NEWS RELEASE
Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu)
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466
5/30/2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NATCHITOCHES - The trio of Dennette McDermott on flute, Douglas Bakenhus on bassoon and Katerina Zaitseva on piano will present a recital “An Evening of Trios” Thursday, June 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Presser Recital Hall located in Weathersby Fine Arts Building at Louisiana College in Pineville. Admission is free and open to the public.
McDermott and Bakenhus are faculty members at Northwestern State University. Zaitseva is a former faculty member at Louisiana College.
The program will be “Trio for Flute, Bassoon and Piano” by Gaetano Donizetti, “Trio in G Major” by Friedrich Kuhlau and “Trio in G Major for Flute, Bassoon and Piano” by Beethoven.
McDermott is professor of flute and coordinator of graduate studies in music at Northwestern.
She made her European debut was in the Czech Republic with the Czech premiere of Jindrich Feld’s “Introduzione Toccata e Fuga,” and gave a lecture recital which included the American premiere of the work at the University of North Texas. McDermott has held both the Magale Endowed Professorship Award and the Donald F. Derby Professorship, which allowed her to participate in a faculty exchange, record a solo CD of Czech flute music and fund performances of a faculty woodwind trio.
In 1998, she was the recipient of the Mildred Hart Bailey award for her research and performances of Czech music. Five years later, she received an Artslink grant and the Brannen-Cooper Fund, to support and perform in the first Slovak Flute Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2005 she was awarded an Enrichment Grant from NSU for a faculty woodwind trio of flute, clarinet and bassoon to travel to Slovakia to perform and teach.
Bakenhus is conductor of the Natchitoches-Northwestern Symphony Orchestra and an associate professor of bassoon at NSU. He has taught at the college level as a band director and professor of bassoon at the University of Mississippi and at Texas Lutheran University. He recently served as music director and conductor of the Austin Philharmonic and was a public school orchestra director at Crockett High School in Austin and at Langham Creek High School in Houston. Throughout his teaching career, Bakenhus has remained active as a guest conductor, clinician, and bassoonist. He recently toured Canada, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic with a faculty woodwind trio from Northwestern. Other recent ensemble performances include: the Shreveport Symphony, the Longview Symphony, the Austin Symphony and the San Antonio Symphony.
The former Artist in Residence at Louisiana College, Zaitseva previously taught at NSU. She is a native of Moscow, Russia. She has performed in the United States, Germany, Luxembourg, France, South Korea, and Russia with appearances in Moscow State Conservatory Hall in Moscow, Russia, the John F. Kennedy Center and Steinway Hall in Dallas. In March 2001, she played for the King of Spain, Juan Carlos, at the opening of the new Meadows Museum of Arts in Dallas. In addition to solo recitals, Zaitseva performs extensively in a piano duo with Nikita Fitenko. In May 2005 the Fitenko-Zaitseva duo recorded their first CD on the Classical Records label featuring works for piano with four hands by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.
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