A champion of contemporary music, flutist Lisa Cella has performed throughout the United States and abroad. In this concert, she presents works for flute, alto flute, and bass flute by composers Sidney Boquiren, Tessa Brinckman, Donnacha Dennehy, Adam Greene, Mario Lavista, and João Pedro Oliveira:

• Prayer of St. Francis by Sidney Boquiren
• The Heart Has Four Chambers by Tessa Brinckman
• fAt by Donnacha Dennehy
• Persephoneia by Adam Greene
• Nocturno by Mario Lavista
• A Escada Estreita by João Pedro Oliveira

Lisa Cella is a founding member of NOISE, the resident ensemble of San Diego New Music. With NOISE she has performed the works of young composers all around the world including at the Acousmania Festival in Bucharest, Romania, the Pacific Rim Festival at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. NOISE also presents a three-day festival of modern music entitled soundON. Lisa performs with Jane Rigler and Carrie Rose in the flute collective inHALE, a group dedicated to developing challenging and experimental repertoire for two or three flutes.

She is a faculty member of the Soundscape Festival of Contemporary Music in Blonay, Switzerland and at Nief-Norf in Knoxville. She has taught at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico and presented workshops and recitals at the Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair in Reston, VA and at the National Flute Association Convention.

Her undergraduate work was completed at Syracuse University under the tutelage of John Oberbrunner, received a Master of Music degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody Conservatory with Robert Willoughby, and received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in contemporary flute performance under John Fonville at the University of California, San Diego. She is professor of music at UMBC.

$15 general admission, $10 seniors, $5 students. Please visit here to reserve seats.

Linehan Concert Hall, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, is easy to visit, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information.