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Professor of Low Brass and Music Department Chair Mark Britt<\/p><\/div>\n
Guest artist for the performance is Furman\u2019s Professor of Low Brass and Department Chair Mark Britt. Britt will be featured as trombone soloist in a composition by New York composer Barfield, entitled \u201cRed Sky.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information about the event, contact the Furman University Music Department\u2019s Band Office at 864-294-3069, or email the department at FurmanMusic@furman.edu<\/a>. Tickets may be purchased at the door or online at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n About Les Hicken A member of the South Carolina Band Directors Association Hall of Fame, Hicken is president of the South Carolina Band Directors Association, and member of the American Bandmasters Association. Prior to joining the faculty, Hicken was the director of bands at Youngstown State University (Ohio) and director of the Youngstown Symphony Youth Orchestra. He also performed as a clarinetist in the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra. Earlier in his career, Hicken taught in Durham, N.C. and performed as a clarinetist in the U.S. Military Academy.<\/p>\n Hicken holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from the Eastman School of Music, and advanced degrees from Columbia University and Indiana University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Furman Symphonic Winds will present a concert Friday, March 16, at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on the Furman University campus. The CLP concert, \u201cA Pocketful of Posies,\u201d is open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":16897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em><\/strong>Charles E. Daniel Professor of Music Leslie W. Hicken joined the Furman music faculty in 1993. He directs the wind ensemble, symphonic band and chamber wind ensembles, and serves as assistant director to the marching band. In 2010, he led the wind ensemble to the American Bandmasters Association National Convention in Charleston, S.C. In 2019, Furman Symphonic Winds will perform as a showcase ensemble at New York City\u2019s historic Carnegie Hall for the New York Wind Band Festival.<\/p>\n