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SHERMAN, TEXAS -- Austin College senior Katie Deming of Granbury, Texas, will present her Senior Music Recital Saturday, May 1, at 2 p.m. in the Craig Recital Hall on campus. The soprano will be assisted by Wilson Voelker, adjunct instructor in music, guitar; Ricky Duhaime, professor of music, cello; Masako Narikawa, piano; and senior Kara Janasak, soprano, of Plano. The recital repertoire includes pieces composed by Dowland, Handel, Schumann, Debussy, Barber, Rainier, Puccini, and Tim Cutler, Austin College assistant professor of music.Deming, the daughter of Rodney and Anita Deming, is a 2000 graduate of Granbury High School. She will complete her Austin College degree in May with a major in music and has been accepted into the Austin College Teacher Program and will earn her Master of Art in Teaching in May 2005. Deming is an assistant director of the Austin College A Cappella Choir, in which she has participated for four years, including a tour in Australia in 2003. A member of Austin College Posey Leadership Institute, she volunteers weekly at an Animal Refuge Foundation for dogs. She has previously been involved with Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity, the Student Development Board, and Habitat for Humanity. Deming spent a semester abroad in New Zealand and also took part in January Term study courses to Hawaii and to Scotland. Austin College, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), is an independent, liberal arts college of 1,300 students located 60 miles north of Dallas in Sherman, Texas. Chartered in November 1849, it is the oldest college in Texas under original charter and name as recognized by the State Historical Survey Committee.Austin College is included in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives, ranked among the "Best 351 Colleges" in the 2004 Princeton Review, and profiled in the 2004 edition of Kaplan's Insiders Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges.
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