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Ensembles in Residence
The Louisiana Trio Artist Information Sandra Lunte is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. She teaches flute, flute choir, flute class, woodwind trio, and sophomore theory. She leads the yearly summer High Sch
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Richard Seiler, a native of Brevard, North Carolina, is an associate professor and Keyboard Chair in the Division of Music in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Dr. Seiler teaches piano, piano literature, and music theory. He holds performance degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (BM), Illinois State University (MM), and L Corey Trahan, one of the region’s most popular solo performers, helped develop the ensemble and co-authored the requests |
ool Flute Camp and the November High School Flute Invitational. She was the ULM Emy-Lou Biedenharn Endowed Professor in Music from 2003-2006 and with her duo partner pianist Richard Seiler, was named 2006 Northeast Louisiana Artist of the Year. Dr. Lunte was the recipient of a 2005 Artist Fellowship granted by the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Dr. Lunte has performed and adjudicated at many state, regional, and national flute conventions, including the 2005 convention in San Diego, where she and harpist Elizabeth Richter gave the world premiere of Gary Schocker’s Chimera, a work they commissioned. The premiere recording of this piece appears on the duo’s compact disc Montage-Four Centuries of Music for Flute and Harp, released on Centaur Records and also available directly from Dr. Lunte. She has been heard twice on National Public Radio’s Performance Today and has recorded seven compact discs with the National Flute Choir. Dr. Lunte has received numerous Louisiana Division of the Arts artist mini-grants, is listed on the Louisiana Artist Roster and serves as Principal Flute of the Monroe Symphony Orchestra. Her teachers have included Katherine Borst Jones, Paul Boyer, and James Pellerite.
ouisiana State University (DMA). His teachers included Peter Paciencia, Robert Blocker, Joseph DiPiazza, Gellert Modos, and Jack Guerry. As a student for three summers at the Brevard Music Center Festival, he studied with Anthony Sirianni. A Fazioli artist, Seiler has taught master classes and performed as a soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China. He has been a featured soloist with orchestras in North Carolina, Illinois, and Louisiana, including the LSU Symphony in a performance of the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto. He has recorded for Centaur Records and is a National Patron of Delta Omicron and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, American Guild of Organists, and Music Teachers National Association. Seiler tours frequently with ULM faculty ensembles including the Ouachita Trio, Duo D'Arbonne, and the Lunte/Seiler Duo, having performed at the 1999 and 2002 National Flute Association conventions in Atlanta and Washington D.C., the 2001 and 2005 International Clarinet Association conventions in New Orleans and Tokyo, the 2002 Mid-South Flute Society conference, four College Music Society-Southern Chapter conferences, four International Horn Society-Southeast Division workshops, and the 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. He served on the guest artist faculty in Summer 2006 at the week-long International Music Festival in Yantai, China. Seiler and Sandra Lunte (flute and piano duo) recently won the NLAC’s 2007 Artist of the Year Award. Dr. Seiler also serves as organist/choirmaster at Grace Church in Monroe.
which resulted in the awarding of the NEA Challenge America Grant and the LDOA Project Assistance Grant. An avid entertainer, he is equally at home performing both operatic arias and music from the American theatre. For more information on Mr. Trahan, visit the Art Council’s