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Festival Schedule
Tuesday. February 28
Student Composers' Concert 11:00am-Kimbrough Concert Hall
Thursday. March 2
Concert 1: Opening Gala Concert 7:30pm-Bryan Hall Theatre featuring The Solstice Wind Quintet WSU Symphony Orchestra Willis Delany, guest piano soloist
Friday, March 3
Paper Session 1 11:10am Kimbrough Music Building, Room 346
Concert 2: Electroacoustic Music Concert 3:00pm-Kimbrough Concert Hall
Concert 3: Festival Guest Ensemble Concert 7:30pm-Bryan Hall Theatre featuring The Post-Haste Reed Duo
Satuday. March 4
Paper Session 2 11:10am-Kimbrough Music Building, Room 346
Concert 4: Solo and Chamber Music 3:00pm-Kimbrough Concert Hall
Concert 5: Solo and Chamber Music 7:30pm-Kimbrough Concert Hall
All concerts and paper sessions are free and open to the public. March 2
Concert 1: Opening Gala, Bryan Hall Theatre, 7:30pm
The Wyn wood Project (2016, world premiere) David Jarvis I. Aliens are Coming II. Lizard III. Hamburger Man and the Tree People IV. Angel of Harmony and Child V. Blue Man
Five Poems for Wind Quintet (1994) Karel Husa I. Walking Bird II. Happy Bird Interlude: Lamenting Bird ... III. ... With a Dead Bird IV. Fighting Birds V. Bird Flying High Above
Solstice Wind Quintet Sophia Tegart, flute; Keri E. McCarthy, oboe; Shannon Scott, clarinet; Martin King, horn; Ryan M. Hare, bassoon
Intermission
"Stanzas," After Poe for string orchestra (2016) Ryan M. Hare I. Fervid, flick'ring torch of life II. The unembodied essence III. With a strange sound IV. With desp'rate energy
WSU Symphony Orchestra; Ryan M. Hare, guest conductor
Jazz Concerto (2016) Gregory W. Yasinitsky I. Louisiana Reel II. Nights of Wind and Water III. What He Said!
Willis Delany, piano; F. David Snider, bass; David Jarvis, drums; WSU Symphony Orchestra; Danh Pham, conductor and music director March 3
Paper Session 1: Kimbrough Music Building, Room 346, 11:10am
"Process and Intuition in the Piano Music of Ann Southam" David D. Mcintire
"The Business with Composers" Ian Evans Guthrie
Concert 2: Electroacoustic Music, Kimbrough Concert Hall, 3:00pm
Panic Attack (2016) Timothy Polashek
Matthew Polashek, saxophone with fixed media
Brake (2016) Tyler Entelisano
fixed media
We No Longer Hear Human Voices (2016) Daniel Sitler
fixed media
Intermission
The Burning Binds and the Binding Burns (2014) David D. Mcintire
David D. Mcintire, no-input mixer with fixed media
Clouds, Light (2016) Scott Blasco
fixed media
Winter's Summer (2014) Ted King-Smith
Duke Sullivan, saxophone with fixed media March 3
Concert 3: Post-Haste Reed Duo, Bryan Hall Theatre, 7:30pm
Soundscapes for alto saxophone and bassoon (2015) Michael Johanson I. The Hills of Basilicata ll. Snowscapes lll. Moto Perpetuo
Viriditas (2004/2014) Ryan M. Hare
Dorian Staircase (2015) Frank Nawrot
Intermission
Lacrimosa (1991/Arr. Jeff Chamber 2014) Louis Andriessen
Palpitations (2011) Takuma Itoh
Sean Fredenburg, alto saxophone
The Call of Cthulhu (2016) Paul Taylor
Javier Rodriguez, bassoon with fixed media bioMechanics (2011) Simon Hutchinson
Post-Haste Reed Duo with fixed media March4
Paper Session 2: Kimbrough Music Building, Room 346, 11:10am
"Greg Steinke's Sacre Blue! For Bass Clarinet" Roger Cole
"Jazz Meets Classical Music: Third Stream in the 21st Century" Greg Yasinitsky
Concert 4: Solo and Chamber Music, Kimbrough Concert Hall, 3:00pm
Sacre Bleu! (2013, world premiere) Greg A. Steinke
Roger Cole, bass clarinet
Spiro's Dance (2014) Tim Chatwood
Alice Hiemstra, oboe
Journey-The Song Cycle (2004) Sheli Nan I. The Canoe II. The River III. The Path
Brian Carter, tenor; Lark Powers, piano
Intermission
Super Super Mother Bad (2016) Adam Hill
Sophia Tegart, flute
It passed me by at Dawn (2016) Ulf Grahn
Sophia Tegart, flute
Tryptich of Fugues (2016) Daniel Perttu
Nancy DeSalvo and Joseph Bandi, piano four-hands March4
Concert 5: Solo and Chamber Music, Bryan Hall Theatre, 7:30pm
Intervals II (2014) Philip Schuessler
Chris Dickey, tuba; Jeffrey Savage, piano
Soundscape Retreats (2014, world premiere) Ian Evans Guthrie I. Wy'east II. Lake of Sunlit Shadows III. Tropical Sabbath
Ian Evans Guthrie, piano
Intermission
Landscape with Running Figures (2016, world premiere) David Jarvis
Jacob Karg!, timpani
Swarm (2011) Aleks Sternfeld-Dunn I. Hive Mentality II. The Queen's Lament III. Swarm
Sophia Tegart, flute; Shannon Scott, clarinet Washington State University School of Music
A Tradition of Excellence: Established in 1901, the WSU School of Music has long been recognized for excellence in undergraduate and graduate studies in music. Students study with an internationally recognized faculty, and in Kimbrough Music Building have access to state-of-the-art facilities, including an in-house professional-quality recording and electronic music studio, an extensive listening and score library, and concert, recital, and rehearsal spaces for large and small ensembles. In addition, the School of Music utilizes excellent stage facilities in Bryan Hall, including an 800-seat concert hall, a production shop, piano and instrumental repair shops, and a three manual, 44-rank Schantz pipe organ.
The School of Music offers a master of arts in music, bachelor of music degrees in music education, performance, composition, and performance with an emphasis in jazz, a bachelor of arts in music, a music minor, and a jazz minor. WSU ensembles have performed around the world and are regularly invited to perform at prestigious concert venues and conferences across the country. The director of the School of Music is Dr. Gregory W. Yasinitsky.
Programs in composition: WSU's School of Music offers the BM degree in composition and a MA degree with a composition emphasis. Graduates of the composition program have gone on to complete graduate degrees at such prestigious institutions as the Peabody Conservatory, the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Ithaca College, the Florida State University College of Music, and the Hartt School of Music, to name a few. Alumni have also won numerous national and international prizes, are frequently published, have seen their works competitively selected for performances at numerous national and international conferences, and have been placed in tenure-track positions at major universities.
The Festival of Contemporary Art Music enables the students and faculty at WSU to interact face-to-face with distinguished living composers as well as performers who specialize in new music. Founded in 1989 by Charles Argersinger, the Festival is deemed important by the music faculty and students, as well as the university, for its promotion of the art music of our time and the composers who create it. Works by student composers and faculty composers are highlighted along with those of the visiting composer, and, this year, a visiting ensemble. The current director of the Festival is Ryan M. Hare.
The 2017 Festival of Contemporary Art Music is made possible through generous support from the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Music at Washington State University, Allegro, and the Society of Composers, Inc. Festival of Contemporary Art Music Guest Composers, 1989-2017
2017 SCI Region VIII Conference 2002 Donald Freund 2015 Diane Thome 2001 Morton Lauridson 2014 Dana Wilson 2000 Thomas Benjamin 2013 Alex Shapiro 1999 Jan Krzywicki 2012 Lowell Lieberman 1998 Martin Rokeach 2011 Tania Leon 1997 Libby Larsen 2010 Robert Carl 1996 no festival 2009 Charles Argersinger 1995 Chinary Ung 2008 Eric Whitacre 1994 Brent Pierce 2007 John Corigliano 1993 James Mobberly 2006 Ellsworth Milburn 1992 William Kraft 2005 David Crumb 1991 Jeffrey Hass 2004 Stephen Michael Gryc 1990 Elliott Schwartz 2003 Chen Yi 1989 Michael Schelle
In 2016, the Festival featured guest trio Elise Jacoberger, bassoon; Magnus Andersson, guitar; and Rohan de Saram, violoncello. The 2018 Festival composer will be Laura Schwendinger.
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to:
Darryl Dewald, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Gregory Yasinitsky, School of Music Director Sandra Albers, Performing Arts Facilities Coordinator Rosanne Kenedy, School of Music Administrative Manager Scott Blasco, School of Music Faculty and Festival Committee Member David Jarvis, School of Music Faculty and Festival Committee Member Danh Pham, School of Music Faculty Director of Instrumental Ensembles David Bjur, School of Music Recording Studio Technical & Operations Coordinator James Paul Sain, Society of Composers, Inc. President Mike McFerron, Society of Composers, Inc. Executive Chair Gerald Warfield, Society of Composers, Inc. General Manager Mark Phillips, Society of Composers, Inc. Competition Coordinator
And to all the faculty and students of the School of Music at Washington State University. Go Cougs!