570465 bk Reflections US 7/30/07 11:02 AM Page 5 Craig Morris John Adler, Trumpet Scott Davis, Horn Wan-Chun Liao, Percussion Ronald Rivera, Michael Anderson, Peter Elliot, Clarinet Guglielmo Manfredi, Horn English Horn WIND BAND CLASSICS Craig Morris is currently the Professor of Trumpet at the University of Miami, Frost Trombone Alice Esposito, Tuba Anthony McFarlane, Cristhian Rodriguez, School of Music, where he devotes himself to his teaching and his career as a soloist and Beth Behrman, Horn Giovanni Garcia, Horn Euphonium Clarinet Sam Berkstrom, Bassoon Joseph Giammalvo, Andrew McGuire, Jeremy Rogers, Clarinet chamber musician. He has been a prominent orchestral musician, most notably holding David Birrow, Percussion Bassoon Percussion Tammy Saurman, the prestigious post of Principal Trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He came Yehonahton Bostick- Greg Goldfarb, Flute Doug Mead, Oboe Saxophone to Chicago from the San Francisco Symphony where he held the position of Associate Epperson, Clarinet Michael Hancock, Clarinet Cara Morantz, Trumpet Tracey Siepser, Bassoon REFLECTIONS Principal for three years. Prior to joining the SFS, he was briefly a member of the Jonathan Braithwaite, Gary Heath, Euphonium Matt Mulvaney, Saxophone Caitlyn Smith, Horn Chicago Symphony Orchestra, performing as Fourth/Utility Trumpet in 1998. He has Clarinet Joel Keene, Trombone George Nicholson, Scott Smith, Oboe been a member of the Dallas Brass, an international touring brass quintet, and was Nick Bryan, Clarinet Susan Kirschbaum, Horn String Bass Rod Squance, Percussion David Maslanka: Symphony No. 3 Principal Trumpet of the Sacramento Symphony Orchestra, Opera and Ballet. He has Maria Castillo, Flute Jason Kush, Saxophone Chris O’Farrill, Trumpet Nicholas Thompson, Oboe been featured as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing Bach’s Jonathan Cofino, Bassoon Robert LaDue, Percussion Stacey Osborn, Bassoon Joshua Tetreault, Trumpet Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 and Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat with Pinchas Jeff Cook, Horn Brendan Lai-Tong, Liana Pailodze, Piano Melissa Vilches, Tuba Thomas Sleeper: Trumpet Concerto Zukermann in Orchestra Hall, and giving a repeat performance of the Brandenburg at the Claire Courchene, Trombone Katie Palmer, Clarinet Nicole Warburton, Harp CSO’s summer home at the Ravinia Festival. He was also a featured soloist at Festival Trombone David Lambert, Trombone Amy Pardo, Flute Justin Zanchuk, Trumpet Miami, performing the world première of the Concerto for Trumpet by Thomas Sleeper, Cynthia Cripps, Saxophone Brandie Lane, Percussion Andrew Pettus, Saxophone Melissa Zulueta, Flute Craig Morris, Trumpet in October 2003. A Texas native, Craig Morris was raised in a musical family. His late Steve Danyew, Saxophone Angela Leffingwell, Flute Amy Pettys, Flute father, Cecil Morris, a band director and tuba player, was a major musical influence. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Texas, where he studied with Raymond Crisara, and his Master’s degree at Gary Green Frost Wind Ensemble at the University of Miami the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1991, studying with Glenn Fischthal, Principal Trumpet of the San Francisco Symphony. After returning to Texas, he studied with Don Jacoby, a former Chicago freelance artist, and Gary Green is Professor of Music and Director of Bands in the Frost School of Music at the James Wilt, Associate Principal Trumpet of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. University of Miami. In addition to supervising all band activities at UM, he is the conductor Gary Green of the Frost Wind Ensemble and Chairman of Instrumental Performance. In addition, he Frost Wind Ensemble at the University of Miami supervises all graduate conducting students in the wind and percussion area. Prior to coming to Miami, he served for ten years as Director of Bands at the University of Connecticut in The Frost Wind Ensemble at the University of Miami consists of the finest wind and percussion players at the Storrs, Connecticut. While there he was influential in commissioning and recording new work University of Miami, and performs for numerous concerts, conferences, and festivals throughout the season. for winds and percussion including Symphony No. 3 by David Maslanka and A Cornfield in Actively commissioning new music for the repertoire, the ensemble has offered world premières for such composers July and The River by William Penn. Since his arrival at the University of Miami, Gary Green as Charles Campbell, Clarke McCallister, Michael Colgrass, and James Syler. One of the guiding principles of the has continued the commissioning and performance of important new repertoire for the wind Frost Wind Ensemble is contact with leading musical minds of this time, resulting in recent residences by such ensemble. Recent commissions for composers include: David Gillingham, David Maslanka, notable musicians as James Syler, Eric Whitacre, and David Maslanka. The Wind Ensemble has released four Michael Daugherty, James Syler, Eric Whitacre, Frank Tichelli, Thomas Sleeper, H. Robert critically acclaimed compact discs on the Albany Records label. The second disc is entitled Christina’s World and Reynolds and Ken Fuchs. Urban Requiem by Michael Colgrass was commissioned by the features the commission by Kenneth Fuchs. Blue includes James Syler’s Blue, Michael Colgrass’s Dream Dancer, Philip Frost Commission Fund and has become a standard in the repertoire for wind ensemble. Among other new and the Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble by Thomas Sleeper. The fourth disc, entitled Ivy Green, contains compositions to be written for winds and percussion is the commission for the Frost Wind Ensemble at the Mark Camphouse’s Symphony from Ivy Green, Equus by Eric Whitacre and Ney Rosauro’s Concerto for Marimba University of Miami of Christopher Rouse’s Wolf Rounds. Gary Green is a member of the American Bandmasters and Wind Ensemble. Former members of the Frost Wind Ensemble at the University of Miami hold positions in Association, the College Band Directors Association, the Music Educators National Conference, the Florida symphony orchestras and military bands and serve as teachers and conductors throughout the world. Bandmasters Association and the Florida Music Educators Association. He received The Phillip Frost Award for Scholarship and Teaching in the Frost School of Music in 2002. He is an advocate of new music for winds and percussion. An active conductor and clinician, he has appeared with International, National and Regional Bands and intercollegiate bands in most of the fifty states. He has conducted the Texas All State Band frequently and gave the première of Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre with that ensemble. He has also recently conducted in Taipei, Taiwan where he appeared with the Republic of China Army Band and the Taiwan National Wind Ensemble as part of the 2005 International Band Association Festival. 8.570465 5 6 8.570465 570465 bk Reflections US 7/30/07 11:02 AM Page 2 Thomas Sleeper (b. 1956): Trumpet Concerto relationship between the trumpet and wind ensemble. David Maslanka: Symphony No. 3 Composer’s Note The third movement is a fierce and bristling fast David Maslanka (b. 1943): Symphony No. 3 Despite the vivid dream which inspired the work, it is not movement that maintains its high energy from start to programmatic in any real sense. The movements have David Maslanka was born in Symphony No. 3 was commissioned by the University of finish. It is also in a sonata form. The development Thomas Sleeper: Trumpet Concerto America. Recent performances of his work include the “end titles” that are personal but not intended to tell any New Bedford, Massachusetts, Connecticut Wind Ensemble, Gary Green, conductor. I section is a fugue which rises in power to a huge climax Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, with Stefan Jezierski, particular story. Concerto for Trumpet is gratefully in 1943. He attended the was asked to write a “major” piece yet not necessarily area. The music is fixed largely in the tonality of A Thomas Sleeper enjoys of the Berlin Philharmonic; String Quartet No. 2, by the dedicated to Gary Green. Oberlin College conservatory one as big as this. It is hard to say why a given music minor; first and second themes are in A minor. The an active dual career as Bergonzi String Quartet; Adagio, for orchestra by the The first movement, “…falling angels”, begins where he studied composition emerges at a given time. In my composing life there development begins and ends in the home key, as does composer and conductor. Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony and Sleeper’s with a violent explosion of themes from the winds and with Joseph Wood. He spent a have been “sign-post” pieces – large works that have the recapitulation. This unmoving tonal scheme His early musical training orchestration of Brahms’s Clarinet Sonata Opus 120, percussion. The solo trumpet interrupts all of this and year at the Mozarteum in erupted at fairly regular, though unpredictable, intervals. emerged and would not be derailed so I had to let it with Daryl F. Rauscher of No. 2, by the Ruse State Philharmonic in Bulgaria. begins a more lyric exposition of the melodic materials Salzburg, Austria, and did The impetus for this piece was in part my leaving happen. The tonal fixation seems to underline the the Dallas Symphony Sleeper currently resides in Miami, Florida, where in various chamber settings. An accompanied cadenza graduate work in composition university life and moving from New York City to the character of fierce power. Orchestra has influenced he is Director of Orchestral Activities and Conductor of transforms into a double development which builds to at Michigan State University Rocky Mountains of Western Montana. The mountains The fourth and fifth movements are both the “charged lyricism” the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra and the opening trumpet theme but does not actually resolve with H. Owen Reed. and the sky are a living presence. Animal and Indian lamentations though not particularly slow or “down” in and “singing” qualities Opera Theater and Music Director of the Florida Youth and return any other materials until the final movement.