Take ‘A Walk Down Memory Lane’
with University of Mobile
Community Orchestra

The University of Mobile Community Orchestra invites the community to take “A Walk Down Memory Lane” during a casual evening featuring a variety of compositions ranging from Bach and Beethoven to Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra.

The blue jeans concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8, at College Park Baptist Church, 5860 College Pkwy., across from the University of Mobile campus. For information, call the University of Mobile Center for Performing Arts at (251) 442-2420 or visit the website at www.umobile.edu.

Guests from the Mobile Symphony and the community will join University of Mobile students and faculty in presenting the concert, which is under the direction of guest conductor Jeffrey A. Reed. Concert master will be Enen Yu, adjunct instructor of strings at UM and co-concertmaster of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra.

Featured performers include pianist Kim Gould, a senior majoring in church music from Palmettto, Ga., who will perform the first movement of Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto. Violinists and music majors Elizabeth Steffanetta of Safety Harbor, Fla., and Chelsea Sims of Elberta, Ala., will perform Bach’s “Double Violin Concerto.”

Kim Gould	Elizabeth Steffanetta
Chelsea Sims

Dr. John Myrick, director of instrumental music and music education at the University of Mobile, said the first act of the concert will feature classical style selections. The second act will be more symphonic pops in style, with selections including “Danny Boy,” “Stardust,” and hit pieces from “The Phantom of the Opera” and Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington. Audience members are encouraged to dress casually.

Guest conductor Jeffrery A. Reed founded the Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra in 2000 and is known for his unorthodox method of combining classical and popular music in the same program. He is also music director and conductor of the Murfreesboron, Tenn., Symphony Orchestra and the Sea Islands Symphony, which presents concerts in and around Charleston, S.C. He has also served as conductor of the Southern Kentucky Concert Band, Cumberland Wind Ensemble, and the Bowling Green Youth Orchestra.

Reed made his European conducting debut in 2003 during the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. During the festival, he guest conducted the St. Petersburg State Symphony and the St. Petersburg Orchestra of Popular Classical Music. He guest conducted the Charleston Symphony Orchestra in the grand finale of the City of Charleston’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival, which drew a crowd of over 10,000.

In May 2007, Reed was the first American to conduct the Busan Sinfonietta of Busan, South Korea. In August 2007 he guest conducted the Owensboro, Ky., Symphony Orchestra.

Reed holds a master’s degree in conducting from the University of Iowa and is a graduate of the University of Louisville, where he studied trumpet. He has completed graduate work in philosophy and religion and holds a Juris Doctor degree.