Wednesday February 21, 2007
Guest Artist Recital: Eugene Rousseau, saxophone & Timothy Lovelace, piano
Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007 / 7:30 pm / Cultural Arts Building Recital Hall.
$5 general admission / free for UNCW students with a valid ID.
Tickets available at the Cultural Arts Building Box Office one hour prior to performance. For more information call the UNCW Department of Music Hotline: 910-962-7416.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Since his Carnegie Hall debut in 1965, classical saxophonist Eugene Rousseau has performed across America and in five continents. He was among the first to give solo saxophone recitals in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, London and Amsterdam. A Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 2000. Through the years he has served as guest professor and led saxophone Master Classes at music schools of renown including Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, the Paris Conservatory, and a yearly course at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1993, he was awarded the rank of Honorary Professor at the Prague Conservatory.
In 1972, Yamaha Corporation, Japan, appointed Rousseau Chief Consultant for Saxophone Research and Development. Rousseau has also studied and researched the artistic and acoustic characteristics of saxophone mouthpieces, developing and overseeing production of a line of classical and jazz saxophone mouthpieces that bear his name. In 1969, he co-founded the World Saxophone Congress and has served as president of the North American Saxophone Alliance and Comité International du Saxophone.
Timothy Lovelace is Associate Professor of Collaborative Piano and Coaching at the University of Minnesota. He is a former Assistant Professor of Accompanying at The University of Texas at Austin. His own studies were principally with Harold Evans, Gilbert Kalish, Donna Loewy, and Frank Weinstock. Active as an ensemble pianist, soloist, conductor, and continuo player, Lovelace most often concertizes as a collaborative pianist, having appeared with such distinguished artists as Miriam Fried, Emma Johnson, Pekka Kuusisto, Joe Lovano, Robert Mann, Charles Neidich, Paul Neubauer, Ayano Ninomiya, the Pacifica String Quartet, and Paquito D’Rivera. For more than a decade, Lovelace has been a staff pianist at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute, where he has played in the classes of Barbara Bonney, Christoph Eschenbach, Thomas Hampson, Christa Ludwig, and Yo-Yo Ma, among others.
Photo of Eugene Rousseau
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