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    Date: 4/15/02
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple 

DEPOY PLANS TRUMPET RECITAL AT POTTLE APRIL 25
     HAMMOND -- Bryan W. DePoy, trumpet, and David Evenson, piano, of Southeastern
Louisiana University's Department of Music and Dramatic Arts will present a faculty trumpet
recital at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 25, in Pottle Auditorium. 
     DePoy said the first half of the potpourri recital will consist of a concerto by Antonio
Vivaldi and the famous "Sonata for Trumpet and Piano" by Paul Hindemith. The recital will also
include works for large-scale trumpet ensemble and brass quintet, featuring the Southeastern
Brass, Southeastern's faculty brass quintet, and the entire Southeastern trumpet studio. 
     DePoy received his bachelor's degree from Indiana University School of Music, master's
degree from the University of New Mexico, and doctoral degree from Florida State University. 
He has performed with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra,
Spoleto Festival Orchestra, New Southwest Orchestra, Tupelo Symphony Orchestra, Memphis
Symphony, Mississippi Symphony, and the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.  
     As a clinician, he has been a guest of universities in America and abroad. Most recently
he was professor of trumpet at Delta State University.  A former member of the renowned New
Mexico Brass Quintet, he has recorded with the group and can be heard on their latest, highly
acclaimed compact disc titled "Forte!" He can also be heard  on a compact disc with the Calvary
Brass Choir on a recording featuring music for brass and choir. 
     A native of Minneapolis, Minn., Evenson, received his bachelor's and master's degrees
from Indiana University where he studied for six years with the late Cuban-American virtuoso
Jorge Bolet. In 1982,  he completed his doctoral degree at the University of Arizona as a student
of Ozan Marsh. He also studied at the L'‚cole des Beaux Arts in Fontainebleau, France, and the
Chautauqua Festival Music School in New York.
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     Evenson joined the Southeastern faculty in 1979 and, in 1992,  received the university's
prestigious President's Award for Excellence in Artistic Activity. He has been chair of the 
Department of Music and Dramatic Arts since 1994.
     Evenson is featured on a  recently released compact disc recording of chamber music for
saxophone and piano with saxophonist Lawrence Gwozdz, with whom he has performed on
Wisconsin Public Radio, Los Angeles Public Radio and Prague Radio. In 2000 MMC
Recordings released a compact disc recording of his Southeastern colleague Stephen Suber's
"Enchantments: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra," with Evenson as piano soloist with the
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. 
     As a soloist, Evenson has been heard with the Louisiana Philharmonic Chamber
Orchestra, the Louisiana Sinfonietta, the Mississippi Symphony Chamber Orchestra, the
Wellesley Symphony in Boston, and the Baton Rouge Symphony. He has performed chamber
music on a tour of Argentina and Uruguay and in Weill Recital Hall in New York City.
     Please note that the venue has changed from the Columbia Theater for the Performing
Arts to the Pottle Auditorium. For additional information, call the Department of Music and
Dramatic Arts at 985-549-2184.
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Press release available online at www.selu.edu/news/spring02.html