Crescent Music Club will hold its March 5 program at the Greenville Woman's Club with Michiko Otaki at the piano, Tony Watson, flute and Kurt-Alexander Zeller tenor. Both Dr. Otaki and Dr. Zeller are professors at Clayton State University near Atlanta. Michiko is no stranger to many music lovers in Greenville for she has performed for us many times. She is from Hazu, Japan and received her early musical training there. After her arrival in 1977 in the United States she studied at the San Francisco Conservatory, the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Miami where she received her doctorate. She has performed with many groups including the Warsaw Wind Qunitet, and the Walllinger String Quartet. Dr. Kurt-Alexander Zeller is Director of Opera and Vocal Studies at the University and is active throughout the country as a vocal adjudicator and clinician. His book What Every Singer Needs to Know about the Body (written with Malde and Allen) has just been released by Plural Publishing Company. He has appeared in many operas himself and been stage director for others. He has also sung in numerous operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Mr. Watson is the founder and director of the Atlanta Suzuki Flute School and has studied advanced flute repertoire and pedagogy with Suzuki Flute School author Toshio Takahashi. He is also a certified Orff (music education) specialist. He is currently a candidate for the degree Doctor of Musical Arts at the Univ. of Georgia.
Crescent Music Club invites SCFMC members to be our guests at this meeting. Please contact us at this web site if you wish to attend since seating is limited.
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