with Lori Piitz, piano, Emily Brebach, English horn, and other JMU wind faculty

Mon, Sep 21 @ 7 pm

RECITAL HALL

with Lori Piitz, piano, Emily Brebach, English horn, and other JMU wind faculty

Mon, Sep 21 @ 7 pm

RECITAL HALL


Sue Barber is an active music educator and performer as a bassoonist. During the summer season she performs and teaches at the Brevard Music Festival. She is an active freelance bassoonist, performing as principal bassoon with CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra and the North Charleston Pops! Orchestra. She has performed with many regional organizations including Opera on The James, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Symphony, Opera Roanoke, and the Williamsburg Sinfonia. Barber has also performed and presented master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Brazil, and China. She has also served as visiting professor at The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, teaching applied bassoon and presenting master classes.

Pianist, Lori Piitz, has lived, performed and taught in both North America and Europe. Prior to moving to Virginia, Piitz lived in Germany for nine years where she participated in recitals for the Wagner Society and the New Music Association of Germany, as well as at the International Flute Congress in Frankfurt. A frequent soloist with the Neusäss Chamber Orchestra, she also presented a cycle of Beethoven works for cello and piano, with Professor Helga Winold, in Munich and Augsburg. Piitz has been a guest at the Festival of the Sound in Canada, the Schleswig-Holstein and Villa Musica Festivals in Germany, and at the Mozart Bicentennial Series in Avery Fisher Hall, New York. She and her duet partner, Gabriel Dobner, have performed in Canada, Europe and the United States, including the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. 

Emily Brebach joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) as English horn and Oboe in the fall of 2012. Brebach, a Philadelphia native, has performed with several orchestras throughout the United States, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, and the Houston Symphony. Prior to joining the ASO, Brebach held the position of English horn and oboe with the Sarasota Orchestra.

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