Southeastern Louisiana University

Students to make Southeastern solo debut

Contact: Christina Chapple

2/9/06

SOUTHEASTERN SOLO DEBUT – Three Southeastern Louisiana University graduate students will make their deubt as soloists with the Southeastern Chamber Orchestra at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 13, at the Pottle Music Building Auditorium. From left, are Igor Gladkov of Odessa, Ukraine; George Bosnea of Constanta, Romania; and Jie Gao of Beijing, China.

       HAMMOND – Three Southeastern Louisiana University music graduate students will make their debuts as Chamber Orchestra soloists Monday, Feb. 13, at the Pottle Music Building Auditorium.

       The free Southeastern Chamber Orchestra concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. and is part of the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts’ annual spring performing arts series, Encore!

        “The Chamber Orchestra is continuing our tradition of highlighting our talented students,” said conductor Yakov Voldman. The featured soloists are cellist George Bosnea of Constanta, Romania, and violinists Igor Gladkov of Odessa, Ukraine, and Jie Gao of Beijing, China.

       Voldman said the concert will open with the prelude to Wagner’s “The Mastersingers of Nuremberg” and close with the overture to “The Merry Wives of Windsor” by Otto Nicolai. Bosnea will perform “Cello Concerto in B Flat Major, G. 482” by L. Boccherini. Gao’s solo is Vieuxtemps’ “Violin Concerto in A Major, No. 5, while Gladkov will play Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s “Figaro from ‘The Barber of Seville.”

       For additional information and an Encore! brochure, contact the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts, 985-549-2184.