Nathalie Simper, MC adjunct instructor of flute, to perform ‘In Remembrance of the Holocaust’

March 8, 2024

Photo of a smiling Nathalie Simper holding a flute
Nathalie Simper

Nathalie Simper, a Maryville College adjunct instructor of flute, will present a faculty recital at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 21 in the Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall of the Clayton Center for the Arts, located on the MC campus.

The program, titled “In Remembrance of the Holocaust,” will feature music by Jewish composers Ernest Bloch, Sem Dresden, Dick Kattenburg, and Leo Smit, as well as Maurice Ravel.

Dustin Lin will serve as the collaborative pianist.

“This program explores the mark of conflict and political unrest during World War II while offering fleeting glimpses of serenity, ordinary life, and the desire to leave a musical legacy to be remembered,” Simper said.

Simper, from Jacksonville, Florida, has taught flute lessons at Maryville College since 2020 and obtained her master’s in music performance from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. As an advocate for classical music entrepreneurship, she works with the digital education company KE Creative under the title “The Limitless Musician” to teach classical musicians to create modern careers and a sustainable work life.

Her faculty recital is free and open to the public.

Maryville College is a nationally-ranked institution of higher learning and one of America’s oldest colleges. For more than 200 years we’ve educated students to be giving citizens and gifted leaders, to study everything, so that they are prepared for anything — to address any problem, engage with any audience and launch successful careers right away. Located in Maryville, Tennessee, between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the city of Knoxville, Maryville College offers nearly 1,200  students from around the world both the beauty of a rural setting and the advantages of an urban center, as well as more than 60 majors, seven pre-professional programs and career preparation from their first day on campus to their last. Today, our 10,000 alumni are living life strong of mind and brave of heart and are prepared, in the words of our Presbyterian founder, to “do good on the largest possible scale.”