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: Janelle Woolley Date: 11/12/03   SLU FACULTY WOODWIND QUINTET RECITAL NOV. 18       HAMMOND – Five Southeastern Louisiana University woodwind faculty members will combine their talents on November 18 for a special concert at the university’s Pottle Music Building Auditorium.       The free concert, which is open to the public, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Members of the quintet include music faculty newcomer Chih-hsien Chien, flute; and faculty members Mary Kay Young, oboe; Deborah Andrus, clarinet; Jerry Voorhees, bassoon; and Janiece Luedeke, horn.       Earlier in the evening -- 5 p.m. at the Pottle Performance Circle -- Southeastern will host “Celebration of the Lights,” a prelude to the holiday season featuring the lighting of campus holiday decorations and performances by the Southeastern Brass Quintet, Izzy Moving Dance Theatre, and Southeastern Lab School and Holy Ghost School singers. A reception will follow in Twelve Oaks.       Andrus said the Faculty Woodwind Quintet will perform music donated to the university by Southeastern alumnus William P. Baker, Professor Emeritus of Oboe at The Ohio State University. The donated collection will be known as the William and Vivian Baker Woodwind Library and will be dedicated and installed in the music department in the spring 2004 semester.       Works included “Quintet in E-Flat, Op. 88 No. 2" by Anton Reicha; “La cheminee du Roi Rene” by Darius Milhaud; “Kleine Kammermusik” by Paul Hindemith; and “Ancient Hungarian Dances” by Ferenc Farkas.       Chih-hsien Chien, the newest member of the woodwind faculty and flute instructor at Southeastern, is a graduate of the National Taiwan Normal University, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Chien has won multiple awards and competitions, including the National Flute Competition in Taiwan and the solo concerto competition at the UIUC. She has played  professionally with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra.         Luedeke holds degrees from the Lawrence Conservatory of Music, the University of Akron and Louisiana State University. She was a featured soloist at the 1999 Southeast Horn Conference, and has performed professionally with the Ohio Ballet Orchestra, the Akron Symphony Orchestra and the Ohio Light Opera Orchestra. She currently performs with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, the Natchez Summer Opera, and the Louisiana Brass. Luedeke previously taught at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, and the Lawrence Conservatory as well as public schools in Wisconsin and in East Baton Rouge Parish. She is currently teaching in the Gifted and Talented Program in East Baton Rouge Parish.       Voorhees has been a member of the music faculty since 1971. A graduate of the University of North Texas and Yale University, he also studied electronic music at Dartmouth College. Because of his avid interest in the history of musical instruments, he founded and directs the Collegium Musicum, a group that performs period music on antique instruments.       An active performer, Voorhees is principal bassoonist for the Jefferson Orchestra and has been principal soloist with the Baton Rouge Orchestra and the New Orleans Ballet Orchestra.  Besides bassoon, he plays the recorder, flute, and oboe. He also directs Southeastern’s annual Young Musicians Camp.        Andrus, who teaches clarinet, woodwind chamber music and music appreciation, holds degrees in clarinet performance from State University of New York-Potsdam, and Michigan State University and received a doctoral degree in clarinet performance from Ohio State University.       Before coming to Southeastern, she was on the faculty at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. In summer 2000 and 2001, she  was the featured soloist with the Ringgold Band in Reading, Penn. She recently was appointed to teach clarinet at the New England Music Camp in Oakland, Maine, in summer 2002.        Young earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and master’s degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. She is a freelance oboe and English horn player in the New Orleans area, performing frequently with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the Jefferson Performing Arts Society. She currently is in her eighth season as a member of the oboe section in the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in Little Rock.        For additional information about the concert, contact Andrus at 985-549-5183. Return to News Releases