U of M Festival Celebrates Double Reed Music Nov. 8 & 9
For release: Oct. 23, 2002
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Guest artists Richard Killmer of Yale University's Eastman School of Music and Richard Svoboda of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform at The University of Memphis' second annual Double Reed Festival Friday and Saturday, Nov. 8 and 9. Killmer, oboe, and Svoboda, bassoon, will perform at 7:30 both evenings in Harris Concert Hall.

On the program are works by Poulenc, Elliot, Greig and Sammartini. The concerts will feature performances by Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music faculty members Andrea Gross Hixon, oboe, Pat Hoy and Dale Clark, bassoon, and Lauren Schack Clark, piano; The U of M Symphony Orchestra, The U of M Bassoon Ensemble and Collegium Musicum.

The guest artists will give master classes Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. The Memphis Woodwind Quintet will perform at 3:30 that afternoon in Harris Concert Hall.

Admission is free to all events. Sponsors of the festival are the Double Reed Society, the Woodwind Society and the Student Activities Council. For more information, call 678-3771 or e-mail dclark1@memphis.edu.

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