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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Maddy Elledge
(706) 379-5319, [email protected]

Young Harris College Welcomes Guitar Artist Corey Flowers

YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – Young Harris College’s Division of Fine Arts is pleased to welcome guest artist Corey Flowers to the YHC campus on Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Susan B. Harris Chapel. This program is free and open to the public.

Flowers is a guitarist based in Athens, Ga., where he completed a doctorate of musical arts in guitar performance with a music composition minor from the University of Georgia. Flowers studied under renowned pedagogues John Sutherland and Phil Snyder while at UGA and maintains a particular interest in 20th century and contemporary repertoire.

His dissertation project centered around a full-length recording, focusing on repertoire that utilizes various alternate tunings for the guitar. As a composer, Flowers is interested in writing solo and chamber works for the guitar that reflect the past while searching for their own voice. In addition to pursing classical guitar, he also enjoys writing and performing post-rock and progressive metal music.

This program will feature selections from Flowers’s dissertation CD entitled “Altered States of Performance: Scordatura in the Classical Guitar Repertoire.” Highlights include Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Invocacion y danza,” Rainer Brunn’s “Elemente,” and Andrew York’s “Sunburst.”

For more information, call YHC’s Division of Fine Arts at (706) 379-5182.

About Young Harris College
Young Harris College is a private, baccalaureate degree-granting college located in the beautiful mountains of North Georgia. Founded in 1886 and historically affiliated with The United Methodist Church, Young Harris College educates, inspires and empowers students through the highest quality liberal arts education. The College currently has more than 1,100 students across five divisions—Education, Fine Arts, Humanities, Mathematics and Science, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. The historic campus in Young Harris, Ga., has completed major campus improvements to accommodate the College’s growth. Recent LEED-certified campus improvements include the 121,000-square-foot Rollins Campus Center, new residence facilities, and a 57,000-square-foot recreation and fitness center. The College is an active member of NCAA Division II and remains a fierce competitor in the prestigious Peach Belt Conference. YHC is among fewer than 300 colleges and universities nationwide named to the 2016-2017 list of Colleges of Distinction and is listed as a “Best National Liberal Arts College” by U.S. News & World Report. For more information, visit yhc.edu.

 

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