World-renowned oboist to present recital

Peoria, Illinois . . . February 21, 2003 . . . World-renowned oboist Nancy Ambrose-King will present a recital in Dingeldine Music Center on the campus of Bradley University on Wednesday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is free and open to the public. Dingeldine Music Center is located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue in Peoria.

The recital will feature works by Schumann, J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel and Malcom Arnold. A new work, Four Winged Words of Odysseus for Oboe Solo (1999) by Helmut Schmidinger will also be performed. Assisting in the recital will be pianist Rachel Jensen and Bradley faculty oboist S. Blake Duncan.

Ms. Ambrose-King is the first-prize winner of the Third New York International Competition for Solo Oboists, held in 1995. She has appeared as soloist throughout the United States and abroad. She has recorded two solo CDs for Boston Records, entitled "Nancy Ambrose-King: The Winning Program" and "vocations", and can also be heard in performances on the Athena, Arabesque, Naxos, and CBS Masterworks labels.

Her playing has earned high praise from a variety of critics, including the American Record Guide: "Marvelously evocative, full of character, sultry and seductive, with a soft-spoken, utterly supple tone, and as musically descriptive as any I have heard."

Currently associate professor of oboe at the University of Michigan and first vice president of the International Double Reed Society; she was previously associate professor and University Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has also served on the music faculties of Indiana University, Ithaca College, University of Northern Colorado, and Duquesne University Schools of Music. She has performed as principal oboist in Sinfonia da Camera, Michigan Opera Theater Orchestra, Flint Symphony Orchestra, Heidelberg Opera Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Greeley Philharmonic, Indiana University Festival Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, as well as performing in the Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, and Rochester Philharmonic Symphony Orchestras.

Ms. Ambrose-King received her Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of Music, and Performers Certificate from the Eastman School of Music.

For more information, call the Music Department at 677-2605.