Dr. Linda Dusman was awarded a Mid-Atlantic Arts Fellowship as Artist in Residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for February 2009. She also completed two new works - "Diverging Flints," a piano trio premiered by the New Music Ensemble at Towson in October 2009, and "Skra," for clarinet and electronics, which was premiered by the Spiza Composers' Collective in Athens, Greece, and by E. Michael Richards at UMBC in October 2009. In addition, her "magnificat 4: Ida Ida" was released on Evergreen Records in the fall of 2009.

Join us for an afternoon of chamber music, as UMBC Department of Music faculty clarinetist Richard Spece and pianist Nancy Beith are joined by cellist Gita Ladd and clarinetist E. Michael Richards. The program will feature:

Darius Milhaud's Sonatine for clarinet and piano
Robert Muczynski's Time Pieces for clarinet and piano
Scott McAllister's BlingBling, for clarinet and piano
Ludwig van Beethoven's ---Trio for Piano, clarinet, and cello, Op. 11
Amilcare Ponchielli's ---Il Convegno for two clarinets and piano

Presented by the UMBC Department of Music’s Prime series.

3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets will be available online in fall 2009. Tickets will also be available at the door (cash or check only).