The Kokocelli Duo, with Kristen Holritz, left, and Kaitlyn Vest, will perform in Squires Recital Hall on Aug. 28
The Lee University School of Music will present the Kokocelli Duo, featuring Kristen Holritz, flute, and Kaitlyn Vest, cello, in a faculty recital on Monday, Aug. 28, at 7:30 p.m.
The recital, “Living Voices of the Americas,” will highlight music from across North and South America from some of today’s most remarkable living composers. The performance will feature works by Amaya, Basulto, Hoyos, Leiter, and Srinivasan.
“I began compiling a list of solo and chamber music in 2019 written for flute by underrepresented composers,” said Ms. Holritz. “In doing so, I fell in love with many new-to-me artists. Our program for this recital came entirely from this project, and we look forward to sharing these works in the greater Chattanooga area this fall.”
Noted for her “beautiful tone and vibrato,” Ms. Holritz makes her home on stage as a versatile flutist. In the fall of 2013, she was appointed principal flute with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera and performs regularly with Nashville Opera and as a substitute musician with Nashville Symphony, Alabama Symphony, and Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Holritz serves as adjunct flute professor at Lee University, Southern Adventist University, and temporarily joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University as adjunct instructor of flute for the fall of 2022. She is a faculty artist for the Bay View Music Festival, a collegiate chamber music experience focused on wind quintet repertoire found along the coast of Northern Michigan.
Ms. Holritz holds a Master of Music in Flute Performance from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
A section cellist with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Vest plays with the Nashville Opera Orchestra, Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, Memphis Symphony, and other regional ensembles. In her exploration of non-traditional chamber music settings, she performs with Nashville-based ensembles Intersection and Chatterbird.
Ms. Vest is the adjunct instructor of cello at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the visiting cello instructor at Sewanee: The University of the South. She is also a teaching artist at Bay View Music Festival and was previously the chamber music coordinator for the String Academy at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival.
She received her Master of Music from Carnegie Mellon University and her Bachelor of Music from the University of Memphis.
The recital will take place in Squires Recital Hall, located in the Humanities Center on Lee’s Campus. The event is free, non-ticketed, and open to the public. Livestream viewing will be available at leeu.live/.
For more information about this or other Lee concerts, contact the Lee University School of Music at music@leeuniversity.edu or call 614-8240.