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WINDS OF CHANGEJANUARY 23 & 24, 2021 VIRTUAL WOODWIND SHOWCASE RENO PHIL | WINDS OF CHANGE | VIRTUAL WOODWIN SHOWCASE 1 CONCERT ETIQUETTE ABOUT THE At Home Edition RENO PHIL No Shirt, No Shoes, No Mask (No Pants?) NO PROBLEM! Keep your wine bottle close for unlimited refills You do NOT have to silence your phone or tablet! Created by the passion of conductor Gregory Stone in 1969, the Reno Phil is northern Nevada’s largest performing arts organization, performing an array of Children & furry friends symphonic and pops music for all tastes and ages. encouraged! Celebrating its 52nd season, the orchestra, led by Music Director Laura Jackson, is a part-time, per-service orchestra composed of over 60 professional musicians who perform more than 30 concerts annually across the region, including outdoor summer concerts in Reno and at Lake Tahoe. Clap the whole concert if In addition to the professional orchestra and volunteer you want to Reno Phil Chorus, the organization oversees and , NO ONE operates a robust education division with four youth WILL KNOW! orchestras, a free after school strings program at three Title 1 schools, a free family concert in the fall, and numerous other educational and outreach programs. The pandemic has had a drastic impact on the Reno Phil, but the organization has remained commited to finding innovative ways to serve the community through both performance and its education programs. As a federally registered 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization, the Reno Phil engages an active Board of Trustees, staff, volunteers, patrons, donors, sponsors, partner organizations, and the community to ensure that it will thrive through future generations. 2 LAURA JACKSON music director and conductor LAURA JACKSON — now in her 12th season as music director of the Reno Philharmonic — continues to win praise for her artistry, leadership, innovative programming, and creative community engagement. Her passion and drive have helped the Reno Philharmonic Detroit, Phoenix, San Antonio, Toledo, Toronto, Windsor, reach new heights with cutting edge composer-in-residence and Winnipeg, among others. projects as well as vibrant performances of traditional Prior to her appointment in Atlanta, she studied repertoire. Last season, Jackson led the Reno Phil and 12 conducting at the University of Michigan and spent partnering orchestras to mark the shared anniversaries of summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s the Reno Phil (50 years) and the Transcontinental Railroad’s Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003. As the Seiji completion (150 years), with a new work by Grammy– Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood, she conducted nominated composer, Zhou Tian. The project became the numerous concerts featuring both traditional and subject of an NPR story and a documentary film created by contemporary repertoire. KNPB to be released Fall 2019. Ms. Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic, Ms. Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh, NY, Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally. where she grew up waterskiing, swimming, and sailing on Recent performances include concerts with the symphonies Lake Champlain. She fell in love with the violin in public of Hartford, Eugene, Charlottesville, Hawaii, Flint, the school, later attending the North Carolina School for the Philly POPS and L’Orchestre symphonique de Bretagne in Arts to finish high school. She pursued an undergraduate France. In 2017, Jackson returned to the Atlanta Symphony degree at Indiana University where she studied both Orchestra where she previously served as their first-ever violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 female assistant conductor from 2004-2007. to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Jackson recorded Michael Daugherty’s Time Cycle on Academy in New Hampshire. Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop and she has performed with the Philippine Philharmonic. In North America, she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama, Baltimore, Berkeley, Boca Raton, RENO PHIL | WINDS OF CHANGE | VIRTUAL WOODWIN SHOWCASE 3 Reno Philharmonic Orchestra Laura Jackson | Conductor Jordan Pyle | Oboe Eric Fassbender | Bassoon Joshua Anderson | Principal Clarinet Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts & First United Methodist Church of Fort Collins, CO STREAMING Saturday, January 23, 2021 7:30 PM Sunday, January 24, 2021 4:00 PM Robert SCHUMANN Three Romances for Oboe and Piano Approximate duration: 12 minutes (1949) I. Nicht schnell (not fast) II. Einfach, innig (simple, heartfelt) III. Nicht schnell Camille SAINT-SAENS Sonata for Bassoon and Piano Approximate duration: 13 minutes (1921) I. Allegro moderato II. Allegro scherzando III. Molto adagio – Allegro moderato Johannes BRAHMS Sonata No. 1 in F minor for Clarinet Approximate duration: 20 minutes and Piano (1894) I. Allegro appassionato II. Andante un poco adagio III. Allegretto grazioso IV. Vivace 4 FEATURED MUSICIANS JORDAN PYLE, OBOE Jordan Pyle is thrilled to join the Reno Philharmonic as 2nd oboe/English horn. As an orchestral musician, Jordan has served as Principal oboe with the Las Colinas Symphony in Irving, Texas and has performed with numerous ensembles including the Dallas Symphony, Colorado Symphony, and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras. She has also performed as a fellow with the National Orchestral Institute and the National Repertory Orchestra. In addition to orchestral playing, Jordan is a founding member of Our Time Wind Quintet. She is passionate about chamber music and has been performing virtually with the ensemble during 2020. Jordan loves teaching and has a private oboe studio in Fort Collins, CO. In addition to her private studio, Jordan launched Sound Play, a virtual workshop designed to actively explore how music is a powerful tool to help us process experiences, emotions, and personal identity. She has presented the workshop for Asian Womxn in the Arts, The University of Colorado Undergraduate Enrichment Programs, and the Denver Young Artist Orchestra. Jordan received her BM from the University of Colorado Boulder studying with Peter Cooper and her MM from Southern Methodist University with Erin Hannigan. In her free time she enjoys cooking vegan meals, baking sourdough, and playing board games. RENO PHIL | WINDS OF CHANGE | VIRTUAL WOODWIN SHOWCASE 5 FEATURED MUSICIANS JOSHUA ANDERSON, PRINCIPAL CLARINET Joshua Anderson is an active orchestral and chamber musician and has given performances in such venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall. ERIC FASSBENDER, Anderson currently performs with the Reno Philharmonic, holds the position of principal clarinet with the Dearborn BASSOON Symphony Orchestra, and has played under the baton of such conductors as Valery Gergiev and Peter Eric Fassbender teaches bassoon, chamber music and Oundjian. As a chamber musician, he has performed sight-singing and ear training at the University of Nevada, internationally alongside members of the New York and Reno, where he is also the coordinator of the aural skills Berlin philharmonic orchestras. He is also a member curriculum. of the Four Corners Ensemble, which was recently in Fassbender performs regularly with the Reno residence at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Philharmonic, the Reno Chamber Orchestra, Trio Reno and the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival, both of which are several other orchestras and chamber ensembles in the committed to crossing cultural divides both at home and area. He has performed at the 2017 national conference abroad.Anderson has taught lessons for the University of the Society of Composers Inc. and gave a solo recital of Michigan and Yale University, and has worked as a at the 2018 International Double Reed Society conference teaching artist for Yale’s Music in Schools Initiative, the in Granada, Spain. Fassbender is an active commissioner MPulse Clarinet Institute and the Flatirons and performer of new works for double reeds, including Chamber Music Festival Young Artist pieces employing electroacoustic sounds and pre- Program. He currently serves on the recorded media. faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno as assistant professor of clarinet. Fassbender received his doctor of musical arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, studying with Janis McKay. He received his master of music in double reed Anderson attended the performance from the University of Nevada, Reno, Interlochen Arts Academy studying with Christin Schillinger, Lindsey Bartlett and and holds degrees Andrea Lenz. He received his bachelor of science degree from the Peabody from Northern Michigan University, studying bassoon with Conservatory, the Yale Donald Grant. University School of An accomplished accordionist, Fassbender has appeared Music and the with the Reno Philharmonic and as soloist with the Reno University of Michigan, Pops Orchestra. As a saxophonist with the Wisconsin- Ann Arbor. based Don Peachey Band, he toured from 2003 to 2006 and appears on the 2004 album What Goes on Here? Fassbender lives in Reno with his wife Melanie, director of bands and chorus at O’Brien STEM Academy. He performs on a Fox 601 bassoon and a kingwood Yamaha 841 oboe. 6 ACCOMPANISTS JAMES WINN, ERIC FASSBENDER, PRINCIPAL PIANO James Winn is the principal pianist for the Reno Phil. BASSOON Piano and composition professor at the University of Nevada, Reno since 1997, made his professional debut with the Denver Symphony at the age of 13 and has been performing widely in