Guest Artists Nicholas Hartman and Anna Petersen to Perform Sunday at Crane School of Music

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Anna Petersen, oboe, will perform alongside Nicholas Hartman on the horn and Michael Sitton on piano in a concert at The Crane School of Music on Feb. 21.

• Nicholas Hartman will perform on the horn during a guest artist concert appearance at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 3 p.m. in Snell Theater.

POTSDAM, NY (02/18/2016)(readMedia)-- SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music will welcome two distinguished guest artists from Ottawa for a performance this weekend.

National Arts Centre Orchestra members Nicholas Hartman (horn) and Anna Petersen (oboe) will present a concert at Crane on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 3 p.m. in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater.

Hartman and Petersen will collaborate with Crane School of Music Dean Dr. Michael Sitton for the performance. The repertoire represents both solo and trio literature for horn, oboe and piano.

The concert will include works by Paul Hindemith, Robert Kahn, Nikos Skalkottas and Carl Reinecke.

This event is free, and the public is invited to attend.

About the performers:

A graduate of Potsdam High School, Nicholas Hartman joined the National Arts Centre Orchestra in 2012. He has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the United States and Canada, and is a frequent substitute or extra horn player with groups including the Pittsburgh, Seattle, Houston, San Antonio and Richmond symphonies, as well as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Hartman has also performed with the Houston Grand Opera, the New World Symphony, Toronto Symphony and the Louisiana Philharmonic. In 2012, he was invited to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as part of its ongoing Conservatory Project. He was a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow in 2011 and 2012, having also served as a 2010 National Repertory Orchestra Fellow. In 2009, Hartman was invited to Quebec to record the complete Beethoven symphonies with l'Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne, which is available on the Analekta label. He is a graduate of Rice University's Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas, where he studied with Houston Symphony principal horn William VerMeulen.

Anna Petersen joined Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra as second oboe in 2013. Prior to joining NACO, she performed as principal oboe of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra/Symphoria from 2009 to 2013, and as a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 2006 to 2009. She has enjoyed guest appearances as principal oboe with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra, the Lake Placid Sinfonietta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom she made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2013. In addition to her orchestral career, Petersen is an active soloist and chamber musician. She has soloed with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, and has performed as a finalist in the 2006 and 2007 Coleman Chamber Music Competitions in Pasadena, Calif. Petersen has been a fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, a participant at the Masterclass Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts and has performed at the Skaneateles and Bravo! Vail Valley Music festivals. Also an experienced teacher, Petersen was an adjunct professor of oboe at Syracuse University's Setnor School of Music from 2010 to 2012, and was previously on the faculty at SUNY Geneseo from 2007 to 2009. In 2012, she was a coach at the Bennington Chamber Music Conference in Bennington, Vt. Petersen earned her Bachelor of Music degree and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Her primary teachers include Richard Killmer and Suzanne Geoffrey.

This concert will be broadcast live on the SUNY Potsdam website at the performance time. To view the program and see other upcoming streaming performances, visit www.potsdam.edu/academics/Crane/streaming.

For more information about SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music, please visit www.potsdam.edu/crane.

Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music has a long legacy of excellence in music education and performance. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. The Crane School of Music is the State University of New York's only All-Steinway institution.

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