MUSIC FOR FLUTES AND GUITAR, Leslie Maars, flute and Robert Trent, Guitar.

This CD, released in 2009, contains three of Robert Fruehwald's pieces for flute and guitar, plus two pieces for solo flute
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1. Hymtunes VI for Flute and Guitar

 2. Hymntunes IV—Imenetuki, Gospel Chant from The Cook Islands for Bass or Alto Flute

 3. Noels: Three Preludes for Christmas for Flute and Guitar

 4. Three Fantasies on Irish Folk Melodies for Bass Flute

 5. Duo on Bulgarian Folk Songs for Flute and Guitar

Leslie Marrs is Assistant Professor of Flute at Drake University. Dr. Marrs has performed as a chamber musician from the nation's capital to New Delhi and Oxford, and has been featured as Soloist with the Bay View Festival Orchestra, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Orchestra, and the United States Army Field Band, and has performed as a competition winner at National Flute Association conventions. She was a winner of the NFA Dissertation Competition, and presented "Integrating Extended Techniques into Flute Pedagogy: A Resource Guide for Flutists, Teachers, and Composers" at the 2005 NFA convention in San Diego.

Robert Trent has performed on the continents of North and South America and in Europe. Dr. Trent performs on modern guitar, Renaissance lute and on an original French guitar from the early 19th c. and a reproduction of a 10-string double-necked Romantic guitar of Scherzer. He has been a first prize winner in numerous National and International competitions including; the Webb National Guitar Competition, the Masterworks Young Artist Competition and the chamber music prize at the International Competition “Arturo Toscanini” in Italy. He has appeared in chamber music recitals or concerti with The Audubon Quartet, the Kandinsky Trio, Blue Mountain Ensemble and the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra among others. In addition to his in solo recitals he performs regularly with fortepianist Pamela Swenson (as Duo Firenze). Their first Dorian CD is entitled Italian Nocturnes: Early Romantic Music for Guitar and Fortepiano (catalogue no: DIS 80156).

 

Duo on Bulgarian Folksongs, movt. 1, exceprt.