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MUSIC DEPARTMENT ADDS FACULTY MEMBER

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:08 PM CDT

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Anesha Dexter

Anesha Dexter, flutist and professional artist for the Conn-Selmer brand of band and orchestral instruments, was appointed to the music department faculty at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff recently.

“Ms. Dexter is a performing, professional musician and will serve as an excellent role model for our students,” said Dr. Michael Bates, interim chair for the music department and professor of music. “Her active performance with ensembles performing in other parts of the state will highlight our music department and her selection as a Conn-Selmer professional artist will enhance the department’s reputation and recruitment activities.

Ms. Dexter brings a passion that should engage our students and an intellectual quality that should stimulate her applied students to think critically about music as an intellectual discipline.”

Dexter is a versatile musician and educator and is serving as an instructor of flute, clarinet, saxophone, and music appreciation at UAPB as well as a flute instructor at the University of Central Arkansas’ Community School of Music.

Dexter is also a piccoloist with the Little Rock Wind Symphony. She received her bachelor’s degree in music from Arkansas Tech University. While there she won the Concerto Competition and performed Charles T. Griffes’ Poem, with the Arkansas Tech University Wind Symphony. As a full fellowship recipient, she completed her master’s degree in flute performance at the University of Arkansas.

She won first prize in the departmental Concerto-Aria Competition, which resulted in a performance of Lukas Foss’ Renaissance Concerto with the University Symphony Orchestra. She was also selected to perform in the music department’s Honor Recitals, “The Best of the Best” for two consecutive years.

From 2006 to 2007, Dexter was one of six students selected internationally to study in the United Kingdom with Trevor Wye, and she attended the Royal Academy of Music for master classes with William Bennett.

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