SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS - check denison.edu/series/tutti Monday, March 4, 6:30 pm, Knapp Performance Space Artist Talk with Vail Visiting Artist Tara Booth, ‘Inward & Onward: The Contemporary Ceramics of Tara Booth,’ Tuesday March 5, 10:00 am Swasey Chapel Workshop with Third Coast Percussion, ‘Think Outside the Drum” 8:00 pm, Denison Museum The Weather Project - Artist Talk and Concert with Nathalie Miebach and Student Composers Concert with ETHEL and Students, Wednesday, March 6, 1:30 pm, Swasey Chapel Composers Workshop with Third Coast Percussion on Composition, Swasey Chapel 6:30 pm, Burke Recital Hall Composition and Improvisation: Philosophers and Musicians in Dialogue with John Carvalho, Ted Gracyk, Mark Lomax II and ETHEL Thursday, March 7, 11:30 am, Burke Rehearsal Hall Composition Seminar with Adam Schoenberg, 3:00 pm, Burke Recital Hall Concert One with Guest Artists and the Columbus Symphony Quartet 7:00 pm, Burke Recital Hall Concert Two with Denison Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra, with guest artists ETHEL Friday, March 8, 10:00 am, Burke Recital Hall Concert Three with Faculty, Students and Guest Artists 11:30 am, Burke Rehearsal Room Conversation with: Third Coast Percussion, ETHEL, and Adam Schoenberg 3:00 pm, Burke Recital Hall Concert Four with Chamber Singers, Jazz Ensemble, Faculty and Guest Artists 7:00 pm, Burke Recital Hall Concert Five ‘Words and Music with ETHEL and Michael Lockwood Crouch, actor, and Denison Creative Writing Students, Saturday, March 9, 10:00 am, Knapp Performance Space Concert Six with Faculty and Guest Artists, 11:00 am, Composers Forum - Knapp (various locations) - Composers 3:00 pm, Burke Recital Hall Concert Seven ‘New American Music Project 3. Chamber Music Connection with Columbus International Children’s Choir 4:00 pm, 4th Floor Slayter Student Union, Shepardson Lobby Roundtable Talk - Art Matters - Roundtable - Guest Artists and Composers 7:00 pm, Burke Recital Hall VAIL CONCERT Concert Eight with Third Coast Percussion, Swasey Chapel

Questions? Call the Music Department - 740-587-6224 OR Campus Safety and Security 740-587-6482 elcome to Denison’s TUTTI FESTIVAL 2019! SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS - check denison.edu/series/tutti WThis week, there are multiple ways to get acquainted with the Fine Arts Departments at Denison. With featured composer Adam Schoenberg and forty other composers from around the world, we are hosting eight concerts and multiple events that feature the students, faculty, guests, and featured artists. We are excited to work with Studio Art, Data Analytics, Creative Writing, Physics, Philosophy, and the Museum this year—TUTTI is growing and expanding! We are thrilled to have Third Coast Percussion as one of our two featured ensembles! Their amazing artistry is on display throughout the festival, not only with performing on concerts from the submitted works, but also showcasing their Third Coast Percussion Emerging Partnership program to TUTTI on their Saturday evening concert. Our second featured ensemble is Denison’s own Ensemble-in-Residence, ETHEL, who will also perform throughout the week, work with students, and showcase their talents as composing and performing artists throughout this festival. You’ll see them perform with Michael Lockwood Crouch, who together will bring to life six Denison students’ works—combining words and music in a way you may never have encountered. Ethel is also collaborating with Nathalie Miebach, in The Weather Project, hosted by Denison’s Museum. Working with weather data, Nathalie creates sculptures that are translated by composers and musicians into sound. We start the week with art and collaboration. On Monday, Tara Booth gives an artist’s talk on her work, which deals with Tara’s work is an investigation of the female body considering notions of physicality, experience and perception in a digital age. We also have a fascinating panel discussion on Philosophy and Music, with panelists: John Carvalho, Theodore Gracyk, and Mark Lomax. This eighth TUTTI festival comes at an interesting time for our college. This will be the last TUTTI within the facilities as you see it. We are moving into the Michael D. Eisner Center for Performing Arts this semester, which will bring together the departments of Music, Theatre, and Dance under one roof. Art is vital, not only to our mission at Denison, but also to our society. Art expresses what we can’t; art expresses what we should; art expresses what we need; art matters. On behalf of all the artists you will encounter this week, art is us. Get to know us - get to know art. Ching-chu Hu, host Professor of Music, Denison University Welcome From President Adam Weinberg: It is a pleasure to welcome you to the 2019 edition of Denison’s TUTTI New Music Festival. The arts are crucial the health of any community. At Denison we have a long tradition of strength across the arts, and we are making new investments to con- tinue this tradition. We believe the arts are a foundational element to educating and inspiring our students to lead meaningful lives, achieve professional success, and to be the citizens the world needs. As one expression of this commitment, we are very excited that the Michael D. Eisner Center for the Performing Arts will open in a few weeks. Denison has an unusually broad array of strengths in the arts that starts with the passions and tal- ents our faculty and students.TUTTI exemplifies these features of the college. I am thrilled that the scope of TUTTI continues to broaden to encompass various areas of the fine arts and beyond. This year, we will be treated to a wide range of artistic performances. Joining our music department will be artistry from Studio Art, Data Analytics, the Museum, Philosophy, and Creative Writing. TUTTI is a special tradition at Denison. The week-long program of arts showcases the liberal arts at its finest. It also showcases the myriad of ways our faculty and students work together and the ways our faculty mentor our students. This is another distinguishing feature of Denison. When TUTTI is happening you can feel the energy across campus. We are pleased that you are participating in TUTTI and hope you will enjoy the distinctive display of creativity and artistry it conveys.

Welcome From Provost Kim Coplin: I’m delighted to welcome you to TUTTI, Denison’s New Music Festival. TUTTI is an interdisciplinary festival, reaching across divisional boundaries to immerse us in a celebration of new music and the arts. This year we feature our ensemble in resi- dence, ETHEL, and Third Coast Percussion, as well as the work of Denison students and graduates. Guest artists, performances and class visits will span the disciplines of the arts, sciences and humanities.

I hope that you will take time to experience what TUTTI brings to Denison. Enjoy!

FUNDING FOR TUTTI provided by: VAIL Series, the Mellon Foundation, the Johnstone Fund for New Music, Columbus Foundation, Licking County Foundation, Academic Lecture Fund, Beck Lecture Series, Campus Sustainability, and Departments of Philosophy, Physics, and Music at Denison. orchestral work by the Kansas City Symphony for Reference Recordings, an arrangement of When You Wish Upon a Star for Anne Akiko Meyers and the London Symphony Orchestra on eOne Music, and a recording of his keyboard works by pianist Nadia Shpachenko on Reference Recordings. Future recordings include his chamber music featuring the Blakemore Trio, his Symphony No. 2 “Migration” with the University of Texas Wind Ensemble. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Schoenberg earned his Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Robert Beaser and John Corigliano. He is currently a professor at Occidental College, where he runs the composition and film scoring FEATURED COMPOSER programs. He makes his home in Los Angeles with his wife, ADAM SCHOENBERG screenwriter Janine Salinas Schoenberg, and their two sons, Recently named one of the Top 10 most performed living Luca and Leo. classical composers by orchestras in the United States, Adam Schoenberg’s (b. Nov.15, 1980) music is “invigorating” (Los Angeles Times), and full of “mystery and sensuality” (The New York Times). His works have received performances and premieres at the Library of Congress, Kennedy Center, FEATURED GUEST ENSEMBLE New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas THIRD COAST PERCUSSION Symphony Orchestra, and Hollywood Bowl. Third Coast Percussion is a Grammy-winning, artist-run Schoenberg has received commissions from several major quartet of classically-trained percussionists hailing from the American orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony great city of Chicago. For over ten years, the ensemble has Orchestra (Up! and La Luna Azul), the Kansas City forged a unique path in the musical landscape with virtuosic, Symphony (American Symphony and Picture Studies), and energetic performances that celebrate the extraordinary depth the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Aspen Music Festival and and breadth of musical possibilities in the world of percussion. School (Bounce). Other recent commissions include works The ensemble has been praised for “commandingly elegant” for Carlos Miguel Prieto and Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería (New York Times) performances, the “rare power” (Washington and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerry Junkin and the Post) of their recordings, and “an inspirational sense of fun University of Texas Wind Ensemble and Texas Performing and curiosity” (Minnesota Star-Tribune). The four members of Arts, Anne Akiko Meyers for a violin concerto with the San Third Coast are also accomplished teachers, and since 2013, Diego Symphony, and the first-ever two-piano concerto for have served as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Notre the Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation. Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Recent and upcoming collaborations include the A direct connection with the audience is at the core of all Phoenix Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, of Third Coast Percussion’s work, whether the musicians are Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Boise Philharmonic, Iris speaking from the stage about a new piece of music, inviting Orchestra, Charleston Symphony, Amarillo Symphony, the audience to play along in a concert or educational Knoxville Symphony, Arkansas Symphony, and the Nu performance, or inviting their fans around the world to create Deco Ensemble. Recent recordings include Schoenberg’s new music using one of their free mobile apps. Third Coast Percussion maintains a busy touring schedule, with past performances in 33 of the 50 states plus Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland, and venues ranging from concert halls at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and De Doelen to clubs and alternative performance spaces such as New York’s Le Poisson Rouge and the National Gallery’s West Garden Court. The quartet’s curiosity and eclectic taste have led to a series of unlikely collaborations that have produced exciting new art. The ensemble has worked with engineers at the University of Notre Dame, architects at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, dancers at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and musicians from traditions ranging from the mbira music of Zimbabwe’s Shona people, to indie rockers, to some of the world’s leading concert musicians. They have collaborated with Chicago institutions such as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the Chicago Philharmonic, A commission for a new work from composer Augusta Read and the Adler Planetarium, performed at the grand opening of Thomas in 2012 led to the realization that commissioning Maggie Daley Children’s Park, conducted residencies at the new musical works can be – and should be – as collaborative University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Civic as any other artistic partnership. Through extensive Orchestra of Chicago, created multi-year collaborative projects workshopping and close contact with composers, Third Coast with Chicago-based composers Augusta Read Thomas, Glenn Percussion has commissioned and premiered new works from Kotche, and chamber ensemble Eighth Blackbird, and taught Philip Glass, Devonté Hynes, Donnacha Dennehy, Glenn tens of thousands of students through partnerships with The Kotche, Lei Liang, Gavin Bryars, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos People’s Music School, Urban Gateways, the Chicago Park Balter, and today’s leading up-and-coming composers through District, Rush Hour Concerts, and others. their Emerging Composers Partnership Program. These works have become part of the ensemble’s core repertoire and The four members of Third Coast Percussion met while seen hundreds of performances across North America and studying percussion music at Northwestern University. throughout Europe. Members of Third Coast also hold degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Rutgers University, the New England Third Coast Percussion’s recordings include five full-length Conservatory, and the Yale School of Music. albums, three EPs, and a number of appearances on other releases. The quartet has put its stamp on iconic percussion ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE works by John Cage, Steve Reich, and Philippe Manoury, and Third Coast has also created first recordings of commissioned ETHEL works by Augusta Read Thomas, David T. Little, and Ted Established in New York City in 1998, ETHEL quickly Hearne, in addition to recordings of the ensemble’s own earned a reputation as one of America’s most adventurous compositions. In 2017 the ensemble won the Grammy Award string quartets. Twenty years later, the band continues to for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble performance for their set the standard for contemporary concert music. Known recording of Steve Reich’s works for percussion. for its enlivened playing, blending uptown, conservatory Third Coast Percussion has always maintained strong ties to musicianship with downtown genre-crossing, ETHEL has the vibrant artistic community in their hometown of Chicago. been described as “indefatigable and eclectic” (The New 6 York Times), “vital and brilliant” (The New Yorker), and adaptation of Ennio Morricone’s moving score to the 1986 “infectiously visceral” (Pitchfork). Since its inception, ETHEL film, The Mission, works by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Hildegard has released ten feature recordings (one of them nominated von Bingen, and Zuni and Hawaiian ritual chants; and Circus: for a Native American Music Award), performed as guests on Wandering City, which explores the phenomenon of circus 35+ albums, won a GRAMMY® with jazz legend Kurt Elling, through the eyes and insights of people who have created its and performed in 14 countries, 45 states, and 250 cities. special thrills and illusions. Co-Commissioned by The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (The Ringling) in Sarasota, At the heart of ETHEL is a collaborative ethos – a quest for a Florida, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, the immersive work common creative expression that is forged in the celebration combines projections of stunning images, films and interviews of community. In addition to premiering 21st century works from the Museum’s archives, the words of circus performers by a broad range of groundbreaking composers, the quartet past and present, and original music composed and performed creates and tours rich, often multimedia, productions in live by ETHEL. Circus:Wandering City made its world premiere which community engagement is a key element. ETHEL is in January 2018—the 250th anniversary of the modern currently touring the evening-length ETHEL’s Documerica, circus—at The Ringling, and its New York premiere at the BAM inspired by the tens of thousands of images shot as part of Next Wave Festival in November 2018. the Environmental Protection Agency’s decade-long Project Documerica. Launched in 1971, the initiative commissioned ETHEL has collaborated with such luminaries as David Byrne, photographers across America to document the state of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Kaki King, Todd Rundgren, Laurence environment and its impact on society. Directed by OBIE Hobgood, Carlo Mombelli, Ursula Oppens, Juana Molina, Award-winner Steve Cosson, with projection design by Tom Verlaine, STEW, Ensemble Modern, Jill Sobule, Dean Deborah Johnson, ETHEL’s Documerica features new works Osborne, Robert Mirabal, Howard Levy, Simone Sou, Andrew by ETHEL members and music the quartet commissioned Bird, Iva Bittová, Colin Currie, Thomas Dolby, Jeff Peterson, from other uniquely American artists. The quartet released Oleg Fateev, Stephen Gosling, Jake Shimabukuro, Polygraph the album Documerica (Innova Recordings) in 2015. Other Lounge and Vijay Iyer. current evening-length programs include The River, a The quartet regularly performs works by all of the members of collaboration with Taos Pueblo flutist Robert Mirabal (The the ensemble, alongside music by Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, River [Innova Recordings] was released in 2016). Grace, a Phil Kline, Svjetlana Bukvich, David Lang, Dan Friel, Mary journey toward redemption in music, featuring ETHEL’s own Ellen Childs, John King, Jessie Montgomery, Raz Mesinai, John Zorn, Missy Mazzoli, Anna Clyne, Steve Reich, Kenji Bunch, Don Byron, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Marcelo Zarvos, Pamela Z, Evan Ziporyn and Terry Riley. Over the past five years, ETHEL has premiered 150+ new works, many of them commissioned by the quartet. ETHEL is the Resident Ensemble at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Balcony Bar, Ensemble-in-Residence at Denison University, and 2018/19 Quartet-in-Residence at Kaufman Music Center’s Face the Music. In 2017, the members of ETHEL received honorary doctorates from Denison University, where the group has been in residence since 2015.

7 FEATURED GUEST ENSEMBLE Arlington Symphony, Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony, the Firelands Symphony Orchestra; COLUMBUS SYMPHONY STRING the National Repertory Orchestra, the Zurich Symphony QUARTET Orchestra, and the Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Hui was accepted into Violinist and Concertmaster the Curtis Institute of Music of Joanna Frankel joined the Philadelphia at age 11 where Columbus Symphony on she studied with Mr. Victor appointment in September of Danchenko and received her 2016 for the 2016/17 season. bachelor’s degree at sixteen. She She officially assumed the role received her master’s degree, of concertmaster for the start artist diploma, and professional of the 2017/18 season. Born in studies at the Cleveland Institute Philadelphia in 1982, Ms. Frankel began studying the violin of Music under the tutelage at age 3 with The Suzuki Method. She trained in New York of David Cerone, Paul Kantor, and William Preucil. Ms. at The Juilliard School and received the prestigious ‘William Hui is currently the Principal Second Violin of Columbus Schuman Prize’ upon graduation; her mentors have included Symphony. She was guess concertmaster with the Edmonton Jascha Brodsky, CJ Chang, Robert Chen, Masao Kawasaki, Symphony Orchestra 2011 season. She previously served as Cho-Liang Lin, and Joseph Kalichstein. Ms. Frankel’s post- assistant concertmaster of the Akron Symphony Orchestra graduate work continued at Carnegie Hall, where she entered and the Firelands Symphony Orchestra, and as Principal the inaugural class of “The Academy,” a groundbreaking Second Violin of the Canton Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Hui initiative that trains ambitious young musicians to be 21st participated and performed at the Ishikawa Musical festival century arts leaders. Her concerto and recital appearances in Japan, Soesterberg Music Festival in Amsterdam, and the have included engagements across the U.S., and in The Keshet Eilon Master Course in Israel. In addition, she was Netherlands, Russia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovakia, award fellowships at the Perlman Music Festival, the National Finland, The Middle East, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Repertory Orchestra, the Aspen Music Festival, the Amelia Her festival appearances include Marlboro Music Festival, Island Chamber Music Festival, the Banff Chamber Music Harare International Festival of the Arts, Johannesburg Mozart Festival, and the Bowdoin Music Festival. Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Centro Cultural Internacional Óscar Niemeyer, La Jolla’s SummerFest, Karl Pedersen is the Principal Viola joining the Columbus Santa Fe New Music, The Aspen Music Festival and Spoleto Symphony at the start of the 2011-12 season. Previously Festival USA. From 2013-2016, Ms. Frankel served as first Karl was rotating principal of concertmaster of The KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic in the New World Symphony Durban, South Africa, and first violinist of the KwaZulu-Natal in Miami for three years and Philharmonic Principal String Quartet. She performs on a was principal viola of the Gaetano Vinaccia violin, 1819, from Naples. Breckenridge Music Festival for two years. He has recorded Principal Second Violin Martin and Sue Inglis Chair and performed with the Kansas Alicia Hui began her musical studies at the age of four City Symphony, and performed and made her orchestral debut at the Joseph Meyerhoff with the Virginia Symphony, Symphony Hall in Baltimore, Maryland at age nine. Since Richmond Symphony, Cedar then, she has soloed with numerous orchestras including the Rapids Symphony, Quad Cities 8 Symphony, and as concertmaster with the Oskaloosa and Filamonica de Bogotá; and Antioquia Symphony of Medellin. Ottumwa Symphonies. Born in Kansas City, MO, he received He has performed as recitalist on the east coast, Puerto Rico his bachelor’s of music at University of Iowa under Christine and Colombia, South America as well as many chamber music Rutledge. He completed his master’s of music at the Peabody concerts with CMSD and Camarata, the High Street Four Institute of Johns Hopkins University as a student of Victoria String Quartet and the Canaletto Ensemble. His recordings Chiang and former Philadelphia Orchestra violist, Stephen include the Fauré Elegy with CSO, works of Antonio Maria Wyrczynski. Valencia with the Biava-Uribe Trio and as principal cello An avid chamber musician he is also a member of the of the Spoleto Festival orchestra the Grammy® nominated Meridian String Quartet, which had residencies the past three opera by Samuel Barber, Antony and Cleopatra. Mr. Biava is years at the Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, CO. currently an adjunct professor at Kenyon College and on the He has performed chamber music with cellists David Hardy faculty of FOSJA in San Juan Puerto Rico. In March 2011 he and Anne Martindale Williams, and violinists Andres Cardenes performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with his wife Ariane and Soovin Kim, as well as harmonica player Corkey Siegel. Sletner and Blanca Uribe under the direction of his father Luis Outside the US, he has performed in France, Spain, and Biava with the New Albany Symphony. In January of 2012, the Dominican Republic. He has also appeared on stage Mr. Biava performed Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with performing before speeches by Colin Powell and Oprah. the Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestra. Later that he was In 2005 and 2006, he was awarded the Peabody Career soloist in the Vivaldi Concerto for Two Cellos and the JC Bach Development Grant. His chamber performances can be heard Sinfonia Concertante with the Columbus Symphony this past on Performance Today from public radio. He is currently on year. He recently received the Empleos and Employment Ohio the faculty at Ohio Wesleyan University. Diversity award for Latinos making a difference. In conducting this year, Mr. Biava conducted Hilary Hahn in the Korngold Luis Biava is Principal Cello of Violin Concerto and was cover conductor for the Philadelphia Columbus Symphony Orchestra Orchestra’s Tchaikovsky Spectacular concert in Saratoga (CSO), artistic director of the Springs. Chamber Music Society of Dublin (CMSD), conductor FEATURED GUEST ENSEMBLE of Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra and Camarata and THE CHAMBER MUSIC CONNECTION Music Director of the New Albany Symphony. His family represents four generations of musicians. His first cello studies were with his uncle Miguel Uribe in his native Colombia, and he performs regularly in the Trio Biava-Uribe with his aunt (Blanca Uribe, piano) and his father (Luis Biava, violin). He attended the University of Michigan, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Cello Performance. He also holds bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Juilliard School where he studied with Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins. He The Chamber Music Connection (CMC), founded in 1992 has also studied with Gabo Rejto, Samuel Mayes, Elsa Hilger, by Artistic Director, Deborah Barrett Price, are the recent and Oliver Edel. He has performed solos with CSO; the recipients of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center symphonies of Savannah, U. of Michigan, Temple U., Bogotá, Award for Extraordinary Service to Chamber Music.CMC is and Westerville; Upper Arlington Community Orchestra; a non-profit organization that services over three hundred 9 students comprising fifty to sixty chamber ensembles annually performer, Debbie serves as principal violist of Opera and presents over thirty concerts per year; celebrates core Project Columbus and McConnell Arts Center Chamber value of inclusion, requiring no audition for admission Orchestra, and is an Artist-in-Residence at the Caroga to the program and providing needs-based financial Lake Music Festival. She has directed and performed assistance. Students work with associated faculty of over in festivals throughout Europe including Santa Cecilia forty professional musicians as well as visiting guest teachers in Rome and Beethoven Festival in Prague. For over a at CMC’s home base of St. John’s Episcopal Church in decade, she served as the co-conductor of the Cleveland Worthington, Ohio. CMC has produced winners of the most Institute of Music Youth Camerata Strings and as music prestigious chamber music competitions including the St. director of the Women-In-Music String Sinfonia, and Paul String Quartet, Fischoff, Coltman, and Discover National most recently conductor of the National Summer Cello Competitions, and received features by Chamber Music Institute cello choir. Debbie is an advocate of new music Society in Alice Tully Hall and NPR’s From the Top. CMC having commissioned and debuted several new works for has toured throughout Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, multiple festivals including Denison TUTTI and CMC’s New Italy, and Switzerland. CMC also offers iSTEM (improvisation, American Music Project. Solfege, Theory, Eurythmics, and Movement) training, a thriving gig and outreach program, as well as a unique high FEATURED GUEST ENSEMBLE school Fellowship program. CMC promotes collaborations with touring artists, composers, and other art organizations COLUMBUS INTERNATIONAL including education and outreach activities with Chamber CHILDREN’S CHOIR Music Columbus and this year’s New American Music Project with the Columbus International Children’s Choir and TUTTI Festival at Denison University. For more: cmconnection.org.

DEBORAH PRICE is recognized throughout the country as an innovative pedagogue and versatile performer. She is the founder and artistic director of the Chamber Music Connection (CMC) and serves on the faculty of Denison The award-winning Columbus International Children’s Choir University. In recognition of her work (CICC) offers premier singing education and performance as a chamber music entrepreneur, experience for children ages 4-18. It was formed in 1998 by pedagogue, and performer, artistic director Tatiana Kats and now is comprised of more Debbie received the Alumni Achievement Award from than 200 singers. The choir performs classical, contemporary Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, the Columbus Symphony and sacred music in a variety of styles and languages. CICC Orchestra Community Educator of the Year Award, and has performed in the White House for President Obama most recently Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and First Lady. They were winners of the 8th World Choir Award for Extraordinary Service to Chamber Music. Games in the open competition, category of youth choirs Debbie is a Yamaha Certified String Educator Clinician of equal voices and they won gold medal at the 10th World and has given numerous presentations at music schools Choir Games in the championship competition, category of and national conferences. Articles highlighting her unique youth choirs of equal voices. Additional highlights include teaching style have been published nationally. A respected performing in Carnegie Hall twice, performing in St. Peter’s 10 Basilica in Vatican, on the Great FEATURED GUEST ARTIST Wall of China, at regional ACDA and OMTA conferences, and in Twisted 2 NATHALIE MIEBACH in the Ohio Theatre with BalletMet, NATHALIE MIEBACH explores the intersection of art and Columbus Symphony and Opera science by translating Columbus. scientific data related to TATIANA KATS is the founder meteorology, ecology and of Columbus Music and oceanography into woven Art Academy, Columbus sculptures and musical International Children’s Choir, scores/performances. and Central Ohio Singing Competition. She is the artistic Her main method of data director of the choir and conducts Vocalise and Swallow translation into sculpture choirs. is basket weaving which functions as a simple Tatiana earned a Master of Arts degree in choral tactile grid through which conducting and a Master of Music degree in piano to translate data into 3D pedagogy from The Ohio State University where she studied space. Central to this work is her desire to explore the role under Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt and Mr. James Gallagher. visual and musical aesthetics play in the translation and Before coming to the United States, she received music understanding of extreme weather systems. education and worked as a director of a music school and a conductor of youth and mixed choirs in Moscow, Russia. FEATURED GUEST ARTIST Tatiana received Columbus Symphony’s Music Educator Award in 2016. She won third place in the Chorus TARA BOOTH Conductors category of The American Prize in 2016. She TARA BOOTH is an artist and educator in Kansas City, was recognized by National Music Certificate Program as Missouri. Although rooted in ceramics, her work manifests “Founding Teacher instrumental in establishing a national through various materials and standard for developing musicians in the United States of consumes the space were America.” feminism, food, and the body FEATURED GUEST meet. Booth holds a BFA from ARTIST Michigan State University and an MFA from The University MICHAEL LOCKWOOD of Delaware. Her work has CROUCH been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries such MICHAEL CROUCH is a New York as A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, City-based actor specializing in NY, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, voiceover. His audiobook narration Germany, Kaleid Gallery, San has earned two Audie Awards, multiple Jose, CA, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, The Center for Earphones Awards, and Best of the Year listings from Slate, Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY, and Vulpes Bastille, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and AudioFile. He can also be Kansas City, MO. Currently, Booth is gearing up for a heard on national commercials, cartoons, video games, and residency in Jingdezhen, China in summer 2019. the animé series Pokémon XY and Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V. 11 EVENT ONE Monday, March 4, 6:30 pm Knapp Performance Space TARA BOOTH ARTIST TALK Artist Statement Tara Booth is an artist living and working in Kansas City and is an Assistant Professor of Art at Cottey College. Although her practice is rooted in the ceramics studio she works in video, fiber, installation and print. Tara’s work is an investigation of the female body considering notions of physicality, experience and perception in a digital age. Her work questions the cultural hegemony of the masculine, the intersections of beauty and grotesque, anxiety and fascination by pushing viewers to do the same.

EVENT TWO Tuesday, March 5, 10:00 am Swasey Chapel

THINK OUTSIDE THE DRUM THIRD COAST PERCUSSION Sean Connors Robert Dillon Peter Martin David Skidmore Third Coast Percussion is a Grammy®-winning, artist-run quartet of classically-trained percussionists hailing from the great city of Chicago. For over ten years, the ensemble has forged a unique path in the musical landscape with virtuosic, energetic performances that celebrate the extraordinary depth and breadth of musical possibilities in the world of percussion.

12 EVENT THREE Tuesday, March 5, 8:00 pm Denison Museum THE WEATHER PROJECT Artist Talk and Performances Nathalie Miebach ETHEL Jesse Lanier ’20 Harrison Ponce ’18 Started in 2009, The Weather Project is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Nathalie Miebach and music composers and performances. The core of the project is a series of musical scores entirely based on weather data, which are adapted by composers to musical performance. These musical performances have taken place in a variety of venues from galleries, concert halls, to theaters and planetariums. So far, the Weather Score project has led to 14 new commissions by 12 emerging composers in over 14 performances all over the US and Canada.

Brought to you by Campus Sustainability, the Mellon Foundation. Many thanks to the Music Department, Data Analytics, and ETHEL.

EVENT FOUR Wednesday, March 6 1:30PM Swasey Chapel COMPOSER’S WORKSHOP: Third Coast Percussion and Denison Student Composers

In this workshop, Denison students composed short works for Third Coast Percussion, giving the students an opportunity to learn how to compose idiomatically for such a diverse and rich ensemble.

13 EVENT FIVE Wednesday, March 6, 6:30 PM Burke Recital Hall COMPOSITION AND IMPROVISATION: PHILOSOPHERS AND MUSICIANS IN DIALOGUE with John Carvalho, Theodore Gracyk, Mark Lomax ETHEL: Cory Lee, violin Ralph Farris, viola Dorothy Lawson, violoncello with special guest, Brendan Speltz, violin

EVENT SIX Thursday, March 7, 11:30 AM Burke Recital Hall

COMPOSITION Seminar: Adam Schoenberg Adam Schoenberg, one of the most performed living classical composers by orchestras in the United States, will present his work and give a presentation on his music. This is a unique glimpse behind the scenes with a composer and his compositional processes.

14 CONCERT ONE Thursday, March 7 3:00 pm Burke Recital Hall

GUEST ARTISTS AND COLUMBUS SYMPHONY STRING QUARTET Joanna Frankel and Alicia Hui, violins Karl Pedersen, viola Luis Biava, violoncello

Through All Panics Andrew Sigler Allison Adams, tenor saxophone Kevin Class, piano

Here Christine Burke

Unhinged Ross Feller

All a cryin’ Jonathan McNair

Rift and Shade Charles Peck

Motio Adam Schoenberg I. Floor it II. Slo-Mo

Columbus Symphony String Quartet

15 PROGRAM NOTES Through All Panics by Andrew Sigler Through All Panics was written for Allison Adams, who is really quite patient. It was premiered by Dr. Adams at the World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb, Croatia in July 2018.

Here by Christine Burke My attraction to the special qualities of certain sounds (in this case, ones that are close to silence, unpredictable) is coupled with an interest in an organic method of realization. “here” is meant to be a tangible experience as well as a musical one; a revelation of a space and an investigation of its content.

Unhinged by Ross Feller Unhinged (2005) was premiered in Oberlin at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, with a dance part performed by Ann Cooper Albright and choreography by Kora Radella. Composed with choreography in mind, it also functions as a standalone musical work whose materials suggest movement and gesture. The gestures are deeply embedded into the textural and rhythmic frameworks, tracing patterns and influencing density shifts. This work creeps into focus via nostalgia for the early 20th century, and then a harkening back to a late Beethoven string quartet. Subsequent disintegration presents various types of fragmented textures along with moments of ensemble coordination, and unison rhythms within a predominantly contrapuntal texture. All of this dissolves into the following section, introduced with a sustained, harmonic texture against a simple scalar cell repeated in the viola part. This, in turn, is interrupted with an obsessively repeated fragment in the first violin part that destabilizes the overall material. Long glissandi are introduced, tracing arcs of movement, which reach a climactic moment in a section featuring motorically repeated pulses periodically broken up with asymmetrical bar schemes. The last section redirects this impulse within a kaleidoscope of mixtures and blends. Both “Unhinged” and my saxophone quartet “Nomadology” (2006), recorded by the Prism Saxophone Quartet of New York City, stem from my work with extreme expressions and virtuosic gestures

All a-Cryin’ by Jonathan McNair All a-Cryin’ is a musical meditation on the failure of the United States to fully implement the 14th Amendment to its Constitution, which guarantees equal protection under the law to all citizens. Even after the historic Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, both passed by Congress in the mid-1960s, and after much progress toward the notion of equality in the USA, there remains a troubling level of inequity before the law when it comes to minorities and the poor. A growing tide of racism and bias in political discourse and political posturing, from at least 2008 to the present, along with an unacceptable number of persons of color being killed or brutalized or unnecessarily detained by law enforcement, has made clear an urgent need for open, honest, national dialogue on equal protection under the law for all citizens of the USA. The music in All a-Cryin’ is derived primarily from the refrain of the Negro Spiritual “Listen to the Lambs All a-Cryin,” as collected and arranged by R. Nathaniel Dett. The musical components of this tune, plus one extra pitch, provided the raw material for other melodies, accompaniment figures, and harmonies.

16 Rift & Shade by Charles Peck The concept for this piece began with an interest in continual and dramatic contrast. As the music was taking shape, the title Rift & Shade came to represent a visual manifestation of this idea. With only a small rift in the walls of a cavern, a piercing light and a deep shade can coexist in the same environment. The quartet mimics the stark contrasts of this image musically. In the first movement, the contrast is realized with a rapid alternation between several short gestures, each of which occupies a unique sonic space. In the second movement, the quick timbral changes are replaced by extreme registral contrasts, with the violins playing in their highest possible range, while the cello and viola play in their lowest.

Motio by Adam Schoenberg Motio is a study of motion. The work grows out of a single movement piece for string quartet that I wrote last summer called Go. It was inspired by the art of racing, and it is very buoyant and fast. I knew there was more to explore with the material after completing the original piece, so I decided to develop it. Movement I (Floor it) is a revised and expanded version of Go. Movement II (Slo-Mo) takes its name from the iPhone’s slow-motion video recording feature, allowing me to express a sense of timelessness. Its principal material comes from a chord progression found in the first movement.

17 CONCERT TWO Thursday, March 7 7:00 pm Burke Recital Hall

DENISON UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA AND WIND ENSEMBLE Special Guest, ETHEL Early American Scandal Barbara Harbach I. Love/Revenge II. The River Styx III. The Vulture Hours IV. Virginia’s Real Reel

Denison University Orchestra, Philip Rudd, conductor Strings Ablaze Ken Davies

Sultan of Strut Kurt Ebsary Guest Conductor, Clem Errol Pearson ‘20 ETHEL, guest soloists Absorb Zae Munn

Canto Adam Schoenberg trans. Ryan Kelly

101 Aspects of the Digital Moon David E. Farrell

In Memory Of * Ching-chu Hu ETHEL, guest soloists Falling * HyeKyung Lee ETHEL, guest soloists Denison University Wind Ensemble, Chris David Westover, conductor

* world premiere World premieres made possible with support from the Licking County Foundation.

18 PROGRAM NOTES Early American Scandal by Barbara Harbach Early American Scandal is a look back to the 18th and 19th centuries with its turbulence, Civil War, and unrest. I. Love/ Revenge evokes a happier time but with hints of conflict and revenge as in master and slave. II. River Styx is making choices, some abhorrent and some fulfilling. III. Vulture Hours occur in the night when sleep does not come, and your mind tortures your thoughts of things you have done or not done. Virginia’s Real Reel is a romping early American period piece based on three fiddle tunes: Five Miles out of Town; Johnny, Bring the Jug Around the Hill; and Jack Danielson’s Reel. The tunes are stated alone with each featuring a section of the orchestra: strings, woodwinds, brass, before combining the entire orchestra and percussion for a show-down, hoe-down finish.

Strings Ablaze by Ken Davies This is a fast, fanfare-like piece for traditional string orchestra. It was inspired in part by John Adam’s Short Ride In A Fast Machine. Several rhythmic and melodic ostinatos help drive the piece forward, interrupted briefly by dynamic changes in rhythms and accent, but never letting up in the excitement until the end. The work was first performed 22 February 2014 by Jooyong Ahn conducting the University of Tennessee - Chattanooga Orchestra at the Southeastern Composers’ League Forum and Festival. In May 2016 the work was selected as winner of New York City’s Composers Concordance Orchestral Call For Scores. The honor and performance, unfortunately, had to be passed on to another because the composer could not attend as required due to a previous engagement.

Sultan of Strut by Kurt Ebsary Sultan of Strut was inspired by the second line parades of New Orleans and is therefore built to groove. These parades, also known as jazz funerals, feature flamboyant outfits and huge crowds of people dancing their way through neighborhoods to the funk-filled sounds of brass bands. In “Sultan of Strut,” a calm opening quintet leads into heavily syncopated textures with thick chord changes. Soloists from each section of the orchestra weave in and out. Ultimately, this piece was made for swagger; to put a lean into your step like the Sultan of Strut.

Absorb by Zae Munn In Absorb there are two distinct elements: a G major triad (GBD) and a 3-note chord built in 4ths (Ab Db Gb). They initially are very distinct (no notes in common, separated in space by register, shortness of duration, different instrumental colors). Then the absorption begins—the two chords touch in time (full quarter notes), then they overlap. But there are other absorption paths as well, for instance, scale passages form from all the available notes and elongate, so that the two entities are no longer distinct. The more melodic sections are where the real absorption is accomplished, because the melodies and their accompaniments utilize all the pitch resources and let go of register and tone color differences. Essentially, a new ‘culture’ is created. Canto by Adam Schoenberg On August 11, 2013, my son Luca was born, and in that single moment, my life changed forever. The past six months have brought the greatest joys I’ve ever known, and I can no longer imagine life without him. When it was time to write a new piece for the Lexington Philharmonic, I knew that this would be a very different work for me. My son 19 embodies many different cultures and religions (e.g., Judaism from me, Catholicism from my wife, and Chinese, Peruvian, and Iranian blood). He is being raised bilingual, as Spanish is my wife’s first language. Knowing that my son is part of so many different cultures, I wanted the spirit of this new work to embody the spirit of others. Canto can mean singing, chant, or song. 101 Aspects by David E. Farrell 101 Aspects is a highly indeterminate work - the players repeat various fragments of music quite freely, and most groupings of measures can repeat for as long as the ensemble desires before moving to a new set of musical options. Sometimes groups of instruments share a common pulse, and sometimes everybody interacts without any connecting meter. In Memory Of by Ching-chu Hu How do we remember those we’ve lost? We treasure moments as events of the past flash before our mind’s eye. Regardless of how a loved one passes, we hold on to the happier times, remembering them in anecdotes, in shared stories, in memories. The inspiration for In Memory Of came from my inner response of the 2012 devastating Sandy Hook Elementary shootings. While a dark subject, the work itself has many light moments. In Memory Of is a collection of snapshots, of memories, of those we all have lost in our lives. While we grieve, we remember people full of life and love. While each member of the string quartet takes turns to lead the ensemble, memories collect until a moment of reflection. At this point, you’ll hear the violin and the glockenspiel (an orchestral bell) begin to honor the 27 victims, beginning with the children. Each chord signals the age of each child, and this moment of respect builds until the entire ensemble takes part. At that point, the orchestral bells continue tolling for the victims, honoring the seven adults. The list of victims are students: Charlotte Bacon, 6; Daniel Barden, 7; Olivia Engel, 6; Josephine Gay, 7; Dylan Hockley, 6; Madeleine Hsu, 6; Catherine Hubbard, 6; Chase Kowalski, 7; Jesse Lewis, 6; Ana Márquez-Greene, 6; James Mattioli, 6; Grace McDonnell, 7; Emilie Parker, 6; Jack Pinto, 6; Noah Pozner, 6; Caroline Previdi, 6; Jessica Rekos, 6; Avielle Richman, 6; Benjamin Wheeler, 6; Allison Wyatt, 6; adults: Rachel D’Avino, teacher’s aide; Dawn Hochsprung, principal; Anne Marie Murphy, teacher’s aide; Lauren Rousseau, teacher; Mary Sherlach, school psychologist; Victoria Leigh Soto, teacher; and Nancy Lanza, the perpetrator’s mother. Falling by HyeKyung Lee The pounding percussions, falling winds, wandering melodies... The driving 16th notes are constantly bouncing between instruments. The long held notes over them are anxious and sometimes urgent. Even when everything is falling apart, you find something to be cheerful… These works, In Memory Of and Falling were commissioned by Chris David Westover, the Denison University Wind Ensemble, and ETHEL—friends, artists, and ambassadors of the spirit we all strive to possess. Made possible with generous support from the Licking County Foundation and a consortium of institutions: the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bixby High School (Oklahoma), Michigan Technological University, and Concordia University--Ann Arbor. and ETHEL.

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CONCERT THREE Friday, March 8 10:00 am Burke Recital Hall FACULTY AND GUEST ARTISTS The Solitary Reaper Jon Corelis Carolyn Redman,soprano Leslie Maaser, flute Cora Kuyvenhoven, cello

I Am and I Watch the Drama of Works Lonnie Hevia Leslie Maaser, flute Cora Kuyvenhoven, cello One Acquainted With The Night Adam Schoenberg Leslie Maaser, flute Sun Min Kim, piano Chopin in Blue Evgeniya Kozhevnikova Beatrice Blumenthal, violin James Fennesey, cello Sun Min Kim, piano Last Night I Touch Him Jordan Alexander Key I. Last Night I Touched Him II. Never Without Fear III. He Said I Love You IV. Will God Forgive Me Sun Min Kim, piano Romance Mark Dal Porto Tracy Carr, oboe Mark Dal Porto, pIano Ahava Adam Schoenberg Leslie Maaser, flute Evan Lynch, clarinet Phillip Rudd, violin Cora Kuyvenhoven, cello Sun Min Kim, piano

21 PROGRAM NOTES

The Solitary Reaper by Jon Corelis William Wordsworth’s The Solitary Reaper is the best poem about listening to music that I know. What the poem tells us, I think, is that if a piece of music, whether an untutored folk song or a great classical symphony, is successful, we never stop hearing it. It changes us, because it replaces part of the silence.

I am and I watch the drama of works by Lonnie Hevia With the sentence, I am and I watch the drama of works, the Hindu god, Krishna, summarizes the message he attempts to deliver in the most important chapter of The Bhagavad Gita. As with all the gods in Hindu scriptures, Krishna is full of personality. Always portrayed as youthful, and often found playing the flute, Krishna was sometimes described as a prankster, of sorts. This piece is one that he may have played had he roamed the earth in the 1970s. The style of playing that the piece demands from the flutist is inspired by that of Ian Anderson from the band Jethro Tull.

One Acquainted With The Night by Adam Schoenberg One Acquainted with the Night takes its inspiration from Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the night.” I aimed to write a short lullaby about love and loneliness. Chopin in Blue by Evgeniya “Jane” Kozhevnikova Chopin in Blue is a piece for violin, cello and piano. It was written in 2018 for Atlas Trio (Negar Afazel, Jon Barnes, and Chris Gray) and premiered by them on November 18, 2018 at Western Michigan University. This piece is a tribute from a composer to a composer. Meaning, it does not have to be specifically Kozhevnikova’s to Chopin tribute. It was inspired by reflections about the life of creative people. While there are definitely a lot of insights on the artist’s way, there are also periods of struggles and doubts. This piece is particularly about the mood of blues in a composer’s life.

Last Night I Touched Him by Jordan Alexander Key ​Last Night I Touched Him is a small song cycle of haikus by the composer. The text reflects on the struggle of coming out as gay in a conservative society. The haikus not only suggest homosexual love, but also the fear, hate, and anguish that accompany love for many gays who come out in intolerant communities. Along with the emotional and physical portrayal of homosexual love and its struggle for tolerance is the internal conflict between spirituality and a God that is said to be loving, but is frequently shown to be unforgiving and hateful. This piece explores the structure and feel of haiku in music through short forms that work to juxtapose musically contradictory styles, textures, emotions, and musical references. A play between homosexuality and religion, this piece is miniature drama. Romance by Mark Dal Porto Romance for Oboe and Piano is dedicated to my beloved wife and oboist, Tracy, who inspired the deepest feelings behind every note found in this piece. Ahava by Adam Schoenberg Ahava is the first work of mine written in the key of C. The characteristics and emotions of C embody love, innocence, cheerfulness, and are completely pure. My music for the past year has very much been inspired by the birth of my

22 Acquainted With the Night Last Night I Touched Him: I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain — and back in rain. Five Lyrical Haikus I have outwalked the furthest city light. I. Last Night I Touched Him I have looked down the saddest city lane. II. Never Without Fear I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. III. He Said I Love You I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet IV. We Don’t Love You When far away an interrupted cry V. Will God Forgive Me Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; Last Night I Touched Him And further still at an unearthly height, Haiku Cycle by: Jordan Key O luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. Last night I touched him. I have been one acquainted with the night. My hand whispers on his chest. ~Robert Frost My Confirmation! published by Henry Holt and Co. in 1928 Does sin smell like sweat son, Luca, who each and every day inspires me. He lives entirely Or smell like his knotted hair? How then does love smell? in the moment, and I wanted to write a piece that represents my life right now: a work filled with atmosphere, rhythm, and Never without fear! joy. The work ends with a feeling of prayer, as the piano plays a Our clasped hands profess our faith chorale-like lullaby. This work is dedicated to Steven and Lynne In the grocery store. Steindel and the ATL Symphony Musicians. He said, “I love you.” Last Night I Touched Him by Jordan Alexander Key I hear those word in his arms As we fall asleep, ​Last Night I Touched Him is a small song cycle of haikus by the composer. The text reflects on the struggle of coming out [omitted from performance:] as gay in a conservative society. The haikus not only suggest [Today I was told homosexual love, but also the fear, hate, and anguish that By my Mother and Father, accompany love for many gays who come out in intolerant “Out! We don’t love you.” communities. Along with the emotional and physical portrayal of homosexual love and its struggle for tolerance is the internal Whose blood fills their cups? conflict between spirituality and a God that is said to be loving, Do they taste the vanity In their broken bread?] but is frequently shown to be unforgiving and hateful. This piece explores the structure and feel of haiku in music through short Will God forgive me? forms that work to juxtapose musically contradictory styles, I forgave God long ago. textures, emotions, and musical references. A play between homosexuality and religion, this piece is miniature drama.

23 CONCERT FOUR Friday, March 8 3:00 pm Burke Recital Hall

DENISON UNIVERSITY FACULTY, CHAMBER SINGERS, AND JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Come Away Death Alex Burtzos

Not to us, O Lord Andrew Schneider Denison University Chamber Singers, Joel Garber, director

Winter Music Adam Schoenberg Leslie Maaser, flute Steven Rosenberg, oboe Evan Lynch, clarinet David Nesmith, french horn Emily Patronik, bassoon

Digame Tranquilo Daniel Walzer Pete Mills, saxophone Brett Burleson, guitar Seth Rogers, drumset Marcos Arnett, electric bass Phil Rudd, violin Nicole Harris, viola Cora Kuyvenhoven, cello Mimo Provoz Daniel Smith

Denison University Jazz Ensemble, Pete Mills,director

24 PROGRAM NOTES Not to us, O Lord by Andrew Schneider This piece constitutes the start of my foray into the world of the a cappella anthem in all its forms, a pathway I have been led to via my jobs as a sometime church organist. In this anthem, I dilute several influences into one cohesive entity. My choice of Psalm texts to combine into this anthem derives from Shakespeare’s admonition to “Let Non nobis and Te Deum be sung.” In outward form, this piece is most tangibly derived from the multi-movement structure of the Russian Orthodox choral concerto pioneered by Bortniansky, which sports as its major characteristic an instrumental treatment of the voices. I was especially inspired to this end by a rousing performance of Niccolò Zingarelli’s two-section anthem set to “Go Not Far From Me, O God,” and wanted to create something with a similarly rousing effect with comparatively simple means, though in my case, with several more cues from the Mendelssohnian harmonic inventory. This anthem is designed to be modular, existing in several different versions for performance in both concert and church scenarios, with the full version being strongly preferred for concert performances and various other authorized shortened versions being suitable for liturgical settings. The multiple-section structure of this anthem reflects this aim, with motivic links between the slow and fast sections designed to make even the shorter versions of this piece feel complete.

Winter Music by Adam Schoenberg Winter Music was commissioned by Quintet of the Americas, and is approximately 6 minutes in duration. Barber’s Summer Music proved to be the main source of inspiration, as I have always considered his woodwind quintet to be one of the best ever written for the medium. He was a true-American composer who, along with Ives, Gershwin, Copland, and Bernstein, helped define the sound of American classical music. I have always felt connected to these composers, so I wanted to write a quintet that feels American in spirit. The theme that the Quintet of the Americas proposed to me was our universe, images of galaxies, planets, and stars. With this in mind, I thought about what it would be like to be on another planet. This lead me to think about my New England roots, and how I am now living in Los Angeles and experiencing my first winter. Combining all of these thoughts, images, and experiences into one artistic idea, I have come up with Winter Music: A companion piece to the first part of Barber’s Summer Music, and my idea of life on a single planet in one of the 170 billion galaxies located millions of light-years away from earth. That is, a fantasy world somehow paralleling and reflecting my first winter in Los Angeles: magically-warm, fairy-tale like, whimsical, light, airy, and full of love. The work is dedicated to Sarah, Carter, and my little niece.

Digame Tranquilo by Daniel A. Walzer Digame Tranquilo is a jazz ballad that I sketched out as an undergraduate student in 2000 and then finished in 2018. The piece is loosely based on Wayne Shorter’s composition Teru. At the time, Wayne Shorter and Kenny Wheeler inspired much of my writing. Some years later I returned to the composition and added some additional string parts and revised the melody and arrangement.

25 Mimo Provoz by Daniel W. Smith Mimo Provoz(2016) is Czech for “out of order.” When I was in Prague with the Ball State Jazz Band, I remember seeing this phrase on a sign in a jazz club’s bathroom and thinking “ Wow, that would be a cool title for a composition.” But you probably didn’t need to know that. This piece is about anxiety, self-expression. and knowing that you’re not alone out there. After all, everyone knows what it’s like to feel a little “out of order.”

26 CONCERT FIVE Friday, March 8 7:00 pm Burke Recital Hall WORDS AND MUSIC MICHAEL LOCKWOOD CROUCH and ETHEL Cory Lee, violin Ralph Farris, viola Dorothy Lawson, violoncello with Special Guest Brendan Speltz, violin

The Floor is Lava text by Liz Anastasiadis music by Jaden Richeson

Coffee Strong Enough to Raise the Dead text by EB Bordow music by Clem Errol Pearson

Shedding Light text by Kellon Patey music by Andrew Boscardin

The Secret I Don’t Tell text by Sara AbouRashed music by Ralph Farris

Realism text by Amber Wardzala Make Fires music by James Young

Overture text by Sarah Wilson Here music by Christine Burke

This Concert is supported by Denison’s BECK LECTURE SERIES

27 PROGRAM NOTES The Floor is Lava by Liz Anastasiadis Sadly, Liz can’t be here since she is in New York for a Journalism conference. “The Floor is Lava” holds a lot of significance for her, and she is honored that it was turned into a beautiful musical number by ETHL. She hopes that her story can inspire and educate people about mental health, the grey areas in parental love, and life’s constant ability to change. The Floor is Lava by Jaden Richeson This piece was inspired by the short story, The Floor is Lava, by another Denison student, Liz Anastasiadis.I wanted to create an aleatoric composition that would not only encompass the mood of the story overall, but also the general plot. Within the short story, three children have to make their way home in the pouring rain after their unstable mother refuses to drive them home. This scene is intermittently interrupted by flashbacks of their home life, in which the children play make-believe games, pretending the floor is lava while the family is beginning to fall apart. The score represents both journeys the children take — one back home in the rain, and one across the lava floor. The mood of the story is somewhat nihilistic; even when the children reach their destination, their problems are not resolved, and are essentially no closer to stability than they were when their journey began. Therefore, players of this piece have some control as to where the journey goes, but not where it begins and ends.

Coffee Strong Enough to Raise the Dead by EB Bordow EB Bordow is a junior from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He created his own major in sociolinguistics, and is pursuing a concentration in Narrative Journalism. The story accompanying this musical performance has also been published in Denison’s literary magazine, Exile, and he is a prose editor for the magazine. Before coming to Denison, he worked in an English pub, and as Bernie Brewer, the mascot for Milwaukee’s baseball team, the Brewers. He learned about ETHEL during a writing class in his sophomore year, and enjoyed their performances so much that he decided to submit a piece for them to interpret! For Coffee Strong Enough to Raise the Dead, I tried to explore the narration style of second person in this story! Maybe this is not exactly what happens when you die, but I believe it would be a fun task at the beginning of the afterlife! Coffee Strong Enough to Raise the Deadby Clem Errol Pearson Coffee Strong Enough to Raise the Deadis a soundtrack-style piece for a short story of the same name. The piece’s structure is fluid and features improvisatory writing, reflecting the quickly-changing themes and ideas of the story. Most of the score consists of suggestions of what to play or simple repeating patterns. Matching the various topics of the story to musical themes was an interesting challenge, and I look forward to writing more of this kind of narrative- focused music.

28 Shedding Light by Kellon Patey Kellon Patey is in his senior year at Denison studying English Literature and Narrative Journalism. He’s a community organizer with the Newark Think Tank on Poverty and is a co-founder of the Newark Hull House. As a student writer at Denison, he’s covered addiction and recovery, prison reentry, gentrification, and grassroots organizing in Licking County. Shedding Light by Andrew Boscardin Shedding Light was written in response to text by the same name by Kellon Patey. The story follows a pair of maintenance workers at Denison University named Matt and Chris through their early morning rituals. I was struck by the way in which the author threads this story of everyday life with flashes of poetic language and evocative images. Shedding Light is composed of multiple paths, which are left open to the players to navigate. Phrases from the text are provided as cues, but which cue is taken is up to each performer to decide.

The Secret I Don’t Tell by Sara AbouRashed Sara Abou Rashed is a second-year at Denison, majoring in International Studies and Creative Writing. She is a poet, speaker, and community-lover. Sara’s originally from Palestine, but was born and raised in Syria. In 2013, she moved with her family to Columbus, Ohio due to the war – and that’s when she first learned English. Some of Sara’s accolades include giving a TEDx Talk and performing at the Tenement Museum of New York. Recently, Sara wrote the script of her one-woman show titled ‘’A Map of Myself,’’ discussing identity, belonging, and finding home: www.mapofmyself.com. The Secret I Don’t Tell by Ralph Farris Realism by Amber Wardzala Amber Wardzala, class of 2021, is an English Creative Writing major and member of the Denison Fencing Team. Of Anishinaabe ancestry from White Earth Reservation, she is a resident of Burlington, Wisconsin. Make Fires by James Young Make Fires originated as a structured improvisation between cello and electronics. Looped again and again over itself it was at first a meditation on snow. Here, now a string quartet, it has become a frenetic, buzzing hymn - just below the surface of ignition. The resulting music is largely textural, with an emphasis on the unique and different colors present in the group and the many ways they can interact. The title is an allusion to Yoshitoshi’s collection of prints, “100 Aspects of the Moon,” which was a constant companion for me as I composed this work.

Here by Christine Burke My attraction to the special qualities of certain sounds (in this case, ones that are close to silence, unpredictable) is coupled with an interest in an organic method of realization. “here” is meant to be a tangible experience as well as a musical one; a revelation of a space and an investigation of its content.

29 CONCERT SIX Saturday, March 9 10:00 am Knapp Performance Hall

FACULTY AND GUEST ARTISTS

Brake Tyler Entelisano fixed media

Dreamscape Christopher Cook Mary Hellmann, piano

Cimmerian Isolation Nathaniel Haering Ann Stimson, flute Live-electronics, Nathaniel Haering

Picture Etudes for piano Adam Schoenberg III. Olive Orchard II. Miró’s World

Sun Min Kim, piano

Subsurface Jacob Miller Smith fixed media

Favorable Odds Mark Phillips Andrea Cheeseman, clarinet

30 PROGRAM NOTES Brake by Tyler Entelisano All sounds heard in this piece are created from processed samples of a Brake Drum.

Dreamscape by Christopher Cook Dreamscape is a prelude inspired by a quote from Hyperion, a poem by John Keats. The poem describes the overthrow of the primeval order of the Gods by Jupiter, son of Saturn the old king. The powers of nature are depicted in beautiful descriptive moments. The excerpt evokes such a moment: a landscape at night when we dream. Fuzzy sections depicting falling asleep and waking frame Dreamscape. In the center of the piece there are moments of flight and fancy akin to the sometimes-chaotic episodes experienced during deep or REM sleep.

As when, upon a tranced summer-night, Those green-rob’d senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir –John Keats

Cimmerian Isolation by Nathaniel Haering A brooding duet for the self, Cimmerian Isolationfinds meaning in the interplay between the sound of the flute and the performer’s own primal uttering. These two often separate entities interact with and are greatly accentuated by the live electronics. “Cimmerian” in this case references it’s definition as an adjective meaning “very dark or gloomy” and attempts to elicit imagery of ​a wealthy recluse who lived in cimmerian isolation in a decaying Victorian mansion, left only to themselves and descending into eventual madness.

Picture Etudes by Adam Schoenberg In November of 2011, I received a commission from the Kansas City Symphony and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to write a 21st-century Pictures at an Exhibition. The idea seemed both intriguing and ambitious, and given my own interest in visual art, I welcomed the challenge. After conceptualizing the piece for six months, and visiting the Nelson-Atkins on three different occasions, I decided to compose a series of studies. Unlike Modest Mussorgsky, who set all of his movements to the work of Viktor Hartmann, my piece brings eight seemingly disparate works of art to musical life. In honor of Mussorgsky and his original work (for solo piano), four of the ten movements were conceived in the form of piano etudes and later orchestrat ed. After the symphonic version (Picture Studies) was finished, I returned to the original drafts of the piano etudes and completed Picture Etudes. Creating this series pushed me in a new direction and allowed me to grow as an artist in the most unexpected ways. A special thank you to pianists Daniel Spiegel and Nadia Shpachenko.

31 The following impromptu notes were jotted down from initial impressions and repeated viewings of the artwork, after my selections had been made. These original notes helped dictate the form, style, and musical arc of each movement, and ultimately the entire piece. II. Miró’s World (Joan Miró’s painting, Women at Sunrise): Child-like, yet delirious. There appears to be a sexually ambiguous tone. Try something new, spontaneous, bouncy, tribal, and raw. III. Olive Orchard (Vincent Van Goh’s painting, Olive Orchard): Extended impressionism. Colorful, full of love. Perhaps a meeting place for two lovers. Start thin, gradually build to an expansive texture, end colorful. ABC (C references A to show the organic growth of the piece). Favorable Odds by Mark Phillips The title derives its name from the fact that the overtone structure of the clarinet has only odd harmonics (frequencies that are 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. times the fundamental pitch played by the performer). It shares this characteristic with square waves and triangle waves. All sounds in the accompaniment have some connection to this sonic signature or to non-traditional clarinet noises. Among the techniques utilized are synthesized triangle and square waves, filtering, granular synthesis, live processing, sampling, and physical modeling. The rhythmic engine in the final section of the piece consists of bass clarinet samples I recorded in my first-ever encounter with the instrument as a “performer,” having had no prior experience playing any reed instrument.

32 CONCERT SEVEN Saturday, March 9 3:00 pm Burke Recital Hall

NEW AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT 3 COLUMBUS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHOIR Tatiana Kats, director

CHAMBER MUSIC CONNECTION Deborah Price, director

Amor Ching-chu Hu

Gelobet sei Gott Tim Sarsany

Missa Brevis Imant Raminsh I. Kyrie II. Gloria

Motio Adam Schoenberg III. Rewind - Forward

New American Music Project Is Generously Supported By:

33 PROGRAM NOTES Amor by Ching-chu Hu Besides being a painter, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo was also a productive poet, leaving over 300 poems for those of us enamored with his creative spirit to examine in efforts to understand the man behind the art. When given the opportunity to write a work for Denison University’s 2006 tour of Italy, I chose Michelangelo’s Amor. I was struck by his passion and his images in his text and felt that a choir and string setting could capture its mood. Text: Amor, la tuo beltà non è mortale: Nessun volto fra noi è pareggi L’immagine del cor, che ‘nfiammi e reggi Con altro foco e muovi con altr’ale.

Love, your beauty is not a mortal thing: There is no face among us that can equal The image in the heart, which you kindle and sustain With another fire and stir with other wings.

Translation by James M. Saslow, from The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation. Copyright © 1993 by Yale University Press. Reprinted with permission.

Misso Brevis by Imant Raminsh Commissioned by the Indianapolis Children’s Choir

Motio III by Adam Schoenberg Movement III (Rewind – Forward) is based on the juxtaposing of two chords from the first movement, and creates a highly dissonant and extreme sound. The piece begins, and 1/4 of the way through the movement, rewinds itself and presents the same material in retrograde motion (backward). Once it returns to the very first chord of the movement, it takes off again and moves forward. As movement III evolves, the material becomes suddenly more tonal. A final upbeat section emerges, and the piece ends in a playful manner.

34 CONCERT EIGHT Saturday, March 9 7:00 pm Swasey Chapel

THIRD COAST PERCUSSION Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore

Swoosh Adam Schoenberg Cory Lee, violin

Reaction Yield, movement 2 Third Coast Percussion

Triple Point ^ Ayanna Woods

Nature, Industry, Ritual * ^ Timothy Page

Cache-cache* HyeKyung Lee Third Coast Percussion

Intermission

Half Light Taylor Joshua Rankin

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: ambedo Annika K. Socolofsky

The Newness of It All * Ching-chu Hu

Torched and Wrecked David Skidmore

Third Coast Percussion *- world premiere ^ - written for Third Coast Percussion’s Emerging Composers Partnership

35 PROGRAM NOTES Swoosh by Adam Schoenberg Swoosh was commissioned by Piotr Szewczyk for his Violin Futura project. His project consisted of commissioning 30 encore pieces from composers around the world. Swooshis a flashy, technically demanding work, and in many ways feels like a 21st-century Irish Gigue. Third Coast Percussion Notes The four members of Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Skidmore) all compose their own music, and in recent years, have worked on projects that involve composing music together as a team. Reaction Yield is the first work collaboratively composed by the quartet. This piece was commissioned by Glenn D. Prestwich and the Sounds of Science Commissioning Club, which supports new works inspired by scientific ideas. Rather than attempting to create a musical metaphor for a scientific concept, TCP set a process of composing the work inspired by the creative process of synthetic chemists, who experiment with combinations of materials chosen from a large catalog (a “phone book of molecules”). To compose Reaction Yield, the members of TCP each composed musical motives: rhythms, harmonies, abstract concepts, etc. These were compiled into a common catalog of musical material that all four then used in composing their own movements of this work. Duration (movement two): 4 minutes Triple Point was composed as part of Third Coast Percussion’s Emerging Composers Partnership program. “The Triple Point of a pure substance is the temperature & pressure where it can be a solid, liquid, and gas in equilibrium. That sounds a lot more tranquil than it actually is; you can find videos online of liquid bubbling into gas, rapidly freezing and then exploding & melting into liquid again. In some ways it’s always the same, and in some ways, it never stops moving. It’s something that’s stable on the one hand, and colliding with itself on the other. “This title came out of one of our workshops together as the piece was taking shape. We talked about the sound world being meditative and groovy at the same time. That’s something that I tried to lean into as I was writing.” - Ayanna Woods Duration: 6 minutes Nature, Industry, Ritual for percussion quartet and electronics was written for Third Coast Percussion’s Emerging Composers Partnership program. Each performer focuses on a steel bucket filled with water, and a copper plumbing pipe, but the work has an additional inspiration beyond this limited orchestration: “In the production of ceremony-grade matcha, dried tencha tea leaves are carefully hand-ground with an ishi-usu, a circular, granite mill etched with a pattern of grooves specifically designed to produce the desired consistency of powder. When properly prepared according to chādo, or “the way of tea,” matcha is very similar in color to various species of lemnodiae, a subfamily of green algae that is common in slow-moving or still bodies of water throughout the world.” “This work is dedicated, with gratitude and admiration, to Third Coast Percussion, with whom I had the privilege and pleasure of workshopping material over a number of months, and I am thrilled for it to have its world premiere at the Denison’s Tutti Festival.” - Timothy Page Duration: 12 minutes 36 “Cache-cache was written for Third Coast Percussion to premiere at the 7th Tutti New Music Festival at Denison University, 2019. This moderately fast piece endeavors to capture the playfulness of hide-and-seek. The quartet, on marimba, vibraphones, and a variety of non-pitched instruments are always running (fast or slow), following each other, teasing, laughing, singing.” - HyeKyung Lee Duration: 10 minutes “Composed in the winter of 2016 atop a tower in San Francisco, Half Light was my deepest foray into using electronics and sampled sounds throughout a piece. Samples used in this piece come from the sounds of cicadas buzzing, classically trained singers auto-tuned humming, myself playing several differently tuned harmonicas, the sound of rain falling, organs, as well as a bunch of other strange, crackling and popping sounds. I first presented a rough version of this piece to Mason after compiling a wealth of metallic and wooden percussion instruments into his studio and recording all the parts myself. Coming directly after a year long project for orchestra, Half Light was a sort of call back to my earliest passions of playing music; poly-rhythmic, driving, and fast. Recommended listening when driving fast or when walking on a wooded trail by yourself.” - Taylor Joshua Rankin Duration: 6 minutes “The concept for this piece comes from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a collection of words invented by John Koenig that “aims to fill a hole in the [English] language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for.” This piece was premiered by Liz Karney, McKayla Philips, Nick Martinez, and Lauren Molloy at the 2018 So Percussion Summer Institute Princeton PhD Concert, and is dedicated to them.” ambedo - n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela. - Annika Socolofsky Duration: 8 minutes “The Newness of it All depicts the beginnings of love and all the eagerness, anticipation, nervousness, and glee that accompanies romance as it takes root and blossoms. As butterflies churn and questions of uncertainty build, voices in one’s head convince the mind that reciprocation is confirmed. Worry dissipates as confidence builds, allowing the honeymoon of this period to flourish. The Newness of it All is written with admiration for Third Coast Percussion.” - Ching-Chu Hu Duration: 8 minutes Torched and Wrecked comes from Skidmore’s cycle of works entitled “Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities,” all of which explore the idea that the same piece of music can move at several different speeds at the same time. An electronic audio track—David’s most intensive work with electronic composition to date—expands and reinforces the live percussion, and video artist Xuan was commissioned to create accompanying video. Like many of these pieces in this cycle, Torched and Wrecked takes its cryptic name from a memorable Third Coast Percussion touring experience. - David Skidmore Duration: 5 minutes

37 COMPOSERS AND PERFORMERS COMPOSERS Composer and guitarist Andrew Boscardin has been and Northwestern University’s New Music Conference. Past performing and writing music for over 20 years. He is the collaborations include projects with the Chicago Civic Orchestra bandleader for the 12-¬piece ensemble Zubatto Syndicate, Fellows, JACK Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Heavy Air, The Living which performs his amalgamation of jazz, rock, pop, hip¬-hop Earth Show, NOW Ensemble, Kamratōn Ensemble, the Eclectic and new music. Zubatto’s Laboratory Chamber Orchestra, and participation in Núcleo two recordings (2011 and Música Nova, the UNK New Music Festival, and the Earle Brown 2015) have been featured on Music Foundation’s International Summer Academy. Christine NPR’s All Things Considered earned a Master’s Degree from the University of Iowa, where and Fresh Air, WNYC’s New she studied with Nomi Epstein and Josh Levine (composition) Sounds, KNKX’s The New Cool, and Maurita Murphy Marx and Jorge Montilla Moreno (clarinet). and Nextbop. Boscardin’s She was previously a student of David Stock (composition) and chamber music has been Jack Howell (clarinet) at Duquesne University. performed by members of Bang on a Can All¬-Stars, Seattle Chamber Players, the Alex Burtzos is an American Microscore Project, and the Gravitas Quartet. He has received composer and conductor based a 2008 smART venture award from the City of Seattle, a 2009 in New York City and Orlando, FL. CityArts award from the City of Seattle, a CAP Recording Grant His works have been performed from the American Music Center and a 2012 Individual Artist across four continents. Alex has Project from 4-Culture for the composition and presentation collaborated with some of the of music for Zubatto Syndicate. In addition to his work as a world’s foremost contemporary bandleader, Boscardin has contributed music for dance, stage, musicians and ensembles, and film, both as a composer and performer, and has released including JACK Quartet, Yarn/Wire, an album of pop songs titled “Supersonic Parachute,” with Contemporaneous, ETHEL, loadbang, Jenny Lin, RighteousGIRLS, singer-¬songwriter Whitney Lyman. Boscardin has studied and many others. He is the founder and artistic director of with Jonathan Bailey Holland, John Fitz Rogers, Jarrad Powell, ICEBERG New Music, a New York-based composers’ collective, Janice Giteck, Dave Peterson, Jim Knapp, Hummie Mann, and the conductor of the hip-hop/classical chamber orchestra Glenn Alexander, and John Yannelli. He is a graduate of Sarah ShoutHouse. As a composer, Alex is committed to pursuing Lawrence College, Cornish College of the Arts, and Vermont artistic expression unconstrained by boundaries of school or College of Fine Arts. style. His work often incorporates elements of the 20th Century avant-garde, jazz, rock, metal, and hip-hop alongside or against Christine Burke, A composer classical/preclassical structures and sounds, justifying these from Iowa City, IA, whose music juxtapositions with a great depth of musical ideas and extra- has recently been recognized musical knowledge. Alex’s music takes as its basis and provides by the Koehne Quartet at Wien commentary on a diverse array of subject matter, from early Modern, a.pe.ri.od.ic, Alarm colonial history to recent events, from Shakespeare’s tragedies Will Sound and the Mizzou to naughty text messages. His unique approach has earned him International Composers Festival, accolades and awards from organizations around the world.

38 Alex holds a DMA from Manhattan School of Music, where his the University of Minnesota. After primary teachers were Reiko Fueting and Mark Stambaugh. He a subsequent career as a software serves as Assistant Professor of Composition at the University specialist in Silicon Valley, he now of Central Florida. lives in Wisconsin. His poetry and Christopher Cook received other writings have been published the Doctor of Music degree in print and on web sites in eight from Indiana University where countries, and he has given lectures he served as assistant director and readings by invitation in America of the Center for Electronic and Europe. He more recently has turned to composing songs and Computer Music. He is a and instrumental pieces. His music has been featured on the web recent recipient of a Fromm site The Flexible Persona, has been performed in concert by the Music Foundation commission Wisconsin ensemble a very small consortium and by the New York from Harvard University and has State flute quartet Party of Four, and has been recorded by flutist received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Robin Meiksins for her YouTube recording project 365 Days of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Flute, and by clarinetist Emily Mehigh for her YouTube recording the Music Teachers National Association, and the National project The Miniature Month of May. Assembly of Local Arts Agencies. He has served as Composer- in-Residence at James Madison University, Amherst College, Dr. Mark Dal Porto has had his works the University of Evansville, the Monroe County Community performed by numerous instrumental Schools Corporation (Indiana), and for the city of Somerset, and vocal ensembles throughout Pennsylvania. His compositions are widely performed in the US and abroad. His commissions university and festival settings including: June in Buffalo, Music include those from the Orchestra of of Our Time, the Indiana State University Contemporary Music Southern Utah, the College Orchestra Festival, The Society of Composers Inc., the Annual American Directors Association, and the Music Week (Sofia, Bulgaria), and the Utrecht Music Festival Pemigewasset Choral Society of New (The Netherlands). His Electro-acoustic works have been Hampshire. presented at numerous conferences and festivals including: Dal Porto serves on the faculty of Eastern New Mexico University the International Computer Music Conference, the Society for as Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Theory and Electro-acoustic Music in the United States, the New York City Composition and frequently serves as a guest composer and Electroacoustic Music Festival, the Florida Electro-acoustic conductor. A former student of Donald Grantham, Dal Porto Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, and the InterMedia received degrees from California State University, Sacramento, and Manifold TechArt exhibit. He is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Chowan University. In 2015, Dal Porto was awarded certificates of excellence in band, Jon Corelis was born in California and grew up in and around choral, and orchestral composition from The American Prize Chicago, where he earned a degree in Classical Languages and organization. He was also awarded first prize in the CODA (College Literatures at the College of the University of Chicago. He later Orchestra Director’s Association) 2013 International Composition took a doctorate in Classics at Stanford, and taught Classics Contest for his orchestral work Song of Eternity. and Humanities at Stanford, the University of California, and

39 Wisconsin native Ken Davies album with Congolese gospel singer, Gabby Kaleja, which was (www.kendavies.net) has had funded through the U.S. State Department’s Critical Language acoustic and electronic works Scholarship of which Kurt is an Swahili alumni. Kurt also teaches performed at numerous new music strings and general music in public school and is the music festivals such as the Society of director at a local church. Composers, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, Southeastern Composers Tyler Entelisano (b. 1994) is a League (a past president), composer, educator, and producer Electronic Music Midwest, residing in Spanish Fort, Alabama. International Trombone Festival, National Association of In 2017, Entelisano was awarded the Composers USA, Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers, Bachelor of Music degree in Music Parma Music Festival, London New Wind Festival (UK), and Composition while studying with C. Sonic Coast (UK). Since 2002, he resides in coastal south P. First and Amir Zaheri. During his Mississippi. Awards include the Mississippi Arts Commission’s time at the University of Alabama, Performing Arts Fellowship for Composition (3 times), the Entelisano was the recipient of Mississippi Music Teachers’ Association’s Commissioned the University of Alabama’s Presidential Scholarship and the Composer of the Year, and winner of the American Trombone Dr. Gerald Welker Memorial Scholarship. Entelisano’s music is Workshop National Composition Competition. His music available through PARMA Recordings on the Navona Label with studies were at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, international distribution through NAXOS, and he is published Yale School of Music, Middle Tennessee State University at in the International Journal of Contemporary Composition Murfreesboro (MA trombone), and the University of Colorado (IJCC). Entelisano’s music has been performed at venues such at Boulder (MM composition). A writer and publisher member as the MA/IN Matera Intermedia Festival, the Alba Music Festival, of ASCAP, his music is published by Kenvad Music. the soundSCAPE Festival, the NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival, the SCI Student National Conference, and numerous Kurt Ebsary is a pianist SCI Regional Conferences. He was given an Honorable Mention and composer based out of in the Frost School of Music Ensemble Ibis International Buffalo, NY. A graduate of Composition Competition and was named a winner in the Denison University, he studied AMEA Young Composers Competition in 2011 and 2012. composition under Dr. Ching- Compositionally, Entelisano is engaged in collaborations with chu Hu and string bass with numerous musicians across the United States. Previously, Doug Richeson. He works as a he has served as the composer in residence for Tuscaloosa producer in Buffalo, New York County High School. Entelisano is a member of the Society of where he is the founder and chief operator of Leaky Ledge Composers Incorporated (SCI) and ASCAP. Studios, a boutique recording studio open since 2013. His work as a producer for Music in Exile, a non-profit organization David E. Farrell (b. 1982) is a composer based in Denver, CO. that records the music and stories of people displaced by war David’s music has been performed by ensembles across the and violence, has been featured on National Public Radio’s United States, including the Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra, Morning Edition and the United States Holocaust Memorial North/South\Chamber Orchestra, the Playground Ensemble, Museum. His recent composition credits include a collaborative the Sam Houston State University Percussion Group, the

40 University of Iowa Center for Prism Saxophone Quartet, Aurelia Saxophone Quartet, New Music Ensemble, and the Oberlin Conservatory Contemporary Music Ensemble, Oberlin University of Illinois Chamber Percussion Group, Doctor Nerve, and most recently by the Orchestra as winner of the New York City-based Anti-Depressant Duo, String Noise, and University of Illinois Orchestra pianist Adam Tendler. His work has been performed throughout Composition Competition. His the U.S.A. and in Europe at venues including Symphony Space works have been featured at (New York City), Roulette (Brooklyn), Spectrum (Brooklyn), the SCI National Conference, De Ijsbreker (Amsterdam), Krannert Center (Urbana), Presser The Electroacoustic Barn Dance, The Playground Ensemble’s Recital Hall (Philadelphia), Preston Bradley Hall (Chicago), Colorado Composers Concert, Sam Houston State University Green Mill (Chicago), Plateau (Brussels), and at many festivals. Contemporary Music Festival, the Midwest Composers Recordings available on Innova, Tesuji Records, and New Symposium, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chamber Music Dynamic Records. Feller is an Associate Professor of Music at Institute, and the University of Cincinnati’s Music07 Festival, Kenyon College where he teaches composition, theory, and and his music can also be heard on Meerenai Shim’s album The computer music. For more information visit www.rossfeller.com Art of Noise. David studied at the University of Illinois and at and https://soundcloud.com/r-feller. Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where he earned a D.M. in Composition. His teachers have included Claude Baker, Founding member of ETHEL, Zack Browning, Don Freund, Gabriela Ortiz, and Stephen Taylor. Ralph Farris is a Grammy® David currently teaches composition and music theory at nominated arranger, an original Metropolitan State University of Denver. His music can be Broadway orchestra member heard at davidefarrell.com. of The Lion King and former musical director for The Who’s Ross Feller is an accomplished Roger Daltrey. He has worked composer and saxophonist. with Leonard Bernstein, Martin Over the past twenty years he Scorsese, Depeche Mode, Natalie Merchant, Harry Connick Jr., has developed a unique musical Allen Ginsberg, Yo-Yo Ma and Gorillaz. A graduate of Walnut Hill vocabulary that features raw, School for the Arts, Ralph earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s ecstatic layers of material that degrees from The Juilliard School. percolate with refined, virtuosic gestures, often integrated with Nathaniel Haering is deeply performance gestures. His awards interested in the use of live electronics and honors include the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence to expand the artistic capabilities of Award, ASCAP Young Composer’s Competition, Gaudeamus traditional instruments and augment Foundation International Composer’s Competition, and their timbral horizons while enriching residencies from the Ragdale Foundation, Atlantic Center their expressive and improvisational for the Arts, and Lake Studios (Berlin), and Guest Composer possibilities. This perspective is also highly influential and Residencies at Bowdoin College and at the Green Mill represented in the gestural power and extended sound worlds (Chicago). Commissions and performances by ensembles of his purely acoustic work. He has collaborated with and had including the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), works performed by Grammy® Award-winning Vietnamese

41 performer and composer Vân Ánh Võ, Trio Accanto, Ensemble Germany, and the Eastman School of Music (D.M.A.). Mise-En, Mivos string quartet, and members of WasteLAnd and Examples of Harbach’s compositions: www.barbaraharbach. Ensemble Dal Niente. A winner of the Ensemble Mise-En call for com/music-samples.html scores and official runner up for the Tribeca New Music Award, Nathaniel’s work can also be found on Volume 27 of Music Lonnie Hevia holds a DMA in from SEAMUS. Nathaniel’s pieces have recently been featured composition from The Peabody at the International Computer Music Conference in Shanghai, Conservatory where he studied China, the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium in with Nicholas Maw, Christopher Toronto Canada, Noisefloor Festival at Staffordshire University Theofanidis, and Michael Hersch. He UK, VIPA in Valencia Spain, CMSS Festival in Seoul, South Korea earned his bachelor’s and master’s and SEAMUS 2018 Conference at the University of Oregon. degrees in composition from Florida Nathaniel is pursuing a PhD in Music Composition at the State University where he studied University of California San Diego. with John Boda and Ladislav Kubik. At Peabody, Lonnie earned a second master’s degree in music theory pedagogy, and he has Dr. Barbara Harbach, Curators’ held teaching positions at Peabody, Johns Hopkins University, Distinguished Professor of Music and Towson University. He is currently a Visiting Assistant at the University of Missouri- Professor of Music Theory at Stetson University. St. Louis, has a large catalog of works including symphonies, Ching-chu Hu, professor and chair operas, string orchestra, musicals; of music at Denison, loves to bring works for chamber ensembles, people together through TUTTI. The film scores, ballet, and keyboard camaraderie among artists and the pieces; and many arrangements creative energy on campus is one he for brass and organ of various Baroque works. She is also hopes his students will absorb and involved in the research, editing, publication and recording of treasure. In addition to composing, manuscripts of eighteenth-century keyboard composers, as teaching, and sweet-talking his well as historical and contemporary women composers. Her amazing colleagues and departments work is available in both recorded and published form through into joining the festivities, he’s also chauffeur to four little ones, MSR Classics, Naxos Records, Albany Records, Northeastern Xander (12) Elisabeth (11), Nicholas (7) and Mandy (4) who, Records, Elkan-Vogel, Augsburg Fortress, Encore Music think and behave as if they were the center of his universe, Publishers, Art of Sound Music, and Vivace Press. Harbach which they are. They also are great reminders for him to have serves as editor of the WomenArts Quarterly Journal. balance in his life: family, music, teaching — it’s all good. The Harbach has toured extensively as both concert organist and music he’s composing now are messages to them: about life, harpsichordist throughout the United States and Canada, and love, and the world we all live in. He feels fortunate that music overseas in Europe, the former Eastern Europe and Russia, has been performed around the world, has garnered awards, and throughout Japan and Korea. The body of work written and he loves going to artist colonies. If you want to find out for and dedicated to Harbach is substantial. Harbach holds more, check out: chingchuhu.com, his website (that needs academic degrees from Pennsylvania State University, Yale updating) or go to: soundcloud.com/chingchuhu. University, Musikhochschule Konzertdiplom in Frankfurt,

42 Jordan Alexander Key as a musician in drama theatre, performing original music with (b. 1990) currently pursues his her jazz band and teaching piano in music schools. Though PhD in composition and Evgeniya is mostly working on jazz composition, she is trying musicology at the University of to get beyond it. Her music is often inspired by Rachmaninov, Florida. He earned bachelor’s Chopin, Brahms, and Scriabin. Also, Latin music traditions had degrees in music composition, a great influence on many of her compositions. In the USA she mathematics, and Eastern Asian continues playing jazz with a student combo, developing the philosophy from The College repertoire with new original music and doing arrangements. of Wooster (2013), as well as a master’s degree in music During the first year of the master degree, Evgeniya made composition from the University of Arizona (2015). His several recordings of her pieces in Western Sound Studios (a recent projects include his European premier with Vienna’s recording studio in WMU). Also, the jazz faculty granted her a PHACE Ensemble performing his Octet, “Threnody on the free recording session in Overneath studio where she recorded Death of Children;” commission by the National Science three of her new pieces written during the first semester in Foundation for his ballet, “To Say Pi,” to be performed at the WMU. Besides instrumental jazz music, Evgeniya is interested Kennedy Center in May 2019; a performance by Boston String in songwriting. Quartet of his String Quartet No. 1; a concert with Bold City Contemporary Ensemble performing his Quintet, “Discursus An active composer/pianist, Anachronismus;” a collaboration with the Vancouver Queer HyeKyung Lee has written works Arts Festival for his Art Song, “God Ourselves;” and the for diverse genres and media: display of his recent audio-visual projects as part of the from toy piano to big concerto, Wolfsburg Kunstmuseum’s new exhibit, “Never Ending from electronic music to children’s Stories: The Loop in Art, Film, Architecture, and Music,” in choir. Recent commissions include Germany during the Winter and Spring of 2018. Jordan gives the Bonnie McElveen Commission regular concerts on his two instruments: the pipe organ and for Maestro Gerard Schwarz and bagpipes. His performance repertoire focuses primary on the Eastern Music Festival, Renée music from the Middle Ages, Early Renaissance, and Early B. Fisher Piano Competition, and the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Baroque. For more information on Jordan Alexander Key and Bassoon Competition. Lee’s music has been described as for recent recordings of his works, see his website, www. “virtuosic fantasy where continuous rhythmic motion smoothly jordanalexanderkey.com, or search for his work on YouTube joined contrasting moods and effectively propelled from (channel, “Jordan Alexander Key”). one section to another”…. show[ing] a penchant for colorful timbres, expressive lines, and lively rhythmic interaction of Evgeniya ‘Jane’ Kozhevnikova instruments”. Born in Seoul, Korea, HyeKyung studied at YonSei is a second-year graduate University in Seoul, Czech-American Summer Music Institute student (jazz composition in Prague, and University of Texas at Austin where she received major) at Western Michigan MM, DMA in composition and piano performance certificate. University, a Fulbright scholar She is Associate Professor of Music at Denison University in from Yekaterinburg, Russia. Granville, Ohio. Her works are available on Pavane, Vienna There she got her under- Modern Master, Innova, New Ariel, Equilibrium, Capstone, MSR graduate degree in music art of Classices, Mark Custom, Ravello recordings, and SEAMUS CD variety. She has been working Series Vol. 8. She is Associate Professor at Denison University.

43 Jonathan B. McNair’s music at Saint Mary’s College. She has also taught at Bowdoin College, has been described by critics Transylvania University, Lehigh University, and Interlochen Arts as being “…skillfully crafted… Camp. Her DMA and MM degrees in composition are from expressive and rhythmic…” His the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and her BM works have been performed in composition is from Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt across the U.S.A. in national and University. Born in 1953, Munn’s early musical training was as a regional conferences, festivals, cellist, with additional studies in piano, voice, and conducting. and professional concerts, as Virtually all her works are available from one of these publishers: well as six other countries. His Arsis Press, Balquhidder Music, Earthsongs, Frank E. Warren music has been broadcast via radio, and released by the Music, HoneyRock, JOMAR Press, MusicaNeo, Tempo Press, Capstone label of Parma records, AUR, ACA Digital, and and Yelton Rhodes Music. Recordings are available from Navona Ablaze Records. McNair has received commissions from the Records, Capstone Records, Centaur Records, and a number of Chattanooga Symphony and other agencies and individuals in independent labels. Website: www.zaemunn.com the Chattanooga area, as well as the Brazos Valley Symphony Zae is active in the dog rescue community and has fostered 70 Orchestra, Cleveland Fortnightly Music Club, Ohio Arts dogs in her home over the last several years. Commission, Texas Composers Forum, and the American Composers Forum for its “Faith Partners” program and Chicago-born composer, musician, VivaVoce! Choral music camp. He has had residencies at and performance artist Timothy I-Park Artist’s Enclave, the Hambidge Center, and Ucross Page creates works that revolve Foundation. He was a guest composer at the Heidelburg New around play with style and context, Music Festival, the former “A Little Now Music” festival at body, physical materials, and space. Brevard College, University of Northern Colorado, Middle After a brief career in physics, Tennessee State University, and Birmingham Southern Page left the U.S. for Finland to College. Jonathan McNair is the Ruth S. Holmberg Professor study composition at the Sibelius of American Music at The University of Tennessee at Academy. He wound up putting Chattanooga. In this capacity, and as past-President of the down roots and establishing himself in the Nordic new music Southeastern Composers League, he has worked to present scene, but currently splits his time between Helsinki and his many performances of the works of other contemporary birthplace, where he recently completed a PhD in composition at composers, especially living composers, through festivals on the University of Chicago under mentors Augusta Read Thomas the UTC campus and in the Chattanooga community. and Anthony Cheung. Page is a founder and co-director of Dayjob - a Helsinki-based collective devoted to investigating meeting Zae Munn is Professor of Music points between contemporary music and performance art. at Saint Mary’s College in South Clem Errol Pearson is a composer, conductor, and violinist Bend, Indiana where she teaches from Berea, Kentucky. Beginning as a bluegrass fiddle player at theory, composition, digital media age four, he joined a symphony orchestra at fifteen and quickly in music, and orchestration/ developed a keen interest in the symphonic repertoire. Clem arranging. She is the Director enrolled at Denison University in 2016 with a major in Music and Resident Composer of the Composition and will graduate in 2020. He plans to pursue Summer Composition Intensive graduate study in orchestral conducting and a career in higher

44 education. At Denison, Clem Mark Phillips (Ohio University has composed in a wide range Distinguished Professor Emeritus) of styles from string quartet to won the 1988 Barlow International musical theatre, and has conducted Competition for Orchestral Music, student chamber ensembles as leading to collaborations with well as the Denison University conductor Leonard Slatkin. Symphony Orchestra. He made his His Violin Power appears on the public conducting debut with the SEAMUS 2015 conference CD. University Symphony in October of The World Saxophone Congress 2018 and currently serves as assistant concertmaster of that commissioned and premiered his What If for 101 saxophones. ensemble. This is his second TUTTI Festival. His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Wigmore Hall, the Festival Charles Peck is a composer Internacional de Música de Bogotá, the Blossom Music whose work has been called Festival, and numerous other festivals and conferences around “daring” (Philadelphia Inquirer), the world. Commissioned for a Memphis premiere, his Dreams “spell-binding” (Rappahannock Interrupted has received performances across the country. He News), and “substantial, personal, has received orchestra performances by groups such as the St. genuine” (Roger Shapiro Fund Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the NHK for New Music). His music has Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Chautauqua Symphony been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra — and has been recorded by Richard Stoltzman Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, the Columbus Symphony, and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lark Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, and several solo artists. More information is available at www. the JACK Quartet, Sandbox Percussion, Ji Hye Jung, Derek coolvillemusic.com. Bermel, and Holly Roadfeldt. A recipient of an ASCAP Morton Gould Award and a commission from the Barlow Endowment, Harrison Ponce, from Miami, Peck has also been named a winner of composition FL, completed undergraduate competitions with the New York Youth Symphony, the Lake degrees in Chemistry and George Music Festival, the Boston New Music Initiative, the Music Performance at Denison Salvatore Martirano Memorial Award, the Left Coast Chamber University. His work, both as a Ensemble, the National Federation of Music Clubs, Frame composer and pianist, explores Dance, and Symphony in C, among others. Recently, his music the intersection between music been featured at a variety of venues and festivals, including and other mediums, such as art Carnegie Hall, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cabrillo Festival, and science, in a process known as the Mizzou International Composers Festival, the Civic transmediation. To find out more about Harrison and his work, Orchestra New Music Workshop, the Minnesota Orchestra’s please visit: www.harrisonponce.com Composer Institute, the Beijing Modern Music Festival, the Mise-En Music Festival, the American Music Festival, the NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival, and the New Music Gathering. Peck currently teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University.

45 A native of Latvia, Imant Raminsh Jaden Richeson is a 21 year old (b. 1943) was raised in Canada student from Indianapolis, Indiana. from an early age. He completed He is studying Music Composition post-graduate work at the Salzburg and Communication at Denison Mozarteum Academy (1966-68) University. Jaden has been playing where he studied composition, piano for ten years and has been violin, and conducting, and was a composing music for six. He wrote member of the school’s professional a few compositions, primarily solo orchestra. His works rely strongly on piano pieces, during high school. Following this, he began melody and point to the song heritage of his Latvian culture as to compose chamber pieces: he has currently had many of the ultimate source for his compositional material. his pieces performed at Denison University by himself or

ensembles such as Eighth Blackbird, NOW Ensemble, and Taylor Joshua Rankin (b. 1991) is a ETHEL. He has experience writing for string quartets and composer of new music, drawing on chamber groups. He has also written a piece for a short film a variety of influences from American created by Peter Mathes and composed the score for Denison and European minimalism, art-rock University’s production of the play Sense and Sensibility. The and electronica, currently based music was written for string quartet and recorded by ETHEL. in San Francisco and Oakland, CA. He plans to compose a piece for wind ensemble as research Taylor’s music has been performed by ensembles across the United States, project with Ching-Chu Hu during the upcoming summer. such as Third Coast Percussion, Friction Quartet, Redshift Ensemble, and the NYU Marimba A native of Houston, Andrew Ensemble. Taylor’s music has been programmed by Abchordis Schneider is a pianist and vocal Ensemble and Festival Stradella in Italy, Tutti Festival at coach whose virtuosic technique Denison University, Composers Inc., the Presidio Club, The has cemented his name as a San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra, New York fearless musician. Andrew enjoys University, California State University East Bay, PoP Up using his considerable linguistic Magazine’s 2018 season in DC, NY, LA, Portland, Toronto, and skill to help make challenging texts Chicago, as well as the 2016-2018 Hot Air Music Festivals. In accessible to his clients. Andrew’s 2010 Taylor was the recipient of the Glen Glasow Fellowship wide-ranging musical activities also Award, and recently received an honorable mention for his include harpsichord and organ performance, composition, and piece Touch/Still for cello and piano, by the Charles Ives conducting. Andrew holds a B.Mus., summa cum laude, in music Concert Series in Danbury Ct. In 2015, Taylor was accepted composition from Rice University, and in 2009, was a finalist on scholarship to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Competition. to pursue his Masters Degree in Composition under the From 2012-2016, Andrew served as organist at St. Michael apprenticeship of composer Mason Bates. Bates has praised Catholic Church in Houston, the first of several church organ Taylor as having a “great ear for harmony and texture”, and positions. Andrew regularly plays harpsichord with Mercury demonstrating “strong and compelling skills”. In March of 2017 Houston and La Speranza. He has also played Handel’s Messiah Taylor was awarded second place in the coveted Highsmith with the San Antonio Symphony and Haydn’s Creation with Orchestral Composition competition for his three movement the Woodlands Chorale. He regularly plays piano with Texas work for orchestra: California Nocturnes. New Music Ensemble. He has served as music director for a

46 production of Sweeney Todd. Andrew’s coaching repertoire Daniel W Smith (b. 1993) is a includes Ariadne auf Naxos, Rita, L’heure espagnole, composer and arranger currently L’italiana in Algeri, La scala di seta, and Hansel and Gretel. pursuing a master’s degree in music For a 2016 Pittsburgh production, Andrew also coached composition at Ball State University. the leading role in Die schweigsame Frau. Recently, Andrew His music focuses on topics of worked with Houston Grand Opera to prepare outreach mental health advocacy, seeking to performances of Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers, bring people together through their Cinderella in Spain, and The Elixir of Love. In his spare shared struggles. Dan writes music moments, Andrew enjoys history, literature, linguistics, in both the contemporary classical cartography, and mystery novels, all interests upon which and jazz idioms, and his music has been recognized at national he routinely draws for his indelible store of anecdotes. festivals such as N_SEME, the SCI National Conference, Root Signals, and the Ball State New Music Festival. Dan has studied Andrew Sigler’s music has under composers such as Patrick Chan, Daniel Swilley, Jody been commissioned, performed, Nagel, Scott Routenberg, and Derek Johnson. and awarded by the Wellesley Composers Conference, Jacob Miller Smith (b. 1992) holds a Composer’s Inc. Suzanne and B.M. and M.M. in Music Composition Lee Ettelson award, Earplay from the University of Alabama Donald Aird Composers and is pursuing a D.M.A. in Music Competition, Robert Avalon Composition from Arizona State International Competition University in Tempe, AZ. He has for Composers, World Saxophone Congress, Meir Rimon studied composition with C. P. First, Commissioning Fund of the International Horn Society, SCI Peter Westergaard, Amir Zaheri, and NACUSA National Festivals, Nief-Norf, Oregon Bach Jody Rockmaker, Rodney Rogers, Festival, Seasons Festival, International Brass Symposium, Kotoka Suzuki, and Garth Paine as well as conducting with Amir TUTTI Festival, Open Space New Music Festival, University Zaheri. He is an active collaborator with student performers of Texas New Music Ensemble, University of Tennessee and groups, and has had numerous performances across the Faculty Brass Quintet, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, Hear No US, as well as South America, Europe, Asia, and Canada. His Evil, Compositum Musicae Novae, New Music Conflagration, work and research are often influenced by nature and the field Simple Measures, Bold City Contemporary Ensemble, and of acoustic ecology. He is an active member of Arizona State’s Fast>>Forward>>Austin, and his writing has been featured Acoustic Ecology Lab led by Sabine Feisst and Garth Paine, in Opera News and NewMusicBox. His music is published his research focusing on desert water ecologies. Jacob Miller by Editions Musica-Ferrum and he serves as a board Smith is a member of the Society of Composers Inc.(SCI), member of NACUSA. Andrew is Assistant Professor of Music the International Computer Music Association (ICMA), and Composition at the University of Tennessee. Do you want to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers know more? Go to andrewsigler.com. (ASCAP). He hopes to continue composing, conducting, teaching, and collaborating throughout his career. More information can be found at www.jmsmithmusic.com

47 Annika Socolofsky is an Ayanna Woods is a composer, American composer and performer and producer from avant-folk vocalist. Her Chicago, IL. She earned her BA in music stems from the music at Yale University. Woods’ inflections and resonance work has been performed by of the human voice and is Third Coast Percussion, Wet Ink communicated through Ensemble, the Chicago Children’s mediums ranging from orchestral works to unaccompanied Choir, and members of Fifth folk ballads. She has collaborated with artists such as the House Ensemble. Her music has Rochester Philharmonic, Albany Symphony, Knoxville also appeared in a range of film Symphony Orchestra, Eighth Blackbird, Third Coast and theater projects, including the Emmy-nominated web Percussion, Sō Percussion, sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, series Brown Girls and an original Manual Cinema play No Blue and composer-vocalist Anna Pidgorna. Annika is a recipient of a Memories based on the life of Gwendolyn Brooks . Currently, Fromm Foundation Commission, The Cortona Prize, and a BMI she’s writing her debut solo album under the name Yadda Student Composer Award. She has been awarded fellowships Yadda. Her music explores the spaces between acoustic and to the Blackbird Creative Lab, Banff Centre for the Arts, Bang electronic, traditional and esoteric, wildly improvisational and on a Can Summer Festival, Cultivate at Copland House, and mathematically rigorous. the Brevard Music Center. Her research focuses on physiology in contemporary vocal composition, using the music of Dolly James Young is a texpat making Parton to create a pedagogical approach to composition that is music in Baltimore. He is a composer inclusive of many vocal styles and techniques, evading the age- and improvisor, administrator and old false dichotomy of straight tone vs. bel canto vocal styles. educator, human and show runner. She is a doctoral candidate & fellow in composition at Princeton He has built, housed, or developed University. Annika holds an MFA in composition from Princeton a number of musical projects and University and an MA in composition the University of Michigan. organizations which have led him She received her BFA in composition from Carnegie Mellon across the states, at times as a University. teacher and at others as a performer. A majority of his work is as executive director for Mind on Fire, Daniel A. Walzer is an Assistant a modular orchestra focused on living composers, showcasing Professor of Music at the University of artists in Baltimore, and access. Otherwise he is writing music. Massachusetts Lowell. Originally trained He carries a doctorate in music composition, having devoted as a percussionist, Walzer maintains an much of his life to studying the ability for organized sound to active career as a researcher, composer, communicate and shape time. and performer. Walzer grew up in He has studied craft and musical thinking at Mass MOCA Cincinnati and is delighted to be part of as part of the Bang on a Can Festival, June in Buffalo and the 2019 Tutti Music Festival. Brevard, in Prague as part of the Czech-American Summer For more information, please visit www. Music Institute, as a resident of Avaloch Farm, and at Peabody. danielwalzer.com.

48 PERFORMERS musician. Although she regularly Dr. Allison Adams is the Assistant performs traditional repertoire, Professor of Saxophone at the she is an advocate of new music University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and is a sought-after performer where she shares her excitement for of electroacoustic music written music with the next generation of for clarinet and bass clarinet. music educators and performers. A Wishing to promote electroacoustic versatile performer herself, Adams music, she has toured extensively, has been a featured soloist at venues giving recitals and masterclasses across the country, from the University of Georgia Performing throughout the country. Additionally, Arts Center, to San Diego’s Athenaeum Music and Arts Library. Cheeseman has been a featured performer at festivals such She has also performed at the World Saxophone Congress, as the Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival and the the International Saxophone Symposium, the North American Electroacoustic Barn Dance and has appeared at EMM and Saxophone Alliance Conferences, and the International SEAMUS conferences. Cheeseman earned the Doctorate Clarinet Association Conference. In her recitals, she especially of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in clarinet likes to highlight the work of contemporary composers. performance from Michigan State University and the Bachelor She has commissioned works from Andrew Sigler, Baljinder of Music degrees in clarinet performance and music education Sekhon, Gregory Wanamaker, Dominick DiOrio, and Keane from Ithaca College. When not teaching or performing, Southard. Cheeseman spends her time gardening, swimming and practicing ashtanga yoga. Guitarist Brett Burleson has performed and recorded in a Born in Belgium, conductor and diverse array of musical situations. pianist Kevin Class studied at the He has played with jazz groups that Royal Conservatory of Brussels, range from big band to bebop to as well as in the U.S and Canada. avant-garde free improvisation as As a pianist, teachers have well as many rock, blues, country included Romeo Fracalanza, Ralph and classical ensembles. In 2017 he Votapek, Gyorgy Sebok and Daniel released his album “Songs For My Blumenthal. In 1997, the Belgian Friends” on the label Scioto Records government named Kevin a Fellow which features his original compostions. It is available through of the Flemish Community. He most online outlets and is also available for streaming through has recorded more than 15 CDs, including piano concerti by listencolumbus.org. Brett is on faculty at Denison University Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart and Schumann with the Stuttgart (since 2009) and he has also been on faculty at Capital Symphony Orchestra, several albums as a collaborative pianist University, Kenyon College, The Ohio State University and with saxophonists Timothy McAllister and James Romain, Ohio Wesleyan University. cellist Wesley Baldwin, violinists Francisco Caban and Juhi Kee, soprano Soo Yeon Kim and others. He has also recorded Dr. Andrea Cheeseman is Professor of Clarinet at several albums of solo piano works by Chopin, Schumann, Appalachian State University. A versatile performer, Liszt and Elliott Carter. His performances have included Cheeseman frequently performs as a soloist and chamber cycles of the complete piano sonatas of Mozart (1991-92)

49 and Schubert (1997) in Brussels, Amsterdam and other cities. Pianist Mary Hellmann is Chair of His sold out performances in China have been broadcast the Music Department at Chowan nationally by China’s state television agency CCTV. He has University, in Murfreesboro, NC. given solo recitals in numerous important venues worldwide, She maintains an active performing including Leeds’ Town Hall, Geneva’s Ansermet Hall, Munich’s schedule as both soloist and chamber Grosse Saal of the Hochschule fur Musik, Amsterdam’s musician. She is an avid proponent of Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Musikverein and six performances in music of our time and is a frequent New York’s Carnegie Hall. master class clinician, performer at

various festivals and adjudicator for Dr. Joel Garber joined the faculty competitions. She has presented at Denison Un iversity as Visiting recital programs for the Alabama Public Television series Professor of Music and Director Pianists at Work, and performed in numerous university and of Choral Activities in Fall of 2018. festival settings including: the Rutgers International Piano Joel holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Festival, the International Computer Music Conference, the degree in Choral Conducting from Midwest Composers Forum, the Festivale Internationale de the University of Oklahoma, a Master Todi, Italy, the Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, of Music degree in Choral Conducting the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and the from the University of Missouri- Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States Columbia, a Bachelor of Arts degree Conference. Dr. Hellmann received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Bethel College, and an Associate from the University of Louisville; a Master of Music in Piano of Arts degree from Hesston College. Joel is a conducting Performance and an additional Master of Music in Piano student of Richard Zielinski, David Howard, R. Paul Crabb, William Eash, and Richard Tirk. Dr. Garber has conducted a Pedagogy from the University of Illinois; she received her number of ensembles with growing reputations across the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Alabama. mid-west United States. As a choral educator, Dr. Garber is known for his collaboration and administrative efforts to South Korean pianist Sun Min connect choral singing across all facets of the fine arts, not Kim serves as Coordinator of just music. Some of these events include the world premiere Keyboard Studies and Visiting of Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten as a ballet, performed in Austria Assistant Professor of Music at in 2014; a performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana to ballet in Denison University. He made his 2016; and the University of Oklahoma performance of Richard début with the Ulsan Symphony Einhorn’s Voices of Light film score. Internationally, Dr. Garber Orchestra at age 13, performing has performed for the Haydntag Festspiele Eisenstadt, an Grieg’s Piano Concerto. He has annual festival held in Eisenstadt, Austria, focused on the been a prizewinner of national and preservation of classical music by Franz Joseph Haydn and international competitions such as closely related composers. He continues to receive invitations the Maria Canals International Piano Competition, Bradshaw & to return to Austria as part of the Classical Music Festival, as Buono International Piano Competition, MTNA, International well as international tours with the Richard Zielinski Singers. Crescendo Music Awards, Brevard Music Center Solo Piano Most recently, he has received an invitation to visit Korea and Competition, Harold Protsman Piano Competition, Competition work with choral conductor and ordained Korean Methodist of the Society for American Musicians, and Lee Biennial Piano Minister, Dr. Sangwook Park.

50 Competition. Sun Min Kim completed the Doctor of Musical from Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium to The Smithsonian Arts degree in Piano Performance and Literature with a minor National Portrait Gallery; from Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in Collaborative Piano at the Eastman School of Music, where to EDC Las Vegas. Corin’s performances have been broadcast he studied with and served as teaching assistant for Nelita on Fox, CBS, and NBC News. His “musically marvelous” (Steve True. He studied accompanying and chamber music with Jean Reich) electronic arrangements have set the new standard for Barr. Sun Min has previously taught at Indiana University of innovation in solo string performance. Corin received degrees Pennsylvania, Oklahoma State University, and University of from Juilliard (BM) and Yale School of Music (MM). In addition Rochester. to concert work, he directs Liberated Performer®, a program that guides and trains musicians to defeat performance anxiety. Dr. Cora Kuyvenhoven is adjunct cello professor and co-director of Evan Lynch is affiliate instructor chamber music at Denison University of clarinet at Denison University in and assistant principal cellist of Granville, Ohio, and the Executive ProMusica Chamber Orchestra. She Director of Operations of the is one of the four awesome cellists International Clarinet Association. that are UCelli: the Columbus Cello He has performed as a soloist Quartet. Cora has been soloist with and chamber musician nationally Westerville Symphony, Kalistos, and internationally, including Welsh Hills Symphony, Plymouth Symphony, National Arts performances in Belgium, China, Chamber Orchestra, and the Windsor Symphony. The Israel, and Italy. Orchestral playing Windsor Star heralded her Haydn D Major performance as experience includes performances with the Westerville expressing a great “joie de vivre.” As a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (OH), Montgomery Symphony Orchestra Symphony for seven years, she recorded and broadcast (AL), Columbus Symphony Orchestra (GA) and he was a finalist extensively, and toured in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North for the International Clarinet Association Orchestral Audition America. Cora obtained her A.R.C.T. licentiate from the Royal Competition in 2014. Dr. Lynch holds a bachelor’s degree in Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and was a national finalist in clarinet performance from Arizona State University, a master’s the Canadian Music Competition. She received her MFA from degree in higher education administration from Auburn the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, under the tutelage of University, and a doctorate degree in clarinet performance the Fine Arts Quartet. Cora received a post master’s degree from The Ohio State University. In conjunction with his at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. master’s degree in administration, he served as summer Her DMA is from the University of camp director for the Auburn University Band Department Iowa (2000) where she was the for five years, and taught clarinet sectionals for the high recipient of the Iowa Performance school and middle school attendees. Additional teaching Fellowship, and the Peltzer Award. experiences include many clarinet sectionals at band camps and wind ensembles in Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio. Corin Lee is one of the most sought- He has also been requested to adjudicate high school solo and after violinists of his generation. He ensemble festivals, regional orchestra auditions, and honors has appeared on the great American band auditions. His principal clarinet teachers include Caroline stages, traditional and otherwise— Hartig, Robert Spring, David Odom, and Jeremy Reynolds.

51 Leslie Maaser, D.M.A is the flute Columbus Jazz Orchestra. His discography includes 4 releases instructor at Denison University and as a leader, Sweet Shadow (Cellar Live Records), Fresh Spin the principal flutist of the Newark- (Summit Records), Art and Architecture (Summit) and Granville Symphony Orchestra. Leslie Momentum (COJAZZ Records). A native of Toronto Canada, was previously the principal flutist of Pete holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and The the Welsh Hills Symphony Orchestra, University of North Texas Mills, has received grants from The and a member of the Columbus Canada Council and was a recipient of the North Carolina Arts Bach Ensemble, and performed with Council Jazz Composer’s Fellowship. As a sideman he appears Opera Project Columbus, Light Opera on over a dozen CDs and performs regularly throughout the Orchestra, the Westerville Symphony, U.S and Canada. www.petemills.com the Columbus Symphony, Opera Theatre of Rochester (NY), Madison (WI) Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Chamber David Nesmith holds degrees Orchestra, the Rome Festival Orchestra, and the E. Lansing from Capital University (BM) Opera Company. She was a featured soloist with many and Indiana University (MM). A orchestras including the Newark-Granville Symphony professional musician for over 35 Orchestra, Wright State University Orchestra and Wind years, he served for 10 years as Ensemble, and featured clinician/soloist at the University of Principal horn of the Cleveland Iowa, University of Northern Iowa, Schoolcraft College, SUNY- Chamber Symphony and 30 years Brockport, and Indiana State University. Leslie was selected as third horn with the West Virginia to do a lecture/recital based on her doctoral thesis at the Symphony. He continues as a National Flute Convention in Washington, D.C., as a research member of the Cathedral Brass competition winner and was selected for publication in the Ensemble (Columbus) and the Flutist Quarterly. She performed the U.S. premier of Elizabeth New Hampshire Music Festival. David has been a certified Raum’s Aegean Perspective at the National Flute Convention teacher of The Alexander Technique since 2001. His specialty and as a flute choir competition winner..She holds a Doctor of is applying The Alexander Technique for performance Musical Arts degree in flute performance from The Ohio State enhancement and injury prevention for musicians. He is also a University. She earned her Master of Music degree from the licensed Andover Educator and teaches the course What Every University of Wisconsin in Madison, and her Bachelor of Music Musician Needs to Know About the Body. He is the author of degree from Michigan State University. Leslie was formerly The Breathing Book for Horn (Mountain Peak Music, 2011) on the music faculties of Wright State University, Mt. Vernon and creator of Constructive Rest: The Audio Guide Series, a Nazarene College, Valparaiso University, and Luther College. self-help series of mp3 downloads (on iTunes), apps, and CD’s incorporating The Eight Primary Intentions of Constructive Saxophonist and composer, Pete Rest. David has taught the horn, The Alexander Technique, Mills is currently the Coordinator and Body Mapping at Denison University in Granville, OH since of Jazz Studies and Saxophone at 2000. In addition to teaching and performing, David enjoys Denison University. He also serves hiking, backpacking, salsa dancing, and anything Italian. as Program Director for the Jazz Arts Group’s Jazz at The Lincoln concert series and is a member of the saxophone section of The

52 Dr. Emily Patronik is the instructor Cincinnati Opera, Weathervane of bassoon at Denison University. Playhouse, and Lyric Opera Cleveland. She plays principal bassoon with the She was selected as an apprentice New Albany Symphony Orchestra artist with both Des Moines Metro and in the bassoon sections of the Opera and Cincinnati Opera Young McConnell Arts Center Chamber Artists programs and was also Orchestra and the Newark-Granville chosen to perform in masterclasses Symphony Orchestra. In addition, and performances at the Instituto she has performed with the Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colon Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has North Carolina, Columbus Symphony, ProMusica Chamber been a winner or finalist in four competitions, including a first Orchestra, Lancaster Festival Orchestra, Opera Project place finish in the Opera/Columbus vocal competition. Recent Columbus along with many other Central Ohio Symphonies. roles include La Badessa in Suor Angelica, Berta in Il Barbiere As an avid chamber musician, she has performed with many di Siviglia, Miss Todd in The Old Maid and the Thief, Zita in Columbus-based ensembles such as OBOHIO, a double reed Gianni Schicchi, Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette, Martha/Ayah consort, Rococoa Wind Quintet, Tour d’Anches Woodwind in The Secret Garden, Golde in Fiddler on the Roof, Jo in Mark Trio, Windworks! and the Capital City Chamber Players. Adamo’s Little Women, Second Lady in The Magic Flute, and While attending Ohio State, she was the winner of the Countess Charlotte Malcolm in A Little Night Music. She has D.M.A. concerto competition and performed Ellen Taaffe also been a featured soloist in oratorios and other concert Zwilich’s bassoon concerto with the Ohio State Symphony works with groups such as Cantari Singers, Denison University, Orchestra. This concerto became the concentation of her Columbus Bach Ensemble, Marion Civic Chorus, Master Singers, D.M.A. document, Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra by Inc. Chorale, New Albany Symphony, Saint Joseph Cathedral, Ellen Taaffe Zwillich: Background, Analysis, and Performance Westerville Symphony, and the American Institute of Musical Application. Dr. Patornik maintains a small private studio of Studies in Graz, Austria. In addition to performing, she serves middle and high school students in the Central Ohio area. Her on the voice faculties of Kenyon College and Denison. students have been members of OMEA All-State ensembles, the Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestras, The Columbus Originally from Cleveland, drummer/percussionist Seth Youth Symphonic Band, regional orchestras, honor bands, and Rogers is based in Columbus, OH. He actively performs are frequently accepted into university music programs. around the Great Lakes Region in many genres and is best She studied bassoon performance at The Ohio State known as a jazz drummer. A member of the music faculty at University where her primary teachers were Karen Pierson Denison University in Granville, OH, and Christopher Weait. Seth teaches Applied Percussion, Music Theory, directs the Latin Carolyn Redman, mezzo-soprano, is originally from Bellevue, Percussion Ensemble and the Ohio and received a MM and DMA in vocal performance from Balinese Gamelan Dwara Udyani. Seth the Ohio State University. She has performed operatic roles holds degrees in Music, Economics, as well as musical theater roles with various professional and Jazz Studies respectively from companies including Des Moines Metro Opera, Opera/ Denison University and Youngstown Columbus, Opera Project Columbus, Columbus Light Opera, State University.

53 Steve Rosenberg has served as Illinois in 2015. In 2018, Dr. Rudd received the Special Mention Adjunct Instructor of Oboe and prize at the Bach-Mozart-Wagner International Conducting Chamber Music at Denison University Competition in Esposende, Portugal, where he conducted the since 1983. He is Director of the Atlantic Coast Orchestra. His research, which examines the Denison Oboe Ensemble and Denison influence of gender and class politics on the development of Early Music Ensemble, which he Victorian-era women’s orchestras, was recently presented at established in 2014. Steve currently the Oxford International Conducting Studies Conference in performs with the Newark Granville the United Kingdom. Principal past conducting teachers have Symphony Orchestra and Central included Dr. Glenn Block, and Dr. William LaRue Jones, and Ohio Symphony. For ten years he was a member of Pro Musica principal violin teachers are Georgia Hornbacker, Dr. Sarah Gentry, and Dr. Scott Conklin. Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, and has performed with the Lancaster Festival Orchestra, Columbus Symphony, Opera Ann Stimson made her professional Columbus Orchestra, BalletMet Orchestra, and Broadway debut at the age of eighteen as a Series, among others. Steve is an active chamber music member of the Debut Orchestra in Los performer and a founding member of the Rococoa Wind Angeles, and has gone on to perform Quintet. He played with the Lancaster Festival Orchestra in with various ensembles and as a the award-winning Marquis Classics recording of works by soloist throughout the US and Europe. William Bolcolm. Principal instructors include Jerome Roth Although she performs both traditional of the New York Philharmonic, James Caldwell of the Oberlin and contemporary repertoire, she has Conservatory of Music and William Baker of The Ohio State long been an advocate for new music. University. Steve served as Artistic Director of CityMusic Her work explores the extension of Columbus for 30 years and since 1988 has served as Orchestra traditional instruments and modes of performance into new, Manager of the Lancaster Festival in Ohio. imaginative realms of action and interaction. Most recently, she performed concerts for the New York Philharmonic Philip Rudd joined the Denison Biennial, the Anton Bruckner Conservatory (Austria), the University faculty in 2017, after Birmingham Royal Conservatoire (England), the MTI institute completing doctoral studies in for Sonic Creativity (England), the Abrons Art Center (New orchestral conducting at the York), and the National Sawdust (Brooklyn). She holds an University of Iowa. As a wide-ranging MM in flute from USC, and a PhD in music theory from The and experienced musician, Dr. Rudd University of California, Santa Barbara. She has received is equally comfortable in educational, performance/research grants from the Esperia Foundation liturgical, orchestral, choral, and and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center for research theatrical settings. He holds a at the Getty Center, and in Florence and Paris. Dr. Stimson Bachelor of Music Education degree from Millikin University, currently teaches music theory at The Ohio State University. and completed his Master of Music degree in orchestral She has also served on the faculties of Kenyon College, UCSB, conducting at Illinois State University in 2009. Dr. Rudd has and Westmont College. extensive experience as a guest conductor and clinician, appearing with the Iowa Junior All-State Orchestra in 2014 and, in his professional debut, with the Fox Valley Orchestra in

54 Prior to his current appointment Tenor Kevin N. Wines is on the music as assistant professor of music faculty of Denison University teaching and director of bands at Denison, private voice lessons and classes in Dr. Chris David Westover led world music. He serves as conductor wind ensembles, orchestras, and pianist for many university events and operatic performances at including Singer’s Theatre Workshop. Bethel College (Kansas), the He also has music directed a number University of Oklahoma, and the of productions for the Denison Meadows School of the Arts at Theatre Department. Kevin also SMU. Westover is in constant demand as a conductor and has serves as Resident Music Director for received acclaim for his performances with educational and Weathervane Playhouse in Newark. professional ensembles--last year he was a winner and finalist This winter’s production of Gypsy marked his 25th show in 4 separate categories for the American Prize in Conducting. with the Playhouse. Kevin has sung locally with the Newark- His conducting has been described as “elegant, bold, vibrant, Granville Symphony, and appeared in many Opera/Columbus inspiring and centered,” by Augusta Read Thomas. and Columbus Light Opera productions. He also was featured in numerous productions at Virginia Opera as well as He commands a broad and diverse repertoire including the appearing in principle roles with Dayton Opera, Chautauqua core symphonic repertoire and the contemporary repertoire (New York) Opera, and Lyric Opera Cleveland, among others. of the symphony orchestra and wind ensemble. He served A graduate of The Ohio State University, Kevin holds master’s as a staff conductor for the 4x4 Prizes at OU, and has degrees in voice performance, choral conducting and piano commissioned and premiered works by Brad Baumgardner, pedagogy. He is director of music for Trinity Episcopal Church Andrew McManus, Michael Kallstrom, David Sterrett, and Dan in downtown Columbus. Lazerescou. He is currently completing a critical wind-band transcription of Persichetti’s Seventh Symphony. In 2010, he led the Dallas premiere of Daniel Roumain’s “Darwin’s Meditation for the People of Lincoln” during the inaugural season of the Winspear Opera House which received critically acclaim from The Dallas Morning News.

His mentors include Jonathan Shames, John Carmichael, Jack Delaney, and Eric Smedley. Dr. Westover is a graduate of the Univ. of Oklahoma, Southern Methodist Univ., and WKU.

55 ENSEMBLES DENISON UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA, DENISON UNIVERSITY DENISON UNIVERSITY Director: Phillip Rudd CHAMBER SINGERS, JAZZ ENSEMBLE, Director: Joel Garber Director: Pete Mills Violin I Bass Bebe Blumenthal, Angela Sommerer, Soprano Saxophones concertmaster principal Meaghan Accarino Devin Coons Clem Pearson, assistant Maddie Dirrim Lexie Dungan Flute Katherine Ji Madison Gordon Oscar Maldonado Kaity Waddell Grant Wakeland Reilly Harring Pak McCollum Mengcen Yang Oboe Sherry Xu Stephen Krak Willie Weems Maya Newman Alto Trombones Violin II Clarinet Sally Hyde Deborah Garner Liam Jeanette, principal Quinn Heinrich Elizabeth Itzkoff Maren Clark Corinne Keefer, assistant Tovey Nederveld Nick Staniszewski Bassoon Kelsey Shimp Emily Waters Trumpets Hannah Hendrickson Olivia Van Goor Jayla Johnson Drew Ganger Heather Wiggins Amelia Keefer Horn Sophie Gilson Can Deng Grace Battersby Tenors Hannah Gilson Ziyan Zhu Ben Bonebrake Thales Zhang Yanni Guo Trumpet Calynn Rosenbaum Grey McCarthy Elliot Hayne Drew Nederveld Viola Guitar Nicole Harris, principal Euphonium Adam Wade Anel Sosa Gene Otto Anne Mills, assistant Bass Bass Kate Zimmerman Tuba Ethan McAtee Marcos Arnett Audrey Kirkley Eric Leday John Meinecke Angela Sommerer Kenzie Mick Sam Parler Timpani Emily Muckle Nicholas Reichert Seth Rogers Piano Claire Larsen Youssef Thomas Dongbin Suh Kaitlyn Weiss-Silvestri Percussion Third Coast Percussion Drums Cello Colin Smith Jimmy Fennessey, Huihao Wang principal Orson Abram Griffin Jeanette, assistant Joanne Lee Mark Reid Emily Ji

56 DENISON UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE, CHAMBER MUSIC CONNECTION, Director: Chris David Westover Director: Deborah Price Horn Violin 1 Bass Flute/Piccolo Grace Battersby Aaron Schwartz, Drew Mehreban Scotia McMullen concertmaster Allyson Krupa Harp Kaela Malone Denise Seifert Anna Linder Leslie Maaser Adryan Rojas Yan Ni Kelsey Reynolds Trombone Gretchen Sahr Adeline Yang Matt Smith Oboe/English horn Elizabeth Martin Oboe Maya Newman Euphonium Clara Grillo Daniel Boyea Alison Williams Charlie Dykstal Jack Demos Jennifer Day-Haegger Thomas Hellman Bassoon Violin 2 Clarinet Evan Lang John Paul Fretwell Melanie Richards Hannah Hendricks Anel Sosa Bennett Van Horn Blake Collins Audrey Maxwell Horn Tuba David Nesmith Clarinet Eric Leday Bonnie Burgess-Gay Quinn Heinrich Bailey Quitter Allyson Krupa Katie Masell Percussion Laura Wang Piano Chelsea Sarante Orson Abram Irina Utkina Anika Schwingel Huihao Wang Viola Alyssa Zino Seth Rogers Norman Cardwell-Murri and members of Anna Grillo Bass Clarinet Third Coast Percussion Victoria Phillips Angelica Jang Anna Wang Piano Saxophone Danica Kontic Cello Juntao Wang, soprano/alto Jackson Tomsic Matthew Marmon, alto Kate Fornshell Shengxi Theodore Sun, tenor Jaden Tugoaen Peter Mills, baritone Josh Richards-Jarvis Trumpet Rachel Duvall Calynn Rosenbaum Isaac Schieble Thales Zhang

57 COLUMBUS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHOIR, Director: Tatiana Kats Accompanist: Irina Utkina

Rachael Abraham Mayukha Dyta Mulan Li Keya Shanbhag Sean Acree Chase Emmons David J. López-Ortiz Alissa Shyshkova William Acree Matthew Fang Katie Lu Micah Stromsoe DeLorenzo Tahlia Allen Aaron Fernando Linda Lu Angelika-Lili Susanto Anju Anilkumar Honoka Fukagawa Lindsey Lu Megan Uppala Roksalana Antonyuk Joy Guo Elijah Mansur Daniel Utkin Sasha Antonyuk Lillian Hahn Elizabeth Martin Gabriella Van Zile Solomia Antonyuk Catherine Harman Jerry Matz Andy Wang Maya Avery Ashley He Dominic Mitchell Helen Wang Nicole Babior Dustin He Claire O’Shaughnessy Howard Wang Gillian Beckman Susie Hodson Ava Oberle Kevin Wang Meghana Boda Grace Hu Erin Oberle Alain Welliver Shira Bohrer Anaika Iyer Leah Oberle Hanrui Xu Grace Bunt Aditya Jambhale Ore Okonrende Hansheng Xu Emerson Cerdas Gonzales Brittaney Jin Laura O’Reilly Evelyn Yanok Defne Ceyhan Christina Jin Tiya Panwar Karen Yao Kaya Ceyhan Ariana Kasraei Louis Pardoe Carey Yi Elizabeth Che Joy Kegler Isha Patil Andrea Yu Rebekah Che Paul Kokora Arushi Paul Emma Yu Shawn Chen Anna Kravtsova Jack Reed Evan Yu Dasha Chistyakova Gwyn Lai Ana Roman Angel Zhang Ruo-hua Chu Katie Leitz Dan Roman Eric Zhang Jordan Criss Aidan Li Sam Rosen Maggie Zhang Chester Davis Brenna Li Lexi Ross Abigail Zhao Elizabeth Davis Estella Li Nicholas Sanchez-Zarkos Angela Zheng

58 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND THANKS! TO President Adam Weinberg and Provost Kim Coplin for their encouragement and support; TO Michael Morris, who seems to be my twin in thinking about items that need attention; TO Marla Krak, who came in to save the day; TO Laurie MacKenzie-Crane for designing these fantastic programs and materials; TO Chris Breck, our recording engineer, TO HyeKyung Lee, a fantastic colleague and co-host; TO Christian Faur, for all the help behind and in front of the scenes; TO Ron Abram and JSTN CLMN and the Studio Art Department for their collaboration; TO Megan Hancock and the Denison Museum for their coordination and collaboration; TO Creative Writing Faculty bringing their students into the TUTTI mix; TO Dan Woman for so graciously welcoming us into a Music - Physics mix; TO Tony Reimer and Mike McFerron, the good folks at New Music Engine for helping our entire festival by setting up our submission needs; TO Chris David Westover and Phil Rudd, who coordinated many behind-the-scenes details; TO Jonathan Maskit, who brought Philosophy into our exciting week, thank you for coordinating the dialogue between our departments; TO Alison Williams, who has been so supportive of us both on and off the stage; TO Christine Montgomery, who has stepped in so fearlessly in our department; TO Pam Hughes, who keeps our department running and keeps me sane; and TO all the student composers who helped throughout the festival - this festival is for you and by you - thank you. AND TO OUR ARTISTS: TO Adam Schoenberg, amazing composer, friend, and colleague; for your exquisite music, your time, and your words; TO Third Coast Percussion—spellbinding artists and new friends—so grateful that you were able to join us and share your artistry with our community, and a special shout-out to Sean, with whom I got to know so well on email before we had a chance to meet this week - thank you for your willingness, your feedback, and openness to go along for this crazy TUTTI ride; TO ETHEL - our family, our ensemble —we treasure every visit, every collaboration, and we are so grateful how you jump into every unknown with great abandon and amazing artistry; special shout out to Kip, who couldn’t be with us this week, and to Brendan, who joined us this week in frantic fun; TO Debbie Price and Tatiana Kats, Chamber Music Connection and Columbus International Children’s Choir, for bringing New American Music Project 3 to TUTTI; TO Nathalie Miebach, for your collaborations with us and throughout Denison - we are grateful to get to know your work; TO Tara Booth, for opening TUTTI week with your artist talk; TO John Carvalho, Theodore Gracyk, Mark Lomax, for your panel session with us; TO Phil Rudd, Chris David Westover, Joel Garber, and Pete Mills conductors of our Orchestra,Wind Ensemble, Chamber Singer, and Jazz Ensemble respectively, for taking on new works this semester so willingly into an already busy semester; TO Sun Min Kim, joining us this year and tackling so many pieces in a very busy 2 week period; AND TO OUR PERFORMERS: A big thank you to all who performed. Without you, we would be sitting in an empty hall, waiting to filled with music. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to the arts. Thank you ALL! – Ching-chu

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