Guest Artist Recital: Patricia Surman, flute

Guest artist Patricia Surman will perform with Miroslava Panayotova, UA professor of piano. Surman is an active flute performer and a Yamaha Performing Artist. She currently serves at assistant professor of flute and director of woodwind studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Her concert on the UA campus will include works by Enesco, Gaubert, Dorff, Handel, and Poulenc. Performance will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

PATRICIA SURMAN

Yamaha Performing Artist Patricia Surman is an active solo, chamber, and orchestral flutist. In demand as a soloist, Surman has recently performed and given masterclasses in Taiwan, Korea, Canada, across Europe and the United States at esteemed institutions including the Venice Conservatory, Janacek Academy, the State Conservatory of Greece, Baylor University, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, the University of North Texas, and Oklahoma State University. Patricia has been a featured performer and clinician for flute festivals, including the National Flute Association Convention, Florida Flute Fair, Rochester Flute Fair, Oklahoma Flute Society Flute Fair, Kentucky Flute Festival and the Flute Society of Mid-South.

Patricia served on faculty at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece, and researched contemporary Greek flute repertoire. Her article on Ida Gotkovsky is featured on Oxford Music Online. She was recently featured in the International Alliance for Women in Music Journal, interviewed in The Flute View and has published articles in the Journal of the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors and Flute Talk Magazine. As co-founder of DuoInteraktiv, Surman has collaborated with computer musician Reiner Krämer, performing music for flute and interactive computer across the nation.

Surmn joined the Metropolitan State University of Denver music faculty as assistant professor of flute and director of woodwind studies and has previously taught at Northeastern State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and Southwestern Adventist University and has held residencies at Bates College and the Taipei Municipal University of Education. She can be heard in recordings on the GIA and Mark Custom labels and as a soloist on the GIA Choralworks CD series.