Rei Hotoda, Conductor
Kara Kirkendoll Welch, flute

The DSO’s last Greenville performance of Ravel’s interpretation of an Italian folkdance, a forlane, and a French baroque dance, a rigaudon from his Tombeau de Couperin. Then the DSO’s own lyric flutist, Kara Kirkendoll Welch, will star in Mozart’s tuneful Flute Concerto No. 1. The concert concludes with Schumann’s Symphony No. 4.

Kara Kirkendoll Welch

A native of Illinois, Kara Kirkendoll Welch joined the Dallas Symphony in 2000. She graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a bachelor’s degree in flute performance and continued her studies at Southern Methodist University, where she earned a master’s in flute performance in May 2000. Kirkendoll is the recipient of many reputable awards in such competitions as the International Flute Talk Competition (Chicago, 1999), the Orchestral Masterclass Competition with Jeanne Baxtresser (Dallas, 1997) and the National Flute Association Masterclass Performers Competition (1996). She was a featured soloist at the 2001 National Flute Association Convention in Dallas, and has been recognized in Flute Talk magazine.