Hovan to perform faculty flute recital Oct. 22

Faculty Recital Series Concert: Rebecca Hovan, flute & Christine Larson Seitz, piano
Date and time: Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Cost: $7 adults, $5 seniors/students. GC students free with valid ID.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Goshen College flute instructor Rebecca Hovan will perform a flute recital with Associate Professor of Music and pianist Christine Larson Seitz on Friday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Goshen College Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall.

The program title is "From Garden to Menagerie" and will feature works representative of flowers or plants and animals or fantastical creatures. Pieces connected with the garden theme will include "Trillium" by Catherine McMichael and three movements from "From Grandmother's Garden Op. 97" by American composer Amy Beach. Each of the movements is a musical representation of a plant or flower that might have been found in a Victorian garden.

The remaining pieces on the program are connected with the animal theme and will include Vivaldi's programmatic concerto,"Il Cardellino"; several shorter works performed as a set: "The Little White Donkey" by Ibert; "outside my window, BIRD" by Gary Schocker; and "Les Ecureuils" (Squirrels) by Henri Busser; and the only unaccompanied work on the program, "Danse de la Chevre" (Dance of the Goat), by Arthur Honegger. Two creatures from the fantasy world will be represented in a transcription of Debussy's"Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" and "Sonata 'Undine'" by Carle Reinecke. The Reinecke sonata is connected with an underlying story that resembles very closely that of "The Little Mermaid."

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 and Goshen College. 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. Hovan 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, Mishawaka, Seitz is associate professor of music at Goshen College. She has been a sought-after recital accompanist in Michiana for over 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 cost $7 for adults, $5 for seniors/students, available at the door one hour before the concert. GC students are free with valid ID.

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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