News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu Summer  2005 news releases Public Information home News archive Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 11/9/05   Click on image for publication quality photo  CLARINETIST, PIANIST PRESENT SOUTHEASTERN FACULTY RECITAL        HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University Department of Music and Dramatic Arts clarinetist Andrew Seigel will present a faculty recital Tuesday, Nov. 22 in the Pottle Music Building Auditorium.        Seigel will be joined by fellow faculty member Kenneth Boulton, piano, for the free 7:30 p.m. recital. The program includes “Introduction, Theme & Variation” by Giocchino Rossini, “God Bless the Child” by Arthur Herzog and Billie Holiday as interpreted by Eric Dolphy, “Ballade” by Eugène Bozza, “Ritual, op. 41” by Katherine Hoover, and “Little Suite of Four Dances” by William Bolcom.        Seigel, who joined the Southeastern faculty last fall, previously taught clarinet at Michigan State University, Albion College, and Spring Arbor University. He earned his doctoral degree at Michigan State University, studying clarinet with Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr. From 1997-1999, he studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Hungary’s Franz Liszt Academy of Music.         A California native, Seigel received a bachelor’s degree in music education and master’s degree in music performance from California State University-Fresno. He has performed throughout the United States and in Hungary, Germany, and Romania. He performed with the Grand Rapids and West Shore symphonies and has also performed with the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, the Fresno Philharmonic, the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, and the Tulare Symphony.         As a chamber musician, Seigel has performed with the Powers Woodwind Quintet of Central Michigan University, the Fulton Ensemble, and is the founding clarinetist of the Veritas Ensemble. He was a featured performer at the 1998 Fulbright Musical Gala in Berlin, and has appeared as a soloist with ensembles in California and Michigan. During the summer, Seigel teaches and performs at the New England Music Camp, in Sidney, Maine.        Boulton has performed widely as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and in Europe. His debut recordings of Elie Siegmeister’s major works for solo piano, released on compact disc by Naxos, have garnered international critical acclaim and have been described by “Classics Today” as “dynamically charged, fiercely committed, and brilliantly virtuostic.”         A Seattle native, Boulton earned his bachelor’s degree from Washington State University. In addition, he has a master’s and doctoral degree in piano performance from the University of Maryland at College Park, where his teachers included Nelita True and Thomas Schumacher.          For additional information, contact the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts, 985-549-2184.