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Date: 4/16/99
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SLU CLARINETIST TO PRESENT FACULTY RECITAL
HAMMOND -- Clarinetist Southeastern Louisiana University music professor Frankie J.
Kelly will present a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m., April 22, in the Ralph R. Pottle Building Music
Auditorium.
Kelly will be assisted by pianist David Evenson, head of the Southeastern Music
Department; violinist Stephen Redfield, a member of the music faculty at the University of
Southern Mississippi, and flutist Kristin Kean, a Southeastern graduate student. The concert is
free to the public.
Kelly and her guests artists will perform works by Josef Palenicek, Johannes Brahms,
Olivier Messiaen, Robert Macsynski and Darius Milhaud.
Kelly, an assistant professor, is music director of the Slidell Youth and Community
Orchestra and has started a regional clarinet choir.
She has a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, master's
degree from Northwestern University, and bachelor's degree from the University of Southern
Mississippi. Before joining Southeastern's faculty, she taught at Western Carolina University, the
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), the American School Foundation (Mexico City), and
La Escuela Superior de Musica (Mexico City).
An active performer, Kelly has given solo recitals and chamber music concerts
throughout the southeastern and mid-western United States and central Mexico. She has held
principal positions and assistant principal positions with orchestras such as the Mexico City
Philharmonic and the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra.
While a doctoral student at the University of Illinois, she performed with Sinfonia da
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Camara and was a frequent guest with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and the
Champaign-Urbana Symphony. Summer festival appearances include performances with the
Mineria Festival Orchestra, the Ohio Light Opera Orchestra, the AIMS Festival Orchestra in
Graz, Austria, the Classical Music Seminar in Eisenstadt, Austria, the Sewanee Festival
Orchestra, and the Zweigroeschenoper Company in Munich, Germany. She participated in
Mexico's international arts festival, El Cervantino, while living in Mexico City. She has recorded
with the Mexico City Philharmonic, the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Mineria
Orchestra, the Greenville (S.C.) Symphony, and for composers Jorge Cordoba and Yehuda
Yannay.
Since joining the academic community, she has dedicated her research to projects that
encourage exchange with Latin America, particularly Mexico and Honduras. She was the
co-writer and organizer of "Latin American Music Now" held in 1995 at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee and for the "Wisconsin Composers Alliance Festival and Conference" in
1996, projects supported by granting organizations in Wisconsin and Mexico.
Kelly is currently completing a project which involves the commissioning and recording
of new works for clarinet, violin, and bass. Supported by grants from Southeastern and Western
Carolina University, the project is entitled "Tapestry: New Music from the Americas."
"Tapestry....." involves the artistic collaboration of numerous musicians and composers from
four different countries.
For additional information about the recital, which is part of Southeastern's spring
concert series, Encore!, call 504-549-2184.
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