Recital to feature Baroque oboe master Dr. George T. Riordan
Release Date: 8/24/2006. Expired: 9/18/2006
Dr. George T. Riordan is regarded as a master of the Baroque oboe and is a charter member of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. Now the dean of the Robert W. McLean School of Music at Middle Tennessee State University, Riordan and friends will present a performance of Baroque and Classical music in the Visual Arts Gallery of The Renaissance Center on Monday, Sept. 18.
The 7 p.m. performance is free as part of the center’s recital series sponsored by The Harp School, Inc., and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
Riordan received his Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Michigan State University, his Master of Music degree in Oboe Performance from Northwestern University and his Doctor of Music degree from Florida State University.
He trained on Baroque and Classical oboe in Boston, New York and London. He is a founding member of Baroque Southeast, a faculty ensemble in residence at FSU, and has performed chamber music with such distinguished performers as Monica Huggett, Edward Tarr, Max von Egmond, Aldo Abreau and Jaap Schroeder. As an orchestral performer, he has appeared with The Apollo Ensemble, Zephyr’s Choice Baroque Wind Band, The Eighteenth Century Ensemble and The Grande Bande, as well as such varied groups as the Philadelphia Classical Orchestra, the Ft. Worth Early Music Ensemble, the Detroit, Jacksonville, Grand Rapids and Tallahassee symphony orchestras and as soloist with the Jacksonville Symphony Chamber Orchestra.
Prior to joining MTSU in 2003, Riordan was an assistant dean in the FSU School of Music, director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and taught on the faculties of the University of Montana and Lawrence University in Wisconsin.
He is married to Karen Clarke, concertmaster for the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and a founding member of Baroque Southeast.
Riordan also performs on the modern oboe and English horn and was a charter member of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra in 1981 and was a board member for the Tallahassee Ballet.
For more information on the George Riordan and Friends recital in the Visual Arts Gallery on Sept. 18, call (615)740-5600.
The Renaissance Center is a fine arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.
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