News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu     www.selu.edu/news Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 11/20/03   STUDENT TO PREMIERE WORK WITH SOUTHEASTERN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA       HAMMOND -- Oscar Everaldo Martinez, a Southeastern Louisiana University music major, will conduct the Southeastern Chamber Orchestra in a world premiere of one of his own compositions, “Canto Garifuna,” on November 24.       The free concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Pottle Music Building Auditorium.       With Martinez as conductor, the orchestra also will perform his arrangements of works by Astor Piazzolla and Hietor Villa-Lobos.       A native of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Martinez will earn his bachelor’s degree in music in May 2004. He said he has been studying music composition since the age of 15 and is also a violinist and pianist.        In summer 2002 Martinez received a scholarship to the participate in the seven-week music program at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina where he studied with Dan Locklair, composer-in-residence at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.       “I am pleased to give Everaldo this opportunity to present his work to Southeastern and the community,” said Chamber Orchestra Director Yakov Voldman.       For additional information about the concert, contact Voldman at 985-549-5182.  Return to News Releases