King William Winds quintet to perform Feb. 11 at UTSA

(Feb. 4, 2002)--The King William Winds, a woodwind quintet-in-residence at the University of Texas at San Antonio, will perform wind chamber music by Francis Poulenc at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11 at the 1604 Campus Arts Building Recital Hall. Featured in this program will be pianist and UTSA faculty member Christine Debus.

The concert is free and open to the public and will feature "Novelette for Woodwind Quintet, Sonata for Flute and Piano, Sonata for Oboe and Piano," "Sonata for Two Clarinets, Elegie for Horn and Piano" and "Sextet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Piano."

Debus is a staff accompanist at UTSA, where she teaches, coordinates accompanying and performs in both student and faculty recitals. She studied piano with Gabriel Tacchino and Jacqueline Latarjet, professors at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. She was on the faculty of the Conservatoire de Musique de Bordeaux, France and moved to the United States in 1986. Prior to settling in San Antonio, she was an active chamber musician throughout the Washington, D.C. area. She also performed in prelude concerts at the Kennedy Center with National Symphony Orchestra members and was the harpsichordist of the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra.

The group will also be joined by clarinetist and UTSA faculty member Larry Mentzer. Mentzer is member of the San Antonio Symphony, having played principal clarinet for thirty years. He graduated from the New England Conservatory and has taught at Trinity University, San Antonio College, Our Lady of the Lake University and Incarnate Word College. He is also a member of the UTSA Chamber Ensemble.

Formed in 1987, the King William Winds is a San Antonio-based chamber music ensemble and performs throughout South Texas as part of the Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Artists roster. The core instrumentation of the group consists of a woodwind quintet: flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, but sometimes is expanded to include other instruments in order to perform other repertoire.

Members of the King William Winds are Rita Linard, flute; David Herbert, oboe; Kathleen Gavigan, clarinet; David Law, horn; and Ron Noble, bassoon.

Rita Linard teaches flute at the University of Texas at San Antonio and St. Mary's University. She recently finished a doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She attended Indiana University, the University of Illinois and Northern Illinois University. Linard plays with the Winters Chamber Orchestra and the San Antonio Symphony.

David Herbert is a graduate of the University of Houston and Baylor University. A student of Raymond Weaver and Tom Stacy, Herbert is English hornist with the Austin Symphony and plays with the Mid-Texas Symphony and the Winters Chamber Orchestra. He is on the faculties of the University of Texas at San Antonio and St. Mary's University and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Twin Lake, Mich.

Kathleen Gavigan, an Okla. native, combines a variety of music professions. Besides performing in Texas with various groups she is vice president of Orpheus Music, a San Antonio-based importer and distributor of musical instruments. Gavigan is on the UTSA faculty.

David Law is professor of philosophy at San Antonio College, and teaches horn at Trinity University and San Antonio College. He has played with the San Antonio Symphony, the Winters Chamber Orchestra, and the San Antonio Brass. Law studied with William Sabatini, and has participated in master classes with Arnold Jacobs and Dale Clevenger at Northwestern University. Law is a UTSA faculty member.

Ron Noble is contrabassoonist with the San Antonio Symphony and principal bassoonist with the Winters Chamber Orchestra. He has degrees from DePaul University and UTSA, and is on the faculties of Trinity University, St. Mary's University and UTSA.

For more information, contact Jasmin Khair at (210) 458-4550.

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