UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE & STEEL BAND William Moersch, director Ricardo Flores, director Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Studio Theater November 19, 2019 7:30 pm JOHN PSATHAS Kyoto (2011) (b. 1966) MICHAEL COLGRASS Inventions on a Motive (1955) (1932-2019) Motive Inventions 1-6 Finale MARIO DAVIDOVSKY Synchronisms No. 5 (1969) (1934-2019) IVAN TREVINO Catching Shadows (2013) (b. 1983) INTERMISSION TRADITIONAL TRINIDADIAN Tamboo Bamboo LEN “BOOGSIE’” SHARPE Sarah ARR. RICK KURASZ DAVID RUDDER Bacchanal Lady ARR. RONALD KERNS AND SHELLY IRVINE LEN “BOOGSIE’” SHARPE Hard Times TRANS. SHELLY IRVINE . HOWARD DROSSIN and Angel Island / Green Hill MASATO NAKAMURA ARR. TIM BERG JIMMY BUFFETT Margaritaville ARR. SHELLY IRVINE CLIFF ALEXIS Confusion Reggae ALDWYN “LORD KITCHENER” ROBERTS The Bee’s Melody ARR. SHELLY IRVINE University of Illinois Percussion Ensemble As artist, performer, and educator, percussionist Ricardo Flores has been captivating audiences Matt hew Anderson for years playing classical percussion, drum set, and world percussion in orchestral, chamber, jazz, Benjamin Buckley pop, Latin and many other musical sett ings. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Fabián Correa Urbana-Champaign in 2000 where he holds the title of Associate Professor on the Percussion Faculty Jeff rey Elem specializing in drum set and Latin percussion and directs the Steel Band / World Percussion Ensemble. Matt hew Neuberger Tamara Persad Flores has appeared with numerous groups and artists including the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the John Pohovey Jack Shantz Jazz Unit, the Akron Symphony, the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, the Cleveland Ballet and Noah Samuelson Opera Orchestras, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic, the Symphony of Southwest Michael Sosa Florida, the Florida Orchestra, Luciano Pavarott i, Aretha Franklin, Diane Shuur, Tony Bennett , Alex Joshua Stocking Acuña, Hal Linden, Mitz i Gaynor, Louie Bellson, Terry Gibbs, the Four Freshmen, Jiggs Whigham, Victor Mendoza, John Riley, Howard Johnson, Vernon Reid, John Faddis and Peter Erskine. University of Illinois Steel Band Noah Coughlen Currently Principal Percussionist of the Champaign-Urbana Symphony and the Sinfonia da Camera, Sean Finnegan Ricardo also plays drums and Latin percussion with various jazz groups throughout the Midwest. William Gayde He has presented concerts, clinics and master classes in the United States, Canada, Europe, China Michael Nicholson and South America at such venues as the Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University, Sebastian Nassar The Florida State University, the Hartt School of Music, the Percussive Arts Society International Ethan Prado Convention, the Tri-C Jazz Festival in Cleveland, OH, the 2008 International Association of Jazz David Schneck Educators Conference in Toronto, the Sichuan and the Wuhan Conservatories and the Second Dalian Danielle Schuh International Broadcasting Music Festival (China), the Sixth International Percussion Forum in Zagan, Michael Sosa Poland, the 2nd International Congress of Percussion and the Crossdrumming Festival in Jelenia Gora and Warsaw, Poland and the Fourth Patagonian Percussion Festival in Argentina. Flores has also performed on the Carnegie Hall stage as a soloist with the University of Illinois Wind Symphony. William Moersch is internationally renowned as a marimba virtuoso, chamber and symphonic Ricardo can be heard on recordings with performers such as Arturo Sandoval, Dan Wall, Kenny percussionist, recording artist, and educator. He has appeared as soloist with symphonic orchestras Anderson, Chip Stevens, the Jack Shantz Jazz Unit, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and Sinfonia da and in recital throughout North and South America, Europe, the Far East, and Australia. A regularly Camera. He is former President of the Illinois Chapter of The Percussive Arts Society, served on the featured artist at international percussion festivals, he has performed on more than seventy recordings PAS Drum Set Committ ee for 15 years and now is a member of the PAS World Percussion Committ ee. and is perhaps best known for commissioning much of the prominent modern repertoire for marimba, from composers including Irwin Bazelon, Richard Rodney Bennett , Martin Bresnick, Jacob Druckman, Eric Ewazen, David Lang, Paul Lansky, Libby Larsen, Steven Mackey, Akemi Naito, Roger Reynolds, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, John Serry, Andrew Thomas, Alejandro Viñao, James Wood, and Charles Wuorinen. In addition, he was the fi rst marimbist ever to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowship and has also been honored by N.E.A. Recording and Consortium Commissioning grants. Prior to his appointment at the University of Illinois in 1998, Mr. Moersch was a free-lance musician in New York City for over two decades. He performed with the American Symphony, Metropolitan Opera, New Jersey Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony, New York City Opera, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, as a featured soloist in the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Broadway production of The Pirates of Penzance, and on numerous motion picture soundtracks. Mr. Moersch also created graduate degree programs in marimba performance at the Peabody Conservatory and Rutgers University and has presented master classes throughout the world. Currently, he is Principal Timpanist of Sinfonia da Camera and the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director of New Music Marimba, on the Percussive Arts Society’s Board of Advisors, and an Artist Endorser for Pearl Drums / Adams Percussion, SABIAN cymbals, Grover Pro Percussion, and Innovative Percussion mallets..