MEDIA CONTACT: Judy Moore at 847-491-4819 or jkm229@northwestern.edu

September 28, 2004

Fall Music Recitals Feature Faculty

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Audiences will have the opportunity to experience the unique talents of Northwestern University’s School of Music faculty during an array of recitals to be held on the Evanston campus this fall.

All but one of the upcoming faculty concerts will be held on the Evanston campus at Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place. Michael Burritt’s Oct. 28 program will be held at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 40 Arts Circle Drive.

Single tickets to each of the following music faculty recitals are $8.50 for the general public; $7 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $4 for full-time students.

University of Kansas violin professor Ben Sayevich will join Northwestern University School of Music Dean and pianist Toni-Marie Montgomery at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29, at Lutkin Hall, in highlights from their recent tour of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. Former concertmaster of the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, Sayevich has performed extensively in North America, Europe and the Far East. Montgomery has appeared with ensembles from Europe to South America and was a founding member of the Black Music Repertory Ensemble of Columbia College Chicago. Their program will include Maurice Ravel’s Sonata, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8 in G Major and Richard Strauss’ Sonata.

Pianist Marcia Bosits will accompany faculty tenor Richard Drews during a 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, performance at Lutkin Hall. The program will include Robert Schumann’s “Dichterliebe,” Dominick Argento’s “Once When I Was a Young Man” from “Postcard from Morocco” and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “From Far, from Eve and Morning” from “On Wenlock Edge.” Works by Purcell, Handel, Mendelssohn, Finzi, Mascagni, Tosti, Tchaikovsky and Verdi also will be performed.

Soprano and new School of Music voice faculty member Pamela Hinchman will display her vocal talents at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, at Lutkin Hall. Well known for her festival and concert appearances with opera companies and symphony orchestras around the world, she will sing works by Mozart, Schubert, Wolf and Chausson. Clarinetist Russell Dagon and pianist Elizabeth Buccheri will join Hinchman.

Clarinetist J. Lawrie Bloom and distinguished colleagues will perform works by J. S. Bach, Johannes Brahms and Eric Mandat at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, at Lutkin Hall.

Offering a preview of marimba player Michael Burritt’s upcoming performance at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, his 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, recital, at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, will include music by Burritt and Tobias Brostrom. The program also will feature the Northwestern University Percussion Ensemble.

Pianists Ursula Oppens and James Giles’ program of French masterpieces for two pianos at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, at Lutkin Hall will include Claude Debussy’s “Trois Nocturnes” (arranged by Maurice Ravel) and Olivier Messiaen’s “Visions de l’Amen.”

The final fall faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, at Lutkin Hall will feature duo pianists Sylvia Wang and Elizabeth Buccheri performing Igor Stravinsky’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Johannes Brahms’ Sonata in F Minor for Two Pianos.

To order tickets by phone, call the Pick-Staiger Ticket Office at (847) 467-4000.