Andrea Splittberger-Rosen, professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, will perform in a faculty recital on Sunday, February 19, on the UWSP campus.

The event will be held in Michelsen Hall of the Noel Fine Arts Center beginning at 3 p.m., and will be part of the Music Department Scholarship Series. Admission is $6.75 for the general public, $3.75 for senior citizens, $2.75 for youth and free the day of the concert for students with UWSP IDs. Tickets are available at the UWSP Box Office, Room 103A University Center, (715) 346-4100 or (800) 838-3378 or at the door if the concert is not sold out in advance.

The program will include "Sonata in A minor" by Franz Schubert, "Variations on a German Folk Song for basset horn and piano" by Alois Beerhalter, "Instant Winners" for solo E flat clarinet by Barney Childs, and "One Liners" for clarinet trio" by Eric P. Mandat. Splittberger-Rosen will be assisted in her performance by Lily Chia Brissman, instructor at the Wausau Conservatory of Music, on piano; UWSP alumnae Jenni Yang, Stevens Point, on clarinet, and Abigail Kreisa, instrumental music teacher in the Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools, on clarinet and bass clarinet.

Splittberger-Rosen has taught at UWSP since 1984. She appears regularly on Wisconsin Public Radio and throughout the U.S. as a soloist and chamber musician. She and husband, Robert Rosen, have performed together as the Uwharrie Clarinet-Percussion Duo since 1975, debuting at Carnegie Hall in 1980. She also performs in the Faculty Reed Trio and Wisconsin Arts Quintet and serves as adviser of the UWSP chapter of Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity. In the past she has performed with the American Wind Symphony, the Santa Fe Opera, the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, and the Lansing Symphony Orchestra. Rosen is an experienced teacher of clarinetists of all ages and levels. Her research and performance interests include repertoire for the basset horn and historic clarinets.

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