EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

CONVOCATION 2021

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 Kilbourn Hall 2:30 PM PROGRAM

PERFORMANCE Festival Music (2021) Steve Danyew (b. 1983)

Eastman Wind Ensemble Mark Scatterday, conductor

WELCOME Jamal J. Rossi, Joan and Martin Messinger Dean

INVOCATION Rev. Dr. C. Denise Yarbrough, Director of Religious & Spiritual Life, Interfaith Chapel, University of Rochester

REMARKS FROM THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Sarah Mangelsdorf, President and G. Robert Witmer, Jr. University Professor

INTRODUCTION OF NEW FACULTY Donna Brink Fox, Senior Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs

REMARKS FROM THE UNIVERSITY PROVOST Sarah Peyre, Interim Provost

KEYNOTE ADDRESS Jamal J. Rossi

PRESENTATION OF 2020-2021 EISENHART AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING Jamal J. Rossi

PERFORMANCE Lessons (2018) Nabate Isles (b. 1977)

James VanDemark, double bass

KILBOURN HALL Considered by many to be one of the finest chamber music halls in the world, Kilbourn Hall serves as the primary location for faculty, student, and guest artist recitals, chamber music and jazz performances, and opera productions. It is also a frequent choice for commercial recording sessions due to its fine acoustics. Recent guests have included Frederica von Stade, the Takács Quartet, Andras Schiff, Dawn Upshaw, Susan Graham, and the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet.

Opened in 1922, Kilbourn Hall was built by George Eastman and dedicated to the memory of his mother, Maria Kilbourn Eastman. Three stories high and decorated in the Venetian Renaissance style, the 444- seat hall is well known for its remarkable beauty, pure acoustics, and excellent sight lines. Close to 300 performances take place in Kilbourn Hall each year. In addition to Eastman performances, the hall is also a prime venue for key community festivals including the annual Rochester International Jazz Festival and Fringe Festival.

After years of constant use, the hall received a much needed renovation in the summer of 2016. In addition to enhancing the audience experience through seat and lighting upgrades, the renovation also addressed the critical issue of making the stage ADA accessible from backstage. All of the updates were made with careful attention to preserve the hall’s original details and superior acoustics.

EASTMAN SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM, 2021-22 Jamal J. Rossi John Hain Joan and Martin Messinger Dean Associate Dean of Academic & International Affairs Matthew Ardizzone Associate Dean of Admissions & Jennifer Horn Enrollment Management Executive Director of Finance & Administration Rachel Roberts Director of the Institute for Jessica Kaufman Music Leadership Director of Communications

Donna Brink Fox Petar Kodzas Senior Associate Dean of Associate Dean and Director of the Academic & Student Affairs Eastman Community Music School

Kevin Gibson Lee Koonce Executive Director of Operations Senior Advisor to the Dean

Aubrie Willaert Marie Rolf Executive Director of Senior Associate Dean of Advancement Graduate Studies

EASTMAN NEW FACULTY, 2021-22 Julie Beauregard Assistant Professor of Music Teaching and Learning

Ji Young Kim Assistant Professor of Musicology

Erika Knapp Instructor of Music Teaching and Learning

Jonathan Sauceda Associate Dean of the Sibley Music Library and Associate Professor of Musicology

EASTMAN DEPARTMENT CHAIRS, 2021-22

CHAMBER MUSIC Anne Harrow, Associate Professor of Flute & Piccolo

COMPOSITION TBA

CONDUCTING & ENSEMBLES William Weinert, Professor of Conducting & Ensembles

HUMANITIES Glenn Mackin, Associate Professor of Political Science

JAZZ STUDIES & CONTEMPORARY MEDIA Jeff Campbell, Professor of Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media

MUSICOLOGY Holly Watkins, Professor of Musicology

MUSIC TEACHING & LEARNING Philip Silvey, Associate Professor of Music Teaching and Learning

MUSIC THEORY Elizabeth West Marvin, Acting Chair, Fall 2021

ORGAN, SACRED MUSIC & HISTORICAL KEYBOARDS David Higgs, Professor of Organ

PIANO Alan Chow, Professor of Piano

STRINGS, HARP & GUITAR James VanDemark, Professor of Double Bass and Phillip Ying, Associate Professor of Viola

VOICE & OPERA Katherine Ciesinski, Professor of Voice

WOODWINDS, BRASS & PERCUSSION Mark Kellogg, Professor of Euphonium, Trombone, and Brass Chamber Music

EASTMAN WIND ENSEMBLE PERSONNEL Trumpet Bass Trombone Paul Tingley Jackson Murphy Luke Fox Katie Hillstrom Tuba Reed Ricotta Jordan Oliviera Nathan McKinstry Logan Wadley Adrian Rogers Percussion Horn Austin Keck Will Sands Ethan Hall Kristin Andlauer Connor Landers Timpani Brianna Garcon Eric He

Trombone Bella Lau Chase Farrell Michael Rooney PROGRAM NOTES

Festival Music (2021) Steve Danyew Festival Music was written to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the East- man School of Music, which opened its doors in the 1921–22 academic year. The fanfare is inspired by the glorious Eastman Theatre, and more specifically, by a mural titled “Festival Music” by Ezra Winter that is paint- ed on the side of the theatre.

Perhaps the most celebratory mural on the theatre walls, it depicts a scene full of music and fanfare with soaring mountains in the background. One of the most striking features of the mural is a series of three trumpeters playing in the center of the mural, with red flags hanging from their trum- pets. These heralding trumpets first drew me to the mural, and so I decid- ed to open the fanfare with just trumpets. In the painting, other brass play- ers and percussionists are seen just beneath the trumpeters, and in the mu- sic, these players enter shortly after the trumpets introduce a key motive of the work.

The music is dedicated to the Eastman School of Music—to George East- man and Ezra Winter and the many individuals that helped in ways large and small to build the school. It is also dedicated to the many faculty and staff who have made it a place where the music continues to thrive, and where young people like myself dream of coming and being a part of the historic legacy. Meliora! - Steve Danyew

MEET THE ARTISTS Mark Davis Scatterday is Professor of Conducting at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. Scatterday joined a prestigious line of conductors in the past sixty-plus years of the internationally famed ensemble – Frederick Fennell, Clyde Roller, and Donald Hunsberger. Since his appointment, he has led the EWE on tours of Japan, Taiwan, China, Canada, the US, and Europe. He also conducted the EWE in highly acclaimed performances at Carnegie Hall, Severance Hall in Cleveland, the Canadian National Musicfest, and the Midwest Clinic, and has recorded 6 CDs with the EWE and the Eastman Music Nova. Dr. Scatterday has premiered over 30 new works for wind ensemble by composers such as Andre Previn, Roberto Sierra, and Jeff Tyzik. Artists that he has performed with include the Canadian Brass, Nexus, Bela Fleck, James Carter, Al Vizzutti, Jeff Tyzik, Michael Burritt, Chien-Kwan Lin, James Thompson, Jim Pugh, Ian Bousfield, Dennis Smith, Robert Sullivan, Brian Shaw, Clark Terry, Eddie Daniels, Slide Hampton, Ed Shaughnessy, and Lee Konitz.

Professor Scatterday has directed wind ensembles and orchestras throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Previous to his appointment at Eastman, Dr Scatterday was Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at Cornell University. Professor Scatterday maintains an active guest conducting schedule and researching and writing articles involving score analysis, performance practices, and conducting – most notably the music of Karel Husa and Roberto Sierra. His arrangements for wind ensemble are available through Subito, Schirmer, Alfred, and Hal Leonard publishers. Notable guest conducting appearances include The New World Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Tokyo Philharmonic (opening of Ohga Hall, Karuizawa, Japan), the Kunitachi (Japan) Wind Orchestra, the Sante Fe Concordia, as well as many US universities, all-state, and all- county ensembles.

Dr. Scatterday has conducted the premiere recording of Roberto Sierra’s Cancionero Sefardi with members of the Milwaukee Symphony (2001), Judith Weir’s Consolations of Scholarship with Ensemble X (2005), Danzante with James Thompson and the EWE (2006), Barcelonazo with Musica Nova (nominated for a 2008 Latin Grammy), Manhattan Music with the EWE and the Canadian Brass (2008, nominated for a 2009 JUNO), a CD with the EWE and the Eastman Virtuosi featuring Stravinsky’s music and celebrating the EWE’s 60th year (2013, AVIE, London), a live recording of Roberto Sierra’s music (Summit, 2016), and a recording of Jeff Tyzik’s music, Images, (Summit, 2018).

MEET THE ARTISTS The Eastman Wind Ensemble is America’s leading wind ensemble. Its core of about 50 performers includes undergraduate and graduate students of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.

Frederick Fennell first formulated the general concept of the wind ensemble at Eastman more than 50 years ago. Under his leadership the group became known as the pioneering force in the symphonic wind band movement in the United States and abroad. A. Clyde Roller served as conductor between 1962 and 1964, continuing the tradition established by Fennell. Donald Hunsberger became conductor in 1965 and led the ensemble for 37 years to international prominence. The ensemble’s current director, Mark Davis Scatterday, was introduced as the fourth conductor of this prestigious group during the EWE’s 50th anniversary celebration on February 8, 2002.

Ever since its founding, the EWE has been in the forefront elevating the wind repertory through recordings. Fennell’s Mercury Recording albums of the 1950s and early ’60s are notable for their pioneering use of binaural, stereo, and 35mm recording techniques. These “Living Presence” recordings focused on standard band literature by the most respected classical composers — heard for the first time in the newly balanced instrumentation. They also centered on major repertory not found on traditional band programs, such as Hindemith’s Symphony in B-flat, Schoenberg’s Theme and Variations, op. 43a, and Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments.

Under Hunsberger, the EWE continued its progressive stance in recording techniques with participation in quadraphonic and digital recording on the Deutsche Grammophon, Phillips, CBS Masterworks (now Sony Classical), Toshiba EMI, Tioch (now KEF), Vox, Centaur, and Desto labels. The album Carnaval, a collaboration with Wynton Marsalis, was nominated for a Grammy award in 1987 and reintroduced the public to an entire tradition of cornet showpieces for band. Other Sony Classical releases have featured new transcriptions of Bach organ works by Hunsberger, as well as contemporary works. One of the featured pieces on the Live from Osaka album was Joseph Schwantner’s … and the mountains rising nowhere, a work that has become representative of the ensemble’s approach to new music, adventurous tone colors, and innovative compositional techniques. Since its founding, the ensemble has premiered more than 150 new works.

In 1968 the group traveled cross-country, giving a series of concerts that culminated in a performance for the General Session of the MENC (National Association for Music Education) conference in Seattle. The

MEET THE ARTISTS ensemble made subsequent MENC appearances in 1987 and 1996. In 1976, the EWE performed at the College Band Directors National Association National Convention, and in 1978 embarked on a tour of Japan and Southeast Asia. In addition, the release of the 1987 Carnaval disc was followed by a tour with Marsalis to Montreal, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, and New York.

The Eastman Wind Ensemble celebrated its 50th anniversary in February 2002 with a conference of international scope on the wind ensemble and its music. The conference included the premiere of a new work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Bernard Rands. The anniversary also coincided with the release of a multi-CD set of recordings compiled by Warner Brothers from sessions in Japan and Rochester over the last several years.

Between 1990 and 2004, the EWE has embarked on seven summer tours of Japan. These trips have been sponsored by Eastman Kodak and Sony Music Foundation, and have focused on demonstrating Eastman performance techniques and showcasing original works of the repertory. Several of Hunsberger’s Wind Library publications originated as pieces specifically transcribed for these tours, as each tour also featured special arrangements by Hunsberger and Scatterday to display the capabilities of the Ensemble.

The most recent Japan tour in 2004 began a new era for the EWE under the direction of Mark Scatterday and included several performances in Taiwan and China. This Asian tour featured trumpet soloist, James Thompson, as the ensemble recorded concertos by Dana Wilson, Eric Ewazen and Jacques Hetu (Danzante, released on Summit Records in 2006). Also in 2005, Scatterday and the ensemble performed at Carnegie Hall as part of CBDNA’s National Conference on February 26th, featuring music by Karel Husa, Roberto Sierra, David Maslanka and Jeff Tyzik. The ensemble’s latest recording entitled Manhattan Music with the Canadian Brass was released in 2008 on Opening Day Records with ArchivMusic and recently a live recording of Roberto Sierra’s music (Summit, 2016). A new recording of Jeff Tyzik’s music, Images, is scheduled to be released in October of 2018.

One of the most brilliant virtuosi ever to perform on the double bass, James VanDemark was hailed by the New York Times at his Lincoln Center recital debut as “an exceptionally gifted string player and a musician of taste, intelligence and the best spontaneous musical instincts,

MEET THE ARTISTS with an unerring sense for exact intonation.” The San Francisco Chronicle praised his “wonderful facility for making really musical phrases, relaxing, building, shading with unlimited subtleties – and a capacity to dig into whole pages of rip-roaring coloratura and make every note count.”

VanDemark began his musical studies at the age of 14 in his hometown of Owatonna, Minnesota, making such rapid progress that just 18 months later he made his solo debut with the Minnesota Orchestra. Subsequently, VanDemark has performed as soloist with the New York Philharmonic (Mehta), St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (Zukerman), Buffalo Philharmonic (Yoel Levi), Grant Park Symphony (James Paul), Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Peter Bay), the San Antonio Symphony (Barrios), the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra (Rampal), the Chautauqua Festival Orchestra (Hugh Wolff), the New Mexico Symphony (Lockington), the Quebec Symphony, the National Symphony of Mexico, the Netherlands Radio Symphony, and in numerous other concerto appearances.

VanDemark’s duo recitals with André Watts, including one on Lincoln Center’s Great Performer Series, and also with Samuel Sanders, Anthony Newman, Barry Snyder, and Robert Spillman have won him great acclaim. Chamber music collaborations with the Guarneri, Cleveland, Colorado, Muir, Ying, and Audubon Quartets, the Los Angeles Piano Quartet, Vienna Schubert Trio, Kandinsky Trio, Gryphon Trio and pianists Gary Graffman, Alfred Brendel, Anton Nel, Anton Kuerti, and Jeffrey Kahane highlight VanDemark’s versatility.

The recipient of numerous commissioned works, including those by three Pulitzer Prize winners – Gian-Carlo Menotti, Joseph Schwantner, and Christopher Rouse – VanDemark also performed the American premieres of Nino Rota’s Divertimento Concertante (Charlotte Symphony) and Edvard Tubin’s Double Bass Concerto (Queens Symphony). VanDemark’s most recent commission is a solo double bass work by the noted composer/violist Adrienne Elisha.

VanDemark recently premiered and recorded the recital work Dana la Colora by composer/cellist Emilio Colon. He also recently premiered the concerto Shiva Shakti by composer Todd Coleman, winner of the Scorch Music Competition, and performed and recorded Jerod Sheffer Tate’s Iyaaknasha’ (The Medicine Man and His Helper) with the Columbus (OH) Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra.

Also in considerable demand as a narrator with orchestra, VanDemark has appeared on numerous occasions with the Rochester Philharmonic, the

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Texas Festival Orchestra, the Eastman Philharmonia, the NEO Ensemble, and many others. In June, 2011, VanDemark will premiere a new narrated work with orchestra, A Young Rodent’s Guide to the Orchestra (for which VanDemark wrote the text and Emilio Colon the music), with the Texas Festival Orchestra.

As a sought-after guest artist at summer festivals, VanDemark performs at the Mostly Mozart, Spoleto, Seattle Chamber Music, Montreal Chamber Music, Round Top, Maverick, Norfolk, South Bank (London), and Newport festivals.

An important direction in VanDemark’s career has been his involvement with Native American performers in Circle of Faith, composed by Alton Clingan. VanDemark commissioned this unique musical and cultural collaborative work, developing it in conjunction with respected Native artists and elders. He also produces the work, which has had more than two dozen performances since its 1992 premiere with the Muir Quartet.

Appointed Professor of Double Bass at the Eastman School in 1976, at age 23, VanDemark became the youngest person ever to hold such a position at a major music school. VanDemark is recognized as a renowned teacher; his students hold positions with many of the world’s major orchestras – Cleveland, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Minnesota, San Francisco, Singapore, Taiwan, and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Rochester Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and the orchestras of Syracuse, Buffalo and Wichita. Currently, VanDemark serves as Co-Chair of the String Department at the Eastman School, and Chair of the Musical Arts Major, Eastman’s interdisciplinary academic honors program.

As a recording artist, VanDemark can be heard on d’Note Records, Philips, Telarc, Vox, Pantheon, and NEXUS.

VanDemark has been profiled in such diverse media as Connoisseur magazine, the New York Times, on PBS’s MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and in the Lakota Times, the largest Native American newspaper in the United States.

VanDemark graduated in 1976 from SUNY Buffalo (BFA, Magna cum Laude). His principal teachers include bassist James Clute and cellist Paul Katz, with additional study with bassist Gary Karr and cellists Gabor Rejto and Leonard Rose.

UPCOMING EASTMAN FACULTY PERFORMANCES

Sunday, August 29, 2021 Tuesday, September 28, 2021 Nicholas Goluses, guitar JCM Faculty (Jazz & Premiere by Bill Dobbins Contemporary Media Kilbourn Hall, 3:00 PM Kilbourn Hall, 7:30 PM

Friday, September 17, 2021 Monday, October 4, 2021 Michael Burritt, percussion Charles Pillow, jazz saxophone and Premieres by Matt Curlee, Kyle Peters, and Bill Dobbins, piano Michael Burritt Hatch Recital Hall, 7:30 PM Kilbourn Hall, 7:30 PM Saturday, October 16, 2021 Saturday, September 25, 2021 Michael Wayne, clarinet, Eastman Virtuosi and Jon Lin Chua George Sakakeeny, bassoon, Premiere by Jon Lin Chua and friends Kilbourn Hall, 7:30 PM Kilbourn Hall, 3:00 PM

Sunday, September 26, 2021 Sunday, October 31, 2021 Jonathan Retzlaff, lyric bartione Tony Caramia, piano Kilbourn Hall, 3:00 PM Music from the Dawn of Eastman: Pieces from 1921 Hatch Recital Hall, 3:00 PM

The Faculty Artist Series is generously supported by Patricia Ward-Baker.

Information about upcoming Eastman concerts and events can be found at: www.esm.rochester.edu/concerts www.EastmanTheatre.org

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