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American New Arts Festival presents The Society of Composers, Inc. - 36th National Conference
Daniel McCarthy, host Nikola Resanovic and Ralph Turek, co-hosts Mark Durrand, graduate assistant
featuring performances by • Paragon Brass Quintet • Solaris Woodwind Quintet •The University of Akron Symphonic Band • The University of Akron Concert Band • The University of Akron Symphony Orchestra • The University of Akron Percussion Ensemble • The University of Akron New Music Ensemble • West Virginia Piano Quartet • The Akron Youth Symphony • Hierarchy • The University of Akron School of Music faculty and students
with support from • The R.C. & Katharine Musson Charitable Foundation • Ohio Arts Council •The Society of Composers, Inc. • The University of Akron College of Fine and Applied Arts
he American New Arts Festival seeks to bring the world's eminent creators of new art in T all artistic disciplines to the campus of The University of Akron and to the Akron area. Notable composers and musicians, choreographers and dancers, playwrights and actors, visual artists and performance artists will work with students, faculty, and the arts community in the presentation of concerts, lectures, panel discussions, and other events.
The festival seeks to enrich arts education at The University of Akron and to enrich the cultural life of the greater Akron area and Ohio. The festival also seeks to benefit regional public schools by offering opportunities for younger students to participate in the festival and work with the guest artists. Further, the American New Arts Festival seeks to give all participants a sense of artistic greatness - the greatness of art created in our own time by persons who value and contribute to the universal language of the arts.
The American New Arts Festival at The University of Akron is proud to host the 36th national conference of The Society of Composers, Inc. Daniel McCarthy, Director and Founder MNflMll,!lill§il .,, A STATE AGENCY American New Arts Festival THAT SUPPORTS PUBLIC The University ofAkron PROGRAM S IN THE ARTS
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he Society of Composers, Inc. is a The Society of Composers, Inc. professional society dedicated to the T Executive Committee, 2001-2002 promotion of composition, performance, and Chair the understanding and dissemination of new and William Ryan, Suffolk Community College contemporary music. Members include composers and Chair Emeritus performers both in and outside of academia who are Reynold Weidenaar, William Paterson University interested in addressing concerns for national and President Emeritus regional support of compositional activities. The Greg Steinke organizational body of the Society is composed of a National Council, co-chairs who represent regional Editor, Newsletter activities, and the Executive Committee. Bruce Bennett Editor, SCION The Society of Composers, Inc. David Drexler Officers, National Council, 2001-2002 Editor, Journal of Music Scores President Bruce J. Taub David Gommper, University of Iowa Producer, CD Series President-elect Richard Brooks, Nassau Community College Thomas Wells, Ohio State University Webmaster Student Conference Coordinator Tom Lopez, Oberlin Conservatory Joe Dangerfield Manager, Audio Streaming Project Region 1 Thomas Wells, Ohio State University Scott Brickman, University of Maine at Fort Kent Coordinator, Submissions Beth Wiemann, University of Maine Geoff Kidde Region 2 Chair, Membership Perry Goldstein, SUNY-Stony Brook Eva Wiener Daniel Weymouth, SUNY-Stony Brook Representative, Independent Composer Region 3 Terry Winter Owens Harvey Stokes, Hampton University Chair, Student Chapters Jennifer Barker, University of Delaware James Paul Sain, University of Florida Region 4 Representative, Students Paul Richards, University of Florida J ason Bahr, Indiana University Tayloe Harding, Valdosta State University Coordinator, SCl/ASCAP Student Competition Region 5 Ching-chu Hu, Denison University James Chaudoir, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh Rocky J. Reuter, Capital University The Society of Composers, Inc. Region 6 National Office, 2001-2002 Kenton Bales, University of Nebraska at Omaha General Manager Phillip Schroeder, Sam Houston State University Gerald Warfield Region 7 Marshall Bialosky, California State University at Dominguez Hills Partial funding for the American New Arts Festival has been Glenn Hackbarth, Arizona State University provided by The R.C. and Katharine Musson Charitable Region 8 Foundation, the Ohio Arts Charles Argersinger, Washington State University Council, The Society of Ohio Arts Council .A STATE AGENCY Patrick Williams, University of Montana Composers, Inc., and the College THAT SUPPORTS PUBLIC of Fine and Applied Arts at PROGRAMS IN THE ARTS The University of Akron.
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2002 Festival and Conference Events
• Thursday, April 18 • Saturday, April 20
Opening Convocation General Membership Meeting 1:10 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall 9:30 a.m. Guzzetta Hall, room 147 Michael Daugherty, Guest Composer Thomas Wells, chair Presentation: ''American Icons" Concert 7: A Concert of Works in New Media Art and Music Lecture/Demonstration 10:30 a.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall 3:20 p.m. Folk Hall, Myers School of Art Composer Gary Nelson, Gary Nelson, composer, electronic music Oberlin College Conservatory of Music Christine Gorbach, visual artist Christine Gorbach, Art Dept. Chair, Cuyahoga Falls High School Concert 1: The University of Akron Student Composers Forum Concert 8: Cleveland Composers Guild in Concert 5p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall 1 p.m. Akron Art Museum 70 E. Market Street, Concert 2: New Music for Percussion between High Street and Broadway 8 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall University of Akron Percussion Ensemble Concert 9: New Chamber Music I (Larry Snider, conductor) 3 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall Ohio University Dance & Chamber Ensemble University of Akron New Music Ensemble • Friday, April 19 Music Faculty from The University of Akron
Concert 3: New Music for Piano Concert 10: New Chamber Music II 10 a.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall 4: 15 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall University of Akron New Music Ensemble Concert 4: New Electroacoustic Music (Daniel McCarthy, conductor) 1 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall Alexandra Mascolo-David, pianist The West Virginia Piano Quartet Concert 5: New Music for Quinet 3 p.m. Sandefur Theatre in Guzzetta Hall Society of Composers, Inc. Paragon Brass Quintet Banquet and Keynote Address Solaris Woodwind Quintet 6 p.m. Cardinal Faculty Dining Room, The University of Akron Student Center Society of Composers, Inc. Michael Daugherty, Keynote Speaker EC/NC Business Meeting 6 p.m. Trackside Grille Board Room Concert 11: New Music for Young Orchestras in Quaker Square Hilton 8 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall William Ryan, chair Akron Youth Symphony (Eric Benjamin, conductor) Concert 6: New Music for Wind Ensemble University of Akron Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall (Ronn Cummings, conductor) The University of Akron Symphonic Band (Robert Jorgensen, conductor) The University of Akron Concert Band (Galen Karriker, conductor)
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Guest Artist Biographies year tenure as composer-in-residence with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Future commissions include a violin Michael Daugherty concerto for Pamela Frank and the Detroit Symphony guest composer and keynote speaker Orchestra, a new work for three conductors and orchestra for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and an octet for the Michael Daugherty is one of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. most performed and commissioned American Daugherty has received numerous awards for his music, composers of his generation. He including the Stoeger Prize from Lincoln Center, recognition has created a niche in the music from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, world that is uniquely his own, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and composing concert music National Endowment for the Arts. His music is published inspired by contemporary exclusively by Peermusic Classical, New York, and American popular culture. represented in Europe by Faber Music, London. Daugherty came to international attention when his Metropolis Symphony (1988-93), a tribute to the Superman comics, was Gary Lee Nelson performed in 1995 at Carnegie Hall by conductor David guest composer and electronic musician Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and subsequently recorded for Argo/Decca. Other large orchestral Gary Lee Nelson is a pioneer in the field of computer music. works include UFO (1999), a percussion concerto In 1964, he attended Utrecht University's Institute of Sonology commissioned and premiered by soloist Evelyn Glennie and in the Netherlands. Nelson earned his composition doctorate the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard at Washington University in Slatkin. His second symphony, MotorCity Triptych (2000), Saint Louis. He has taught at was commissioned and premiered by the Detroit Symphony Purdue University and Bowling Orchestra with conductor Neeme Jarvi. Philadelphia Stories Green State University. Since (2001), Daugherty's third symphony, was premiered by the 197 4, he has been a faculty Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by David Zinman. member at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. At Daugherty's chamber music is widely performed as well, and Oberlin, Nelson is a Professor of has been recorded for Argo/Decca on his CD, American Icons. Electronic and Computer Music. His string quartets include Sing Sing: J.Edgar Hoover (1992) He is also chair of the TIMARA and Elvis Everywhere ( 1993), both performed on world tours Department. and recorded on Nonesuch by the Kronos Quartet. His opera Jackie 0 (1997) has been produced in America, Canada, Nelson is internationally recognized in his field. He has France, and Sweden and recorded by Argo/Decca. Daugherty worked at Bell Laboratories, the Swedish Radio Electronic has also composed numerous works for wind ensemble, Music Studios in Stockholm and at the and Music (IRCAM) recently recorded by Klavier for his CD entitled UFO: The in Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics in Music of Michael Daugherty. Paris. He has been composer in residence and guest researcher at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Taiwan's National Born in 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Daugherty is the son of Chiao Tung and Soochow Universities, Hong Kong Baptist a dance-band drummer and the oldest of five brothers, all University, the National University of Singapore, Moscow professional musicians. He studied music composition at Conservatory of Music and Yunan State University in the North Texas State University (1972-76) and Manhattan Peoples Republic of China. In the fall of 1990 he spent four School of Music (1976-78), and computer music at Boulez's months in Europe lecturing and performing at universities in IRCAM in Paris (1979-80). Daugherty received his doctorate England, Scotland, and Holland. from Yale University in 1986. During this time he also collaborated with jazz arranger Gil Evans in New York and Nelson has taught at summer music camps since the early pursued further studies with composer Gyorgy Ligeti in 1960s. These include the Allegheny Music Festival, the New Hamburg, Germany (1982-84). After teaching music England Music Camp, and the National Music Camp (NMC) composition several years at the Oberlin Conservatory of at Interlachen. At Interlachen Nelson was chair of the Music, Daugherty joined the School of Music at the composition department. He also founded the NMC Computer University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in 1991, where he is Professor of Composition. In 1999, Daugherty began a four- (continued on next page)
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Guest Artist Biographies Christine Gorbach guest visual Artist and digital film maker Gary Lee Nelson (continued) Christine Gorbach is a freelance composer and visual artists with a wide variety of interests and influences ranging from Music Studio and established the NMC High School film scoring and painting to computer music and graphic art. Synthesizer Ensemble. In the summer of 1991, he traveled to She chairs the Department of Art at Cuyahoga Falls High the Republic of China. There, he led intensive workshops in School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. She collaborates with computer music. These workshops included high school and composer Gary Lee Nelson college composers as well as teachers and other professional in Hierarchy, an electronic musicians. music and art duo. Gorbach 's interest in combining concert Nelson's computer music specialties include real time music influenced by interactive performance and "hyperinstruments." This term traditional Celtic music and was coined to give focus to a new way that music is being interactive graphic art has made in the early 2 lst century. A hyperinstrument consists of come to fruition with a computer, a set of digital synthesizers, a performance Hierarchy. interface, and software for linking them all together. Nelson chooses the MIDI Hom for his solo performances. The MIDI Gorbach has participated in Hom is a digital wind instrument designed and constructed group exhibitions throughout at Oberlin by music engineer, John Talbert. A Macintosh Northeast Ohio. The computer, and an array of synthesizers from Yamaha, Roland, Contemporary Arts Project in Summit County featured her and E-mu Systems complete Nelson's concert setup. He has works in the 1996 exhibition entitled "Two Painters." In 1998 performed more than 200 times around the world since 1987. Gorbach presented abstract conceptual paintings and installations in a one-woman show at Wolf School of Music In 2000, Nelson began a series of collaborations with in Stow, Ohio. The serial paintings "Hierarchy" were shown composer/painter/film maker, Christine Gorbach. This work at the Agora Gallery in 1999. At that same time, a portion of has produced a series of videos that are being exhibited in that series was in a group show at the Akron Art Institute. festivals around the world and on web sites that are devoted to new media. The film "Hierarchy" is a collaborative effort between Gorbach and composer Gary Lee Nelson. It premiered at Oberlin College in November 2000. In 2001 "Hierarchy" was presented at the Electroacoustic Music Festival at the University of Florida and at the Subtle Technology Conference at the University of Toronto. Also in 2001, "Hierarchy" was the focus of Gorbach's lecture about harmonic forms and generative systems in visual art at the Cleveland Artists Foundation gallery at the Beck Center.
Gorbach presented her paintings for a lecture about her collaborative films with Gary Lee Nelson at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Also in March, Gorbach and Nelson's films "Hierarchy", "Charitoo" and "Death and Transfiguration" were shown in concert at a "New Works" program at Oberlin College and again in April at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. In May 2001 , Gorbach presented a painting from the film "Charitoo" in the "Abstract Avenue Show" at the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
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Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:10 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall
Opening Convocation
Lecture by Guest Composer Michael Daugherty: "American Icons"
Thursday, April 18, 2002 3 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall
Concert #1: The University of Akron Student Composers Forum
Professors of Composition: Daniel McCarthy, Nikola Resanovic, and Ralph Turek
Music by: Adam Blauser, James Chesterfield, Paul Jason Dietz, Mark Durrand, Toussaint English, Stephen Kerestes, Jeffrey Leigh, Jeremy Poparad, Benjamin Williams, Marcus Williams, and Scott Woodruff
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Thursday, April 18, 2002 8 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall
Concert #2: New Music for Percussion The University of Akron Percussion Ensemble
Larry Snider, director Gustavo Agvilar, guest artist Jeff Neitzke, Chad Waterman, William Sallak, Rique Pizarro and Gustavo Agvilar, coaches
Almost Transparent Black Jonathan Saggau I. II. III. Keith Jenson, Jason Little, Jason Seich, Patrick Wagner Jeff Neitzke, coach
Cicadas UlfGrahn Rossi Di Benedetto, Josh Tariff, Adam Wells, Jeffrey Wolfe Chad Waterman, coach
Flow Ronald Keith Parks Daphne Chek, Tom Hilton, Joshua Tariff, Jeffrey Wolfe William Sallak, coach
Lady Mondegreen Bangs the Can! Bruce Taub Chuck Burgess, Time Hilton, Lisa Milyiori Rique Pizarro and Gustavo Agvilar, coaches
Used Car Salesman Michael Daugherty
Ronald Martin, Jason Seich, T.J. Thompson, Joshua Wood Larry Snider, coach
The Paces of Yu Art Jarvinen
Graduate Ensemble: J eff Neitzke, Rique Pizarro, William Sallak, Chad Waterman, Gustavo Agulilar, soloist (Berimbau)
You are invited to the reception in the atrium immediately following the concert.
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Friday, April 19, 2002 10 a.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall
Concert #3: New Music for Piano
Playing in Chinese Sweet Dumpling Festival Tao Yu Christina Tan, piano
Piano Sonata No. 2 Andrey Kasparov Laura Silverman, piano
Eight Preludes for the Dance James A. Jensen Maymumi Kikuchi, piano
Glacius Anne Deane Michael Gallope, piano
Fantasy Pieces Gregory J. Hutter I. Prelude II. Free Invention III. Intermezzo IV Passacaglia V Postlude Winston Choi, piano
Velosophy David Smooke Amy Briggs Dissanayake, piano
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Friday, April 19, 2002 1 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall
Concert #4: New Electroacoustic Music
Resonances Entrelacees Jonathan Hallstrom
" ... and so the hole was dug" Frank Felice Christopher Weait, bassoon
Inside the Ride Larisa Montanaro
Points of Arrival Chin-Chin Chen Jeffrey Leigh, violin
Tag till .. . James Paul Sain
alt.music.ballistix Nikola Resanovic Kristina Belisle, clarinet
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Friday, April 19, 2002 3p.m. Sandefur Theatre
Concert #5: New Music for Quintet
Paragon Brass Quintet Solaris Woodwind Quintet
Four Sketches Ryan Beavers The Solaris Woodwind Quintet: George Pope, flute James Ryon, oboe Kristina Belisle, clarinet William Hoyt, horn Lynette Diers Cohen, bassoon
Commentaries Carleton Macy 1. Fantasy 2. Antique 3. The Body Politic 4. Elegy 5. You Gotta Swing, or it takes the old to have the new
Windows Kurt Sander I. Incense II. Processional lll. Myrrh
The Demon in Checkered Pants Bruce Christian Bennett The Paragon Brass Quintet: Scott Johnston, trumpets Jack Brndiar, trumpet William Hoyt, horn Edward Zadrozny, trombone Russell Tinkham, tuba
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Friday, April 19, 2002 8 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall
Concert #6: New Music for Wind Ensemble
The University of Akron Concert Band Galen Karriker, conductor
The University of Akron Symphonic Band, Robert Jorgensen, conductor
Sleight of Band Frank Felice
The Slow Voyage Through Night Robert Hutchinson
The University of Akron Concert Band
- Briefintermission -
Proteus Rising From the Sea Jack Gallagher
Rosie the Riveter Felicia Sandler
Niagara Falls Michael Daugherty
The University of Akron Symphonic Band
You are invited to the reception in the atrium immediately following the concert.
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Saturday, April 20, 2002 10:30 a.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall
Concert #7: A Concert of Works in New Media
Gary Lee Nelson Guest Composer and Electronic Musician
Christine Gorbach Guest Visual Artist and Digital Film Maker
Star Music (1993) Gary Lee Nelson Gary Lee Nelson, MidiHorn, computer, digital synthesizers
LightSong (1998, revised 2001) Nelson Nelson, MidiHorn, computer, digital synthesizers Christine Gorbach, interactive video processing
Hierarchy (2000) image: Christine Gorbach sound: Gary Lee Nelson video with stereophonic soundtrack
Colony (1994) Nelson Nelson, MidiHorn, computer, digital synthesizers
Charitoo (2001) Gorbach and Nelson video with stereophonic soundtrack
Goss (1993) Nelson Nelson, MidiHorn, computer, digital synthesizers
Death and Transfiguration (2001) Gorbach and Nelson video with stereophonic soundtrack
Variations on a Theme and Process of Frederic Rzewski (1987) Nelson Nelson, MidiHorn, computer, digital synthesizers
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Saturday, April 20, 2002 1 p.m. Akron Art Museum
Concert #8: The Cleveland Composers Guild in Concert
Daniel McCarthy, president Ty Emerson, vice president Katherine O'Connell, vice president
MKF Squared Nicholas Underhill Mary Kay Ferguson, piccolo Sally Sherwin, piccolo
Oracion Delores White Diane Fiocca, flute and alto flute
Sonata for Piano Solo Stephen Griebling Coren Estrin Kleve, piano
Habanera Nicholas Underhill Takako Masame, violin
Opposed Directions HyeKung Lee HyeKung Lee, piano
Trio Andy Rindfleisch Eric Moe, piano Roger Zahab, violin Amy Laing, cello
Spirituals Katherine O'Connell Bridgett Crocker Emerson, flute Andrew Pongracz, vibraphone and marimba Heidi Albert, cello
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Saturday, April 20, 2002 3p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall
Concert #9: New Chamber Music I
The Ohio University Dance and Chamber Ensemble The University of Akron New Music Ensemble The University of Akron Performance Faculty
Streams of Ascension Phillip Schroeder Richard Shanklin, soprano saxophone Laura Silverman, piano
Passions Ching-chu Hu Andrew Carlson, violin Nelson Harper, piano
Three Pieces for Clarinet and Two for Piano Paul Dickinson 1. Adagio 2. Agitato 3. Largo Kristina Belisle, clarinet Paul Dickinson, piano
My Aunt Gives Me a Clarinet Lesson Mark Phillips (based on a poem by Gregory Djanikian) The Ohio University Dance and Chamber Ensemble Rebecca Rischin, clarinet Roger Braun, percussion Lisa Ford Moulton, dancer/narrator
Seven Deadly Sins Charles Argersinger Envy Sloth Pride Greed Lust Gluttony Anger The University of Akron New Music Ensemble: Andres, Valcarcel, violin Alison Bolton, viola Liz Caldwell, cello
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Saturday, Apri l 20, 2002 4:15 p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall
Concert #10: New Chamber Music II
The University of Akron New Music Ensemble Daniel McCarthy, conductor
Alexandra Mascolo-David, pianist
The West Virginia Piano Quartet
Jackie's Song Michael Daugherty
Sinatra Shag Michael Daugherty The University of Akron New Music Ensemble: Ashley Bowen, flute Yi-Chen Chen, bass clarinet Larry Snider, percussion Jim Cross, piano Jeffrey Leigh, violin Christina Babich, cello Daniel McCarthy, conductor
Time Out of Mind: Six Tales of Middle Earth Daniel McCarthy I. Flight to the Ford II. The Mirror of Galadriel III. The Drums of Moria IV. The Shadow of the Past V. Huorns: Silent Malice VI. The Muster of Rohan Alexandra Mascolo-David
Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Violoncello (2001) John Beall I. Quickly, lightly II. Slowly, brooding III. Fast and rhyt hmic IV. Majestically: allegro The West Virginia Piano Quartet James Miltenberger, piano Laura Kobayashi , violin Philip Tietze, viola William Skidmore, cello
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Saturday, April 20, 2002 8p.m. Guzzetta Recital Hall
Concert #11: New Music for Young Orchestras
The Akron Youth Symphony Eric Benjamin, conductor
The University of Akron Symphony Orchestra Ronn Cummings, conducting
Variation of a Theme Frederic G lesser
"... such sweet sorrow" Neil McKay
Three Portraits William Alexander
The Akron Youth Symphony Eric Bejamin, conductor
- Brieflntermission -
Red Cape Tango Michael Daugherty (from "Metropolis Symphony")
The University of Akron Symphony Orchestra Ronn Cummings, conductor
You are invited to the reception in the atrium immediately following the concert.
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Program notes and biographies of composers, individual and ensemble performers, and conductors are on following pages:
• Program Notes ...... pages 18-29 • Composer Biographies ...... pages 30-39 • Individual & Ensemble Biographies ...... pages 40-4 7 • Conductor Biographies ...... pages 4 7-48
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Program Notes Lady Mondegreen Bangs the Can! Concert #2: ... was written during the spring and summer, of 1996. This new piece shares a lot of similar musical material with its New Music for Percussion two prequels: Lady Mondegreen Dances, which is a sextet for "pierrot" ensemble plus percussion, and Lady Mondegreen Almost Transparent Black Sings the Blues, which is for Winds, Percussion and Piano ... for four percussionists began as a rhythmic study inspired and was commissioned by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, by some of the sometimes counterintuitive possible properties Edwin London, conductor. of time brought to us by theoretical physics. Imagine if time were to gradually or even suddenly slow down or speed up; Lady Mondegreen does not exist. A mondegreen is a word or imagine Cleveland gaining 15 minutes within each hour as phrase that is construed as it is actually heard, not as the measured in New York. What sorts of strange paradoxes would speaker intends it to be heard. Coined by Sylvia Wright in occur if time suddenly reversed for a certain few people? 1954 (Harper's), the word refers to the Scottish Ballad "The Perhaps cause-effect relationships could become effect-cause. Bonny Earl of Murray" and how she recited it as a child: One can fairly easily imagine some of the more strange, both "They have slain the EarlAmurray And Lady Mondegreen." jarring and subtle, phenomena one might encounter if time The damsel bleeding loyally beside the slain Earl was in her were a bit more playful. This piece explores some of the more romantic imagination and the last line was actually written disconcerting of those possible phenomena via various "and laid him on the Green." After reading an article about rhythmic devices such as elongating beats by certain this by William Safire in the New York Times, it occurred to percentages, asking one player to accelerate gradually so as me that mondegreens happen quite naturally in music all of to overtake another, multiple tempi simultaneous]y, sudden the time; that everyone hears a piece of music quite differently. as well as gradual metric modulation (changes in tempo), and I intend for this piece to be last in the Lady Mondegreen series so on. (although I said that about the second piece).
Cicadas Used Car Salesman (2000) . . . was composed for Bent Lylloff and his Marimba Quartet for Percussion Quartet in 1996. I have had a Cicada like contact with the marimba The first performance of Used Car Salesman was given on and used it in several works both solo and in chamber music April 18, 2000 by the Ethos Percussion Ensemble at Hancher over time. This piece is not an illustration to the insect. It is Auditorium, Iowa City, Iowa. It was commissioned by based on an idea from the final percussion episode in my Hancher Auditorium, the University of Iowa. Funding was Sinfoni no 2, which later is used in Three Dances with provided by the Hancher Auditorium Millennium Fund Interludes for 6 percussionists. Growing out from an accented through the University of Iowa Foundation and the National single pitch things begin to happen. Some of the techniques Endowment of the Arts. It is scored as follows: Percussion I used in the work were shown to me along time ago in Sweden (vibraphone, tambourine), Percussion II (marimba, maraca), when Bent was giving a workshop on new techniques for the Percussion III (eight metals, two gongs, tambourine, claves, marimba. vibraslap, two car horns, tambourine), Percussion IV (Bass drum, four tom-tom or paddle drums, bongos, piccolo snare, Flow four woodblocks, three cowbells, four cymbals, claves, . . . was written in the fall of 2000 for Anthony Miranda and maraca). Duration is ten minutes . the University at Buffalo Percussion Ensemble who premiered the work in March, 2001. For several years before writing Used Car Salesman is a tribute to my father Willis Daugherty FLOW I had been working primarily in the field of (born 1927) who is a dance band drummer and was a used electroacoustic and interactive computer music. Many of the car salesman in Cedar Rapids, Iowa from 1955-60. In my techniques I had been using in my electronic compositions, composition, I create a musical landscape where I reflect upon such as granular sampling, convolution, spectral filtering, etc., the world of the 1950s used car salesman. In addition to the had come to influence not only the way I though about sounds percussion quartet performing on a wide variety of metal themselves, but also how sound can be transformed and instruments from the scrap heap, I punctuate the rhythmically developed in a composition. Flow features the gradual complex counterpoint with spoken text: transformation of sounds in ways that closely resemble the electroacoustic transformation techniques mentioned above. Used cars The sounds themselves are created using a variety of non Ladies and Gentlemen traditional percussion objects such as bricks, blocks, bolts, I got used cars gravel, and metal plates. Don't settle for less I got used cars
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You deserve this car The Paces of Yu (1990) Right Here! ... is a test for true Jarvinen fans, his timbral imagination at It's got - its most extreme. The work reduces Jarvinen's rhythmic methods to their essence while raising his homespun ensemble Power brakes concept to its apex. The solo (and only pitched) instrument is Good Evening Ladies Gentleman the berimbau, a Brazilian instrument of a single string attached Power steering to a bow with a gourd at the end. The other instruments are I know what you are thinking all homemade, with window shutters, mousetraps, rulers, and Power windows the pencil sharpener mounted on boxes which are played with Can you afford to buy this car? pencils and mallets. The piece's underlying idea is a Taoist Power locks story about a man, Yu, who walks around the world, Let me tell you something. symbolically reaching the nodes at which "outer time" and Power seats "inner time" coincide. His paces mark off a simple melody You can't afford not to buy this car! run through delightfully subtle rhythmic variations whose Power antenna phrases are dotted by the flick of the shutters and punctuated by the sharp snap of the mousetraps. It's loaded! Kick the tire!
I never lie I'm a Used Car Salesman Used Cars Bankrupt? You got Used Divorced? Right. No credit? Left. We finance! Here!
This is my last offer Trust me! Take it or leave it! I've got a deal for you. As is. No warranty
Don't blame me! Get their confidence I'm a used car Salesman Get their friendship Get their money - Michael Daugherty
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Program Notes The Fantasy Pieces Concert #3: ... were written to serve two basic purposes: technical studies for the pianist, as well as compositional challenges for the New Music for Piano composer. All five pieces are various manifestations of the piano in its various sundry traditions. The Prelude is a response Playing in Chinese Sweet Dumpling Festival to the instrument's mechanical side and timbral possibilities. .. . is a traditional anniversary festival of China. It is a time It exploits the piano's extreme registers as well as the for the whole family to get together. Based on a traditional juxtaposition of figuration, two-part chorals, dense tremolo musical form, the music consists of two elements: a fol k song figures and percussive techniques. from Shan Xi province, and a pentatonic pitch series abstracted from this folk song. At the Allegro section, a lively folk The Free Invention is a two-part invention, which is at times rhythm is used depicting the festival atmosphere, and a imitative, but does not employ many- if any--strict canonic dramatic change of mood mark the Lento section. devices. It was also somewhat inspired by the music of Elliot Carter with its various tempo modulations. The middle section Piano Sonata No. 2 explodes into a manic episode of figuration and jazz-like In Andrey Kasparov's Second Piano Sonata, composed in syncopation before settling into a "demonic" gigue in the low 1994, he sought to bring together the elements of traditional register of the instrument. The music then returns to the form and serial techniques. The Piano Sonata No. 2 employs rhythmic counterpoint of the opening, yielding a quasi the classic concept of exposition-development-recapitulation. palindrome effect as the movement comes to a close. The formal design of the piece includes well defined thematic groups, featuring the return of secondary thematic material The Intermezzo was initially inspired through my love of on another tonal level in the recapitulation. Brahms and Schoenberg. The descending four-note opening motive was spawned from the descending gesture of The sonata is based on two contrasting twelve-tone rows, the Schoenberg's Op. I, No. I- and even employs a very similar first one being introduced at the very opening of the piece, intervallic content. Much of the harmonic and melodic content and the second enters soon after in a succession of overtone of the movement is based on a single hexachord, which also chords. These two rows interact with each other throughout appears in various guises in the other four movements, thus the rest of the composition. giving the work a sort of harmonic symmetry throughout. Like many of the Brahms Intermezzi, the middle section of Eight Preludes for the Dance this movement becomes slightly more agitated and rhapsodic ... is a series of brief movements for piano, ranging from one before rounding out the material of the first section. Obviously to three and a half minutes, in a variety of meters, tempos, and in this instance, there is no literal repeat. styles. The composer writes: "In using the rather daunting title 'Preludes', the composer risks the inevitable comparison with a The Passacaglia is perhaps the most "pianistic," of the set, parade-through-the-centuries of esteemed predecessors while also being the most outrageous- and at times, ridiculous beginning with J.S. Bach. While admitting to only one quotation and absurd! The ground bass, or ostinato consists of a very from Chopin's Op. 28 (How does one write a prelude without ostentatious descending chromatic line inc minor, harmonized consulting the def-nitive set in the genre?), it is only with a in parallel fifths. The rhythm of the ostinato figure is varied great deal of humility that these miniature musings are offered." upon each repetition constantly obscuring the bar line-which For the most part rhythmically and motivically generated, and is superimposed with the irrelevant, and sometimes firmly rooted in tonality, the "Preludes" range in style from "irrational" melodies and rhythms of the right hand. After a the repeated rhythmic motives of # 1 and #6, through the cadenza-like climax, the ostinato settles into the key of d insistent asymmetric rhythmic structure of #7, to the quiet minor, and is presented one last time within a more stable or and open consonance that ends #8. "square" rhythmic structure.
Glacius The Postlude really serves as a sort of melancholic ... was commissioned by pianist/conductor Robert Spano at afterthought to the pianistic and contrapuntal furry of the the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1984. Along with being preceding four movements. I didn't feel too compelled to end a gifted conductor, Mr. Spano is a virtuoso pianist. I tried to this cycle with the traditional bombastic display of pianistic stretch myself to write a technically challenging work, while virtuosity. This movement is rather dream-like, and explores exploiting Mr. Spano's incredible dynamic and color range. the instrument's resonance and various acoustical properties. The piece is programmatic: a musical journey through static, There is not much in the way of melody in this movement, icy waters, leading to an oasis of vast simplicity and depth, but rather a single sonority, which is presented in a constantly and then the return trip back. changing light. - Anne Deane - Gregory J. Hutter
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Velosophy " ..• and so the hole was dug" The title Velosophy is a coined word containing the prefix Those of you who know me will understand that I won't "velo-", meaning "speed or rapidity" and the suffix" -sophy", apologize in advance for the title/pun of this piece -- indeed - meaning "knowledge, wisdom or science". Velosophy is - what you are about to hear consists of sounds that are therefore the wisdom of speed. 96.8999% (or more) produced by Doug Spaniol. These sounds (bassoon licks, laughter, clicks, pops, wheezing and burzles) The rhythm is the driving force of this piece, beginning with were recorded in the Colin Clive Electronic Music Studio at eighth-note motion that gradually increases to sixteenth notes Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46208 early in the and resolves back to eighth notes in the final section. These autumn of 2000, and then manipulated using computer smallest units are grouped in shifting permutations that software, synthesizer filtering, basic editing techniques and provide rhythmic interest. guilt to produce the tape part.
As I was writing the piece, I was surprised to find that I had (Tape! What tape? At no time during the production of this been using the processes associated with sonata form. The piece was tape ever used. Why do we call it a tape piece?) symmetrical nine-note scale that provides the harmonic and melodic materials for the composition allows for four different It is a cautionary tale - at some point, the recorded part (Der transpositions. I used two of these to create contrasting theme Uberbassoon!) tries to dictate what material should be areas within the first large section. The middle section performed by the bassoonist - much like an upper level develops motives from these themes, followed by a administrator (or applied music instructor... ) trying to get you recapitulation of earlier ideas, in reverse order. to do a piece of work that you'd rather not do. However, the bassoonist has other ideas: "No .... I think I'll sleep. -- No .... I This work was written for Amy Dissanayake and exploits her think I'll procrastinate..... No .... I'd rather play the Mozart ability to perform the impossible. concerto instead of the Hindemith sonata." A tug of war ensues with the inevitable clash of wills in the last section of the piece. Program Notes Inside the Ride ... (2000) is based entirely on sounds associated with Concert #4: elevators. These sources have been manipulated to create the New Electroacoustic Music feeling that the listener is actually inside the elevator. All of the sounds used in creating this work were recorded in and around elevators. Resonances Entrelacees In recent years, Hallstrom has become increasingly interested Points of Arrival in making compositions which seek to pass various voices, ... (1998) for violin and tape explores the relationships frequently drawn from diverse cultures, through the sieve of between a solo live performer and a musique concret sonic his own perceptions (both cultural and personal). This process environment, created through MIDI. The opening section for involves not only considering what these voices are saying in tape alone creates a ferocious but harmless environment, the literal sense of their words, but also of the meaning of shortly to be contrasted by a lyrical exploration by the soloist, those words and the beauty of the sounds made as the words supported by the tape. are uttered. The subsequent return of the violin exhibits the virtuoso aspect Resonances Entrelacees was composed in Paris during the of the instrument, this time in competition with the tape. The spring of 2000, and reworked in the wake of the tragedies in last section finds the lyrical material recapitulated, in new New York and Washington D.C. The work uses as its source dramatic garb. material statements of prayer drawn from cultures throughout the world. Some of these statements are joyful; others sad; and others contemplative. All have been processed and combined in such a way as to offer a single multi-cultural persona whose goal is to convey a sense that, regardless of the voice uttering the words, spirituality can serve as a common bond among all peoples, and need not act as a force to divide them.
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Program Notes Mvt. 4 - "[email protected]" (The above three movements are polyphonically combined, and a fourth Concert #4: element- an unrelentingly polite voice-mail lady- is injected New Electroacoustic Music into the sonic recipe.)
(cont.) Ballistix is a musical representation of some of the bizarre realities of our modem era of digital communications and Tag till ... information transfer. It is a metaphor of the seemingly . . . (1998) owes its lineage to those electroacoustic works backwards peasant down-loading the latest nasdaq figures via with a transportation theme. Like Pierre Schaeffer's "Etude his cell phone/modem onto his lap-top computer in some aux chemins de fer" (Railroad Etude, 1948). Tag till .. . is about remote region of the Balkans-his cows grazing in the another rail based mode of transport. While living in background. This juxtaposition of the modern and the Stockholm, Sweden, during the summer of 1995 I took a timeless, the sophisticated and the simple, the sublime and portable DAT recorder around with me on my journeys to the ridiculous, expresses itself in a music which combines and from the Institute for Electroacoustic Music Sweden "atonality" with the 'ison'; "emancipated rhythm" with a metric (EMS) . This meant a 45-minute trip from Stockholm straight-jacket; a clarinet with an accordion, tambourine and University, mostly by subway to the old brewery on modem. Ballistix is twisted and convolved music: it takes Sodermalm. I became enchanted with the musical sounds musical events that seem isolated and unrelated at their first around me from both the machinery and the people of the presentation and restates them in a contrapuntally intertwined underground railway (though, like many "subways" the manner. In this new context these same musical events are Stockholm system often rises above the terra firma to get a transformed by their very interaction as they combine to reveal breath of fresh air). I was particularly interested in one a higher order of relationships. engineer's voice on the train to Telefonplan.
"alt.music. ballistix" " ... perhaps the most provocative piece of the entire conference ... exciting ... wild and fascinating .. . " - The CLARINET journal (International Clarifest 2000)
In the brief time since its world premiere by clarinetist Hakan Rosengren in Sweden ( 1997), Resanovic 'salt. music. ballistix has entered the repertoire of dozens of nationally and internationally renowned clarinetists, has been a featured work in three of the last four International Clarinet festivals, and has received performances throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
Bearing a title suggestive of a fictitious internet news group, alt.music.ballistix was composed for clarinetist Hakan Rosengren during the fall of 1995. The 12 minute work is divided into four contiguous movements as follows:
Mvt. 1 - "A Matter of Fax" (a sonic montage featuring original samples from various technological sources including a fax/ modem, telephone, short-wave radio, mingled with a most precious musical commodity- silence)
Mvt. 2 - "A Soliloquy" (an largely unaccompanied clarinet solo based on every pitch but the pitch 'D' which appears later as an accompanying 'ison' or drone).
Mvt. 3 - "A Balkan Dance" (influenced by Macedonian and Bulgarian dance idioms, the movement features many references to the folk music of this region of the Balkans.)
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Program Notes The Demon in Checkered Pants was composed between 31 March and 5 April 1997 as the written component of my Concert #5: Qualifying Exam. It is primarily a monothematic exploration New Musi.c for Quintet of nine harmonic fields derived from frequency modulation (FM) calculations [Pi= c + (m - i)] from the notes middle C, F# below middle C, and the C below middle C. From these Four Sketches harmonic fields are derived eight modes, ranging between Four Sketches for Woodwind Quintet (2000) is based on a set five and eleven pitches, which accommodate transformations of miniature pieces for solo guitar, composed a few years ago. of the principle theme. The FM generated harmonic fields In an attempt to stray from the usual harmonies and progressions appear at points of structural significance and come to the that seem to go hand-in-hand with the guitar, the instrument fore during the slow middle section of the piece. Furthermore, was returned as follows: Eb-A-D-G-B-E. As a result, the pieces certain chords of historical significance (the Tristan chord, have an overall "Eb-ness". But you'll get over it. Really. the Mystic chord, the chord from Schoenberg's Op. 16, #3, and the Hendrix chord) are associated with these various FM Windows generated harmonic fields and are present throughout the ... is a three-movement work that portrays three aspects of work. the Eastern Orthodox liturgical rite. Each movement is a musical reflection of the properties inherent in the title. Incense evokes the drifting of smoke as it rises from the priest's censer; Processional is a slow, stately movement which has a cyclical formal design emulating the circular procession that often takes place around a church; and Myrrh reflects the liquid and solid conditions of this substance which is used both in holy oil and incense.
Commentaries ... for Woodwind Quintet is my second quintet. Each of the five movements is a loose comment on my life as a composer and academic professional. Fantasy is just that, a diversion into a free ranging, perhaps surprising expression. Antique pays homage to a style of past music. The Body Politic is my impression of the internal academic existence. Elegy needs no comment, and You Gotta Swing, or it takes the old to have the new is a 60-year-old style of jazz transplanted into the texture of the Woodwind quintet. I think of this movement as my 'Fletcher Henderson' piece.
"The Demon in Checkered Pants" for Brass Quintet "It was a gentleman, or rather a Russian gentleman of a certain type, no longer young, qui frisait la cinquantaine, as the French say, with rather long, thick, dark hair, only just streaked with grey, and a small clipped, pointed beard. He was wearing a sort of brown coat, evidently cut by a good tailor, but rather threadbare, made about three years before and quite out of fashion now, in a style that had not been worn for two years by well-to-do men about town. His linen and his long scarf like cravat were all such as were worn by smart gentlemen, but on closer inspection his linen was rather dirty and the wide scarf very threadbare. The visitor's check trousers were of an excellent cut, but again were a little too light in colour and a little to tight, such, in fact, as were no longer worn, and the same was true of his white fluffy felt hat, which was certainly not in season. In short, he gave the impression of a well-bred gentleman who was rather hard up." [F. Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov]
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Program Notes A single-movement work of 10 minutes duration, Proteus Concert #6: makes use of a number of unusual instrumental colors (such as tuned crystal goblets, water gongs, bowed percussion New Music for Wind Ensemble instruments, etc.), complex changes of meter, and challenging technical demands placed upon each section of the ensemble. Sleight of Band (a prelude to a sideshow) In Greek mythology, Proteus was the sea god who possessed the power of altering his shape at will. Described as the son Circus music. or attendant of Poseidon, god of the seas, Proteus held as Circus McGirkus music. well the power of foretelling the future. Often he was described Carnival music. as slumbering in or near the seas, where he was sometimes (not Carnival Cruise music) awakened by mortals who desired to wrest from him the secrets of the future. Proteus was said to resist such challenges What can I say? I can't seem to escape writing fun, wacky, by changing his shape into a frightening, bewildering, and somewhat-askew music these days. (It has nothing to do with overpowering succession of fearsome or intimidating creatures. the premature change into the new millennium - it probably has more to do with a plentiful garlic supply.) Having spent a The title of the work is taken from the following lines from lot of time recently writing "deep, serious" pieces of angry Wordsworth's The World is Too Much With Us: music, it's quite a lovely feeling to compose happy-go-lucky So might I . . . stuff. Little"announcement" fanfares abound, as do a number Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; of quirky clown bits. A few surprises around the comer, and Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. if we're lucky, maybe the Bearded Lady and The World's The prevailing imagery of the piece, while not aspiring to Largest Beet will make an appearance. Perhaps, if we're extra mythological authenticity, endeavors to depict a fanciful well behaved, even that unbelievable trio will show - you scenario in which a formidable sea god, disturbed from his know which ones I mean: The Butler Buffet Boys!!!!! Better slumbers by importunate and audacious mortals, proceeds to than the Reptile Boy! Better than the Moon Rock! Better wreak a formidable wrath and vengeance. The musical thanAlien Fur! Step right up! Commissioned by and dedicated argument is precipitated by the god's awakening (represented to Robert Grechesky and the Butler University Wind by opening hammer strokes for the full ensemble), after which Ensemble. Lunch is on me, Bob. Un debito owio a Maestro the piece begins quietly and enigmatically and proceeds Rossini efelicemente riconosciuto! !!! !! gradually to a great show of turbulence by the end. - Frank Felice Early on, numerous grumblings and disquieting sonorities The Slow Voyage Through Night depict the reluctance of the god to become involved. A This piece was composed in response to the Thurston High repeated, clarion-like motive in the solo oboe is heard, always School shootings in Springfield, Oregon, on May 21, 1998. associated with the deity's warning, to repeated importunings, That night, I sat down at my keyboard and played music that that he be left alone. Failing in this exhortation, and stretching reflected what I was feeling emotionally - a mixture of to his full stature, he becomes increasingly animated, splenetic sadness, disbelief, and hope. That music became The Slow and frenzied. Displays and posturings of machismo soon lead Voyage Through Night. As a composer who lived in the to a colloquy with Triton's imagined horn. Near the end of Eugene-Springfield community I felt compelled to share my the work, the clarion-like warning motive, now in 11/8 meter, feelings and to offer this composition as a means for people surfaces in the piano, ramifies throughout the entire ensemble, to explore their own feelings about this tragedy. It is my hope and is heard contrapuntally in augmentation with itself as a that this piece will provide solace to those who have grieved. massive and ominous chorale in the brass. Finally, in an ostentatious show of strength, the god casts out the interlopers The Slow Voyage Through Night was premiered by conductor with the same hammerstroke gesture with which the piece Robert Ponto and the Oregon Wind Ensemble in May 1999 began. Proteus Risingfrom the Sea was premiered 26 January in Eugene, Oregon. 1995 at East Tennessee State University by the Air Force Band of Flight, Lt. Col. Richard A. Shelton, conductor, and released Proteus Rising from the Sea on that ensemble's compact disc titled Images. The work was . .. was composed during a 1993-94 Research Leave from selected for the Virginia College Band Directors 2001 The College of Wooster. It was commissioned by the Air Force Symposium of New Band Music at the University of Band of Flight, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, Lt. Col. Richard Richmond, where it was conducted by the composer. Other A. Shelton, Commander and Conductor. performances have included wind ensembles at Indiana, Massachusetts and San Houston State Universities.
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Rosie the Riveter in the world. The Niagara River also generates electricity for When the United States entered World War II in 1941, nearly towns on both sides of the border, where visitors are lured all able-bodied men were drafted into active duty. The into haunted houses, motels, wax museums, candy stores, and production of weapons, aircraft, ships and the like had to be tourist traps, as well as countless stores that sell "Niagara accomplished by someone, and so the War Department Falls" postcards, T-shirts, and souvenirs. This composition launched a propaganda campaign to enlist women into the is another souvenir, inspired by my many trips to Niagara workforce as welders, riveters, electrical workers, machine Falls. It is a ten-minute musical ride over the Niagara River operators, and so forth. "Rosie the Riveter" was the name the with an occasional stop at a haunted house or wax museum War Dept. chose as the epitome of the patriotic woman. along the way. Its principal musical motive is a haunting Roughly eighteen million women were employed in the chromatic phrase of four tones corresponding to the syllables workforce in WWII, with six million employed for the first of Niagara Falls, and repeated in increasingly gothic time. Twelve million, then, had been previously employed, proportions. A pulsing rhythm in the timpani and lower brass but predominantly in menial jobs, domestic work, laundering, creates an undercurrent of energy to give an electric charge pottery, and so forth. Though the propaganda targeted middle to the second motive, introduced in musical canons by the class, married, white women whose husbands were overseas, upper brass. The saxophones and clarinets introduce another a full two thirds of the force came from single, widowed, level of counterpoint, in a bluesy riff with a film noir edge. divorced women, including women of color, all needing work. My composition is a meditation on the American Sublime. Defense offered most of these women wages on which they - Michael Daugherty could survive for the first time in their lives. As "Rosie" Margie Salazar McSweyn noted: "There wasn't that much money working as an [telephone] operator and I could see that I wasn't going to make it. The money was in defense." Program Notes Working in the public sector offered a sense of pride and self esteem that many felt for the first time in their lives, as well. Concert #7: As welder Lola Weixel remembers: "We believed that the economy was going to burgeon. It would be splendid. We A Concert of Works in New Media would rebuild the cities. We would do all these things because before the war we didn't have all these skilled people. But All three works are digital videos written, directed and now we had. It would be time to do all the good and beautiful produced collaboratively by Christine Gorbach (painter) and things for America because fascism was destroyed." Any post Gary Lee Nelson (composer) .. Visual components of the work war rebuilding was not to include Weixel nor the majority of are derived from paintings and photographs by Gorbach and her coworkers. There was little effort by the government to in a few cases public domain images from other sources. plan for a re-conversion to a peacetime economy that would Editing and sequencing of the moving images was done by include the newly developed skills of the female workforce. Gorbach. Musical scores were composed, processed and Though some women were pleased to return to domestic life, edited by Nelson most were not. The majority of women were dismissed from their jobs at the end of the war, barraged with a new Gorbach holds a master's degree and chairs the art department propaganda that sought to lure them back into the private at Cuyahoga Falls High School. Gorbach's paintings have sector with new shiny kitchen appliances and reminders of appeared in many shows in Ohio. Recently, her work has their "proper" place. Rosie The Riveter is a tribute to the been seen in Toronto, New York, and Baltimore. pioneering women of the World War II era. Nelson holds a Ph.D. and chairs a multimedia department at Niagara Falls (1997) the college level. Nelson's works have been performed Niagara Falls was commissioned by the University of throughout the world and his research in the areas of computer Michigan Symphonic Band in honor of its One Hundredth music and multimedia is widely published. Anniversary and is dedicated to its conductor H. Robert Reynolds. The work was premiered by that ensemble on Gorbach and Nelson began collaborating on art/music projects October 4, 1997 at "Bandarama", conducted by H. Robert in 1998. These films are the most recent manifestations of Reynolds at Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan. what will be a long term collaborative relationship.
The composer writes: Niagara Falls, a gateway between Hierarchy is based on 16 paintings by Gorbach. We also use Canada and the United States, is a mecca for honeymooners a poem she wrote describing the paintings and the methods and tourists who come to visit one of the most scenic waterfalls she used to make them. The paintings were made by selecting
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Program Notes Program Notes
Concert #7: Concert #8: A Concert of Works in New Media Cleveland Composers Guild in Concert (cont.) MKFSquared . . . was commissioned by Mary Kay Ferguson for the Greater small portions from a larger canvas. The s01md track is derived by digitally recording and manipulating Gorbach's nearly 50 Cleveland Flute Society, which she founded. The title is based on the friendly association between the two Cleveland readings of the poem. The subtext of the work is Heights-based flutisits with the same initials who are "deconstruction." We are concerned with the making of new occaisionally mistaken for each other. Toward the end of the art by recomposing older work - both musical and visual. piece, the high registers of both piccolos combine to form Before they began their collaboration, both Gorbach and "difference tones", as the frequencies cancel each other out Nelson had independently developed techniques by which leaving only the growling fundamental tones. The effect on small fragments of older works were extracted and magnified the sinuses is roughly equivalent to eating all of the sushi to become the seeds of new paintings or compositions. mustard at once. Charitoo is a verb of Greek origin meaning "to endue with Oracin divine favor or grace." The "theme" of this work is the The piece Oracin (prayer) consists of eight short sections that idealization of women by male artists and the recognition that run the gamut from complete atonality to frankly traditional such ideals are quite at odds with the realities of women's tonality. Each starts with a pitch center (C#, A, C, Db, F, A, existence. The central image here is the Virgin Mary, There F#, E), which begins the flow of life's force towards the are brief appearances by other idealized women such as the infinite. Life's force is untouchable, mysterious, yet strong Gibson Girl, Barbie, and Rosie the Riveter. The work also and powerful. It is a constant drive towards the unknown, includes digital processing of several of Gorbach's paintings ejecting energies that control and lead our lives in many and manipulation of original live action footage filmed by directions; to commune with the supernatural and the spirits Nelson. of the ancestors.
The sound track is based primarily on two Gregorian chants. The solitary linear line soars, sometimes quickly and sharply, "Salve Regina" is sung in female voice and conveys the sense and are interrupted, abruptly, sometimes with a silence, other of asking for grace from below. "Timete Domine" is sung in times with a calm, slow resolve. The timbral tones of the male voice and conveys the sense that grace can be achieved flute in contrast to the alto flute are meant to reflect nature's by following instructions. The first represents supplication need for change and yet balance. The rhythmic movement of while the second implies dominance and fear. There are the piece is salacious, bold and ever changing and yet in several brief quotations from popular songs to support the keeping with the driving force behind all existence. The appearance of the more contemporary female ideals. exaggerated sounds and ranges are tensions in which I try to sound the inner voices and spirits of human beings, to Death and Transfiguration is based loosely on the orchestral experience the lyricism in life and the driving force behind tone poem of the same name by Richard Strauss. Gorbach all existence but with the knowledge and understanding of made the images by animating black and white photographs the ultimate mortality. of things dead in nature - uprooted and fallen trees, leaves. Piano Sonata The soundtrack is synthetic but intentionally orchestral in . .. is in a Neo-Romantic Style, with conservative, genre. The pitch structure and texture are derived with a contemporary harmonies and is tonal and melodic. Its four technique that does not quote but rather casts an aura of movements are based on a single motive, which is introduced Strauss' work on the soundtrack. Like Strauss, we hold the in the opening bars. This motive in quadruple meter is hope of transfiguration from winter to spring, from turmoil developed by means of a number of connected variations in to calm and from death to rebirth. The final moment of the the first movement (Adagio, Allegro, Andante Cantabile, film symbolizes this hope. Maestoso) including a section in the whole tone scale and ends with a march-like treatment. This work was carried out in our home studio using a suite of hardware and software for processing, editing and sequencing Movement II (Allegro con brio, Andante Cantabile) uses the images and sound entirely in the digital domain. These films motive as a principal subject in a light hearted rondo from in are now available in limited edition on DVD. triple meter.
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Program Notes In Movement III (Adagio) the motive is divided into parts, played an octave apart. The similarity of the beginning of this movement to a well-known Chopin prelude is strictly Concert #9: coincidental and this music is extended to a much greater length, New Chamber Music I using the now well-established motive as its main subject.
In Movement IV (Allegretto 6/8) the motive is treated fugally Streams of Ascension in the dark, octatonic (diminished seventh) scale until, near ... was composed in early 1998 for saxophonist Scott Plugge, the end, a sequence of major keys featuring a secondary theme who premiered it during the annual North American ends the piece joyfully. Saxophone Association Conference at Northwestern University in March of the same year. The piece is based on Habanera two complementary melodic and harmonic motives: the first . . . was commissioned in 1996 by Takako Masame and is a rising Lydian scalar figure, usually presented in parallel performed by her in Tokyo, Oberlin, and Cleveland. The piece 7ths and 9ths with the piano (A sections); the second is a explores simple dance rhythms, tonality and violin virtuosity. serpentine lyric melody which is developed through interval Opposed Directions expansion and contraction, and accompanied by florid harmonic figuration (B sections). Sectional, pitch center, ... for Solo Piano was originally written for Disklavier and voicing, metric, tempo, and registral relationships are each Live-electronics and also written for Solo Piano later in the based on portions of the Fibonacci series 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, year. Opposite emotions are captured in various forms. and 34. Although the formal structure resembles a rondo, each Trio statement and contrast is a developed and expanded version . . . for piano, violin, and violoncello was written over a two of its predecessor, thus creating the sense of constant forward year period (1991-93), and marks an attempt to confront motion. musical issues which, at times, conjure up notions of the past. The first compositional issue that needed to be addressed was Passions the ensemble itself- a notoriously difficult combination of ... deals with the intermingling of influences in my life as an instruments for a composer to manipulate. This, in combination Asian American: the folk tunes that have surrounded me since with my own familiarity with the Trio repertoire of Beethoven, my childhood and the western-based education of classical Schubert, and Brahms provided for me an overwhelming desire music and twentieth-century techniques. For Passions, I to compose a work designed to convey a richly textured composed music idiomatic for the er-hu (Chinese fiddle) and character. This character is exemplified by a formal and sheng (Chinese aerophone) and combined attributes for gestural language at times closely akin to those masterworks Wolfgang's lines. As a contrast, music for the piano alternates of the 19th Century- here, stretched out, condensed, and filtered between various pentatonic tapestries and neo-romantic, neo through my own late 20th Century sensibilities. Completed in tonal influences. January 1993 at the MacDowell Colony, Trio is dedicated to composer Arthur Berger on the occasion of his 80th birth year. This work was premiered by Wolfang Sengstschmid and Daniel Grimwood at the Wigmore Hall in London, 7 October Spirituals 2001, and is dedicated to them. I wrote this piece as a commission from Yvonne Kendall, flutist and musicologist at the University of Houston (1999). It was Three Pieces for Clarinet and Two for Piano first performed as part of a concert of spirituals, and as such, Although piano is used in two of the three pieces, the title she requested that it be based on familiar Afro-American tunes. Three Pieces for Clarinet and Two for Piano also stems from I had studied Shape Note music extensively as well, and the relation between the two performers. The music for each thought it would be interesting to combine the melodies of instrument, although derived from the same basic material, is these "white spirituals" with the black spiritual melodies. As presented in very different ways as two unrelated layers of I looked for pieces on which to base my piece, I found that sound. The music for the piano is always very rigid' static many were in the same keys and modes and had similar and symmetrical. The music for the clarinet, on the other had, contours in their melodies. I ended up basing the first is always freely expressive, rhapsodic and constantly changing movement on "Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child" and shape and form. The aggressive energy of the second piece 'Tm Just a Poor Wayfaring Stranger." The second movement and the distant calm of the third are both (alternately) reflected is based on "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel" and other tunes. in the first piece for clarinet alone. The result is what I hope is a seamless mesh of two different and important American musics. - Katharine O'Connell
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Program Notes Sinatra Shag (1995) In the spring of 1995, I had the pleasure of working with the Concert #9: Milwaukee-based new music ensemble Present Music during New Chamber Music I a residency at the Cornish Institute of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. During a lunch break, I chanced upon an (cont.) alternative rock record store with an impressive array of unusual postcards. One postcard in particular interested me: My Aunt Gives Me a Clarinet Lesson Nancy Sinatra, circa 1966, sporting a pair of knee high white One summer years ago, I happened to glance at an issue of boots sitting on a Harley Davidson motorcycle. I dashed back American Scholar left lying around by my editor wife. (By a to the rehearsal filled with inspiration, and Sinatra Shag for long shot, this was not my usual summer reading material, so Flute/Piccolo, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, and it must have been a really slow summer.) A cover story about Percussion was born. the "Ph.D. Squid" problem in American academia(!?) grabbed - Michael Daugherty my attention and pulled me into the volume, where I stumbled across this wonderful poem by Gregory Djanikian. Years later Time Out of Mind when Rebecca Rischin asked me to write a piece of chamber Written for Portuguese-American pianist Alexandra Mascolo music for clarinet, the idea to incorporate this poem became David, Time Out of Mind was inspired by the epoch trilogy irresistible. Happily, Mr. Djanikian and Carnegie-Mellon "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R.R. Tolkien. The movements, University Press graciously granted permission to use his named after various chapters from the trilogy, depict stories poem; and Lisa Ford Moulton agreed to participate-despite from, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The the unusual nature of her projected role in the work. Return of the King. Each book of the trilogy begins with this synopsis of the ring's history: Both Lisa Ford Moulton and I are pleased to acknowledge the support of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Fellowship program in the creation of this work. It is dedicated Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, to all those who have ever attempted to bridge the chasm Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, between their earliest dreams of virtuosity and the pathetic One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne (but often humorous) reality of their first lessons -whether In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. through hard work or flights of fancy. One Ring to rule Them all, One Ring to find them, Seven Deadly Sins One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them ... is a non-programmatic expression of the composer's own In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. experience, and an impressionistic view of others, present company excepted. - Charles Argersinger Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Violoncello Written sporadically from summer (started at Interlachen) to early in the New Year, the Piano Quartet was ready for its February, 2001, premiere just in the nick of time. A major Program Notes four movement work, the Piano Quartet is unified in that the outer movements are based on the same musical ideas, albeit Concert #10: at different tempos. The inner movements are not related and New Chamber Music II in fact, the melodies of the third movement have been in my mind for many years and never written down until I began to work on the quartet. The final movement, despite it's links to Jackie's Song (1995-96) the first, contains it's own very personal melody and also a I composed Jackie's Song as a prelude to my opera Jackie 0 quotation of a famous Appalachian fiddle tune, "Sourwood (1995-97). I imagine Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as a solitary Mountain." The work was composed for my colleagues at and melancholy figure after the assassination of her first West Virginia University, the WVU Piano Quartet. husband in Dallas in 1962. My composition is a song without words, for chamber ensemble and solo cello. A mournful cello line is performed by the soloist, who plays in the extreme upper range of the instrument. The solo gradually ascends to a prolonged high C that is suddenly cut short by a riveting snare drum rim-shot. This elegiac theme, comprised of a tritone and a perfect fifth interval, is the compositional core for many of the melodies and harmonies of the composition; later, it became the leitmotif of Jackie in my opera.
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Program Notes Concert #11 : New Music for Young Orchestras
Variation of a Theme This piece was developed out of material borrowed from an earlier work of mine for double bass and piano (Contraforte ). That material is, of course, the "theme" referred to by the work's title. This short composition, written for a youth orchestra ensemble, is the first installment of a planned "collection" of five such pieces for orchestra. Variation of a Theme was premiered by the Old Post Road Orchestra in Ludlow Massachusetts on November 11 and 12, 2000 (Neal Schermerhorn, conducting) and subsequently broadcast over the Wilbraham Public Access affiliate station.
"... such sweet sorrow" The title is from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, where, at the conclusion of the balcony scene, Juliet says that "Parting is such sweet sorrow," a sentiment universal in love stories through the ages. The mood suggested by the words is reflected in the music.
Three Portraits These pieces began life as sketches for piano, each depicting characteristics of a friend of the composer. Each open with a variation on a theme (a twelve tone theme masked by tertian harmony). These sketches were later expanded and orchestrated. Each movement is now a short composition which can stand alone, although the unifying introductory sections remain.
Red Cape Tango The fifth movement from the Metropolis Symphony, Red Cape Tango was composed after Superman's fight to the death with Doomsday, and is my final musical work based on the Superman mythology. The principal melody, first heard in the bassoon, is derived from the medieval Latin death chant Dies irae. This dance of death is conceived as a tango, presented at times like a concertina comprising string quintet, brass trio, bassoon, chimes, and castanets. The tango rhythm, introduced by the castanets and heard later in the finger cymbals, undergoes a gradual timbral transformation, concluding dramatically with crash cymbals, brake drum, and timpani. The orchestra alternates between legato and staccato sections to suggest a musical bullfight.
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Composer Biographies University. His summers since 1992 have been spent teaching William Alexander at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. A native of Lompoc, California, William Alexander was born in 1927. He attended the Peabody College of Vanderbilt Beall has received commissions from the National University to study with Roy Harris, then in residence there. Endowment for the Arts (two awards), several universities, He completed his master's and doctorate at Vanderbilt and the West Virginia Music Teachers Association (Composer of then began his teaching career. Dr. Alexander spent 40 years the Year, 1981), Radiological Consultants Association of West at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where he taught music Virginia, and the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. history and composition, also serving as department chairman Performances have come from the Dallas, Rochester, for 25 years. He now is an emeritus professor at the university. Pittsburgh, and West Virginia Symphonies, the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, chamber organizations such as the Interlochen Alexander prefers to create works for chamber ensembles, Faculty Players, Quorum, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, although several orchestra works have been performed, Claremont Quintet, Laureate Wind Quintet, and Rutgers Wind notably by the Erie Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony and Quintet, among others Orchestra Society of Philadelphia. His band works have been performed by the U.S. Army Band, U.S. Navy Band and U.S. In 1985 John Beall completed his Symphony No . 1 while a Air Force Band in addition to several college and university fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study and Conference bands. Commissioned works include those for the York Center at Bellagio, Italy, and at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New Symphony, Music Teachers National Association, York. The work was premiered by the West Virginia University Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association and several solo Symphony Orchestra under Rachael Worby in 1986. In 1990 works for various performers. he was named Benedum Distinguished Scholar for the Arts and Humanities by West Virginia University. December, 1991, Charles Argersinger saw the premiere at WVU of Beall's Anglican Mass for large After completing a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in choir, soloists, organ and orchestra. In 1995 he was named to 1979, CharlesArgersinger went on to teach at California State a fellowship in music composition by the West Virginia University, DePaul University, and at Washington State Division of Culture and History in collaboration with the West University, where he is presently coordinator of composition Virginia Commission on the Arts. His two-act opera based and theory. Currently he serves on the national council of the on Edith Wharton's novel, Ethan Frame, was staged as a part Society of Composers (SCI) as the Co-Chair of the Pacific of the centennial celebrations of the West Virginia University Northwest region. Among his awards is the 1995 United School of Music in the fall of 1997 and recorded for television Nations first prize for a brass fanfare for the 50th Anniversary broadcast. His music is published by MMB Music, Inc., Carl of the U.N. His Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra Fischer, and Southern Music Co. Recordings are on Cambria was recorded by members of the Chicago Symphony (2 CDs) and Crystal. Orchestra and the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago. It was premiered by the Alabama Ryan Beavers Symphony Orchestra in 1992, and has been recently Ryan Beavers is pursuing his master's degree at the University performed by the Kansas City Symphony, the Memphis of Texas at Austin, where he has studied with Dan Welcher, Symphony Orchestra, the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra Donald Grantham, Kevin Puts, Kevin Beavers, and Mark in Oakland, and the LSU Contemporary Music Festival Schultz. His music has been performed at Music2001 in Orchestra. He is the 1997 Composer of the Year for the Cincinnati, the Tallahassee Composition Workshop, and the Washington State Music Teachers Association and winner of third annual SCI National Student Conference in the 1997 Composer Fellowship from the Idaho Commission Bloomington, Indiana. on the Arts. Bruce Christian Bennett John Beall Born in 1968, Bruce Christian Bennett is a native of Seattle John Beall was born in Belton, Texas, in 1942. He studied who has lived in San Francisco since 1991. He is involved in composition at Baylor University with Charles Eakin and research and composition at the Center for New Music and Richard Willis completing his studies there with a master's Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and is currently employed by degree in 1966. During the years 1971-73 Mr. Beall completed Digidesign. He received his Ph.D. in music composition from doctoral study at the Eastman School of Music where he was the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999, where he a student of Samuel Adler. In 1972 he received the Louis Lane studied composition with Richard Felciano and computer Prize for his orchestral work, Lament for Those Lost in the music with David Wessel. He received his M.M. in War, and in 1973, the Howard Hanson Prize for his Concerto composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for Piano and Wind Orchestra. Since 1978 Beall has been in 1993, where he studied composition with Andrew Imbrie, professor of music and composer-in-residence at West Virginia
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Composer Biographies Deane's research interests are grounded in acoustic composition (orchestral, chamber, and vocal music) with David Conte, and Elinor Armer, and his B.A. in music from further interests in multimedia live performance using Reed College in 1990, where he was a student of David Schiff. intelligent interactive production systems (sensor-based He has received numerous honors, including the 1993 Prix lighting and sound production, as well as virtual set Maurice Ravel. He is a founding member of both the Berkeley technology). Recent performance venues for her works range New Music Project and the CNMAT Users Group (a coalition from Carnegie Recital Hall to Silicon Valley's Tech Museum of composers and engineers whose interests are in the where her immersive sonic environment, Beloved Mnemosye, interaction of music and technology), and is president of the was a featured installation at the Art & Technology Network board of directors for Earplay (a San Francisco based new conference presented by GroundZero and New York's The music ensemble). His works have been performed by such Kitchen. Created in collaboration with UCLA's HyperMedia groups as the Arditti String Quartet, the Ensemble Studio, this first prototype in a series named after Mnemosyne, InterContemporain, Sirius, and members of the San Francisco the Greek goddess of memory, focuses on how seeing objects Contemporary Music Players. can trigger our memories. This research features an important development in the creation of interactive, immersive sonic Chin-Chin Chen environments - "smart art." Her latest acoustic commission Chin-Chin Chen, composer and director of the Grand Valley from ZAWA! Flute duo, Dreams Awake,premiered at Carnegie State University Music Technology Center, joined the GVSU Hall in February 2000 before it went on tour throughout the music faculty in 1999. Prior to coming to GVSU, she taught U.S. In August 2001, ZAWA! performed the piece to a crowd at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. She holds a D.M.A. of over 2,000 at the National Flute Association Conference in Composition/Theory, M. M. in Music Theory, as well as in conjunction with the CD release of the work. M. Mus. in Piano Performance from the University of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign), and a B. A. in Social Work from Fu Paul Dickinson Jen Catholic University in her native Taiwan. Her Paul Dickinson was born in 1965 in Illinois, and grew up in electroacoustic works Points of No Return (1997, for two Oregon. He began his musical studies on piano at age 11 and channel tape) and Points ofArrival ( 1998, for violin and tape) composition at age 12. He has received degrees from the won first prize and honorable mention, respectively, in the Eastman School of Music (BM) and Northwestern University Concorso Internazionale Luigi Russolo in Varese, Italy. Her (MM, DM). His composition teachers have included Joseph works have received international performances and Schwantner, Warren Benson, Samuel Adler, Tomas Svoboda, broadcasts in such cities as Corfu, Buenos Aires, Seoul, Lyons, Alan Stout, and Gerhard Stabler. His honors and awards Prague, Austin, San Jose, Montreal, Melbourne, Belo include a grant from the Arkansas Arts Council, a BMI Award, Horizonte, Barcelona, Beijing, and others. She is published a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst by Media Press. (DAAD-German Academic Exchange Service) and numerous commissions. Dickinson is assistant professor of Anne Deane composition and music theory at the University of Central Anne Deane is a composer whose acoustic md computer music Arkansas. is distributed internationally by Innova, MIT Press and Neuma recording labels and Theodore Front Musical Literature. She Frank Felice holds advanced degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Frank Felice began his musical studies in Hamilton, Montana, University of California at Santa Barbara. Before coming to playing piano, guitar and double bass. Interest in composition Iowa State University's Department of Music as assistant began through participation with a number of rock bands, professor, Deane was assistant researcher in the Department one of which, Graffiti, toured the western United States and of Music at University of California, Santa Barbara the Far East in 1986-1987. Felice attended Concordia College (CREATE), and Associate Director of the University of in Moorhead, Minnesota, the University of Colorado, and California system-wide Digital Media Innovation Program Butler University. Most recently he has studied with Dominick (DiMI). While at DiMI she championed the digital media Argento and Judith Lang Zaimont at the University of research infrastructure for all nine campuses and three national Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he completed his Ph.D in laboratories across many scientific disciplines and creative 1998. Now an assistant professor at Butler University in fields. She was a lecturer in the Media Arts & Technology Indianapolis, he has taught at Eastern Wyoming College, the graduate degree program at UCSB. Previously, she also served University of Minnesota, Sam Houston State University, and on the board and faculty of The Walden School for young Lamar University. composers and as associate editor of Computer Music Journal, published by MIT Press. Felice has most recently served as composer-in-residence with the Symphony of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, where he helped write the Create-a-Symphony Program. He has also served as composer-in-residence for Eastern Wyoming
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Composer Biographies Sharp (Cleveland Orchestra). Among the performers who have College, along with the Wyoming Council on the Arts from championed his music are such artists and groups as North/ 1988-1990. During his tenure there he not only taught in the South Consonance, Kathleen Supove, Kesatuan, Luis public schools, but lectured and composed pieces for many Gomezlmbert, Max Lifchitz, Lisa LaCross, Michael Linville, of the ensembles in residence. the Florida Symphony and The Glass Orchestra. Glesser's writings include works for small to medium ensemble, solo His works have been performed extensively in the U.S. as piano and orchestra. His music is published by North/South well as Japan, the United Kingdom, Austria, the Czech Editions and Musica21 Publishing, and is available for loan Republic, and Hungary. His commissions have included from the American Music Center archives. funding from the NEA, Wyoming State Arts Board, Indianapolis Youth Symphony, Kappa Kappa Psi/Tau Beta UlfGrahn Sigma and the Minneapolis Vocal Consort. Ulf Grahn studied music at the Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm and at the Stockholm City College where his Jack Gallagher principal composition studies were with Hans Eklund. He Jack Gallagher's Symphony in One Movement has been called holds degrees from Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut by American Record Guide "a well-written, moving work;" and the Catholic University of America. He has also studied it noted "the Gallagher alone is worth the price of this well Business Administration, Economics and Development recorded disc." Mr. Gallagher is professor of music at the Studies at The University of Uppsala, Sweden. In 1973 he College of Wooster in Ohio. He earned doctoral and masters founded the Contemporary Music Forum in D.C. and served degrees in composition from Cornell University and the B.A. as its Program Director until 1984. During 1988-90 he was degree cum laude from Hofstra University. Artistic and Managing Director of the Music at Lake Siljan Festival, Sweden. Presently he teaches Swedish language and Gallagher's Exotic Dances was nominated by the then-editor culture at the Foreign Service Institute. of American Music magazine for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Music. In the same year, his The Persistence of Memory was Recent performances include The Instrumental Opera The selected by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra for Enchanted Forest; Sinfonie no II, Celebration for Marimba, performance at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. He was named Nocturne for piano trio and Tape, Trombone 1996 Ohio Composer of the Year by the Ohio Music Teachers Unaccompanied?!, Three Dances with Interludes for six Association. In 1999 he was Featured Guest Composer at the percussionists, Kurbitsmalning for choir and violin, Psaltaren 37th Annual Contemporary Music Festival at Sam Houston 9:2 3,9-12 for two Sopranos. Grahn's music is published by State University, Huntsville, Texas. He has received awards, Seesaw Music Corp, Edition Suecia and Edition Nglani and grants, fellowships and recognition from the Ohio Arts is available on Opus One, Orion and Caprice Records. Council Individual Artist Fellowship Program, the Charles Ives Center for American Music, the Yaddo Corporation, Meet Stephen Grielbling the Composer, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Virginia Stephen Grielbling was born and raised in Akron where he Center for the Creative Arts, the Barlow International has lived except for 3-1/2 years in England. He worked at Composition Competition, and others. Compact disc the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. for 40 years as a chemist recordings of his works include: Symphony in One Movement: and engineer, and holds four patents there. Griebling earned Threnody, on (Vienna Modem Masters); The Persistence of a degree in chemistry from Mount Union College and attended Memory (In Memoriam: Brian Israel-on VMM); Proteus graduate school at The Ohio State University. Rising from the Sea, commissioned and released by the Air Force Band of Flight; Berceuse (VMM); Toccata for Brass He was a member of the Akron Symphony Chorus and Quintet (Musical Heritage Society MHS); Capriccio Blossom Festival Chorus and plays piano and cello. Although (Artsmart); and Ancient Evenings and Distant Music he is largely self-taught, his music has been performed widely (Capstone). Since 1999, most of his works are published by and is published by The Willis Music Company, Southern Editions Bim, Switzerland. Music Company, and Manduca Music. His Tone Poem Queensmere: December 1964 was awarded first prize in the Frederic Glesser NSOA composition contest in 1976 and was premiered by Frederic Glesser is a native of Toledo, Ohio. Educated at Kent the Akron Symphony Orchestra directed by Louis Lane. A State University (B.M.) in Ohio and the University of Miami choral setting of the biblical text "For Everything there is a (M.M.) in Florida, he has studied composition with Dennis Season" was a finalist in the Ithaca Choral competition and Kam, James Waters, David Stewart, and has attended performed by the Akron Symphony Chorus. masterclasses with Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Martino. He has also studied flute with Raymond DeMattia and Maurice
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Composer Biographies Wind Ensemble, the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Jonathan Hallstrom Symposium American Milestones series in Eugene, Oregon, Jonathan Hallstrom was born in 1954 and teaches music theory the Musica da Camera orchestra, and the Valley City State and composition at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, where University Wind Ensemble in North Dakota. he also conducts the Colby Symphony Orchestra and directs the electronic music studio. He has also served as Consulting In 1997, Hutchinson won the Third Angle New Music Director for the Juilliard Music Technology Center. Hallstrom Ensemble's Young Composers Competition. The Pacific Rim has received grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller, Gamelan presented his music (Sightseeing and Celebration) Exxon, and Sloan Foundations, and is known as a conductor at the SCI Regional Festival in Stockton, California, the and composer and for his work in computer-aided composition Oregon Bach Festival Earport Concert Series, and the Music systems design and real-time interactive music systems. Today Festival at the University of Oregon.
Ching-chu Hu Gregory J. Hutter Ching-chu Hu, was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and received his Gregory J. Hutter holds bachelors and masters degrees in B.A. from Yale University in 1992. After studying at the theory and composition from Western Michigan University Freiburg Musikhochschule for a year, he went to the and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, respectively. University of Iowa, where he received a M.A. in Composition He is a doctoral candidate in music composition at and a M.F.A. in Orchestral Conducting in 1996. He received Northwestern University, where he is also a lecturer in the his D.M.A. in Composition from the University of Michigan Department of Academic Studies and Composition. Hutter in 2001. His composition teachers include William Bolcom, has also served as an adjunct professor of Music at Concordia Leslie Bassett, William Albright, Bright Sheng, Evan University in River Forest, Illinois. His extensive catalog of Chambers, Michael Daugherty, David Gompper, Michael compositions includes orchestral, solo and chamber works, Tenzer, and Jonathan Berger. He has been a composition music written for theater and modern dance, and works for fellow at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, May in Miami electronic and computer media. Festival, June in Buffalo, and the Advanced Center for Composition at the Aspen Music Festival. Ching-chu was a His music has been presented at various venues including the winner of the 2000 SCI/AS CAP Composition Commissioning Festival Musica Moderna (Lodz, Poland), the Society of Program. He has written the score for The Life and Times of Composers, Inc. national conferences, the Syracuse Society Jimmy B., a film by Alison McDonald, which recently received for New Music, the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium's a Director's Guild of America Award. Ching-chu is an assistant Fifth Annual Meeting at the University of Chicago, June in professor at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Buffalo, Music 2001 (Cincinnati College-Conservatory) and Austin Peay State University's Dimensions Series. In April Robert Hutchinson 2002, his Skyscrapers for orchestra will be premiered at the Robert Hutchinson is assistant professor of music theory and North American Music Festival (Boca Raton), with Arthur composition at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Weisberg conducting. Washington. He earned his B.A. magna cum laude from California State University Bakersfield, where he studied with Hutter was the first prize recipient in the 14th annual Young Doug Davis, and his M.M. with honors from Northern Arizona Composers' Competition for 2000, given by the Center for University, where he studied with Kenneth Rumery. Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University. In 2001, he Hutchinson completed his Ph.D. in composition with a won the second prize in the Chicago Union League Civic and supporting area in music theory at the University of Oregon, Arts Foundation competition for original piano music. where his primary teachers were Robert Kyr, Kathryn Alexander, Harold Owen, and Jeffrey Stolet. During his final Arthur Jarvinen year at the University of Oregon, he received the award for Arthur Jarvinen, born in 1956, has been a featured composer Outstanding Graduate Student in Composition. He has and performer on prominent concerts and festivals throughout participated in master classes by Daniel Asia, Seymour Barab, the U.S. and abroad for over two decades. He was a founding Osvaldo Golijov, John Harbison, Stephen Jaffe, David member of the California E.A.R.Unit with whom he was Maslanka, Donald Martino, Arvo Part, Krzysztof Penderecki, associated for 18 years as composer, arranger, and conductor, Miroslav Pudlak, and Joseph Schwantner. performing on percussion, electric bass, slide guitar, chromatic harmonica, voice, and electronics. In 1978 he founded the Premier performances of commissioned works by Hutchinson Antenna Repairmen, an experimental percussion trio that include the L'Organo Series of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival continues to this day. In 1995 he established Some Over in Charleston, South Carolina, Winthrop University in South History, an ensemble dedicated to his own music. Carolina, the Oregon Festival of American Music, the Oregon
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Composer Biographies Piano Competition for 20th-century music, and the all Jarvinen has received commissions from the Los Angeles U .S.S.R. composition competitions in 1985 and 1987. He has Philharmonic, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the received the Indiana Arts Commission Fellowship and a grant Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, the American from the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music. Composers Forum, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Zeitgeist, Alea III, and others. He received a 1990 Kasparov's music and performances are featured on the NEA composer fellowship for The Paces of Yu, a unique Vienna Modem Masters and Contemporary Record Society percussion work for Brazilian berimbau (a folk instrument) labels. His compositions and articles have been published by and homemade instruments. Jarvinen's works have been the Kompozitor Publishing House in Moscow, Russia and performed by the California E.A.R. Unit, the Los Angeles Hungarian Music Quarterly in Budapest, Hungary. Philharmonic New Music Group, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Xtet, Bang On A Can All Stars, HyeKungLee and New York New Music Ensemble. He is on the composition HyeKung Lee, a graduate from The University of Texas at faculty of the Califonia Institute of the Arts. Austin (DMA in composition and performance certificate in piano) studied with Karl Korte, Donald Grantham, Russell James A. Jensen Pinkston, Dan Welcher, and Stephen Montague. She also James A. Jensen is professor chair of theory/composition in studied with Bernard Rands at the Atlantic Center for the Arts the School of Music at Samford University in Birmingham, in March 1998, and Ladislav Kubik at the Czech-American Alabama, where he also teaches clarinet. He earned B.M. and Summer Music Institute in Prague 1995. Her Suite for Solo M.M. degrees from Pittsburgh State University, and a D.Mus. Piano is available on New Ariel Recordings (performed by degree from Florida State University. His composition Jeffrey Jacob) and her Opposed Directions for Disklavier and teachers have included John Boda, Carlisle Floyd, and David Live-electronics (performed by herself) is available on Volume Cope. His music has been performed throughout the southeast 8 of the SEAMUS CD Series. Her Sonatina for Soprano and at both regional and national conferences of SCI. He is a Saxophone and Piano is published by Musik Fabrik (Vandoren member of the International Clarinet Association, Catalog) in Paris and Piano Concerto No. I by Ballerbach International Association of Jazz Educators, Board Member Music. She was a composer-in-residence at University of and past president of the Birmingham Chamber Music Society, Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music in November Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, American Federation of Musicians, 1999. She taught at Oberlin Conservatory in spring 2000, and Reserve Officers Association, Society of Composers, Inc., a at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu in fall 2001. founding member of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, a While she was in Hawaii, she finished the CD recording, Blue consortium of local composers, and serves as commander of - New Music for Saxophone and Piano, with saxophonist the 313th United States Army Band. Todd Yukumoto.
Andrey Kasparov Carelton Macy Andrey Kasparov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, to a family Carel ton Macy, born in 1944, is a composer of works ranging of Armenian descent. He began studying music at the age of from vocal and orchestral to jazz and music for non-western six. At age 15 he moved to Moscow, Russia, where he entered instruments. Macy's music often integrates a variety of the Moscow State Conservatory, graduating with honors in historical and ethnic stylistic influences. His compositions Music Composition and Piano in 1989 and 1990, respectively. have been performed throughout the U.S. and Europe, and In the United States, he studied composition at the Indiana are recorded on the INNOVA, DAPHENO, ACCESS University School of Music in Bloomington. He also RECORDS and aca Digital Recordings (University of participated in the 1996 Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, Georgia). His woodwind quintets have received special Germany, where he studied with Brian Femeyhough. He is a recognition at the National Symposia for New Woodwind music professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Quintet Music held at the University of Georgia. Virginia, where he also directs Creo, the new music ensemble. Macy's composition teachers have included William Bergsma, Kasparov is an active pianist, appearing in concerts with Robert Suderberg, and Donal Michalsky. Macy is professor symphony orchestras throughout the former Soviet Union, of music at Macalester College where he has taught since North America, Europe, and South Africa. He has won prizes 1978. He has an active interest in non-western music and is at numerous composition and piano competitions, such as the artistic director, conductor and performer with the Minnesota 1997 Sergei Prokofiev International Composition Competition Chinese Music Ensemble. in Moscow, Russia, the 1998 Orleans (France) International
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Composer Biographies at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC in May 1997 Daniel McCarthy and an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the Hawaii "Daniel McCarthy's music," writes David Patrick Steams of State Foundation on Culture and the Arts in July 1997. U.S.A. Today, "is intriguing, inviting, shimmering ... with the vigor of pop music and the spontaneity of jazz." The Music Larisa Montanaro Connoisseur proclaims his music to be " ... contemporary in Larisa Montanaro, born in 1972, is originally from northern the best sense of the word" and 20th Century Music Magazine New York, but is currently a doctoral student at the University describes his work as "sassy and foreboding - refreshing of Texas at Austin. She has studied electronic composition and kicky. It's called style." with Paul Steinberg, Russell Pinkston, Mark Schultz, and Stephen Montague. Her first compositions were composed McCarthy's music has become standard repertoire for college, using analog equipment and cut-and splice techniques. As a professional, and high school musicians throughout the world. result, her new music retains the technique of musique Recent performances include The Taiwan Symphony concrete, but employs digital technology. In addition to being Orchestra (world tour, 2001), The Amarillo Symphony a composer, she is a singer specializing in New Music and Orchestra, Quorum Ensemble, Arianna Quartet, Slovak Radio song/vocal literature from the 12th through the 19th centuries. Symphony Orchestra, University of North Texas Wind She spent this past summer in Seattle, where she premiered Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra bassoonist Barrick Stees. an interactive video/sound installation in collaboration with artist and videographer Alicia Berger. He has received awards from the International New Music Consortium, NEA, Indiana Arts Commission, Ohio Arts Katherine O'Connell Council, Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, Arts Midwest, Katherine O'Connell was born in Santa Barbara, California, the National and Ohio Federation of Music Clubs (three in 1971. While in high school, she studied with Edward awards), Indiana State University Arts Endowment (five Applebaum at UC Santa Barbara. In 1993 she received a awards), The University of Akron, T.U.B.A., and the National B.M. in composition from Shepherd School of Music at Rice Association of Jazz Educators. He was nominated recently University, where she studied with Paul Cooper and Samuel by the Michigan State University Bands for the Pulitzer Prize Jones. In 1996 she completed her M.M. in composition at in Music and the Grawemeyer Award in Composition. the University of Kentucky, where she worked with Joseph Baber. She returned to UK in 1999, where she received a McCarthy chairs the Composition and Theory Section at The fellowship to complete a DMA in composition. She teaches University of Akron School of Music where he is founder at Cleveland State University and is vice president of publicity and director of the American New Arts Festival. He was for the Cleveland Composer's Guild. previously Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Creative Professor in Composition at Indiana State University, where he directed This past June, 0 'Connell 's Turner Seascapes was chosen as the Contemporary Music Festival with the Louisville part of a national search to be read and recorded by the Orchestra. He is founder of the Midwest Composers' Forum Women's Philharmonic in San Francisco. Other activities this and president of the Cleveland Composers Guild. During the year include the premiere of a choral work commissioned by summer he is Instructor of Composition, Theory, and the New Haven Oratorio Chorale, the performance of a dance Computer Music at the Interlochen Arts Camp and music piece at New York University and the premiere of a sextet for director and conductor of the Interlochen Festival Orchestra. wind and piano commissioned by the Prism Chamber Music Society in Chicago. Last summer she was invited to participate Neil McKay at the Ennis Opera workshop in Ireland, where her opera Born in Canada, Neil McKay was educated at the University excerpt from Waiting for Godot was performed. She is of Western Ontario and the Eastman School of Music where working on a ballet for chamber orchestra, to be performed he studied with Bernard Rogers, Howard Hanson, and Alan at the Sandusky Festival of New Music in Ohio, where she Hovhaness. Early work as arranger-performer in Canadian was composer-in-residence in May 2000. radio was followed by American citizenship and a teaching career at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Mark Phillips Hawaii where he is now Professor Emeritus. Mark Phillips won the 1988 Barlow International Competition. Leonard Slatkin has conducted his music with His compositions include works for orchestra and band, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, chamber music, choral music and opera. Many works written and the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Japan. Other significant since 1965 reflect McKay's interest in the ethnic music of the performances of his music include the Chautauqua Symphony Pacific Basin and are published, recorded, and heard Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, the San Antonio internationally. Recent honors include a composer residency Symphony Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra,
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Composer Biographies Nikola Resanovic the Lark Quartet, and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. Born in Derby, England in 1955, Nikola Resanovic is of Phillips has received awards from the Ohio Arts Council, the Serbian heritage and has lived in the United States as a Indiana Arts Commission, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, Ohio naturalized citizen since 1966. He is a graduate of The University, Indiana University, the Delius Composition University of Akron School of Music and the Cleveland Competition, and the National Flute Society. Institute of Music, where he studied composition with Donald Erb. His instrumental compositions and arrangements have Phillips, a faculty member at the Ohio University School of been performed by the Toledo Symphony, Greater-Palm Music since 1984, is serving a five-year term as a presidential Beach Symphony, Mansfield Symphony, Lima Symphony, research scholar. From 1982-84 he was a Visiting Instructor Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Akron Youth of composition at the Indiana University School of Music. Symphony, University of Akron Symphony, Cleveland Born in Philadelphia, he holds a B.M. from West Virginia Orchestra Trio, Coryton Ensemble, Solaris Wind Quintet, University and a M.M. and D.M. from Indiana University. Paragon Brass Quintet, and Chicago Brass Choir. His music been performed at Interlochen, Tanglewood, Boston Ron Parks Symphony Hall, Severance Hall, Blossom Music Center, and Ron Parks has composed acoustic and electronic music for in Great Britain, Holland, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Finland, over 20 years. He holds a B.A. in composition from the North Sweden, China and Israel. Carolina School of the Arts, an M.M. in composition from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. from the University at Resanovic has worked extensively with the sacred chant of Buffalo. His compositions include large orchestral works, the Serbian Orthodox Church and has composed several chamber music, choral music, electroacoustic music, and volumes of choral liturgical music based on Serbian chant. interactive computer music. He is lecturer in composition, His secular choral rhapsodies - featuring the music of the theory, and computer music at Winthrop University. former Yugoslavia- have been performed by Serbian choral societies throughout the United States and Canada. His compositions and papers have been selected for inclusion at numerous national and international festivals and Resanovic is a member of BMI, the Society for Composers conferences including the Florida Electroacoustic Music Inc. and the Cleveland Composers Guild. He is music Festival, the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United professor at The University of Akron where he implemented States (SEAMUS) conference, the International Computer and directs the School's newly relocated and renovated Music Conference (ICMC), The Two-Sided Triangle concert Electronic Music Facility. series in Essen Germany, the Next Wave festival in Melbourne Australia, the Earfest and Computer Music at Stony Brook Andrew Rindfleisch series at SUNY Stony Brook, the Unbalanced Connection Andrew Rindfleisch is an internationally active composer, concerts at the University of Florida, the Timara Faculty and conductor, and pianist who has produced dozens of works for guest concert series at Oberlin College. the concert hall. He is the 1997-98 recipient of the Rome Prize and in 1996 received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation He has received two Giannini Scholarships for Music Fellowship. He received the 2001 Aaron Copland Award and Composition at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the the 2000 Koussevitzky Foundation Commission from the Chancellor's Award for Excellence at the North Carolina Library of Congress. He holds degrees from the University School of the Arts, three Graeffe Memorial Scholarships for of Wisconsin at Madison (B.M.), the New England Composition at the University of Florida, and the University Conservatory of Music (M.M.) and Harvard University of Florida's 1994 Presidential Recognition Award. He was (Ph.D.) and is composition professor at Cleveland State commissioned by the North Carolina School of the Arts' University. International Music Program to write a work for the 1988 European tour and was awarded a grant from the Semans An active conductor, Rindfleisch is founder and music director Creative Arts Foundation for the composition of an orchestral of Boston's contemporary American music ensemble, work which was premiered by the North Carolina School of Phantom Arts. He is associate conductor of the Cleveland the Arts Orchestra. He received a Meet the Composer grant Chamber Symphony, an orchestral ensemble dedicated solely and in 1995 was elected to the Gamma Zeta Chapter of Pi to contemporary literature, and music director of the New Kappa Lambda, a national honor society for musicians. Music Associates, a concert series in Cleveland devoted to presenting contemporary chamber music literature.
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Composer Biographies Kurt Sander Jonathan Saggau Kurt Sander, born in 1969, is assistant professor of music at Jonathan Saggau attends the New England Conservatory in Indiana University Southeast and founder of the Resolution Boston where he studies composition with Robert Cogan. He 2000 New Music Festival. His works have been played by was recently awarded the BMI Student Composer Award, a the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Synchronia Ensemble, young composer award drawing applicants from throughout The New Music Associates, Schola Cantorum (St. Peter's in the western hemisphere. He holds a B.M. in composition from the Loop), and have been read by the Lydian Quartet, the Iowa State University and is a former member of the board of Quintet of the Americas, and the Cincinnati Philharmonia. directors of the Iowa Composers Forum. He recently was He has also been awarded first prize in the Ninth Annual commissioned by Iowa State University to write Dismantling Young Composers Competition at Austin Peay State the Silence to mark the installation of that University's new University, first prize in the 2000 Illiana Choral Composition president. Future plans include finishing a concerto for Competition, and honorable mention in the 1998 ASCAP percussion, clarinet and chamber winds with piano for the Morton Gould Grants for Young Composers Competition and Soria Chamber Players of Boston. the 1996 Utah Composers Guild Composition Contest. His music has appeared on two Young and Emerging Composers James Paul Sain Concerts by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony directed by James Paul Sain, a native of San Diego, California, is associate Edwin London, at the Ear Talk '96 Composers Symposium in professor of music at the University of Florida, where he Greece, at the 1993 June-in-Buffalo New Music Festival, the teaches acoustic and electroacoustic music composition as North by Northwestern New Music Festival, and on WGUC's well as music theory. His duties include directing the New Music Spotlight (Cincinnati). His music is published by internationally acclaimed annual Florida Electroacoustic Lawson-Gould and Media Press. Music Festival. His dedication to the design and implementation of interdisciplinary projects lead to a Felecia Sandler cooperative project with colleagues in dance and electrical Felicia Sandler 's recent commissions include Rosie the Riveter engineering aimed toward developing an alternative MIDI for the University of Michigan Symphony band, controller for dance. This project culminated with the creation commissioned by H.R. Reynolds, Ring Out Wild Bells! for of the MIDI Movement Module, M3, developed for Ender's the University of Michigan Chamber Chorus, a theater score Game and nominated by the editors of Discover Magazine The Nightingale for the Wild Swan Theater, an electronic for their 1998 Award for Technological Innovation in Sound. music score Inside/Out for Robin Wilson (founding member In the fall of 1993, Sain was in residence at the Swedish Royal of the Urban Bush women) for solo dance, and a ballet score Academy of Music as part of the SwedishAmerican Music for full orchestra Seven for the Emily Berry Dance Co. This Exchange. Most recently he was in residence at the last work was one of seven works selected by the American Sonoimagenes 2001 festival hosted by the University of Lanus Composers Orchestra for the ensemble's 1999 Whitaker New in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Music Reading Sessions in New York. Her song cycle Songs of Love, Life and Death was performed at the I Ith Congress His works have been featured at the Society of Composers, of the International Alliance of Women In Music, in London. Inc., Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Her choral music has been performed in Canada and Croatia College Music Society, American Guild of Organists, as well as extensively in the United States. Sandler's choral T.U.B.A., International Clarinet Association, World music is published with E.C. Schirmer Publishing and Mark Saxophone Congress, North American Saxophone Alliance, Foster Music Company. She earned the Ph.D. in composition Southeastern Composer's League, Southeast Hom Workshop, and theory in 2001 from the University of Michigan. and on the Computer Music at Clark [U.S.A.], Discoveries [U.K.], and Sonoimagenes [Argentina] concert series. Sain Phillip Schroeder served as Board Member in Composition for the College Born in 1956 in Northern California, Phillip Schroeder has Music Society Southern Chapter. He is an elected member of composed music for orchestra, wind ensemble, live the American Composers Alliance and he currently sits on electronics, chamber ensembles, choir, instrumental solos, and the Executive Committee for the Society of Composers Inc. voice. He has appeared as a featured guest composer, lecturer, Sain's composition Dystopia for saxophone and piano is on and performer at festivals, conferences, and universities, Volume 14 of the Society of Composers Inc. CD Series. His including the Bowling Green State University New Music music is published by Brazinmusikanta Publications of and Art Festival, SEAMUS and SCI Conferences, and Amityville, New York. numerous schools across the United States. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Palenville Interarts Colony, Millay Colony, and Charles Ives Center for American Music. His awards include the Delius Composition Contest,
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Composer Biographies He has received the Marc Brunswick Award in Musical Rhode Island Philharmonic Composers Award, and New Composition, Columbia University Fellow of the Faculty, Music for Young Ensembles Competition. National Defense Education Act Fellowship, the Joseph H. Beams Prize in Music, BMI Award, National Endowment for His music has been released by Moon of Hope Publications, the Arts Fellowship to the 1975 Composers Conference in Recital Publications and Boca! Music. Recordings include Johnson, Vermont and the 1985 Composers Conference in Turning to the Center, music for baritone, clarinet and Wellesley, Massachusetts, Commission from the Criterion keyboards recently released on Capstone Records, Lux Foundation, Fellowship from the National Endowment for aeterna, included on a Capstone Records CD through the the Arts, Fellowship to the Charles Ives Center for American Society of Composers, Inc. (CPS-8674), and two recordings Music, Friends of Harvey Gaul Composition Contest, Finalist, with Vienna Modem Masters and the Moravian Philharmonic: the 1987 Kucyna International Composition Contest, a Salutations for Orchestra (VMM-3045) and Fantasy for commission from Sigma Alpha Iota, and commissions from Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra (VMM-3048). He is on the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Fromm Foundation, the faculty at Henderson State University, teaching the Empyrean Ensemble, Ensemble 21, Trio Maurice Durufle, composition, theory and aural skills. and the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players.
David Smooke From 1974-76 he served as the Chairman of the Executive David Smooke has received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Committee of the American Society of University Composers the William Schuman Prize for most outstanding score in the and from 1977 through the present he has been editor of the BMI Young Composers Competition, and a first-level prize SCI (A.S.U.C.) Journal of Music Scores. Taub has taught at in the National Association of Composers USA Student the City College of the City University of New York and at Composer Competition; and scholarships from June In Buffalo Columbia University. His music is published by Music for and the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival. His music has been Percussion and C.F. Peters Corporation. performed by the University of Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players, the University of Iowa Center for New Nicholas Underhill Music, the Pacifica String Quartet, eighth blackbird, and Composer and pianist Nicholas Underhill studied composition pianist Amy Dissanayake, among others. at Hampshire College, Amherst College, and the New England Conservatory of Music. His composition teachers include He teaches music history and theory at the College of William Thomas McKinley, Lewis Spratlan, Donald Performing Arts of Roosevelt University, and music Wheelock and James McElwaine, as well as consultations composition and theory at the Merit School of Music. He has with Donald Erb, Margaret Brouwer, and Dennis Eberhard. taught at the University of Chicago, the Birch Creek Music He has been commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra, the Perforrnance Center (where he was also composer in Ohio Music Teachers Association, The Fortnightly Musical residence) and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony Workshops; Club, The Cleveland Flute Society, Mary Kay Fink, Takako and has delivered public lectures for, among others, the Masame, and Richard King. Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. He received an M.M. degree from the Peabody Long known in Boston and New York City as a champion of Conservatory and a B.A. magna cum laude from the new music for the piano, he has performed solo recitals in University of Pennsylvania, and is currently in Advanced Carnegie Recital Hall and Merkin concert Hall. He has taught Residency in the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago, piano at Mount Union College and Hiram College, and has where he received the Century Fellowship, the highest performed with the Cleveland Ballet Orchestra, the Cleveland fellowship offered by the Humanities Division. Chamber Symphony, and the Cleveland Chamber Collective.
Bruce J. Taub Dolores White Bruce J. Taub was born in New York City in 1948. He began Dolores White lives in East Cleveland and is an adjunct studying the bassoon at an early age with David Manchester professor of music at Kent State University's regional of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He was an active campuses. She has received several grants from ASCAP and performer as a member of the Composers Ensemble in New the Bascom Little Foundation. She is a member of the York. He has studied composition with Mario Davidovsky, American Music Center, ASCAP, Delta Sigma Theta, The Vladimir Ussachevsky, Jack Beeson, Chou Wen-chung and International Alliance for Women in Music, Fortnightly Charles Dodge at Columbia University, where he was one of Musical Club, Oberlin Alumni Club, and OMTA. She has the first two recipients of the DMA in 1974. He also studied done research on Afro-Cuban Music and Culture and given Indian Classical Music with Ravi Shankar. presentations on the topic at John Carroll University,
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Composer Biographies
Cuyahoga Community College, and Cleveland State University. She belongs to the Shaker Heights Interest Group that has sponsored and provided scholarships to the lnterlochen Arts Center in Interlochen, Michigan, for high school and elementary students for 15 years. In June 2001 the Dallas Symphony performed her composition Celebration which had been performed earlier by the Detroit Symphony in recognition of her being selected as a finalist in the Detroit Symphony Composer's Competition. She has several compositions on compact discs on the Albany label. The latest CD (1998) is titled, New American Scene II - Five Distinguished African American Composers, performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony with Edwin London conducting. In May 2001 she attended the Inter-American Conference on Black Music Research sponsored by the Center for Black Music Research and the 27th annual Conference of the Society for American Music in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Three of her art songs will be included in An Anthology ofArt Songs by 20th Century African Americans Composers published by Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Press, 2002-2003.
Tao Yu Tao Yu was born in 1981 in Beijing, China. She is a third year student in the composition department of the China Conservatory of Music. As the top student of the entrance examination, She studied at the China Conservatory of Music from 1996 to 1999. Her primary composition teachers have been Professor Wang Ning, Professor Shi Wan-chun, and Professor Yao Heng-Ju. She has sung with the chorus of the China Conservatory of Music. She has received the third prize in a piano competition held by the Haidian district of Beijing and now teaches the piano at the Golden Sun Conservatory.
During 2000, her song Rose for mezzo-soprano and piano was awarded the second prize for Artistic Songs Competition hold by China Conservatory of Music. Her music has also received an award from the National Universities Original Songs Competition. Other notable performances of her music, beside Beijing, include venues in Korea and the International Contemporary Music Festival held in Tianjin.
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Performer Biographies performer of African, Afro-Cuban, and Brazilian music and a Gustavo Aguilar, percussion founding member of the music and dance ensemble, Biakuye. Gustavo Aguilar, percussionist, composer, and improviser, has been active in the creative music scene for almost a decade. Braun joined the faculty of Ohio University in 2000. Prior His commitment to combining pre-composed (notated) and teaching appointments include the University of Michigan present composed (improvised) musical elements has earned Flint, Albion College, Interlochen Arts Camp, and the him the reputation as an "intuitive, methodical mystic." His University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He earned his music has been called "beautiful, introspective and bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and his passionate," "thought-provoking and thoroughly fresh." master's degree from the Eastman School of Music.
A Brownsville, Texas native, Aguilar has appeared both as a Kristina Belisle, clarinet solo performer and group collaborator in Australia, Austria, Belisle has performed as soloist with the Houston Symphony, Croatia, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, and South Korea, as well as the Flint Symphony, and throughout Arkansas. She has won throughout the United States, performing improvisational numerous awards for her performances including the 1993 compositions and works written exclusively for him. He has William C. Byrd National Young Artist Award for Winds and performed and/or recorded with such creative artists as John Brass and the 1992 Ima Hogg National Young Artist Award. Bergamo, Roy Campbell, Nels Cline, Vinny Golia, Charlie As a chamber musician, she has performed with the Renaud Haden, Kang Tae Hwan, Park Jae Chun, Robert Reigle, and Chamber Music Senes, the Fontana Festival of Music and Wadada Leo Smith. Art, and the Norfolk and Bowdoin Chamber Music Festivals. As a founding member of Southspoon Winds, she received He has been on faculty at Del Mar College/Texas A&M top prizes in the Fishoff and Yellow Springs Competitions Corpus Christi, Korea National University of the Arts, and and was a finalist in the 1997 Concert Artist Guild The University of Akron, and has given master classes at Competition. An assistant professor at The University of universities across the United States and abroad. He is Akron, she previously was on the faculty of the University of composer-in-residence with GroundWorks Dancetheater of Central Arkansas. Belisle holds a DMA from Michigan State Cleveland, Ohio - a position he has held since 1997, and is University, where she studied with Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr. a graduate of The University of Akron under the tutelage of Larry Snider. Andrew Carlson, violin Andrew Carlson has performed as a soloist and as a chamber Heidi Albert, cello musician throughout the United States. Of his 1998 Merkin A native of Texas, Heidi Albert received her M.M. from New Hall performance the New York Times wrote "Mr. Carlson is England Conservatory of Music, where she was the assistant a demon fiddler and his performance here was serious and to David Wells. An avid chamber musician, Albert has studied concentrated." He has earned both a M.M. and B.Mus. from chamber music with Eugene Lehner, Colin Carr, Patricia the University of Georgia and a D.M.A. in performance and Zander, and the Orford String Quartet. In 1985 she was pedagogy from the University of Iowa. In addition to his principal cellist with the A.I.M.S. Orchestra in Graz, Austria. experience as a classical violinist, Carlson began learning traditional fiddle music from his grandfather at age 5. He has Albert is principal cellist with the Cleveland Chamber won numerous fiddle contests and has twice been named the Symphony, and appears often with the Cleveland Pops Georgia State Champion Fiddler and was named the 9000 Orchestra, the Akron Symphony Orchestra, and many other Ohio Grand Champion fiddler. His book entitled A Guide to groups throughout northeast Ohio. she has been a cello faculty American Fiddling was recently released by Mel Bay member of Westminster College in New Wilmington, Publishers. As a studio musician and string arranger he has Pennsylvania; Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio; and the Portage recorded for companies including Warner Bros., Atlantic, String Academy in Kent, Ohio. Elektra, Geffen, Polydor, and Capricorn. His most recent major label appearance is with the band "R.E.M." Roger Braun, percussion Roger Braun has made recordings and performed with such An active teacher, Carlson has served as a faculty member at artists as Bob Mintzer, Rosemary Clooney, Billy Taylor, Morehead State University and the Preucil School of Music. Kathleen Battle, Keiko Abe, Lyle Mays, Della Reese, and An assistant professor at Denison University in Granville, with Broadway touring shows Beauty and the Beast, Titanic, Ohio, he teaches violin, music history, and directs the and Ragtime. His orchestral experience includes co-principal orchestra. percussion of the Lansing Symphony and the Central Wisconsin Symphony, as well as performances with the Flint, Ann Arbor, and Saginaw Symphonies. He is an active
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Performer Biographies Amy Briggs Dissanayake, piano Winston Choi, piano Amy Briggs Dissanayake served as the principal pianist of Pianist Winston Choi is a student of Ursula Oppens at the Civic Orchestra of Chicago for six years, and has Northwestern University. He obtained both his master's and performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as an extra bachelor's degrees at Indiana University, studying with keyboardist. Her awards include a stipend prize at the 2000 Menahem Pressler. Early piano studies began in Toronto, Darmstadt Internationale Fereinkurse fiir Neue Musik, first Canada, where he was in the Young Performer's Program at prizes in the American Opera Society of Chicago competition, the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. the Union League and Civic Arts Foundation piano competition, the Farwell Competition, and the Rose Fay Most recently, he won the prize of best soloist in the 2000 Thomas Competition, which led to a solo performance in International Krystof Penderecki Contemporary Chamber Orchestra Hall, Chicago. Dissanayake has also been a Music Competition. He is one of the few two-time winners prizewinner in the Joanna Hodges International Piano of Indiana University's Piano Concerto Competition, and has Competition and the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano also won the grand-prize of the 2000 Indianapolis Matinee Competition, and made her New York City recital debut at Musicale, the 2000 Kingsville Piano Concerto Competition, the Donnell Library in 1992. and the 1999 Crane Festival of New Music Solo Performer Competition. New York audiences first heard him when he While Dissanayake's repertoire ranges from Baroque to played with flutist Ken Chia in their New York debut at contemporary, she is especially interested in performing Carnegie-Weill Recital Hall. He is also actively involved in compositions of living composers. She appears regularly on the performances of contemporary music, playing in numerous the Chicago Symphony's MusicNOW series and on Chicago's new music festivals and conferences. In April of 1999, he classical music radio station, WFMT. She has taught on the performed Post-Partitions by Milton Babbitt for the faculties of the Merit Music School, St. Xavier University, composer's induction into the American Classical Music Hall and the DePaul University Community Music Program. She of Fame in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has premiered dozens of has studied with Chicago Symphony Orchestra pianist Mary new works and has had numerous works dedicated to him. Sauer, and most recently with Ursula Oppens at Northwestern Composers he has worked with include Leslie Bassett, P.Q. University, where she earned a doctorate in piano performance Phan, Sven-David Sandstrom, and Elliott Carter. in 1999. The French newspaper La Republique du Centre called her performance of Frederic Rzewski's Down by the Coren Estrin Kleve, piano Riverside, "ascetique et sensuelle." The Chicago Tribune Coren Estrin Kleve was taught by her father, the well-known praised her "dashing virtuosity," and the Chicago Sun Times New York City pianist Mortin Estrin, and later by Eunice Podis called her a "ferociously talented pianist." at the Cleveland Institute of Music. After earning her degree, she made her home in Bay Village where she teaches today. Bridgett Crocker Emerson, flute Kleve is a frequent performer of music written by Cleveland Flutist Bridgett Crocker Emerson, a native of Northern and Akron composers in concerts at the Cleveland Music Virginia, received a B.M. in flute performance from School Settlement, the Cleveland Institute, Baldwin Wallace Shenandoah Conservatory where she studied with Francis Conservatory, Cuyahoga Community College, and Lorain Lapp Averitt. Emerson is currently working on her thesis Community College where she has also taught. entitled "Analysis in Performance: An Exploration through Lou Harrison's First Concerto for Flute and Percussion," the Kleve 's deep commitment to teaching young people has completion of which will fulfill the requirements for two M.M. sparked her involvement with the Ohio Federation of Music degrees (theory and flute) from the Bowling Green State Clubs, both as President of the West Side Junior Fortnightly University. While in residence at Bowling Green, Emerson Musical Club and as a coordinator of the anuual Junior studied flute with Judith Bentley, voice with Myra Merritt, Festival. Kleve may be heard on two compact disks: Frederick and served as teaching assistant in the theory department. Koch's "Contrasts" (Dimension Records) and "Riverside Emerson presently works for WCLV radio, and resides in Academy of Music presents Frederick Koch" (Trumedia Cleveland Heights where she maintains a private studio. Records Ltd.)
Paul Dickinson, piano See Composer Biographies.
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Performer Biographies Nelson Harper, piano Diane Fiocca, flute Nelson Harper has appeared at the prestigious Grand Teton Diane Fiocca is sssociate professor of music at Kent State Festival, and has been featured in numerous live broadcast University, where she performs with the Kent Wind Quintet. recitals from Chicago's Fine Arts Station, WFMT. He has She performs in solo and chamber settings at the University performed in a duo with violinist Michael Davis for over 20 and for series such as Music from Stan Hywet, Tuesday Music years, with concerts throughout the U.S and in London's Club, and Kent/Blossom Music. She served as principal flute Wigmore Hall. Other colleagues with whom he has performed for the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and has also include flutists Donald Peck and Jeanne Baxtresser, principals performed with the Akron, Canton and Indianapolis symphony of the Chicago Orchestra and New York Philharmonic orchestras. Fiocca was a winner in the 1999 National Flute respectively; the Atlanta Symphony's principal trumpeter Association's Convention Performer's Competition and was James Thompson; violinists Yfrah Neaman and Max Rostal, a finalist in the Great Lakes Performing Artists Competition and many others. He has given several works their American in 2001. She has served as artist/faculty for Kent/Blossom or world premieres, including music by Wilfred Josephs, Music and the Lutheran Summer Music Program, and has William Mathias and Faye Ellen Silverman. He is featured presented master classes for the Ohio Music Teachers on seven compact discs on the Koch International, Orion and Association. Before her appointment at Kent, she held Vienna Modem Masters labels. Harper serves on the piano teaching positions at Kenyon College and Northeastern faculty of Denison University, and was formerly on the faculty Missouri State University, and later engaged in doctoral study of Ohio State University where he was the recipient of the at Indiana University (Bloomington). Fiocca holds degrees Distinguished Teaching Award in the School of Music. from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and the Capital University Conservatory of Music. Mayumi Kikuchi, piano Mayumi Kikuchi hails originally from Hamamatsu, Japan, Mary Kay Ferguson, flute home of the Yamaha and Kawai piano companies. She Mary Kay Ferguson is the principal flutist with the Cleveland attended Chuo University where she majored in English Pops Orchestra, and plays flute and piccolo in the Cleveland literature. After graduating, she decided to study piano at Chamber Symphony, the Akron Symphony, and the New Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois, under a two-year Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. She was a prize winner scholarship. Kikuchi attended the University of Illinois at in the NFA Piccolo Artist Competition and the Tuesday Urbana-Champaign for graduate study. In 1999, she received Musical Club Competition. Her music festival performances a D.M.A. in piano performance from the School of Music at include the Grand Teton Festival, the Pierre Monteux Domaine the University of Illinois. She has studied under Ian Hobson, School, and the Odenwald Festspiele in Germany. Ferguson William Browning, Fr. John Palmer, and Noriko Hikita. She is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music holds a visiting professor position in the School of Music at and The University of Akron, where she teaches piccolo. The University of Akron. Prior to arriving in Akron, she taught Her recordings are on the Tel Arc, Albany, and Hyperion at the University of Illinois, the University of Massachusetts labels, among others. She is the founder of the Greater at Boston, and Assumption College. Cleveland Flute Society. Amy Laing, cello Michael Gallope, piano Originally from British Columbia Canada, Amy Laing earned Michael Gallope of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a strong her bachelor's degree from the HARID conservatory in Florida promoter of new music, both as a soloist and a collaborator. and her master's degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, His repertoire ranges from the works of Boulez and Babbitt where she studied with Cleveland Orchestra principal cellist to Reich, Ligeti, and George Crumb. As a student at the Stephen Geber. She has attended various summer festivals, Oberlin Conservatory, he has premiered more than 20 works. including Spoleto in Italy, Spoleto USA in Charleston, the He has performed twice as soloist with the Oberlin Wind National Orchestral Institute, and the Banff Festival of the Ensemble, and performs as a member of the Oberlin Arts. She is a member of the Canton and Akron Symphony Contemporary Music Ensemble. He has performed at the Orchestras, the Erie Philharmonic in Pennsylvania, and the Aki New Music Festival, Krannert Center for the Performing Cleveland Chamber Symphony. She also has played for the Arts, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and Cleveland Aki Festival of New Music presented by the Cleveland Museum of Art. He is organizing a John Cage festival in Museum of Art and in April she will perform in the New collaboration with Frances-Marie Vitti, The Oberlin Music Associates Series at Cleveland State University. Contemporary Music Ensemble, Deborah Campana, and Stephen Drury to take place in May 2002. In 2003 he will perform portions of Michael Finnissy's History of Photography in Sound.
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Performer Biographies Lisa Ford Moulton, dance Jeffrey Leigh, violin Lisa Ford Moulton performed, taught, and toured extensively Studies on both the piano and violin were early interests for with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City Jeffrey Leigh, while other instruments (mandolin, harmonica from 1990 to 1994. She has also danced as a guest artist with and ronroco), were later added to his palette. A graduate of SB Dance, Marina Harris, Contemporary Danceworks, and Indiana University with a B.M. in performance and a minor Loose Gravel Dance Company. Her choreography has been in Spanish, Leigh is currently a double masters degree performed at the Congress on Research in Dance, OhioDance's candidate for music composition and violin performance. Choreographers' Showcase, the American College Dance Festival, Repertory Dance Theatre's Experiments in the Black Takako Masame, violin Box, and by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Moulton Takako Masame has been a member of The Cleveland received Individual Artist Fellowship Awards from the Ohio Orchestra since 1985 and holds the Elizabeth and Leslie Arts Council in 1997 and 1999. Moulton joined the faculty Kondorossy Chair. Before corning to Cleveland she was a of the Ohio University School of Dance in 1995. She earned member of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, where she a B.A. from Brigham Young University in modern dance appeared as soloist for the Kurt Weill Violin Concerto. She is performance and a M.F.A. from the University of Utah. a founding member since 1985 of the Amici String Quartet. A native of Tokyo, Masame attended the Toho Gakuen School Andrew Pongracz, percussion of Music there where she received the B.M. degree. She earned Andrew Pongracz is principal percussionist of the Cleveland an Artist Diploma from The New England Conservatory of Chamber Symphony and the Penn's Woods Festival Orchestra. Music. He has played with the Youngstown and Mansfield symphonies and the Erie Philharmonic, as well as with Charo, Alexandra Mascolo-David, piano Aretha Franklin, Yes, and Dennis DeYoung, among others. Portuguese pianist Alexandra Mascolo-David has performed He holds degrees from Hiram College and Cleveland State and led workshops and master classes in Europe and the University and is on the music faculty at Hiram College. Americas. She has given solo recitals in Brazil, Italy, Portugal, Poland, and in the United States. She has appeared as a soloist Rebecca Rischin, clarinet with orchestras in Peru and the USA, and has completed five Rebecca Rischin, winner of first place at the First International years of engagements with the Orpheus Piano Trio of Central Clarinet Competition in Cracow, Poland, has performed with Michigan University. Her performances of Mignone 's piano orchestras and at international clarinet festivals in England, music, especially of his Valsas Brasileiras (Brazilian Waltzes), France, Poland and the United States. At the age of 17 she have been widely praised. was selected by clarinetist Richard Stoltzman to be the featured soloist at the 1985 San Francisco Mayor's Command Mascolo-David holds a piano diploma from the Oporto Performance. Rischin is assistant professor of clarinet and Conservatory of Music, Portugal, and the D.M.A. in piano chair of the woodwind division at Ohio University. She holds from the University of Kansas, where her teacher was Sequeira the B.A., cum laude, and M.M. degrees from Yale University, Costa. She has served on the piano faculties of Iowa State a doctorate from Florida State University, and a performance University and of the Interlochen Arts Camp. She teaches diploma from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. piano at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant. Richard Shanklin, saxophone Eric Moe, piano Richard Shanklin received a bachelor's degree in music Eric Moe has received commissions from the Fromm education from Illinois State University in 1968 and a master's Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, and several degree in music education from the University of North Texas distinguished ensembles and soloists. His diverse catalog in 1974. Shanklin began teaching at The University of Akron embraces works for a wide range of forces, including music in 1982, where he has taught classical and jazz saxophone for chamber and orchestral ensembles, music for the stage, and directed the Vocal Jazz Ensemble (which was invited to and electroacoustic music. The Pittsburgh Symphony perform at the OMEA State Convention and at the 1983 Orchestra premiered his orchestral composition, Mosaika, in International Association of Jazz Educators national early 1998. As a pianist, he has received critical acclaim for convention). He has soloed with the Cleveland Orchestra in a his performances of new music in Rome, New York, concert conducted by John Williams. He is a published Pittsburgh, Boston, and San Francisco. Recordings of Eric composer and arranger in the fields of jazz ensemble, vocal Moe as composer and pianist can be found on the CRI, jazz ensemble, and flute choir music. His compositions and Centaur, and Koch International labels. arrangements for jazz ensemble and vocal jazz ensemble have been published by C.L. Barnhouse Co. and by the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press
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Performer Biographies Tan has been a member of the music faculty at Northern Sally Sherwin, flute/piccolo Kentucky University, Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Before moving to Cleveland in 1997, Sally Sherwin was solo Music, Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, Transylvania piccoloist of the Colorado (formerly Denver) Symphony University in Lexington, Kentucky and at Hiram College in Orchestra and was featured soloist with the orchestra on Hiram, Ohio. At present she is on the faculty at The University numerous occasions. In 1998, Music Director Christoph von of Akron School of Music. Dohnanyi appointed Sherwin to the one-year position of acting second flutist with the Cleveland Orchestra, and she continues Christopher Weait, bassoon to be invited to perform with them. Since 1999, she held the Christopher Weait, professor of bassoon at The Ohio State post of assistant principal flute/piccolo of the Grant Park University, joined the faculty in 1984. Prior to his OSU Symphony Orchestra of Chicago and in 2000 was the appointment, he served 17 years as principal bassoonist in orchestra's featured soloist in a live broadcast performance the Toronto Symphony. He has been a member of the Chamber on National Public Radio. Sherwin has been on the music Symphony of Philadelphia, United States Military Academy faculties at the University of Denver, the University of Band, and Columbus Symphony Orchestra. He has taught at Northern Colorado, and Indiana University (Bloomington), the University of Toronto, National Youth Orchestra of as well as adjudicator for the New York State School Music Canada, and at the Festival Internacional de Musica in Buenos Association, the Greater Cleveland Flute Society, and the Aires. He was a visiting professor at the Eastman School of National Flute Music and at Indiana University. His publications include Bassoon Reed Making: A Basic Technique, Bassoon Warmups, Laura Silverman, piano and an edition of Schubert's Wind Octet in F Major, D. 72. Laura Silverman is coordinator and director of accompanying His research interests include the physiology of wind playing at The University of Akron. She received both her B.M. and and historic wind music. His recordings include compact discs M.M. degrees at The Cleveland Institute of Music, where she on Innova and other albums on the Crystal, Lyrichord, and studied with Vitya Vronsky Babin. She also had additional CBC labels. He was recipient of the School of Music studies with Paul Schenly and Grant Johanessen at CIM, and Distinguished Teaching Award in 1999. Weait holds a B.S. in Lee Luvisi at The Aspen Music Festival. Silverman was a music education from the State University College in Potsdam, prize winner in both The Robert Casadesus International Piano New York, and an M.A. from Columbia University. Competition and the JS Bach International Piano Competition. She was selected by The United State Information Agency to Roger Zahab, violin be an artistic ambassador for the U.S.; she toured South Educated at The University of Akron and the State University America and Australia. Most recently, she appeared as guest of New York at Stony Brook, Roger Zahab has studied violin artist at The Peninsula Music Festival in Door County, with Vincent Frittelli, Paul Biss, Hiroko Yajima, John Graham Wisconsin. and Paul Zukofsky. He has written much chamber, vocal and orchestral music in addition to work in dance, theater and Christina Tan, piano video. Recent recordings have been made of Doubles Keening A native of Singapore, Christina Tan made her national debut by the Pennsylvania Quintet, Fall/Return by guitarist James on television at the age of five. Concert pianist Bela Siki Marron on a CD entitled Spring Rising, Personal Dances by heard her perform in 1981 and invited her to study at the the composer, violin and Eric Moe, piano, and your offending College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. She has won kiss by the Solaris Quintet. Other works have recently been first prize at several competitions in the United States and performed in Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok, London and Lima, abroad. In addition to appearances with orchestras in Peru. As a performer he has given more than 70 premieres of Singapore and the United States, Tan has performed solo and works for the violin and recorded for the Koch International chamber recitals in Southeast Asia and the United States. Classics and Truemedia labels. His version of John Cage's Thirteen Harmonies for violin and keyboard is published by Tan has earned the Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music, C.F. Peters Corporation. London; and the Fellowship of the Trinity College, London; and bachelor and master of music degrees from the University of Cincinnati. In 1995 she completed the D.M.A. from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. Her teachers include Frank Weinstock, Bela Siki, Eugene and Elizabeth Pridonoff, and James Tocco.
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Ensemble Biographies Russell Tinkham, tuba Russell Tinkham earned his B.M. degree from East Carolina Paragon Brass Quintet University and his M.M. degree from The University ofAkron. He won the North Carolina MTNA collegiate brass Scott Johnston, trumpet competition, The University of Akron graduate concerto Scott Johnston is professor of trumpet at The University of competition, and second place in the Leonard Falcone Akron and principal prumpet with the Akron Symphony International Artist Tuba Competition. He is a freelance tubist Orchestra and the Canton Symphony Orchestra. Johnston has in the Akron area and interim music librarian at The University performed with the Madison Symphony, the Columbus of Akron. He will earn his master's degree in library and Symphony, the Grand Teton Festival, and as an extra with the information science in August. Cleveland Orchestra. In May 1993 he organized and hosted the 1993 International Trumpet Guild Conference in Akron. During the summers he is principal trumpet and brass Solaris Woodwind Quintet coordinator for the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. George Pope, flute Pope is the principal flutist of the Akron Symphony and Lyric Jack Brndiar, trumpet Opera Cleveland and professor of flute at The University of Jack Brnd.iar is instructor of trumpet and director of the brass Akron. He graduated with honors from the University of Tulsa choir at The Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory. He has received and Northwestern University and studied with Maurice Sharp, degrees from The Cleveland Institute of Music and The Walfnd Kujala, William Bennett and Geoffrey Gilbert. A Baldwin Wallace Conservatory. He also is principal trumpet founding member of Solaris, Pope is also a member of the of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, a member of the Ohio Garth Newel Chamber Players and is director of the Chamber Chamber Orchestra, and has performed and recorded with Music Society of Ohio. He has held pnncipal positions in the the Cleveland Orchestra, the Akron Symphony Orchestra, and Tulsa Philharmonic, the New Mexico Symphony, the the Canton Symphony Orchestra. Cleveland Philharmonic, and Canton Symphony and the Toledo Symphony. Fanfare magazine has acclaimed George William Hoyt, horn Pope's playing on Opus One Records as "clean, arrestingly William Hoyt is professor of horn at The University of Akron. vigorous and beautiful." He performs regularly with the Paragon Brass Quintet, the Solaris Quintet, and the Jazz Unit. He has performed with James Ryon, oboe the Akron Symphony, the Canton Symphony, and the James Ryon has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Brazil, Cleveland Orchestra. He won the Concert Artists Guild Award Venezuala, Egypt and the United States. He is principal oboist in 1977 and as a result performed a debut recital in Carnegie with the Akron Symphony and associate professor of oboe at Recital Hall in December of that year. Joseph Horowitz of The University of Akron. Ryon holds music degrees from the the New York Times reviewed the recital and declared Hoyt Juilliard School as well as a degree in Engineering and Applied "clearly a poised, sensitive horn player." He can be heard Science from Yale University. He has served as principal with the NFB Horn Quartet on Crystal Records and GM oboist with the Caracas Philharmonic and the Flonda Recordings, with Solaris Quintet on Capstone Records, and Orchestra and has appeared at the Aspen, Berkshire, Blossom, with the Jazz Unit on the Go Bop label. New College and Kneisal Hall music festivals. He has also performed with the Ars Nova Quintet, the Pittsburgh Edward Zadrozny, trombone Symphony, the Cleveland Opera, the Cleveland Ballet, Lyne Edward Zadrozny is an associate professor of trombone at Opera Cleveland, the Charleston Symphony, the New York The University of Akron, and is in his 24th season as principal Bach Ana Group and the British rock group Emerson, Lake trombone of The Akron Symphony Orchestra. A native of and Palmer. Northeast Ohio, Edward holds degrees in music from The Ohio State University and the University of Illinois. Additional Kristina Belisle, clarinet training was received at The Berkshire Music Center See Performer Biographies. (Tanglewood). A former member of The Philadelphia Orchestra, Zadrozny has performed, recorded and toured with William Hoyt, horn The Cleveland Orchestra and The New York Philharmonic. See Paragon Brass Quintet Biographies. Additionally, he has performed with The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Detroit Concert Band, Cleveland Symphonic Winds, Pro Musica (Columbus), and The Columbus Symphony Orchestra.
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Ensemble Biographies William Skidmore, cello Lynette Diers Cohen, bassoon As professor of cello at West Virginia, William Skidmore Lynette Diers Cohen is principal bassoonist of the Ohio coaches the resident graduate string quartet and other chamber Chamber Orchestra and has performed with the orchestras of groups and coordinates the string department. He has Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. Noth the Seattle presented numerous concerts throughout the Eastern U.S., Times and the Cleveland Plain Dealer have called her "a including performances at the National Gallery of Art, Phillips superb musician." She is a member of Theater Chamber Collection, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Players of Kennedy Center and has performed frequently with Arts, and at national MTNA conventions. As a chamber music American Chamber Players. She has appeared at many artist, he has been a member of the Maryland Trio, the festivals, including Aspen, Library of Congress, Marlboro, Baltimore Symphony String Quartet, and the American Arts Round Top, and Santa Fe, as well as performed on tour with Trio. Skidmore has been a member of the Baltimore Musicians from Marlboro. She has taught at Oberlin Symphony Orchestra, and principal cellist with the West Conservatory, the University of Maryland, and The University Virginia Symphonette and Ohio Valley Symphony. He holds of Akron and is on faculty of Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory. bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Illinois. His performances are found on a recent Cambria compact disc, "On Chestnut Ridge, Appalachian Chamber The West Virginia Piano Quartet Music by John Beall."
James Miltenberger, piano Pianist James Miltenberger teaches piano, piano repertoire, The University of Akron New Music Ensemble and jazz piano at West Virginia University. He received his D.M.A. and master's degree from the Eastman School of Christina Babich, cello Music and his bachelor's degree from Miami University of Christina Babich is a first-year graduate student at The Ohio. His solo appearances with various orchestras include University of Akron studying cello performance with Michael performances at Carnegie Hall and with the Pittsburgh Haber. She just graduated with a bachelor's degree in Spanish. Symphony Orchestra. He is the founder and pianist of the Christina began cello studies at age 9 under the Suzuki Miltenberger Jazz Quartet and has been soloist with the Method. She has attended the Meadowmount Music School University Symphony Orchestra, the Wind Symphony and as a student of Hans Jensen, and performed in master classes Percussion Ensembles at WVU. He has four compact discs given by Steven Isserlis and Crispin Campbell. In 1996 she available, two of solo contemporary classical piano music won the Akron Youth Symphony Concerto Competition and and two of jazz compositions. performed with the orchestra at E.J.Thomas Hall, and was soloist in February with The University of Akron Symphony Laura Kobayashi, violin Orchestra as result of winning the 2001 Concerto Competition. Laura Kobayashi received a bachelor's degree from Juilliard, She has performed with the Kent State Honors Orchestra a master's degrees from Yale, and a D.M.A. from the (1995), Northeast Ohio Regional Orchestra (principal), University of Michigan. She recorded a compact disc Tuscawaras Philharmonic (acting principal), and Akron Youth recording of music by 19th and 20th Century women Symphony (2 years as principal). Last year she received first composers which has been released on the Albany Records prize in the Tuesday Musical Club competition and attended label. Kobayashi has performed as a soloist with several the National Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland. orchestras in the United States, including the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Northwest Chamber Orchestra, and the Alison Bolton, viola Grand Junction Symphony. Bolton is a graduate student at The University of Akron. studying viola with professor Alan Bodman. Philip Tietze, viola Philip Tietze earned a bachelor's degree from Indiana Ashley Bowen, flute University and a master's degree from the University of Bowen is a junior flute major at The University of Akron. Southern California. He has been the assistant principal violist She is currently a flute student of George Pope (University of with the American Sinfonietta since 1993 and served as Akron), Mary Kay Ferguson and Wendy Webb Kumer. She principal violist of the Wichita Symphony and the Colorado is principal flute in The University of Akron Symphonic Band Springs Symphony Orchestras, as well as a member of the and was also principal flute with the Three River's Young Denver Symphony Orchestra. Solo and chamber music recital People's Orchestra. She is the recent first-prize winner in the appearances have included a solo recital performance on the 2002 Tuesday Musical Club Scholarship Competition and is Phillips Collection Recital Series in Washington, D.C., that a University of Akron Concerto Competition Winner. was broadcast over National Public Radio.
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Ensemble Biographies Conductor Biographies
Liz Caldwell, cello Eric Benjamin A native of Olathe, Kansas, Liz Caldwell received her conductor of the Akron Youth Symphony bachelor's degree in 2001 from the University of Kansas Resident conductor of the Akron Symphony and director of where she played in the New Music Ensemble. She is in the the Akron Youth Symphony, Eric Benjamin is responsible graduate program at The University of Akron School of Music. for the design and direction of the ASO's educational programs, including the Concerts for Kids series for Yi-Chen Chen, bass clarinet preschoolers and the early elementary programs sponsored Yi-Chen Chen was born in Lo-Tung, Taiwan. She earned a by the Children's Concert Society. He rehearses and performs bachelor's degree in June 2000 from Fu-Jen Catholic regularly with the 90-member Akron Youth Symphony, University , Taiwan, where she studied with Ti Huang. She leading young musicians from throughout northeast Ohio in was awarded a scholarship to attend the master class at the works from the standard orchestra literature as well as new Banff Arts Centre in Canada with Lei Fan in July 2000. Now and commissioned works. He also serves as music director she is a graduate assistant in clarinet performance at The of the Tuscarawas Philharmonic in Dover, Ohio. University of Akron where she studies with Kristina Belisle. Benjamin is active as a composer and arranger and was Jim Cross, piano recently named Composer of the Year by the Ohio Music Jim Cross is a freshman at The University of Akron where he Teachers Association. With this award came a commission studies piano with Christina Tan and jazz piano with Rock for his Autumn Songs for mezzo-soprano and keyboard on Wehrman. He hails from Columbus, Ohio, where he attended texts by Frost, Howes and Rilke. Recent premieres also Worthington Kilbourne High School and studied piano with include A Carol Concerto for hammered dulcimer and William Van Sickle. orchestra, music for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in a production by Akron's Actors Summit and "On the Night Jeffrey Leigh, violin Before Christmas" for narrator and orchestra. See Performer Biographies. Benjamin earned a master's degree in orchestral conducting Larry Snider, percussion at New England Conservatory. Additionally, he lists among See Conductor/Director Biographies. his conducting teachers Gunther Schuller, Kurt Sanderling, Gustav Meier and Leonard Bernstein. Andres Valcarcel, violin Andres Valcarcel received his undergraduate degree in Ronn Cummings performance at the Conservatory of Puerto Rico where he conductor of The UDiversity ofAkron Symphony Orchestra studied with professor Jose "Pepito" Figueroa in 1999. He Ronn Cummings is director of orchestral studies at The continued his violin studies with professor Alan Bodman at University of Akron. Originally from Minnesota, Cummings The University of Akron School of Music where he received holds a B.M. degree from the University of Wisconsin, an the master's degree. He currently is studying for his second M.M. degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, master 's degree at The University of Akron. and a D.M.A. from the University of North Texas. He came to UA from the University of North Texas, where he served as assistant director of orchestras, conductor of the UNT Chamber Orchestra, music firector/conductor of the 20th- century performance ensemble NOVA, and taught conducting at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Past teachers include Anshel Brusilow, Murry Dislin, Herbert Blomstedt, Maurice Abravanel and Elizabeth Green. Currently working on a book on conducting technique, Cummings continues to conduct ensembles throughout the United States and gives master classes and couching sessions on conducting techniques and audition preparation.
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Conductor Biographies Daniel McCarthy Galen S. Karriker director of The University of Akron New Music Ensemble assistant director of bands, UA School of Music, Daniel McCarthy is chair of the composition and theory and conductor of The University of Akron Concert Band section at The University of Akron, as well as director of The American New Arts Festival (see Composer Biographies). Galen S. Karriker is assistant director of bands and assistant McCarthy served as guest composer and fellow for the professor of music at The University of Akron. He conducts Conductors/Composers Institute at the University of South the Concert Band and directs both the University Marching Carolina and is formerly music director of the Terre Haute Band and the Blue and Gold Brass. Symphony Youth Orchestra. McCarthy has been guest conductor of the Interlachen High School Symphonic, A native of Lake Charles, Louisiana, Karriker received his Concert, and Intermediate Bands, The Central Michigan bachelor's degree in music education from Louisiana State University Concert Band, Grand Ledge High School University and his M.M. degree from Michigan State Symphonic and Concert Bands (Michigan), and the Terre University. An active arranger, Karriker writes much of the Haute Symphony Orchestra. McCarthy is currently Music music performed by The University of Akron Marching Band Director and Conductor of the Interlachen Festival Orchestra and the Blue and Gold Brass. Prior to his appointment at The at the Interlochen Arts Camp (Michigan). University of Akron, he was assistant to the director of bands at The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Larry D. Snider cirector of The University of Akron Percussion Ensemble Karriker holds memberships in the Ohio Music Education Larry D. Snider is professor of music and director of Association, College Band Directors National Conference, percussion studies at The University of Akron. He holds Music Educators National Conference, Percussive Arts bachelor's and master's degrees from Illinois State University Society, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and honorary memberships and the University of North Texas, respectively, and a D.M.A. in Kappa Kappa Psi, and Tau Beta Sigma. in percussion performance from the University of Illinois.
Robert D. Jorgensen He has built a strong percussion program whose graduates director of bands, U A School of Music, and consistently achieve professional success as performers and conductor of The University of Akron Symphonic Band educators throughout the world. The program's most visible Robert D. Jorgensen is director of bands and professor of and widely acclaimed component is The University of Akron music at The University of Akron. He also serves as assistant Steel Drum Band. Founded in 1980 by Snider as one of the director of the UA School of Music. He received a bachelor's nation's first and foremost collegiate panorama-style degree from the University of Illinois and a master's degree ensembles, the Steel Drum Band performs locally and from Michigan State University, where he was a student of throughout the United States. Leonard Falcone. From 1969 to 1972, Jorgensen was euphonium soloist with the U.S. Army Field Band in An accomplished performer, Snider is principal percussionist Washington, D. C. Prior to his appointment at Akron, he taught with the Akron Symphony Orchestra. He has premiered more at Morehead State University in Kentucky and was director than 20 contemporary music compositions in international of bands at Midwestern State University in Texas. venues, including those by such noted composers as Marta Ptaszynska and Stuart Smith. In addition, he is responsible Jorgensen is the recipient of the "Citation of Excellence" for bringing the internationally acclaimed Slyvia Smith New Award from the National Band Association and the "A. Frank Music Archives to The University of Akron to serve as an Martin Award" from Kappa Kappa Psi. In 1999 he was invaluable resource for musicians from around the world. honored by the International Assembly of Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters Fraternity by being selected to Long active in the Percussive Arts Society, Snider is on the receive the Outstanding Bandmaster Award. He holds organization's Board of Directors and is among the founding professional memberships in the National Band Association, members of the New Music/Research Committee. He has College Band Directors National Association, Music chaired the New Music/Research Day for Percussive Arts Educators National Conference, Ohio Music Education Society conferences throughout the U.S. for the past 15 years. Association, Phi Beta Mu, and was elected to membership in He also is a percussion clinician for Yamaha Corporation, the prestigious American Bandmasters Association in 1991 . Sabian Cymbals, and Pro Mark. During 2000 he was invited The University of Akron Symphonic Band has performed at to Poland to serve on the performance and teaching faculty at the 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, and 1999 OMEA Conferences the International Marimba Competition in Warsaw. the 1992 CBDNA Conference in East Lansing, Michigan, and at the 1998 CBDNA Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.
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