Faculty Recital Series Begins February 9 at University of Wyoming

The University of Wyoming Department of Music’s spring Faculty Recital Series opens with “An Evening of Reed Trios” Monday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

Faculty members are Lindsey Bird Reynolds, oboe; Blake McGee, clarinet; and Kaori Uno-Jack, bassoon. They will perform “Rustiques” by Marie-Joseph Canteloubel; Jacques Ibert’s “Cinq Pieces en Trio”; selections from Erwin Schulhoff’s “Divertissement”; “Trio” by Michael McGee; and Darius Milhaud’s “Pastorale.”

Composers Canteloube, Ibert and Milhaud were all born at the end of the 19th century in France; they lived and died within a decade of one another. Their works have all contributed to what is now considered to be the most standard modern “French sound.”

Jewish Czech composer Schulhoff was a rising star until his internment in a concentration camp during World War II, where he died of tuberculosis.

Minneapolis-based composer McGee earned degrees in music from the University of California-San Diego and Manhattan School of Music, and has been featured often in UW’s new music concerts in the recent past.

For more information, contact Kathy Kirkaldie, UW Fine Arts coordinator, at (307) 766-2160 or email kirsik@uwyo.edu.