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: 1/28/03   Click on image for publication quality photo Left, Deborah Andrus; right, Lois Hobbs CLARINETIST, PIANIST TO PRESENT ENCORE! RECITAL       HAMMOND -- Encore! 2003, the Southeastern Louisiana University Department of Music and Dramatic Art’s spring performing arts series, opens February 4 with a recital by clarinetist Deborah Andrus and pianist Lois Hobbs.       The free recital is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Pottle Music Building Auditorium.       Andrus, assistant professor of clarinet at Southeastern, and Hobbs, a member of the faculty at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss., will perform two pieces for clarinet and piano, a sonatina by Joseph Horovitz and the Brahm’ s "Sonata No. 1 in F Minor."       Hobbs will also perform Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit" and a sonatina by Maria Hester Park.       Hobbs, staff accompanist at Delta State, has performed extensively in recitals, competitions, and festivals as a collaborative artist for such venues as the Mid-South Flute Festival; Delta State Clarinet Symposium; Oberlin College-Conservatory Summer Flute Festival; Cleveland Chamber Music Society (Ohio); the Tucson Chamber Music Society; the Art Song Festival and Kent-Blossom Music Festivals in Ohio. With flutist Keith Pettway, she recorded works by Mississippi composers on a CD entitled “Mississippi Classic,” which was used by Public Radio Mississippi as a gift to donors for their 2000 fundraising campaign.       She is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and is concurrently enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Arizona. She has worked as staff accompanist at the Cleveland Institute, the Oberlin-College Conservatory of Music, and the Encore School for Strings in Ohio, where she specialized in assisting young violinists and violists for competitions and recitals from Chicago to Moscow. She also has been the official accompanist for the District Metropolitan Opera competition in Mississippi and Delta State University's Opera Theatre performances.       As a solo artist, Ms Hobbs has given numerous solo recitals, and has competed successfully in national and regional solo piano competitions such as the Johanna Hodges International Piano Competition.        Andrus, who joined the Southeastern music faculty in August 2001,  teaches clarinet, woodwind chamber music and music appreciation. She 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. Her teachers include Alan Woy, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, James Pyne and Theodore Oien.        Before coming to Southeastern, Andrus 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.       She is coordinating the Encore! 2003 Southeastern Clarinet Symposium, a day-long series of master classes and workshops for clarinetists of all ages, on May 5.       Upcoming Encore! 2003 events include a faculty recital by guitarist Patrick Kerber at 7:30 p.m., February 10, in the Music Recital Hall; a concert at the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts by the Southeastern Chamber Orchestra on February 17, and the second annual Bill Evans Jazz Festival, February 20-22.        For additional information about the recital and a Encore! brochure, contact the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts, 985-549-2184. Return to News Releases