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    Date: 8/25/95
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple  95

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DAVID EVENSON TO HEAD SLU MUSIC DEPARTMENT
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University professor David Evenson has been
named head of the university's Department of Music.
     Evenson joined the Southeastern faculty in 1979. A native of Minneapolis, Minn., he
received his bachelor and master of music degrees from Indiana University and his doctorate at
the University of Arizona. He also studied at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts in Fontainbleau, France,
where he received instruction from Robert Casadesus and Nadia Boulanger.
     In 1992, Evenson received Southeastern's prestigious President's Award for Excellence in
Artistic Activity. He has toured South America in a chamber music ensemble under the auspices
of the United States Information Agency, performed in the Carnegie Recital Hall premiere of
SLU professor Stephen Suber's "The Descent" and appeared as a soloist with the Wellesley
Symphony Orchestra in Boston, Mass. He also participated in live music broadcasts on
Wisconsin and Los Angeles public radio stations and performed chamber music at the American
School in  Mexico City.
     Evenson's compact disc, "An American Tribute to Sigurd Rascher," chamber music with
saxophone, will be released on the Crystal label. He also performed in March with the
Mississippi Chamber Orchestra.
     Last year, Evenson and Suber traveled to the Czech Republic to record "Enchantments:
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Gerald Schwarz, music director of New York's "Mostly Mozart" Festival and the Seattle
Symphony Orchestra. The CD will be released internationally by MMC Records.
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