UTC Music Dept. presents Faculty Concert Series
Clint Schmitt, Saxophone with Sin-Hsing Tsai, Heather Small, and Aaron Schmitt

Friday, January 22, 2010, 7:30 pm
Roland Hayes Concert Hall, UTC Fine Arts Center
Press Release 12/15/2009

On Friday, OJanuary 22, the UTC Music Department presents a recital by music department faculty member Clint Schmitt, saxophone with Sin-Hsing Tsai, piano, Heather Small, flute and special guest Aaron Schmitt,saxophone.  The concert begins at 7:30 pm and is open to the general public free of charge.

Mr. Schmitt has chosen to feature two works by award winning composers of our time, “Beneath the Veiled Light” for flute, alto saxophone and piano by Paul Osterfield of Nashville, TN and “Lost in Translation” for soprano saxophone and piano by Dorothy Hindman, of Birmingham, AL. Hindman’s piece written while she was a Visiting Artist in the Fall of 2005 at the American Academy in Rome. Of the work, Hindman says that it “…deals with the phenomenon of attempting to communicate in a new language before one is proficient.”

Also featured on the program will be the “Concertpiece for two Alto Saxophones” by Paul Hindemith, written in 1933. To perform this work Mr. Schmitt will be joined by his son, Aaron Schmitt. Other works on the program include the “Five Exotic Dances” by Jean Francaix, “Brilliance” by Ida Gotkovsky, and Gary Schocker’s “Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano.”

Clint Schmitt holds faculty positions at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Southern Adventist University where he teaches applied saxophone and woodwind methods classes. He holds degrees in Music Education from Jacksonville State University and in Saxophone Performance from The New England Conservatory of Music. In addition to maintaining a full teaching schedule, Mr. Schmitt actively performs in the area in classical, jazz, and commercial settings.

Mr. Schmitt is a contributing member to the Worldwide Concurrent Premiers and Commissioning Fund, which has commissioned works for saxophone by composers Gunther Schuller, John Harbison, Michael Colgrass, and Larry Bell.

For further information contact the UTC Music Dept. Office, 423-425-4601.