FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington Concert Band, with flute soloist Emily Pettengill, will present its spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 19.
Conductor Anita Jerosch has put together a program with an international flavor, including Johann Strauss’s “Radetsky March” from Vienna, the stomping Irish rhythms of “Riverdance,” an excursion to Brazil for “Carnival in Sao Paulo,” and the French accents of “Les Miserables” and the “Concertino” for Flute and Band by Cecile Chaminade.
Pettengill is studying jazz performance and composition at the University of Maine at Augusta’s Jazz and Contemporary Music Program. Some of her original work can be heard on the university’s student composer’s album.
In the classical realm, she has enjoyed master classes with some of the world’s greatest performers, including Alexa Still, Gary Schocker, Trevor Wye and Jeanne Baxtresser. In 2008, she participated with Sir James Galway and more than 2,000 other flutists to break the Guinness World Record for “World’s Largest Flute Ensemble.” She recently started Kennebec Valley Flutist’s Fellowship that is currently preparing for a late spring flute-choir performance in Augusta.
Admission to the concert is $6, $5 for seniors and free for children and UMF students.
This event is sponsored by the UMF Department of Sound, Performance and Visual Inquiry. For further information contact Robin Palmer-Mosher at 207-778-7072.
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