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Kentucky Music Educators Association Conference SACRED WINDS ENSEMBLE Scott Bersaglia, Music Director Teresa Alzadon, Soprano Fifty-Second Annual Kentucky Music Educators Association State In-Service Conference 6 February 2010 • 11:30 AM Kentucky International Convention Center • Louisville, KY Program Triad Fanfare (2005) John Vander Gheynst (b. 1974) Canzona (1951) Peter Mennin (1923-1983) Um Mitternacht (1901) Gustav Mahler From the Rückertlieder (1860-1911) Blithe Bells (1930-31) Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) Edited by Barry Peter Ould Millennium Canons (2001) Kevin Matthew Puts (b. 1972) Wind ensemble setting by Mark J. Spede SACRED WINDS ENSEMBLE Scott Bersaglia, Music Director Teresa Alzadon, Soprano Piccolo Bass Clarinet Horn Martha Gasque | Murrells Inlet, SC Catherine Strobel | Lexington, KY Nicole Bersaglia | Hazard, KY Director of Bands, Whittemore Park Middle School General Music Teacher, Jefferson County Public Schools Teacher, Henry Clay High School Jeremiah True | Jamestown, OH Bradley Byrum | Louisville, KY Flute Member, Air Force Band of Flight (OH) Director of Bands, Olmsted Academy South Jennifer G. Baszner | Fortville, IN Woo Young Choi | South Korea ABA Therapist, Central & Northern Indiana E-Flat Contra Alto Clarinet Graduate Student, Campbellsville University Nell Chadoin | Springfield, KY Willow Cooper | Lexington, KY Jody Hurt | Prestonsburg, KY Graduate Assistant, Campbellsville University Assistant Director of Bands, Beaumont Middle School Studio Musician, Valencia, California Jamie Lynn Gillispie | London, KY Nathan Miller | Lexington, KY Teacher, Henry Clay High School Bassoon Music Director, Salvation Army of Central Kentucky Seromi Kim | Po-hang, South Korea Thomas Breadon | Cincinnati, OH Dominic Rotella | Louisville, KY Graduate Student, Campbellsville University Student, Morehead State University Freelance Musician, Louisville, KY Meredith Patton | Falmouth, KY Kristen Goguen | Lexington, KY Nathan Tucker | Albertville, AL Teacher, Bullitt Lick Middle School Graduate Student, North Carolina School for Associate Director of Bands, Albertville High School Amanda Wells | Pikeville, KY the Arts and Freelance Musician General Music Teacher, Rowan County Schools Trombone Contrabassoon Blake Barber | Lexington, KY Oboe Eve Witt | Shepherdsville, KY Substitute Teacher and Applied Trombone Instructor Julie R. Schultz | Falmouth, KY Band Director & Choral Director at Zoneton Valerie Evans | Nicholasville, KY General Music & Chorus Teacher, Mercer Elementary Middle School and Contra Bassoonist, Evansville Symphony Adjunct Faculty, Transylvania University Allison Weitkamp | Lexington, KY Matt Moon | Pikeville, KY Director of Bands, Lexington Catholic High School Soprano Saxophone Director of Bands, Pike County Central High School Dong Seok Yu | South Korea John Pollard | Rome, GA Graduate Student, Campbellsville University Student, Kennesaw State University Bass Trombone Anastasi Fafalios | Belle Vernon, PA Oboe d’amore Alto Saxophone Instructor of Trombone, Bellarmine College Allison Weitkamp | Lexington, KY Jenny L. Collins | Charleston, SC Director of Bands, Lexington Catholic High School Director of Bands, Goose Creek High School Euphonium Jonathan D. Day | Hazard, KY Ryles Kjellsen | Richmond, KY E-Flat Clarinet Assistant Director of Bands, Hazard High School Student, University of Kentucky Heather Sue McDonald | Hodgenville, KY James Geiger | Hendersonville, TN Daniel Stull | Payneville, KY Adjunct Instructor, Campbellsville University Assistant Director of Bands, Portland High School Graduate Student, Michigan State University Chad Sheridan | Pleasant Hill, OH B-Flat Clarinet Director of Bands, Nagel Middle School Tuba Libby Adkins | Morehead, KY Chris Bettler | Louisville, KY Chief Financial Officer, Jonathan Adkins Insurance Tenor Saxophone Freelance Musician, Lexington and Louisville, KY Judy Allstatter | Cincinnati, OH Michael Arthur | Louisville, KY Andy Critz | Columbia, KY Music Teacher, Winton Woods City Schools Director of Bands, Louisville Eastern High School Director of Bands, Raceland Worthington High School Megan Ball | Harlan, KY David Jaggie | Louisville, KY Student, University of Louisville Baritone Saxophone Assistant Director of Bands, Madison Central High School Betsy Burkhart | Harlan, KY Shaun R. Popp | Louisville, KY Jason Sturgill | Paris, KY Director of Bands, Harlan High School Director of Bands, Jeffersontown High School Art Teacher, Lafayette High School Michael Collins | Lexington, KY Assistant Director of Bands, Larue County High School Trumpet Percussion Willow Cooper | Lexington, KY Stacy Coker | Moncks Corner, SC Kyle Duke | Russell Springs, KY Assistant Director of Bands, Beaumont Middle School Early Childhood Educator, Berkeley County Schools Graduate Student, Eastern Kentucky University Seungben Huang | South Korea Ryan Ervin | Portsmouth, OH Brian Eisert | Louisville, KY Graduate Student, Campbellsville University Director of Bands, South Webster Jr. & Sr. High School Assistant Director of Bands, Russell County High School Jong Kwan Lee | Seoul City, South Korea Reese Land | Taylorsville, NC L. Jason Kercheval | Sheridan, IN Graduate Student, Campbellsville University Professor of Trumpet, Campbellsville University Freelance Percussion Instructor Heather Sue McDonald | Hodgenville, KY Ed Reid | Frankfort, KY David P. Schurger | Indianapolis, IN Adjunct Instructor, Campbellsville University Freelance Musician, Louisville, KY Director of Bands, Edinburgh Middle School & High School Audrey McMurray | Richmond, KY Shannon B. Seals | Raceland, KY Nathan Wilkerson | Munfordville, KY Student, Morehead State University Freelance Musician, New York City, NY Student, Campbellsville University Thomas Richardson | Summerville, SC Ricky Spears | Ashland, KY Assistant Director, Hanahan High School Band Graduate Student, Eastern Kentucky University Piano Melissa Stultz | Muncie, IN Alyssa Sturgill | West Liberty, KY Jennifer H. Bersaglia | West Van Lear, KY Autism Advocate, Sheridan Community Schools Choral Director, Woodford County Middle School Instructor of Piano and Voice, Mountain Arts Center John Surgener | Berea, KY Freelance Musician, Berea, KY Harp Lisa Spurlock Gilmore | Louisville, KY Director, Louisville Harp Academy Double Bass Alice Markiewicz | Louisville, KY Loan Officer, L&N Federal Credit Union Members are listed in alphabetical order to recognize each player’s invaluable abilities and contributions to the ensemble. Teresa Alzadon, Soprano Teresa Alzadon is a recent graduate of the University of Tennessee where she earned a Master of Music in voice performance as a Knoxville Opera Studio artist. Originally from the Seattle area, Ms. Alzadon holds a bachelor’s Scott Bersaglia, Music degree in music and theatre from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. She Director Scott Bersaglia is currently Assistant has performed with Opera in the Ozarks, New Professor of Conducting and Assistant York Opera Studio, Knoxville Opera, Knoxville Director of Bands at Campbellsville Symphony Orchestra, and the Seattle Bach University where he teaches courses Festival. in conducting, music education, band, and chamber winds. In addition to his Opera roles include Violetta La( Traviata), Anna duties at Campbellsville, Dr. Bersaglia Maurrant (Street Scene) and the Governess (The is Music Director of the Sacred Winds Turn of the Screw) with UT Opera Theatre, title Ensemble and newly-appointed roles in The Merry Widow and Dido and Aeneas, and Conductor of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Despina in Così fan Tutte. She has also performed Orchestra. Elvira’s mad scene from Bellini’s I Puritani with the UT Symphony Orchestra as a winner of the university’s concerto competition. Professional From 2005-2008, Dr. Bersaglia was Assistant Director theatre credits include Marian in The Music Man of Bands at the University of Michigan where he served and Rosa Bud in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. as Assistant Director of the Michigan Marching Band, Conductor of the Campus and University Bands, She is the recipient of a Mary Levine Career Director of the Michigan Hockey Band, Instructor of Performance Grant, an Encouragement Award undergraduate conducting, and Faculty Advisor for Phi from the Metropolitan Opera National Council, Mu Alpha Sinfonia (Epsilon). From 2000-2002, he was and is a Lori Mayer Fellow. Ms. Alzadon resides Director of Bands at South Laurel High School (KY) in Prestonsburg, KY, where she has been active where he founded the South Laurel Commissioning as a private voice teacher and clinician in the Project and South Laurel Chamber Players. performing arts. Dr. Bersaglia is a frequent contributing author to GIA’s Teaching Music Through Performance in Bandseries and has served as a guest conductor in Kentucky, Texas, Michigan, Alabama, and South Carolina. Recent presentations have included the Kentucky CMENC Fall Conference, the University of Michigan’s summer conducting symposium, and the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. He is a member of several professional organizations including the College Band Directors National Association, the Conductors Guild, the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and the Kentucky Music Educators Association, as well as honorary memberships in Pi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Sigma (Lambda) and Kappa Kappa Psi (Nu). A Kentucky native, Dr. Bersaglia is a graduate of Hazard High School where he was a member of both the Hazard High School Band under Pauletta Smith and John Norris, and the Hazard High School Chorus under Letha Patterson.
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