WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – World-renowned Canadian trumpeter Jens Lindemann will be in residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA) March 3-6, 2008. A consummate entertainer, Lindemann will kick off his visit with a recital for trumpet and piano with NCSA faculty pianist and fellow Canadian Allison Gagnon on Monday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Watson Recital Hall. This concert was originally scheduled for March 2 so please note the new date and time. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students and are available through the NCSA Web site www.ncarts.edu or through the NCSA box office, (336) 721-1945.

Lindemann and Gagnon will play Debussy’s Girl with the Flaxen Hair, Gilliland’s Concerto (Sonata) for Trumpet and Piano, Three Preludes by Gershwin, Hohne’s Slavische Fantasie, Ewazen’s A Hymn for the Lost and Living, and arrangements of Amazing Grace, Sugar Blues and two songs by De Falla.

In addition, Lindemann will perform a blockbuster, high-energy trio of tunes with the NCSA Jazz Ensemble as part of the Emerging Artists Concert series. Directed by Ron Rudkin, director of the NCSA jazz program, this concert will take place on Tuesday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Proscenium Thrust Theatre in Performance Place. Lindemann and the Jazz Ensemble are expected to rock the house with Count Bubba by Gordon Goodwin, the ballad God Bless the Child and Dusk, a rock/Latin composition. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students and are available through the NCSA Web site www.ncarts.edu or through the NCSA box office, (336) 721-1945.

As part of his three day residency, Lindemann also will be teaching trumpet lessons and a master class, coaching brass quintets and brass and piano collaborative students as well as working with the NCSA Jazz Ensemble.

Lindemann has played in every major concert venue in the world; from the Philharmonics of New York, Los Angeles, London, Manchester, Munich, Hamburg, Lucerne and Berlin to Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. He has even performed at the Great Wall of China. His career has ranged from appearing internationally as an orchestral soloist, recording with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, being heralded as an official trumpeter for the N.H.L. Stanley Cup Finals to playing lead trumpet with the renowned Canadian Brass.

The North Carolina School of the Arts, located in Winston-Salem (“The City of the Arts”), was the first state-supported, residential school of its kind in the nation. Established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1963, NCSA opened in Winston-Salem in 1965 and became part of the University of North Carolina system in 1972. More than 1,100 students from middle school through graduate school train for careers in the arts in five professional schools: Dance, Design and Production (including a Visual Arts Program), Drama, Filmmaking, and Music. The North Carolina School of the Arts is the state’s only public arts conservatory, dedicated entirely to the professional training of talented students in the performing, visual and moving image arts. The chancellor, deans, and faculty work with students in a residential setting to create an educational community that is intimate, demanding, and performance-centered. Learning is enriched by access to an academic program responsive to a conservatory curriculum. Founded to be both an educational institution and a resource enhancing the cultural life of the state of North Carolina and the Southeast, NCSA offers numerous public performances, on- and off-campus, as well as community education in the arts.

School of the Arts alumni have performed in or behind the scenes of Broadway shows, film, television and regional theatre, and are members of the world’s finest symphony orchestras and opera and dance companies. They have won or been nominated for all of the major awards in the entertainment industry, including Tony, Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and others.