Concert with UO soprano will feature new composition.

Byline: The Register-Guard

Soprano Ann Tedards will be joined by several of her colleagues in a Faculty Artist Series performance at 8 p.m. Monday in Beall Concert Hall at the University of Oregon School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave.

Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission or $4 for students and senior citizens.

The highlight of the concert will be the world premiere of "As Dusk in Paradise," a nine-movement work for soprano, oboe and percussion, commissioned by Tedards and fellow performers Charles Dowd and J. Robert Moore and composed in 2002 by UO alumna Carol Matthews. Textual sources for the composition are drawn from poetry attributed to mystical nuns of the Middle Ages, including Hildegard von Bingen.

The program also includes a 17th century solo motet by Claudio Monteverdi, six Italian songs from the 14th century and contemporary works by John Cage and Charles Dowd. Besides Dowd and Moore, UO music faculty members taking part will include Eric Mentzel, tenor; Laura Zaerr, harp; Barbara Baird, organ; and Steve Vacchi, bassoon.

Tedards is associate professor of voice and associate dean and director of graduate studies for the music school. She has performed with the New York Pro Musica Antiqua, the Vienna Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Ensemble Moderne in Berlin, Ensemble Kontrapunkte in Vienna, the Washington Bach Consort, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Oregon Repertory Singers, Amor Artis Orchestra (New York) and Seattle Philharmonic. The composer Matthews has completed commissions in the past two years for Sound Circle, an a cappella women's chamber ensemble in Boulder, Colo.; Imbate, a percussion and flute duo; and GALA International Choruses based in Washington, D.C. Her "La Frontera," a symphony for concert band, was recently premiered by the Symphonic Winds at Boise State University, and "Homesteads," for strings and speaker, was recently commissioned by Arminta Neal and the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts.

Student flute recital

Graduate and undergraduate flute students of Richard Trombley will present an evening of flute duets at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Beall Hall. Admission is free.

Selections include Canonic Duet by Georg Philipp Telemann, Duo Brilliant by Friedrich Kuhlau and other duets by J.S. Bach and W.A. Mozart.

The performers include five doctoral students, one master's student and seven undergraduate students, most of whom are flute performance majors: Jennifer Miller, Jeremy Zander, Jennifer Northhup, Kimberly Walker, Jessica Sprick, Jasmine Hedrick, Theresa Stieger, Mary Buckler, Sara Whitener, Danielle Holten, Veronica Flinn, Elizabeth Hoffman and Kanae Komugi.

Trombley, who has taught flute at the University of Oregon for 40 years, says this is the largest and most impressive class of flutists during his tenure.