Guitarist and flautist to perform at YHC

Guitarist Leo Welch and flutist Eva Amsler will perform at Young Harris College on Monday, September 11 in the Susan B. Harris Chapel at 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.

Dr. Leo Welch, guitarist, has been hailed as "an interpreter of style and grace" by David Justice of the Charlestown Daily Mail. Welch is active as both soloist and chamber musician. Recent appearances include performances at the Peabody Conservatory of Music as well as lecture performances at the Fifth Annual Mannes College of Music Guitar Festival and the Classical Guitar Workshop, College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati in 2005.

Welch has published over thirtyfive arrangements and editions of solo, chamber, and guitar ensemble works. His arrangement of Telemann's Trio Sonata in A Minor was featured at a guitar chamber music concert at the White House in December 2004. Welch currently serves as assistant dean at the Florida State University College of Music.

Eva Amsler is assistant professor flute at the Florida State University College of Music. Prior to her appointment at Florida State University, Amsler served on the faculty of the

State Conservatory of Music in Feldkirch (Austria), teaching flute, pedagogy, and chamber music. She was a member of the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland for twenty years.

Amsler, a pioneer on the wooden flute, organized a worldwide series of concerts with The Dorian Consort, and has played various flutes in specially created concerts of new music with the ensemble ENIF - aktuelle Music. Amsler's concert activity as soloist and chamber musician has brought her together with performers such as Aurele Nicolet Barbara Schlick, and the Carmina Quartet. Her recordings have been released on the Ambitus and Cavalli labels and her performances have been broadcast in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia, and the United States. Amsler also conducts master classes in Europe, the United States, and Asia.

Founded in 1886, Young Harris College is a private, core liberal arts college focused on university preparation. Historically affiliated with The United Methodist Church, a primary goal of Young Harris College is to provide a quality education for the whole person: intellectually, socially, culturally, and spiritually. To learn more about Young Harris College, visit us at www.yhc.edu.