Monday, March 17, 2003

WILMINGTON, NC -- The UNCW Department of Music will hold the fourth of eight concerts in its 2003 Artist Recital Series at 8 p.m., Thursday, March 20, in Kenan Auditorium. UNCW faculty jazz pianist Andy Whittington is the featured performer. Drummer Bill Warren and bassist Zack Page, a UNCW alumnus, will also play. The program will consist of jazz standards and original compositions by Whittington.

Admission is $5; $2.50 for UNCW faculty, staff, senior citizens, and children under 12; and free to UNCW students with valid ID. Tickets will be on sale at the auditorium box office the night of the concert.



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Biographical information about the artists is included below. Proceeds from ticket sales support the Department of Music student scholarships. For information on this concert or other UNCW Department of Music events, call 962-3390 or visit the UNCW Department of Music Web site at http://www.uncwil.edu/music/CONCERTS/

ANDY WHITTINGTON, a North Carolina native, received a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1994 where he was a four-time A.J. Fletcher Scholar. In 1999, he earned a master’s in music from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville where he studied with pianist and composer Donald Brown and noted teacher Jerry Coker. Whittington is instructor of jazz piano at UNCW. He maintains a studio for private piano students and performs as a freelance pianist in the region.

BILL WARREN, who is originally from Durham, received a bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a master’s in music performance from the University of Akron. Prior to joining UNCW, Warren taught percussion and drum set at Elon College and North Carolina Central University. Warren has performed with the Fifth Dimension, Harold Vick, the North Carolina Theatre, the North Carolina Symphony, as well as many local and regional jazz and rhythm and blues groups.

ZACK PAGE, a professional musician since 1995, has worked in theatre productions and in the cruise industry throughout the United States as well as locations in South America, Australia, and the Far East. He has performed and/or recorded with jazz greats Billy Higgins, Marvin Stamm, Eddie Daniels and Babik Reinhardt, the son of guitarist Django Reinhardt.