Band Series presents

University Wind Ensemble & University Concert Band

Wednesday, November 18, 2015, at 8 pm Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center

Pacific Lutheran University School of Arts and Communication / Department of Music presents:

Band Series

University Wind Ensemble and University Concert Band

Wednesday, November 18, 2015, at 8 pm Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center

Welcome to Lagerquist Concert Hall. Please disable the audible signal on all watches, pagers and cellular phones for the duration of the concert. Use of cameras, recording equipment and all digital devices is not permitted in the concert hall.

PROGRAM University Concert Band Dr. Ron Gerhardstein, director Mr. Alan Young, student conductor

English Folk Song Suite ...... Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958) I. March II. Intermezzo III. March

With Each Sunset: Comes the Promise of a New Day ...... Richard Saucedo (b. 1957) Alan Young, Student Conductor

Themes from Green Bushes ...... Percy Grainger (1882-1961) / Larry Daehn, arr.

Urban Dances ...... Erik Morales (b. 1976) Alan Young, Student Conductor

Theme from Schindler’s List ...... John Williams (b. 1932) / Calvin Custer, arr. Sarah Crum, Flute Soloist

Midway March ...... John Williams / James Curnow, arr.

INTERMISSION

University Wind Ensemble Dr. Ed Powell, director Dr. Ron Gerhardstein, guest conductor

Incantation and Dance ...... John Barnes Chance (1932-1972) Dr. Ron Gerhardstein, Conductor

Lightening Field ...... John Mackey (b. 1973)

Shadowcatcher ...... Eric Ewazen (b. 1954) Offering to the Sun Dancing to Restore and Eclipsed Moon Lyric Brass Quintet Zachary Lyman, Edward Castro, Gina Gillie, Jason Gilliam, Paul Evan, soloists

Ecstatic Waters ...... Steven Bryant (b. 1972) Ceremony of Innocence Augurs The Generous Wrath of Simple Men The Loving Machinery of Justice Spiritus Mundi (epilogue)

About the Conductors

Edwin C. Powell maintains an active schedule as a clinician and adjudicator worldwide conducting groups from San Francisco, California to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is a contributing author for the immensely popular ten volume textbook series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, by GIA Publications, and is published in the Journal of Band Research. Dr. Powell has also been active as a producer for multiple recordings including Made in Tacoma featuring Erik Steighner, saxophones. Made in America with the Lyric Brass Quintet, was a production assistant for the Klavier Wind Recording Project, and served as the Associate Producer for the Albany Records recording of Bandanna, an Opera in Two Acts by Daron Aric Hagen.

Dr. Powell is the Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University, where he is responsible for conducting the University Wind Ensemble. Additionally, he teaches Conducting and Music Education courses. Dr. Powell comes to PLU via the University of Tennessee, where he was Assistant Director of Bands responsible for the Symphonic Band, the 350 member Pride of the Southland Marching Band, conducting courses and music education methods courses.

Dr. Powell has earned degrees from the University of the Pacific, the Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music and The University of North Texas where he completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting. At North Texas, Dr. Powell was a Graduate Teaching Fellow studying conducting with Eugene Migliaro Corporon while responsible for teaching conducting courses, Chamber Winds and the North Texas Concert Band. While in Cincinnati he served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant studying Music Education with Dr. Lizabeth Wing while responsible for teaching a variety of courses from Instrumental Methods to Music in Childhood Education. Dr. Powell maintains active memberships in the College Band Directors National Association, the Conductors Guild, the National Band Association, the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE), Music Educators National Conference, Washington Music Educators Association and Pi Kappa Lambda.

Ron Gerhardstein is Assistant Professor of Music Education and Associate Director of Bands at Pacific Lutheran University. In addition to directing the University Concert Band, his duties include coursework related to music education, music elective courses in the department, and supervision of music student teachers. Dr. Gerhardstein comes to PLU having taught instrumental and vocal music in public and private school settings for 18 years in the states of Washington, Idaho, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. He earned a Ph.D. in Music Education from Temple University where he studied with Edwin Gordon and Beth Bolton. He studied saxophone performance at the University of Idaho with Robert Miller, now an adjunct professor at PLU. From 2005 – 2014, Dr. Gerhardstein was the band director at West Valley High School in Yakima, WA. His band program had a strong reputation for excellence in all areas (Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, and Marching Band). His groups won numerous awards of excellence and were honored with clinic performances at the WMEA state conference, EWU invitational festival, and featured professional jazz guest artist concerts in collaboration with CWU Jazz Band I.

Dr. Gerhardstein is an active member of WMEA (Washington Music Education Association), serving a term as the President of the Yakima Valley Region, and was elected to the WMEA Board as the Band Curriculum Officer for the 2010-12 Biennium. Dr. Gerhardstein has guest conducted honor bands at the junior high and high school levels and often served as a festival adjudicator and workshop clinician. Dr. Gerhardstein was honored as the 2014 WMEA / WIAA Music Educator of the Year. He makes his home in Puyallup with his wife, Jerilyn, a first-grade teacher in the Bethel School District.

Alan Young is a senior music education major from Juneau, Alaska. A student of Paul Evans, his primary instrument is the tuba and he performs with several ensembles on campus: PLU Wind Ensemble, Brass Quintet, University Jazz Ensemble, and the University Symphony . He also studies conducting with Dr. Ed Powell and is fulfilling a conducting practicum at Stadium High School under the mentorship of Adam Morrell. He is the recipient of the Presser Foundation Music Scholarship and the Agnes Berge-Smith Music Scholarship.

About the Lyric Brass Quintet

The Lyric Brass is the resident faculty brass ensemble at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in Tacoma, Washington. Its members teach private lessons at PLU and are all active solo, chamber, and orchestral performers throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The players enjoy performing a wide range of repertoire from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century, including several works that have been commissioned for them. In 2012, The Lyric Brass released a CD “American Music for Brass Quintet” which includes works by Gwyneth Walker, Charles Ives, David Snow, and a new work written for the group by Sy Brandon. The members of the Lyric Brass get along surprisingly well with each other given the potentially volatile combination of Red Sox, Yankees, and Mariners fans.

Edward Castro, , is a regular member of the Tacoma Opera, Lyric Brass Quintet, and the Mosaic Brass Quintet. Ed appears occasionally with the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera. He serves on the faculty of Pacific Lutheran University and Northwest University. Ed received his bachelor of music from The Manhattan School of Music. Then he attended Yale University School of Music where he received the degree master of music. He received his Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Washington. Ed's principal teachers include Chris Gekker (former member of the American Brass Quintet), Tom Smith (member of the New York Philharmonic), Alan Dean (trumpet professor at Yale University, member of Summit Brass, St. Louis Brass Quintet and is a former member of the New York Brass Quintet), Stephen Hendrickson (principal trumpet of the National Symphony) and international recording artist Allen Vizzutti.

Zachary Lyman, trumpet, is Associate Professor of Trumpet and Music Theory at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in Tacoma, Washington where he teaches classroom music, directs the trumpet ensemble, coaches chamber music, and performs with the Lyric Brass Quintet. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Trumpet Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa where he was the recipient of the prestigious Iowa Performance Fellowship. Dr. Lyman received the Bachelor of Music degree with honors from The College of Wooster, and the Master of Music degree with Honors and Distinction in Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. His most influential trumpet teachers include Jack Gallagher, Charles Schlueter, and David Greenhoe. He is active as an orchestral, chamber, and solo performer and has performed with the New England Philharmonic, Boston Philharmonic, Cedar Rapids, and Quad Cities Symphony . He has also performed as featured soloist with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, PLU Wind Ensemble, PLU Orchestra, and the Choir of the West, and plays throughout the northwest as a member of the Seattle-based Mosaic Brass Quintet. He has appeared with the Vashon Opera and Tacoma Symphony Orchestras, at the Olympic Music Festival, and is a faculty member at the summer Evergreen Music Festival. Dr. Lyman’s articles have been published by American Music and the International Trumpet Guild Journal. His trumpet warm-up book Practical Daily Warm-Ups for Trumpet is published by Keveli Music. The Lyric Brass Quintet’s CD, American Music for Brass Quintet, is available from Emeritus Recordings. Zach lives in Tacoma with his wife, Anne, and his extremely energetic six-year-old son Milo and two-year-old daughter Eleanor. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, mountain biking, getting beaten badly at racquetball, and being a disgruntled Red Sox fan.

Gina Gillie, , is an Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where she teaches horn and aural skills, conducts horn choir, and performs frequently with faculty groups and in solo and chamber recitals. As an orchestral player, she is currently Assistant Principal with the Tacoma Symphony and has also played with the Northwest Sinfonietta, the LaCrosse Symphony Orchestra, the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra and the Beloit-Janesville Symphony Orchestra. She is a member of two faculty chamber ensembles at PLU, the Camas Wind Quintet and the Lyric Brass Quintet. In 2006, she attended the Tanglewood Music Festival as an orchestral fellow where she worked with world-class musicians such as James Levine, Elliot Carter, Bernhard Haitink, Stefan Asbury, Herbert Blomstedt, Charles Rosen, Barry Tuckwell and John Williams. Dr. Gillie studied horn performance with Douglas Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she received her master’s degree in 2006 and her Doctorate of Musical Arts in 2009. She completed her Bachelors degree at Pacific Lutheran University in 2004 as a horn player in Kathleen Vaught Farner’s studio. A lover of early music, she lectures and performs on natural horn as well as baroque horn. During her time in Madison she appeared in period performances with the Madison Bach Musicians playing repertoire including Bach’s Mass in B Minor. Dr. Gillie’s doctoral dissertation is entitled “Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Music for Soprano, Horn and Piano: an Original Composition, Professional Recording, and Research of Significant Pieces.” Information and recordings from the project are featured on Dr. Gillie’s website, https://sites.google.com/a/plu.edu/gina-gillie---hornist-composer-vocalist/.

Jason Gilliam, , is a native of Tacoma, Washington. He holds the Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts in Teaching form the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, where he studied with Peter Ellefson, Ron Munson, and Steve Fissel. Jason currently holds the position of Lecturer of Euphonium and Trombone at the Pacific Lutheran University, and is also an Elementary School Music Teacher in the Steilacoom School District. Jason has enjoyed an ever increasing demand as a clinician and euphonium soloist. Gilliam has been a featured euphonium artist at the 2012 International Tuba Euphonium Conference in Linz, Austria, the Northern Rockies Tuba Euphonium Festival, Monroe High School Wind Ensemble, Emerald Ridge High School Concert Band, the Northwest Regional International Tuba Euphonium Conference, the University of Idaho, University of Oregon, University of Victoria, Pacific Lutheran University, Puget Brass, Brass Band Northwest, the Harvey Phillips Northwest Big Brass Bash, Sun City Concert Band (Sun City, Arizona), Sitka High School Band (Sitka, Alaska), Tacoma Community College Wind Ensemble, Tacoma Community College Orchestra, Bremerton High School Symphonic Band, and the Northshore Concert Band (Evanston, Illinois). Gilliam was the solo euphoniumist in the Tacoma Concert Band for over 20 years, and was a featured soloist in over 45 performances. In 2015, Jason was a featured soloist with the band on a tour of Spain. Jason also was soloist with the band on their 2007 tour of La Croix Valmer, France, and the 2011 tour of Prague, Salzburg, Vienna, and Budapest. Other performance credits include the Seattle Symphony, Tacoma Symphony, Auburn Symphony, The Tubadours, and the Northwest Mahler Festival Orchestra. Jason Gilliam is a Yamaha Performing Artist, and plays the Yamaha 842S euphonium and the 882GO Xeno tenor trombone.

Paul Evans, tuba, is the Principal Tuba of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra and Lecturer of Tuba and Euphonium at Pacific Lutheran University. An active performer in the Pacific Northwest, Paul also performs with the Northwest Sinfonietta, Bellevue Philharmonic, Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, and with the Lyric Brass at PLU. He studied tuba performance with Ron Munson in Seattle, Steve Call at Brigham Young University, and Gary Ofenloch at the University of Utah. Before coming home to the Pacific Northwest, Paul was Principal Tuba of the Boise Philharmonic and played frequently with the Utah Symphony. He performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician and has been soloist with the Boise Philharmonic, Tacoma Symphony, and Lyric Brass. Paul lives in Tacoma with his wife, soprano Karen Early Evans, and their three beautiful daughters.

University Wind Ensemble Personnel

Flute Tenor Saxophone Percussion Joey Erberich Austin Baduria Shayla Chaykin Jessica Fletcher Tim Hager Rory Froschauer* Baritone Saxophone Marc Harper Mary Josten Dalton Best Kelsey Kosin* Torsen Necessary Matt Kusche Emma Pierce French Horn Eric Sundberg Miki Yamamoto Logan Krehbiel Sarah Martin Piano Taylor Mills* Alexa Bayouk Lydia Robinson* Calley Odum Lora Rudzinski Harp Trumpet Miranda Campos Georgia Eastlake Victoria Norman Megan Cummings* Kristi Eckroth* Julia Jingco Andre Judd Bass Nic Townsend-Falck Robert Layton Adam Masucci Ken Lorentzen Tomick Necessary* Devin Morris Daniel Aliment Claire Rehmke Siobhan Chachere *Section Leader Daniel Kennett+ Trombone +Co-Section Leader Lyndi Knox+ Taylor Bauer Ingrid Smith Paul Dalenberg Devin Turner Collin Ray Dru Wickenkamp Nathan Tunheim*

Bass Clarinet Euphonium Grant Benson Mark Burch Pablo Hernandez Contra Bass Clarinet Annalise King* Daniel Aliment Aaron Weed

Alto Saxophone Tuba Gabe Johnson Alan Young Will Radford*

University Concert Band Personnel

Flute Alto Saxophone Foster Robertson * Kelli Bower-Hobart Elle Campbell Cori Smith + Sarah Crum * Sonja Christensen Madeline Dehning Cecelia McRoberts Legg Trombone Lottie Duren Jerard Mower * Shayla Chaykin Caitlin Johnston Taylor Rost Megan Cheatham Samantha Lynn Maria Everett Shelby Mathison Tenor Saxophone Ian Farrell Taylor Mills Rachel Diebel Gabriel Fried Biankha Pablo Samuel Manders Sarah Gucker Florence Reichers Frankie Roberts * Tristan Swenson Madeline Scully Hannah Walling Baritone Saxophone Euphonium Michele Anderson * Jack Rose * Oboe Josh Blakley John Smith Rebecca Crust Zane Nelson Erika Query * Tuba French Horn Pablo Hernandez Bassoon Alex Justice * Dave Hobson * + Jessica Christensen Jennifer Sagerser + Robbie Rutherford + Rory Smith Clarinet Nate Tunheim Percussion Daniel Aliment Tim Hager * Winter Manisto-Saari Trumpet Sarah Martin Lauren McKeever MariHa Casas Christine Smith * Emily Steelquist * Jack Galliett Ingrid Smith Megan Taylor + Josh Girnus Aaron Weed Alan Young Donovan Klega Alex McKay *Section Leader Bass Clarinet Mykal Moody * + +Community Member Becca Frampton Jake Nicholas +

2015-16 Band Series Lagerquist Concert Hall Mary Baker Russell Building Pacific Lutheran University

University Wind Ensemble, Sunday, October 18, 2015, 3 pm University Wind Ensemble & Concert Band, Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 8 pm University Wind Ensemble Homecoming Concert, Tuesday, March 15, 2016, 8 pm University Wind Ensemble, Sunday, May 15, 2016, 3 pm University Concert Band, Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 8 pm