News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu     www.selu.edu/news Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 4/10/03   SOUTHEASTERN BRASS TO PERFORM APRIL 15       HAMMOND -- The Southeastern Brass, Southeastern Louisiana University’s faculty brass quintet, will perform Tuesday, April 15, at Southeastern’s Pottle Music Building Auditorium The free 7:30 p.m. concert is part of the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts’ spring series, “Encore!”       The quintet, composed of some of the department’s top teacher-performers, includes Bryan DePoy and Nick Volz, trumpet; Janiece Luedeke, horn; David Johansen, trombone, and Anthony Wolfe, tuba.       DePoy said the concert will feature several standards of the brass quintet literature, including Anthony Plog's “Four Sketches” and works by Morley Calvert, Michael Praetorius, and Giovanni Gabrieli. The faculty quintet will be joined by a student brass ensemble on two works.       DePoy is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Music, the University of New Mexico, and Florida State University. In addition to being  an active soloist and clinician, he is the music reviews editor for the “International Trumpet Guild Journal.” He has performed with regional orchestras such as the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and Baton Rouge Symphony and with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, New Southwest Orchestra, and the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. As a clinician and performer, he has been a guest of universities in America and abroad. DePoy is a performing artist for Edwards Trumpets.       Volz, a graduate teaching assistant, earned his bachelor's degree in Music Education from Loyola University, where he received awards for outstanding performance in both Jazz Band and Wind Ensemble. As an active freelance musician, he currently plays with the John Mahoney Big Band, Vivaz Latin Band, and Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes. He is also a regular performer with the Jefferson Performing Arts Society and Le Petite Theatre Orchestra. Volz has taught at Lafayette Elementary School and St. Clement of Rome Junior High. He is currently an adjunct trumpet teacher in St. Tammany Parish Public Schools.       Luedeke holds degrees from the Lawrence Conservatory of Music, the University of Akron and Louisiana State University. She was a featured soloist at the 1999 Southeast Horn Conference, and has performed professionally with the Ohio Ballet Orchestra, the Akron Symphony Orchestra and the Ohio Light Opera Orchestra. She currently performs with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, the Natchez Summer Opera, and the Louisiana Brass. Luedeke previously taught at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, and the Lawrence Conservatory as well as public schools in Wisconsin and in East Baton Rouge Parish. She is currently teaching in the Gifted and Talented Program in East Baton Rouge Parish.       Johansen is a graduate of  Fort Hays State University, the University of Illinois and the University of Iowa. He has held the position of principal trombone in the Hays Symphony Orchestra, second trombone in the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra, and currently holds the position of second trombone in the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. He has performed throughout the country at College Music Society and Society of Composers new music conferences. Previously, he taught at Grinnell College, St. Olaf College, Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado and the University of Iowa, where he was a visiting assistant professor of trombone studies.       Wolfe is in his third year as the principal tubist in Southeastern’s Wind Symphony and Chamber Orchestra. He is a former member of the Ovation Brass Quintet and the Southeastern Student Brass Quintet and has performed as substitute principal tuba in the New Orleans Civic Symphony. He also holds the position of minister of music at Northside Baptist Church in Denham Springs. He is a graduate of Broadmoor High School in Baton Rouge.       For additional information about the concert, contact the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts, 985-549-2184. Return to News Releases