Season 31, Concert 3 - February 7, 2014 - Saxophone Spectacular 2013-14 CONTRIBUTORS The Ridgewood Concert Band gratefully acknowledges the support of our donors and subscribers whose generous support makes these programs possible. BENEFACTOR ($3,000 and above) Mary & Boyd Lowry Lindsay B. Gallagher Cheryl & James Mallen Thomas & Victoria Price Judith & David Maron Konica Minolta Business Solutions Jerrold, Mary A. & Leah Meyer Merrill Lynch Wealth Management/Bank Dorothy S. Neff of America Corp. Mary & Michael Nussear Marcella Phelan PATRON ($2,000 to $2,999) Deloss Schertz & Rose Kraybill Carolyn & Howard Crumb Francis H. 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UPCOMING RCB CONCERTS March Winds Friday, March 21, 2014 – 8:00 PM West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ Dr. Christian Wilhjelm, Music Director Celebrate New Jersey Friday, May 9, 2014 – 8:00 PM West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ ________________________________________________________________________ Printing of this program generously underwritten by Konica Minolta Business Solutions. ________________________________________________________________________ Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of Saxophone Spectacular State, through grant funds administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, FEATURED GUEST SOLOISTS Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs. Kenneth Tse, Saxophone ________________________________________________________________________ Lois Hicks-Wozniak, Saxophone The Ridgewood Concert Band would like to thank all of Richard White, Trumpet the many volunteers who have made this concert possible. ________________________________________________________________________ PRELUDE CONCERT - 7:30 PM The Ridgewood Concert Band would like to give a special “thank Paramus High School Honors Wind Ensemble you” to the Pascack Valley Regional High School District. The Mark J. Donellan, Director Pascack Hills High School Band room is our weekly rehearsal site. ________________________________________________________________________ Friday, February 7, 2014 - 8:00 PM For additional RCB information, please West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ visit our website or scan our QR code: WWW.RIDGEWOODBAND.ORG Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. is a Proud Sponsor of the Ridgewood Concert Band WEST SIDE CONCERT SERIES: Anna Shelest, piano "... a pianist of fiery sensibility and warm touch." Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 4:00 PM West Side Presbyterian Church Ridgewood, NJ www.westsideconcerts.org RIDGEWOOD CONCERT BAND BOARD OF TRUSTEES PRESIDENT: Mark Zettler VICE PRESIDENT: John Wagner RECORDING SECRETARY: Carol Sheehan CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: Marilyn Wagner TREASURER: Neil Sheehan MEMBERS AT LARGE: Noreen Baer Annette Baron Phillip Biello John Butler Mike DePompeo Lawrence Friedman Carolyn Kirby Kathleen Peters Thomas P. Price Deloss Schertz Beth Seavers Widely recognized as one of the world’s leading classical saxophonists, Kenneth Tse is certainly one of the instrument’s outstanding proponents on any saxophone aficionado’s short list. He burst on the scene in 1996 as the winner of the prestigious New York Artists International Award, which resulted in an acclaimed debut recital at Carnegie Hall, after which he was hailed as "a young virtuoso" by the New York Times. The Alex Award from the National Alliance for Excellence led to another Carnegie Hall performance. These are but two of the multitude of awards that Tse has garnered in less than a decade and a half. Since then he has been a frequent soloist on five continents, including solo appearances with the Des Moines Symphony, United States Navy Band, Slovenia Army Band, La Armónica Band of Bunol, Spain, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra and Hong Kong Sinfonietta among others. He is frequent featured artist at events such as the triennial World Saxophone Congress and North American Saxophone Alliance conferences. He has also been a guest clinician at conferences hosted by the California Band Directors' Association, Iowa Bandmaster’s Association, and the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinics. Prestigious universities and conservatories worldwide, such as Moscow Conservatory and Paris Conservatory have invited him to give master classes. Tse has been an active recording artist since his first CD for Crystal Records at age 23. His discography now includes a total of six Crystal CDs—presenting a wide variety of saxophone repertoire, most of it new, some with assisting artists—as well as six other releases and more in process on RIAX records, Enharmonic records, Arizona University Recordings and MSR Classics. Critical review of these disks have yielded such comments from Fanfare Magazine as "Hong Kong-born Kenneth Tse is of the caliber of instrumentalists whose very sound is captivating," and in American Record Guide, “supremely elegant tone…sheer virtuosity.” Saxophone Journal opined, "Kenneth Tse is a phenomenal saxophonist with incredible technical and interpretive skills. His tone is absolutely lovely. His fingers are precise and rapid. His interpretive skills are excellent having the ability to create vast aural fantasies in the listeners' musical soul. The true magic of music is to take a series of ink blots on a piece of paper and turn them into temporal living entities that almost live and breathe. And…Kenneth Tse is the 'master magician'." As an advocate for new music, Tse has had more than thirty works dedicated to him by notable American composers such as David DeBoor Canfield, John Cheetham, Andrea Clearfield, David Froom, Perry Goldstein, Greg Fritze, Walter Hartley, as well as Luis Serrano Alarcón of Spain, Guy Lacour of France, Barry Cockcroft of Australia and Piet Swerts of Belgium. Tse has recorded and premiered many of these concertos, sonatas, solo works and chamber pieces. His arrangements for the saxophone are published by Reed Music, Australia, and his articles and interviews have been featured in the Saxophone Journal, The Instrumentalist, Fanfare Magazine, Saxophone Symposium, Iowa Bandmaster Association Journal, Japan's Piper and The Sax Magazines, and Yamaha Education Series. Kenneth Tse has received numerous awards and grants including the prestigious Hong Kong Jockey Club scholarship, New York Music Performance Trust Fund, Indiana University Marcel Mule Scholarship, University of Iowa CD Subvention Fund, Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant, Barlow Commission Fund, as well as an honorary life membership from the Contemporary Record Society. In 2009, desiring to give back to his home city, Hong Kong, Tse created the first Hong Kong International Saxophone Symposium which attracted over 70 saxophonists from around the world to join the event. In addition to Tse, Eugene Rousseau from U. of Minnesota and Claude Delange from Paris Conservatory were the faculty members to 12 active participants from three continents. With the tremendous success of the premiere event, Tse has formed the Hong Kong International Saxophone Society as part of an effort to facilitate more interest in saxophone performance as well as to continue hosting the symposium every two years to expose Asian saxophonists to world-class saxophone performers and teachers. Tse's students have garnered high recognition through competitions and recordings as well as concert appearances. During the 2010 North American Saxophone Alliance National Competitions, Tse's students from University of Iowa won three of the top four awards in the conference's classical competitions (in both solo and chamber music categories), the first time for a single studio to do so in the history of the conference. In the same month, his students also won the top chamber music prize and the second solo prize at the Music Teachers' National Association Competitions. Moreover, to end the academic year, his graduate-student quartet also won the silver medal at the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Tse is currently the Professor of Saxophone at University of Iowa, President-Elect of the North American Saxophone Alliance,