Presents Concert and Reception NINE NEW WOODWIND QUINTETS by ASMAC Members Sunday 5 pm, October 18, 2015 The Firehouse Recording Studios, Pasadena, California Performers: Karin Hoesli flute Phil Feather oboe Helen Goode-Castro clarinet Melissa Hendrickson French horn Charles Fernandez bassoon

Program

A Mouse Party, Cattus Interruptus Andrew Goodloe

Journey Carol Worthey I. Home III. Departure

Angel Quintet: Vision of Sandalphon Deon Nielsen Price

1. Ichi; 2. Ni Karin Okada

Loudonfast Glenn A. Jordan Intermission

I’m Troubled in Mind, dedicated to the Nine Shot in South Carolina Jeannie Gayle Pool

The Quest Daniel Levin

Four Miniatures for Wind Quintet Igor Kogan

A Tisket A Tasket: Tribute to Van Alexander Van Alexander Arr. Milton Nelson

Please joins us for a reception immediately following the concert. Performers

KARIN HOESLI (flute) received a Master of Arts with a focus on Flute Performance from California Institute of the Arts and an Artists Diploma from the Staatliche Hochschule fűr Musik in Detmold, Germany. She has performed with orchestras and chamber music ensembles in Italy, Germany, and the United States. Since her return from Europe, she has free-lanced in the Los Angeles area. She can be heard on records, commercials, and movie scores as well as with a variety of orchestras.

PHIL FEATHER (oboe) is a California native. Sought after for his versatility, he regularly performs on oboes, clarinets, flutes and saxophones with such diverse ensembles as The Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s, where he is principal oboe, California Philharmonic, Pasadena Pops Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony, and the bands of Ron King, Roger Neumann, David Angel, Geoff Stradling, Mike Barone, Bill Watrous and many others. He has toured with Natalie Cole, Henry Mancini, Percy Faith, and Ray Conniff. The Ross Wright “Concerto for Tenor Saxophone” was commissioned for Mr. Feather by the Chamber Orchestra of St. Matthew’s. It is recorded on their CD, Music from the Left Coast. With pianist Marilyn Harris, he recorded the album Winds on Ivory. Artists he has recorded with include , Chicago, Barry Manilow, Rosemary Clooney, Sandy Bainum, Doc Severinson, Bill Watrous and hundreds of others. Mr. Feather is featured on the soundtrack to the movie, The Leopard Son. Recent soundtracks include and Tomorrowland. Television credits include Mad Men, Commander in Chief, Buzz Lightyear, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and the Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno. In live performances, Phil Feather has backed such artists as Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, Chicago, Steve and Eydie, Michael Feinstein, Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, and many others.

HELEN GOODE-CASTRO (clarinet) hails from England where she performed with groups such as the BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata and the Süd Bayerische Philharmonie, Germany. Since moving to Los Angeles Helen freelances regularly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, California Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, LA Opera, and Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. For the past five years she has been playing with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra as second clarinet. She has established Michael Daugherty's “Brooklyn Bridge” as one of her signature solo works with performances at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, with wind ensembles at both California State University Los Angeles and Long Beach and in the summer of 2007 with Los Angeles Winds in Schladming, Austria under the direction of Steven Piazza. Ms. Goode-Castro is on the Clarinet faculty at California State University Long Beach, California State University Los Angeles, the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and coaches Chamber Music at the LA County High School of the Arts.

MELISSA HENDRICKSON (French horn) is a Los Angeles born and raised freelance horn player. She was a founding member of the horn quartet Quadre, with whom she co-wrote and performed outreach concerts through the Chamber Music America Rural Residency and the San Francisco Symphony Adventures in Music program. She also toured the Midwest as principal horn with Opera a la Carte and was interim principal horn in Monterrey, Mexico with the Orquestra Sinfónica de Nuevo Leon. Melissa’s current regular bookings include Asia-America Symphony, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, and Cabrillo Music Theater. She has a Bachelor’s in Music from Cal State Fullerton and a Master’s from USC.

CHARLES FERNANDEZ (bassoon) is an Emmy-nominated composer who has worked in the TV, Film and Concert Music World since 1983. He is a multiple Emmy- and Annie-nominated composer, orchestrator, conductor and bassoonist and has worked on countless, series, films, trailers and composed many works for band, orchestra and chamber groups. For the concert stage his recent premieres include: “South Rampart Street Parade” (From Billy May’s Arrangement) for concert band; “Spirits Rising: The Texan Rider” for Tarlton University in Stephenville, TX; “Persepolis Bazaar” for Concert Band; “Holiday Horn Concerto” for Horn and Band/Orchestra as well as “Americana Trio” for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon; ”Cruise and Star” for Saxophone Sextet and Harp, “The Quiet House and the Mouse”, for flute choir among many others. As a media composer he has composed for television series such as Universal's Casper Cartoon Series (For which he received two Emmy and one Annie Nomination); Disney's Little Mermaid; Disney's Aladdin; Disney's Doug; Disney's 101 Dalmatians; Dreamworks’ Toonsylvania, Disney's Bonkers, Cartoon Networks’ Robot Chicken as well as films such as Doug's 1st Movie; All Dogs II, Pebble and the Penguin among many others. He teaches a course in Animation Music at UCLA Extension, is an instructor for the online “Music for the Media” course based out of England, and is a theory instructor at LACHSA (Los Angeles County High School of the Arts).

Composers’ Biographies and Program Notes

ANDREW GOODLOE is a composer/arranger/pianist with a background that encompasses classical music, jazz, salsa music, pop/rock, and TV/film music, both as performer and composer. Holding a degree in classical piano from Oberlin, he is also an accomplished jazz and salsa pianist. His String Quintet Dance and Diversions won the grand prize in the 2013 Call for Scores by the Musical Art Quintet in San Francisco, and in 2014 Meditation and Groove was premiered at the Southeast Trombone Symposium by Colin Williams, associate trombone with the NY Philharmonic and former principal of the Atlanta Symphony. At the same symposium, Andrew’s trombone choir work 2 Sides of Viejo San Juan was the Grand Prize (audience choice) winner of the composition contest. His music and scores can be found on his website, http://www.goodloe.org.

CAROL WORTHEY is an award-winning composer, painter, writer, poet, human rights/animal rights advocate and public speaker. Known for the lyricism, beauty and passion in her music, Carol began composing at the age of three- and-a-half. Among her mentors are Leonard Bernstein, Darius Milhaud, Walter Piston and Vincent Persichetti. Since then, her powerful, deeply moving compositions have been performed on three continents, gracing top venues from Carnegie Hall to St. Martin-in-The-Fields. Recent Premieres have taken place in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia, Hong Kong, Beijing, Malaysia, Manhattan and throughout Southern California. Although concert music is her specialty, Carol also composes music for film, choir, jazz and musical theatre. Carol's paintings have been exhibited in Florence, Manhattan, Mexico and California. Giving a voice to multiple genres, sight and sound, feeling and intellect is what makes Carol's artistic creations exciting and memorable. To read more about Carol Worthey, please visit www.carolworthey.com.

Journey for woodwind quintet: "Each movement starting with the lush, heartfelt lyricism of "Home" (where else?!) tells a narrative that will take the Listener on an adventure akin to ones we all go through. The lush lyricism of "Home" speaks of comfort and nurturing, and yet it is in the embrace of home that we plant the seeds of a yearning to leave: the second movement "Restless for Adventure" bursts forth. Off we go with "Departure" (setting out jauntily with one's "napsack", but there's a hint of danger, subtle, pervasive. Still, fears begone, we're on our way!). Proceeding on the path, one lands at "Danger at The Crossroads" (Where to go next? What lies ahead?). Just when all seems to be lost there is a "Magical Encounter" (Has our voyager been rescued by some wise angelic presence? Or could this perhaps be love? Answer: Whatever the Listener creates or decides, it will be). Finally: Arriving at one's destination only to realize it's an "Endless Horizon", always more, always beckoning. After this exploration how good it feels to return "Home At Last". This will be my "Journey" for woodwind quintet when I put the last note there and let it echo. I am very grateful to ASMAC and to Chuck Fernandez for the inspiring Woodwind Quintet Master Class that sparked this "Journey."

DEON NIELSEN PRICE is a prize-winning composer, pianist, educator, author, and advocate for new music. She has degrees with Honors from Brigham Young University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Southern California. Her music is known for the deeply spiritual humanitarian concern that permeates much of her work. Her studies in composition were primarily with Leslie Bassett and Samuel Adler. She has been commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Musical Composition, Mu Phi Epsilon, Alaska State Council on the Arts, Metro Chamber Orchestra, Malachim Films, as well as individual artists. Recordings are on Cambria Master Recordings and Albany Records, both distributed by NAXOS. Her CD Oneness, which features her “Violin Concerto for Oneness,” and her CD Dancing on the Brink of the World were Notable Releases by ArkivMusic and selected for Grammy consideration. She completed several works for woodwinds in 2015: Triple Flute Concerto, Clarinet Chamber Concerto, Oneness for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra, Three Scenes for Oboe, Clarinet and Piano, Watts 1965: A Remembrance for saxophone and piano, and Angel Quintet. As an advocate for new music she served as President of the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) and of the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA). A catalog of books by Dr. Price and of her more than 200 compositions is online: Culvercrest.com.

Angel Quintet for Woodwinds: Vision of Sandalphon. The Archangel Sandalphon is known as a powerful giant sentinel and also as the master of heavenly song. Both sides of his character are portrayed musically in my quintet, Vision of Sandalphon. Sandalphon is said to have lived on earth as the prophet Elijah before ascending to heaven and becoming an archangel.

KARIN OKADA studied piano, organ, violin, Japanese song, and mastered Zen and the art of living through music, including studies at Wells Cathedral School, Somerset, England. After graduating from Berkelee College of Music in Boston,with a film scoring degree, Karin moved to New York City to continued her studies at Queens College under pianist and arranger Sir Rolland Hanna, Sheila Jordan, and academy nominated arranger Michael Philip Mossman. Karin was selected to sing her original composition with Betty Carter Jazz Ahead, at the Kennedy center, Washington, DC and was accepted a full scholarship to the BMI Jazz composer's workshop. In New York she sang at Ciao Bella in Greenwich Village and Anyway Cafe in Brooklyn where she performed her original compositions as well as Jazz and Brazilian music on piano and vocals. Karin also held a faculty and accompanist position at the Jazz department of the Brooklyn Conservatory. She moved to Los Angeles in 2009 to teach performance and composition at Shepherd University. In 2010, Karin began to work as a music coordinator for composer Lucas Vidal (Fast & Furious 6) and in 2011 Karin's first short for Morya (2011) won a Silver Medal at the Park City Film Music Festival. Her most recent score for Revenge of Hayabusa (2013) won the best original score at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood. As a singer Karin recorded the entire score for Christopher Young's God Behaving Badly, directed by Marc Turtletaub.

GLENN JORDAN is an award winning songwriter, composer, producer, singer and performer whose music is heard every day by millions of people. Glenn’s credits as a composer include scoring and providing music for over a thousand episodes of television programs and films in the last 15 years, including The X-files, Millennium, Biography, Doug, 101 Dalmatians, Catdog and Something About Mary. As composer/musical director of Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Glenn was nominated for 4 Emmys and won the Emmy Award in 1991. As composer on Audubon’s Animal Adventure’s he won the Genesis Award in 1996 in recognition of his work to increase awareness of the plight of endangered species. He scored 9 feature length documentary films for Enduring Freedom Productions over the last 5 years. The latest 4 are Betty White: Champion for Animals, The Clintons: An American Odyssey, The Reagan Legacy, and JFK Remembered: 50 Years Later for Warner Brothers. As a former member of the group Sha Na Na he toured the world, and performed for audiences as large as 135,000 people. His orchestral works has been performed by the Indianapolis and Denver symphonies. His theme park commissions includes “Supersonic Flight” for Six Flags/Great Adventures and “Interactive Wonderland” part of the “Spaceship Earth” attraction at Epcot. Glenn is one of only 9 people in the world who is qualified and licensed to teach The Equal Interval System of Music Composition created by Lyle “Spud” Murphy.

JEANNIE GAYLE POOL is an ASCAP composer whose compositions were heard during recent seasons in California, Washington, D.C., Ohio, Toronto, Belgrade, and Beijing. As a music historian and producer, she served as the Executive Director of the Society for the Preservation of Film Music from 1990 to 2002 and has produced more than 60 compact disc recordings since 1985. She lectures frequently on film music history and preservation, mostly in Europe and the United States and served as consultant and music archivist for the Paramount Picture Motion Picture Music Department. She reconstructed and re-recorded the original score for the Academy Award-winning film Wings (1927) for the studio’s 2012 release of the film and produced the soundtrack album for La-La Land recordings. She serves as an Advisor to the Board of the International Alliance for Women in Music, which she helped to establish and as an officer on the Board of ASMAC. Her book, Peggy Gilbert & Her All-Girl Band was published by Scarecrow Press in 2008 and her documentary film of the same title (which she scored) has been screened throughout the United States. Pool’s biography of Zenobia Powell Perry was published by Scarecrow Press in 2009 and she reconstructed and orchestrated Perry’s full-length opera, Tawawa House, for a production by Townsen Opera Company in Modesto, CA in 2014. Pool’s most recent book, co-authored with H. Stephen Wright, A Research Guide for Film and Television Music in the United States, was also published by Scarecrow. She received a Ph.D. in Music at the Claremont Graduate University in 2002. Her e-mail address is: [email protected].

I’m Troubled in Mind (July 2015) is dedicated to the nine who died in Charles, South Carolina, during a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church: Clementa C. Pickney, Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Tywanza Sanders, Ethel Lance, Susie Jackson, Myra Thompson, Daniel L. Simmons, Sr., and DePayne Middleton-Doctor. The shooter killed them in cold blood after sharing an hour of Bible study and prayer. Soon after the tragedy, the families publicly announced that they would forgive the murderer, a 21-year old gunman. This piece is based on the 19th century African-American Spiritual, I’m Troubled in Mind. The lyric is: “I’m troubled in Mind, Oh, Jesus, my Savior, on Thee I’ll depend, when troubles are near me you’ll be my true friend. I’m troubled, I’m troubled, I’m troubled in mind. If Jesus don’t help me I surely will die; When ladened with troubles and burdened with grief, To Jesus in secret I’ll go for relief; In Dark Days of bondage to Jesus I prayed, To help me to bear it, and He gave me His aid.”

DANIEL LEVIN was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and began studying piano, clarinet, saxophone, and composition at an early age. He received both his Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees in composition from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he studied clarinet with James Campbell and composition with Claude Baker, David Dzubay, Don Freund, Sven-David Sandström, and Richard Wernick. Daniel currently resides in the Los Angeles area, where he works as a composer and orchestrator and teaches music theory, film scoring, arranging, and composition at Musicians Institute.

Composed in July of 2015, The Quest was written to explore the wide-ranging sonic and expressive capabilities of the woodwind quintet. There is no extra-musical program, but the piece does follow the dramatic arc of a successful quest, with challenges, disappointments, adventures, and triumphs along the way.

IGOR KOGAN is a versatile composer, orchestrator and bass player. He has composed and arranged music for variety of projects including concert music, commercial music, films, TV, musical theater and Broadway shows. As an active performing musician, Kogan has appeared at prestigious venues and festivals in U.S and Europe, including Jazz at Lincoln Center and Steinway Hall (NYC), Bern Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Red Sea Jazz Festival (Israel); and performed at Zinc Bar, Smalls and Fat Cat Jazz Clubs (NYC), among other venues as a leader and as a sideman with Valery Ponomarev, Jerome Jennings, Anat Cohen, Joey Morant, Leonid Ptashka to name a few. He has recently relocated to Los Angeles, where he establishes himself as a composer and arranger, as well as performing musician and session bass player. For more information about his current projects, please visit www.koganigormusic.com

The piece Four Miniatures for Woodwind Quintet was composed especially for ASMAC concert and has several composing approaches condensed into one short piece of music. It consists of four sections; each one is reflecting different composing approach from “classical” melodic development to atonal music. It combines influences of jazz, classical, atonal and minimal music.

MILTON NELSON is a composer, orchestrator, arranger, and pianist. He is based in the Los Angeles area and is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. A few of Milton’s credits include Supervising Orchestrator for Disney’s The Game Plan and You Again, Dreamworks’ She’s the Man, Showtime’s Reefer Madness the Musical, Jackie Chan’s The Myth and Chinese Zodiac, and Lifetime’s Christmas With Holly. Additional film orchestration includes My Dog Skip, A Guy Thing, Haunting in Connecticut, and Return to Nim’s Island.

As a composer of additional music, Milton’s work includes Pokemon, Scooby Doo, Green Lantern, and Scrubs. On nationally- syndicated television shows, Milton was the house band keyboardist and arranger for the Martin Short Show; The Wayne Brady Show was his home for three seasons as arranger. He recently orchestrated for the LA Opera, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Pasadena Pops Orchestra and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in China.

Milton shares his knowledge as an instructor/tutor for international online courses in film orchestration and composition. He enjoys his volunteer involvement as a Board Member with ASMAC. A Tisket A Tasket arrangement is dedicated to Van Alexander.

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This is part of a series of ASMAC Master Classes and Workshops on Writing for Woodwind Quintet. We are pleased that this concert is hosted by The Firehouse Recording Studios. After the concert, there will be an opportunity to tour the facilities. For more information, visit our website www.firehouserecordingstudios.com.

Founded in 1938, ASMAC is an organization whose mission is to promote the arts of music arranging, composition and orchestration within the entertainment industry community and the general public. The organization provides its membership a place to make contact with each other to exchange ideas and information about the art of music and the music industry. ASMAC seeks to educate and inform both the general public and the commercial arts community about the roles its members play in the creation of music.

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Many thanks to: Charles Fernandez who organized this series of masterclasses and this concert; to Sylvester Rivers for his invaluable help and enthusiasm as Chair of the ASMAC Masterclass Committee; Milton Nelson (reception), Carolyn Poppert, Larry Goldman (video), Scherr Lillico and The Proper Image, Linda Bell (Bell Creative Studios, webmaster), Jeannie Gayle Pool (reception and printed program), Los Angeles Valley College, Mike Julian, Michael Aarvold, Tena Clark, Destiny Rael, and Firehouse Recording Studios.

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ASMAC Luncheon with Session Singer/Vocal Contractor Sally Stevens Wednesday, October 21, 2015 – 11:30 am At Catalina’s Bar & Grill, 6725 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028 $30 Members/Students / $40 Non-Members $10 Program-Only (no lunch; check-in at 12:30pm) Make a reservation by calling 818-994-4661 or emailing [email protected]. ______

The American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC) 2015 ASMAC Pete Rugolo BIG BAND Arranging and Composing Competition: Deadline November 1, 2015. Visit ASMAC.org for complete details.