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U.S. Coast Guard Band Chamber Players Presents New Year's Classics

NEW LONDON: The United States Coast Guard Band Chamber Players perform on Sunday, January 29, at 2 p.m. in Leamy Concert Hall at the United States Coast Guard Academy. The program, called New Year’s Classics, features some of Classical music’s most popular works. Chief Musician Barrett Seals is the soloist in Gaetano Donizetti’s bel canto Concertino for English Horn; Musicians 1st Class Carla Parodi and Bryce Nakaoka join pianist Laura Hibbard for Carl Reinecke’s romantic masterpiece, the Trio for Piano, Oboe, and Horn, op. 188; and the U.S. Coast Guard Band Clarinet Quartet performs a sparkling transcription of the Quartet No. 12, op. 96, by Antonín Dvořák.

In addition, former Coast Guard Band flutist Jill Maurer-Davis joins Musician 1st Class Megan Sesma for the Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Ms. Maurer-Davis was a member of the Coast Guard Band from 1980 to 2001. She was a featured soloist many times on the Leamy Concert Hall stage, and also served with great distinction in the U.S. Coast Guard Band Woodwind Quintet, performing chamber music across the country and at the White House. Connecticut audiences can hear her as principal flutist with the Connecticut Virtuosi, the Wallingford Symphony, Salt Marsh Opera, the Opera Theater of Connecticut, and Connecticut Lyric Opera. Ms. Maurer-Davis is on the faculty of the University of Connecticut in New Britain. She and MU1 Sesma perform the Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp with the Connecticut Virtuosi on February 10, as well as on today’s program.

This event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Leamy Concert Hall is accessible to the handicapped. For more information on the Coast Guard Band, visit www.uscg.mil/band or call the Concert Information Line at (860) 701-6826. In the case of inclement weather, call (860) 701-6826.