Gobbetti-Hoffman Has New CD of Music for Flute and Organ

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Flutist Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman, of Buffalo, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences, has a new CD on the Raven label with award-winning organist Bruce Neswick.

Titled "Miracles," it features works for flute and organ by 20th-century composers Daniel Pinkham, Gerald Near, Jehan Alain, Henk Badings, Frank Martin and Jacques Berthier. It is available from Raven Records http://www.ravencd.com and the Organ Historical Society http://ohscatalog.org/ and is in stores.

The CD was recorded in the chapel of St. Albans School for Boys on the grounds of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., with Neswick using the pipe organ built there in 1988 by Karl Wilhelm of Mount-saint-Hilaire, Quebec.

Neswick is the Canon for Music at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, and one of America's major talents in the field of organ performance. He has appeared extensively as a featured performer throughout the United States and Europe.

Gobbetti-Hoffman, who performs and teaches flute performance and chamber music at UB, is a former tenured member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and a member of its board of directors and artists advisory council. She has performed throughout the U.S. as a solo, ensemble and orchestral artist.

She also is the director of the UB concert flute ensemble, Plosion; a co-founder of Beaufluvian Players; and the founder of New & Used Music and of the Niagara Frontier Flute Association.  She has served as a teaching artist for the Western New York Institute for the Arts-in-Education; is a board director for Young Audiences of Western New York, Inc.; and was a member of the part-time announcing staff for public radio station WNED-FM, which airs across Western New York and southern Ontario.