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Awakening: 21st Century Slovenian Flute Music
Nicole Molumby
©2013 MSR Classics
Nicole Molumby is an associate professor at Boise State University with a very busy performance, teaching, and travel schedule. In fact, her new recording, Awakening (with Jost Drasler, string bass; Janis McKay, bassoon; Leslie Moreau, clarinet; Blaz Pucihar, piano; and Andrea Ridilla, oboe), is the result of a 2009 trip to Croatia. Captivated by the music she encountered there, she decided to build a recording project around it. Molumby describes her impression of Slovenia as "...slowly awakening from its days as part of former Yugoslavia," with a "rich musical tradition and rigorous musical training...now being expressed in a fresh, uplifting and beautiful way, finding...