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4/29/2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES- Flutists Dennette McDermott and Diane Boyd Schultz will present a duo recital Friday, May 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. They will be accompanied by pianist Nikita Fitenko. McDermott and Fitenko are faculty in the Mrs. H.D. Dear and Alice E. Dear School of Creative and Performing Arts at Northwestern State University. Schultz is a member of the music faculty at Stephen F. Austin State University.

The program will include Trio in G Major, op. 119 by Friedrich Kuhlau, Cinq Inventions pour Deux Flutes by Jindrich Feld, Duos for Flutes, op. 34 by Robert Muczynski, Three Dances by Gary Schocker, Trio Sonata in G Major, BWV 1039 by J.S. Bach and La Sonnambula, op. 42 by Franz Doppler.

McDermott, an associate professor of music at NSU, 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 Jindrich Feld's "Introduzione, Toccata e Fuga." In 1995, as a recipient of the Magale Endowed Professorship, she participated in a mastercourse and taught at the Janacek Academie of Music in Brno, Czech Republic. She recently organized the first Slovak Flute Festival in the Slovak Republic. McDermott is a three-time winner of the National Flute Association Conventions' Performers Competition.

Schultz began performing on the flute at age 11 in her native Mississippi and has gone on to perform in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and France. She has been a prizewinner in numerous competitions, including the Mu Phi Epsilon International Competition and the National Federation of Music Clubs Orchestral Winds Competition.

An internationally acclaimed Russian pianist, Fitenko has performed recitals and with orchestras in the former Soviet Union, Europe, and South and North America. He has appeared as a soloist with the St. Petersburg Capella Symphony, Belarus National Philharmonic, St. Petersburg State Conservatory Orchestra, Lewisville Symphony, Rapides Symphony, State Hermitage Orchestra and the Natchitoches-Northwestern Symphony Orchestra. His future engagements include concerts throughout the U.S. and in China, Russia, Finland and the Czech Republic.

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