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6-27-2004

Concert: Ithaca Flute Institute Opening ConcertWendy Herbener Mehne

Diane Birr

Pablo Cohen

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Recommended CitationMehne, Wendy Herbener; Birr, Diane; and Cohen, Pablo, "Concert: Ithaca Flute Institute Opening Concert" (2004). All Concert &Recital Programs. 3491.https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/3491

ITHACA FLUTE INSTITUTE OPENING CONCERT

Wendy Herbener Mehne, flute and alto flute Diane Birr, piano

Pablo Cohen, guitar

Assisted by: Claudia Anderson, flute

Leone Buyse, flute . Kristin Bacchiocchi Stewart, flute

Kelly Jepson Covert, alto flute Heather Krisel, alto flute

Hockett Family Recital Hall Sunday, June 27, 2004

7:00 P.M .

. ITHACA

PROGRAM

Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 (1721)

Les Folies d' Espagne (1701)

Mountain Songs (1985)

Barbara Allen The House Carpenter He's Gone Away Cindy

Black Anemones (1980)

INTERMISSION

Sonata in D Major, Op. 94 (1942-43)

Moderato Allegretto scherzando Andante Allegro con brio

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

arr. by C. Anderson

Marin Marais (1656-1728)

Robert Beaser (b. 1954)

Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943)

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

BIOS

Wendy Herbener Mehne is professor of flute at Ithaca College, where she performs with the Ithaca Wind Quintet, was a 1995-96 Dana Teaching Fellow, and the 2004 London Sabbatical Scholar. She is a founding member of the new music group, Ensemble X nd a member of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Mehne has

been a guest artist and given master classes throughout the United States and has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Constitution Hall. Dr. Mehne is a contributing author for The Flutist Quarterly, Flute Talk, and the Instrumentalist, and has recorded for the Albany, Mark Records, and Open Loop labels. She has been secretary of the National Flute Association and served on their executive board. Dr. Mehne holds degrees from the University of Nebraska, Michigan State University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her teachers include David Van de Bogart, Israel Borouchoff, Robert Willoughby, Richard Graef, and Robert Cole.

Pianist Diane Birr has collaborated with numerous vocalists and instrumentalists in recitals and master classes throughout the United States, and in Australia, Canada, France, Scotland, Austria md Norway. She is frequently featured as a pianist on the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra's Chamber Music Series and in concerts at Ithaca College. Dr. Birr has served as an official accompanist for the Music Teachers National Association's (MTNA) national competitions and the International Trombone Workshop. In addition, she serves as a collaborative artist at International Workshops, a two-week music and arts festival held in locations around the world, where she performs in recitals and master classes and coaches chamber music. Her collaborative performances can be heard on Liscio Recordings, Crystal Records, and Houston Publishing, Inc. Dr. Birr serves as the President-Elect of the New York State Music Teachers Association and is Associate Professor of Piano at Ithaca College.

Pablo Cohen, guitar professor at Ithaca College, has performed in solo, ensemble, and orchestral concerts in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. His festival appearances include Philadelphia's Mozart on the Square, the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, the Carrefour Mondial de la Guitare in Martinique, The Geneva International Festival, and Musickfest '95 iri Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Recent performances include appearances at Carnegie Hall, the Tel-Aviv Guitar Festival,

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International Guitar Festival '97 in Buenos Aires, Calcano Festival in Caracas, and recitals at universities and concert series in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin. Winner of numerous awards, he has recorded with the Camerata Bariloche Chamber Orchestra of Argentina for the Dorian label. His transcriptions of Chick Corea's Children Songs along with music by "Third Stream" composers, represent an exciting new direction for classical guitar. Dr. Cohen received his D.M.A. from Temple University.

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