November 2, 2010, Greencastle, Ind. — Lunae Duo, which features flutist Stephanie Pedretti, a 1993 graduate of DePauw University, will perform this Sunday, November 7, at Illinois' Northbrook Public Library. The 2 p.m. concert will take place in the library's auditorium, and is free and open to the public."Stephanie Pedretti is a frequent performer in the Chicagoland area
and a founding member of the Pedretti-Knight Duo as well as the Lunae
Duo," notes an article previewing the performance. "She is a flute instructor at the DePaul University Community Music
Division, the Music Academy of Rockford College, and the Music
Institute of Chicago. She was a winner of the Allen Keller Memorial
Young Artist Competition and the
DePauw Concerto Competition and has
performed as a featured soloist with the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra,
the DePauw Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Talent Education
Institute (Japan). She has also performed with the Chicago
Philharmonia, Orchestra Sinfonico del NewOperafestival di Roma, Dearborn
Symphony Orchestra, Lansing Lyric Opera and the Chautauqua Music
Festival, as well as in solo and chamber music performances in the U.S.,
Canada, Austria, Italy and Japan. She is the recipient of a 2009
Chicago CAAP grant that supported the recording of her debut cd,
Parisian Reflections, featuring music by French composers."
In addition to the Bachelor of Music Pedretti earned from DePauw, where she studied with Anne Reynolds, she holds a Master of Music from Michigan State University. She also received a Graduate Diploma in Suzuki Pedagogy at the Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto, Japan.
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