A CD by Leslie Marrs (flute) and Robert Trent (guitar) Audio Sample: Noels, Movt. 1: Audio Sample: Hymntunes VI, Movt. 1:
Audio Sample: Noels, Movt. 1: Audio Sample: Hymntunes VI, Movt. 1:
Audio Sample: Hymntunes VI, Movt. 1:
Audio Sample: Duo on Bulgarian Folk Songs, Movt. 1: This CD, released in 2009, contains three of Robert Fruehwald's pieces for flute and guitar, plus two pieces for solo flute. 1. Hymtunes VI for Flute and Guitar 2. Hymntunes IV—Imenetuki, Gospel Chant from The Cook Islands for Bass or Alto Flute 3. Noels: Three Preludes for Christmas for Flute and Guitar 4. Three Fantasies on Irish Folk Melodies for Bass Flute 5. Duo on Bulgarian Folk Songs for Flute and Guitar Music for Flutes and Guitar is available online at CDbaby Leslie Marrs is Assistant Professor of Flute at Drake University. Dr. Marrs has performed as a chamber musician from the nation's capital to New Delhi and Oxford, and has been featured as Soloist with the Bay View Festival Orchestra, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Orchestra, and the United States Army Field Band, and has performed as a competition winner at National Flute Association conventions. She was a winner of the NFA Dissertation Competition, and presented "Integrating Extended Techniques into Flute Pedagogy: A Resource Guide for Flutists, Teachers, and Composers" at the 2005 NFA convention in San Diego. Dr. Marrs's interest in contemporary music has led to performances of new music at the College Music Society annual conferences as a member of the CMS players. As a former board member and vice-president of the Baltimore Composers Forum, she premiered several works for composers in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area. She has also hosted her own radio show, Music from Marrs, for WHFC in Harford County, Maryland. Dr. Marrs earned her D. M. A. at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, her M. M. from Florida State University and B. M. from Virginia Commonwealth University. Flute teachers include Mark Sparks, Charles DeLaney, Deborah Egekvist, Francile Bilyeu, and Tim Day. Robert Trent has performed on the continents of North and South America and in Europe. Dr. Trent performs on modern guitar, Renaissance lute and on an original French guitar from the early 19th c. and a reproduction of a 10-string double-necked Romantic guitar of Scherzer. He has been a first prize winner in numerous National and International competitions including; the Webb National Guitar Competition, the Masterworks Young Artist Competition and the chamber music prize at the International Competition “Arturo Toscanini” in Italy. He has appeared in chamber music recitals or concerti with The Audubon Quartet, the Kandinsky Trio, Blue Mountain Ensemble and the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra among others. In addition to his in solo recitals he performs regularly with fortepianist Pamela Swenson (as Duo Firenze). In past summers he and fortepianist Pamela Swenson Trent have been in residence as performers and teachers in period instrument performance at the “Accademia L’Ottocento” in Rome and Verbania. Duo Firenze is the recent recipient of numerous awards including: unprecedented two Career grants from The Johns Hopkins University - Peabody Conservatory, two Faculty Development Grant from Radford University, twice from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. He is a recording artist for Dorian Records© as a member of Duo Firenze. Their first Dorian CD is entitled “Italian Nocturnes: Early Romantic Music for Guitar and Fortepiano (catalogue no: DIS 80156) www.dorian.com . No stranger to new music, he is featured in three works in the recording CD “Traveler’s Tales” Capstone Records (CPS-8776) www.capstonerecords.org/CPS-8776.html works by American Composer Byron Petty entitled. Recent tours have taken Dr. Trent to Russia, Brazil, Germany and France. Sought after as an expert in performance practice of the early nineteenth-century, he has contributed improvised cadenzas in the style of Fernando Sor to the “Complete Sonatas of Diabelli, Giuliani and Sor, Vol. 1” published by Mel Bay text (melbay.com) The first recipient of the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in guitar from the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Trent is Professor of Music and Director of Guitar and Renaissance Lute studies at the College of Visual and Performing Arts of Radford University. Last revision 6/12/2009 This page is maintained by Robert Fruehwald (rfruehwald@semo.edu). This Web page is maintained on a Southeast Missouri State University server as a convenience for users. The University does not take responsibility for the content of this site.
This CD, released in 2009, contains three of Robert Fruehwald's pieces for flute and guitar, plus two pieces for solo flute.
1. Hymtunes VI for Flute and Guitar 2. Hymntunes IV—Imenetuki, Gospel Chant from The Cook Islands for Bass or Alto Flute 3. Noels: Three Preludes for Christmas for Flute and Guitar 4. Three Fantasies on Irish Folk Melodies for Bass Flute 5. Duo on Bulgarian Folk Songs for Flute and Guitar
Leslie Marrs is Assistant Professor of Flute at Drake University. Dr. Marrs has performed as a chamber musician from the nation's capital to New Delhi and Oxford, and has been featured as Soloist with the Bay View Festival Orchestra, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Orchestra, and the United States Army Field Band, and has performed as a competition winner at National Flute Association conventions. She was a winner of the NFA Dissertation Competition, and presented "Integrating Extended Techniques into Flute Pedagogy: A Resource Guide for Flutists, Teachers, and Composers" at the 2005 NFA convention in San Diego.
Dr. Marrs's interest in contemporary music has led to performances of new music at the College Music Society annual conferences as a member of the CMS players. As a former board member and vice-president of the Baltimore Composers Forum, she premiered several works for composers in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area. She has also hosted her own radio show, Music from Marrs, for WHFC in Harford County, Maryland. Dr. Marrs earned her D. M. A. at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, her M. M. from Florida State University and B. M. from Virginia Commonwealth University. Flute teachers include Mark Sparks, Charles DeLaney, Deborah Egekvist, Francile Bilyeu, and Tim Day.
Robert Trent has performed on the continents of North and South America and in Europe. Dr. Trent performs on modern guitar, Renaissance lute and on an original French guitar from the early 19th c. and a reproduction of a 10-string double-necked Romantic guitar of Scherzer. He has been a first prize winner in numerous National and International competitions including; the Webb National Guitar Competition, the Masterworks Young Artist Competition and the chamber music prize at the International Competition “Arturo Toscanini” in Italy. He has appeared in chamber music recitals or concerti with The Audubon Quartet, the Kandinsky Trio, Blue Mountain Ensemble and the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra among others.
In addition to his in solo recitals he performs regularly with fortepianist Pamela Swenson (as Duo Firenze). In past summers he and fortepianist Pamela Swenson Trent have been in residence as performers and teachers in period instrument performance at the “Accademia L’Ottocento” in Rome and Verbania. Duo Firenze is the recent recipient of numerous awards including: unprecedented two Career grants from The Johns Hopkins University - Peabody Conservatory, two Faculty Development Grant from Radford University, twice from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. He is a recording artist for Dorian Records© as a member of Duo Firenze. Their first Dorian CD is entitled “Italian Nocturnes: Early Romantic Music for Guitar and Fortepiano (catalogue no: DIS 80156) www.dorian.com . No stranger to new music, he is featured in three works in the recording CD “Traveler’s Tales” Capstone Records (CPS-8776) www.capstonerecords.org/CPS-8776.html works by American Composer Byron Petty entitled.
Recent tours have taken Dr. Trent to Russia, Brazil, Germany and France. Sought after as an expert in performance practice of the early nineteenth-century, he has contributed improvised cadenzas in the style of Fernando Sor to the “Complete Sonatas of Diabelli, Giuliani and Sor, Vol. 1” published by Mel Bay text (melbay.com) The first recipient of the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in guitar from the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Trent is Professor of Music and Director of Guitar and Renaissance Lute studies at the College of Visual and Performing Arts of Radford University.
Last revision 6/12/2009 This page is maintained by Robert Fruehwald (rfruehwald@semo.edu).
This Web page is maintained on a Southeast Missouri State University server as a convenience for users. The University does not take responsibility for the content of this site.
