BOLIVAR, MO --The Southwest Baptist University department of music presents Dr. Terri Knupps, assistant professor of music, in a euphonium recital on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the Jane A. Meyer Recital Hall.  SBU professor of music Dr. Melinda Smashey, piano, and Shane Knupps, euphonium, will assist.  Admission is free, and the public is invited to attend.

As a performer, Dr. Knupps has won numerous awards in competitions sponsored by groups including the Music Teachers’ National Association and the International Tuba and Euphonium Association.  She has performed concerts and master classes in Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri.  Furthermore, she was a founding member of the Fountain City Brass Band in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Dr. Knupps’s program will begin with a sonata by Baroque composer Benedetto Marcello.  This work, most likely written for flute with harpshicord and cello accompaniment, will feature Dr. Smashey on harpsichord and Mr. Knupps playing the cello line on euphonium.  Dr. Knupps will then present the three-movement Concerto by contemporary British composer Derek Bourgeois. 

After a short intermission, Dr. Knupps will perform an unaccompanied composition by American composer Arthur Frackenpohl entitled Sonata for Solo Euphonium followed by three selections from Ralph Vaughan Williams’s song cycle for baritone voice, Songs of Travel.  The recital will conclude with Arthur Pryor’s famous show piece Blue Bells of Scotland.

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