UMD Wind Ensemble DEDICATIONS Presents Music Maryland of of School University Wednesday, December 4, 2019 • 8PM DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL at The Clarice 1 ABOUT THE ARTISTS ARTISTS THE ABOUT University of Maryland School of Music Presents ANDREA E. BROWN was appointed the associate director of bands at the University of Maryland in 2018. In this position, she conducts the UMD Wind Ensemble (UMWE) and serves as the director of athletic bands. Brown is formerly a member DEDICATIONS of the conducting faculty at the University of Michigan where she served as the assistant director of bands and was a faculty sponsor of a College of Engineering PROGRAM UMD WIND ENSEMBLE Multidisciplinary Design Project team researching conducting pedagogy technology. Andrea E. Brown Previously, Brown was the director of orchestra and assistant director of bands at music director the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. She is a frequent guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator in the US, Europe and Asia. Luci Disano graduate conductor Brown completed a D.M.A. in instrumental conducting at UNC Greensboro (UNCG) Jennifer Piazza-Pick where she was a student of John Locke and Kevin Geraldi. While at UNCG, she was soprano both guest conductor and principal horn on UNCG Wind Ensemble's fireworks! and finish line! CDs released on the Equilibrium label. Brown has also had several According to Merriam-Webster, the word dedication can have several meanings, rehearsal guides published in the popular GIA Publications series Teaching Music but the one that probably applies best in this case is “a name and often a Through Performance in Band and has presented at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, message prefixed to a literary, musical or artistic production in tribute to a Music For All Summer Symposium, the Yamaha Bläserklasse in Schlitz, Germany, the person or cause.” Two of the pieces on our program tonight are indeed dedicated International Computer Music Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the College Music to specific someones that have somehow touched the lives of the composer. Society International Conference in Sydney, Australia, and multiple times at the However, a dedication can also be “a ceremony to mark the official completion College Band Directors National Association National Conference. or opening of something,” which we certainly have tonight as we bring the fall semester to a close. Lastly, dedication can also represent “self-sacrificing A proponent of inclusion and equity issues in the music profession, Brown is a devotion and loyalty” — most definitely true of the UMD Wind Ensemble members frequent guest speaker on these topics. She currently serves on the CBDNA Gender as they work to develop their skills and musicianship in the community of this and Ethnic Minority Committee and is the founder of Women Rising to the Podium ensemble. Thank you for being a part of this evening of Dedications. — an online group of over 3,200 members supporting and celebrating women band — Andrea E. Brown directors. Additionally, she also serves as the chair of the Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI) Women’s Music Fraternity Graduate Conducting Grant and as an advisor of the SAI chapter at the University of Maryland. Fanfares for Friends ........................................................................................Joel Puckett I. A Fanfare for Gary Brown is a member of the recently formed Drum Corps International (DCI) Women’s II. A Fanfare for Joe In Step Committee, and she previously served on the brass and conducting instructional staff of the DCI World Champion Phantom Regiment (2004–2017). Other marching organizations she has instructed include the U.S. Army All-American J.R. ......................................................................................................................Kevin Day Marching Band, Carolina Crown and Spirit of Atlanta. Jennifer Piazza-Pick, soprano As a performer, Brown was a member of the AA Brass Quintet, which won the Dixtour ...........................................................................................................Claude Arrieu International Brass Quintet Competition hosted by Fred Mills at the University of I. Allegretto moderato Georgia. She performed with the horn sections of the Boston Brass All Stars Big II. Moderato Band, North Carolina Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony and the Brevard Music III. Andante Center Orchestra. Brown has studied brass performance and pedagogy with Abigail IV. Cantabile Pack, J.D. Shaw, Jack Masarie, Freddy Martin, Dottie Bennett, Randy Kohlenberg, V. Allegro Risoluto Richard Steffen and Ed Bach. xx Chorale and Alleluia ...................................................................................Howard Hanson Originally from Milan, Tennessee, she is a graduate of Austin Peay State University and earned a Master of Music degree in horn performance and a Master of Music Points of Departure ...............................................................................Roshanne Etezady Education degree with a cognate in instrumental conducting from UNCG. Prior to I. I’ve been a travel agent for thirty years her position at Georgia Tech, Brown was the assistant director of bands at Austin Peay State University and taught public school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Dallas, II. I was twelve years old Texas. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda, NAfME and CBDNA. She III. Amelia Mary Earhart was awarded the Rose of Honor as a member of Sigma Alpha Iota Women's Music IV. Welcome aboard, sit back and relax 2 Fraternity and is an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma. 3 Jennifer Piazza-Pick, soprano PROGRAM NOTES LUCI DISANO is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting at the Fanfares for Friends University of Maryland, studying with Michael Votta, Jr. In addition to being a JOEL PUCKETT student and conductor, Disano is currently employed as a clarinetist with The Born: 1977 President’s Own United States Marine Band. Composed: 2019 Duration: 10 minutes Disano’s diverse career has led her to perform both throughout the U.S. and internationally. In addition to being a member of The President’s Own, she has also Joel Puckett is an American composer hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. He earned performed at Aspen Music Festival, with the New World Symphony and with the both a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan. Cheyenne Symphony. Disano has been a featured soloist with various ensembles His composition teachers include Michael Daugherty, William Bolcom, Bright including The President’s Own. Sheng, Will Averitt and Thomas Albert. He currently serves as the chair of music theory, ear training and piano skills at the Peabody Institute. He has composed for ABOUT THE ARTISTS ARTISTS THE ABOUT Disano’s commitment to championing women’s voices in the classical music a wide range of ensembles, from chamber music to opera, and his compositions world influences her projects in performing, conducting, programming and have been the subject of critical praise, including a 2016 Grammy nomination for a commissioning. Disano performed the world premiere of Tonia Ko’s Three Sketches recording of his flute concerto, “The Shadow of Sirius.” for Clarinet at Kilbourn Hall in Rochester, NY, and has recently coordinated a chamber series concert with The President’s Own featuring all female composers. The composer writes: A sought-after educator, Disano has taught at the University of Northern Colorado In thinking about the nature of both Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, it and given masterclasses at Rutgers University, Texas A & M University, University of occurred to me that honoring the service of those who mentored and inspired each New Hampshire and University of Pennsylvania. Disano attended the New England subsequent generation is at the very core of their missions. In that spirit, I have Conservatory, holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music written fanfares to celebrate two people who have profoundly influenced my life. and a Master of Music degree from the University of Northern Colorado. The first fanfare is entitled, “A Fanfare for Gary.” Gary Green has devoted his entire life to the belief that a group of people chasing a beautiful musical moment is one of the things that make life worth living. He radiates goodness and possesses a Praised for singing with “passion and emotional depth” (Richmond Times- perpetually curious spirit. I am so grateful that he is my friend. Dispatch), soprano JENNIFER PIAZZA-PICK has performed with the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Germany, as well as with US military bands in Belarus, The second fanfare is entitled, “A Fanfare for Joe.” I know that Shoeless Joe Jackson Latvia and Lithuania. In the U.S., she has performed at Carnegie Hall, Ithaca Opera, — who has been dead since 1951 — seems an unlikely friend for a 21st-century Long Beach Opera, Opera Piccola of San Antonio, the Princeton Festival, the composer from Atlanta. But Joe, who was banned from major league baseball as Richmond and Alamo City Ballet companies, Oregon Bach Festival, Dallas Choral part of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal and served as the protagonist of my Festival and the Charlottesville Symphony, among others. opera, The requiem for the American dream, this fanfare imagines him at the height of his greatness and the dream that might have been. The winner of Hawaii Public Radio’s art song contest, Piazza-Pick was also a finalist for the American Prize in the women’s art song division