Music professor Miles Osland presents all flute recital
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 30, 2025) — University of Kentucky Professor of Music Miles Osland trades his signature saxophone for a flute on May 5. The “All Flute Recital” begins at 7:30 p.m., in the Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall.
Admission is free.
The recital will feature the Osland/Dailey Duo, the UK Faculty Jazz Trio and the UK Faculty Brass Quintet supporting Osland in a variety of works from Billy Strayhorn to George Gershwin.
“This is a recital I’ve been wanting to do for a long time,” Osland said. “I’m the saxophone professor, but flute was my first instrument, and I love performing on it when I get the chance.”
The program will include pieces from Osland’s early years, including Sonny Bono’s “The Beat Goes On,” and will include new compositions and arrangements written specifically for this recital.
For those who cannot attend in person, a live stream of the recital will be available.
Osland has distinguished himself as an educator, recording and performing artist, author, arranger and composer. Currently UK’s director of jazz studies and professor of saxophone, he has appeared throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia as a guest conductor, performer and clinician for Tomasi flutes, Selmer (Paris) Saxophones and Jody Jazz mouthpieces. His compositions and arrangements, available through Walrus Music, have been recognized and supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Arts Council and by numerous other arts foundations. In 2016 he received the Education Award as part of Kentucky’s annual Governor’s Awards in the Arts program.
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