NATCHITOCHES – The Three Reeds Duo will perform in concert on Tuesday Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. The recital will be live streamed at nsula.edu/capa/capalivestream.
The Three Reeds Duo is Northwestern State University Professor of Saxophone Paul Forsyth and Assistant Professor of Oboe Leah Forsyth. The concert will include works by Eugene Bozza, Stacey Berk, Grazyna Bacewicz, John Anthony Lennon and a work commissioned by Three Reeds by Joshua Burel. Associate Professor of Piano Dr. Chialing Hsieh will join the duo on two pieces.
The Three Reeds Duo is a unique ensemble consisting of oboe and saxophone. This duo, formed in 2005, has begun building a repertoire catalogue for this unique combination of instruments, ranging from newly commissioned works, to transcriptions of standard repertoire. Three Reeds has performed in a variety of venues throughout the United States, Europe, and South America, ranging from World Saxophone Congresses to International Double Reed Society conventions and collegiate recitals. In 2015 and 2018, Three Reeds was the winner of the Alford Professorship at NSU. The professorship allowed them to record their debut CD, “signals cross,” as well as their second album, “Metamorphosis.” Released in the summer of 2016, “signals cross” was the first CD ever recorded of oboe/saxophone duos. Three Reeds Duo has now commissioned works from such composers as Gregory Wanamaker, Marcus Maroney, Kyle Blaha, Alyssa Morris, Richard Rose and Peter Lieuwen, Thomas Hundemer, Burel, Derek Brown and O’Neal Douglas.
More info on Three Reeds can be found at https://www.leahforsythmusic.com/three-reeds-duo.
