The Annual Southern Region High School Music Festival
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The Connecticut Music Educators Association The Annual Southern Region High School Music Festival Saturday, January 10th, 2020 1:00 P.M. Jazz Ensemble- Treble Choir - Mixed Choir 3:30 P.M. Concert Band - Symphony Orchestra Francis T. Maloney High School Meriden, CT 2020 Southern Region High School Festival Program The 2020 Southern Region High School Jazz Ensemble Greg Evans, Conductor Tall Cotton Sammy Nestico The Sidewalks of New York Oliver Nelson 920 Special arr. Myles Collins Sanctified Blues Wynton Marsalis arr. Michael Mossman The 2020 Southern Region High School Treble Choir David Fryling, Conductor Erika Schroth & Matt Harrison, Accompanists Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie Ledbetter, arr. Smiley Three Mountain Ballads Ron Nelson 1. He’s gone away 2. Will he remember 3. Barbara Allen Flare Dale Trumbore The Kiss Jussi Chydenius The Look Jussi Chydenius Faith is the Bird that Feels...light Elizabeth Alexander 2020 Southern Region High School Festival Program The 2020 Southern Region High School Mixed Choir Carolina Flores, Conductor Corinne Terlecky, Accompanist I Sing Because I'm Happy Rollo Dillworth Dona Nobis Pacem from B minor Mass Johann Sebastian Bach Esta Tierra/Paso Javier Busto Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel arr. Kirby Shaw Turn The World Around Harry Belafonte arr. Larry Farrow The 2020 Southern Region High School Concert Band Vincent LaMonica, Conductor Fairest of the Fair John Philip Sousa Culloden I and II Julie Giroux From the Delta William Grant Still Mvt. 1 and 3, Work Song and Dance Fantasy on a Theme by Sousa Andrew Boysen Jr. The 2020 Southern Region High School Orchestra Jonathan Brennand, Conductor "Hansel and Gretel: Overture" Englebert Humperdink "March Slav" P. I. Tchaikovsky The 2020 Southern Region High School Jazz Director Greg Evans is a passionate and captivating performer, pedagogue and composer. His passion, energy, and facility on the drum set has given him experience across the spectrum of the music industry. Greg’s influence spans multiple milieus including live and studio recordings, clubs and music venues, festivals, and the classroom. Evans earned his Masters of Music from Ithaca College (2011), and his Bachelor’s of Music from the Manhattan School of music (2009). He has studied with Gordon Stout, Justin DiCioccio, and John Riley. Evans’ persistent, buoyant, and joyous groove has facilitated a fulfilling performing career. Evans has appeared with many artists including: Jonathan Batiste, Terence Blanchard, Chick Corea, Joey DeFrancesco, Melinda Doolittle, Kurt Elling, Robin Eubanks, Jimmy Heath, Joe Magnarelli, Eric Marienthal, Branford Marsalis, John Pizzarelli, Hank Roberts, Dave Samules, John Stetch, and Turkuaz. Evans keeps an active teaching schedule, working at Ithaca College and Cornell University. He also maintains a robust private studio. By referencing many music traditions, Evans helps students assimilate sounds of the past to create the new sounds of the future. The 2020 Southern Region Treble Choir Director David Fryling is director of choral activities at Hofstra University, where he conducts both the select Hofstra Chorale and Hofstra Chamber Choir and teaches beginning and advanced studies in choral conducting, as well as graduate-level studies in choral conducting and choral literature. In addition, he serves as an adjunct professor for the Hofstra School of Education, where he supervises choral music education student teachers during their field placements. In fall 2014 David was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame as the “Educator of Note” in recognition of his years of leadership in the Long Island music education community, and in the spring of 2017 David was named the winner of The American Prize in Conducting in two categories: community chorus and college & university. An energetic and engaging conductor, clinician, and adjudicator of professional, community, and high school choirs, David’s recent invitations include various all-state and regional honor choirs, master classes, workshops, and adjudications throughout New York and in New Jersey (All-State), Vermont (New England Music Festival), Connecticut, Rhode Island (All-State), Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina (All-State), Mississippi, Michigan, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Utah and Alaska (All-State). He has also been music director and conductor of Hofstra Opera Theater productions of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Chaikovsky’s Iolanta, and Poulenc’s Dialogues Des Carmelites, and has served since 2014 as a guest artist on the conducting faculty of the New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA) School of Choral Studies in Fredonia, NY. In the fall of 2013 David founded the eVoco Voice Collective, a non-profit organization of singers of the highest musical, technical, and expressive abilities, who together believe in the transformative and educational power of music. Passionate advocates for excellence in the vocal art, eVoco presents choral performances and recitals of the highest caliber throughout the year. The group’s two main ensembles, the Mixed Ensemble and the Women’s Ensemble, have an “open door” policy for all rehearsals. Teachers and students of music, especially, are encouraged to “sit in” on rehearsals in the hope that they will serve as a continual learning space for students, educators, and music enthusiasts alike. For seven summers, Dr. Fryling served as Coordinator of the Vocal Artists program at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, where he was conductor and music director of the World Youth Honors Choir and Festival Choir & Orchestra. These two choirs formed the core of the high school choral experience at this intensive six-week arts camp, and under his direction they performed such large-scale works as Brahms’ Nänie, Pärt’s Credo, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Gershwin’s An American in Paris, Duruflé’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, and Mozart’s “Coronation” Mass in C. Before his appointment at Hofstra, Dr. Fryling served as music director and conductor of the University of Michigan Arts Chorale and assistant conductor of the Michigan Chamber Singers, University Choir, and the internationally acclaimed Michigan Men’s Glee Club. While in Ann Arbor, he was also the music director and conductor of the Michigan Youth Women’s Chorus, a year-round all-state honors choir composed of select high school sopranos and altos from across Michigan. In addition to his professional teaching and conducting responsibilities, David has served the American Choral Directors Association for many years, and is currently Vice President of the Eastern Division. When not on the podium, he enjoys freelancing as a professional choral tenor in the greater New York metropolitan area. The 2020 Southern Region High School Mixed Choir Director Carolina Flores grew up in Zaragoza, Spain, a city with a long history of musical traditions. There she learned how to play the organ and also attended the Superior Conservatory of Music obtaining a degree in piano pedagogy. She was fortunate to have had the opportunity to sing with a choir lead by a remarkable conductor, who influenced her life in many ways, although she would only realize the extent many, many years later. Dr. Flores continued her piano pedagogy studies at the Royal Superior Conservatory of Music in Madrid, and after that, moved to New York City, where she earned her Bachelor and Master degrees in piano performance at the Manhattan School of Music. During those years in the city, she obtained jobs as organist and choir director at several churches. After graduation, she continued performing solo recitals and chamber music, teaching, and directing church choirs. Dr. Flores enjoyed working with choirs so much that it made her reconsider her career, leading to her decision to pursue a doctorate in choral conducting at the Hartt School. She has served in many capacities at the Connecticut chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (CT-ACDA) including as president from 2013 to 2015, and has lead choral tours in Italy, Spain, Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Currently, Dr. Flores is a Professor of Music at Manchester Community College, CT, where she teaches a wide variety of courses in the nationally accredited music program. In addition to this position at MCC, she is the Director of Music and Choirmaster at St. Theresa R.C. Church in Trumbull, CT, and a frequent lecturer, adjudicator, and clinician. Before teaching at MCC, she taught at The Hartt School, University of Rhode Island, and Notre Dame High School (West Haven). Dr. Flores was awarded the 2015 Excellence of Teaching Award at MCC and the national 2016 NISOD Excellence in Teaching Award. The 2020 Southern Region High School Band Director A native of rural Ashford, Connecticut, Vincent LaMonica (b. 1993) enjoys a diverse career in music as a performer, conductor, composer, and educator. As an in- demand bassoonist and contrabassoonist, Vincent maintains an active freelancing career throughout New England and the Midwest, having performed with the Symphony Orchestras of Springfield (MA), Bangor (ME), Portland (ME), Albany (NY), and Kenosha (WI), the Orchestra of Indian Hill (Littleton, MA), and others. In addition to his orchestral work, Vincent is the Executive Director and bassoonist of the Doclé Reed Quintet, a Chicago-based ensemble of alumni from Northwestern University. Vincent is the newly-appointed conductor of the East Woodstock Cornet Band and Ashford’s Babcock Cornet Band, both of which trace their roots to the 1800’s, and is on the faculty at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School, where he coaches chamber music and youth orchestra sectionals through the Community Division and is adjunct faculty for education courses at the Collegiate Division. In addition, Vincent owns the Quiet Corner Music Studio in Ashford, CT and is a senior staff member at Laurel Music Camp, a one-week summer music camp held in New Hartford, CT each June. Vincent attended Boston University before earning his Master’s Degree from the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University.