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5-30-1997 Concert: "A Little iN ght Music" Alumni Concert - 1997 Reunion Ithaca College School of Music Alumni

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Friday, May 30, 1997

8:15 p.m.

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Cinco Piezas Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) I. Campero II. Romantico Ill. Acentuado V. Compadre Petar Kodzas, M.M. '94, guitar

Largo from The Barber of Seville Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) Granada Agustine Lara Where Is the Life of Late I Led Cole Porter from Kiss Me Kate (1891-1964) Donald Davis '91, baritone Jason Alfred '96, accompanist

Golliwogg's Cakewalk (1908) Claude Debussy (1862-1918) arranged by E. Zajac I Drastic Measures Russell Peck (b. 1945) Poco adagio, molto espressivo Allegro Sahib Supreme Charles Rochester Young (b. 1965) The National Saxophone Quartet David Dees, soprano saxophone Todd Morrison '95, alto saxophone Connie Frigo '96, tenor saxophone David Yusko '93, baritone saxophone You Stepped Out of a Dream G. Kahn/N. H. Brown Tricrotism Oscar Pettiford The Days of Wine and Roses Henry Mancini Absquatulation Steve Brown The Steve Brown Quartet Steve Brown '64, M.S. '68, guitar Chris Persad '84, trumpet and flugelhorn Miles Brown, bass Tom Killian '87, M.M. '92, drums Jason Alfred graduated from Ithaca College Award, and an honorable mention in the in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in National Foundation of the Advance- music performance, having studied with ment of the Arts Competition. He played Professor Phiroze Mehta. While attend- in the All State String Orchestra in 1994 ing a summer session at the Moscow and was the bassist for the All State Conservatoire in the summer of 1995 Ensemble in 1995. He is in great he studied with Mikhail Mezhlumov and demand as a bassist in New York State Gleb Axelrod . He has performed in and is a co-leader of the local rock band master classes for Simone Pedroni, the Sour Lemmings. He can be heard Jeffrey Kahane, Valery Kastelsky, Ani on the latest Sour Lemmings CD, What Kavafian, David Shifrin, Carol Webber, Choo Ta/kin Bout Willis? and Elly Ameling. A two-time winner of the Ithaca College Concerto Competition, Guitarist, composer, and arranger Steve he performed Rachmaninoff's Concerto Brown is a professor of music and No. 2 with the Ithaca College Symphony director of the jazz studies program at Orchestra in 1995 and Brahms's Ithaca College. He has two albums Concerto No. 2 in 1996. He has presently available under his own lead- received the Civic Morning Musicale ership, Good Lines and Child's Play, Vocal Competition Best Accompanist both on Cafe Records, and a new Award three times and was inducted release, Night Waves, on his own label, into Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Brown Cats Productions. He is coauthor Society in 1995. He is currently a staff with Ray Brown '68 of An Introduction t accompanist for the Ithaca College Jazz Improvisation, and he has record- School of Music. ed with Chuck lsraels's National Jazz Ensemble, Chuck Mangione, and the Bassist Miles Brown has just completed his California big band Full, Faith and first year of study at the Eastman School Credit. His latest writing projects have of Music, where he is majoring in music included commissioned works for the education and jazz studies. During his Hal Galper Trio, the Airmen of Note, the high school career he performed in the Celebration of the Arts Jazz Festival symphony orchestra, the string orches- (C.O.T.A. Cats) featuring himself and tra, the vocal jazz ensemble, the jazz , and the Harvard University ensemble, an improvisational group Band. His recent releases as a called the Players, the concert band, guitarist/arranger include three CDs and the chamber orchestra. He also under the leadership of - played in the pit orchestra for Guys and /'m All Smiles, Silhouette, and The Jazz Dolls, Bye Bye Birdie, and The Wiz. Dancer and the Bass Player on Jazz During that time he won the Louis Mania-and three CDs under the lead- Armstrong Jazz Award, the Six Flags ership of drummer Danny D'lmperio, Music in the Parks Outstanding Soloist Blues for Philly Joe, Hip to It, and Glass Enclosure on V.S.O.P. An active Drummer Tom Killian is a graduate of Ithaca performer/clinician in the United States College, where he received his bache- and Europe, he has performed with lor's degree in 1987 and his master's Chuck Israels, , Bobby degree in 1992. He is presently the Watson, Bill Goodwin, Jimmy Smith, director of instrumental music at Steve Gilmore, Barry Harris, Gerry Corning East High School in Corning, Niewood, and others. He is also New York. He is also the jazz ensem- featured on the new Brown Cats bles director of Signature Band Camp Production CD, Impressions of Point and 171 Cedar Arts Jazz Camp and has Lobos by the Ray Brown Great Big been an adjunct faculty member at Band.· Ithaca College. He performs throughout New York State and has played with Donald Davis earned his bachelor of music Gap Mangione, Joe Salzano, Steve degree from Ithaca College in 1991 and Brown, Steve Gilmore, Richard Boukas, has completed three years of graduate and others. Locally he performs with his work at the University of Cincinnati and own trio, a Jazz Messengers-style a two-year apprenticeship with the group called the Greenhouse Effect, Pittsburgh Opera. He is a three-time and a number of other area musical Metropolitan Opera National Council acts. In addition, he has performed with district winner and regional finalist, as the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, well as the winner of the 1994 Norman Binghamton Symphony, Empire Sax Treigle Opera Award. In 1995 he Quartet (composed of Ithaca College received the Tito Capobianco Young faculty members Steve Mauk and Artist Award, presented by the Jamal Rossi '80), and in numerous Pittsburgh Opera International Guild, faculty concerts at Ithaca College. He and in 1996 the Shoshana Foundation lives in Corning, New York, with his wife, awarded him the Richard F. Gold career Patricia, and children, Amanda and grant. He has performed such roles as Peter. Papageno (The Magic Flute), Figaro (The Barber of Seville), Escamillo Classical guitarist Petar Kodzas received (Carmen), Count Almaviva (The his bachelor's degree from the Marriage of Figaro), Eisenstein (Die University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia Fledermaus), Germont (La Traviata), and, in 1994, a master of music in and Belcore (The Elixir of Love) for such performance from Ithaca College. He companies as the New York City Opera recently received a doctorate of musical National Company, Pittsburgh Opera, arts in performance and literature from Nashville Opera, Indianapolis Opera, the Eastman School of Music. A winner Roanoke Opera, and Ithaca Opera of the National Solo Guitar Competition Association . and the National Chamber Music Competition in Belgrade, he currently teaches at the Hochstein Music School The National Saxophone Quartet is a clas- in Rochester, New York, and through the sical chamber ensemble comprising Community Education Division of the saxophonists from the premier military Eastman School of Music. bands in Washington, D.C. David Yusko, Todd Morrison, and Connie Frigo :hris Persad graduated from Ithaca College received their bachelor of music in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in degrees from Ithaca College, where music education. After receiving his they studied saxophone performance master's degree from the Eastman with Steven Mauk and Jamal Rossi. School of Music in jazz studies and con- They are currently members of the temporary media in 1986, he toured with United States Navy Band. David Dees is the Glenn Miller Orchestra as featured a graduate of the University of North trumpet soloist, making consecutive Texas and Northwestern University, and tours through Japan, Iceland, Brazil, and is a member of the United States Army Canada. He has taught in the public Band-Pershing's Own . The NSQ has a schools of New York State and was for diverse repertoire. Its members have two years an assistant professor of performed recitals at George Mason music at Western Washington University University and the University of in Bellingham, Washington. Currently he Maryland, College Park, and lighter is a freelance trumpet player in New programs for a variety of social functions York City. As well as playing in the throughout the Washington area. In the Broadway show Dream, he has per- fall of 1996 they toured upstate New formed with such artists as the Lionel York, performing numerous public Hampton Orchestra, Slide Hampton, recitals as well as clinics for college and Jimmy Heath. and high school music students. All members of the quartet maintain private teaching studios and active freelance performance schedules in the Washington area. In May 1997 the National Saxophone Quartet was awarded second prize in the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.