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Lee brass faculty presents concert May 1
Lee University faculty members Gordon James, Bill Pritchard, Dr. Doug Warner and Dr. Nathan Warner, along with Lee graduate student Jordan Bailey, will present a free brass concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 1, in Pangle Hall, 180 Central Ave., Cleveland, Tenn.
The evening will feature works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Elmer Bernstein, Eric Ewazen and Michael Tilson Thomas.
James, principal horn of the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, has been playing and teaching more than 30 years. He is an adjunct horn instructor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Southern Adventist University and Lee University.
Pritchard serves as a tuba and euphonium professor and orchestral coach at Lee, in addition to being a low brass professor at Georgia College and State University. He began teaching in Atlanta in 2001 while he was a member of the Army Ground Forces Band. He currently plays tuba with the Midtown Brass Quintet, the Georgia Brass Band, the New Atlanta Philharmonic and the Ludwig Symphony.
Doug Warner is chairman of the department of music performance studies and professor of music at Lee. He has been principal trombonist of the CSO since 1985. From 1986 to 1997, he was a member of the King’s Brass, a touring ensemble with which he recorded four albums.
Nathan Warner, an assistant professor of music at Lee, has performed with the CSO, the Knoxville Symphony, Lady Antebel- lum, Doc Severinsen, Peter Cetera, Clay Aiken, Slide Hampton, Lou Marini, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Olivia Newton-John and Franki Valli and The Four Seasons.
Bailey is studying music performance at Lee. He is involved in Lee’s Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Brass Choir.
For more information: 423-614-8240.