St. Paul's music series continues

By Staff
special to The Star
Jan. 4, 2004
Julie Maisel and John Paul will be the guests at the next St. Paul's Chamber Music Series on Wednesday. The concert begins at 12:05 p.m. in the church parish hall, 1116 23rd Ave. Admission is free.
Maisel received her bachelor of music education degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and both her master's and doctorate from Florida State University under the tutelage of Charles DeLaney.
She currently serves on the faculty at Millsaps College in Jackson and taught at Mississippi State University for the fall 2003 semester. She has been on the faculty at Hinds Community College in Raymond and at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.
Maisel plays flute and piccolo with the Tupelo Symphony and is a substitute flutist/piccoloist with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra.
Since arriving in Jackson in 1992, she has been a featured soloist with the Mississippi Symphony Chamber Orchestra and the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra.
Her performances include concerts on both the silver Boehm flute and the Baroque (one-keyed) flute. She presents recitals regularly at Millsaps College, Mississippi College, Hinds Community College and Belhaven College, and has been frequently featured on Mississippi Concert Hall, a production of the Mississippi Broadcasting Networks, where she is also a part-time radio announcer.
For the past five years, Maisel has both performed at the Mid-South Flute Festival and conducted flute choirs during the event.
On March 19 and 20, she will host the Mid-South Flute Festival at Millsaps College.
John Paul grew up in the small town of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Self-taught until the age of 18, when an audition earned him entrance to the Royal Academy of Music in London, he has continually studied and
performed pianoforte, organ and harpsichord.
His principal teachers were Alan Richardson, Harold Craxton, C.H. Trevor and Thurston Dart. With performance diplomas from the Royal Academy of Music and an honors degree from the University of London, he immigrated to the United States in 1965 to assume the position he still holds as organist-choirmaster of St. Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson.
In 1971, he received a doctoral degree from the University of Colorado.
For the last 20 years, Paul has been acclaimed as performer, conductor and teacher in concerts and recitals in Mississippi and the Southeastern United States as well as in the Republic of Panama, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
His recordings include the J.S. Bach Trio Sonatas on the Lyrichord label (with fellow harpsichordist Shawn Leopard) and recordings of Soler, Howells, and Dowland with Centaur.