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Information
Guy McClure
For
immediate release
March 29,
2013
Athens State Community Band Spring Concert to Host Jenny Maclay
The Spring Concert will celebrate the groups 10th
anniversary
Athens,
ALA. - The Athens State University Community Band, currently celebrating its 10th
year under the director of Dan Havely, will present its Spring Concert on
Sunday, April 28 at 3:00pm in the Carter Gymnasium on the Athens State campus.
At this year’s concert, the Community Band will
proudly be accompanied on select songs by Jenny Maclay, a 2008 graduate of
Sparkman High School.
Maclay
is quickly establishing herself as a concert soloist, recitalist, and
chamber musician. Maclay has achieved a number of notable musical honors,
including selection as a semi-finalist and finalist for such international
competitions as Astral Artists and Concert Artists Guild. Most
recently, she was the first prize winner of the 2013 National Federation of
Music Clubs Orchestral Winds Regional Solo Competition and will be competing at
the national level this spring.
Maclay
made her solo debut at the age of 15, as first prize winner of the Huntsville
Symphony Young Artist Competition. She
is a Vandoren Regional Artist and performs exclusively on Vandoren reeds and
mouthpieces.
“We are thrilled to have Jenny joining us for
this concert,” remarks Havely. “She will
be performing the classic "Concertino for Clarinet" by Carl Maria Von
Weber with the band. The band will also
be playing traditional and operatic marches, Hollywood and Broadway favorites
including selections from Les Miserables.”
The
concert is free and open to the public.
Reservations are not necessary to attend. For more information about the concert, call
256-233-8296.
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Attached picture:
Jenny Maclay
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