Faculty Recital featuring Silverwind Duo.
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On Monday, Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall, Fredonia School of Music faculty members Andrew Seigel (clarinet) and Nicole McPherson (flute) as The Silverwind Duo, will present a recital at SUNY Fredonia.
The duo presents a colorful combination of flutes and clarinets, offering variations of the standard instrumental combination.
The Duo’s repertoire covers a wide range of styles from Baroque to Jazz with a large body of contemporary works and new additions to the repertoire written for the ensemble.
The Silverwind Duo has presented recitals and performed throughout Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Maine, and New York.
This program features an interesting grouping of twentieth-century works, including pieces by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Pablo Ortiz, Jeremy Sagala, Jane Brockman, Christopher Caliendo, Phillip Bimstein and Cynthia Folio.
Nicole J. McPherson is the principal flutist of the Orchard Park Symphony Orchestra and performs with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, the Erie Philharmonic and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been a soloist with the Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. McPherson teaches at the State University of New York at Fredonia. She studied at Ithaca College and completed her doctorate at Michigan State University.
Clarinetist Andrew Seigel teaches at the State University of New York at Fredonia. An active chamber and orchestral musician, Seigel performs with the Fredonia Wind Quintet, the Fluriano Trio and the Western NY Chamber Orchestra. Seigel studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Hungary's Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He earned degrees from Michigan State Univeristy and California State University, Fresno. During the summer, he is a faculty artist at the New England Music Camp in Maine.
For a complete listing of upcoming events see www.fredonia.edu/music
