STUDENT ORCHESTRAS OF GREATER OLYMPIA1629 22nd Ave SE • Olympia WA 98501

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2011-2012 Foundation SupportCharneski Foundation

Irving Lassen FoundationMarguerite Bishop Fund

The Community Foundation

Thank you to all the individual donors and businesses in the community that have supported the Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia.

The MISSION of Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia is to provide a challenging, fully inte-grated orchestra and chamber music experi-

ence for young musicians, which includes:• Orchestra and ensemble performances• Music education• A broad spectrum of music related activities

In addition to the orchestras and brass choir, there are many small ensembles to explore a wide range of repertoire.

Executive Board of DirectorsColleen Welch, PresidentJilyna Dick, Vice Pres.Peter Despot, SecretaryJohn Fleckenstein, Treasurer

Board of DirectorsJoyce Allen Joan Armstrong Brad CarlsonWendy Clark Julie EvansDoug FordAnne HammondSusan HillGinny Nordhorn Dana PhelpsAmy SchutteKirk Veis

Student BoardKeadrin Dick, celloDakota McRostie, violinNolan Welch, cello

Music Director John Welsh

Artistic DirectorGreg Allison

Administrative StaffKrina Allison, Ex. Dir.Pat Kabler, Orch Manager & Finance Dir.Mary Ardington, LibrarianDoug Ford, Pacific NW Orchestra Coordinator & Photographer

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC 2012Jazz Dialogue High School Summer Camp

For more information about the EWU Jazz Camps or Jazz Program:

Rob Tapper509.359.7073

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JULY 23 - 28, 2011

This instrumental experience affords campers to learn from jazz faculty and teaching assistants. Campers stay in a dormitory and eat in one of the dining facilities. Each day includes big bands , jazz theory and improvision, masterclasses, small groups/combos, listening sessions and evening concerts featuring faculty and staff.

Fantastic opportunity for students starting to become interested in playing music, so-loing, performing and learning more about jazz in both small and large groups. Camp instrumentation is limited and WILL fill, so sign up early!

SUMMER CAMP 2011CONTACT INFORMATION

Rob TapperPhone: (509) 359-7073

Fax: (509) 359-7028Email: rtapper@ewu.edu

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CONSERVATORY ORCHESTRAJohn WelshConductor

Student Orchestras of Greater OlympiaNovember 64 p.m.

Washington Center

DEBUT ORCHESTRALantz Berets

ConductorApril Whyte

Conductor

BRASS CHOIRGreg Allison

ConductorLiz Ward

Asst. Cond.

ACADEMY ORCHESTRAGreg Allison

Conductor

The Prince of Denmark’s March, J. Clarke, arr. PhillipsAllegro for Strings, Lantz BeretsHymn for Band, Lantz Berets Ode to Joy, Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Meyer

Poet and Peasant, Franz von Suppe, arr. IsaacThe Typewriter, Leroy Anderson William “Milt” Harper, TypewriterTales of Vandosar, Richard Meyer

Concerto for Clarinet No. 3, Carl Stamitz Alaina Peters, Clarinet Allegro moderato Romanze Rondo

Symphony No. 8 in b minor (Unfinished), Franz Schubert Allegro moderato Andante con moto

Academic Festival Overture, Johannes Brahms

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Sonata No. 12, Johann Pezel, arr. DishingerBRASS CHOIR

Reminders: -Turn off all electronic devices. -Please hold applause between movements.

If yes, you are invited during the 2011-2012 season to ON THE MEZZ,a free pre-concert (3:30 p.m.) discussion about the music!

Do you want to hear more about the music SOGO musicians are performing?

His Dreame, Giles Farnaby, arr. AllenEuphonic Sounds, Scott Joplin, arr. Allen

Johannes Brahms1833-1897

Academic Festival Overture

Franz Schubert1797 – 1828Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)

Carl Stamitz 1745-1801 Concerto for Clarinet

The two movements comprising the “Unfinished” Symphony were completed about the time Schubert contracted an illness that lead to his early death. Despite only thirty-one years of life, he wrote over one thousand works. The Symphony was first performed thirty-seven years later, in 1865, after the composer’s death, by the Vienna Musikverein.

A partial manuscript to a third movement exists, but the facts around the composer’s intentions for a full-length symphony are disputed. The winds bring in the principal theme, which is woven throughout the first movement. The second movement begins as a graceful whisper with a clarinet solo entrance hinting towards the happy sweetness not lasting long. After a reprise, a stormy development commences, finally resolving into the ethereal sounds heard at the beginning of the movement.

Carl Stamitz was born in 1746 in Mannheim. He is known as the founder of the clarinet concerto because he was the first to recognize the soloistic potential of the clarinet, as well as its range of color. He also established its role in the orchestra.

The Clainet Concerto No. 3 was likely written around 1785, which was the same year that he was appointed the principal violin of the Duc de Noailles in Paris. The style of this concerto reflects the usual orchestration found in the mid-eighteenth century, where most of the important musical material was given to the strings, while the winds filled in the harmony. Carl Stamitz’s style is pleasant and free-flowing as nicely illustrated in this concerto.

Although not an academic himself, Johannes Brahms received a number of honors from academic institutions. The German university in Breslau offered Brahms a Doctorate in Music, he sent his thanks–on a postcard. After Berhard Scholz, a longtime friend, suggested that a musical response would be a more appropriate form of thanks, Brahms responded with the Academic Festival Overture - a depiction of student experiences, from parties to academics, through a masterful potpourri of student songs and other popular melodies.

The overture begins with a mysterious atmosphere building to the first of the student songs presented majestically as a German chorale. As the music builds, the winds sing the praises of beauty, “Wir hatten gebaut ein stättliche Haus” (We had built a stately home).

The principal theme returns with the full orchestra leading to the second student song introduced by the second violins “Der Landesvater” (The father of our country). The “Fox Song”–“Was kommt dort von der Höh,” (a song ridiculing freshmen raw from the provinces), appears first on the bassoons, the full orchestra joining in the fun. Following a recapitulation, the piece concludes with a triumphant rendition of “Gaudeamus igitur” (While we are young, let us rejoice).

Alania Peters, Clarinet SoloistAlaina Peters, a senior at Black Hills High School, has been a member of the SOGO Conservatory Orchestra for three years. Actively involved in her school’s music program, she plays clarinet in the symphonic band and pit orchestras, plays tenor saxophone in the jazz band and jazz combo, and is a drum major for the marching band. She has been studying privately with Jeff Brooks and Ashley Cook since eighth grade, and now teaches young students of her own. Her most exciting accom-plishments include a Superior rating at the State Solo Contest, winning the Masterworks Choral Ensemble Youth Music Contest, and receiving a standing ovation for performing Artie Shaw’s “Concerto for Clarinet.” She is also proud of tran-scribing her entire concerto from a recording by Sabine Meyer, and hopes the audience enjoys her original cadenzas. Alaina plans to major in music education at a large, public, out-of-state university next year.

A self-described “nerd”, Alaina has re-ceived nearly straight A’s throughout high school. She received an American Association of University Women Cer-tificate of Excellence for Mathematics last year and is a National Merit Semifinalist. Outside of school, she enjoys attending the youth groups at Westwood Baptist Church and Hope Community Church (often show-ing up at Hope 45-minutes late after SOGO rehearsal!), being a 3rd-4thgrade leader at Westwood’s AWANA club, and goofing around with friends. Alain also enjoys sing-ing along with the radio at the top of her lungs, but only when no one is around to hear.

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CONSERVATORY ORCHESTRAViolinAviva Browning, Capital H.S. (12)*Ella Bushnell, Olympia H.S. (10)Sung Kun Choi, Capital H.S. (11)Lisa Chong, Capital H.S. (10)Jimmy Henderson, Olympia H.S. (10)Robyn Hill, Jefferson M.S. (8)Nicole Hwang, On-Line Academy (10)Yeji Kim, Nisqually M.S. (7)Samuel Kim, Capital H.S. (10)Bruce Kirkpatrick, Mark Morris H.S. (11)~Ha-Eun Lee, Olympia H.S. (12)*Dakota McRostie, Tumwater H.S. (12)Sarah Myers, Tumwater H.S. (10)Angela Pak, Olympic M.S. (7)Soo Youn Park, Capital H.S. (10)Max Powers, Capital H.S. (9)Madalyn Schmidt, Timberline H.S. (10)Jun Shin, Capital H.S. (9)Sarah Smith, Olympia H.S. (10)Belinda So, Olympia H.S. (9)

ViolaErica Anderson, N. Thurston H.S. (10)Mallory Halbert, N. Thurston H.S. (11)Tiffany Smith, River Ridge H.S. (12)Daniel Swan, Olympia H.S. (10)Hyunhee Yi, Olympia H.S. (11)

CelloCatherine Brassey, W.F. West H.S. (11)Sydney Creel, Centralia H.S. (9)*Keadrin Dick, N. Thurston H.S. (10)Jeanette Johnson, Homeschool (9)Maura Phelps, Timberline H.S. (9)Veronica Saibel, Olympia H.S. (10)*Nolan Welch, Timberline H.S. (9)Nate Wertjes, Bush M.S. (8)

BassJesika Westbrook, Olympia H.S. (9)

FluteMary Armstrong, Pope John Paul II H.S. (10)Emily Donaldson, Olympia H.S. (11)Amy Ferris, Olympia H.S. (11)Jordan Williams, N. Thurston H.S. (10)

OboeChristine Dickens, N. Thurston H.S. (10)~Flora Espinoza, Capital H.S. (12)Bridget Long, Capital H.S. (9)

ClarinetVivian Edwards, Olympia H.S. (11)Max Glass, Capital H.S. (11)Alaina Peters, Black Hills H.S. (12)Random Water, Olympia H.S. (11)

Bassoon~Alex Carlson, Olympia H.S. (11)Vanessa Gilbert, Shelton H.S. (11)

BRASS CHOIR - Conservatory Brass SectionTrumpetAustin Brumbaugh, Mark Morris H.S. (11)Ben Hodson, Washington M.S. (7)Taylor Nixon, Capital H.S. (11)Breanne Zelenak, Black Hills H.S. (12)

French HornAddison Jeske, Pope John Paul II H.S. (9)Ketl Rodakowski, Olympia H.S. (10)

TrombonePatrick Brennan, Jefferson M.S. (8) -Brass ChoirGrant Stidham, Capital H.S. (10)Charlie Taft, Timberline H.S. (11)

TubaMichael Snodgrass, Olympia H.S. (12)

PercussionPatrick Brennan, Jefferson M.S. (8)Lucia Choi, Olympia H.S. (11)

SOGO Student Leaders* Student Board~ Student Representatives

Debut OrchestraViolinLilia AllenEllie BarbutoJoy BrennanStephanie CaseBrooke ChytilZander Dick~Sean DosterRowan DunnJisu HanSeth HarperJoshua HendersonNatalie HwangVeenadhari KolliparaWilliam Nordhorn~Ciara RuggieroRiver ScheuerellCasey Turner

ViolaAlex He

CelloDante FaulkJane Roalkvam

FluteBrandon ChandlerJoseph Coppock IVJanessa DurantBrittany Shoaf

ClarinetJackie DeshayeBrendan Lynch

TrumpetTurner AkinNick DelaplaneJackson Hall~William HammondEvangeline IvesKyu-Hun LeeEverett Werner

TromboneVinnie Baroga

TubaLars Leibenguth

SOGO Student Leaders* Student Board~ Student Representatives

Academy OrchestraViolinJason ChungJoelle ChungRyan ClarkCaddie DerbyEvan HarperBethany HermannDaniel Kim~Hyun Jin KimWynne LeeSurabhi MundadaEric SoRichard SohnKrishnasree UpadhyayulaOlivia Wertjes

ViolaSabrina HusseiniShreya Kumar

CelloGabriel BarnesBen BattenClaire BushnellZoe Chapman~Jared ChungMichael DeanVictoria Sykora-Lovaas Kenny Wu

BassLaura EvansAlek HusseiniJames Waltz

FluteNora GrimstedMorgan HurtadoSe J LeeHa-Yoon LeeElizabeth MyersChloe PiersonCamilla RosenfeldZach SprogeLauren Zinke

OboeNeve PetersHaley Shoaf

ClarinetAaron JarvelaIna LaGrandeurSienna Pavey~Maggie TaftUri Wortberg

BassoonKatee HertterTrinity CreedWill Dean

TrumpetJoey IgoeBen Jurkovich

French HornAugust Lavender- MarshallLandon MuellerHenry NordhornSage Pavey

TrombonePatrick Brennan

BaritoneMaria Coppock

TubaAlexis PaveyPeter Veis

John Welsh, Music DirectorJohn Welsh brings a wealth of experience, leader-ship, and direction to the members of the Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia (SOGO). His past conducting engagements include Music Director positions with the Bremerton Symphony Orchestra, the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra in Tennessee, the Prince William Symphony, Georgetown Symphony Orchestra and other or-chestras in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area. Mr. Welsh has conducted the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the New World Symphony in Miami, the Festival International Echternach Chamber Orchestra in Luxembourg, the Metropolitan Chamber Players at Lincoln Center, the Arlington Symphony, the Annapolis Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, and the Shenandoah Music Festival Orchestra. He has also held residencies at Indiana University. Mr. Welsh is very proud to be the first Music Direc-tor of SOGO and Conductor of the Conservatory Orchestra.

Mr. Welsh holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano from Miami University in Ohio and a Masters in Conducting from Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. While serving as a Captain in the United States Air Force, he conducted the United States Air Force Band and Symphony and Military Airlift Command Band. His men-tors include Richard Lert, Leo Mueller, Leon Barzin, Leon Fleisher, Kiril Kondrashin, Max Rudolph and Gustav Meier.

Greg Allison, Artistic DirectorGreg Allison, conductor of the SOGO Conservatory Brass Choir and Academy Orchestra, received his B.A. and M.A. in Music Education from Western Washington University where he studied trumpet with the late William D. Cole. Mr. Allison has taught instrumental music in the Olympia School District for over 30 years. His bands have been chosen to perform at the State and Northwest Music Educators’ Conference and the Western International Band Clinic.

Mr. Allison has performed in the Northwest Wind Symphony, the 22nd Ave Dixieland Band, the Tacoma Concert Band, and the Evergreen Brass Quintet. He has been a guest adjudicator, clinician, and guest con-ductor for state and regional festivals and conventions including the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. He has served on the Washington Music Educator’s board of directors, managed WMEA Junior All-State, and was a recipient of the WMEA Teacher of the Year for middle level education.

Conducting Staff

STRING COACHESMary Jo Rydholm (violin I) Linda Smith (violin II) April Whyte (viola) Anne Edge (viola) Judith Martin (cello) Rick Jarvela (bass)

WIND COACHESJean Whipple (flute)Marie Dunn (flute) Ashley Cook (clarinet) Karen Berets (double reeds)Lantz Berets (double reeds)Danielle Westbrook (trumpet)Liz Ward (French horn)Levin Conway (low brass) Jeff Lund (percussion)

PARENT MUSICIANSDr. Don Kirkpatrick, violinDr. Tina HusseIni, celloDr. George Brennan, French hornWilliam “Milt” Harper, percussion

ADJUNCT FACULTYAnne Edge (Music Historian) Mark Thome (Court Composer)

Lantz Berets (Debut Orchestra Wind Conductor) received a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and Performance from Western Washington University and a Master’s degree in Music from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He played bassoon for the United States Air Force and held positions as Minister of Music. He is currently the manager of Westside Music Center. He has a successful private studio and has founded the New Horizon’s Orchestra that meets Monday nights.

April Whyte (Debut Orchestra String Conductor) received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Pacific Lutheran University and teaches in the Bethel School District. She studied viola at Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of Illinois. While at Illinois she focused studies on conducting and string pedagogy with Thomas Wizniewski. She is the Music Director of the Maple Valley Youth Orchestra, plays in the Olympia Sym-phony Orchestra, maintains a private viola studio, and coaches for the Conservatory Orchestra. Ms. Whyte has a son in Debut Orchestra. In her spare time she enjoys reading, especially classical Greek and Roman literature, and philosophy.

Liz Ward (Brass Choir Assistant Conductor) re-ceived a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington and a Master of Musical Arts degree from Yale School of Music. Ms. Ward is a former member of the New Haven Symphony, Pennsyl-vania Ballet Orchestra, Pennsylvania Orchestra, Philadelphia Opera Orchestra and Young Audiences Inc., of Philadelphia. Returning to the Northwest, Ms. Ward founded the Evergreen Brass Quintet. As a studio teacher Ms. Ward’s students have con-sistently received awards on the local and national levels. Ms. Ward is also a brass coach for SOGO.

Mary Jo Knesal Rydholm (Ensemble Coord.) teach-es in the Olympia School District and is a Nationally Certified Music Teacher. She has served as Concert-master for several symphony orchestras in Washington State. Mrs. Rydholm is an adjunct faculty member at Saint Martin’s University where she teaches violin and viola. In 1999 she completed her Chamber Music Work-shop Director Internship under Dr. Valgene Phillips, and has since served as the SOGO Ensemble Coordina-tor. She also coaches the Conservatory and Academy strings.

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