Published Nov. 12, 2019
University of Louisiana Monroe School of Visual and Performing Arts Associate Professor
of Clarinet聽Scot Humes, D.M.A., recently returned from a performing recital tour including stops in Sydney,
Australia, and Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand.
Scot Humes performs in Australia.
Humes and pianist Tania Tachkova are the musical group 鈥�duo per se.鈥� The duo performs standard chamber works and contemporary works commissioned and
written for them.
Tachkova is a Steinway artist and faculty member at 92nd Street Y School of Music
in New York City.
As part of duo per se, Humes began the tour with a recital at the Sydney Conservatorium
of Music, along with the presentation of a master class with the conservatory students.
In Christchurch, Humes and Tachkova performed at The Piano 鈥� Centre for Music and
the Arts during a noontime series sponsored by Concerts for Christchurch.
The final two performances were in Auckland. The first being part of the "In dialogue
with . . . " series sponsored by St. Mary鈥檚-in-Holy Trinity Cathedral Church, and
the second as part of the APMA Auckland Music Festival where they also served as adjudicators
for the annual instrumental competition held each year at the festival.聽
They will reprise this recital of all American composers music for one final appearance
at Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga., on Nov. 12.
