professor (2005).

Praised for his versatility, Sauer performs in many different musical arenas. He has appeared in recital at the Old First Concert Series in San Francisco, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Brightmusic Concert Series in Oklahoma City, at universities and schools of music such as the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt, the Shepherd School at Rice University, the University of Iowa and the University of Tennessee,

among many others. Sauer was a prizewinner in the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and Ima Hogg National competitions and has performed concertos with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony, the New American Chamber Orchestra, the Quad City Symphony, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Columbus (GA) Symphony, the Tallahassee Symphony, and the Missoula Symphony, among others.

Sauer joined the Carpe Diem String Quartet in 2019, playing concerts in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Siena, Italy, and in the group’s first China tour. Along with his brother, Thomas Sauer, he serves as co-Artistic Director of Chamber Music Quad Cities in their hometown of Davenport, Iowa. Other chamber music ventures have resulted in appearances at the Austin Chamber Music Center, the Snake River Music Festival, the Victoria Bach Festival, the Texas Music Festival, the Colorado Music Festival, and the Garth Newel Music Center. As a member of the Fidelio Quartet, a prizewinning group in the London International String Quartet Competition, he performed concerts in the UK, Germany, Italy, and the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals.

Sauer was appointed to the music faculty at Florida State University in 2006. Prior to that he taught for eleven years at the University of Oklahoma, where he was named Presidential Professor. Other teaching/performing positions have included a visiting professorship at the University of California at Los Angeles, summer programs such as the Texas Music Festival, the Duxbury Music Festival, the Foulger International Music Festival, the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Red Lodge Music Festival, and the Hot Springs Music Festival.

Sauer attended the Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory. His teachers included Ada Marie Snyder, Charles Wendt, Paul Katz, Laurence Lesser, Bonnie Hampton, and Colin Carr. Sauer has recorded for MSR Classics, Harmonia Mundi, Albany, and Mark Records.

Michelle Stebleton is Professor of Horn and member of the Florida State Brass Quintet and the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. Since coming to FSU in 1990, she has been awarded the Teaching Incentive Program Award, an Undergraduate Teaching Award, and several large research grants. Through these grants she recorded two compact discs available on MSR Classics: The Horn Works of Paul Basler and MirrorImage at the Opera, a recording of her horn duo with Lisa Bontrager. The Florida State Brass Quintet’s CD Strophes of the Night and Dawn is available through Crystal Records.

Stebleton, a Holton-Leblanc Artist Clinician, is a six-time prize winner in various divisions of the American Horn Competition. She has traveled to 26 countries as a chamber artist and clinician and performs regularly as a soloist and clinician in Paraguay, The Czech Republic, and under the baton of Philipe Entremont in the bi-annual Music Festival Orchestra in the Dominican Republic.

HOUSEWRIGHT VIRTUOSO SERIES Actively performing, Stebleton is regularly featured at the International Horn Society Symposiums and Southeast Horn Workshops. She currently serves as on the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society.

Professor Stebleton received B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Louis J. Stout and Lowell Greer. She holds a diploma from the Prague Mozart Academy.

NEW DIRECTIONS IN BRAZILIAN MUSIC

Josie Whiteis is a performer, student, and teacher based in Tallahassee, Florida. She studies with Jeff Keesecker at Florida State University, where she is pursuing a DM and serving as a teaching assistant for the bassoon studio.

Whiteis is currently the 2nd bassoonist for the Panama City Symphony Orchestra.

Whiteis has also performed with ensembles such as the Tallahassee Symphony, Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, and Density 512 Contemporary Ensemble. Josie is also the bassoonist of the Fountain Five Wind Quintet. The ensemble was selected as the ensemble division winners for the 2023 Music International Grand Prix Competition. The quintet HOUSEWRIGHT VIRTUOSO SERIES is the Quintet in Residence for Sinfonia Gulf Coast’s 2023-24 season.

OPPERMAN MUSIC HALL FEBRUARY 9, 2024 | 7:30PM

FSU Musicology professor and composer Panayotis (Paddy) League presents a program of works inspired by decades of research and performance in Brazil. The suite of pieces, “Sereias do Mar Mineiro” (Mermaids of the Mountain Sea), pays homage to the popular music traditions of the states of Minas Gerais and Paraíba and features an ensemble of FSU and FAMU faculty and students on accordion, harp, strings, brass, woodwinds, and Afro-Brazilian percussion.

Her primary teachers include Jeff Keesecker, Kristin Wolfe Jensen, and Elise Wagner.

NEW DIRECTIONS IN BRAZILIAN MUSIC OPPERMAN MUSIC HALL FEBRUARY 9, 2024 | 7:30PM For tickets and additional information, visit:

FSU Musicology professor and composer Panayotis tickets.music.fsu.edu (Paddy) League presents a program of works inspired by decades of research and performance in Brazil. The suite of pieces, “Sereias do Mar Mineiro” (Mermaids of the Mountain Sea), pays homage to the popular music traditions of the states of Minas Gerais and

2023–2024 CONCERT SEASON FALL November 19, 2023 Elijah Felix Mendelssohn

UNITY 17 January 28, 2024 Sounds of Cinema Celebrating Tallahassee’s Bicentennial

SPRING April 28, 2024 Lord Nelson Mass Joseph Haydn

TICKETS: TCCHORUS.ORG OR 850-597-0603 All performances in Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, Florida State University Funded in part by

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL ASSOCIATES 2023-2024 Dean’s Circle Les and Ruth Ruggles Akers Richard Dusenbury and Kathi Jaschke CarolAline Flaumenhaft

Jim and Betty Ann Rodgers Tate and Jo Todd

Gold Circle Drs. Charles and Sharon Aronovitch Margaret and Russ Dancy Louie and Avon Doll Patrick and Kathy Dunnigan Kevin and Suzanne Fenton * Emory and Dorothy Johnson Albert and Darlene Oosterhof

Bob Parker Todd and Kelin Queen Karen and Francis C. Skilling * Paula and Bill Smith David and Jane Watson Bret Whissel Sustainer

Stan Barnes Marty Beech Kathryn M. Beggs Greg and Karen Boebinger Beverley Booth * Karen Bradley Scott A. Brock Donna Callaway Brian Causseaux and W. David Young Pete and Bonnie Chamlis James Clendinen Jody and Nancy Coogle Jim and Sandy Dafoe Patrice Dawson Floyd Deterding and Kelley Lang Diane Dowling and Jack Dowling Segundo J. Fernandez Susan and Jack Fiorito Joy and James Frank William Fredrickson and Suzanne Rita Byrnes William J. Gladwin, Jr. Mario Gonzalez and Pierce Withers Myron and Judy Hayden

* Marc J. and Kathryn S. Hebda Katherine Henricks Dottie and John Hinkle Todd S. Hinkle Holly Hohmeister Karolyn and Ed Holmes Alexander and Dawn Jiménez Dr. Gregory and Dr. Margo Jones William and DeLaura Jones Martin Kavka and Tip Tomberlin Howard Kessler and Anne Van Meter Michael Killoren and Randy Nolan Dennis G. King, Esq. Robert and Karen Large Dr. Annelise Leysieffer Nancy and Jeff Lickson Linda and Bob Lovins Victoria Martinez Kay and Ken Mayo Robert and Patty McDonald Duane and Marge Meeter Dewitt Miller, III Walter and Marian Moore Ann W. Parramore

Sustainer cont’d Robert and Caryl Pierce * David and Joanne Rasmussen Stephen and Elizabeth Richardson * Ken and J.R. Saginario Jonathan Jackson and Greg Springer Nell and Marshall Stranburg

William and Ma’Su Sweeney Margaret Van Every and Joe Lama * Alison R. Voorhees John and Jeanie Wood Kathy D. Wright

Patron Joyce Andrews Mary S. Bert Malcolm Craig Rochelle M. Davis William H. Davis Eunice Filar Judith Flanigan John S. and Linda Fleming L. Kathryn Funchess Debbie Gibson Ruth Godfrey-Sigler Bryan and Nancy Goff Harvey and Judy Goldman Michael Hanawalt * William and Julie Hatfield Albert Henry Jerry and Bobbi Hill Madeleine Hirsiger-Carr Jane A. Hudson Richard and Linda Hyson Barbara James Emily Jamieson Sally and Dr. Link Jarrett Ms. Judith H. Jolly Mr. and Mrs. William A. Kaempfer Dr. Alan R. Kagan Arline Kern

* Jonathan Klepper and Jimmy Cole Frances Kratt John and Silky Labie Donna Legare Mari-Jo Lewis-Wilkinson Ann and Don Morrow Dr. William C. Murray Sandra Palmer Ann E. Parker Marjorie J. Portnoi Karalee Poschman David Reed Edward Reid Mark E. Renwick John and Carol Ryor Jill Sandler Paula S. Saunders Scott Scearce Jeanette Sickel Alice C. Spirakis George Sweat Marjorie Turnbull Ed Valla Paul van der Mark Sylvia B. Walford Geoffrey and Simone Watts Jeff Wright

Associate Jayme Agee Patricia C. Applegate Michael Buchler and Nancy Rogers Mary and David Coburn Adele Cunningham Pamala J. Doffek Clifford Dudley The Fennema Family Gene and Deborah Glotzbach Barbara Hamby and David Kirby Donna H. Heald Carla Connors and Timothy Hoekman Nicole and Kael Johnson Steve Kelly Dean Kindley

Pell and Angela Kornegay Joseph Kraus Susan S. Lampman Debora Lee Jane LeGette Chantal Littleton Kathleen and Lealand McCharen Moncrief Flom Family In Memory of Mrs. Dorothy S. Roberts Dr. Luis R. Rosas Sperandio Sanford A. Safron Kelley Stam Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tuten Karen Wensing Teresa White

Lifetime Members Willa Almlof Florence Helen Ashby Mrs. Reubin Askew * Tom and Cathy Bishop Nancy Bivins Ramona D. Bowman André and Eleanor Connan Janis and Russell Courson * J.W. Richard and Tina Davis Ginny Densmore Nancy Smith Fichter and Robert W. Fichter Carole D. Fiore Patricia J. Flowers Jane E. Hughes Hilda Hunter Julio Jiménez Kirby W. and Margaret-Ray Kemper

Patsy Kickliter Anthony M. and Mallen E. Komlyn Fred Kreimer Beverly Locke-Ewald Cliff and Mary Madsen Ralph and Sue Mancuso Meredith and Elsa L. McKinney Ermine M. Owenby Mike and Judy Pate Jane Quinton Laura and Sam Rogers, Jr. Dr. Louis St. Petery Sharon Stone Donna Cay Tharpe Brig. Gen. and Mrs. William B. Webb Rick and Joan West John L. and Linda M. Williams

Corporate Sponsors Beethoven & Company

MusicMasters Business Sponsors

WFSU Public Broadcast Center *University Musical Associates Executive Committee

The University Musical Associates is the community support organization for the FSU College of Music. The primary purposes of the group are to develop audiences for College of Music performances, to assist outstanding students in enriching their musical education and careers, and to support quality education and cultural activities for the Tallahassee community. If you would like information about joining the University Musical Associates, please contact Kim Shively, Director of Special Programs, at kshively@fsu.edu or 850-644-4744.

The Florida State University provides accommodations for persons with disabilities. Please notify the College of Music at 850-644-3424 at least five business days prior to a musical event if accommodation for disability or publication in alternative format is needed.