Oct 12, 2012 2 min read

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University will host three separate musical events this week.

Nina Assimakopoulos, flute professor at WVU, and the WVU Flute Studio will host a Fall Flute Fling Sunday at the Creative Arts Center. The event will feature a day of master classes, workshops, flute music and instrument vendors, as well as a gala concert performance by world-class musicians. Guest artists for this year’s Fall Flute Fling are Shelley Binder of the University of Tennessee, Julianna Nickel of George Mason University, Lindsey Goodman of the West Virginia Symphony and Wendy Kumer of the Flute Academy in Pittsburgh. Activities for the Fall Flute Fling will begin at 8:30 a.m. and continue until 5 p.m.

WVU jazz musicians will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Gladys G. Davis Theatre of the Creative Arts Center. Conducted by Paul Scea, who is music professor and director of jazz studies, as well as students Wesley Hager, Gregory Thurman and Rafael Smith and faculty member Brian Plitnik, the concert will feature six of the jazz program’s 10 small jazz ensembles.

The WVU Chamber Winds, conducted by music professor John Weigand, will present a concert at the Creative Arts Center Tuesday. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Gladys G. Davis Theatre and is free and open to the public. The first half of the program will include “Divertissement pour instruments à vent, Opus 36” by Emile Bernard. Following a brief intermission, the ensemble will perform “Octet, Opus 216” by Carl Reinecke and “Serenade for Winds, Opus 7” by Richard Strauss.

For more information about these events, call the College of Creative Arts at 304-293-4359.