Exeter, NH (January 17, 2008)#On Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 7 p.m., the Phillips Exeter Academy Music Department will present a faculty recital with music instructor Heidi Braun-Hill, violin, and pianist Linda Osborn-Blaschke at Phillips Church, located on the corner of Tan Lane and Front Street. The concert is free and open to the public.

The evening’s performance by the duo known as Ruby will include a partita, and works by Bach, Janácek and Schubert.

Violinist Braun-Hill is a graduate of Boston University, where she studied with Peter Zazofsky of the Muir String Quartet. She has performed in Boston’s Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and in the Barbican Centre in London. Braun-Hill has made guest appearances as concertmaster of several orchestras locally, including the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, Chamber Orchestra of Boston and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. In 2006, she performed the world premiere of Martin Boykan’s Second Piano Trio with cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer and pianist Byron Schenkman. She has been a featured guest artist with Emmanuel Music’s chamber music series, Winsor Music, the Chameleon Arts Ensemble and at the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival. Having performed over 150 cantatas, Braun-Hill has performed as a soloist since 1999 in the renowned Bach Cantata series presented by Emmanuel Music. Recent engagements include collaborations with baritone David Kravitz, oboist Peggy Pearson, mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal, pianist Judith Gordon and members of the Lydian String Quartet. Currently, she teaches music at Phillips Exeter Academy.

Osborn-Blaschke is an award-winning pianist who has performed throughout the United States and Europe as a chamber musician and vocal accompanist. Her partnership role in performances has been recognized as “…thoroughly satisfying, colorful and supportive,” by the Los Angeles Times, with “…impressive ability to speak powerfully in both the softest and the loudest extremes of the piano’s dynamic spectrum,” by the Washington Post. Recent performance highlights include recital appearances at St. John’s College in Cambridge, England ; the Grand Place a Ath and the Stadsschouwburg a Brugges in Belgium ; the University of Hawaii in Hilo ; and music festivals in both Santiago de Compostela and Lugo, Spain. Osborn-Blaschke performs regularly with the Boston Modern Opera Project and Opera Boston, currently serves as repititeur for Opera Boston and is a frequent guest artist with the Florestan Recital Project. Osborn-Blaschke completed her graduate work at Boston University, where she met Braun-Hill. Together, they have performed as Ruby for 12 years.

For further information, please call the music department at (603) 777-3453 or visit its webpage for a complete list of upcoming events at http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_2990.aspx. You may also call the PEA public events line at (603) 777-4309. Directions to the Academy are available at (603) 777-4330.

Phillips Exeter Academy is a coeducational, independent preparatory school that was founded in 1781 and originated the system of instruction known as Harkness teaching in 1931. In the spirit of its charter to foster both goodness and knowledge, students come from a wide variety of geographic, economic, racial and religious backgrounds. The diverse student body comes from approximately 45 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and 23 foreign countries.