Low brass virtuoso Loucky to perform in rotunda

Release Date: 3/20/2002. Expired: 4/1/2002

Multi-talented musician Dr. David Loucky will perform at The Renaissance Center Monday evening, April 1, as the next performance in the center’s Recitals in the Rotunda series.

A music faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University since 1989, Loucky is a trombonist and low brass specialist and performs on all low brass instruments. The recital will feature seven low brass instruments. Loucky will be accompanied by faculty member Leonard Foy, trumpet, and guest artist Polly Brecht, piano.

Loucky also performed for two complete seasons as assistant principal trombonist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as well as at three International Trombone Festivals. He has been an active performer with the Nashville Symphony, the New Hampshire Music Festival, the Huntsville Symphony and numerous other groups.

While with the St. Louis Symphony, he toured six European countries and four states; performed six times in Carnegie Hall; and played in all the low brass chairs except tuba. He was also very active in the symphony’s educational arm, The Community Partnership Program.

With the Nashville Symphony he has played in every low brass chair including tuba, and performed in the orchestra’s Carnegie Hall debut in 2000.

Loucky owns and performs on a period 19th century ophicleide, the predecessor of both the tuba and saxophone families.

Works to be performed in the upcoming recital range from the Baroque period to the mid-20th century.

The program is sponsored in part by grants from the MTSU Public Service Committee, the MTSU Faculty Research and Creative Activity Committee, and the MTSU School of Music.

“It is highly unusual to perform more than one instrument in a given recital,” Loucky said. “On this program the whole category of low brass instruments will be presented. The audience will have a unique opportunity to make aural comparisons between a wide range of characteristic sonorities and timbres from various instrumental groups and periods of music.”

Samples of Loucky’s recent recital work can be heard at www.mtsu.edu/~music/loucky.html.

Loucky’s recital in the rotunda is 7 p.m. Monday, April 1, at The Renaissance Center. Admission is free.

For more information call The Renaissance Center at (615)740-5600.

The Renaissance Center is located at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 minutes west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.