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Oboist & Prof. Leonid Sirotkin Presents Monday Concert

Oboist & Prof. Leonid Sirotkin Presents Monday Concert

February 11, 2015

Leonid Sirotkin, professor of oboe at the DePauw University School of Music, will perform an adventurous program alongside a trio of strings for the first Faculty Select Series concert of the spring semester.  The program takes place on Monday, February 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Thompson Recital Hall, located within DePauw's Green Center for the Performing Arts.

 “I wanted the program for this recital to be focused on chamber music and not just solo works for oboe,” said Sirotkin, who will share the stage with Indianapolis-based musicians Shoshana Kay (violin), Kathryn Hershberger (viola) and Peter Opie (cello).

The concert repertoire consists of four quartets, beginning with a performance of Mozart’s celebrated Oboe Quartet in F Major. Following this classical masterpiece are two distinct works by 20th-century English composers: Sir Malcolm Arnold’s lighthearted Oboe Quartet and Benjamin Britten’s Phantasy Quartet (a piece he wrote at the age of 19). The final work, a quartet by French neoclassical composer Jean Françaix, will feature Sirotkin on English horn.

“While the instrumentation for all of the pieces is similar, the music is very different, so presenting an idiosyncratic sonority for each work is very exciting,” Sirotkin notes. “With the exception of Mozart, all works are 20th-century pieces. Yet, I hope the audience will enjoy the drastic differences in compositional style, general mood and character.”

Before joining the music faculty at DePauw, Sirotkin, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, was principal English horn for nearly a decade with the Kirov Opera and Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra under legendary artistic director and conductor Valery Gergiev.

General admission tickets to Faculty Select Series concerts are $5. Tickets for seniors, children and all students are free, thanks to season sponsors Judson and Joyce Green. To ensure that any person wishing to attend a performance is able to do so, a pay-what-you-can option is available online and on request. To obtain tickets, visit www.depauw.edu/music/tickets, or stop by or call the Green Center box office, (765) 658-4827.

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