Stephen F. Austin State University

NACODGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music will present "An Afternoon in London," the final concert of the 2008 Chamber Music in the Pines Festival, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 20, in Cole Concert Hall.

"Our final concert will provide a fun ending to the festival since it contains the widest variety of pieces and instruments," said Jennifer Dalmas, SFA assistant professor of music and the festival's director.

SFA woodwind and brass faculty and guest pianist Kae Hosoda-Ayer, lecturer in collaborative piano at Baylor University, will perform music associated with London and/or England.

Christina Guenther, flute; Jennifer Dalmas, violin; and Evgeni Raychev, cello, will open the concert with Franz Joseph Haydn's London Trio, No. 1 in C Major, Hob IV-1, a piece written while Haydn was visiting London and which Dalmas calls "charming."

The husband-wife team of clarinetist Christopher Ayer and Hosoda-Ayer will perform Five Bagatelles, Op. 23 by English composer Gerald Finzi.

"Written at different times in his life, the Five Bagatelles show Finzi's love for tuneful melodies and the influence of several contemporaneous composers such as Maurice Ravel and Francis Poulenc," said Ayer.

The second half of the program features works by two more English composers. Hosoda-Ayer will join John W. Goodall in presenting Edmund Rubbra's Sonata in C minor, Op. 100 for oboe and piano, and Charles Gavin, horn; will join Dalmas and Hosoda-Ayer in performing Trio for horn, violin and piano, Op. 44, by Lennox Berkely.

The concert is a joint presentation of the SFA College of Fine Arts and the School of Music and is sponsored in part by Ed and Gwen Cole. Immediately following the concert, the SFA Friends of Music will host a reception in the lobby.

Tickets, which can be purchased at the door, are $10 for adults, $7.50 for seniors and $5 for students. Cole Concert Hall is located at 2210 Alumni Dr. on the SFA campus.