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UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY PERSONNEL Violin I Cello Trumpet Dan Flanagan** Gabrielle Arness* Michael Wilson* Sarah Moseley Noah Seitz Makiko Chiashi Lillie Wells Jonathan Vetter John Adler* Tanya Couture Johanna Bauer Yoichiro Etsuki Tanya Ortiz Trombone Yi-San Shih Chris Thomas Matt Moresi* Mzuri Robertson Soyun Jeong Nathan Brown Leif Karlstrom Jeanine Lafitte Andy Schanz Beall Concert Hall Sunday afternoon Elizabeth O’Mara 3:00 p.m. May 18, 2003 Rose Barrett Bass Tuba Tia Pietsch Tyler Abbott* Larry Good* Omporn Kowintha Dylan DeRobertis Siripong Tiptan Erik Mimnaugh Timpani Aaron Wagner Tracy Freeze* UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Violin II James Andrewes* Flute Percussion SCHOOL OF MUSIC Elizabeth Doty Kanae Komugi* Brian Gardiner* Lionel Thomas Danielle Holten Mark Lighthiser Julia Cuellar Brenda Lauffenberger David Rand Oboe Aaron Jester presents Rose Sciaroni Jillian Camwell* Mellisa Davis Laurel Frick-Wright Marisa Schwartzman Erica Drake Peter Shim Danae Thomason Clarinet Harp UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY Catherine Rehm Blake McGee* Alison Bjorkedal* Wayne Bennett, conductor Michael Almich Laura Vaughan Viola Todd DelGuidice Samara Humbert* (bass clarinet) Michelle Rahn ** Concertmaster with Michelle Davidson Bassoon * Principal Christina Cruz-Uribe Beth Shoemaker* University Singers Jacquelyn Schmidt Melissa Schoenack Kathleen Kilgore Sharon Paul, conductor Emma Tepfer Horn Graeme Huguenot Benjamin Garrett* and guest faculty artist Scott King* Rachel Seay Timon Smith Gregory Mason, piano * * * * * * 103rd Season, 136th program PROGRAM on the Music Grants and Policy Panel of the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington, D.C. Paul appears frequently as adjudicator, clinician, and honor choir director throughout the country. Chichester Psalms Leonard Bernstein I Psalm 108 vs 2 (1918-1990) Gregory Mason teaches the accompanying degree programs and chamber Psalm 100 music at the University of Oregon School of Music. Among many recitals in II Psalm 23 the US and abroad, he has performed in Barcelona, Madrid, Hamburg, Lisbon, Vienna, tours of South and Central America, at the United Nations, Psalm 2, vs 1-4 the Casals Festival, Festival International de la Cultura, the Yale Collection Conrad Frank, countertenor of Historic Instruments, Wildwood Festival, OFAM, the UO’s Festival of the III Psalm 131 Millennium and a PBS recital with baritone William Warfield. As an Psalm 133, vs 1 accompanist and coach in New York City, Mason was pianist for the American Music Competition at Carnegie Hall, the Vincent La Selva opera Anna Joham, soprano classes at Juilliard and a master class with Placido Domingo at the Metropolitan Noelle Ferguson, alto Opera. Critic Will Crutchfield praised his “characterful and interesting Andrew Brock, tenor playing” after a Carnegie Recital Hall performance. Mason returned to that Greg Guenther, bass hall in 1999 for a recital with Grammy-winning soprano Susan Dunn. He coached actress Linda Lavin for the Emmy-winning NBC movie, Lena, My University Singers Hundred Children, was a coach at Virginia Opera, and has given master Sharon J. Paul, conductor classes at universities in the US and overseas. Mason has also taught at the University of Central Arkansas, Millikin University, the College of William INTERMISSION and Mary, and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Mason holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Michigan where he studied with Eugene Bossart and Gyorgy Sandor, and a MM and DMA from the University of Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Aram Khachaturian Illinois where he studied with famed coach accompanist John Wustman and Allegro maestoso (1903-1978) Ian Hobson. Andante con anima * * * Allegro brillante Gregory Mason, piano UNIVERSITY SINGERS PERSONNEL Soprano Logan Gentry Michael Sarnoff-Wood * * * Anna Ballard Ona Jewell Kieran Schnabel Mishaela Bittick Julia Klaus Lionel Thomas ABOUT TODAY’S ARTISTS Sarah Cawley Jackie Koehne Nate Von Colditz Caitlin Cushing Julie Lehnhardt Sharon J. Paul is an associate professor of music and director of choral Susannah Day Megan Lutsock Bass activities at the University of Oregon. She earned her D.M.A. in choral Rachel Gitner Shaina Levy Paul Anderson conducting from Stanford University, an M.F.A. in conducting and Katie Hopkins Anna Metzger-Sieg Cooper Bombadil performance practice from UCLA, and a B.A. in music from Pomona Dana Hutcheon Emily Pidcock Ryan Bruce College. After eight years as the director of choral activities at California JiYun Jeong Kathleen Sullivan Cody Curry State University, Chico, Paul served as the artistic director of the award- Anna Joham Ashley Ward Ray Elliott winning San Francisco Girls Chorus from 1992-2000. Under her leadership, Sarah Klein Rachel Wierichs Greg Guenther the Chorus released four compact discs, premiered major works by American Lauren May Sarah Wood Micah Hayes composers, and represented the United States at the World Conference of the Chelsea Rodgers Katie Zollner Brian Jacobson International Society for Music Education, the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and Ceara Turner Josh Klatz the Taipei-San Francisco Sister City Celebration in Taiwan. Paul appeared Evynne Smith Tenor Eric McKirdy on screen with members of the Girls Chorus in the film What Dreams May Tami Wallace Moses Barrett Mike Peterson Come, and conducted SFGC singers for the soundtrack of The Talented Mr. Andrew Brock Andrew Sauvageau Ripley. In June 2000 the SFGC was the first youth chorus to win the Margaret Alto Michael Brumit Ian Matt Schaeffer Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence, a national honor presented Bonnie Cheung Rob Floyd Paul Sherwin by Chorus America. The keynote speaker at the 1998 U.S. Conference of Schell Easterday Adam Heifetz Matt Strauser Mayors Winter Arts Conference, Paul has been a consultant to Singapore’s Gretchen Farrar Peter Hollens Matt Svoboda Ministry of Education in the area of choral music education, and has served Noelle Ferguson Damien Rennie Kellen Wertz Conrad Frank.