Wind and Percussion Division 2002 Winter Tour

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2-17-2002

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I WIND SYMPHONY I Stephen K. Steele, Conductor I WIND AND PERCUSSION FACULTY AND

I BOOSEY & HAWKES ARTIST AND SPECIAL GUEST SOLOIST I MARVIN STAMM I I Sunday, February 17 3:00 p.m. Braden Auditorium

I Monday, February 18 11 :00 a.m. Lemont High Sch()<>I 7:30 p.m. Oak Forest High School I Tuesday; February 19 8:30 a.m. Homewood Flossmoor High School 11 :00 a.m. Marian Catholic High School I 7:30 p.m. Lincolnway Central High School Wedn'esday, February 20 9:00 a.m. Victor J. Andrew High School I The_seventy third program of the 2001-2002 Season l :45 p.m. Pontiac High Schoof Program I I Throughout hi s•distingui shed career, Marvin Stamm has been praised for both the art and the craft of trumpet playing and has performed and/or recorded with virtually every name artist and label. Currently, Mr Stamm's activities include performing as a soloist, touring with his jazz quartet and New England Triptych ( 1957) William Schuman in duo with pianist Bill Mays. Consciously acknowledging his debt to the influence and guidance Be Glad Then, America (1910- 1992) I I of former teachers and fellow musicians, Marvin Stamm also commits a good deal of his time and When Jesus Wept energies to helping young mu sic students develop their own voices. His involvement in music Chester education takes him to universities and high schools across the U.S . and abroad as a performer, clinician, and mentor, perpetuating the traditions of excitement and innovation that music repre sents. Sonneries Woodwind Quintet I I selections to be announced Flutist Kimberly McCoul Risinger received a DMA from the University of Maryland, a MM Kimberly Risinger, flute Judith Dicker, oboe Aris Chavez, clarinet from Illinois State University and a BM from the College of Wooster. Her primary teachers have Michael Dicker, bassoon Joe Neisler, horn included William Montgomery, Max Schoenfeld, Diedre McGuire and George Pope. Dr. Risinger I I has received acclaim as both a soloist and ensemble musician. She is cmTently Principal Flutist with the Illinois Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. The recipient of numerous awards and Candide: Suite (1956) Leonard Bernstein grants, Dr. Ri singer was awarded first p1i ze in the 1996 Flute Society of Washington Young Artist Competition and was a pri ze winner in the Myrna Brown International Competition. The Best of All Possible Worlds (1918-1990) Westphalia Chorale and Battle Scene I I Oboist Judith Dicker received her MM from Indiana University, and BS in Music Education Auto-da-fe from State University of New York at Potsdam. Formerly on the faculty of Wichita State Univer Glitter and Be Gay sity and Indiana University at South Bend, she also taught at the Musikschule Gelsenkirchen in Make Our Garden Grow Germany. Professor Dicker has performed as Principal Oboist with the Wichita Symphony Or I I chestra and the South Bend Symphony, the Toledo Symphony and the Gelsenkirchen Philharmonic Orchester in Germany. From Shadowcatcher (1996) Eric Ewazen (b. 1954) A Concerto for Brass Quintet and Wind Ensemble Clarinetist Ads Chavez received his MM degree from the University of New Mexico. For ,14 Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon years, he was a member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestt'a. While a free-lance artist in New York I I City, he toured Europe with the Phoenix Woodwind Quintet on a Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant. Facutly Brass Quintet Since moving to Illinois, Mr. Chavez has served as Principal Clarinet for the Illinois Symphony, Amy Gilreath and Kelly Watkins, trumpet the Peoria Sympho1Jy and the Peoria Opera. He is an active solo and chamber performer on cam- Joe Neisler, horn Stephen Parsons, trombone Sharon Huff, euphonium I I . pus. Mr. Chavez has studied with Ted Rush, William E. Rhoades and George Silfies. Bassoonist Michael Dicker earned degrees from UCLA, Julliard and the University of Michigan. Concerto for Timpani and Percussion Ensemble (1985) John Beck His teachers have included Norman Herzberg, Harold Goltzer, L Hugh Cooper, Mitchell Lurie D~vid Collier, timpani (b. 1933) and Mehli Mehta. Professor Dicker was also a scholarship student at the Music Academy of the Andy Bautista, William Cuthbert, David Dunbar, Jeffrey Matter, and Scott Simon, percussion I I West His former bassoon students currently hold playing and teaching positions in the New York Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Portugal, Wichita Symphony, Nordwest-Deutsche Philharmo nie, Moorhead State University and New Mexico State University. Concertino Classico (1985) Joseph Horovitz For two trumpets and brass band I (b. 1926) Saxophonist James Boitos received his MM from Northwestern University. He was a featured I I soloist with the U.S. Navy Conce11 and Jazz Bands and has performed in recitals and jazz perform Con brio Larghetto ances throughout the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan. "Boitos is a glorious interpreter with infal Allegro rustico lible technique and pure artistic musicianship," Rhein/Neckar Zeitung. Marvin Stamm and Amy Gilreath, trumpets I I Hornist Joe Neisler received his BM, MM, and DMA degrees from Indiana University where he studied with Philip Farkas, Myron Bloom, Meir Rimon, and Michael Hatfield. Dr. Neisler cur Ode for Trumpet ( 1956) Alfred Reed rently performs with the Sonneries Woodwind Quintet and the Faculty Brass Quintet and is solo horn of the Peoria Symphony and Opera . Dr. Neisler is currently the horn clinician for Bands of Marvin Stamm, trumpet (b. 1921) I I America and jurist for the American Horn Competition. Dr. Neisler has performed and given mas ter classes in North America, Europe and the Orient Don Jacoby "Carnival" Variations (1956) Trumpeter Amy Gilreath, holds MM and DMA degrees from the University of Illinois and a (1921-1993) For Trumpet Trio and Band BME degree from Eastern Kentucky She is a member of the Faculty Brass Quintet, Principal arr. McRae Marvin Stamm, Amy Gi lreath and Kelly Watkins, trumpets I I Trumpet in the Peoria Symphony and the Illinois Symphony, the brass instructor for Orvieto Mu sica, Orvieto, Italy and also performs as a sub and extra with the St. Louis Symphony. Dr. Gilreath is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Trumpet Guild. She has been a finalist Celebration (1992) Philip Sparke in the Ellsworth Smith International Trumpet Competition and has been an invited soloist at the (b. 1951) I I Interriational Trumpet Guild Convention and the 1997 International Women's' Brass Conference. Trombonist Stephen Parsons hold s a OMA from the University of Kansas, where he studied with Stephen Anderson. He has al so studi ed at the Tanglewood Institute with members of the Empire I Brass Quintet and with Milton Stevens of the National Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Pm-sons served as Trombone Soloist and Assistant Principal Trombonist with the United States Army Field Band in Washington D.C. and currently performs with the Faculty Brass Quintet, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Peoria Symphony Orchestra, Opera Ulinoi s, and the New Sousa Band. Dr. Parsons I remains active as a free-lance musician and is in demand as a clinician. Currently, he serves as trombone clinician at the Bands of America Summer Symposium. Sharon Huff, Tuba/Euphonium, earned her BME degree summa cum laude from Illinois State ·1 University and the MM and OMA degree from the University of Illinois. Serving for her seventh year as Conferences Coordinator for !TEA (formerly TUBA), Dr. Huff is also the President and Executive Director of the International Women's Brass Conference. In demand as a clinician, conductor, adjudicator, lecturer, and soloist, Dr. Huff has performed and conducted across the U.S. as well as in Finland, Au stralia, New Zealand, Italy, Germany, and Au stria. I·

Percussionist David L. Collier received his BME from Florida State University and hi :S MM de gree from Indiana University and is currently pursuing a OMA at the University of Ulinois. Mr. Collier is Principal Timpanist with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and the Ulinois Chamber Or I chestra. Mr. Collier is an adjudicator for Drum Corps international, Bands of America and is Per cussion Caption Consultant for Drum Corps Midwest. Mr. Collier is a Yamaha Performing AI1ist and a clinician for Sabian Cymbals, Latin Percussion and Innovative Percussion. He is also a member of the Percussive Arts Society Education Committee and the Latin Percussion Educational Advisory Board. I

Wind Symphony Personnel

Flute I-lorn I "'Annie D'Amico, Villa Park John Hansen, Pontiac Megan Lomonof, Oak Lawn Brandon Helem, South Holland Jamie Schwendinger, Normal *Keri Herron, Silvis Leigh Ann Singer, Onawa ChriStopher Render, Houston, TX

Oboe, English Hom Trumpet I. *Palrick McGuire, Rnuml Lake Heights Elisa Curren, Danbury, NH Carrie Wycislak, MonLgo mcry Ryan Ellintt, Saginaw, Ml Chad Morris, East St Louis Clarinet Myles Singleton, Joliet Josh Anderson. Farmington *Kelly Watkins, Henderson, TX Jennifer Bland, Normal I Joe Conway, SLerling Tmmbone *Sally Friedri(.;h, Joliet Midrnc l Bingham, Chicago Ivory Sebastion, Aurora *Angie Slaughter, Jackson, GA Nicole Schneider, Le mont Stephanie Simpson, Chicago Boss Tro111bm1e Mall Kelm, Lockport I Bass Clari11et Christina Isaacs, Bloomingwn £11pJ10ni1w1 Kris1ina Toma, North Brook *Anthony Hernandez, East Moline *Erik Tomlin, Aurora Midmcl McDcrmoll, East Moline

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Alto Saxophone String B"ss Rebecca Culp, Tinley Park Grant Souder, Normal *Joshua Masterman, Oregon I Pt:rcr1ssion Tenor Saxoplume Andy Bautista, Skokie Robeno Quinones, Chicago William Cllthbcn , Jr., Elkhart, IN David Dunbar, El Paso, TX Bllritone Saxophone *Jeffrey Maner, Batavia Mark Nowakowski, Hickory Hills Scott Simo n. Belvidere I "' denotes section leader I