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Guest Artists and Guest Lecturers 2011-12
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Jason Thibodeaux, String Pedagogue
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 • 5:30pm Room 124 (String Pedagogy Clinic)
Jason Thibodeaux, a graduate of Southwest Texas State University, is the Winston Churchill High School Director of Orchestras in San Antonio. He has conducted the Churchill Orchestra at the Pearl Harbor Memorial in Hawaii, Carnegie Hall in New York City, and the Austria Tour of 2010. Mr. Thibodeaux, T.O.D.A. Member-at-Large and T.M.E.A. Region XII Orchestra Chairman, has taught summer camp at Texas State University and is the Coordinator / Clinician for the North East ISD Orchestra Workshop.
The Accento Trio
Monday, September 12, 2011 • 8:00pm Recital Hall
A concert with music by Chaminade, Benedict, Corigliano, Mehmari, Puccini, Clark, and Adam.
The ACCENTO TRIO is a flute-voice-piano ensemble with flutist Danilo Mezzadri, soprano Susan Ruggiero, and pianist Elizabeth Moak. Since its inception in 2007, the ACCENTO TRIO has performed in national and international venues such as the Natchez Opera Festival, Blue Lake Fine Arts Festival, la Scuola Musicale di Milano, and la Sala San Tommaso del Palazzo Boncompagni in Roccasecca, Italy. The group is based at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, and gives concerts around the United States and abroad. The trio offers an extensive variety of repertoire ranging from Baroque music to American Broadway, and they plan to record their first CD in 2012.
James Edwards, String Pedagogue
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 • 5:30pm Room 124 (String Pedagogy Clinic)
James Edwards, Westlake High School orchestra director since 1998, is co-conductor of the Austin Youth Symphony Orchestra and has taught at Texas State University and Amarillo College. Mr. Edwards served as TMEA Orchestra Vice-President. In 2003, the Westlake High School Orchestra was selected as the TMEA Honor Full Orchestra. In 2008, the Westlake Symphony Orchestra performed at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, and was recognized as having given an Outstanding Student Performance in the Live from Lincoln Center Outreach Program.
Moisés Paiewonsky
Moisés Paiewonsky teaches trombone at The University of Arizona (UA) and enjoys a varied performance career, having performed with the Detroit Symphony, Detroit Civic, Orlando Philharmonic, Plymouth Symphony, Bijou, and as a soloist with the UA Wind Ensemble (2011), Orquesta Dominican de Vientos (2011), to name a few. As a jazz artist, he has performed with Terry Gibbs, Chris Potter, Jimmy Cobb, and many others.
5one2 Brass
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 • 8:00pm Recital Hall
Brass Quintet Recital
Austin’s 5one2 Brass is an exciting musical collaborative, comprising five of the region’s most promising young talents. 5one2 Brass is committed to expanding the brass quintet repertoire by commissioning new works and arranging diverse genres of music in addition to performing classic brass quintet works. 5one2 Brass is comprised of professors of Huston Tillotson University, Concordia University and Texas State University.
Dr. Mark McFarland, Music Scholar
Monday, September 26, 2011 • 8:00pm Recital Hall
A lecture on “Bill Evans and the Limits of Schenkerian Theory”
Dr. Mark McFarland teaches at Georgia State University and specializes in research on Stravinsky, Debussy, Milhaud, Brubeck, Bill Evans, Holst, Vaughan Williams and theories of musical influence. His publications appear in journals such as The International Journal of Musicology, Theoria, Music Theory Spectrum, The Journal of Music Theory, Jazz Perspectives, Music Theory Online, and Notes. A horn player, Dr. McFarland can be heard on the upcoming Centaur compact disc of chamber works by Robert Muczynski.
Kay Vanlandingham, String Pedagogue
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 • 5:30pm Room 124 (String Pedagogy Clinic)
Kay Vanlandingham, Administrative Director of TMEA, coordinates Continuing Professional Education (CPE), TMEA Region Grants, and the TFME programs, as well as administers the TMEA, Reitz and McNallen Scholarship programs. Ms. Vanlandingham served the Round Rock Independent School District as Fine Arts Facilitator, orchestra liaison for the district, department chair, and has been the co-conductor of the Austin Youth Symphony Orchestra since 2004. Ms. Vanlandingham is Past President of TODA and frequently serves as a judge and clinician across the state.
R. Todd Ehle, String Pedagogue
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 • 5:30pm Room 124 (String Pedagogy Clinic)
Violinist R. Todd Ehle, Associate Professor of Music at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, has reached an international audience with his violin lessons posted on Youtube. He was featured in the Strad Magazine article ‘Stars of the Web’ (September, 2008). Dr. Ehle received his education at the University of Northern Colorado, the University of Colorado and the Eastman School of Music. He also studied Suzuki pedagogy with William Starr and Margery Aber.
Heidi Williams, piano
Sunday, October 9, 2011 • 7:00pm Recital Hall
Piano Recital
Dr. Heidi Williams joined The Florida State University piano faculty in 2007. She has appeared in solo and chamber music performances across the US. Her 2004 New York debut at Lincoln Center received highest critical acclaim, leading to a return engagement at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in 2006. Williams has recorded concerto, solo, and chamber music for the Naxos and Albany Records labels. She completed her Bachelors, Masters, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she studied with renowned pianist Ann Schein.
Heidi Williams website
U.S. Air Force Southwest Winds Woodwind Quintet
Monday, October 10, 2011 • 8:00pm Recital Hall
Chamber Recital
The United States Air Force Band of the West is a musical organization with an outstanding record of achievement. The Airmen assigned to the band are highly trained professional musicians who have dedi-cated themselves to serving their country through music. The Southwest Winds Woodwind Quintet is a satellite group within the unit and along with other small ensembles and the USAF Band of the West they travel extensively, providing concerts to military and civilian audiences throughout the Southwest.
The Southwest Winds quintet specializes in entertainment for intimate audiences. Fashioned after a typical 18th-century orchestral wind section and comprised of five world-class wind instrumentalists, the quintet promotes the concept of using classical chamber ensembles in musical support of the Air Force Mission.
The ensemble utilizes a variety of instrument combinations and presents a vast repertoire, encompassing Renaissance to contemporary music. Southwest Winds provides entertainment for a multitude of musical functions including formal concerts, recitals, luncheons, military ceremonies and music festivals.
The group also supports music education through clinics and masterclasses to elementary through college-aged students and presents performance tours throughout Texas, Arizona, Louisiana and New Mexico. Southwest Winds has performed at various high schools, elementary schools, middle schools and universities as well as provided featured performances at Texas Music Educators Association conventions.
Nicki Cohen, Music Therapist
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 • 4:00-6:00pm Room 214 (Clinic)
“Music Therapy and Music Education: A Sound Partnership”
Dr. Nicki Cohen’s publications include chapters in music therapy textbooks and research articles in professional journals such as the Journal of Music Therapy, Music Therapy Perspectives, and the Journal of the Association for Music and Imagery. Her research topics include the effects of singing on speech production for persons with neurogenic communication disorders, issues concerning graduate music therapy education, and the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music. She is a Professor of Music at Texas Woman’s University.
Amy Martinez, String Pedagogue
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 • 5:30pm Room 124 (String Pedagogy Clinic)
Amy Martinez earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education and a Master’s Degree in Violin Performance at Texas State University under the direction of Dr. Lynn Ledbetter. Amy teaches at Judson Middle School. She also teaches 5th grade strings at two elementary campuses and is the Coordinator and Director of the Judson ISD Mariachi. She performs with Mariachi Las Coronelas and has traveled to Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Canada and various Texas cities as a singer and violinist.
Dr. Lara Pellegrinelli
Monday, October 17, 2011 • 2:00pm Conference Room (Music Research)
Monday, October 17, 2011 • 4:15pm Recital Hall (Lecture)
Dr. Lara Pellegrinelli is a scholar and arts journalist. Her dissertation was the first ethnography of jazz singing. Following a Visiting Assistant Professorship at the University of Richmond (2005-2007), she embarked on an around-the-world voyage teaching for the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea pro-gram. She is currently a guest lecturer at Princeton University. Dr. Pellegrinelli’s writings have appeared in newspapers and magazines, and she currently contributes on a wide variety of topics to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Weekend Edition.
Beverly B. Harrison, String Pedagogue
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 • 5:30pm Room 124
(String Pedagogy Clinic)
Beverly B. Harrison received her all-level music education degree from Southwestern University. Having taught for 26 years in Eanes ISD, Tyler, Austin, and College Station, her record includes 13 straight years of Sweepstakes at UIL. Ms. Harrison has an active music studio in Georgetown, and enjoys having time to perform on ‘cello, adjudicate, and assist other orchestra teachers with their programs. She has performed with N.O.R.D., Brazos Valley, Tyler, U.T. Tyler, Southwestern University, Temple, and WCSO Orchestras.
Patricia George, Flutist / Music Educator
Thursday, October 20, 2011 • 6:15pm Recital Hall (Presentation)
“The Art of PhraSING”
Friday, October 21, 2011 (Woodwind Techniques)
Friday, October 21, 2011 (Flute Master Class)
Patricia George is Editor for Flute Talk magazine, a clinician for Conn-Selmer (Armstrong Flutes) and also a Powell Artist. As a clinician, she travels extensively, teaching her nationally known Flute Spa masterclass. As a performer, Mrs. George has toured the US, Europe, the Middle East, and Russia. Her performances have been heard on NPR-affiliates in Utah and Idaho. Patricia George is the former flute professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho and teaches at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Tennessee.
Anna Macias, String Pedagogue
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 • 5:30pm Room 124
(String Pedagogy Clinic)
Anna Macias teaches at Lake Travis High School, Lake Travis Middle School, and Hudson Bend Middle School. In addition to her work with public schools, she maintains a private double bass studio. A graduate of Southwest Texas State University with a degree in Music, she has performed with the Mid-Texas Symphony, the Abilene Symphony Orchestras, the Temple Symphony, and the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestras and serves as clinician each summer for the Texas State Summer Strings Camp.
Eric Fritz, Tuba
Friday, Octuba 28, 2011 • 12:30pm Room 222
(Master Class & Recital)
Eric Fritz has been principal tubist of the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra since 1992, which is one of Latin America’s premier full-time symphony orchestras. He has performed with the Zurich Opera Orchestra, Mexico City Philharmonic, and The New World Symphony, among others. He was also principal tubist of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in the US and Italy and the Minería Festival Orchestra in Mexico City. Mr. Fritz teaches tuba at the University Of Veracruz School Of Music and the Instituto Superior de Música del Estado de Veracruz.
Joachim Reinhuber
October 28, 2011 Faculty Recital: 7pm (Joachim at the piano)
October 29, 2011 Masterclass: 1-4pm for student singers and their accompanists
Student Recital: 6Pm (with student accompanists)
Dr. Joachim Reinhuber is a European-trained musician and pianist. His international performing career includes solo piano repertoire, as well as chamber music and art song recitalist. He is fluent in four languages. Dr. Reinhuber first began his piano studies with his grandfather, Franz Calvelli-Adorno. He holds degrees in piano performance from the University of Freiburg, Germany, Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin. His teaching career began at the City of Aschaffenburg, Germany Music School and presently serves as assistant Professor of Piano at Texas A & M University in Kingsville, Texas.
Bryan Barrett, String Pedagogue
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 • 5:30pm Room 124
(String Pedagogy Clinic)
Bryan Barrett is the Director of Orchestras for Tomball Memorial High School, Willow Wood Junior High School, and Northpointe Intermediate School. Under his direction, enrollment numbers have grown to over 250 students in grades 6-9 across his feeder system. In its fourth year of existence, the string program at Tomball ISD will graduate its first class of seniors in the year 2015. He holds the Bachelor in Music Education degree from TSU.
Mark Twehues
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 • 5:30pm Room 124
(String Pedagogy Clinic)
Mark Twehues holds a Master’s Degree in Oboe Performance from The Peabody Conservatory. He did postgraduate study in orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik and German at the Universität fuer Ausländer in Vienna, Austria. Twehues has conducted both the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic in Zlin, Czechoslovakia and the Polish National Chamber Orchestra. Twehues has served on the faculties of Wright State University, Wittenburg University and The University of Dayton. Along with conducting, Twehues is a professional oboist and teaches privately.
Matthew Hinsley, Guitar & Voice
Sunday, November 13, 2011 • 2:00pm Recital Hall
Recital
Dr. Matthew Hinsley was trained as a classical guitarist at Interlochen Arts Academy, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to being an accomplished guitarist, Dr. Hinsley has a beautiful tenor voice and has passionately pursued literature for guitar and voice in not only a performance capacity, but has also published academic articles regarding such works in important international periodicals. Dr. Hinsley’s primary pursuit is in non-profit arts management, such as the Austin Classical Guitar Society.
Brian K. Gum, String Pedagogue
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 • 5:30pm Room 124
(String Pedagogy Clinic)
Brian Gum holds Bachelors’ and Masters’ Degrees in Performance from Texas Tech University. Formerly a member of the Tulsa Philharmonic, Chattanooga Symphony, Wheeling Symphony, Mississippi Symphony, Mississippi Opera, Mobile Opera, Meridian, and Lubbock Symphony Orchestras, he also performs regularly with the Caritas Chorale Orchestra, and the Brazos Valley Symphony. As a teacher, Mr. Gum served on the faculties of West Liberty State College, Jackson State University, and as an orchestra director for fifteen years in the Meridian Public Schools.
Trio Kavkasia
TX State Men's Chorus, Directed by Dr. Jonathan Babcock with Trio Kavkasia
7:30 pm
LBJ Student Center Ballroom
The Republic of Georgia holds a rich folk music tradition stretching back over 2,000 years. The Texas State Men's Choir, under the direction of Dr. Jonathan Babcock, brings this tradition to life with a multi-media presentation collected during Dr. Babcock's 2010 field study. The choir will be joined by Trio Kavkasia.
Trio Kavkasia consists of three North Americans who together have more than sixty years of experience singing the traditional music of the Republic of Georgia. They have sung together as a professional trio dedicated to studying and performing that music since 1994. In the years since they have performed throughout the United States, Europe and the Caucasus region including Lincoln Center and the Tbilisi Opera House. They have recorded several commercially released albums on the Traditional Crossroads, Naxos World and Well-tempered World labels.
So Young Yoon, Pianist
Friday, January 27, 2012 • 7:00pm Evans Auditorium (Recital)
So Young Yoon received her doctorate in piano performance at the University of Texas at Austin. Her principal teachers include Chung Yoon Park, Dariusz Pawlas, Antoinette Perry, and Anton Nel. Yoon has received top prizes, such as in the Bain Bach Competition, the Sydney Write Competition, the Texas Young Artist Competition, and the University of Texas Concerto Competition. Dr. Yoon has also been a featured performer in many notable venues of South Korea, including BaeNam Hall, the National Art Hall, and Opus Hall.
Dorian Leljak, Pianist
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 • TBA Evans Auditorium (Master Class)
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 • 7:00pm Evans Auditorium (Piano Recital)
Dorian Leljak has studied with Arbo Valdma and with Boris Berman (DMA, Yale University). He won several international piano competitions (including the Rachmaninov Competition in Belgrade and the Novi Sad Piano Competition) and received numerous prizes, including the Yale University Mary Clapp Howell, Irving Gilmore and Parisot Prizes. He has appeared in recital and with orchestras around the world. Dr. Leljak is Professor of Piano at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and also teaches at the Royal College of Music in London.
Scott C. Shuler, MENC President
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 • 4:00-6:00pm Room TBA (Clinic)
“Advocacy for Music”
Dr. Scott C. Shuler, MENC President for 2010-2012, is the Arts Education specialist in the Connecticut State Department of Education. Dr. Shuler has authored many publications, served on MENC’s Update editorial board, and presented countless workshops on topics such as music program development and assessment, teacher preparation, advocacy, and the role of the arts in middle schools. He was a member of the task force that developed America’s National Standards in music.
Steven Mead, International Euphonium Soloist
Feb 17, 7:30PM - Feb 17, 9:00PM
Music Building Recital Hall (MUS 236)
Englishman Steven Mead (B.1962) needs no introduction to brass enthusiasts around the world as his playing and teaching have become known to virtually all who have a love for the instrument known as the euphonium.
As a soloist his career as a professional solo performer continues to break new ground. With over 75 solo performances a year his relentless schedule sees him touring almost constantly.
This remarkable solo career followed on from the successes he achieved as a member of several of the UK’s leading brass bands. Nowadays he travels constantly and performs regularly with some of the finest brass, wind and symphonic ensembles in the world.
He has played solo concerti with symphony orchestras in Norway (Trondheim Symphony Orchestra) , Finland (Lahti Symphony Orchestra cond.Osmo Vänskä, and Helsinki Philharmonic cond. Elgar Howarth), Poland (Capella Cracoviensis), USA (Minneapolis Pops Orchestra), Canada, Italy, Germany (Stuttgart Philharmonic) Japan (Japan Chamber Orchestra), and Lithuania.
Gregory Sioles, Pianist
Sunday, February 26, 2012 • 10:00am Recital Hall (Master Class)
Sunday, February 26, 2012 • 7:00pm Evans Auditorium (Piano Recital)
Gregory Sioles has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards including an Atwater Kent Grand Prize and a Fulbright Scholarship for study in London. He has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Dr. Sioles is active as a soloist with orchestras and as a recitalist. He currently serves on the piano faculty of Louisiana State University and previously taught on the faculties of the University of Maryland, the Peabody Conservatory, and the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C.
Juyeon Kang, Pianist
Monday, March 5, 2012 • 8:00pm Recital Hall (Piano Recital)
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 • 3:30pm Recital Hall (Master Class)
Juyeon Kang has performed and conducted master classes extensively on four continents. She launched a performance career that included her debut solo recital in Boston’s Jordan Hall after winning two first prizes in 1998: the Heida Hermann’s Young Artists Competition and the Josef Hofmann Piano Competition. Dr. Kang has also appeared as a soloist with numerous symphony orchestras. Her performances have been aired on television in Korea and on National Public Radio in the US.
Juilliard Rejoins Texas State for a Common Experience in the Arts
Thursday, March 8, 2012 • 7:30pm Evans Auditorium (Arts Event)
The Common Experience is a year-long initiative of Texas State University-San Marcos designed to cultivate a common intellectual conversation across the campus, to enhance student participation in the intellectual and artistic life of the campus, and to foster a sense of community across our entire campus and extended community. The Juilliard School’s best musicians, dancers, and actors return for the sixth annual collaboration with outstanding performers of Texas State University, directed by Texas State Distinguished Alumnus and award-winning composer, pianist, and Juilliard faculty member, Dr. Wayne Oquin.
Richard Nunemaker & Houston Clarinet Ensemble
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 • 6:00pm Recital Hall (Recital)
Richard Nunemaker has had a varied and prolific career as a symphony musician, concert soloist, recording artist, producer, educator and author. He played clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophone with the Houston Symphony Orchestra from 1967 to 2008. He was also a member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, the Louisville Orchestra, and the Erie Philharmonic. A strong advocate of music by living American composers, Nunemaker has commissioned over 100 works for clarinet and saxophone. He currently teaches at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.
Nicholas Carthy, Opera Music Director
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 29-31, 2012
Hänsel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck
Nicholas Carthy is a much sought-after conductor, vocal coach and accompanist. He has worked at the Salzburg Festival with both Bernard Haitink and Sir Georg Solti and was assistant to Daniel Barenboim. He conducted opera productions in Vienna, Oslo, Stockholm, Milan, Rome, Naples and Tel Aviv. He was also a guest conductor at numerous symphony orchestras around the globe. He has collaborated with distinguished soloists such as Radu Lupu, Natalia Gutman, Viktoria Mullova, Waltraud Meier, and Wolfgang Holzmair in many of the great halls of the world.
Daniel Mendelow, Trumpet
Friday, April 13, 2012 • TBA (Master Class)
Saturday, April 14, 2012 • 3:00pm St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (Recital)
Daniel Mendelow is the Principal Trumpet with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Australia). He has made guest appearances with most of the major Australian orchestras and ensembles: the Melbourne, Queensland, West Australian, Tasmanian, and Canberra symphony orchestras, and as a soloist at the Australian Chamber Music Festival in Townsville. Mr. Mendelow has taught at the Australian National University School of Music since 1991. He has also given numerous masterclasses in Germany and the USA, including classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory.
William Caplin
Monday, April 16, 2012 • 2:00pm Conference Room (Music Research Group)
Monday, April 16, 2012 • 6:00pm Recital Hall (Lecture)
“Selected Aspects of Classical Form in Music”
Dr. William Caplin specializes in the theory of musical form. His extensive investigations into formal procedures of late-18th-century music culminated in the 1998 book Classical Form (Oxford University Press), which won the 1999 Wallace Berry Book Award from the Society for Music Theory. Other studies on musical form have been published in Eighteenth-Century Music, Beethoven Forum, Musiktheorie, The Journal of Musicological Research, Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie, and Beethoven’s Compositional Process. Dr. Caplin is James McGill Professor of Music Theory at McGill University in Montreal.
Junita Lamprecht-van Dijk & Péter Louis van Dijk
Friday, April 20, 2012 • 6:00pm Evans Auditorium (Choral Concert)
Junita Lamprecht-Van Dijk is the conductor of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Choir. With her choir, she gained a reputation for a unique ability to successfully interpret both Western and African repertoire.
Péter Louis van Dijk is an internationally performed composer. His music has been commissioned and / or performed by many ensembles in the US and in South Africa. Van Dijk has more than a dozen CDs to his credit and currently assists his wife, Junita Lamprecht-Van Dijk, teaching Choral Conducting at the post-graduate level at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth.
Martha Fabrique
Martha Fabrique often joins the San Antonio Symphony flute section and performs with the Mid-Texas Symphony, Majestic Theatre productions, Musical Offerings, and Camerata San Antonio, among others. Dr. Fabrique has been an active performer and scholar of the Japanese shakuhachi (bamboo flute), and she has been a featured soloist at the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Japan America Society of San Antonio, regional universities, and in solo recitals. Martha Fabrique is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Performing Arts and Music at Our Lady of the Lake University.
Eric Fritz
Eric Fritz has been principal tubist of the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra (OSX) since 1992, which is one of Latin America’s premier full-time symphony orchestras. He has performed with the Zurich Opera Orchestra, Sinfonietta de Lausanne, Mexico City Philharmonic, Solístas de México, and The New World Symphony, among others. He was also principal tubist of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in the US and Italy and the Minería Festival Orchestra in Mexico City. Mr. Fritz teaches tuba at the University Of Vera-cruz School Of Music and the Instituto Superior de Música del Estado de Veracruz.
Patricia George
Patricia George is a Consulting Editor for the Flute Talk magazine, a clinician for Conn-Selmer (Armstrong Flutes) and also a Powell Artist. As a clinician, she travels extensively, teaching her nationally known Flute Spa masterclass. As a performer, Mrs. George has toured the US, Europe, the Middle East and Russia. She is currently principal flute with the Sewanee Festival Orchestra. Her performances have been heard on NPR-affiliates in Utah and Idaho. Patricia George is the former flute professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho and teaches at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Tennessee.
Dr. Frank Heidlberger
Dr. Frank Heidlberger’s interests are particularly focused on 19th and 20th century music, text criticism, performance practice, opera studies, music aesthetics as well as music journalism and cultural studies. He received particular acclaim with his books on Carl Maria von Weber, Hector Berlioz, the Italian instru-mental music of late 16th and early 17th centuries and Weber’s piano music. Dr. Heidlberger is also ac-tive as a clarinet and saxophone player with a special interest in jazz and contemporary music. Dr. Heidlberger is a professor at the University of North Texas.
Steven Mead
Steven Mead is regarded as one of the most successful virtuoso euphonium soloists in the world. As a soloist, his career as a professional solo performer continues to break new ground. With over 75 solo performances a year, his relentless schedule sees him touring almost constantly. This remarkable solo career followed on from the successes he achieved as a member of several of the UK’s leading brass bands. Nowadays, he travels constantly and performs regularly with some of the finest brass, wind and symphonic ensembles in the world.
Daniel Mendelow
Daniel Mendelow is the Principal Trumpet with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Australia). He has made guest appearances with most of the major Australian orchestras and ensembles: the Melbourne, Queensland, West Australian, Tasmanian, and Canberra symphony orchestras, and as a soloist at the Aus-tralian Chamber Music Festival in Townsville. Mr. Mendelow has taught at the Australian National University School of Music since 1991. He has also given numerous masterclasses in Germany and the USA, including classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory.
Richard Nunemaker
Richard Nunemaker has had a varied and prolific career as a symphony musician, concert soloist, re-cording artist, producer, educator and author. He played clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophone with the Houston Symphony Orchestra from 1967 to 2008. He was also a member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra (1966), the Louisville Orchestra (1964-1966), and the Erie Philharmonic (1962-1964). A strong advocate of music by living American composers, Nunemaker has commissioned over one hundred works for clar-inet and saxophone. He currently teaches at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.
Andrea Ridilla
Andrea Ridilla holds degrees from The Juilliard School and from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She is Principal Oboe of the Classical Music Festival in Eisendstadt, Austria, and of the Middletown Symphony. She is a sought-after soloist, having performed throught Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In her new CD, L’Amore Italiano, Professor Ridilla is featured soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic in Bul-garia. She is also the co-designer of the Ridilla-Heng gouging machine, which is U.S. Patented and available at Forrest’s Music, Berkeley, CA. Andrea Ridilla is Professor of Oboe at Miami University.
Michelle Vigneau
Michelle Vigneau, Associate Professor of oboe and member of the Memphis Woodwind Quintet, received degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, from the New England Conservatory of Music, and from the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught at Colby College, Bates College, the Portland Conservatory of Music, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Mary Hardin Baylor. Dr. Vigneau has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the United States and Mexico and spent three years playing in the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. She joined the faculty of the University of Memphis in 2003.
Harry Watters
Harry Watters is a Jupiter Artist, serves with the United States Army Band in Washington, DC, and teaches Jazz Trombone at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. His numerous Summit Records releases include the popular Love Songs and the three critically acclaimed Brothers discs with trumpeter Ken Watters. He has performed with many well-known jazz musicians and has appeared as a featured soloist with the Syracuse Symphony, the Baton Rouge Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Tulsa Pops, the West Virginia Symphony, the Janacek Philharmonic, the Moldovan Festival Orchestra, the U.S. Army Orchestra, and other ensembles.
David Maslanka
Guest Composer Residency - April 23 - 28
David Maslanka was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1943. He attended the Oberlin College Conservatory where he studied composition with Joseph Wood. He spent a year at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and did masters and doctoral study in composition at Michigan State University where his principal teacher was H. Owen Reed.
Maslanka's music for winds has become especially well known. Among his 40-plus works for wind ensemble and band are Symphonies 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9, 12 concertos, a Mass, and many concert pieces. His wind chamber music includes four wind quintets, two saxophone quartets, and many works for solo instrument and piano. In addition, he has written a variety of orchestral and choral pieces.
David Maslanka's compositions are published by Carl Fischer, Inc.