Sundays with Brevard Music Center features percussionist Gwendolyn Dease performing Bach and Piazzola
From Brevard Music Center:
The Brevard Music Center in partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) presents its Sundays with Brevard Music Center concert series on Feb. 1, 2015, at 3 p.m. in the Reuter Center on the campus of UNC Asheville. The program will feature Brevard Music Center artist faculty member Gwendolyn Dease with guest flutist Dilshad Posnock performing works by Bach, Piazzola and more.
Gwendolyn Dease is currently associate professor of percussion at the Michigan State University College of Music. Ms. Dease is passionate about educating the next generation of young musicians. She regularly gives master classes at universities throughout the US and abroad and has served on the faculty for the Filarmonica Joven de Colombia, the Interlochen Arts Camp and the Brevard Music Center. Dease has studied with world-renowned professors Robert van Sice, Keiko Abe and John Beck. She holds degrees from the Interlochen Arts Academy, Eastman School of Music, Peabody Conservatory and the Yale School of Music.
Flutist Dilshad Posnock will join Dease in Piazzola’s L’Histoire du Tango. Ms. Posnock is on the artist faculty of the Brevard Music Center. She has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in concerts and festivals across the United States, England, Puerto Rico and India. She has been featured on BBC TV and BBC World Service Radio. Ms. Posnock holds performance degrees from the Royal College of Music, London and Carnegie Mellon University. She has also served as Artist Lecturer in Flute and Director of the Artist Diploma Program at the Carnegie Mellon School of Music.
The Sundays with Brevard Music Center series is presented October through May by the Brevard Music Center, a world-renowned summer music institute and festival. The Music Center presents 80 public concerts in the summer season, more than 30 of which have no admission charge.
The series continues on March 4, 2015, with a concert by cellist Alistair MacRae and soprano Allison Pohl.
This concert is free and open to the public. For more information about Sundays with Brevard Music Center, visit brevardmusic.org. For more information about OLLI visit olliasheville.com.
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