UT Music Faculty to Perform Chamber Music for Wind Quintet Feb. 8

On Monday, Feb. 8, The University of Tampa’s music faculty will perform chamber music for wind quintet. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Plant Hall Grand Salon and is free and open to the public.

Performers include Barbara Prescott, flute; Meg Cassell, oboe; Ted DeCorso, clarinet; Richard Sparrow, French horn; Maurizio Venturini, bassoon.

The program includes three pieces for wind quintet, including German composer Franz Danzi’s Wind Quintet Op. 56, No. 1, French composer Darius Milhaud’s La Cheminee Du Roi Rene (The Chimney of King Rene) and English composer Malcolm Arnold’s Three Shanties for Wind Quintet.

Prescott is an acclaimed area soloist, ensemblist, chamber music coach and teacher. During graduate study, she was principal flute of the Chicago Civic Orchestra. In addition to UT, she teaches at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts, St. Petersburg College and Eckerd College.

Cassell teaches oboe at UT and is an active freelance oboist. She subs regularly with The Florida Orchestra and other professional ensembles and manages a reed-making business, Good Tone Guild Double Reeds.

DeCorso taught for 25 years at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and has performed in concerts in major forums throughout the world. He is music director of the Suncoast Symphony Orchestra, the Clearwater Community Band and the Blaine (WA) Jazz Festival and maintains a private studio in Dunedin, FL.

Sparrow has lived in the Tampa area and played fourth horn with the Florida Orchestra since 1984. He has been on the UT faculty since 2005 and is a member of the Tampa Brass, the resident brass ensemble at the University.

Venturini was the principal bassoon of the Rome Opera Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic and is currently assistant principal bassoon with the Florida Orchestra. While with the Rome Opera Orchestra, they recorded the movie soundtracks of The Godfather 3, Conan the Barbarian, Marco Polo and Lonely Lady.

For more information, contact music@ut.edu or (813) 253-6212.

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