CONCERT IN MOUNT VERNON

Featuring world-renowned flutist, Dr. James Scott

Mount Vernon Music invites the public to attend a concert featuring music for flute, piano and strings Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 3 pm in Mount Vernon Music Hall (402 Leftwich at Yates, Mt. Vernon). Performing will be flutist Dr. James Scott and MVM Players Debbie Ragsdale (flute), Steven Harlos, (piano), Mark Miller (violin) and Ute Miller (viola). Admission to the program is $10 for members, $15 non-members, students and children under 12 free of charge.

James Scott's musical career embraces over four decades of accomplishments as a performing musician, a teacher, and an administrator. He earned degrees in both flute and piano from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Peabody Conservatory. While a student at Emory University, he won a position as flutist in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at a time that made him one of the youngest musicians in the history of the orchestra.

During his years as a faculty member and head of the music program at Rutgers University, he gave recitals throughout the metropolitan New York area, in Canada, in the Far East, and throughout the United States. He also performed with the Woodwind Repertory Group of New York, the Schola Cantorum Orchestra, Princeton Pro Musica, Princeton Ballet Orchestra, Opera Theater of New Jersey, Metro Lyric Opera Orchestra, and the Camerata Chamber Orchestra. Much of his performing career has been in the service of new music and reviving neglected works from the past.

Scott later became associate dean for instruction and professor of flute at Indiana University, performing as principal flutist and soloist with the Indiana University Festival Orchestra. He also served as Director of the School of Music at the University of Illinois before beginning his current work in 2001 as Dean of the College of Music at the University of North Texas. Teaching has remained central to his interests, and a number of his former students hold tenured and tenure-track positions in various universities. He continues to give master classes in this country and abroad.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Scott has performed with such artists as Samuel Baron, Bernard Greenhouse, Stanley Drucker, Ilana Vered, Hiroko Yajima, Frederick Urrey, Jens Nygaard, Jerry Hadley, Max Pommer, Nicholas Goluses, William Purvis, Lukas Foss, and Sylvia Rosenberg..

Mount Vernon Music is a 501(c)3 organization formed in 2006 to further the performance of classical and other fine music in rural East Texas. For more information on the mission and concert schedule of Mount Vernon Music, and about historic Mount Vernon Music Hall, please visit www.mountvernonmusic.org .