Exeter, NH (August 5, 2009)—On Wednesday, August 5, 2009, at 7 p.m., flutist Julia Scolnik, a 1974 graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, will perform in “Bejeweled: Musical Gems for Flute, Cello and Harp,” with cellist Joshua Gordon and harpist Franziska Huhn in the Phillips Exeter Academy Library’s Summer Concert Series. The event will be the fifth and final performance of this year’s series, hosted by The Friends of the Academy Library. It will be held in Rockefeller Hall in the Class of 1945 Library, on Front Street. It is free and open to the public.

The group’s performance will include musical works by composers Jacques Ibert, Edvard Grieg, Peter Tchaikovsky, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Francesco Maria Veracini and Maurice Ravel, among others. 

Praised by The Boston Globe for her “tonal enchantment,” Scolnik has enjoyed a diverse musical career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral flutist, in collaboration with outstanding instrumentalists and ensembles that range from the Boston Symphony to the Brentano and Borromeo String Quartets. Since 1997, she has gained recognition and a strong following for her role as an imaginative artistic director of a chamber series—Andover Chamber Music—which presents unique, thematic chamber music programs in intimate settings. Scolnik is a frequent guest on public radio.

Gordon joined the Naumburg Award-winning Lydian String Quartet and the faculty of Brandeis University in 2002. He has performed across the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, Japan and South America. He was a member of the New York Chamber Soloists, the Group for Contemporary Music, and the New Millennium Ensemble, and has been a guest of the Cassatt and Ying Quartets, Chameleon Arts Ensemble and Fromm Players at Harvard University, among others.  Gordon has served as resident cellist at the Wellesley Composers Conference since 1989, and is principal cello of the New England String Ensemble.

Huhn earned a bachelor’s in music at Boston University and a master’s in harp performance at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has participated in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra (1994), the Pacific Music Festival in Japan (2001, 2002), and the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, MA (1999, 2000).  Huhn returned to Tanglewood to perform contemporary music as a Fromm Player in 2003, and has remained there as assistant director of the harp seminar at the Tanglewood Institute. She performs regularly as a substitute harpist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and with the Mistral Chamber Players, the Walden Chamber Players, the Radius Ensemble and Collage New Music. As a soloist, Huhn has performed in the United States, Europe, Poland, Turkey, Russia, Syria and Pakistan. She recently recorded with Scolnik (“Bejeweled,” June 2009).  Huhn has been a member of the faculty at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, and the New England Conservatory, Boston, since 2007.

For further information, please call Academy Reference/Music Librarian Andrew R. Gatto at 603-777-3308 or visit the library’s webpage for a complete list of its upcoming events. For more information on other events, contact the Academy’s public events line at 603-777-4309, or visit the Academy’s Events Calendar. To learn more about the Academy, visit our website; for directions, call 603-777-4330.