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Visiting Artist Series 1999-2000: Eric Nestler,

Eric Nestler

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VISITING ARTIST SERIES 1999-2000

Eric Nestler, saxophone Kathryn Fouse, piano

Sonata (1986) Richard Rodney Bennett (b. 1936) Paco allegro Scherzando Andante Vivo

Suite, op. 39 Miloslav Kabelac (1908-1979) Andante Allegro Andantino Presto Adagio Andante-Allegro agitato

Sonata (1995) David Dzubay (b. 1964) Arabesque Reflections Reverberations

Ford Hall Sunday, November 7, 1999 4:00 p.m. THE ARTISTS

Eric M Nestler has been oo the faculty of the University of North Texas since 1992 and is currently an Associate Professor of Music. Prior to his appointment at UNT, Dr. Nestler taught both Woodwind Techniques .and the sophomore honors section of Form and Analysis class at the Indiana University School of Music. Additionally, he has taught studio woodwinds and coached chamber ensembles at Vincennes University, Indiana. Nestler is presently a member of the summer music faculty of the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Dr. Nestler has traveled to Eastern Europe where he performed several solo recitals. He performed at . the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary and the Leos Janacek Academy in Brno, Czech Republic. Other performances included appearances in the Czech cities of Komin, Ivancice, Mikulov, and Kromeriz.

As a soloist in the United States, Nestler has been a featured performer at several North American Saxophone Alliance National and Regional Conferences. In 1995, he hosted the NASA Region IV convention where he premiered Joseph Klein's Pathways: Interior Shadows. He has also premiered new works by James Aikman, David Dzubay, John Harbison, and is currently commissioning a new work by Gunther Schuller. Dr. Nestler has also performed as an orchestral saxophonist. He has appeared with the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra (Kentucky), Evansville Philharmonic (Indiana), Garland Symphony Orchestra (Texas), Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra (Texas) and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Nestler has published several articles and reviews in the Saxophone Symposium and the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Journal. His most recent article, "An Analysis of the Prelude, Cadence et Finale by Alfred Desenclos," was published in a recent issue of the Saxophone Symposium. Nestler has also recorded a Master Class CD for the Saxophone Journal entitled Baroque Ornamentation for the Saxophone.

Dr. Nestler earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education, 0 Sununa Cum Laude, from Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania) where he was a student of Donald Beckie. Dr. Nestler 0 has since received both the Master of Music degree in Woodwind Instruments, with High Distinction, and the Doctor of Music Literature and Performance degree in Saxophone, Clarinet, and Bassoon, with High Distinction, from the Indiana University School of Music (Bloomington, Indiana). He studied with Eugene Rousseau (saxophone), James Campbell (clarinet), and Sidney Rosenberg (bassoon).

While at Indiana University, Nestler was the first recipient of the Saxophone Scholarship and was awarded a universit fellowship to begin doctoral study. He completed his doctoral document entitled "A Performance Analysis of Alexander Glazunov's , op. 109, William Karlins' Quartet Nr. 2 for , and 's Saxophone Quartet, op. 102." Other teachers Nestler studied with include: Daniel Deffayet, Kenneth Fischer, Ted Hegvik, Ramon Ricker (saxophone); Avraham Galper, Howard Klug, Earl Bates, Ignatius Gennusa (clarinet); Rodney Ackman (bassoon).

Kathryn Fouse pursues a professional career as a virtuoso pianist, an accompanist, and as an educator. She holds degrees in piano performance from Baylor University, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of North Texas where she is presently Lecturer of Piano and Piano Pedagogy. The winner of numerous piano competitions, including the St. Louis Artist Presentation Series Competition, she has performe throughout the United States and in Europe.

Dr. Fouse has collaborated with such artists as Timofei Dokschidzer (former Associate Conductor and Solo Trumpeter of the Bolshoi Ballet Orchestra and former professor at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow), Stephen Burns (winner of the 1988 Maurice Andre International Trumpet Competition), David Bilger (Principal Trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra), Leonard Candelaria (1993-95 President of the International Trumpet Guild), Thierry Caens (French virtuoso trumpeter), Bibi Black (American recording artist for EMI), and Ronald Barron (Principal Trombone of the Boston Symphony Orchestra). She also has been staff accompanist for the prestigious ARD International Trumpet Competition in Munich, Germany, as well as for numerous other international competitions and festivals including Moscow (1995), Saratov (1996), the Altenburg Competition in Bad Sackingen, Germany (1996) and Kiev (1998).