Ithaca College

On Sunday, September 27 at 7 pm, flutist Wendy Herbener Mehne will give a free recital in the Hockett Family Recital Hall at Ithaca College.  Pianist Diane Birr and cellist Heidi Hoffmann will collaborate on a program entitled “The Flute and Nature.”  Messiaen’s “Le Merle Noir,” Clarke’s “Orange Dawn,” “Rain Dance” by Phillips, and George Crumb’s “Vox Balanae” are on the program.

Wendy Herbener 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. Dr. 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. Dr. Mehne 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. She has been secretary of the National Flute Association and served on their executive board. Dr. Mehne holds degrees from the University of Nebraska, Michigan State University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her teachers include David Van de Bogart, Israel Borouchoff, Robert Willoughby, Richard Graef, and Robert Cole.