NEWS RELEASE

Contact: Leah Jackson (jacksonl@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

2/28/2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES ­Flutist Renee Siebert of the New York Philharmonic will present a guest recital at Northwestern State University on Sunday, March 13. The concert, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 3 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall.

The program will include "Sonata #4 in F Major" and "Sonata in E Minor" by Mozart, "Romance in F Minor, Op. 11 by Dvorak, "9 Walks Down 7th Avenue" by Dorff, "Sonata" by Reynolds and "Sonata" by Hindemith. Gary Hammond will accompany Siebert on piano.

A member of the New York Philharmonic since 1974, Siebert has appeared three times as concerto soloist with the Philharmonic and collaborated with many eminent artists. She has appeared with Music from Marlboro, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music at the Y and Barge Music. She has recorded the complete flute works of Mozart and presented the world premiere of Judith Shatin's Flute Concerto, later recording the work.

Siebert has given master classes and performed recitals at various universities, including NSU, in the United States, Germany and Japan. Last season, she performed Shatin's Flute Concerto in San Francisco with the Women's Philharmonic and chamber music concerts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Hammond has been praised in the United States, Europe and Asia as a recital and chamber musician of equal sensitivity. He is on the faculties of Hunter College, City University of New York and University of the South, and was artist in residence at Emory University in Atlanta.

Hammond is a graduate of the Juliard School where he won the Judelson Prize for Piano and the University of Washington where he was the recipient of the Brechemin Prize. His concert activities this season will take him around the U.S., Russia, Sweden and Norway.

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