Don Winston And Friends #7 A special thanks to Brass Recital John Arfman & TEC Systems Mark Lyons & The Fulcrum Group Robert Senia & SRS enterprises Featuring Special Guest Artists Demondrae Thurman Anthony Barfield Demondrae Thurman Jon Whitaker Burt Mason Burt Mason Eri Miyashita George Martin Pia Haselbach Karen Linwood Jeff Ball Peter Meechan Tom Davoren Metropolitan Music Community Perry Winston The Lutheran Church of our Savior

Please join us after the performance at Lennon’s Pub 105 Main Street

Port Washington, NY 11050

Saturday October 21, 2017 at 4:30 pm

Lutheran Church of Our Savior Port Washington, NY

Program Concerto ...... Joseph Horovitz (b. 1926) Low Voices, Bad Choices! ...... Peter Meechan(b. 1980) I- Moderato II- Lento

Don Winston & Friends Large Ensemble Jasmine Britt conducting Jonathan Herbert, Euphonium, Eri Miyashita, Piano

Morceau Symphonique ...... Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)

Two-Part Invention ...... Philip Sparke (b. 1951) Burt Mason, Trombone, Eri Miyashita, Piano

Caleb Cranton, Demondrae Thurman, , Eri Miyashita, Piano Kol Nidrei ...... Max Bruch (1838-1920) Arr. Steven Mead Lascia c'iao Pianga ...... G.F. Handel (1685-1759) Arr. Klaus Bjerre Don Winston, Euphonium, Eri Miyashita, Piano Strange Adventure ...... Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)

Arr. Neil Edwards

Sicillienne ...... Maria Theresia Von Paradis (1759-1824) Liquid Bread Brass- Jorge Lopez, ; Susan Lopez, Flugelhorn; Sam Rudra Swartz, Euphonium, Eri Miyashita, Piano Don Winston, Euphonium; George Martin,

Concert Allegro ...... Alexei Lebedev (1924-1993) Cavatine ...... Camille St. Saëns (1835-1922) Wes Krygsman, Tuba, Eri Miyashita, Piano

Caleb Cranton, Trombone, Eri Miyashita, Piano Chasing Destiny ...... James McLeod

Demondrae Thurman, Caleb Cranton, Jon Herbert, Don Winston, Euphoniums Napoli ...... Hermann Bellstedt (1858-1926)

Arr. Donald Hunsberger Benediction ...... John Stevens (b. 1951) Demondrae Thurman, Euphonium, Eri Miyashita, Piano Fairest of the Fair ...... John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)

Low Voices, Bad Choices Tuba Quartet-

Don Winston, Jon Herbert, Euphoniums; Intermission Wes Krygsman, Kevin Weibley,

Eri Miyashita is a New York based concert pianist. As a native of Japan, Eri became interested Meet the Artists in piano at the age of three. A year later, she began to take piano lessons, and her first public performance followed shortly thereafter. From then on, she has appeared on stage at concert halls Demondrae Thurman is considered one of the stars of the formidable generation of brass including the famous Nagoya Denki Bunka Kaikan (the Electric-Cultural Hall of Nagoya) and soloists. His euphonium playing has been described as “awe inspiring”, and he is touted as “an the City Hall of Kuwana. Eri majored in British-American Studies at Nanzan University and in amazing musician”. Demondrae has a firm international reputation as a euphonium soloist having performed in Europe, Asia and throughout North America. Many of America's premiere 2003, transferred to the City College of New York at CUNY. Under the tutelage of Professor Alison colleges and universities have hosted him as a performer and teacher and he continues to be in Deane at CCNY, she received numerous awards, including the Fritz Jahoda Award and Sidney high demand. Over the last ten years, Demondrae has been an invited guest artist/clinician at Zolot Award. Most recently, she attended Michigan State University, where she earned her many of the world’s prestigious euphonium festivals including the International Master’s Degree in Piano Performance under the tutelage of Professor Deborah Moriarty. Since Tuba/Euphonium Conference, U.S. Army Band Tuba and Euphonium Conference and the returning to New York City in 2012, Eri has been actively performing as both a soloist and Leonard Falcone Competition. His primary teachers are John Stevens, J. Michael Dunn, James accompanist, including at the Steinway & Sons Hall of NYC, and at the National Music Festival Jenkins, and Daniel Drill. held at Washington College, in Maryland as an accompanist for a Euphonium Workshop directed Demondrae is also an active chamber musician. He plays first euphonium and trombone in the by Demondrae Thurman. For more information, please visit www.erimiyashita.com. highly regarded Sotto Voce Quartet which tours extensively. The quartet has released three recordings on the Summit Records label; all of which have received stellar reviews. Viva Voce!: Burt Mason performs regularly with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, serves on faculty at the The Complete Quartets of Johns Stevens won the International Tuba/Euphonium Association award Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program and is Principal Trombone of the Chamber for best chamber music recording in 2006. The quartet has been featured several times on Orchestra of New York. He has appeared as guest artist with the NY Philharmonic and as soloist American Public Media’s, Performance Today. He also plays first in the Brass Band of with numerous ensembles, performing worldwide. As an advocate for Diversity in the Arts, he is Battle Creek, a British brass band comprised of many of the world’s best brass and percussion founder and director of Ovation Concerts, an organization dedicated to balanced diversity in performers. In addition to his chamber music work, Demondrae is in demand as a euphonium orchestral music and appeared as a guest on WQXR’s "Conducting Business" with Naomi Lewin to specialist for symphony orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, discuss the history and future of classical music and American orchestras. Mr. Mason is a Yamaha Sarasota Orchestra, and North Carolina Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Performing Artist and Clinician and will make his Carnegie Hall solo debut in March 2018.

In addition to the Sotto Voce Quartet recordings, Demondrae released his first solo recording on Kevin Weibley has taught music at all levels and is currently band director at Oceanside the Summit Records label in 2005 entitled, Soliloquies. It received a 9/9 out of 10/10 from Middle School. His bands have received many Gold and Gold with Distinction ratings and have classicstoday.com and he was referred to as “having earned (his) stripes as one of the premiere performed at Yankee and Shea Stadiums as well as the New York State Capitol. Kevin served euphonium players in the world”. Showing his dedication to new music, all of the music on the as guest Artist-In-Residence for the Corning-Painted Post School District. His principal teachers are recording was written for him or with his playing in mind. His second album, Songs of a Donald Stanley at Mansfield University and Toby Hanks at Manhattan School of Music and he Wayfarer, was released in 2011. The latest recording, Snapshots: The Spirit of Collaboration, was currently studies with Derek Fenstermacher. He has performed with the Harrisburg Area Wind released in March of 2014. Demondrae can also be heard on recordings with the Atlanta Ensemble and Symphony, the Corning Philharmonic, the Williamsport Symphony, the Nassau Symphony Orchestra, Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the New South Jazz Orchestra Pops Orchestra, the Eclipse Brass Quintet, the Sinfonia Brass and the Low Down Dixieland Band.

Currently, Demondrae is Associate Professor of Music at Samford University where he teaches Wes Krygsman is a freelance musician in the northern New Jersey/New York Metropolitan euphonium, trombone and tuba while serving as conductor of the wind ensemble and Director of area. He works to maintain an active musical calendar performing with various ensembles. In Graduate Studies. In addition to his duties at Samford University, Demondrae is also on the addition, he teaches elementary band/strings full time and teaches private lessons. He attained his faculty of the Miraphone Academy, Southeastern Tuba Euphonium Workshop and the National BM from Montclair State University. His primary teachers include Frank Ortega, Kyle Turner, & Music Festival Euphonium Workshop. Derek Fenstermacher. He currently resides in Clifton, NJ with his wife Julie, and the Fuzzies… their pug Sammi, and their 3 cats. Demondrae Thurman is a Miraphone Performing Artist and plays exclusively the Miraphone 5050 Ambassador “Edition” euphonium which was designed specifically for him. He also plays the Susan Lopez is a 5th – 8th grade teacher/assistant principal at the Lutheran School of Flushing and custom “Demondrae” model mouthpiece manufactured by Warburton Music Products and is a Bayside who recently retired from her part-time job as a captain in the New York Army National Shires Trombone Performing Artist. Guard. She began her musical career while in elementary school playing the and continued on into college, where she graduated with a B.A. in Music from Queens College, CUNY. She For more information about Demondrae Thurman, please visit www.demondrae.com or continues to perform with her husband, Jorge, for various ceremonies, with various community www.facebook.com/demondraethurman bands, and currently is the musical director of the Pilsner Brass Band.

Reverend Sam Rudra Swartz is an Interfaith Minister in the Integral Yoga Order who Jasmine Britt hails from Pembroke Pines, Florida. She received her Bachelor's Degree performs many life cycle rituals and offers spiritual counseling. He is a full time yoga teacher and in Music Education from Florida State University and her Master’s in Music Education part of the growing movement to make the practice of yoga accessible for people of all populations from Ithaca College. Upon graduating with honors from FSU in 2004 Ms. Britt taught and physical limitations. He has a Bachelor of Music in Brass Performance with a Tuba band at Olsen Middle School in Dania Beach, Florida where her students participated in concentration from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts where he was a student of J. Samuel the Broward All-County Band and Florida All-State Bands. In 2007 she became the band Pilafian. He remains active as a musician singing for sacred occasions as well as as performing as a director at Middle School 50 in Brooklyn, leading the symphonic band to its first Gold brass instrumentalist whenever possible. He is very happy to be a participant in the Don Winston Medal Rating at NYSSMA evaluation in 2009 then again in 2010 and 2011. Ms. Britt is Recital series. currently a band director at the Grand Street Campus High Schools, directing the Symphonic Band, Jazz Band B, the Concert Band and several chamber ensembles. Under Don Winston is a professional engineer and a leader in the field of commercial HVAC and her leadership, the Symphonic Band and Jazz Band B have earned several gold and gold sustainable buildings. He played euphonium, tuba, and trombone throughout his school career with distinction medals at NYSSMA. Most recently she has been named as the conductor growing up in Great Neck, where he studied with Gene Brusiloff and Al Godliss. Fortunately for the 2018 NYC Middle School District All State Band. Despite a busy schedule as a full- for the world of music, Don took his overly literal sense of time and ability to color time music teacher, she remains an active clarinetist and bass clarinetist and has precisely within the lines into a career in engineering. After 26 years away from the performed with the Broward College Band, Broward College Orchestra, Dolce Winds instrument, he resumed playing in 2007. Since that time, Don has studied with such artists as Woodwind Quintet, Utiopia Winds, Brooklyn Repertory Opera, and Brooklyn Wind Demondrae Thurman, Roland Froëscher, and Matt Brown.. His primary teachers are Aaron Ensemble. She is a founding member of the ensemble that became the Brooklyn Wind Vanderweele, Anthony Barfield, Burt Mason and Derek Fenstermacher. Don currently performs Symphony and the founding conductor for the Kings County Concert Band . with the Grand Street Community Band, the Island Symphony Orchestra, and the Massapequa Philharmonic. George Martin began playing the cornet in the fifth grade. He participated in his school bands and orchestras until he joined the navy after high school. When his Caleb Cranton is a Masters student at Rutgers University where he studies with Colin wife presented him with a new trumpet after not having played for 22 years, George Williams and Aaron Vanderweele. He will graduate in May with a performance degree in joined the Queens Symphonic Band. Later he switched to tuba, which is still his euphonium and trombone. Caleb received a Bachelors in Instrumental Performance from Samford primary instrument. Although George is the manager of a Shipyard, music plays an University, where he was a student of Dr. Demondrae Thurman. He plays principal euphonium in important part in his life. In addition to Northwinds, he plays in several other bands the Rutgers Wind Ensemble and Brass band. He also plays trombone in the Rutgers Symphony and sings tenor in his church choir. Orchestra and in the Graduate Trombone Quartet. He is an active New York City freelance artist and he teaches euphonium and trombone to undergraduate music education majors for Rutgers, while also maintaining a private studio.

Jorge H. Lopez began playing trumpet while a student at Aviation HS, LI City Queens. In 1987 Jorge enlisted in the “The Commandant’s Own” USMC Drum and Corps in Washington D.C., where he served for four years. After returning to NYC he continued to play with local orchestras, pop groups, wedding bands, specialty acts and small ensembles. During that time he also taught middle school bands at several private schools in Long Island and instructed drum and bugle corps in the US and Japan. He currently serves in the NYARNG as the Logistics NCO for the 24th Civil Support Team in Ft. Hamilton, Brooklyn.