New Orleans LA – Violinist and Baton Rouge native Tami Lee Hughes will perform in
a recital at Xavier University of Louisiana October 3 at 7:00 p.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.
Xavier’s artist-in-residence Dr. Wilfred Delphin will accompany her on piano. Hughes’ program will include pieces by Mozart, Brahms, Korngold and African American composers: George Morrison, Ozie Cargile and Chad ‘Sir Wick’ Hughes.
As a soloist, she has appeared with a number of symphony orchestras across the United States, including the National, Monroe, Mississippi, and Pontiac-Oakland Symphony Orchestras and others. She has extensively appeared as recitalist in universities and concert venues in the United States, Costa Rica, Bermuda, Austria and Russia and has performed as solo or chamber artist in the Ann Arbor Chamber Fest, Natchez Festival of Music, Silver Anniversary Celebration of the New Arts Cultural Society, and a tribute concert to composer Judith Zaimont, broadcast on National Public Radio. Other notable appointments include appearances with the Rocky Mountain Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival
Opera Orchestra, Emerald Sinfonietta, Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, and Pro Consorde Chamber Consort.
In August of this year, Albany Records released Hughes’s debut solo album Legacy: Violin Music of African-American Composers. The recording features music for violin and piano by Francis Johnson, George Morrison, David Baker, Ozie Cargile and Chad “Sir Wick”
Hughes.
