Free Flute Recital to Feature Classics and Celtic Music

09/19/06

Contributed by Erik Kibelsbeck

Flutist Wendy Herbener Mehne will present a free recital at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 24 in the Hockett Family Recital Hall at Ithaca College. She will be joined by colleagues Diane Birr, piano; Pablo Cohen, guitar; and Nicholas Walker, string bass for a program including music by Griffes, Hovhaness, Higdon, J. S. Bach, and some Celtic music.

Mehne is professor of flute at Ithaca College, where she performs with the Ithaca Wind Quintet, and was a 1995-96 Dana Teaching Fellow and the 2004 London Sabbatical Scholar. She is a founding member of the new music group, Ensemble X and a member of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. Mehne has been a guest artist and given master classes throughout the United States and has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Constitution Hall, national ACDA and SEAMUS conferences, the International Guitar Festival in Fort de France, Martinique, numerous National Flute Association conventions, and in broadcasts by affiliates of National Public Radio and Television. She is a contributing author for The Flutist Quarterly, Flute Talk, and the Instrumentalist, and has recorded for the Koch, Albany, Mark Records, and Open Loop labels.

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