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: 10/21/03   Click on image for publication quality photo DEBUT FOR SOUTHEASTERN FACULTY TRIO -- The Southeastern Louisiana University Faculty Trio, from left, Amy Leonard, viola; Kenneth Boulton, piano; and Deborah Andrus, clarinet, will make their Hammond debut at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 28 in a special recital at the Pottle Music Building Auditorium. The recital is free. For additional information, contact Andrus at 985-549-5183. SOUTHEASTERN FACULTY TRIO TO DEBUT OCT. 28       HAMMOND –  The Southeastern Louisiana University Faculty Trio -- Deborah Andrus, clarinet; Amy Leonard, viola and Kenneth Boulton, piano -- will make their Hammond debut at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 28 in a special recital at the Pottle Music Building Auditorium.       "Not only is this the debut performance for our new trio,” said Andrus, who coordinates the woodwind area at Southeastern, “but it also is the first Southeastern performance for two of the members. We’re happy to welcome Kenneth Boulton, assistant professor of piano, and director of Southeastern’s Community Music School, violist Amy Leonard, an adjunct instructor of viola  and a member of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.”         Andrus said the concert will present familiar works for clarinet, viola and piano by Mozart and Bruch. She and Leonard will perform a duo for clarinet and viola by British-American composer Rebecca Clarke. The program's featured work will be the premiere performance of a trio for clarinet, viola and piano by Matthew Quayle, written and dedicated to the Southeastern Faculty Trio.         Andrus said the trio also will present the program at the Mississippi Music Teachers Association Convention in Ellisville, Miss., on October 31. The recital is free, and the public is invited to attend.        Boulton has performed extensively as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and in Europe. His debut recordings of Elie Siegmeister’s major works for solo piano, released in 1999 on compact disc by Naxos, have garnered international critical acclaim and have been described as “dynamically charged, fiercely committed, and brilliantly virtuostic.”        A Seattle native, Boulton earned his bachelor’s degree from Washington State University.  In addition, he has a master’s and doctorate degree in piano performance from the University of Maryland at College Park, where his teachers included Nelita True and Thomas Schumacher.       Leonard was born and reared in the Philadelphia area and received degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Manhattan School of Music. She has formerly held positions with the National Symphony of Ireland and the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Fla. Also an avid chamber musician and a champion of contemporary music, in recent years Leonard has performed in music festivals in Italy, Ireland, Canada, Bermuda, and along the east coast of the United States.  This is her second year as an adjunct faculty member at Southeastern.         Andrus holds degrees in clarinet performance from State University of New York-Potsdam, Michigan State University and Ohio State University. Formerly, she was on the faculty at Delta State University, where she began the Mississippi Clarinet Symposium in 1998, the first meeting of this kind to be held in the Mid-South region. She continued her work in this vein in Louisiana by organizing and presenting the first ever Southeastern Louisiana Clarinet Symposium last May.        Most recently, Andrus was the featured soloist with the New Orleans Civic Symphony, and with The Ringgold Band. She is also a member of the New Columbian Brass Band in Danville, Ky., and is principal clarinetist with the Natchez Opera Festival. She has performed as an orchestral musician in orchestras throughout the United States, including groups in Colorado, Michigan, Ohio and New York. She currently can be heard as a freelance clarinetist in the New Orleans area, and performs regularly with the Acadiana and Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestras.        For additional information about the Southeastern Faculty Trio, contact Andrus at 985-549-5183. Return to News Releases