Don Winston And Friends #8 A special thanks to Brass Recital Demondrae Thurman Anthony Barfield Jon Whitaker Featuring Special Guest Artists Burt Mason Eri Miyashita Demondrae Thurman, Colin Williams George Martin George Curran, Burt Mason Pia Haselbach Karen Linwood Jeff Ball David Bernard Peter Meechan Tom Davoren Metropolitan Music Community Perry Winston The Lutheran Church of our Savior Miraphone Please join us after the performance at Lennon’s Pub 105 Main Street Port Washington, NY 11050 Saturday June 9, 2018 at 4:30 pm Lutheran Church of Our Savior Port Washington, NY Program Magnificent ................................................................................................... Tom Davoren World Premiere Don Winston & Friends Large Ensemble David Bernard conducting Donegal Bay .................................................................... Paul Lovatt-Cooper (b. 1976)) Don Winston, Baritone; Eri Miyashita, Piano Elegy .................................................................................................. Joe Buono (b. 1990) George Curran, Bass Trombone; Hanako Yamagata Greenberg, Piano Euphonium Concerto ................................................................ Joseph Horovitz (b. 1926) III. Con Moto Jonathan Herbert, Euphonium; Hanako Yamagata Greenberg, Piano In Christ Alone ............................................................................................. Keith Getty Arr. Richard Phillips Orch. Burt Mason Burt Mason, Trombone Ballade ................................................................................... Eugène Bozza (1905-1991) Jenna Thomas, Trombone; Eri Miyashita, Piano Brass Quintet #1 Op.5 .............................................................Victor Ewald (1860-1935) I. Moderato Livery Stable Blues ......................................................... Original Dixieland Jass Band Steinway Street Brass- Bradley Curtin, Ismael Pereira, Trumpets; Kyle Walker, Horn; Stephen Souza, Trombone; Kevin Weibley, Tuba Colin Williams joined the New York Philharmonic as Associate Principal Intermission Trombone in September 2014. He previously served as principal trombone of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, for 12 seasons, and principal trombone of the San Antonio Symphony, for three seasons. He has also performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra (of Washington, D.C.), and Dew Point ....................................................................................... Peter Meechan (b. 1980) Houston Symphony. World Premiere Mr. Williams made his solo debut with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 2003 I- Ed’s Nightmare performing Paul Creston’s Fantasy for Trombone. He has been a guest soloist II- Must get up and close the roof with the San Antonio Symphony, U.S. Army Band (Pershing’s Own), U.S. III- Killing Time, with the French Never Far From the Mind Military Academy Band, Georgia Brass Band, Atlanta Wind Ensemble, Juilliard Orchestra, and James Madison University Brass Band. He has also appeared as Low Voices, Bad Choices Tuba Quartet- a soloist at the Eastern Trombone Workshop and the International Trombone Don Winston, Jon Herbert, Euphoniums; Festival. Wes Krygsman, Larry Zaidan, Tubas Jonathan Herbert is an administrator and faculty member at the Mannes School of Music in NYC and plays euphonium with the Brooklyn Wind Symphony. He has also served on the faculties of the Levine School of Music in Washington, DC Colors for Trombone .................................................................Bert Appermont (b. 1973) and the Eastman Community Music School in Rochester, NY. He was a finalist I- Yellow in the student division and semi-finalist in the artist division of both the II- Red International Tuba Euphonium Association & Leonard Falcone Solo III- Blue Competitions. Jonathan holds a Master of Science degree in Nonprofit IV- Green Management from the New School University, a Performer's Certificate and Colin Williams, Trombone; Hanako Yamagata Greenberg, Piano Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music, and is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy. Elegie ............................................................................ Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Who is Don Winston, and why should we care? Don is a Fellow of the American Arr. Victor Venglovsky Ed. Joseph Alessi Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) in Demondrae Thurman, Euphonium; Eri Miyashita, Piano addition to being a Euphonium player, making him a true “dork’s dork.” Don created Don Winston & Friends to provide solo and chamber music performance opportunities to enthusiastic amateur players and students, as well as to enjoy “the hang” with the cool kids (aka our Special Guest Aritists). One Summer Day ........................................................................................... Joe Hisaishi Eri Miyashita, Piano Don has become somewhat addicted to commissioning friendly composers to create fun new music for odd ensembles, as well as more serious compositions. Giant’s Tale ................................................................................Steven Verhelst (b. 1981) Jeff Ball, Conducting Colin Williams, Dan Dicker, Billy Freeman, Don Winston Burt Mason, Robbie Klein, Peter Freeman, Stephen Souza-Tenor Trombones Jenna Thomas, George Curran- Bass Trombones Eri Miyashita is a New York based concert pianist. As a native of Japan, Eri became interested in piano at the age of three. A year later, she began to take Meet the Artists piano lessons, and her first public performance followed shortly thereafter. From then on, she has appeared on stage at concert halls including the famous Demondrae Thurman is considered one of the stars of the formidable generation of brass soloists. His euphonium playing has been described as “awe Nagoya Denki Bunka Kaikan (the Electric-Cultural Hall of Nagoya) and the inspiring”, and he is touted as “an amazing musician”. Demondrae has a firm City Hall of Kuwana. Eri majored in British-American Studies at Nanzan international reputation as a euphonium soloist having performed in Europe, University and in 2003, transferred to the City College of New York at CUNY. Asia and throughout North America. Many of America's premiere colleges and Under the tutelage of Professor Alison Deane at CCNY, she received numerous universities have hosted him as a performer and teacher and he continues to be awards, including the Fritz Jahoda Award and Sidney Zolot Award. Most in high demand. Over the last ten years, Demondrae has been an invited guest recently, she attended Michigan State University, where she earned her artist/clinician at many of the world’s prestigious euphonium festivals including the International Tuba/Euphonium Conference, U.S. Army Band Master’s Degree in Piano Performance under the tutelage of Professor Deborah Tuba and Euphonium Conference and the Leonard Falcone Competition. In Moriarty. Since returning to New York City in 2012, Eri has been actively August of 2018, Demondrae will join the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music performing as both a soloist and accompanist, including at the Steinway & Sons at Indiana University where he will teach euphonium and brass chamber music. Hall of NYC, and at the National Music Festival held at Washington College, His primary teachers are John Stevens, J. Michael Dunn, James Jenkins, and in Maryland as an accompanist for a Euphonium Workshop directed by Daniel Drill. Demondrae Thurman. For more information, please visit Demondrae is also an active chamber musician. He plays first euphonium and www.erimiyashita.com. trombone in the highly regarded Sotto Voce Quartet which tours extensively. The quartet has released three recordings on the Summit Records label; all of Jenna Thomas, 20, attends the Crane School of Music on scholarship, where she which have received stellar reviews. Viva Voce!: The Complete Quartets of Johns studies with Dr. Mark Hartman, Professor of Trombone. She is currently Stevens won the International Tuba/Euphonium Association award for best completing her bachelor’s degree in Trombone Performance and Music chamber music recording in 2006. The quartet has been featured several times Education, studying tenor and bass trombone. Jenna is a member of the honors on American Public Media’s, Performance Today. He also plays first baritone horn in the Brass Band of Battle Creek, a British brass band comprised of many program at SUNY Potsdam and has maintained her spot on the President’s List of the world’s best brass and percussion performers. In addition to his chamber every semester so far. Jenna has served as the Principal Trombone of the Crane music work, Demondrae is in demand as a euphonium specialist for symphony Symphony Orchestra and Principal Trombone of the Crane Wind Ensemble. In orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Sarasota addition, she is currently the trombonist in the Frackenpohl Honors Brass Orchestra, and North Carolina Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Quintet at Crane. She has attended numerous summer festivals such as the New In addition to the Sotto Voce Quartet recordings, Demondrae released his first York State Summer School of the Arts-School of Orchestral Studies in 2013 and solo recording on the Summit Records label in 2005 entitled, Soliloquies. It received a 9/9 out of 10/10 from classicstoday.com and he was referred to as 2014, the Atlantic Brass Quintet Seminar in 2016, and Berkshire Summer Music “having earned (his) stripes