College faculty recital features flute and piano combination, Nov. 3

Concert: Goshen College Faculty Showcase Recital featuring Rebecca Hovan, flute and Christine Larson Seitz, piano

Time and date: 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007

Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center

Cost: $7 adults, $5 seniors/students. GC students free with ID. Tickets available at the door

GOSHEN, Ind. – Goshen College studio specialist and flutist Rebecca Hovan and Assistant Professor of Music Christine Larson Seitz will perform a Faculty Showcase Recital in Goshen College Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall on Saturday, Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m.

In a program titled “On the Light Side,” music by Pierre Max Dubois, Benjamin Godard, Bill Holcombe, Theobald Boehm, Henry Mancini and “P.D.Q. Bach” will be performed. Hovan and Seitz will be assisted by student Jordan Swartzendruber on bass and Lavender Jazz director Sonny Carreño on drums.

Hovanis chair of the pedagogy committee of the National Flute Association (NFA) and is on the faculty at Indiana University South Bend and Goshen College. She is co-author of the “Blocki Flute Method Book II,” an intermediate method for flute published in 2003, and completed the second edition of that work in August 2005. As a performer, she appears regularly in recital and with various chamber groups and orchestras in northern Indiana. She has performed on programs at several conventions of the National Flute Association. 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 and studied with Mary Karen Clardy. She was a winner of the National Flute Association’s Masterclass Competition and has presented various pedagogy workshops for the NFA, colleges and universities, and various flute festivals.

Larson Seitz has served as assistant professor of music at Goshen College since 1999, where she teaches music technology and music theory courses and serves as staff accompanist. Having previously taught at Indiana University South Bend and Bethel College in Mishawaka, she has been a sought-after recital accompanist in Michiana for 35 years. She earned a bachelor’s degree in piano performance and a master’s degree from Indiana University South Bend, studying under Robert Hamilton and John Owings. Since 1978 Christine 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 are $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and students. GC students receive free admission with ID. Tickets are available for purchase at the door.

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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