Internationally Renowned Flautist Susan Milan to Give Recital

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Susan Milan

Internationally renowned flautist Susan Milan will be in Fayetteville on April 2 and 3 to share her music and give a lecture for the Department of Music in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. 

Milan has recorded more than 20 records with a wide range in genre. She can be heard regularly on BBC radio and has recorded for Chandos, Hyperion, Upbeat, Da Capo, Omega, Denon, Cala and Metier and Divine Art labels. She has researched and published 19th century repertoire for Boosey & Hawkes, Wilhelm Popp for Hunt Edition/ Spartan Press, written study books and cadenzas, and is presently restoring and processing for CD her collection of historic 78 recordings of flautists 1910-1945.

Numerous composers have written for her and she is committed to commissioning and performing new works. She is a Professor and Fellow of the Royal College of Music and Professor of Trinitylaban Conservatory London. Her most recent CD is Terzetti — Trios for flute, viola and harp performed by the Debussy Ensemble. In 2017 she will be recording concertos written for her by Richard Rodney Bennett, Robert Simpson and Carl Davis with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matthew Taylor and Carl Davis. This will be released by Divine Art.

Milan will give a guest artist recital with pianist Lillian Buss Pearson in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 2. Their performance will include works by Gaubert, Bennet, German, Martinu, Berkeley, Messiaen, and Debussy. The concert is free and open to the public. Milan will also give a public lecture on her work at 2 p.m. Monday, April 3, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.