NEWS RELEASE

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EAU CLAIRE — The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire music and theatre arts department will present the following musical performances the week beginning Monday, March 8. All events are free and open to the public.

Tuesday, March 9:

• Juniors Kenyon Scheurman, River Falls, and Colin Gilliland, Fond du Lac, will present a joint trombone recital at 5 p.m. in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. The recital will open with Scheurman performing Sonate for Trombone and Piano by Stjepan Sulek and continue with Gilliland performing Concert by Launy Grondahl. They will continue with works by Carl Maria von Weber, Benedetto Marcello and Dan Aldag. Senior Kristin Yost, Sisseton, S.D., will provide piano accompaniment for the performance.

Thursday, March 11:

• Alexandre Dossin, assistant professor of music, will present a faculty piano recital at 7:30 p.m. in Gantner Concert Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. Dossin will open the recital with a Notturno by Ottorino Respighi, continue with works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Mili Balakirev, Alexander Scriabin and Peter Tchaikovsky, and close with George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” This is professor Dossin’s first solo recital since winning the first and special prizes at the Martha Argerich International Piano Competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and it features the music of composers from the four countries that have been important in his life: Italy, Brazil, Russia and the United States.

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Judy Berthiaume, Director
UW-Eau Claire News Bureau
Schofield 201
(715) 836-4741
newsbur@uwec.edu

Updated: February 25, 2004