Hodgson Wind Ensemble

The work’s difficulty stems from its wide Hodgson Wind Ensemble Program Notes stylistic range and expansive color pallette. By 1943, the nearly 70-year-old Schoenberg had lived through (and variously contribut- Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) ed to) the eras of Romanticism, Modernism, Friday Theme and Variations, Op. 43a (1943) Impressionism, Serialism, and Neoclassi- cism. His life’s work in developing twelve- March 2 2018 • 8:00 p.m. We either regret or take delight in inform- tone music made him a master manipulator ing you that you will not be hearing a typical of melodies and timbres. All of these influ- conductor Schoenberg piece this evening. Theme and ences and genres can be heard in the piece’s Cynthia Johnston Turner Variations, Op. 43a stands out as a master- theme and seven variations, which include guest conductor H. Robert Reynolds piece of tonalism and traditional form, and a waltz, canon, and fugato. And it all ends guest composer Joel Love is especially notable because it was written in G major! well after the Second Viennese School of – Program note written by Matthew Sadowski guest composer Xi Wang 1903-1925, during which the composer Ar- alto saxophone Connie Frigo nold Schoenberg and his pupils developed the atonal, twelve-tone compositional tech- Joel Love (Born 1982) nique later labeled “serialism.” Depending Solace (2018) PROGRAM on your tastes, this may be very welcome or unwelcome news! Fewer composers are Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951) Theme and Variations, Just before I began composing Solace, I had more divisive among both casual and stud- a great set of conversations with the leader of Op. 43a (1943) ied listeners. But tonal music was Schoen- its consortium-commission, Connie Frigo. H. Robert Reynolds, Conductor berg’s first love – a love he held throughout During our discussions, we talked about how his entire life – and it is more than evident well the saxophone can imitate vocal music Joel Love (b. 1982) Solace (2018) *World Premiere* in his only piece written for band. and both expressed interest in a new concer- to with a significant lyrical element. Early on, I. Joy Theme and Variations, Op. 43a was written she suggested I read David Whyte’s Consola- in 1943 at the repeated request of Carl En- II. Besieged tions: The Solace, Nourishment, and Underly- gel, then-president of the publishing com- III. Gratitude ing Meaning in Words. Whyte’s work medi- pany G. Schirmer Music. Engel desired a tates on words themselves, illustrating their IV. Hiding piece for band from a world-famous com- deeper meaning, often revealing connec- V. Work poser, and also wanted to help Schoenberg tions between difficult situations and their out of his financial difficulties. Like many Connie Frigo, Alto Saxophone unexpectedly positive outcomes. Similarly, European composers in the 1930’s, Schoen- each movement meditates on a mood and is berg had emigrated to the United States to (Born 1979) (2017) inspired by either a selection of text or title Xi Wang Winter Blossom *World Premiere* escape the rise of Nazi Germany. Although word from five consolations, picked by either l. he was hired to teach music at both the Uni- Connie or me. Throughout the concerto, I versity of Southern California and the Uni- ll. challenge the soloist to play lyrically in ex- versity of California-Los Angeles, he and lll. treme registers (called the “altissimo” regis- his wife continued to struggle financially. ter, which is above the typical, written range In memory of Steven Stucky Unfortunately, Engel proved to have bad of the instrument) and while playing virtuo- timing. The piece’s difficulty made it play- sic passages in five unique sound worlds. Percy Grainger (1882 - 1961) Colonial Song (1919) able only by the top military bands, who H. Robert Reynolds, Conductor were all preoccupied with World War II. Whyte describes joy as the “the sheer intoxi- An orchestral transcription was completed cating beauty of the world inhabited as an Oscar Navarro (Born 1981) Downey Overture (2011) a few months later and premiered by Kous- edge between what we previously thought sevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orches- was us and what we thought was other than tra in 1944, but the original band version us,” which is where “Joy” takes its inspiration. did not receive its premiere until 1946 by This movement highlights the soloist’s abil- the Goldman Band in New York City. HODGSON CONCERT HALL ity to play difficult syncopations, made even

38 Performance UGA February March 2018 39 Hodgson Wind Ensemble more challenging by their dissonance with “Work”: “Work among all its abstracts, is a better musician, more importantly, the accented beats in mixed, irregular meters. actually intimacy, the place where the self they taught me how to be a better meets the world…We make what we make, person. So when Cynthia asked if I In “Besieged,” the music expresses a darker we give a gift, not only through what we would write a wind ensemble piece in sentiment. Whyte’s poem states that “Con- make or do, but in the way we feel as we memory of Steven Stucky, I was hon- scious or unconscious, we are surrounded do, and even, in the way others witness us ored and thrilled. not only by the vicissitudes of a difficult in our feeling and doing, giving to them as world but even more by those of our own they give to us…” An outcry of enormous sorrow, the making.” The saxophone is often pitted first movement is a profound lament. – Program note written by the composer. against or is competing back-and-forth with Two melodic motives are quoted the wind ensemble, striving and fighting to from Stucky’s music – the opening overcome. The piece ends just after the cli- Xi Wang (Born 1979) melody from his “Symphony,” and max and segues into the third movement, the minor second descending mo- echoing Whyte’s sentiment that we must Winter Blossom (2017) tive from his Elegy of August 4, 1964. sometimes go through difficult challenges The movement arrives at its climax to be aware and grateful of what we have. Chinese-born composer Xi Wang has been with heavy and dark harmonies. The considered one of the most talented and second movement juxtaposes mul- The third movement is the heart of the con- active composers of her generation. Her tiple musical ideas and contrasting certo. Whyte states that “Gratitude is not original concert music has been performed characters vertically while each idea necessarily something that is shown after the worldwide by notable orchestras and en- evolves and develops horizontally. event, it is the deep, a priori state of atten- sembles such as the Minnesota Orchestra, This reflects the richness and depth tion that shows we understand and are equal Atlanta Symphony, American Composers of Stucky’s personality and spirit. to the gifted nature of life.” In “Gratitude,” Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic, Spokane The last movement, beginning with first at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt my goal was to create the most beautiful Symphony, Voices of Change, Soli Chamber chimes, is an adagio that unfolds pa- and later in London where he established and lyrical music I could to showcase the Ensemble, and the Tippet String Quartet. tiently. The turbulent and anguished himself as a pianist and collector of original gorgeous vocal-like sounds of which the motives from the second movement folk melodies. saxophone is capable. Xi Wang has been the recipient of the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy eventually evolve to tranquility and In 1914, Grainger moved to the United the serene. I would have been remiss to neglect any noir of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment States, where he lived for the rest of his life, or jazz-influenced sounds, as the saxophone for the Arts award, Meet the Composer, New Stucky died on February 14, 2016 though he traveled widely in Europe and in is oft-associated with the sounds of jazz and Music USA, American Music Center, Mac- – a cold winter’s day in Ithaca, NY, Australia. He served briefly as a bandsman blues. “Hiding” is a scherzo that explores Dowell Colony residency, as well as seven but also a day of “warmth” and love in the United States Army during 1917-18 the jazz/funk idiom. Whyte states that Hid- prizes from the American Society of Com- – Valentine’s Day. His spirit, through and took American citizenship thereafter. ing is “creative, necessary and beautifully posers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). his incredible music, shall radiate After his mother’s suicide in 1922, he be- subversive of outside interference and con- with his students and audiences ever came increasingly involved in educational trol…Hiding is the radical independence Xi Wang received her B.M. from the Shang- work. A decade later, he became Dean of hai Conservatory of Music, M.M. from the after. May Steven Stucky forever rest necessary for our emergence into the light in peace and love. Music at New York University, and under- of a proper human future.” This movement University of Missouri-Kansas City, and scored his reputation as an experimenter is all about groove and its manipulation and D.M.A. from Cornell University. Currently, by putting jazz on the syllabus and inviting the saxophonist, at times, gains a bit of “in- she is an Associate Professor at the Mead- Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) Duke Ellington as a guest lecturer. At the ow School of Arts of Southern Methodist dependence.” ed. Mark Rogers same time, he set up the Grainger Museum University. in Melbourne, his birthplace, as a monu- Finally, “Work” is a perpetual-motion tech- Colonial Song (1919) ment to his life and works and as a future nical showpiece. The movement is written in About Winter Blossom the composer writes: research archive. Twice he was offered hon- rondo form, which means the “A” part from Steven Stucky’s sudden death was a George Percy Aldridge Grainger was an orary doctorates of music, but turned them the beginning returns several times. With shock to the music world. Both he and Australian-born composer, arranger, and down, explaining, “I feel that my music every new section, the soloist is presented conductor/teacher Cynthia Johnston pianist. In the course of a long and innova- must be regarded as a product of non-ed- with a slightly different technical challenge. Turner were very dear professors and tive career, he played a prominent role in ucation.” The inspirational text summates my feeling friends in my life while I was pursu- the revival of interest in British folk music of writing this concerto and what I imag- ing my D.M.A. at Cornell University. in the early twentieth century. He left his Grainger dedicated Colonial Song to his ine the soloist feels as they accomplish this They not only taught me how to be native Australia at the age of 13 to attend mother. He wrote to conductors: school and develop his career in Europe, 40 Performance UGA February March 2018 41 Hodgson Wind Ensemble

“No traditional tunes of any kind are Music Academy in Valencia. After com- made use of in this piece, in which pleting his studies at the Allegro Interna- About the Artists I have wished to express feelings tional Music Academy, he was selected to aroused by thoughts of the scenery study Motion Picture and Television Scor- Cynthia Johnston Turner and people of my native land, Aus- ing at the University of Southern Califor- tralia, and also to voice a certain kind nia Thornton School of Music. While at Cynthia Johnston Turner is Director of of emotion that seems to me not un- USC, he was awarded the prestigious Harry Bands, Professor of Music, Area Chair of typical of native-born Colonials in Warren Endowed Scholarship for Scoring Conducting, and Artistic Director of Rote general. Motion Pictures and Television, which is Hund Muzik at the Hodgson School of Mu- awarded to the most advanced graduating sic, University of Georgia. Turner conducts “Perhaps it is not unnatural that student in the field of study. the Hodgson Wind Ensemble, leads the MM people living more or less lonelily in and DMA programs in conducting, and leading and emerging composers around vast virgin countries and struggling His music has been performed by notable oversees the entire band program including the world. Under her direction, the Cornell against natural and climatic hard- ensembles such as the Cleveland Orchestra, the 430-member Redcoat Marching Band. Wind Ensemble was invited to perform at ships (rather than against the more Louisville Symphony, Hollywood Studio Or- Before her appointment at the Hodgson the College Band Directors National As- actively and dramatically exciting chestra, the Royal College of Music Film Or- sociation’s Eastern Division Conference counter wills of the fellow men, as in chestra, the North Texas Wind Ensemble and School at the University of Georgia, Cynthia was Director of Wind Ensembles at Cornell in 2007 and 2012, and the Hodgson Wind more thickly populated lands) should the Orchestra Radio of Kiev. His film music Ensemble performed at CBDNA National run largely to that patiently yearning, has received considerable recognition. He University. Earlier in her career Cynthia was a high school music educator, taught middle in Kansas City in 2017. In 2008, the Merrill inactive sentimental wistfulness that was nominated for Best Original Score at the Presidential Scholars at Cornell recognized we find so touchingly expressed in 2014 GOYA Spanish Academy Awards for his school beginning instrumental music in To- ronto and choral music in Switzerland. Cynthia as an outstanding educator, and in much American art; for instance in work in the film “La Mula”. He was awarded 2009, she was awarded the Kaplan Family Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ and the Hollywood Music in Media Award in the A Canadian, Cynthia completed her Bach- Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. Her per- in Stephen C. Foster’s adorable songs Classical Music Category in 2016. elor of Music and Bachelor of Education de- formances have been praised by such com- ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ and ‘Old grees at Queens University and her Master posers as Steven Stucky, William Kraft, Ste- Folks At Home.’ Navarro is also the owner and conductor of ven Bryant, Marc Mellits, Nancy Galbraith, the Oscar Navarro Symphony Orchestra, of Music in music education and conduct- ing at the University of Victoria. Touring Peter Lane, Eddie Mora Bermudez, Dana “I have also noticed curious, almost based out of Alicante, Spain. The orchestra Wilson, Roberto Sierra, and Karel Husa. Italian-like musical tendencies in had its premiere performance in March 2016. with her ensembles inspired her master’s brass band performances and ways of thesis on the musical and personal trans- formations that occur on tours, and her From January 2006, Cynthia led the Cor- singing in Australia (such as a prefer- Downey Overture was composed for Orches- nell Wind Ensemble on biennial perform- ence for richness and intensity of tone tra in 2011 as a tribute to the Downey Or- D.M.A. thesis at the Eastman School of Mu- sic centered on the music of William Kraft, ing and service tours to Costa Rica that and soulful breadth of phrasing over chestra in Los Angeles, California and their included performances across the country, more subtly and sensitively varied conductor, Sharon Lavery. The composer one of this generation’s leading composers. At Eastman Cynthia was the recipient of conducting master classes with Costa Ri- delicacies of expression), which are says of the piece: can teachers, instrument master classes for also reflected here.” the prestigious teaching award in conduct- “Downey Overture is a Latin-Ameri- ing. She received the National Leadership Costa Rican musicians, and the donation – Program note compiled and edited by can fusion with which I wanted to link in Education Award (Canada), the Excel- of over 250 instruments to music schools Matthew Sadowski my birth country, Spain, and Califor- lence in Education Award (Ontario Second- across the country. She led the Hodgson nia, the land that, as a result of the two ary School Teachers Federation), and the Wind Ensemble to Panama in January 2016 to teach, perform, and donate instruments. Oscar Navarro (Born 1981) years I lived there, has left a perma- Marion Drysdale Leadership Award (also nent imprint on my heart. from OSSTF). She is also the recipient of (2011) Among other recent engagements, Cynthia Downey Overture the Donald A. Reick Memorial Award for has guest conducted the National Youth An amalgam of rhythm and musical research with wearable technologies and Oscar Navarro was born in the village of color wrapped in an atmosphere of Wind Ensemble of Great Britain, the Syra- music pedagogy, and the American Prize for cuse Symphony Orchestra, the National Novelda, Spain, where he began studying dance are the essence of this piece. It innovative programming with wind bands. music at an early age. He received a Bach- is joyful, energetic and written with all Youth Band of Canada, Concordia Santa elor of Music from the Conservatorio Su- of my enthusiasm and dedication. It Cynthia has commissioned numerous new Fe, the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, the perior Oscar Espla in Alicanto, Spain. He could not have been any other way for works for wind band, contemporary music Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Latin Ameri- continued his studies in composition and the ‘Downey Symphony Orchestra’”. ensembles, and orchestra, and she continues can Honor Band, the National Band of Cos- ta Rica, the National Orchestra of Heredia, conducting at the Allegro International – Program note compiled by Bradley J. Esau to actively promote commissions by today’s and numerous state honor bands. Cynthia 42 Performance UGA February March 2018 43 Hodgson Wind Ensemble has been invited to present her research In Europe, he conducted the premiere of an for the American Society of Composers, Au- Joel’s works have been performed by a with teaching and technology, innovative opera for La Scala Opera (Milan, Italy), and thors and Publishers (ASCAP) for over 10 number of large and small ensembles, ex- rehearsal techniques, and service-learning concerts at the prestigious Maggio Musi- years and in 2001 received a national award hibited at art galleries, and screened at the- and music performance at numerous con- cale (Florence, Italy), the Tonhalle (Zurich, from this organization for his contributions atres and festivals around the world. Recent ferences nationally and internationally, and Switzerland), and at the Holland Festival in to contemporary American music. He is highlights include a number of worldwide she has been invited to teach conducting the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam, Holland), also listed in the New Groves Dictionary of performances of his new saxophone octet, home and abroad. She is published in such as well as the 750th Anniversary of the City American Music, and his frequent conduct- Three Images, including the Royal College journals as Music Educators Journal, In- of Berlin. He has won the praise of compos- ing appearances have included the Eastman of Music Saxophone Ensemble and the fac- terdisciplinary Humanities, International ers: Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Aaron School of Music, New England Conserva- ulty of the American Saxophone Academy, Journal of the Humanities, Journal of the Copland, John Corigliano, Henryk Gorecki, tory, Oberlin Conservatory, Northwestern both in the summer of 2017, and a perfor- World Association of Bands and Ensembles, Karel Husa, Gyorgy Ligeti, Darius Milhaud, University, Manhattan School of Music, as mance of his first work saxophone quartet, Fanfare Magazine, and Canadian Winds, Bernard Rands, Gunther Schuller, Karlheinz well as the Wind Ensemble at the Tangle- In memoriam, by the award-winning Ke- and has recorded CDs with the Innova and Stockhausen, and many others for his inter- wood Institute. nari Quartet during the Grand Prize Gayla Albany labels. pretive conducting of their compositions. Concert at the inaugural M-Prize competi- Robert Reynolds has been a featured conduc- tion in 2016. Recent commissions include Cynthia has served as a board member with Robert Reynolds has been awarded an Hon- tor and lecturer at international conferences a nation-wide consortium led by Connie WASBE, and is an active member of CD- orary Doctorate from Duquesne University, in Austria, Australia, Norway, Belgium, Eng- Frigo for a new concerto for Solace: A Lyric BNA, Conductor’s Guild (peer reviewer), and in addition, holds degrees in Music Ed- land, Holland, Slovenia, Sweden, Germany, Concerto for alto saxophone with wind en- College Music Society, Humanities Educa- ucation and Performance from the Univer- Denmark, and Switzerland. He has conduct- semble accompaniment, a new set of saxo- tion and Research Association, the National sity of Michigan where he was the conduct- ed in many of the major cities of Japan, Spain, phone miniatures for Musiqa in Houston, Association for Music Education, and Na- ing student of Elizabeth Green. He began his and Sweden including concerts with the TX, and commission for a new work for tional Band Association. career in the public schools of Michigan and Stockholm Wind Orchestra, the Norrkoping chorus, soloists, and orchestra from the California before beginning his university Symphony Orchestra and professional wind Austin-based Panoramic Voices. H. Robert Reynolds conducting at California State University at ensembles in Bilbao and Barcelona, Spain. Long Beach and the University of Wiscon- Many of his former students now hold major His film scores include the documentary H. Robert Reynolds is the Principal Con- sin prior to his tenure at the University of conducting positions at leading conservato- film Stitched, official selection at the 2011 ductor of the Wind Ensemble at the Thorn- Michigan. He received the Citation of Merit ries and universities, and several have been Carmel Art and Film Festival, as well as a ton School of Music at the University of from the Music Alumni Association of the National Presidents of CBDNA. short film Kidfellas, “Best Musical Score” at Southern California where he holds the H. University of Michigan for his contributions Houston’s 2011 48-Hour Film Project. Last Robert Reynolds Professorship in Wind to the many students he has influenced dur- Joel Love year, Joel's score for Socks in the City won Conducting. This appointment followed his ing his career and the Lifetime Achievement honorable mention for "Best Musical Score" retirement, after 26 years, from the School of Award from the Michigan Band Alumni As- Hailed as "extremely moving" by New Mu- at New York City's 2015 48-Hour Film Music of the University of Michigan where sociation. He is also an Honorary Life Mem- sic Box and "especially sweet" by the Austin Project. Other notable collaborations with he served as the Henry F. Thurnau Profes- ber of the Southern California School Band American Statesman, the music of Joel Love artists from other disciplines feature a city- sor of Music, Director of University Bands & Orchestra Association. (b. 1982) explores an eclectic mix of genres, wide public art exhibit with artist Karyn Ol- and Director of the Division of Instrumental from short video pieces to works for cham- ivier, Inbound: Houston, and a 3-month in- Studies. In addition to these responsibili- Professor Reynolds was Past President ber and large ensembles. stallation by Prince V. Thomas, On Joy, On ties, he has also been, for over 35 years, the and the very first recipient of the Lifetime Sorrow at the Houston Center for Photogra- conductor of The Detroit Chamber Winds Achievement Award from the College Band Joel was commissioned to compose a new work, Lightscape, for the opening of light phy, praised by the Houston Chronicle as ”a and Strings, which is made up primarily of Directors’ National Association as well as beautiful piece that feels cleansing to watch." members from the Detroit Symphony. being Past President of the Big Ten Band artist James Turrell's The Color Inside in Directors’ Association. He has received the 2013. The Houston Chronicle commented Joel recently completed a D.M.A. in Com- Robert Reynolds has conducted recordings highest national awards from Phi Mu Al- that Lightscape "evocatively captures the position from the University of Texas at for Koch International, Pro Arte, Caprice, pha, Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Beta Mu, the Na- emotion of The Color Inside." Joel is a two- Austin’s Butler School of Music and holds and Deutsche Grammophon. In the United tional Band Association, and the American time winner of the PARMA Recordings degrees from The University of Houston's States, he has conducted at Carnegie Hall and School Band Directors’ Association, and he Composition Competition, which selected Moores School of Music (M.Music) and Lincoln Center (New York), Orchestra Hall was awarded the “Medal of Honor” by the Lux and Synchronicity in Purple Minor for Lamar University’s Mary Morgan Depart- (Chicago), Kennedy Center (Washington, D. International Mid-West Band and Orches- publication. His first work for wind ensem- ment of Music (B.Music). He lives in Hous- C.), Powell Symphony Hall (St. Louis), Acad- tra Clinic. He is the recipient of a “Special ble, Aurora Borealis, was selected as final- ton, TX, where he teaches music at Houston emy of Music (Philadelphia), Disney Con- Tribute” from the State of Michigan, and he ist in the 3rd International Franck Ticheli Community College's Southwest location in cert Hall (Los Angeles), and Tanglewood. was a member of the National Awards Panel Composition Contest. Stafford, TX.

44 Performance UGA February March 2018 45 Xi Wang to UGA. She is a Fulbright Scholar to the Hodgson Wind Ensemble Netherlands, where she studied with Dutch Composer Xi Wang's original concert mu- virtuoso Arno Bornkamp and began a life- director sic has been performed worldwide by no- Cynthia Johnston Turner long collaboration with Dutch ‘avant pop’ table orchestras and ensembles such as the composer JacobTV. Minnesota Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Flute ALTO Saxophone BASS Trombone American Composers Orchestra, Shanghai Frigo is an active clinician and guest per- Rachel Anders Megan Elks Kyle Moore Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, Voices former at universities domestically and in- Emily Cho Erik Elmgren* of Change, Soli Chamber Ensemble, Tippet ternationally. In recent years, she has trav- Mindy Griffith Euphonium String Quartet, among others. eled to Italy, Russia, Brazil and Panama to Clare Nunley Tenor Saxophone Eric Dluzniewski* perform and teach. In 2016, she served Hannah Peterson Harrison Clarke Nathan Galerstein Xi Wang is the recipient of the Charles Ives on the faculty of the American Saxophone Lindy Thompson* Dan Phipps Fellowship from the American Academy of Academy at the Eastman School of Music, Arts and Letters, the National Endowment Tuba and in 2017 was a featured guest artist teach- Oboe for the Arts award, Meet the Composer, Baritone Saxophone Nick Beltchev* er at the Great Plains Saxophone Workshop Nicolas Kanipe New Music USA, American Music Cen- Miller May Benjamin Vasko in Oklahoma. In August 2017, her trio, The ter, MacDowell Colony residency, as well Felisha Jones Yargo Trio, featuring UGA faculty Angela as seven prizes from the American Soci- Amelia Merriman* Trumpet String Bass Jones-Reus (flute) and Liza Stepanova (pia- ety of Composers, Authors and Publishers Marah Stefanisko Deborah Caldwell* Diogo Lima no), released their debut album Voices, Rei- (ASCAP). Xi Wang has received commis- Joel Garcia magined, produced by Mark Records. sions from the Albany Symphony, Shang- Clarinet Alan Hester Percussion hai Philharmonic, Voices of Change, Great Frigo’s students have won concerto, young Conor Croasum Tyler Jones Trevor Barroero* Dallas Youth Orchestra, Soli Chamber En- artist, and chamber music competitions at Gregory Hamilton Joshua Klein Emily Jonhson semble, among others. regional and national levels. Her research Ivan Hernandez* Joseph Reid Grayson Mullis on the discipline of creativity and the impact Jesse Norton Dylan Nixon Xi Wang' received her B.M. from the Shanghai it can have on the learning and teaching of Kelly Riordan Conservatory of Music, M.M. from the Uni- French Horn Keller Steinson classical music has led to new teaching strat- Caleb Rucker versity of Missouri-Kansas City, and D.M.A. Maddi Dorrill egies for the applied studio. She is a 2015 from Cornell University. Currently, she is an Murphy Pulliam PIANO UGA Center for Teaching and Learning Fel- Associate Professor at the Meadow School of Bass Clarinet Andrew Sehmann* Yuxin Ni low for Innovative Teaching, with a focus on Arts of Southern Methodist University. Jason Abraham Galit Semesh Heejin Park “Flipping the Classroom.” While teaching at Andrew Barber Addison Whitney The U. of Tenn., she was voted Distinguished Sarah Willoughby Connie Frigo Teacher of the Year by the student body. Harp BASSOON Julie Koenig Saxophonist Connie Frigo is an accom- Joy Hoffman* Trombone plished soloist, chamber musician, teacher, With a special interest in collaborating with Jackson Thompson Luke Anders speaker, and founder of numerous festivals. living composers, Frigo has been a part of * denotes principal player Carlee Woodring Nick Evans She is sought-after presenter on topics relat- commissioning and premiering the works ** denotes co-principal player ing to professional development, entrepre- of many American composers including Andrew Taylor* neurship, creativity and women in music. Bang On a Can co-founder David Lang, Ben She is currently Associate Professor of Saxo- Johnston, John Fitz Rogers, and UGA’s own phone at the University of Georgia where Peter van Zandt Lane, among others. All players rotate in their sections. she has taught since 2011. Frigo is a Henri Selmer Paris artist and Highlights of Frigo’s career include six D’Addario artist. For the North American years with the premiere U.S. Navy Band, Saxophone Alliance, she has served as Co- Washington, D.C., a position she won as a ordinator of Competitions (2007-2010) junior in college; seven years touring na- and program committee member and chair tionally as the baritone saxophonist with (2012, 2014). Her degrees are from Ithaca the New Century Saxophone Quartet; and College (BM), U. of Illinois (MM), Conser- faculty positions at the Universities of Ten- vatorium van Amsterdam (Fulbright) and nessee, Maryland and Ithaca College prior U. of South Carolina (DMA).

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