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Date: 4/8/02
Contact: Christina Chapple 97
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SOUTHEASTERN WOODWIND FACULTY PLAN CONCERT APRIL 18
HAMMOND -- Encore!, the Southeastern Louisiana University Department of Music
and Dramatic Arts spring concert series, continues on April 18 with a concert by five recent
additions and one veteran member of the department's woodwinds faculty.
The free concert, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Pottle Music Building Auditorium, will
feature Southeastern newcomers Carolyn Treybig, flute; Mary Kay Young, oboe; Deborah
Andrus, clarinet; Valerie Fuller, horn; and Farrell Vernon, saxophone. All joined the faculty
during the current academic year.
The sixth performer -- Jerry Voorhees, bassoon -- has been teaching at Southeastern and
performing on the Pottle stage for more than three decades.
The musicians will get together to perform works by Rossini, Roussel, Copland, Heiden,
Jacob and Villa-Lobos. They will be joined on the program by their music department colleague
Emily Truckenbrod, soprano.
Voorhees has been a member of the music faculty since 1971. A graduate of the
University of North Texas and Yale University, he also studied electronic music at Dartmouth
College. Because of his avid interest in the history of musical instruments, he founded and
directs
the Collegium Musicum, a group that performs period music on antique instruments.
An active performer, Voorhees is principal bassoonist for the Jefferson Orchestra and has
been principal soloist with the Baton Rouge Orchestra and the New Orleans Ballet Orchestra.
Besides bassoon, he plays the recorder, flute, and oboe. He also directs Southeastern's Young
Musicians Camp, now in its seventh year.
Fuller received her bachelor's degree in music education from the University of South
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Dakota and master's degree from the Eastman School of Music, where she was also awarded the
Performer's Certificate. She has performed with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, Oswego
(New York) Opera Theatre, and the Tupelo (Miss.) Symphony Orchestra. She is former assistant
principal horn with the Sioux City (Iowa) Symphony Orchestra.
Treybig received her undergraduate degrees in music education and flute performance
from the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory. She also earned master's degrees in flute performance
and music history from the University of Akron, and a doctoral degree in flute performance from
the University of Texas at Austin.
Previously, she served as adjunct instructor at the University of Southern Mississippi.
She currently resides in Hattiesburg, Miss., where she is an active recitalist and freelance
performer. At Southeastern, she teaches flute and music history and appreciation courses.
Andrus, who teaches clarinet, woodwind chamber music and music appreciation, holds
degrees in clarinet performance from State University of New York-Potsdam, and Michigan
State University and received a doctoral degree in clarinet performance from The Ohio State
University.
Before coming to Southeastern, she was on the faculty at Delta State University in
Cleveland, Miss. In summer 2000 and 2001, she was the featured soloist with the Ringgold
Band in Reading, Penn. She recently was appointed to teach clarinet at the New England Music
Camp in Oakland, Maine, in summer 2002.
Vernon is assistant director of bands and conductor of the varsity band and the
university's jazz ensembles. He joined the Southeastern faculty after teaching at James Madison
University in Virginia and the University of Northern Colorado, where he is completing his
doctoral degree. He is a graduate of Indiana University, where he received the Performer's
Certificate, the university's highest performance award.
While at the University of Northern Colorado, Vernon won the coveted Southard
Competition. In both 1998 and 1999, "Down Beat" magazine named him the top Blues/Pop/Rock
Instrumental Soloist for tenor saxophone. With UNC's Combo II, he won another Down Beat
award in 2000.
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Vernon has played at the Sedona Jazz Festival in Arizona and the Johnnie and Jazz
Masters Festival in Monaco. He also has shared the stage with Ray Charles, Linda Ronstadt, Tito
Puente, Bobby Shew, Denis DiBlasio, Cyrus Chestnut, Louis Bellson, Ted Dunbar, Nathan
Davis, Al Jarreau, Roberta Flack, the Shirelles, Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians, and many
others.
Young earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and
master's degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. She is a freelance oboe and
English horn player in the New Orleans area, performing frequently with the Louisiana
Philharmonic Orchestra and the Jefferson Performing Arts Society. She currently is un her eighth
season as a member of the oboe section in the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in Little Rock.
Truckenbrod has appeared in recitals, concerts, and operas throughout the United States.
Most recently she was invited to perform in Honduras by the Fundaci˘n para el Museo del
Hombre Hondure¤o, and this past summer she presented a recital in Salzburg, Austria. She has
formerly held teaching positions at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., and Central College
in
Pella, Iowa. During 1999, she was on of 12 young voice teachers selected to participate in the
National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program held in Ellensburg, Washington.
Truckenbrod is a graduate of the University of Iowa and has studied additionally at the
Mozarteum and with Julianne Baird at the Eastman School of Music.
For additional information, contact the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts at 985-
549-2184.
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