Magnard's quintet, written in 1894, treats the piano as a soloist while using the woodwinds like a small orchestra. Frazier teaches applied piano and piano pedagogy and supervises the secondary piano program in the School of Music. Active nationally as a performer, pedagogue and clinician, his work as a founding member of the Learning Theory Committee of the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy has been influential in piano teaching and teacher training. The program for the recital will also include Quatour by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos and Divertimenti by the English composer Frank Bridge. The UGA Woodwind Quartet is a faculty ensemble in the School of Music.
All members are full-time teaching faculty.
The quartet maintains an active performing schedule nationally as well as in the Southeast. Their new CD, entitled American Masterworks for Woodwind Quartet, will be released this fall by ACA Digital Recordings. The CD is the first CD dedicated entirely to woodwind quartet music. Student tickets are half-price. Founded in 1937, the American Boychoir is widely regarded as America's favorite concert choir.