cont’d from Marylhurst University near Portland, but he did most of the work for that degree at the Eastman School in Rochester. His music has been performed in a variety of settings throughout North America, and also in Ko- The Southern Oregon Chapter of rea and in nine countries in Europe, and published by eight American houses and by one in Germany. He is also active as a baritone, accompanist, and poet. National Association of Composers Jack Gabel (b. 1949 -) and lives in Portland, Oregon. He has lived and USA worked in Europe, Asia, Africa and fished commercially in Alaska. Jack Gabel has composed numerous concert hall works for a wide range of instruments, voices, electronics, plus a number of mixed-media works. Though classically trained with composers Derek Healey, Tomas Svo- presents boda and poet Ralph Salisbury, Gabel’s most memorable musical mo- ment is an impromptu jam session with an Afghan tribesman in a Herat tea house in 1972 — composer on mouth organ, local talent on a rough- hewn, 3- string lute. Gabel has filled commissions for The Dale Warland Singers and Portland Piano International, among others. Since 2003, he is Resident Composer / Technical Director for Agnieszka Laska Dancers. Dr. Greg A Steinke is retired. A former Joseph Naumes Endowed Chair Good Vibes of Music/Art and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon; Associate Director, Ernest Bloch Music Festival (‘93–97) and Director, Composers Symposium (‘90–97) (New- port, OR); served as the National Chairman of the Society of Composers, New Music by Inc. (1988–97). Composer of chamber and symphonic music and author with published/recorded works and performances across the U. S. and NACUSA Composers internationally; speaker on interdisciplinary arts, and oboist specializ- ing in contemporary music. Dr. Steinke is the current national president of NACUSA and also serves on the NACUSA Cascadia Chapter Board.

Performed by the SyZyGy Ensemble Soprano, flute, bassoon, trumpet and percussion

Saturday, November 4, 2017, at 7:30 PM First Congregational Church Thank you for supporting 717 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, OR Oregon composers and music! ~~~ Program ~~~ ~~~ The Composers ~~~ A Mixed Bagatelle Ken Deveney Greg Bartholomew was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1957. Bartholomew flute, trumpet, bassoon and vibes studied trombone at John Muir Elementary School and piano at Cornish Bassoon Sonatina Christopher Wicks College of the Arts before earning degrees from the College of William solo bassoon & Mary in Virginia and the University of Washington.Winner of the 2013 Cheryl A. Spector Prize (for Summer Suite), the 2012 Spector Prize (for the Rudimentalisis Greg A Steinke solo percussion First Suite from Razumov), the Silver Platter Repertoire Award (for The Tree), and First Place in the 2006 Orpheus Music Composition Competition All in Green Went My Love Riding William Ashworth (for Beneath the Apple Tree), Bartholomew was also awarded the Master- soprano, flute works Prize from ERM Media in 2005 and 2006. A two-time Finalist for A Song of the Degrees William Ashworth the American Prize in Choral Composition (2012 and 2013), Bartholomew soprano, flute, bassoon, vibes was the 2012/2013 Composer in Residence for the Cascadian Chorale.

~~~ Intermission ~~~ Refreshments will be served in the back of the church. William Ashworth holds a bachelor’s degree in music theory from Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington, 1965) and an MA in theo- The Flutist Field Guide to the Western Tananger Greg Batholomew ry and composition from Washington State University (Pullman, 1967). solo flute His teachers included William H. Bailey (a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg), William Brandt (a pupil of Howard Hanson), and Loran Olsen (a pu- Bird/Girl William Ashworth flute, bassoon, vibes pil of Nadia Boulanger); he also took master classes with Jean Berger and Alan Hovhaness, and studied for a year with the composer Robert Diameter X Jack Gabel Soderberg at the University of Washington. His meditation for cello trumpet, percussion choir, “The Island of Woods,” has been set as a dance by choreogra- Veils Ken Deveney pher Vicki Lloid; his piece for recorder consort, “Papillon,” took second soprano, flute, trumpet, bassoon, vibes place in the American Recorder Society’s 2007 international competition. Ashworth’s work is characterized by lyricism, tight organization, and a highly personal use of chromatic inflection, often built around carefully chosen twelve-tone rows. He is currently a semifinalist for the Ameri- The Syzygy ensemble can Prize in chamber music composition, and the president of the South- ern Oregon Chapter of the National Association of Composers-USA.

Jeffri Lynn Carrington, soprano Ken Deveney studied music and mathematics at Rutgers Univer- sity, then worked as a computer programmer and a math teach- Lisa Nichols, flute er. He has been a choir director and a member of the Canby Sing- Erik Osberg, trumpet ers in New York. After moving from New Jersey to the Rogue Bruce Shay, bassoon Valley in 1991, he studied composition with Dr.Michael Turner at Southern Oregon University and with composer P. Peter Sacco. Jared Brown, percussion Christopher M. Wicks was born in 1975 in Silverton, Oregon, where he still lives. He is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, and holds a MM in Organ from the University of Oregon, and a MM in NACUSA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and welcomes donations. Southern Oregon Chapter website: http://nacusasor.org Composition from the University of Montreal. His BA in Music is over