Wind Symphony Personnel All Wind Symphony members serve as principal players on their part. In alphabetical order… presents the FLUTE TRUMPET Megan Anandappa Hannah DeLoach Sarah Deal Zach Griffin University of Georgia Mindy Griffith Cameron Gwynn Vicki Lu Alan Hester Wind Symphony Shannon O’Donnell Lino-Raye Saenz Lauren Robinson Brandon Waugh Jaclyn Hartenberger, conductor OBOE TROMBONE Garrett McCloskey Luke Anders Wednesday, October 25, 2017 8:00 pm, Hodgson Concert Hall Maggie Williams Assata Bellegarde Anna Wood Nick Evans Asphalt Cocktail (2009) John Mackey Noah Jackson (b.1973) CLARINET Asperges Me (2017) Tyler Stampe Jason Abraham EUPHONIUM Yujin Chang Matt Gordon (b. 1988) Katherine Dukes Blake Hyman Matthew Sadowski, guest conductor Hannah Hankins Michael Van Wagenen Elissa Harris diver[city] (2015) Emily Koh Hannah Shuman (b. 1986) Laura Smith TUBA Sable Thompson Ryan Bratton James Watkins Trevor Kiefer Love Divine (2000) Howard Goodall Ben Vasko (b. 1958) Arr. A. Wheeler BASSOON Brett Bawcum, guest conductor Campbell Cona DOUBLE BASS Jackson Thompson Kevin Shelton Catherine Willingham Red Sky (2013) Anthony Barfield (b. 1983) PIANO Joshua Bynum, trombone soloist SAXOPHONES Imsun Lee Scott Brown Rolling Thunder (1916) Henry Fillmore Miller May J.P. Presley PERCUSSION (1881-1956) Nick Winkles Trevor Barroero Brad Hagin Emily Johnson HORN Nicholas Martinez Jennifer Aplin Grayson Mullis Elizabeth Digiovanni Keller Steinson Out of respect for the performers, please turn off all electronic devices for the duration of the Maddi Dorrill performance. Thank you for your cooperation. Brendan Williams Jaron Lehman James Wilson Jordan Lockridge Sarah Mendes Aakash Patel Galit Shemesh For information on upcoming concerts, please see our website: www.music.uga.edu Join our mailing list to receive information on all concerts and recitals, http://www.music.uga.edu/enewsletter Matthew Sadowski, graduate conductor PROGRAM NOTES

Matthew Sadowski is a doctoral conducting student at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. As a teaching assistant in the band department, Sadowski works closely Asphalt Cocktail with faculty and students in concert ensembles, athletic bands, and instrumental conducting courses. He holds a Master of Music degree in Wind Conducting from Ithaca John Mackey holds degrees from the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute College (2015) and a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Michigan State of Music, and has received commissions from the Brooklyn Philharmonic, University (2007). He directed high school band programs for five years in Oregon and Parsons Dance Company, the New York City Ballet, the Dallas Wind Symphony, Washington State, and performed on euphonium for three seasons with the Southwest the American Bandmasters Association, and many universities, high schools, Washington Wind Symphony. He is the Wind Division Program Coordinator for the Ithaca College Summer Music Academy, and a member of the Kappa Kappa Psi Music middle schools, and military bands. He has served as composer-in-residence Service Fraternity (honorary) and the Blue Key Honor Society at UGA. at the Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival, the Vail Valley Music Festival, and with youth orchestras in Minneapolis and Seattle. He is a two-time recipient of the ABA/Ostwald Prize for Redline Tango (his first wind band piece) and Aurora Awakes. The US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team won a bronze medal in the Tyler Stampe, graduate composer 2004 Athens Olympics performing to John’s score, Damn. John was inducted into the American Bandmasters Association in 2013. He currently lives in Tyler Stampe is an international award winning composer from Iowa. Stampe has written for many mediums including film, opera, choir, orchestra, band, chamber and Cambridge, Massachusetts. solo instruments, and electronics. Stampe’s choral work, Asperges Me, Domine, was recently awarded first prize for composition at the 2015 Busan Choral Festival and About his piece, the composer writes: Competition. “Several years ago, when I was living in Manhattan, I was walking down Stampe is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in music composition with a minor in Columbus Avenue with my good friend (and fellow composer) Jonathan music theory at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. He holds degrees from Stephen F. Newman. Somehow, the topic of titles for pieces came up, and Newman said a Austin State University (M.M.) and Simpson College (B.M.E.). title that stopped me in my tracks there on the sidewalk: Asphalt Cocktail.

“I begged him to let me use the title. ‘That title screams Napoleonic Testosterone Music. I was born to write that!’ I pleaded. ‘No,’ was his initial response. I asked regularly over the next few years, and the answer was always the same: ‘No. It’s mine.’ In May 2008, I asked him once again, begging more pathetically than I had before, and his answer this time surprised me: ‘Fine,’ he said, ‘but I’ll be needing your first-born child.’ This was easily agreeable to me, as I don’t like kids.

“Asphalt Cocktail is a five-minute concert opener, designed to shout, from the opening measure, ‘We’re here.’ With biting trombones, blaring trumpets, and percussion dominated by cross-rhythms and back beats, it aims to capture the grit and aggression that I associate with the time I lived in New York City. Picture the scariest NYC taxi ride you can imagine, with the cab skidding around turns as trucks bear down from all sides. Serve on the rocks.”

Asperges Me

Mr. Stampe’s biography can be found in the “Biographies” section of this program.

About his piece, the composer writes:

“My setting of the liturgical text, ‘Asperges Me,’ was influenced by my experiences as a member of the Hodgson Singers at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. During the spring of 2014, we traveled to the Czech Republic and Austria, and performed in several large cathedrals before entering the Ave Verum Corpus Choral Competition in Baden bei Vienna. The transformative experience led me to compose Asperges Me, Domine for eight-part choir. The choral work, which was dedicated to the Hodgson Singers, was entered into the Busan Choral Festival and Competition in Busan, South Korea, in 2015 and was awarded first prize in the composition competition. After hearing the work, fellow Hodgson Dr. Koh is a Singaporean composer whose music is characterized by inventive graduate student Matthew Sadowski asked if I would arrange the work for wind timbral extremes. Described as ‘the future of composing’ (The Straits Times, ensemble. Singapore), she is the recipient of awards such as the Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Prix D’Ete, and PARMA “The work itself is inspired by the Latin text, ‘Asperges Me, Domine,’ and competitions, commissions from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, Renaissance composers such as Josquin de Prez and Tomás Luis de Victoria, Composers Conference at Wellesley College, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Left whose sacred music comes to life when performed in large, cavernous venues. Coast Chamber Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble and grants from New Originally used as an antiphon, I decided to set this text as a motet. The first Music USA, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy and Paul Abisheganaden Grant for section invokes the cleansing ritual of sprinkling water onto a congregation Artistic Excellence. using the leaves of a hyssop plant. The second section introduces the antiphonal response of the congregation, asking for pity and forgiveness. A dramatic Emily’s works have been described as “beautifully eerie” (New York Times), and interpretation of the doxology follows before the introduction material returns at “subtley spicy” (Baltimore Sun), and have been performed at various venues the end, signifying completion of the cleansing ritual and newfound peace in the around the world in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau, world.” Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Switzerland, Finland, Israel, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States by acclaimed ensembles and performers such as Talea Ensemble (USA), Ensemble Dal Niente (USA), New diver[city] York New Music Ensemble (USA), Signal Ensemble (USA), Boston New Music Initiative (USA), New Thread Quartet (USA), Acoustic Uproar (USA), LUNAR Ms. Koh’s biography can be found in the “Biographies” section of this program. Ensemble (USA), East Coast Contemporary Ensemble (USA/Europe), Avanti! (Finland), Israel Contemporary Players (Israel), Sentieri Selvaggi (Italy), the diver[city] is a play on the word ‘diversity’ – a word commonly used to describe Next Mushroom Promotion (Japan), Chroma Ensemble (UK), The Philharmonic my hometown of Singapore. While the idea of racial harmony is not new in Orchestra (Singapore), Dingyi Music Company (Singapore) and Chamber Sounds Singapore, the recent Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore (a city I called home (Singapore) among others. for 2.5 years) prompted me to think more globally about racial discrimination, and other types of discrimination – gender, age, religion, and disability. Discrimination exists because people tend to see differences more than they do Joshua Bynum, trombone soloist similarities. What if we all identify with our similarities and learned about our differences? What would that world be? Indiver[city] , I describe a utopia where Dr. Joshua L. Bynum is Associate Professor of Trombone at the Hugh Hodgson numerous diverse musical motifs that are first introduced in the beginning evolve School of Music and trombonist with the Georgia Brass Quintet. He is a organically throughout the piece to create a new, cohesive musical landscape. founding member of Resonant Projection Trombone Quartet, and the MOD[ular] Together, we make a better world if we all stand together as one. Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. In the summers, Josh serves as trombone artist and faculty for the Sewanee Summer Music Festival.

Josh performs regularly as first-call substitute with the Atlanta Symphony Love Divine Orchestra, including the entire 2015-16 season. In this capacity, he has two commercial releases and performed at Carnegie Hall. Josh also regularly performs Howard Goodall CBE, 2009 “Composer of the Year” at the Classical Brit Awards, with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and the IRIS Orchestra. is perhaps best known for his television themes for Mr. Bean and The Vicar of Dibley. His recent television presentations, The Story of Music and Sgt. Pepper’s Josh has given clinics and performances at the Eastern Trombone Workshop, Musical Revolution have been popular in England and around the world. International Trombone Festival, Georgia Music Educators Association Conference, as well as for various workshops and universities across the country. Love Divine is a transcription for band of Goodall’s choral setting of the Charles His solo appearances with the various UGA Bands includes state premiere Wesley text Love Divine, All Loves Excelling. Like the traditional hymn tunes to performances for John Mackey’s Harvest: Trombone Concerto (2010), as well as which the text is frequently sung, Goodall’s setting is strophic – a repetition Dana Wilson’s Trombone Concerto (2017), both with the Hodgson Wind Ensemble of one musical section for each verse of text. Unlike similar settings, Goodall at UGA. His solo CD Catalyst is available through Potenza Music, iTunes, and includes an introduction, an interlude, and concludes the otherwise unstable final Amazon. verse with a coda, based on the opening phrase. Josh is a graduate of Temple University, the University of Iowa, and Jacksonville State University. His teachers include Nitzan Haroz, David Gier, and James Red Sky Roberts, with additional significant instruction from Joseph Alessi, Glenn Dodson, and David Perkel. Josh currently serves as the Journal Advertising Manager for the Anthony Barfield is a composer and educator based in New York City. He made International Trombone Association and is an Artist & Clinician for the Edwards his Carnegie Hall debut at the 2012 New York Wind Band Festival where his wind Instrument Company. ensemble work Here We Rest was performed. As a former trombonist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Dizzy’s Coca Cola Club, Alice Tully Hall, and the Kennedy Center. He has served as a Teaching Artist for Grammy- award-winning producer Phil Ramone’s Children’s Orchestra and with a mem- BIOGRAPHIES ber of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra in Philadelphia. His primary trombone instructors were Joseph Alessi, Per Brevig, Jay Evans, and Dan Drill. He holds Jaclyn Hartenberger, conductor degrees in trombone performance from the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Barfield currently resides in New York City with his fiancé and Jaclyn Hartenberger serves as the Associate Director of Bands and Assistant works for Juilliard Global Ventures. Professor of Music at the University of Georgia. In addition to serving as the conductor for the Wind Symphony, she teaches undergraduate and graduate About his piece, the composer writes: conducting. Dr. Hartenberger received a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to her graduate “According to the theories of physics, if we were to look at the Universe one degree work, she served as a middle school and high school band director in the second after the Big Bang, the scientific explanation of how our universe started, Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex for distinguished music programs. Dr. Hartenberger what we would see is a 10-billion degree sea of neutrons, protons, electrons, an- received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of North ti-electrons (positrons), photons, and neutrinos. Red Sky paints a picture of the Texas, where she performed and recorded with the prestigious UNT Wind Big Bang Theory and space, matter, and energy, but it also has a deeper meaning Symphony. that we are all the same as human beings, and to realize that wherever we are in the world, in this large universe, that we’re all connected.” Dr. Hartenberger performs frequently world wide stretching from South America to the Czech Republic. She is grateful to call Georgia her home knowing that Rolling Thunder music education is a priority in the public schools. Her professional affiliations are College Band Directors National Association, Georgia Music Educators, and National Association for Music Education. Henry Fillmore was an American composer, bandmaster, and publisher who wrote over 250 tunes and arranged hundreds more. He was the eldest of five children and mastered piano, guitar, violin, and flute in his youth – as well as Brett Bawcum, guest conductor the slide trombone, which he had to play in secret (with the help of his moth- er) because his father believed it was an uncouth and sinful instrument. After Brett Bawcum is Assistant Director of Bands and Associate Director of Athletic graduating from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Fillmore joined the circus Bands at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. He shares responsibility for and traveled around the United States for decades as a highly successful and design, instruction, and administration of the Redcoat Marching Band, directs well-known bandmaster before settling in Miami, Florida. There, he wrote several other athletic bands, and teaches courses in a variety of areas including pieces for the University of Miami – including their fight song – and was even Instrumentation & Arranging and Marching Band Techniques. Dr. Bawcum is an awarded an honorary doctoral degree in 1956; not bad for a trombonist! active arranger for marching bands throughout the United States. He has also served as producer, associate producer, and editor for wind band recordings on Rolling Thunder was written in 1916 while Fillmore was on the road. The blazing- the Mark, Summitt, and Naxos labels. ly-fast, show-stopping march would be played during acrobatic acts, elephant performances, and rodeos to generate supreme excitement. As one might expect Emily Koh, guest composer of Fillmore’s best known marches, the trombone is prominently featured.

Emily Koh is Assistant Professor of Composition at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Dr. Koh holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory from Brandeis Program notes written, compiled, and edited by Matthew Sadowski. University, MM degrees in Music Composition and Music Theory Pedagogy from the Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and a BMus in Composition from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. Prior to moving to Athens, Dr. Koh taught at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and at Brandeis, Harvard, MIT and Longy School of Music, Bard College. She is a member of ASCAP and is on the executive committee of the Composers Society of Singapore.

Dr. Koh is a Singaporean composer whose music is characterized by inventive timbral extremes. Described as ‘the future of composing’ (The Straits Times, Singapore), she is the recipient of awards such as the Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Prix D’Ete, and PARMA competitions, commissions from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, Composers Conference at Wellesley College, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble and grants from New Music USA, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy and Paul Abisheganaden Grant for Artistic Excellence.