Goshen College flute and piano instructors to perform recital Jan. 17

Concert: Faculty Recital Series – Rebecca Hovan, flute & Christine Larson Seitz, piano
Date and time: Saturday, Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Cost: $7 adults, $5 seniors/students, available at the door only one hour before the recital.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Goshen College instructor of music and flutist Rebecca Hovan will perform a recital of works for flute with Associate Professor of Music Christine Larson Seitz on Saturday, Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall. The program, titled "Suite Treats," will feature performances of several musical suites from a variety of time periods in music history.

The two will perform "Suite in A Minor" by Georg Philipp Telemann, "Suite Antique" by John Rutter, "Petite Suite" by Henri Büsser and "Suite, Op. 34" by Charles-Marie Widor.

Hovan is principal flute with the Elkhart County Symphony and performs regularly with other chamber groups in the Northern Indiana area. She is on the faculty at Indiana University-South Bend (IUSB) and Goshen College, and she is also an artist/clinician for Emerson Flutes. Her training includes a master of music from the University of North Texas where she was a teaching fellow in flute. She was a winner of the National Flute Association's Masterclass Competition and has performed at the association's national convention several times. She has also presented various pedagogy workshops for the National Flute Association, at colleges and universities, and at various flute festivals. Her first book, an intermediate method for flute, was published in December 2003. She has served on the pedagogy committee of the National Flute Association since December 2002 and was recently appointed chair of the committee.

Previously on the faculty at IUSB and Bethel College in Mishawaka, Seitz has been a sought-after recital accompanist in Michiana for 35 years. She has studied with Robert Hamilton and John Owings. Since 1978, Seitz has been the accompanist and assistant director for the St. Joseph Valley Camerata, and has been the organist at First United Methodist Church in Mishawaka since 1987.

Tickets for the recital cost $7 for adults and $5 for seniors/students. They will only be available at the door one hour before the recital.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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