NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

2/10/2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES ­Dennette McDermott, a professor of flute at Northwestern State University, will present a recital Friday, Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

McDermott will present a program of works by Czech and Slavic composers including Bartok, Petr Eben, Martinu, Jindrich Feld and Jiri Cart.

Pianist Nikita Fitenko will accompany McDermott. She will also be joined by NSU faculty Andrej Kurti and Douglas Bakenhus.

McDermott has performed throughout the United States and in Europe. She made her European debut in 1992 in the Czech Republic with the Czech premiere of Feld's "Introduzione, Toccata e Fuga." In 1995, as a recipient of the Magale Endowed Professorship, she participated in a master course and taught at the Janacek Academie of Music in Brno, Czech Republic. She was the organizer of the first Slovak Flute Festival in the Slovak Republic. McDermott is a three-time winner of the National Flute Association Conventions' Performers Competition.

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