TABLE OF CONTENTS - Ithaca College · PDF filehundreds of people walking around with horns on their backs was ... Joey Arcuri, bass; Greg Evans, drums Amateur Entrant ... Autumn Leaves

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TABLE OF CONTENTSHost Greeting ....................................................................4 Conference Credits .............................................................5 IHS Competition & Scholarship Winners/Finalists ....................6IHS Council, Coordinators & Representatives .......................7-8Daily Event Schedule ..................................................... 9-31Maps & Guides ............................................................ 32-45Food & Beverage .............................................................. 46IHS 2016 Exhibitors List .................................................... 47Featured Artist Biographies ........................................... 48-53Contributing Artist Biographies ...................................... 54-71Horn Health ..................................................................... 71 Supporting Artist Biographies ........................................ 72-76Collaborative Pianists Artist Biographies ............................... 77Composer Biographies .................................................. 78-80

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I am thrilled, honored…and just a bit overwhelmed(!) to be able to welcome you to Ithaca College for what I hope will be a wonderful week of horn camaraderie.

I’ve learned an awful lot during the preparations for this event, not the least of which being that we should all thank the International Symposium Coordinator a thousand times over for the extraordinary amount of work that she does, and the experience that she brings to the table. None of us would be enjoying this symposium if it weren’t for her dedication to our instrument and to our organization. Thank you, Nancy Joy!

I’ve learned that I am at least the 14th professor to have taught horn at this institution. Wil-liam Bernatis, John Covert, Marvin Howe, Robert Prins, Louis Stout, Craig McHenry, Elaine Bubis Kessler, Wendell Hoss, to name a few—names that have caused me to reflect on the value

of our connections to the past, to the present and to each other. When I started here in 1998, I found a dusty box of old etude books sitting in the corner of my office. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that they were all stamped “From the library of Marvin Howe,” with whom I had studied at Interlochen twenty-one years earlier. That story just scratches the surface of the deep connections that have shaped the planning of this symposium.

And I’ve learned, well, just had reconfirmed, that my wife, Elizabeth, and my sons are the most wonderful support and connection that I have in this world.

I hope that this week at the 48th International Horn Symposium will be one that leaves us all more connected to our past, to the present…and to our future. Enjoy! Ithaca is Gorges. IHS 2016 is CORges!

Here we are, at the world’s largest gathering of horn-obsessed people this year! On behalf of the International Horn Society and its Advisory Council, I welcome you to the 48th International Horn

Society symposium. Ithaca, New York is a beautiful location, and hey…us horn people are even more beautiful!

I feel the same now, as I did when I went to my first symposium in Kansas City in 1994. Seeing hundreds of people walking around with horns on their backs was such a warm feeling. There are hundreds of us here in Ithaca! Make sure you see all you can, hear all you can…and meet all the people you can. It is hard to choose what is most exciting. I’m excited to try new and used horns, cases, mutes, mouthpieces, and other equipment! I’m excited to look through new and standard repertoire and other publications and recordings! I’m excited to hear new and already-celebrated performing artists and teachers! I’m excited to make new friends and catch up with long-time friends I made starting way back at my first magical IHS symposium experience over 20 years ago.

Whether this is your first, fourth or fortieth big horn event, you have a lot to take in at this one! I’ll let you get to it…

Dear friends and colleagues: It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2016 International Horn Symposium at Ithaca Col-

lege. I hope that you will enjoy your stay with us this week, and that you will be able to partake of the stunning natural beauty and intensely transformative community that combine in such a rare and unique way here in Ithaca.

Our ‘Ithaca College’ began in 1892 as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, one of dozens of early, independent American institutions dedicated to importing the European model of musical practice into our relatively young country. At the time of our founding, your instrument—the French horn—did not yet exist in its modern form. History suggests that it would be another five years until, in 1897, the first prototype for a combined F/B-flat “double” horn was offered by the German horn manufacturer Kruspe.

Like the modern double horn, we have our feet in the 19th century but our eyes toward the 21st. Ours is a school that is founded in tradition yet devoted to innovation, transformation, and

pioneering the musical future. May your time here find you grounded in what you already know, and curious about what you don’t. We join you in dedicating ourselves to the future of music and musicians in America. We hope your time with us will help you lead the way.

Karl Paulnack, Dean, Ithaca College School of Music

HOST GREETING

IHS PRESIDENT GREETING

ITHACA COLLEGE GREETINGJeff Nelsen

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CONFERENCE CREDITSSymposium Host - Alexander Shuhan

Ithaca College School of Music - Dean - Karl PaulnackIthaca College School of Music - Ithaca College Symposium Administrators

School Operations and External Relations Officer - Christy AgneseProfessor of Performance Studies - Alexander Shuhan

International Symposium Coordinator - Nancy JoyExhibition Coordinator - Rose French

Special Events and Volunteer Coordinator - Evan YoungProgram Book Graphic Design, Layout & Prepress - Greg Cohen

Cover Photograph - Ilze Brink-ButtonPianist Coordinator - Alexander Shuhan

Special Thanks to:Ithaca College

Assistant Director of Event Planning & Special Programs - Peter Alario

Manager of Recording Services - Brian Dozoretz Business Coordinator, Campus Center & Events Services -

Staci HallManager of Concerts and Facilities -

Erik Kibelsbeck

Student Assistant, Campus Center & Events Services - Michelle Lee

Budget Assistant - Linda SpencerPiano Technician - Lou Tasciotti

Assistant Piano Technician - Thomas SayersAssistant to the Dean - Derek Wallace

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IHS COMPETITION & SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS/FINALISTSIHS Competition & Scholarship Adjudicators

IHS Premier Solo Competition “Preliminary Round” Judging PanelRandall Faust Elizabeth Freimuth Leelanee Sterrett Malcolm Stewart Gail Williams

IHS Premiere Solo Competition “Finals Round” Judging Panel

Nobuaki Fukukawa Marian Hesse Frank Lloyd Andrew Pelletier Gail Williams

Barry Tuckwell Award Judging PanelPat Hughes Ken Pope Barry Tuckwell

Paul Mansur Scholarship Judging Panel Bill Scharnberg Marilyn Bone Kloss

The Jon Hawkins Memorial Award Judging PanelLisa Bontrager Louis-Philippe Marsolais Susan McCullough

Andrew Pelletier Jose Zarso

Dorothy Frizelle Orchestral Excerpt Audition Judging PanelMembers of the Advisory Council

IHS IC 2016 Competition Adjudicators - Jazz:Steven Schaughency, Retired United States Air Force Band

Jeffrey Snedeker, Central Washington University Michael Titlebaum, Director of Ithaca College Jazz Studies

Horn Quartet Competition:

Steven Cohen, freelance artist SSG JG Miller, The United States Army Field Band

Abigail Pack, University of North Carolina - GreensboroTimothy Thompson, University of Arkansas

Jeb Wallace, Wichita State University

2015 Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Fund Compositions2015 Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Fund Panel

John Ericson, chair Douglas Hill Patrick Hughes

IHS 2016 Competition Winners & Finalists

IHS Premiere Solo Finalists 10 a.m. - Tuesday, 6/14/2016 - Hockett Family Recital Hall

Andrew Sehmann Andrew SymingtonBarry Tuckwell Award

Andrew SehmannPaul Mansur Award

Addison WhitneyThe Jon Hawkins Memorial Award

Andrew Sehmann

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IHS COUNCIL, COORDINATORS & REPRESENTATIVES2015-2016 IHS Advisory Council

OfficersPresident - Jeff Nelsen - Soloist, Indiana University

Vice President - Peter Luff - Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University

Secretary/Treasurer - Marian Hesse - University of Northern Colorado, Chestnut Brass Company

Advisory Council MembersMarcus Bonna - Brazil, Craftsman

Elaine Braun - U.S. Area Representative CoordinatorElizabeth Freimuth - Cincinnati Symphony

Nobuaki Fukukawa - NHK Symphony Orchestra TokyoPatrick Hughes - University of Texas – Austin

Young-Yul Kim - Seoul National UniversityAb Koster - Soloist, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Germany

Frank Lloyd - Soloist, Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, GermanyAndrew Pelletier - Bowling Green State University, Ohio

Louis-Philippe Marsolais - Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Orchestre Symphonique de MontréalKristina Mascher - Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra

Jose Zarzo - Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria

IHS Project and Program CoordinatorsAnnie Bosler - Host Support Committee Chair

John Ericson - Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Fund ChairRose French - Symposium Exhibits CoordinatorRandall Faust - IHS Composition Contest Chair

Nancy Joy - International Symposium CoordinatorPeter Luff - Scholarship Chair and Regional Membership Coordinator

Susan McCullough - Sound Archives Project Chair William Scharnberg - Publications Editor

Brent Shires - Regional Workshop CoordinatorLin Foulk - IHS Thesis Lending Library Coordinator

IHS Regional Coordinators and Area RepresentativeAustria - Lars StranskyBelgium - Jeroen Billiet

Brazil - Radegundis Aranha Tavares FeitosaCosta Rica - Juan Carlos Porras Castro

Czech Republic - Zdenek DivokýFinland - Jukka Harju

Iceland - Joseph OgnibeneIsrael - Yoel AbadiJapan - Mami Abe

Malaysia - Li Zhi YeohNetherlands - Hans Dullaert

Poland - Tadeusz TomaszewskiPortugal - Bohdan SebestikSouth Africa - Erik Albertyn

Spain - Javier BonetThailand - Daren Robbins

United Kingdom - British Horn Society Canada - Canadian Horn Association, Wendy Limbertie, President

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IHS COUNCIL, COORDINATORS & REPRESENTATIVES

Northeast Connecticut - Jaime Thorne

District of Colombia - Tobi CisinDelaware - John David Smith

Massachusetts - Marilyn Bone KlossMaryland - Shawn Hagen

New Jersey - Erin PaulNew York - Alan Orloff

Ohio - Tiffany DamiconePennsylvania - Rebecca Dodson-Webster

Rhode Island - Jaime ThornVirginia - Ian Zook

Vermont - lan Parshley

SoutheastAlabama - Brenda Luchsinger

District of Colombia - Tobi CisinFlorida - Carolyn Blice

Georgia - Jean Martin-WilliamsKentucky - David Elliot

Louisiana - James BoldinMaryland - Shawn Hagen

Tennessee - Jeremy HansenVirginia - Ian Zook

IHS IC 2016: In MemoriamPaul Anderson 1922-2015

Wendell “Pete” Exline 1922-2016Vladimir Garushka 1985-2016Kjellrun Hestekin 1948-2015

James Horner 1953-2015Kent Leslie 1957-2015

Leigh Martinet 1923-2016Brian O’Conner 1951-2016

Norman C. Pickering 1916-2015William Slocum 1936-2015

MidnorthIowa - Joshua Johnson

Illinois - Katherine Carothers McBainIndiana - Gene Berger

Michigan - Kurt CiviletteMinnesota - Greg Beckwith

North Dakota - Kayla NelsonNebraska - Jacqueline Mattingly

Ohio - Tiffany DamiconeSouth Dakota - Gary Reeves

MidsouthArkansas - Brent Shires

Kansas - Terrisa ZiekKentucky - David Elliot

Louisiana - James BoldinMissouri - Gary Moege

Nebraska - Jacqueline MattinglyOklahoma - Eldon Matlick

Tennessee - Jeremy HansenTexas - Jennifer Sholtis

NorthwestAlaska - Dan Heynen

California North - Daniel WoodCalifornia South - Annie Bosler

Colorado - Michael Robert ThorntonMontana - Bob Green

Oregon - Lydia Van DreelWashington - Gina Gillie

Wyoming - Jason Johnston

SouthwestArizona - Barbara Chinworth

California South - Annie BoslerNew Mexico - Nancy JoyTexas - Jennifer Sholtis

USA Regional Membership Coordinators

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JUNE 2016 - DAILY SCHEDULEMONDAY, June 13

Registration9 a.m. - 5 p.m. - North Foyer 210, Campus Center

10 a.m. – noon - Ford Hall 4301Horn Quartet Competition

Judges: Steven Cohen, J.G. Miller, Abigail Pack, Timothy Thompson, Jeb WallaceFandango - Kerry Turner (b.1960)

Contrapunctus X - J.S. Bach (1685-1750)Sevilla - Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)

Suite for Four Horns - Eugene Bozza (1905-1991)Duquesne Horn Quartet - Matt Ashton, Daniel DiCocco, Demetri Bedell, Shanyse Strickland

Born for Horn - #6 in die weite Welt hinein-Werner Pirchner (1940 -2001)Scarborough Fair - Traditional English Ballad/arr. Paul Frederic Simon

Sweet Dreams - Annie Lennox/David A. Stewart/Arr. Matthew K. BrownLe Rendevous de Chasse - Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792–1868)

Cornua Irae - Martha Sharpe, Shannon Kerrigan, Donald Harvey, Darren Robinson

The Magic Flute - Overture -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)5 Gesänge, op. 104 - V. Im Herbst - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Quartet No. 3 - I. The Sooners -Kerry Turner (b. 1960)4play Quartet - Nick Auer, Emma Staudacher, Julia Dombek, Steph Smith

11 a.m. – noon(ish) - NAB 4308 (Nabenhauer Recital Hall)Jazz Horn Competition

Judges: Mike Titlebaum, Steven Schaughency, Jeffrey SnedekerAlejandro Bernard-Papachrysanthou, piano; Joey Arcuri, bass; Greg Evans, drums

Amateur Entrant:Alex Gertner - Village Blues, Body & Soul

Professional Entrants:Yuri Sasaki - Blues in F, Bb Medium Swing

Candace Thomas - Bag’s Groove, Autumn LeavesShanyse Strickland - Freddie Freeloader, Misty

Mike Simpson - Robbin’s Blues, Ceora

1 p.m. - Ford Hall 4301Opening Ceremony

“Naturally, we shall meet again…” - Dana Wilson (b. 1946)(World Premier)

Advisory Council Horns, Dana Wilson, Conductor

Opening RemarksDean Karl Paulnack, Ithaca College School of MusicAlexander Shuhan, Host - Jeff Nelsen, IHS President

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“On the Departure of Beloved Friends” - Michael Patrick Coyle (b. 1957) From program notes by the composer: I wrote this piece in memory of my friend Larry

Jonas, a classmate of mine at the Eastman School of Music with whom I had stayed in touch on social media for years. We shared a great love of Wagner and the post-Wagnerian

symphonists (Bruckner, Mahler, etc.), so I decided to write this piece in that style. It differs very much from my other works and gets its inspiration from the Romantic period spanning

from Schubert to the late Romantics; however, I did not want to simply mimic that style or use clichés, but rather pay homage to the period as well as my friend, so it is written in a neo-Romantic style in my own voice. It was truly a labor of love but also a part of the grieving process for me. I honestly

knew no other way to express my sadness or express my feelings for my friend who had a spirit of such dignity and grace. All of us who knew him had a rare privilege. He will be with us forever.

(IHS Premier)Advisory Council Horns; Justin Chervony, tuba; Nancy Joy, Conductor

Czardas - Vittorio Monti (1868-1922) arr. Tony RickardPresident Jeff Nelsen, Vice-President Peter Luff, horns, Nick Weiser, piano

2 – 5 p.m. - Emerson Suites/Student CenterEXHIBITS OPEN

2 p.m. - Beeler 3104Frizelle Orchestral Excerpt Competition Master Class - Judges: IHS Advisory Council

3 p.m. - Hockett 3105 Lecture/Performance - Randall Faust

Marvin Howe and The Natural Beauty of The Sound of the Horn:A Heritage of the International Horn Society and Ithaca College

The Music of Marvin Howe Presented by a panel of Former Students of Marvin Howe and Horn Symposium

Participants: An Interactive Session! (Bring your Horn!)“Marvin Howe loved music and the horn. He did everything in his power to help his students love it

too. As long as I can remember, he felt no sound was worth making unless it was a beautiful sound.”(Arline Howe, Prologue to The Advancing Hornist, 2001.)

I. Introduction - featuring Solos arranged by Marvin Howe from the collection - The Solo Hornist - Solos for Horn and Piano arranged by Marvin Howe, and performed

by former students of Marvin HoweSiclienne - Gabriel Fauré - Lisa Bontrager

Dalla Sua Pace (from Don Giovanni) - W.A. Mozart - Aaron Brask Gloria: Qui Sedes Ad Dexteram Patres - Antonio Vivaldi - Alexander Shuhan

Bist du bei Mir - J.S. Bach - Erwin ChandlerSapphische Ode - Johannes Brahms - Marc Guy

The Tourney of King John - Camille Saint-Saëns - Randall FaustTomoko Kanamaru, piano

II. Horn Ensemble arrangements of Marvin Howe - performed by former students of Marvin Howe III. The reading of Horn Choir arrangements by Marvin Howe -

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Performed by all Symposium participants at the sessionEnsemble and Horn Choir selections will be selected from published editions of

the arrangement manuscripts of Marvin Howe including: “Andante Cantabile” from the String Quartet Op. 11 - P.I. Tchaikovsky

“Sarabande” from The Holberg Suite - Edvard Grieg - (Faust Music)In Memoriam of Marvin Howe - (The Hornist’s Nest)

4 p.m. - Ford Hall 4301 - PerformanceRecall, for Solo Horn - Christopher Dietz (b. 1977)

Chameleon, for Horn and Fixed Electronics - C.R. KasprzykAndrew Pelletier, horn; C.R. Kasprzyk, live electronics

Folks Songs for Horn and Piano - Paul Basler (b. 1963)Alegria - Puerto Rico

Round Dance - Native American - KiowaFuniculi, Funicula - ItalyHills of Arirang - Korea

Nihavend Sarki - TurkeyShenandoah - USA

The Drunken Sailor - British Sea ShantyNicholas Kenney, horn; Siu Yan Luk, pianist

Sesame Suite - arr. Tom CodyJust Desserts #1 - Lowell Shaw (b. 1930) arr. Tom CodyJust Desserts #5 - Lowell Shaw (b. 1930) arr. Tom Cody

Just Two: Sarah Schouten, horn; Tom Cody, guitar

“Between Sunlight and Shadow” - Andrew Savage (b. 1997) (World Premier)

Concerto Grosso - Frank Leonard (b. 1994)Spaghettification -Frank Leonard

UNCG Horn Choir, Dr. Abigail Pack, DirectorRachel Knierim, Kyla Bartron, Frank Leonard, Erin Massey-Nowadly, Allen Lanier,

Jourdain McCord, Andrew Savage, Rocky Ankeny, Derek Pothoff, John Tester, Ben Lawson, Tyler Ingram, Drew Forsyth, Jacob Kadan, Corinne Policriti, Brian Speice, Ian Blegen,

Drew Phillips, Catherine Creasy, Shayna Prace

7 p.m – 8:30 p.m. - Presser 3102Horn Choir Reading Session - Randall Faust, Lowell “Spike” Shaw, Conductors

7 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. - Hockett - Movie1M1: Hollywood Horns of the Golden Years. - A documentary directed and produced by Annie Bosler.

8:30 p.m. - 10:15 - Hockett - Movie David Amram: The First 80 Years. The life and times of Classical/Jazz/film score composer/conductor/jazz french hornist/world musician and Beat novelist Jack Keroauc’s musical collaborator, David Amram.

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8 a.m. - Ford HallWarm-up Session with Adam Wolf

8 a.m. - Green Room 3106 - Lecture Candace Thomas - Yoga and Horn Players: Building strength and mindfulness for practice and perfor-mance. This lecture will discuss the importance and benefits of yoga, strength building, and meditation

for horn players, and will be demonstrated through low-intensity yoga class, with some discussion, continuing on Wednesday-Friday at 8 a.m., possibly in an outdoor location TBD weather permitting.

9 a.m. - Presser 3102 - Lecture

Ian Zook - “Metric Modulation, the Methodical Fix: Utilizing Metric Transfer, Beat Displacement, and Note Grouping to Streamline Practice”

9 a.m. - Beeler 3104 LectureCarolyn Christie, Mental Skills Coach for Performers and Educators - Performance Preparation

Planning for Excellence: How goal-setting, action plans & evaluation work together for success

10 a.m. - Ford Hall - PerformanceEx Libris - Scott L. Wise (b. 1976)

I. “Over the plain, beneath a starless sky as dark and thick as ink, a man walked alone along the highway.”- Emile Zola, Germinal

II. “Poison is Queen!”- Robert Graves, I, ClaudiusIII. “Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur”-

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of IdentityIV. “...and amid a roaring, and bellowing, and thundering of ocean and of tempest, the ship is

quivering - oh God! and - going down!”- Edgar Allan Poe, MS. found in a BottleV. “...but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits.”-

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart, Jeb Wallace, horn; Matthew Nelson, clarinet; Douglas Jurs, piano

Pastorale and Dance - Eric Ewazen (b. 1954)

Timothy Thompson, horn; Elizabeth Shuhan, flute; Siu Yan Luk, piano

10 a.m. - Hockett - Performance/CompetitionIHS Premier Solo Competition Finals

Concerto No. 2 in Eb major, K. 417 - W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)I. - Allegro maestoso

Adagio and Allegro- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)Andrew Sehmann, horn; Siu Yan Luk, piano

Concerto No. 4 in Eb major, K. 495 - W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)

I. Allegro moderatoEn Forêt, Op. 40 - Eugène Bozza (1905-1991)

Andrew Symington, horn; Dee Ann Symington, piano

10 a.m. - Presser 3102 - Lecture/PerformanceStephen Lawson, horn; Kay Lawson, bassoon - “Duets for Horn and Bassoon”

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11 a.m. - Beeler 3104 - Featured Artist LectureLeslie Norton - “American Horn Concertos”

11 a.m. - Hockett - PerformanceSonata for Horn and Piano - Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013)

1. Allegro 2. Andante

3. Allegro VivoIan Zook, horn; Nick Weiser, piano

Scherzo Brillante Op. 96 - Jan Koetsier (1911-2006)Romanza Op. 59 No. 2 - Jan KoetsierSonatina Op. 59 No. 1 - Jan Koetsier

1. Allegro moderato2. Andantino grazioso

3. PrestoDan Nebel, horn; Nick Weiser, piano

11 a.m. - Presser 3102 - LectureJoseph Falvey - “Baroque Horn Performance Techniques: Discussion and Recording Comparison”

12:00 - 12:30 Outdoors on the Quad - ParticipationAmy Thakurdas - Tai Chi for horns: An elegant and beautiful way to relax and re-energize.

Enjoy a 30 minute Tai Chi session in the college quad at 12 noon daily.Amy Thakurdas, N.D., (naturopath) will lead simple, short tai chi based exercises involving breath work,

flexibility and balance. She will show specific stretches, postural alignments and strengthening exercises for horn players. No experience needed.

1 p.m. - Presser - 3102 Lecture/ParticipationAmy Thakurdas - Indian Raga Horn Workshop: Amy Thakurdas blends east with west playing

Indian ragas on French horn. She will share a few traditional ragas (patterns of notes similar to a Western scale). There will be an opportunity for you to play traditional ragas

(with improvisation) in a non-traditional horn choir setting. Also try some challenging ragas written in the style of Bach!

1 p.m. - Ford Hall - PerformanceTo the Seasons - Gina Gillie (b. 1981)

1. To Summer2. To Autumn3. To Winter4. To Spring

Trio Mélange: James Boldin, horn; Claire Vangelisti, soprano; Richard Seiler, piano

Concerto for 2 horns in E flat major, Hob VIId:2 (Rosetti) - Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)1. Allegro maestoso2. Romanza: Adagio3. Rondo: Allegretto

Wally Easter, Abigail Pack, horns; Kathia Bonna, piano

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1 p.m. - Hockett - LectureRose Valby and Patrick Hughes - “The Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Fund:

Discovering and Commissioning New Repertoire for the Horn”

1 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. - NAB 4308 - Movie1M1: Hollywood Horns of the Golden Years. A documentary directed and produced by Annie Bosler.

2 p.m. - Hockett - PerformanceQuintet for Winds - Philip Spaeth (b. 1979)

I. Allegro II. AdagioIII. Vivace

IV. Maestoso – Presto

Quinteto - Norman C. Thibodeau (b. 1959)Fünf: Patrice Malatestinic, horn; Norman Thibodeau, flute; Susan Kokernak, oboe;

David Ciucevich, clarinet; Gerald Lanoue, bassoon

“And the Clouds Break” for Horn and Piano (2014) - Daniel Baldwin (b. 1978)(World Premier)

Steven Cohen, horn; Nick Weiser, piano

Reveries - James Naigus (b. 1987) In F for Two Horns (2011) - Leo Kraft (1922-2014)

(New York Premier)Steven Cohen, Jeb Wallace, horns; Nick Weiser, piano

2 p.m. - Presser 3102 - Lecture/PerformanceBrent Shires, horn; Terrie Shires, piano -

“Ralph Hermann: Pioneer Composer for Solo Horn and Band”

3 p.m. - Ford Hall - PerformanceVirginia Songs - Andrew Boysen, Jr. (b. 1968)

“Play Pretty”“Lava Lamps and Pink Flamingos”

This commission was made possible via the support of the following: Composition Consortium participants:

John Ericson, Arizona State UniversityRandall E. Faust, Western Illinois UniversityPatrick Hughes, University of Texas Austin

H. Keith Jackson, Director, School of Music, West Virginia UniversityNancy Joy, New Mexico State University

Peter Kurau and the Eastman Horn Studio with support from the Gretchen Snedeker Memorial FundJean Martin-Williams, University of Georgia

Eldon Matlick, University of OklahomaSeth Orgel, Louisiana State University

Jennifer Presar, Southern Illinois University CarbondaleWilliam Scharnberg, University of North Texas

Brent Shires, University of Central ArkansasJeffrey Snedeker, Central Washington University

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Carrie D. Strickland, Freelance Musician/Teacher & Gail M. Williams, Northwestern University Dr. Virginia Thompson was born in Davenport, Iowa and attended the University of Iowa (BM, DMA) and the University of Arizona (MM). She taught horn at Coe, Cornell, and Grinnell Colleges and played in several orchestras, including the Orquesta Sinfonica de Xalapa in Veracruz, Mexico and as substitute with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. From 1990-2015, Dr. Thompson was Professor of Music at West Virginia University, where she taught horn performance, literature, and pedagogy, was the Director of Graduate Studies (1996-2000), and was a member of the faculty Laureate Wind Quintet. She is remembered not only as a beloved teacher, but also for her sense of humor as well as her kindness and caring. Her service to the IHS, including two terms on the Advisory Council (1995-2002) and a term as president (2000-2002), was recognized with the Service Medal of Honor in 2015. Known to legions of students as “Dr. T,” she was an inspirational and beloved teacher who found the time and energy to assist all students. Her pedagogical expertise was matched by her integrity and compassion. She had a special interest in new music, commissioning and premiering many new works during her career. As such, several of her former students and colleagues commissioned this new work, with the assistance of the Consortium Participants, as a fitting tribute to her years of service and prolific career.

3 p.m. - Presser 3102 - LectureJack Munnecom - “The Velvet Hornsound of Jan Bos (Royal Concertgebouworchestra Amsterdam)”

3 p.m. - Beeler 3104 - LectureDaniel Nebel - “Military Bands: What do they really bring to the mission?”

3 - 5 p.m. - Hockett - Featured Artist Master ClassNobuaki Fukukawa

IHS2016 Master Class Participants: Nick Auer, The Boston Conservatory; David Dickerson, Washington Adventist University; Melissa Harris, University of Southern Mississippi; Amanda

Moskowitz, Cleveland Institute of Music; Megan Warriner, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

4 p.m. - Beeler 3104 - LectureDaniel Baldwin - Music Entrepreneurship: A lecture on career building

for musicians, from student to professional

4 p.m. - Presser 3102 - LecturePeter Silberman - “The Anxiety of Influence: Finding Brahms in John Harbison’s Twilight Music”

7:30 p.m. - Ford Hall - Featured Artist PerformanceFrank Lloyd, Pip Eastop, Leslie Norton, Jeff Nelsen

Susan Waterbury, violin; Xak Bjerken, piano

Appel Interstellaire for Solo Horn - Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)Mr. Lloyd

Trio in E Flat, Op. 40 - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)I. AndanteII. Scherzo

III. Adagio mestoIV. Allegro con brio

Mr. Eastop, natural horn; Ms. Waterbury, Mr. Bjerken

—Intermission—

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JUNE 2016 - DAILY SCHEDULETUESDAY, June 14

Twilight Music - John HarbisonMr. Lloyd, Ms. Waterbury, Mr. Bjerken

Sonata for Four Horns - Sir Michael TippettI. Allegro molto moderato

II. Allegro giocosoIII. Lento cantabile tranquillo in stilo notturno

IV. Allegro e molto vigorosoMr. Lloyd, Ms. Norton, Mr. Eastop, Mr. Nelsen

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JUNE 2016 - DAILY SCHEDULEWEDNESDAY, June 15


8 a.m. - Ford Hall

Warm-up Session with Gene Berger

8 a.m. - Green Room 3106Candace Thomas - Yoga and Horn Players (see listing on Tuesday 8 a.m. for more information)

9 a.m. - Ford Hall - LectureGreta Richard - “Off-Beats Galore and a Whole Lot More! The Benefits of

Becoming a Military Musician”

9 - 11 a.m. - Hockett - Featured Artist Master ClassFrank Lloyd

IHS2016 Master Class Participants: Yuna Aihara, Tokyo University of the Arts; David Dickerson, Washington Adventist University; Melissa Harris, University of Southern Mississippi;

Yuka Hashimoto, Japan; Duncan Robertson, University of Georgia; Megan Warriner, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

9 a.m. - Presser - Lecture

Doug Hall - “George McCracken, horn creator, designer, builder”

9 a.m. Beeler - 3104 LectureCarolyn Christie, Mental Skills Coach for Performers and Educators - Working on

Your Mental Game for Performance Excellence: self-talk strategies, confidence-building, distraction control for you best focus in performance

10 a.m. - Ford Hall - PerformanceHorn Ensemble featuring Horns from the United States Marine Band,

United States Navy Band and United States Marine CorpsHornsongs - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) arr. Verne Reynolds/ed. J. Greg Miller

I. Es Rauschet Das Wasser, Op. 28II. Der Jäger Und Sein Liebchen, Op. 28

III. Weg der Liebe, Op. 20IV. So Lass Uns Wandern, Op. 75

V. Walpurgisnacht, Op. 75Greta Richard, Brigette Knox, horns; Tomoko Kanamaru, piano

Sonata in One Movement - Hugh ChandlerJason Ayoub, horn; Tomoko Kanamaru, piano

Three Shades for Five Horns - James Naigus (b. 1987) I. II. III.

Greta Richard, Brigette Knox, Cecilia Kozlowski, Tim Huizenga, Jason Ayoub; horns Composer’s Notes: “In my opinion, one of the best abilities of the horn is to express a variety of musical colors and/or timbres. This piece consists of three contrasting movements that highlight

this ability. The titles of each movement are left open for the listener to decide!”

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10 a.m. - Beeler - LectureStephen Lawson - “Modern Method for Historical Horn Performance”

11 a.m. - Ford Hall - Featured Artist LectureJeff Stockham - “It’s All Part of a Career - Making a Living as a Freelance, Brass Multi-Instrumentalist.”

11 a.m. - Hockett - PerformanceMusic of Daniel Baldwin

“KUI Awakened” (2016) for solo horn by Daniel Baldwin (b. 1978)Philip Kassell, horn

“Dreams of the White Tiger” (2014) - Daniel BaldwinJewel Winds: Claire Tuxill McKenney, horn; Cornelia Brewster, flute; Janelle Snell Bookhout, oboe;

Colleen O’Neil, clarinet; Judy Narchione, bassoon

“Landscapes” (2011) - Daniel BaldwinI. Of Tomorrow’s Promise; West Rock, New Haven, 1849

II. Of Pain and Sorrows; Twilight: Mount Desert Island, Maine, 1865III. Of Quiet Reflection; Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp, 1895

Erin Futterer, horn; Carl Galland, clarinet; Max Grube bassoon; Nick Weiser, piano

“Big Sky Country” (2015) for horn choir - Daniel Baldwin“Firefall” (2016) for horn choir - Daniel Baldwin

Erin Futterer, Sara Petokas, Sonja Reynolds, Steven Schaughency, Phil Kassell, Claire Tuxill McKenney, Eldon Matlick, Stephen Laifer

11 a.m. - Presser - LectureJohn Dressler - “Pioneer Women Hornists on Record”

12 p.m. - Dining Area - Performance

Central Michigan University Horn Choir - Bruce Bonnell, Director

12 - 12:30 Outdoors on the Quad ParticipationAmy Thakurdas - Tai Chi for horns: An elegant and beautiful way to relax and re-energize.

1 p.m. - Ford Hall - PerformanceBeautiful Landscapes: New Music for Woodwind Quintet

The Monmouth Winds: Richard Sachs, horn; Jenny Cline, flute; Nicholas Gatto, oboe; Richard Grossman, clarinet; Linda Balavram, bassoon

Cape May Breezes (2014) - Daniel Dorff (b. 1956) I. - Breezing Into Town (Exit 0)

II. - Autumn Monarch Migration (Fluttering Clouds of Orange) III. - Victorian Garden Party (Sarabande – Bourée – Gigue)

IV. - Dusk at Sunset Beach V. - Night Breezes on the Boardwalk

Commissioned by and dedicated to Jenny Cline for The Monmouth WindsFrom program notes by the composer: When flutist Jenny Cline proposed a commission for

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The Monmouth Winds, the image of a breezy shore came to mind, with the wind instruments portraying ocean breezes. Later, this became a suite of Cape May scenes, inspired by the quaint town at the southern tip of New Jersey. Cape May is known for its popular beach, nature preserves that attract migrating birds and butterflies, day trips and family vacations, entertainment by Philadelphia musicians bartering con-certs for hotel stays, and above all, for its Victorian architecture, summer homes, and bed & breakfasts.

Reverie for Wind Quintet (2015) - Eric Ewazen (b. 1954)Commissioned by The Monmouth Winds

The Reverie begins with a lullaby sung by the horn: a sweet, relaxed, pastorale melody in a major key. The melody of the energetic middle section spins around the different instruments

in a minor key. And then the lullaby returns. Like many of Ewazen’s works that are named for specific places, this piece for Wind Quintet evokes images of idyllic landscapes and the majesty of nature.

Tales of the Sierra Madre (2012) - David Evan Thomas (b. 1958) There and Back

Venus and Jupiter Jingle-Jangle Morning

Stone Circles Elegy

High WindsCommissioned by The Monmouth Winds

From program notes by the composer: One can’t predict what one will encounter on a trip, and the hills behind Wyoming’s Brush Creek Ranch provided ample room for reflection—and not a few surprises—in 2012. There and Back begins in meditation, but quickly adopts a care-free Western attitude. Venus and

Jupiter commemorates the conjunction of those planets in the sky. Jingle-Jangle Morning is a toccata, or capriccio, on an irregular theme. Stone Circles attempts to capture the wonder of several stone circles from pre-history—or at least from the previous residency. Elegy conveys a gentle sadness in memory of

my parents, John and Mimi Thomas. High Winds is a blustery rondeau in 7/8 meter.

1 p.m. - Presser - LectureCorbin Wagner - “How to play high with and without the descant horn”

1 p.m. - Hockett - LectureAaron Brask - “Bach to Bebop: The importance of pulse in any ensemble”

Max Shuhan, piano; Sam Shuhan, bass; Tony Steve, drums

2 p.m. - Ford Hall - LectureEli Epstein and Dr. Peter Iltis - MRI Horn, The Inside Story: Pedagogy Informed by Science

2 p.m. - Hockett - Lecture/PerformanceBen Anderson, horn; Tomoko Kanamaru, piano - “The Music of Alec Wilder:

Sonata No. 3 for horn and piano”

3 p.m. - Presser 3102 - Lecture Steven Cohen - J.S. Bach and the Horn: An Exploration of Performance and Teaching Practices”

3 p.m. - Beeler 3104 - LectureDaniel Nebel - Positive Benefits of Healthy Living Applied to Developing

and Sustaining a Performing Career

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3 p.m. - Hockett Lecture/Participation Amy Thakurdas - Indian Raga Horn Workshop: Amy Thakurdas blends east with west playing Indian

ragas on French horn. She will share a few traditional ragas (patterns of notes similar to a Western scale). There will be an opportunity for you to play traditional ragas (with improvisation) in a non-traditional horn

choir setting. Also try some challenging ragas written in the style of Bach!

4 p.m. - Ford Hall - PerformanceSonata for Horn and Piano in E (ca. 1814) - Nikolaus von Krufft (1779-1818)

I. Allegro moderatoII. Andante espressivoIII. Rondo: Alla Polacca

Jeffrey Snedeker, natural horn; Siu Yan Luk, piano

“...across the plains, to Devils Tower” - Mack LaMont (b. 1989)Ericka Tyner Grodrian, horn

Sonata for Horn and Piano (2015) - John Cheetham (b. 1939)(World premier)I. Allegro eroico

II. AndanteIII. Gioviale

Margaret Tung, horn; Siu Yan Luk, piano

7:30 p.m. - Ford Hall - Featured Artist PerformanceLeslie Norton, Bruno Schneider, William VerMeulen

Tomoko Kanamura, piano; Siu Yan Luk, piano; Nick Weiser, piano

Air for solo horn - Jörg WidmannMr. Schneider

Gothic Concerto - Kerry Turner 1. - Allegro Vivo

2. - Lento; piu mosso3. -Moderato

4. -Allegro con brioMs. Norton, Ms. Kanamura

Suite for Horn and Piano - Corrado Maria SagliettiI. - Tango

II. - CanzoneIII. - Speedy

Mr. Schneider, Ms. Luk

—Intermission—Her Name Shall Remain Unspoken (1997) - Paul English (b. 1951)

Romance - Claude Debussy (1862-1918) arr. Roland HorvathVariations on a Welsh Theme - Peter Kneale (b. 1926) trans. William VerMeulen

Remembrances op. 130 - Michael Conway Baker (b. 1937)Horn Sonata No. 1 - Christopher Caliendo (b. 1960)

1. - Moderato2. - Adagio

3. - Prestissimo Jam Session for Horn and Piano - Michael Thurber (b. 1987)

(World Premier)Mr. VerMeulen, Mr. Weiser

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8 a.m. - Ford Hall

Warm-up Session with Alexander Shuhan


9 a.m. Presser 3102 LectureCarolyn Christie, Mental Skills Coach for Performers and Educators -

Using Imagery for Performance Success

9 - 11 a.m. - Hockett - Featured Artist Lecture/Master Class Williiam VerMeulen

IHS2016 Master Class Participants: Nick Auer, The Boston Conservatory; Duncan Robertson, University of Georgia; Lori Roy, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music;

Brianna Volkmann, Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory

9 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Beeler - Performance/CompetitionFrizelle Orchestral Excerpt Competition

10 - 12 p.m. - Ford Hall - Featured Artist Master ClassBruno Schneider

IHS2016 Master Class Participants: Yuna Aihara, Tokyo University of the Arts; David Dickerson, Washington Adventist University; Matthew Jaimes, Manhattan School of Music; Derek Maseloff,

Cornell University; Elisabeth Pesavento, Interlochen Arts Academy

11 a.m. - Presser 3102 - LectureTiffany Damicone - “Missing Links to Technical Mastery on the Horn”

12 - 12:30 Outdoors on the Quad - ParticipationAmy Thakurdas - Tai Chi for horns: An elegant and beautiful way to relax and re-energize.

1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - 10:15 - NAB 4308 - Movie

David Amram: The First 80 Years. The life and times of Classical/Jazz/film score composer/conductor/jazz french hornist/world musician and Beat novelist Jack Keroauc’s musical collaborator, David Amram.

1 p.m. - Ford Hall - PerformanceNew Music for Brass Quintet featuring Daniel Baldwin’s “Lighthouse Suite”Gaudete Brass: Phil Kassel, horn; Bill Baxtresser and Ryan Berndt, trumpets;

Paul Von Hoff, trombone; Scott Tegge, tuba

Entrance (2003) - David Sampson (b. 1951)

Canciones y Villanescas espirituales - Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)1. La Gracia Y Los Ojos Bellos - Your grace, your beauteous eyes

2. O Virgen Quando’s Miro - O Virgin, when I gaze upon you3. ¡Hombres, victoria, victoria! - Victory, brethren, victory

4. Oyd, oyd una cosa - Hear, hear a divine, gracious and beautiful thing

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Lighthouse Suite (2014) - Daniel Baldwin (b. 1978) 1. Visions of Light 2. On the Open Sea 3. Twilight Shadows 4. Resplendent Shores

Still (2013) - David Sampson (b. 1951)

Brass Quintet (2009) - Shafer Mahoney (b.1968) 1. Hushed, mysterious 2. Melancholy 3. Maestoso

1 p.m. - Hocket - Performance

Bagatelle, solo and 6 horns. Hermann Neuling (1897-1967) arr. Holcombe Jr.Douglas Hall, solo horn; Aaron Brask, Jeff Nelson, Alexander Shuhan,

Greg Beckwith, Ilze Brink-Button, Bill Holcombe

Tapestry Park - Bill Boston (b. 1963)/Aaron Brask (b. 1960)Coronado Cool - Boston/Brask

Mira Loma - Boston/BraskRed Sky at Morning - Billy Goldenburg b. 1936

Joyspring - Clifford Brown (1930-1956)Killer Joe - Benny Golson (b. 1929)

Satin Doll - Duke Ellington (1899-1974)5 horns and Rhythm: Aaron Brask, Alexander Shuhan, Ilze Button, Douglas Hall, Jeff Nelson, horns; Nick Weiser, piano; Sam Shuhan, bass; Tony Steve, drums

2 p.m. - Ford Hall - Performance

Zero Point - Tyler Ogilvie (b. 1983)Tyler Ogilvie, horn

Seasons of Change - Howard Buss (b. 1951)

I. WinterII. Spring

III. SummerIV. Fall

Andrew Pelletier, solo horn

Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38 - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) (trans. Brubaker)

I. Allegro non troppoII. Allegretto quasi Menuetto

III. AllegroMatt Eckenhoff, Horn; Siu Yan Luk, piano

2 p.m. - Presser 3102 - LectureEli Epstein - “Cultivating One’s Own Voice on the Horn”

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3 p.m. - Ford Hall - PerformanceMusings for Horn and Piano (2003) - Dana Wilson (b.1946)

I. Calliope—Muse of Eloquence and Epic PoetryII. Polyhymnia - Muse of Sacred Song

III. Thalia - Muse of ComedyIV. Melpomene - Muse of TragedyV. Euterpe - Muse of Lyric Poetry

VI. Erato - Muse of Erotic LoveVII. Clio - Muse of History

VIII. Urania - Muse of AstronomyIX. Terpsichore - Muse of Whirling DanceJeffrey Snedeker, horn; Nick Weiser, piano

Sonata - Christoph Nils Thompson (b.1978)(World Premier)

1. Moderato2. Chaconne3. Evocation

Gene Berger, horn; Topher Ruggiero, piano

Brass Quintet No. 1 in D Major - Matthew Haislip (b. 1985)I. PreludeII. ScherzoIII. BalladIV. ElegyV. Finale

Washburn University Faculty Brass Quintet: Matthew Haislip, horn; Michael Averett and Tim Thomas, trumpets; Brian Scarborough, trombone; Jason Tacker, tuba

3 p.m. - Presser 3102 - LectureEricka Tyner Grodrian - “Beyond the Short Call: The Horn Opera Project”

4 p.m. - Ford Hall - PerformanceConcert for Waldhorn and Orchestra - Christoph Forster (1693-1745)

I. - Con DiscretionSur Les Cimes - Eugène Bozza (1905-1991)

Corbin Wagner, horn; Tomoko Kanamaru, piano

“Horn through the Ages”Wir glauben all’ an einen Gott - J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Overture to Fidelio - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) arr. TakahashiAdagietto from Symphony No. 5 - Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Sextet - Gregory Kerkorian’s (b. 1942)The New England Horn Ensemble: Barbara Hill, John Michael, Hilary Ledebuhr,

Nicholas Rubenstein, Joshua Michal, Jaime Thorne


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4 p.m. - Hockett - PerformanceWind Quintet op. 88 no. 2 in Eb (1818) - Anton Reicha (1770-1836)

I. Lento - Allegro moderatoII. Menuetto: Allegro

III. Poco andante - GraziosoIV. Finale: Allegretto

Grand Harmonie - Yoni Kahn, natural horn; Sarah Paysnick, flute; Kristin Olson, oboe; Elise Bonhivert, clarinet; Allen Hamrick, bassoon

7:30 p.m. - Ford Hall - Featured Artist PerformanceGail Williams, Nobuaki Fukukawa, horns; Jeffrey R. Stockham, horn, trumpet, mellophone

Kay Kim, piano; Tomoko Kanamaru, piano; Paul Merrill, trumpet;Mike Dubaniewicz, tenor saxophone; Dave Solazzo, piano;

Tom Brigandi, acoustic and electric bass; Greg Evans, drums

Sonatina for horn & piano - David Gwilt (b. 1932)I. - Allegro

II. - AndanteIII. - Vivace

Ms. Williams, Ms. Kim

MOZARTiana–Shiritori Variation on a Theme of Mozart - Masato Suzuki (b. 1981)(U.S. Premier)

Letter from Saturn - Miho Hazama (b. 1986)(World Premier)

Nocturne and Toccata - Eric Ewazen (b. 1954)(World Premier, Commissioned by Japan Horn Society Competition 2016)

Mr. Fukukawa, Ms. Kanamaru

Deep Remembering for horn and piano - Dana Wilson (b. 1946)I. - Prologue/Where there was silence…

II. - …Stepped into fire/EpilogueMs. Williams, Ms. Kim

—Intermission—

Songs of Remembrance - James Stephenson (b. 1969)(World Premier)

Ms. Williams, Ms. Kim

The Quota - Jimmy HeathLadybird/Half Nelson - Tad Dameron/Miles Davis

Coop de Graas -Shorty RogersDeception -Miles Davis

Ruby My Dear -Thelonius MonkDonna Lee - Charlie Parker

Nutville - Horace SilverMr. Stockham, Mr. Merrill, Mr. Dubaniewicz, Mr. Solazzo, Mr. Brigandi, Mr. Evans


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JUNE 2016 - DAILY SCHEDULEFRIDAY, June 17


8 a.m. - Ford Hall

Warm-up Session with Gail Williams


9 a.m. - Presser 3102IHS GENERAL MEETING

10 a.m. - 12 noon - Ford Hall - Featured Artist Master ClassGail Williams

IHS2016 Master Class Participants: Elizabeth Hahn, Notre Dame Sr. High School, Rome, NY; Melissa Harris, University of Southern Mississippi; Yuka Hashimoto, Japan; Amanda Moskowitz,

Cleveland Institute of Music; Elisabeth Pesavento, Interlochen Arts Academy; Megan Warriner, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

10 a.m. - Hockett - PerformancePastoralia: Scenes from Canadian Horn Repertoire

Romance - Elizabeth Raum (b. 1945)Elegie Pour Cor Francais - Daniel Pilon (b. 1957)

Pastoralia - Glenn James (b. 1984) (Funded in part by the Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Program)

Cantilena - Michael Conway Baker (b. 1937)Duet - Bramwell Tovey (b. 1953)

Ashley Cumming, Jeff Nelsen, horns; Tomoko Kanamaru, piano

10 a.m. - Presser 3102 - LectureJeffrey Snedeker - “Expanding Comfort Zones: An Improvisation Curriculum for Hornists”

10 a.m. - Beeler 3104 - LectureSonja Reynolds - “Block Method” for learning scales

11 a.m. - Hockett - Featured Artist Master ClassPip Eastop - “Pip’s Tips: A Technique Q&A Session”

11 a.m. - Presser - Featured Artist Improvisation Master ClassDavid Amram - “Anyone & Everyone can Improvise!” Bring your horns and play!

11 a.m. - Beeler 3104 - LectureJames Boldin - “Solo Training for Horn: Etudes and Exercises for Standard Solo Repertoire”

12 - 12:30 Outdoors on the Quad - Participation

Amy Thakurdas - Tai Chi for horns: An elegant and beautiful way to relax and re-energize.

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1 p.m. - Ford Hall - PerformancePremieres and Standards from the Horn Ensemble Repertoire

Bob Cherry, Steven Cohen, Matt Eckenhoff, Cecelia Kozlowski, JG Miller, Dan Phillips, Alexander Shuhan, Jeff Snedeker, Jeb Wallace, horn; Sam Shuhan, bass; Greg Evans, drums;

Daniel Baldwin, Conductor

“Legend of Fallen Kings” (2016) - Daniel Baldwin (b. 1978)I. Dawn of Time

II. Key to the Gate of DreamsIII. Oblivion

The Great Sea (2016) - Jenni Brandon (b. 1977)(World Premier)

Blue October (2016) - Matthew Haislip (b. 1985)

(World Premier)

Hymnus - Kerry Turner (b. 1960)

This Suite Ain’t a Sentimental Marvel - Dana Wilson (b. 1946)

1 p.m. - Hockett - PerformanceNocturno, op. 7 - Franz Strauss (1822-1905)

Spiegel im Spiegel - Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)Sonata for horn and piano - Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901)

I. Con motoII. Quasi Adagio

III. Con fuocoKatie Johnson, horn; Siu Yan Luk, piano

Concerto for Two Horns, WoO. 19 (dated 1811, Kassel) - Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) I. Allegro

II. Andante III. Rondo: Allegro

Amy Laursen, Heather Thayer, horns; Tomoko Kanamaru, piano

2 p.m. - Hockett - Performance“Mostly Music for Horn & Harp”Sonata - Brent Edstrom (b.1964)

I. Allegro ModeratoII. Andante Cantabile

III. ScherzoJennifer Brummett, horn; Nick Weiser, piano

Orchard Sunset (2011) - Russell Nadel (b. 1982)Chants, Pastorals, and Antiphons of the New Moon (2012) - Naftali Schindler (b. 1982)

Citrina Migration (2014) - Rachel Devorah Trapp (b. 1986)Apple Orange Pair: Emily Boyer, horn; Colleen Potter Thorburn, harp

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Moonlight in a Chamber - William Berry (b.1957)Jennifer Brummett, horn; Colleen Potter Thorburn, harp

Under the Moon (2016) - Nathan Pawelek (b. 1968)Emily Boyer, Jennifer Brummett, horns; Colleen Potter Thorburn, harp

2 p.m. - Presser 3102 - Lecture/PerformanceAmr Selim - “Elements and Structure of the Music in Egypt”

2 p.m. - NAB 4308 - LectureSteven Schaughency - “Swing, phrasing and articulation in the jazz styles: time to break some rules”

3 p.m. - Ford Hall - PerformancePrélude, Récitatif et Variations, Op. 3 - Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) trans. Shuhan

Shuhan-Luk Trio: Alexander Shuhan, horn; Elizabeth Shuhan, flute; Siu Yan Luk, piano

Beethoven, NaturallySextet op. 81b for 2 horns and strings (1795) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

I. Allegro con brioII. Adagio

III. Rondo. AllegroGrand Harmonie: Yoni Kahn and Elisabeth Axtell, natural horns; Maureen Murchie

and Sarah Titterington Ibbett, violins; Anna Griffis, viola; Michal Shein, cello

3 p.m. - Hockett - PerformanceThe Beauty of Brazilian Popular Music

A Procissão da Virgem - Maestro Duda (b. 1935)Receita de Samba - Jacob do Bandolim (1918-1969)

Feira de Mangaio (Forró) - Sivuca (1930-2006) and Glorinha Gadelha (b. 1947)Lamentos da Vida - Marcelo Vilor (b. 1965)

Zizinho nos States - Maestro DudaCirandinha - Dennis Bulhões (b. 1987)

Baião pra Costinha (Baião) - Léo Meira (b. 1976)Concertino no. 1 - Maestro Duda

- Côco - Toada - Frevo

Frevo suite - Various composers Arr. Radegundis TavaresRa-Radega (Frevo) - Chiquito (b. 1953)

Radegundis Tavares, horn; Kathia Bonna, piano; Camila Meirelles, viola; Dennis Bulhões, drums

3 p.m. - Presser 3102 - LectureJ. G. Miller - “The Paradox of the Soldier-Artist: Musicians in the Military”

3 p.m. - Beeler 3104 - LectureCatherine Roche-Wallace - “Under Pressure” - Solutions for struggles in the high range”

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4 p.m. - Ford Hall - Performance Realm’s End (2016) - Tyler Ogilvie (b. 1983)

I. Reichsadler fliegt nach Osten (Imperial Eagle Flies East)II. Tragedia na Wołyniu (Tragedy at Volyn)

III. Krasnaya Armiya v Berline (Red Army in Berlin)Lori Roy, horn; Peydon Shelton, trumpet; Russ Zokaites, bass trombone

(Funded in part by the Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Program)

“XXI Century Mexican Music for Horn and Piano”Sonata para Corno y Piano - Javier Compeán (b. 1978)Charlas, en Armonía Doria - Francisco Nuñez ((b. 1949)

Mauricio Soto, horn; Jacobo Cerda, piano

4 p.m. - Presser 3102 - LectureSelena Adams - “The Other Audition Repertoire: Wind Ensemble Excerpts for Horn”

7:30 p.m. - Ford Hall - Featured Artist PerformancePip Eastop, David Amram, Arkady Shilkloper and the

IHS All-Star Big Band, Eldon Matlick, conductor.Annie Bosler, Aaron Brask, Elaine Braun, Rebecca Dodson-Webster, Randy Faust, Marian Hesse,

Patrick Hughes, Nancy Joy, Frank Lloyd, Jeff Nelsen, Andrew Pelletier, Jennifer Pressar, Steve Schaughency, Bruno Schneider, Jeffrey Snedecker, Alexander Shuhan, Jeffrey Stockham,

Dylan Skye Hart, Tim Thompson, Jeb Wallace, Catherine Roche-Wallace,Carsten Williams; horns;Nick Weiser, piano; Sam Shuhan, bass; Justin Chervony, tuba; Greg Evans, drums

“Set the Wild Echoes Flying” - Pip Eastop (b. 1958)Mr. Eastop, natural horn; Frank Lloyd, Amy Thakurdas, Carsten Williams, narrators

Music to be Selected from: Moonlight in Vermont - Karl Suessdorf (1911-1982) & John Blackburn (1913-2006)

Layla - Eric Clapton (b. 1945) Speak Low - Kurt Weill (1900-1950)

Cantana - Alfred Neumann (1900-1970) Here’s That Rainy Day - Jimmy Van Heusen (1913-1990)

Mr. Amram, Mr. Shilkloper, IHS IC 2016 Jazz Competition Winner(s)

—Intermission—

With thanks to Mr. Jim Emerson of Denver, Colorado for allowing us to play his arrangementsStrike Up the Band - George Gershwin (1898-1937)

A Foggy Day in London - George GershwinMalaguena - Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963)Hickory and Twine - Alan Baylock (b. 1967

I’m a Fool to Want You - Joel Herron (1916-2012) & Jack Wolf (1912-2004)Wagon - Johnny Richards (1911-1968)

Zing Went the Strings of My Heart - James Hanley (1892-1942)Love for Sale - Cole Porter (1891-1964)

Keep the Customer Satisfied - Paul Simon (b. 1941) & Art Garfunkel (b. 1941)Not Yet - Arkady Shilkloper (b. 1956)


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8 a.m. - Ford Hall

Warm-up Session with Jeff Nelsen

9 a.m. - Hockett - PerformanceSonata for Horn and Piano - Meredith Brammeier (b. 1970)

I. HeroicallyII. Gently Flowing

III. Nimbly(World Premier)

Andrew Pelletier, horn; Meredith Brammeier, piano

Check Your Reality, for Horn and Fixed Electronic Media - Joshua Jandreau (b. 1989)(World Premier)

Andrew Pelletier, horn

“Vin Triste” (2015) - J.M. Gerraughty“Where the Path Ends” (2015) - David Ibbett

Meredith Moore, natural horn; Sophia Subbayya Vastek, piano

Sonata for Horn and Piano (1947) - Samuel Adler (b. 1928)1. Andante con moto2. Allegro scherzando

3. Moderato ma con appassionata4. Allegro con fuoco

Jeffrey Snedeker, horn; Siu Yan Luk, piano

9 a.m. - Presser 3102 - LectureRose French - “Horn Players Songbook: Developing Audiation Skills with Folk Music”

10 a.m. - Ford Hall - Featured Artist RecitalHarry Chiu, horn, Andrew Sehmann, horn; IHS Jon Hawkins Memorial Scholarship Winner,

Tomoko Kanamaru, piano, Shuhan-Luk Trio: Alexander Shuhan, horn; Elizabeth Shuhan, flute; Siu Yan Luk, piano

Concerto No. 2 in Eb major, K. 417 W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)Mr. Sehmann, horn; Ms. Luk, piano

Villanelle - Paul Dukas (1865-1935) Fantasia, Op. 2 -Franz Strauss (1822-1905)

Mr. Chiu, Ms. Kanamaru

Shallow Streams, Deep Rivers - Dana Wilson (b. 1946)I. Freely, dramatically!; Strict time

II. With great warmth and intimacyIII. Slowly, dramatically; With energy

Shuhan-Luk Trio: Mr. Shuhan, Ms. Shuhan, Ms. Luk

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10 a.m. - Presser - Featured Artist Improvisation Master ClassDavid Amram - “Anyone & Everyone can Improvise!” Bring your horns and play!

11 a.m. - Ford Hall - Featured Artist PresentationJeff Nelsen - Fearless Performance

12 - 12:30 Outdoors on the Quad - ParticipationAmy Thakurdas - Tai Chi for horns: An elegant and beautiful way to relax and re-energize.

1 p.m. - Ford Hall - RehearsalMass Horn Choir Rehearsal for Final Concert

2 p.m. - Ford Hall - PerformanceThe Star-Spangled Banner - John Stafford Smith/arr. MSG Alan G. White

The Moldau from My Country -Bedrich Smetana(1824-1884) arr. SSG JG Miller Members of The United States Army Field Band, Washington, DC

(World Premier)

Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us - Alison Krauss/Robert Plant arr. SSG Rebecca McLaughlinPrincess Ida – Overture - Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)

Tribute to Leigh Martinet and the Baltimore Horn Club - Dr. Leigh M. Martinet (1923-2016)Vespers (All-Night Vigil) - Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) arr. SSG JG Miller World Premiere

V. Now Let Thy Servant DepartXV. To Thee, Victorious Leader

Theodore’s Anthem: A Cavalcade for Five Horns and Band - Kerry Turner (b.1960)(Special Reduction for Piano and Percussion)

Daft Punk - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo/Thomas Bangalter arr. by SSG JG Miller MSG Robert Cherry, MSG Alan White, SSG Selena Adams, SSG Rebecca Bainbridge,

SSG Rebecca McLaughlin, SSG J.G.Miller, horns; SFC Robert Marino, PercussionAssisted by Nick Weiser, piano

3 p.m. - Ford Hall Featured Artist Performance - Final ConcertPhilip Myers, Jeff Nelsen,

Kathia Bonna, piano

Eckig Blues - Anthony Plog (b. 1947)Mr. Nelsen, Ms. Bonna

Blues and Variations for Monk - David Amram (b. 1930)Mr. Myers

Concerto for 2 horns in E flat major, Hob VIId:2 (Rosetti) - Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)1. Allegro maestoso2. Romanza: Adagio3. Rondo: Allegretto

Mr. Myers, Mr. Nelsen, Ms. Bonna

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—short pause—

London Horn Sound arrangements, performed by Featured and Contributing Artists to be selected from:

Titanic Fantasy - James Horner (1953-2015) arr. Bissill

Three Portraits - Richard Bissill (b. 1959)I. On Vacation

II. - Alone AgainIII. - Take The Short Way Home

Caravan - Ellington/Tizol/Mills arr. BissillFat Belly Blues - Richard Bissill

Frank Lloyd, Pip Eastop, Nancy Joy, Carsten Williams, Patrick Hughes, Eldon Matlick, Rose Valby, Cody Hutchison, Jeffrey Nelsen, Alexander Shuhan, Cora Patterson, Jim Patterson, horns; Nick Weiser, piano;

Sam Shuhan, bass; Greg Evans, drums

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Mass Horn Choir selections to be announcedConducted by Randall Faust and Lowell “Spike” Shaw

“Naturally, we shall meet again…” Dana Wilson (b. 1946)(2nd World Premier)

All horns!!!

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Parking - IHS participants and guests are welcome to park anywhere on campus—no permit needed! Just be sure it is a legal space and you will be all set. If you have any questions, please contact Parking Services at (607) 274-3756. Detailed individual building maps follow this page.

Navigating Ithaca College’s Campus

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MAPS & GUIDESGetting to Downtown Ithaca

The Ithaca Commons is a four-block pedestrian shopping area with over 100 unique shops and restau-rants. Visit the Downtown Ithaca Alliance’s website for more information: www.downtownithaca.com

DriveIthaca College is on Route 96B. If you head down the hill, turning right out of the college entrance, on 96B you will see the Ithaca Commons entrance on the left at the bottom of the hill at East State Street.

WalkIf you’re feeling adventurous, you could also walk downtown to the Ithaca Commons. It is 2 miles down-hill. There is a trail by Emerson Hall and the Garden Apartments (off of Grant Egbert Blvd) that leads to Hudson Street. Turn left on Hudson Street and follow it down the hill. Turn right on South Aurora Street and you’ll see the entrance to the Ithaca Commons on your left at East State Street.

BusTransportation to the Ithaca Commons and downtown Ithaca will be available for free to all IHS partic-ipants through Ithaca’s public transportation company, TCAT. Conference participants can show their lanyards to gain entry to the bus during the symposium dates. The buses stop at multiple locations on campus including the Towers, Emerson Hall, and the Garden Apartments. Visit www.tcatbus.com to view the Route 11 summer schedule and plan your trip. All the Ithaca College stops begin with an “IC” on TCAT’s online trip planner.

TaxiCabs are an easy way to get around Ithaca. Remember to call in advance for taxi services.Collegetown Cab - (607) 588-5888 - http://collegetowncab.com/Ithaca Dispatch - (607) 277-2777 - http://www.ithacataxi.biz/

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On Campus OptionsCampus Center Dining HallParticipants who purchased a meal plan may eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the Campus Center Dining Hall Monday through Friday. Individual meals in the dining hall are not available for purchase.

Dining Hall Hours:Breakfast 7 - 9 A.M. Lunch 11 A.M. - 1 P.M. Dinner 5 P.M. - 7 P.M.

Campus Center IC SquareIndividual breakfasts and lunches can be purchased at the IC Square food court located in Campus Center with cash or credit card.

Food Court Hours:Breakfast 7:30 A.M. - 11 A.M. Lunch 11 A.M. - 2 P.M. Individual breakfasts and lunches can be purchased at thew IC Square Food Court location at Campus Center with cash or credit card.

IHS PicnicIHS hosts a picnic banquet for IHS participants and their guests. The picnic is on Friday, June 17 at 5 P.M. on the Campus Center Quad (between the Campus Center and the Fitness Center). If there is rain, then the picnic will be held in IC Square in the Campus Center.

Off Campus Options Ithaca boasts more restaurants per capita than New York City and they are excellent. Check out your many options at Visit Ithaca’s website: www.visitithaca.com/dining. Curious about how to get from the campus to downtown Ithaca? See the map on page 44 for more information.

FOOD & BEVERAGE

Visit the exhibits! The annual Symposium is the ONE time a year that “All Things Horn” are available to you in ONE

convenient location!• Horns• Horn Repairs• Consultations• Mutes• Music - New and old standards• Cases and Gig Bags• Military Band representatives

• Cleaning Equipment & Supplies• Valve Oil• All the latest gadgets • Music Stands• Mouthpieces• Valve Caps

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Brixton PublicationsCantesanu HornsConn-Selmer, Inc.

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Eastman Music CompanyFaust Music

Wes Hatch Custom Horns LLCHickey’s Music Online

The Horn GuysThe Hornists’ Nest

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Houghton HornsM. Jiracek & Sons

Ricco Kühn Metallblasinstrumentenbau S.W. Lewis

Lukas HornsMarcus Bonna Cases

MN State College SE Technical- RED WINGOsmun Music, Inc

Paxman Musical Instruments Ltd.Paterchan Music

Patterson HornworksPelican Music PublishingPope Instrument Repair

Salzburger EchoSeraphinoff Historical Istruments

Siegfried’s Call, Inc.Soft Stands, LLC

Sorley Horns, LLCThe United States Army Field Band

United States Marine Music ProgramWichita Band Instrument Co., Inc.

Wiseman Cases Ltd .Yamaha Corporation of America

EXHIBITORS

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DAVID AMRAM started his professional life in music in the early 1950s playing French horn in the legendary jazz bands of Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie and Lionel Hampton. Appointed by Leonard Bernstein as the first Composer In Residence for the New York Philharmonic in 1966, he also composed the scores for the films Pull My Daisy (1959), Splendor In The Grass (1960) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He composed the scores for Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare In The Park from 1956-1967 and again worked with Papp on the comic opera 12th Night in 1968. He also wrote a second opera, The Final Ingredient, An Opera of the Holocaust, for ABC Television in 1965.

From 1964-66, Amram was the Composer and Music Director for the Lincoln Center Theatre. In 1957, he created and performed in the first ever Jazz/Poetry readings in New York City with novelist Jack Ker-ouac, a close friend with whom Amram collaborated artistically for over 12 years.

Since the early 1950s, he has traveled the world extensively, working as a musician and a conductor in over thirty-five countries including Cuba, Kenya, Egypt, Pakistan, Israel, Latvia and China. He also

regularly crisscrosses the United States as a featured performer at musical and literary festivals.Amram is the author of three memoirs all published by Paradigm-Routledge Press, Nine Lives of a Musical Cat (2009), Collab-

orating With Kerouac (2005) and the highly acclaimed Vibrations (1968, 2007). Today, Amram continues to perform as a guest conductor, soloist, multi-instrumentalist and narrator in five languages, while continuing a remarkable pace of composing.

HARRY CHIU, presently 18 years old, was born in Hong Kong. He started learning to play French Horn at the age of seven. He studied at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in the Bachelor of Music Degree Program in 2013 with full scholarships in his studies. Harry is now studying at The Juil-liard School in the Bachelor of Music Degree Program and is a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship.

By the age of 10, Harry has already passed the grade 8 horn examination of the Royal School of Music with high distinction. In the same year, he went to perform in the 40th International Horn Conference in Denver as a soloist. He got the FTCL Diploma in year 2013.

During the period of 2006 to 2013, Harry has won many awards in open competitions, including: winner in many annual Hong Kong Schools Music Festival competitions for years 2005-2013, winner of Tom Lee Music Prize for Wind Concerto in year 2010, gold in the HKL Symphony in Life & Music Final Contest organized by Hong Kong Life Insurance Ltd. and Metro Broadcast Corp. Ltd, First Prize

in Parsons Music Scholarship for Wind, Brass and Percussion Instruments in 2013, and the Champion of the Llangollen Inter-national Musical Eisteddfod – Instrumental solo under 18 in 2013.

Harry actively participates and performs as principal horn in most of the concerts in different Orchestra such as the Asian Youth Orchestra 2012 & 2013. In 2014 & 2015, he participated in the Verbier Festival Music Camp. He is regularly freelancing in professional orchestras such as the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. He was invited to play as principal horn for the MedArt Orchestra charity concerts in 2015. He played as guest principal horn of the Wuhan Philharmonic in the same year. Harry also enjoys playing as a soloist. He performed the Gliere horn concerto and the Strauss horn concerto no. 1 with the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Orchestra after winning the school concerto competition for two years.

PIP EASTOP is regarded as one of Britain’s finest horn players. His career encompasses the widest possible range of genres and styles of music. At the age of eighteen, after four years of study at the Royal Academy of Music, he joined the Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra and became the youngest ever principal solo horn in a European symphony orchestra. At nineteen he was invited back to London to become principal horn in the London Sinfonietta, with whom he performed all over the world and gave many solo performances including Britten’s Serenade at the Queen Elizabeth Hall conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

Pip is currently principal horn in the London Chamber Orchestra and appears as guest principal with The Hanover Band, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and all of the major London sympho-ny orchestras. He is also much in demand as a chamber musician. He is very active in the contempo-

rary music scene, both as performer and composer, specialising in ‘extended’ techniques. As a session musician he has been involved in the recording of large numbers of pop and rock tracks and hundreds of film scores.

In 2007 Pip returned to the Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra to play ten consecutive performances of Schumann’s Kon-zertstück in major German concert halls, then later performed the same work at the Aldeburgh Festival with the Philhar-monia Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen.

More recently his recording of Mozart’s four Horn Concerti and the Horn Quintet has been released on the Hyperion label, to great international acclaim. Pip writes and lectures on teaching and learning horn and on the physiology of breath-ing technique for wind players. He currently holds a professorial position at the Royal College of Music and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.

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NOBUAKI FUKUKAWA, a native of Tokyo, began his career as the youngest principal horn of the Japan Philharmonic at the age of 20. He is recognized as the “most remarkable Japanese horn player of his generation”, and his performances consistently attract critical acclaim: “He is the one horn player who has rewritten the history of brass playing in Japan as well as ‘raising the bar’ for all horn players”, (Japan Horn Society)

He is principal horn of the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, an orchestra who performs regularly under the batons of most of the world’s top conductors, including Seiji Ozawa, Herbert Blomstedt and Valery Gergiev.

As a soloist, Nobuaki has performed various horn concerti such as those by Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Strauss, Britten, Charbrier, Saint-Saëns, Knussen, Ruth Gipps (Japanese premier) with NHK Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Laska

Festival Orchestra and Yokohama Symphonietta. He also appears regularly in recital series and chamber music concerts at celebrated halls in Japan, including Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Suntory Hall, Tokyo City Opera, Tsuda Hall, Kitara Hall in Sapporo and the NHK Hall in Osaka.

Nobuaki has channeled his passion for the horn into developing contemporary music for the instrument. He has commis-sioned many works and premieres these on a regular basis in his recitals. Recently his performances of both “Spiral Bird Suite for Horn and Piano (2011)” by an emerging Japanese composer, Takashi Yoshimatsu, and “Poyopoyo for solo Horn (2012)” by the world famous Japanese composer, Dai Fujikura, were composed especially for him gained unprecedented praise from the critics. In 2010, Nobuaki Fukukawa released his first solo CD “Rhapsody in Horn”. “Rhapsody in Horn 2” includes four world premiere recordings, and has recently released “Rhapsody in Horn 3”. all released by King Records in Japan.

FRANK LLOYD took up the trombone at age 13, playing in his school band and the Silver Band. He joined the Royal Marines Band Service at the age of 16, where he changed to playing the horn. He left the Royal Marine Band Service in 1975 to embark on a performer’s course at the Royal Academy of Music in London studying under Ifor James. In the same year he was offered the posi-tion of principal horn with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow, Scotland.

After four and a half years with the RSNO, Frank moved to London to take up a position with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1982 he left the RPO to embark as a soloist as a member of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, the Nash Ensemble, and as principal horn with the English Chamber Orchestra. This was all in addition to a busy schedule in the film music recording studios.

In 1998 he was appointed Professor for Horn at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen, Ger-many as successor to the famous horn player Hermann Baumann. From 2004-2006 he was President of the International Horn Society and has recently served a second four-year term. Frank has several recordings, including the Four Mozart horn concerti, the Britten Serenade and Strauss Concerto #1. Frank still travels extensively in Europe and around the world as a soloist, teacher, and chamber musician.

Frank’s pastimes include a passion for hiking and climbing in the Scottish mountains and a keen interest in bird watch-ing, which accompanied by his renewed interest in photography, takes him to different parts of the world seeking new photographic opportunities. Frank lives in Essen, Germany with his wife Rachel, and her two children, Alex and Leah. Frank’s own two daughters; Amelia and Rowena both live in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has one grandchild Rory, 8, with a second due in July 2016.

PHILLIP MYERS, The Ruth F. and Alan J. Broder Chair, joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal Horn in January 1980. He made his solo debut during his first month with the Orchestra in the premiere of William Schuman’s Three Colloquies for French Horn and Orchestra, and he has appeared as a Philharmonic soloist on numerous occasions. In October 2012 he performed Mo-zart’s Horn Concerto No. 3, conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and in November 2013 he performed Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, led by Alan Gilbert. Other highlights include Schumann’s Konzertstück for Four Horns, with Lorin Maazel in February 2007 and Kurt Masur in May 2001; Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings led by André Previn in Octo-ber 2001; and Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, and Bassoon in March 2010, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert.

Mr. Myers began his orchestral career in 1971 with a three-year term as principal horn of the Atlantic Symphony in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was third horn with the Pittsburgh Symphony

from 1974 until 1977. As principal horn of the Minnesota Orchestra for a season and a half, he made his solo debut with that ensemble in 1979, performing Richard Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 1 with Sir Neville Marriner conducting. A native of Elkhart, Indiana, Philip Myers holds two degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He plays Engelbert Schmid French horns.

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JEFF NELSON is one of the many Canadian magician horn player professors who was raised on a pig farm by opera singer parents. Jeff has been inspirational as both musician and mentor for over twenty years. Jeff performed eight years with Canadian Brass, has performed with orchestras including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Chicago, Boston, Montreal, and St. Louis Symphonies, and played the complete run of two Tony-nominated shows on Broadway.

As a horn soloist, Nelsen has performed concerti with orchestras on six continents, but enjoys performing with his wife, mezzo-soprano Nina Yoshida Nelsen most of all. The Nelsen Duo often perform their thrilling programs of horn and mezzo-soprano together, both in recital and on orchestral pops series.

A professor at the prestigious Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Jeff teaches horn, coaches chamber music, and mentors students in what he calls Fearless Performance, a subject on which he gave

a TEDx talk. Jeff holds his Fearless Performance seminars throughout the year. Jeff is the President of the International Horn Society, has co-designed his own horn (with German horn company Dieter Otto) and mouthpiece (with Scott Laskey), and publishes music online through his Perform Music label. Jeff is a member of the Academy of the Magical Arts, and is known to add touches of the illusionary arts to his performances.

LESLIE NORTON - Upon graduation from the Eastman School of Music, Leslie Norton began her professional career as principal horn of the New Orleans Symphony at age 23. She has served as principal horn with the Nashville Symphony since 1990 and on the faculty at the Blair School of Mu-sic since 1989. Along the way, Norton has taught at the University of Evansville, Western Kentucky University, and the Eastern Music Festival. She has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Atlanta Symphony, Grant Park Orchestra, OK Mozart Festival, Virginia Waterfront Festival, Music on the Hill, and the Skaneateles Festival. She is a founding member of Alias Chamber Ensemble, a group whose mission is to play great music to benefit charitable organizations throughout Nashville. Norton is most proud of her duo recording of commissioned works with percussionist husband Chris Norton and her latest release of 21st century horn trios by American composers.

BRUNO SCHNEIDER, a Swiss horn player, began playing the horn at the Music Conservatory in La Chaux-de-Fonds with Robert Faller. After having passed the Professional Capacity diploma there in 1979, he went on to study at the Music Academy in Detmold with Michael Hoeltzel, where he received a Virtuosity with distinction in 1981.

After having played for 15 years as solo horn in Zürich, Münich and finally Geneva in the OSR (Suisse Romande Orchestre), he now teaches at the Haute Ecole de Musique (HEM) in Geneva. Many composers such as Norbert Moret, Jost Meyer, Eric Chasalow and Jörg Widmann have written major works for him.

Founder of the Académie de cor de La Chaux de Fonds and of the swiss horn society, Bruno Schneider has been vice president of the International Horn Society.He has been the host of the Horn workshop of the IHS 2007 in La Chaux de Fonds.Bruno Schneider has been giving Master-

classes around the world. He perfoms in all the world’s biggest concert halls as a soloist and as a chamber music musician with, amongst others, the wind ensemble Sabine Meyer of which he is one of the founder,Paul Meyer,Eric Le Sage, Gi-don Kremer, Vadim Repin and Jeremy Menuhin.He has played as a soloist with orchestras such as Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne,Tonhalle St Gallen, Orchestre de Bienne,Seoul Phlharmonic Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Freiburg i. Br., Orchestre de la RAI de Turin,Orchestre de chambre de Padoue,Dresdner Staatskapelle,Orchestre National de Lyon etc... A large part of the horn repertoire has been recorded by Bruno Schneider at AVI, EMI, CLAVES, ARION, ERATO, Ambitus and CPO. Since 2003 Bruno Schneider plays solo horn in the Lucerne Festival Orchestra directed by Claudio Abbado.His book with the title Horn Fundamenrals has been published in 2012 at the edition BIM. Bruno Schneider lives in Bale since 1994.

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ARKADY SHILKLOPER was born in Moscow and started playing alto horn at the age of six. After two years of military service, he studied at the Moscow Gnessin Institute. At the same time he began his career in the orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater and also began his first jazz activities.

At the same period he was a member of the Moscow State Philharmonic Symphony.In 1990, the Alperin-Shilkloper duo invited Sergey Starostin, a Moscow Conservatory-educated

clarinetist and a researcher of Russian authentic folklore music, which resulted in the creation of Mos-cow Art Trio. The trio tours regularly, though its members now live in three different countries; it is one of the most interesting and well-known Ethno Jazz groups from Russia.

In 1990 Shilkloper visited US for the first time. According to Leonard Feather from the Los Angeles Times, “the Soviet French horn virtuoso was one of four Jazzmen from the Soviet Union who arrived here last week to take part in the 23rd annual University of Idaho Jazz Festival at his home town’s name-sake city. Shilkloper, 33, on his first visit to the United States was the artistic sensation of the event.”

Since 1998, Arkady also plays alphorn, quite an unusual instrument for improvised music. Arkady rates one of the best of the few existing jazz performers on alphorn. His “Pilatus”, “Presente Para Moscou” and “Zum Gipfel und zurück” albums feature a lot of his alphorn playing. In 2004 he gave the first performance of the Concerto for Alphorn and Orchestra of Daniel Schnyder, a work commissioned by the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad. In 2015, Jazzahead presented his duet with the young Ukrainian jazz pianist,Vadim Neselovsky.

Shilkloper has mastered extended techniques for both the French horn and the alphorn. According to Leonard Feather, his control of the horn and his creativity has set a new standard.

JEFF STOCKHAM is a multi-instrumentalist holds a BM in Horn from Syracuse Universi-ty and a MM in Horn from Eastman. A veteran of the renowned Eastman Jazz Ensemble, Jeff is one of the few musicians worldwide to play jazz on French horn. One of Upstate NY’s first-call freelancers, he is a charter member of the Central New York Jazz Orchestra and has performed and recorded with many regional musical mainstays, including the Salt City Jazz Collective, the Stan Colella Orchestra, Little Georgie & the Shufflin’ Hungarians, and the Bearcat Jass Band. He has backed up numerous national acts including Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra Jr., Rosemary Clooney, Aretha Franklin, and Harry Connick Jr.; toured with the na-tional company of Les Miserables, Chicago blues guitarist Jimmy Johnson, Thelonius Monk Jr.’s “Monk on Monk” big band and the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band. He is leader and

solo E-flat cornetist of the award-winning Excelsior Cornet Band, a recreated Civil War brass band, and is solo E-flat cor-netist of the 47th PA Regimental Band, President Lincoln’s Own Band (appearing in the Steven Spielberg film “Lincoln”, the Federal City Brass Band (appearing in the Emmy-winning Netflix series “House of Cards”), and was an historical consul-tant on several other films. He is Instructor of Jazz Trumpet at Hamilton College, LeMoyne College, and Colgate Universi-ty, Visiting Lecturer of Trumpet at Cornell University, and Instructor of French Horn and Jazz Trumpet at Syracuse Univer-sity. He is an avid collector of antique instruments, with over two hundred in his collection.

WILLIAM VERMEULEN is a world-renowned hornist leads a varied musical life of Soloist, Orchestral Principal, Chamber Musician, Master Teacher and Music Publisher. Since he began his career in 1979 at age 18 with the Chicago Symphony he has emerged as America’s leading horn soloist and preeminent teacher. Mr. VerMeulen has been Principal Horn of the Houston Symphony since 1990 and has appeared as Guest Principal with many of the world’s leading or-chestras. He was previously with the Columbus, Honolulu symphonies the Kansas City Philhar-monic.

Equally regarded for orchestral, chamber music, and teaching Mr. VerMeulen performs at the world’s leading festivals and has taught hundreds of masterclasses worldwide. As Professor of Horn at Rice University he is one of the most influential horn teachers of all time with students in most of America’s leading orchestras. Over 260 positions have been offered to his students.

Mr. VerMeulen is an avid champion for the International Horn Society and served two terms on the Advisory Council. He first appeared as a featured artist in 1983 and has made many appearances since then.

He is also Brass Artist-in-Residence at the Gould School in Toronto and Visiting Professor of Horn at the Eastman School of Music and on faculty at the New World Symphony in Miami. Mr. VerMeulen was awarded the “Distinguished Teacher of America Certificate of Excellence” by President Reagan and the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. Among his dozens of recordings include the complete Mozart Horn Concerti, the popular ‘Texas Horns’ and ‘The Christmas Horn’, recorded with his students at Rice University. A champion of new music, Mr. VerMeulen has had numer-ous pieces written for him including concerti by esteemed American composers Samuel Adler, Pierre Jalbert and Anthony DiLorenzo. He is President of VerMeulen Music LLC which provides music and products for horn players.

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FEATURED ARTISTSGAIL WILLIAMS is an internationally recognized hornist and brass pedagogue. She has presented

concerts, master classes, recitals, and lectures throughout North America, as well as in Europe and Asia. After 20 years with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Williams is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. She is currently Principal Horn of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and has recently performed on a number of prestigious chamber music series. Gail is one of the founding members of CCME, as well as the Summit Brass.

In addition to her eight recordings with Summit Brass, Ms. Williams can be heard on her four solo recordings, two of which are available on Summit Records. Three chamber music CD’s are also avail-able on Summit Records, one with Daniel Perantoni and two with CCME. The recordings feature compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and works for Horn Tuba and Piano. A CD of works for horn and percussion by Alec Wilder and Charles Taylor and the Goddess Trilogy for horn

and piano by John McCabe is available through Ms. Williams. Ms. Williams has commissioned many works for horn by composers Dana Wilson, Anthony Plog, Douglas Hill , James Stephenson and Augusta Reed Thomas. Her latest solo CD is available on CD Baby, HORN MUSE, featuring commissions of Plog, Wilson, and Hill.

Ms. Williams is the horn professor at Northwestern University, where she has been on the faculty since 1989. Her awards included Ithaca College›s Young Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary Doctorate of Music, also from Ithaca College. In May of 2005, Ms. Williams was awarded the Charles Deering McCormick Teaching of Excellence Professor from Northwestern University.

In the fall of 2004, Ms. Williams traveled to Japan to perform with the Saito Kinen Orchestra under the baton of Seiji Ozawa. In 2005, and 2007 -2014, Ms. Williams has performed with the World Orchestra for Peace with concerts in Lon-don, Berlin, Moscow, Beijing, Rotterdam, Brussels, Budapest, Jerusalem, Salzburg, Krakow, Stockholm, Abu Dhabi, New York City and Chicago conducted by Valerie Gergiev. Ms. Williams has performed as solo horn with Dallas Symphony and fall of 2015, she will tour with the Cleveland Orchestra as guest principal horn.

Welcome to the 48th International Horn Symposium. If you are not a member of the International Horn Society, you should have joined. You would have received a discount to attend this Symposium and other sponsored events. Other benefits include:

• Subscription to The Horn Call magazine, published 3 times each year.

• Receive the E-newsletter every month (you should do this now - it’s free!)

• Scholarships and Competition support.

• Unlimited access to our website with:

o Networking: including Teacher Database, Jobs, Free Classifieds, Section Listings

o Media: including Horn Excerpts, European Style Survey, Caruso Method

o Publications: The Horn Call (with index of back issues), Newsletters

o Programs: International Symposia, Workshops, Competitions, Composition Projects

• Access to our Thesis Lending library

• Access to funding for the commissioning of new works for Horn

• Support of Commission Works by Major Composers

• Support of Horn players in countries where economic conditions prevent membership

• Networking opportunities with thousands of Horn players worldwide.

You are a member already? Please show this information to a friend. You wouldn’t want them to feel left out. Our International Family of Horn Players is just waiting to meet all of you!

Join on-line at: www.hornsociety.org

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JOHN MICHAEL ADAIR is Second Horn/Assistant Principal with the HSO. John Michael joined the HSO in 2014 while still a junior at New England Conservatory where he has studied with Jason Snider and Gus Sebring both members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In addition to performing with the HSO, John Michael is an active freelancer in Boston, and throughout CT.

SELENA ADAMS hails from Nicholson, Georgia and currently serves as a horn player in the U.S. Army Field Band. Be-fore joining the army, Selena was a band director at Loveland High School in Loveland, CO and Spartanburg High School in Spartanburg, SC. She was a member of the 2008 Japan Touring Cast of Music Motion Theater’s Odyssey, the Terre Haute Sym-phony Orchestra, the Southern Indiana Wind Ensemble, and the Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps. She has participated in the National Repertory Orchestra, Orford Summer Music Academy, and Hot Springs Summer Music Festivals and has performed with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, ProMusica Colorado Chamber Orchestra, Spartanburg Symphony Orchestra, and numerous regional ensembles. Selena earned her Bachelor of Music Education degree at Furman University, her Master of Music Performance degree at Indiana University, and is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Colorado. Her teachers include Michael Thornton, Richard Seraphinoff, and Gayle Chesebro. Selena presents recitals, master classes, and clinics with the Pentagon Winds woodwind quintet and has been a member of The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps brass staff since 2012.

BEN ANDERSON is currently in the third year of his DMA at the University of Colorado Boulder and is a student of Professor Michael Thornton. Mr. Anderson completed his masters degree at Northwestern University, where he studied with Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen, and his Bachelors at the Colburn School, where he was a student of David Jolley and David Krehbiel. Mr. Anderson is a member of the CU Boulder graduate brass quintet, is a teaching assistant for the CU Boulder horn studio, and performs frequently with the Fort Collins Symphony in Fort Collins, CO. During the 2014-2015 academic year, while on leave in his home state of Florida, Mr. Anderson was the adjunct horn instructor at the Howard W. Blake School of the Arts in Tampa, FL and also taught horn at Henry B. Plant High School in Tampa. Mr. Anderson is a contributing artist in a recording project with hornist Zara Rivera and her husband Paul Rivera, bass trombonist and composer. In 2016 they hope to release a book of original horn duet etudes along with an accompanying CD under the Rivera label, Orbital Resonance. In the fall of 2015 Ben performed a recital of American music for the horn entitled “The horn in America.

APPLE ORANGE PAIR is a dynamic classical duo that presents original and transcribed works for horn and harp. Com-prised of Emily Boyer, horn, and Colleen Potter Thorburn, harp, the duo’s mission is to delight audiences while expanding the horn and harp repertoire. Their compelling, community-oriented, performances are tailored to music lovers as well as new-comers to classical music. Programs feature freshly commissioned works, their own transcriptions, and older works returning to the performance repertoire, all introduced from the stage to enrich the listening experience. Concert credits include the Arts Array Series (Abingdon, VA), Jefferson Scholars Foundation (Charlottesville, VA), 2015 International Horn Society Northeast Workshop (State College, PA), and 2015 American Harp Society Summer Institute (Logan, UT), as well as performance tours in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York City, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine. Enthusiastic about community involve-ment, the duo has collaborated with local businesses and artists to benefit the Connecticut Food Bank and Vasculitis Foun-dation. In November 2013, they released their debut commercial recording, Seeds. The album highlights five works commis-sioned by Apple Orange Pair from emerging composers, as well as their own transcriptions of Debussy, Satie, and Piazzolla. Apple Orange Pair has held summer residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute (NH) and Atlantic Music Festival (ME), and has been awarded grants from Yale alumniVentures and the American Harp Society. Emily and Colleen began Apple Orange Pair in 2010 in New Haven, CT. The duo consists of Emily Boyer, horn (MM Yale School of Music, BM Peabody Conservatory) and Colleen Potter Thorburn (DMA/MM Yale School of Music, BM University of Illinois), harp. www.appleorangepair.com

ELISABETH AXTELL represents a generation of musicians whose careers are equal parts artistry and entrepreneurship. She is a co-founder of Grand Harmonie, a groundbreaking ensemble bringing a fresh, spontaneous voice to period music performance on the East Coast. Her recent performance engagements on natural horn include Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Boston Early Music Festival, Arcadia Players, Pacific MusicWorks, Opera Lafayette, Bach Society Hous-ton, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity NYC, the Connecticut Early Music Festival, and the Blue Hill Bach Festival. A native of Washington state, Elisabeth holds dual degrees in English and music from Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota and a masters degree in music performance from Boston University.

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JASON AYOUB, Musician 1st Class, is a native of El Paso, Texas, joined the Navy Band in 2006. He received his Bachelor of Music from the University of North Texas (UNT), where he studied with William Scharnberg. During his final year at UNT, he joined the nationally acclaimed Dallas Brass. For four years he toured extensively with the ensemble throughout the United States, and gave more than 300 performances and master classes. He has been a featured clinician and soloist at The Midwest Clinic as well as numerous Music Teachers National Assocation (MTNA) regional and national conferences. Ayoub served as third horn with the Waco Symphony from 2001-2003 and third horn with the Delaware Symphony from 2003-2007, and has performed regularly with the Kennett and Baltimore Symphonies. He has also been a guest soloist with the Jackson, Scranton, Louisville and Utah Symphonies. He is featured as the solo horn on Ståle Kleiberg’s “Requiem for the Victims of Nazi Persecution”, recorded at Washington National Cathedral.

GENE BERGER is the Assistant Professor of Horn at Ball State University and member of the Musical Arts Woodwind Quintet. In addition to his teaching position, Mr. Berger is the Principal Horn with Muncie Symphony Orchestra, South-west Florida Symphony, where he has been a featured soloist, and a member of Traverse Symphony. Prior to his appoint-ment at Ball State University in 2010, Mr. Berger was a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and The Florida Orchestra. He can be heard on numerous recordings with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel and the Grammy winning recordings of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Paavo Järvi. Mr. Berger has been an active educator, formerly teaching at the Interlochen Arts Academy, University of Central Florida and the University of Tampa. He has presented master classes, lectures, educational recitals and hosted clinics throughout North America. In the summers, Mr. Berger is on the faculty of the Music for All Camp and the Filarmónica Joven de Colombia. He has made performance appearances with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Music in the Moun-tains, The Spoleto Festival and the AIMS Festival in Graz, Austria. Mr. Berger received his Masters of Music from Southern Methodist University and his Bachelor of Music from Florida State University. His principal teachers were Gregory Hustis, Principal Horn of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dr. William Capps, former Principal Horn of the Berlin Radio Orches-tra and Frederick Schmitt, charter member of the New York Brass Quintet.

JAMES BOLDIN maintains a diverse career as an educator and performer. He is a member of the faculty in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at The University of Louisiana at Monroe. He has performed at the 44th, 45th, and 47th International Horn Symposiums, and at numerous regional horn workshops. He has also presented clinics at the Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference, the Louisiana Music Educators Association State Convention, and the South Central Regional Music Conference. An active orchestral musician, Boldin holds positions with the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, Rapides Symphony Orchestra, and Monroe Symphony Orchestra. His debut solo recording, Jan Koetsier: Music for Horn, was released in 2013 on the MSR Classics Label, and has been critically praised for “superb play-ing…on an extraordinarily high level of both technique and communicative abilities.” (Fanfare Magazine). His articles have been published in The Instrumentalist Magazine and The Horn Call: The Journal of the International Horn Society, and his musical arrangements have been published by Mountain Peak Music, Cimarron Music Press, the International Horn So-ciety, and Stainer & Bell, Ltd. Boldin is a member of The College Music Society, The National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, and The International Horn Society, and currently serves as IHS area representative for the state of Louisiana. Boldin earned the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the University of Wiscon-sin-Madison, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Appalachian State University.

LISA O. BONTRAGER has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, South America, and Japan, including tours with the versatile Millennium Brass and MirrorImage, a horn duo with Michelle Steble-ton, as well as the Pennsylvania Quintet. Bontrager has served as featured artist at the Southeast Horn Workshop, the Interna-tional Women’s Brass Conference in Toronto, the Western United States Horn Symposium (Las Vegas, Nevada), the Western Illinois Horn Workshop, Oficinate Musica De Curitiba (Brazil), and has been a concerto soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Paraguay. Recognized for her teaching, Bontrager has presented master classes throughout the world. She is a Distinguished Professor of Music at Penn State where she received the 2008 Faculty Scholar Medal for the Arts and Human-ities. For six summers, she taught at the Interlochen Arts Camp. She serves as principal horn of the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, the Altoona Symphony, Music at Penn’s Woods, as tenor hornist of the Brass Band of Battle Creek, and has per-formed with the Baltimore, Chautauqua, and Harrisburg symphonies. Bontrager serves as an elected member of the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society. She can be heard on nearly 20 recordings, including her solo CD, “Hunter’s Moon,” released on the Summit label. She holds performance degrees from the University of Michigan where she studied with Louis Stout. When she was a student at Interlochen, she studied with Marvin Howe. http://music.psu.edu/faculty/lisa-bontrager


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EMILY BOYER is a musician devoted to performance and education. She maintains an active schedule performing with chamber and orchestral ensembles throughout Connecticut. In addition to the innovative horn and harp duo Apple Orange Pair, Emily is a founding member of the New England New Music Ensemble, which highlights new compositions and arrangements of movie, pop, and rock classics. As an educator, she has been a lecturer at Naugatuck Valley Com-munity College teaching music history and music theory courses. Emily maintains a private teaching studio, while also teaching brass lessons at The Foote School (New Haven) and Southbury Music Studio. In public schools, Emily is an Arts Provider with Hartford Performs, bringing academically integrated music programs into Hartford Public Schools, and has been a guest clinician for band programs throughout the state. Emily is on staff at Christ Presbyterian Church in New Haven, CT, where she is a Co-Director of Music and has curated performing and visual arts events. Emily has performed with orchestras and chamber groups at music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, the Atlantic Music Festival in Maine, the Banff Music Festival in Canada, and the Institut Musical de Provence-Aubagne Music Festival in Aix-en-Provence, France. Emily is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Peabody Conservatory and a Master of Music degree from Yale School of Music. Her primary horn teachers include Julie Schleif, Peter Landgren, William Purvis, and Denise Tryon.

AARON BRASK is a member of the Jacksonville Symphony and the Glimmerglass Festival. He graduated from the Inter-lochen Arts Academy and Boston University. A former member of the Florida Orchestra, he also toured Germany twice with Pepe Romero and the American Sinfonietta. Mr. Brask teaches at Jacksonville University and Florida State College at Jackson-ville. Four CD releases in a wide variety of musical styles as well as other information can be found at LastHorn.com Aaron also studied with Marvin Howe at Interlochen.

JENNIFER BRUMMETT became principal horn of the Spokane Symphony in 2002 and teaches at Whitworth Universi-ty. Currently she is a member of Square Revolution which has performed in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, she has ap-peared at the Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, the Lands End Chamber Ensemble in Calgary, the Utah Festival Opera Company, the Spectrum Concert Series in Fort Worth and as a member of Clarion Brass at Seattle’s Town Hall.

ERWIN CHANDLER studied with Marvin Howe during his undergraduate studies at Ithaca College, and holds a Master of Music Degree from Indiana University where he studied with Philip Farkas. Mr. Chandler has performed with the Reading Symphony Orchestra, the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra (Principal Horn) the Alleghany Music Festival Orchestra (Principal Horn), the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, and the Reading Brass Quintet. He is the co-founder of the Berkshire Brass Quintet. As a freelance musician, he has performed with orchestras backing many popular performing artists. He has served on the staff orchestras of the Valley Forge Music Fair and the Hershey Theater. Mr. Chandler is a distinguished composer, jazz pianist and hornist, and has received numerous commissions and awards. His compositions have been performed by bands, orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians throughout Europe and The USA. He is a member of A.S.C.A.P. and AFM local 132-211. Mr. Chandler has taught in the public schools of Port Jervis, New York; Murray State University; Lebanon Valley College; and several music camps including Interlochen. He and his wife, Patrice, share a music studio in Reading, Pennsylvania.

PATRICE WHITCOMB CHANDLER studied Horn at a very young age with Marvin Howe. She was an Interlochen Camper in 1959 and 1962. Then, Pat had a full scholarship at Syracuse in order to continue studies with Mr. Howe. When Mr. Howe decided to move to Ithaca, she gave up that scholarship to attend Ithaca College. After graduating from Ithaca College, Pat taught in the Port Jervis, New York Schools. She has also been a private teacher of Suzuki Violin and Piano.

STEVEN COHEN has been heard nationally as an orchestral and Broadway musician. An in-demand freelance horn player, Steven is a frequent guest with the Omaha Symphony and Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra, while performing with various national touring Broadway productions such as Wicked and The Lion King. Additionally, he holds positions in various orches-tral and chamber ensembles in Nebraska. During the holiday season, Steven can be seen with Mannheim Steamroller as their solo hornist. He is featured with the group on their latest DVD/Blu-ray and CD, Mannheim Steamroller Live. From 2010-2012, Steven was Principal Horn with The New 25th Anniversary Production of Les Miserables. As a scholar and clinician, Steven has presented lectures at the national and international level, as well as masterclasses and recitals throughout the Unit-ed States. Steven had the pleasure of presenting “from ON stage to UNDER it: Transforming from an Orchestral to Pit Hornist and Back,” a lecture that explored the world of Broadway pit performance and interpretation, at the 45th IHS. He continues to present lectures at various workshops and universities on the implications of teaching and performance practice in the works of J.S. Bach which feature the horn. Steven is currently pursuing his DMA at UCSB. He holds a Master of Music and a Bach-elor of Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His principal teachers include Dr. Steven Gross, Dr. Alan Mattingly, Philip Myers, and R. Allen Spanjer. Steven Cohen is a Siegfried’s Call Artist, and plays horns by Engelbert Schmid.


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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSDr. ASHLEY CUMMING hails from Cambridge, Ontario. She is featured as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musi-

cian worldwide, including principal horn with the COSI Opera Orchestra in Italy and Columbus Indiana Philharmonic and freelance horn with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, UANL Symphony Orchestra in Mexico and Orchestre de la Francophonie in Quebec. She was a recitalist at the International Women’s Brass Conference in Michigan, Midwest Horn Workshop in Wisconsin, and at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario. Ashley was also a concerto soloist with the Sooke Philharmonic in British Columbia, the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Youth Orchestra in Ontario and Jr. All-State Band in Indiana. Touring the United States with Spark Brass, Ashley performs concerts and educational programs with the acclaimed quintet, recently releasing their first album “Carnaval to the Music Hall.” She has performed in prestigious programs such as the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts Summer Masterclasses, and International Sommerakademie in Austria. Ashley is an instructor at Marian University, University of Indianapolis and Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis. Ashley holds a Doctorate of Music from Indiana University where she studied with Jeff Nelsen, Dale Clev-enger and natural horn with Rick Seraphinoff. For more information, please visit www.ashleycumming.com.

Dr. TIFFANY DAMICONE has brought her passion for efficient and effective pedagogy into the classrooms at Ohio Wesleyan University and The Ohio State University. As an invited lecturer, she has presented her research to colleges and symposia across the globe. She began studying international concepts of horn playing in Berlin while providing critical edits on Fergus McWilliam’s “anti-horn method” method, Blow Your Own Horn!—Horn Heresies. Later focusing on the horn pedagogy in Prague for her DMA document, “The Singing Style of the Bohemians”, Damicone traveled to the Czech Republic in several sessions to observe and record the students of Radek Baborák, Zdeněk Divoký, and Bedřich Tylšar. She continues to investigate the Czech influences on horn playing, most recently in Porto, Portugal, with the students of Bohdan Šebestík and Ricardo Matosinhos, for a segue article to her 3-part series on Czech horn traditions in The Horn Call. After completing performance degrees from LSU, OSU and New England Conservatory, Damicone earned her stripes performing in solo recitals, orchestras, musicals, jazz bands, collaborative recording projects, and award-winning chamber ensembles. Presently, she is active in the arts community as the IHS Representative for Ohio, Brass Instructor at the Jeffer-son Academy of Music, and Artistic Director of Horns of Ohio! She is a member of the Famous Jazz Orchestra and St. Paul Cathedral Brass, while maintaining her freelance schedule and thriving horn studio. When not thinking about horn, she enjoys rowdy concerts with her husband and caring for their rescued cat and chinchillas.

JOHN DRESSLER is Professor of Horn and Musicology at Murray State University in Kentucky. He currently serves as second horn with the Paducah Symphony and free-lances in the Memphis, Jackson, and Nashville areas. He has been Principal horn with the Jacksonville (FL) Orchestra, Stockton (CA) Orchestra, Savannah (GA) Orchestra, Waco (TX) Or-chestra, and Jackson (TN) Orchestra. In addition he has performed with the Indianapolis and Memphis Symphonies as an extra or substitute. He has performed two solo recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City and has been a frequent soloist at regional and international IHS conferences. He holds degrees from Baldwin-Wallace College and Indiana Uni-versity where he earned the first doctoral degree in horn performance under Philip Farkas and Michael Hatfield.

WALLY EASTER joined the faculty of the Department of Music at Virginia Tech in 1981, and the Roanoke Symphony as principal horn. He began his professional performing career with the United States Marine Band, “The President’s Own” in Washington, D. C. As a member of the Marine Band, he toured the United States and performed frequently at the White House. Other professional activities include residencies as artist/faculty for the Virginia Governor’s School for the Arts, Skyline Brass Music Festival, Roanoke Youth Symphony Summer Institute, and the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan.

MATTHEW ECKENHOFF joined the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra as second horn in 2013. A native of Philadelphia, he earned his bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with Cleveland Orchestra hornists Eli Epstein and Richard King. He went on to earn his master’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder under the instruction of Colorado Symphony Orchestra principal horn Michael Thornton. After graduating, Matt moved to Houston, Texas and studied for two years with the principal horn of the Houston Symphony, William VerMeulen. Prior to joining the LPO, Matt was a member of the New World Symphony, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. He has also held positions with the Britt Festival Orchestra, the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he has appeared with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Houston Grand Opera, among others. In 2013, he appeared as a contributing artist at the IHS Symposium in Memphis, TN. Along with his performance duties, Matt will be serving as the President of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2016-2017 season.

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSELI EPSTEIN enjoys a multi-faceted career as performer, educator, conductor, and author. Epstein was second horn of the

Cleveland Orchestra (1987-2005), and horn instructor at the Cleveland Institute of Music (1989-2005). He has appeared sev-eral times as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra. Epstein left Cleveland in 2005, and moved to Boston to devote more time and energy toward educational and creative endeavors. An active chamber musician, he has performed at Jordan Hall, Severance Hall, Tanglewood, Philadelphia’s Academy of Music, the Kennedy Center, Music Acade-my of the West where he served on faculty (2005-2013) and the Aspen Music Festival where he served as principal horn of the Aspen Chamber Symphony (2000-2012). Epstein is currently on faculty of New England Conservatory and Boston Conser-vatory. Advocating the idea that music can be a meaningful and uplifting force in society, in 2009 Epstein won Grand Prize in the Entrepreneur the Arts Contest for his Inside Out Concerts, and appeared on Heartbeat of America with William Shatner. Epstein’s book, Horn Playing from the Inside Out (second edition published in 2014), was celebrated in the International Horn Society’s journal as “an overwhelmingly stimulating and productive treatise…that will yield positive influence on legions of horn players…” Orchestral Excerpts for Low Horn, Epstein’s companion album released in 2014, was acclaimed by Horn World as a “perfect sequel to (Krebiehl’s) original horn excerpts CD.” The Horn Call penned: “Every performance provides a sonic paragon, a rubric worthy of emulation by student and professional alike.” www.EliEpstein.com

Dr. JOSEPH FALVEY is Assistant Professor at Utah State University where he serves as Associate Director of Bands and horn professor. He has been a member of the Utah Festival Opera since 2013 and has performed as a soloist or chamber musician at the Northwest Horn Symposium, Western Horn Workshop, Southeast Horn Workshop, and SCI Region III Conference. Dr. Falvey has held full-time positions with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra in China and the Sinaloa Sym-phony Orchestra in Mexico. His doctoral degree was conferred by the University of Miami where he studied with Richard Todd and J.D. Shaw. Dr. Falvey received his master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in the studio of Randy Gardner, additional graduate studies in Barcelona with David Thompson, and his bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University in the studio of Dr. Willard Zirk.

RANDALL FAUST has served the International Horn Society in a variety of roles including Composition Contest Coordinator, Advisory Council Member, Secretary, President, and as Host of the 41st International Symposium—held at Western Illinois University in 2009. In addition, he has hosted the annual Western Illinois Horn Festival every year since 2002. He is a Professor of Music at Western Illinois University, and Hornist of the Camerata Woodwind Quintet and LaMoine Brass Quintet. Previous teaching experience includes The National Music Camp/Interlochen Arts Camp, Auburn University, and The Shenandoah Conservatory of Music. Marvin Howe was a teacher and professional mentor of Randall Faust from 1960-1994. Subsequent to Dr. Howe’s passing in 1994, Randall Faust has compiled, edited, and published many of Marvin Howe’s manuscripts of horn studies, solos, and ensemble transcriptions. These include the ongoing series The Advancing Hornist, an instructional video—How to Stop a Horn, The Solo Hornist—Solos for Horn and Piano, as well as various works for Horn Ensembles. 1n 1996, his biographical article—“Marvin Howe—Singer of Smooth Melodies,” was published in the Horn Call.

ROSE FRENCH is the Founder of the Mill Ave Chamber Players (www.millavechamberplayers.com) and on the faculty of Arizona State University, Phoenix College and Grand Canyon University. She has been a contributing artist and lecturer at the International Horn Symposium in Los Angeles, London, Brisbane, Australia and Cape Town South Africa, where she won the Dorothy Frizelle International Horn Excerpt Competition. Rose has been the guest artist and chamber mu-sic coach at the Saarburg (Germany) International Chamber Music Festival and Interlochen Center for the Arts. She has published two books, Rangesongs (2012) and Horn Player’s Songbook (2015), both published by Mountain Peak Music. French completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees at Arizona State University and hold degrees in Music Education, Music Technology, and Performance from Duquesne University.

FÜNF, a woodwind quintet based in Albany New York, performs traditional and contemporary wind literature as well as newly commissioned works. A fundamental part of Fünf ’s mission is making chamber music fun for audiences while introducing them to new music. Recent concerts include new works by Nicholas Ascoti, Norman Thobodeau, the area pre-miere Mathieu Lussier’s Sextour for winds and contra bassoon, and the premier performance of the IHS supported com-mission of Philip Spaeth’s Quintet For Winds. The group’s founding members: Norman Thibodeau, flute; Susan Kokernak, oboe; David Ciucevich, clarinet; Patrice Malatestinic, horn; and Gerald Lanoue, bassoon; are free lance musicians collec-tively playing with many of the Capital Region’s orchestras, operas, and chamber groups. Fünf members are also studio teachers, music educators, and faculty members at an array of the region’s educational institutions (College of St Rose, Skidmore College, Schenectady County Community College, and Niskayuna High School).

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSGAUDETE BRASS QUINTET has committed itself since 2004 to presenting serious brass chamber music through

compelling concerts, commissioning new works and adventurous recordings. The group has engaged in live performances at venues such as Merkin Hall and Symphony Space in New York City and Millennium Park in Chicago, commissioned new works from noted composers such as David Sampson, Jonathan Newman, John Cheetham, Steven Bryant and Stacy Garrop, and appeared on radio broadcasts on WFMT in Chicago and Nashville Public Radio. While keeping this rigorous performance schedule, Gaudete has recorded three albums: Brass Outings (2006), winner of the CDBaby Editors’ Choice distinction and nominee for Just Plain Folks Best Classical Chamber Album; Conversations in Time with organist R. Ben-jamin Dobey (2011, Pro Organa); and Chicago Moves, produced by Grammy winner Judith Sherman and featuring several of its commissioned works (2012, Cedille Records). The quintet has also presented educational programs and concerts at prominent institutions including The Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music, and Arizona State University and start-ing in the fall of 2013 the GBQ has joined Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts faculty as ensem-ble-in-residence. Gaudete (gow-day-tay) is a form of the Latin word for “Joy.” We support the idea that chamber music, even (and perhaps especially) the serious kind, can powerfully communicate both the poignant and the exuberant. To learn more about the Gaudete Brass, please visit www.gaudetebrass.com.

GRAND HARMONIE brings vibrant, historically-informed, period-instrument performances of Classical and Romantic music to audiences across the Northeast. Founded in 2012 by a group of wind players interested in exploring the repertoire of Harmonie bands of the 18th century, the scope of the ensemble rapidly expanded to encompass a vast array of concert settings. Now in its fourth season, performances have included Harmoniemusik, salon concerts with fortepiano, mixed cham-ber music with brass and strings, full symphony orchestra, and both concert and fully-staged opera. A key player in the arts community, Grand Harmonie enjoys collaborations with numerous organizations and universities, and appears on multiple concert series in both Boston and New York. Recent collaborations include performances with Harvard University Choir, Bos-ton Opera Collaborative, Lorelei Ensemble, Bach Vespers NYC, GEMS Midtown Concerts, Met Museum Gallery Concerts and more. The ensemble, a proven educational resource, has been invited to give performances and master classes in histori-cal performance practice at Harvard University, Princeton University, The Longy School of Music of Bard College, NYU, the University of Washington, and Palm Beach Atlantic University. For more information, visit www.grandharmonie.org Artistic team: Elisabeth Axtell, Christopher Belluscio, Emily Dahl, Jonathan Hess, Yoni Kahn, Kristin Olson, and Sarah Paysnick

ERICKA TYNER GRODRIAN is Assistant Professor of Music at Valparaiso University where she teaches applied horn, chamber music, performance techniques, and musicianship courses. A graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, shen focused her dissertation research on the role of opera excerpts in recent American horn pedagogy. She then developed Beyond the Short Call, a companion website resource that provides free printable opera excerpts, audio excerpt streaming, and archived audition lists from recent North American auditions. (www.hornoperaproject.org) Dr. Grodrian previously served as Lecturer in Horn and Music Theory at Converse College, and Associate Instructor of Horn at Indiana University. She placed first in her division at the 2010 Susan Slaughter International Solo Brass Competition in Toronto, On-tario. Past winner of the Southeast Horn Workshop Horn Quartet Competition, she especially enjoys performing in chamber groups that explore interesting instrumentations and new works. Recent collaborations include performances with Master-works6, and the premiere of David DeBoor Canfield’s Five Mangled Expressions for saxophone and horn. As an orchestral hornist, she has performed with multiple groups throughout the Southeast. Her primary teachers include Jeff Nelsen, Richard Seraphinoff, Richard Deane, and Skip Snead. Away from the horn she enjoys gardening, cooking, working on her vintage 1900 house, and watching football with her husband, John and their standard poodle, Dexter.

MARC GUY loves to play the horn. He teaches fabulous students and has stunning faculty colleagues at the SUNY Fredonia School of Music. Marc plays in the Western New York Chamber Orchestra, the Fredonia Wind Quintet, the Erie Philharmonic, and is a member of the New Peerless Sousa Band. Dr. Guy holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, Northwestern University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he studied with Robert Pierce, Dale Clevenger and William Purvis, respectively. He was a fellowship student at Tanglewood, studied chamber music at the Yale University Summer School of Music and Art, and attended Interlochen National Music Camp—where he studied with Marvin Howe. More information about Marc Guy may be found at: http://www.fredonia.edu/music/faculty/bios/guy.asp

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSDr. MATTHEW HAISLIP is a commissioned composer and a hornist who currently serves as the instructor of horn at

Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and as an instructor of music at Calvary Bible College in Kansas City, Missouri. During the summer, he is an instructor of horn at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan. He was previously the instructor of horn at Hardin-Simmons University and at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas. He is a member of the Missouri Symphony Orchestra in Columbia, Missouri, and was previously a member of the Midland-Odessa Symphony, the Abilene Opera, and the Kentucky Symphony. He has performed with such organizations as the Cincinnati Opera, Opera Naples, the Dubuque Sympho-ny, and the South Dakota Symphony, and has appeared as a guest artist at the University of Idaho, and the University of Dayton, among others. His articles have been published by the IHS, and his set of horn studies entitled Ten Character Studies for Horn is published by BrownWood Publishing. He holds degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the University of Cincinna-ti, College-Conservatory of Music, and Texas A&M University-Commerce. www.matthaislip.com.

DOUGLAS HALL, 4th horn San Diego Symphony, MM SF Conservatory, BA Univ. of Az. Red Wing Band Inst. Repair certificate. George McCracken apprentice.

BARBARA HILL is Principal Horn of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and former Acting Principal Horn of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in Canada. She has been guest Principal with many North American orchestras, and is an active chamber musician and soloist. In addition to a busy playing schedule, Barbara is Chair of the Brass Department at The Hartt School of Music Community Division, where she regularly coaches chamber ensembles, mentors the wind play-ers of the CT Youth Orchestra, and maintains an active studio of horn students. Barbara is also Adjunct Horn Instructor at Central CT State University. She holds a MM from The Juilliard School where she studied with Jerome Ashby, and a BM from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.

PATRICK HUGHES serves as Associate Professor of Horn, Head of the Brass Wind and Percussion Division, and director of the award-winning UT Horn Choir at the University of Texas at Austin. He enjoys an active performance career, playing principal horn with the Victoria Bach Festival and La Folia Austin Baroque (natural horn), and free-lancing with the Aus-tin Symphony, Ballet, and Opera. He also plays with touring Broadway shows and backs popular performers who frequent Austin, like Willie Nelson and Aretha Franklin. Recognized as an Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 2005 at UT, Mr. Hughes also serves on the faculties of the Hot Springs Music Festival and the Kendall Betts Horn Camp and is a frequent guest lectur-er/performer/teacher, giving masterclasses and recitals across the US and abroad. In May of 2013 he traveled to Australia to teach, perform, and give the Australian Premier of his three latest compositions for horn choir. Three of his compositions have been premiered at IHS International Symposia: Ubi Caritas, Dancing on the Hill and From Hildegard. In 2015 Dancing on the Hill won an Honorable Mention award in the virtuoso division of the International Horn Society’s Composition Compe-tition. His music is published through BrownWood Publishing. Hughes hosted the 2005 and 2014 Mid-South Regional Horn Workshops at the University of Texas, serves on the Reviewing Committee of the IHS Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Fund, and is a newly elected member to the IHS Advisory Council.

TIMOTHY HUIZENGA, Staff Sergeant, joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in July 2014. After graduating in 2003 from Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Ill., he attended the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in music in 2007 and a performer diploma in horn performance in 2008. He studied with Myron Bloom of the Cleveland Orchestra, Jeff Nelsen of the Canadian Brass, and Wolfgang Vladar of the Vienna Philharmonic. Prior to joining “The President’s Own,” Staff Sgt. Huizenga served in the United States Army Field Band in Ft. Meade, Md., for six years and was the principal horn of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic in Indiana.

PETER ILTIS teaches applied horn at Gordon College, and has been on staff in the Department of Music since 1996. Dr. Iltis holds a Ph.D. in exercise physiology from the University of Kansas, and has served on the faculty of Gordon College for 30 years. Dr. Iltis performed as an occasional horn player with the Edmonton Symphony and Calgary Symphony orchestras while still in high school, and began his undergraduate training as a horn performance major at Indiana University. Current-ly a full professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Dr. Iltis spent many years playing French horn in the Boston area as a freelance artist and held the principal horn position in the Lexington Symphony from 1998 to 2001. Dr. Iltis was diagnosed with embouchure dystonia in 2001, which ended his performing career, but has continued to sustain a successful horn studio at Gordon College. Combining his expertise in kinesiology with French horn pedagogy, Dr. Iltis served as the medical and scientific issues editor for the Horn Call, the journal of the International Horn Society; he has published articles in Horn Call and in the journal Medical Problems of Performing Artists. His current research on embouchure dystonia focuses on the in-tersection between physiologic mechanisms and psychological correlates, such as performance anxiety. He has spoken on this topic at several universities and conservatories in the United States, and during his sabbatical in the fall of 2013, participated in research in Hannover, Germany at the Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine.

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSDr. KATIE JOHNSON is the Assistant Professor of Horn at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She excels as a flexible,

thoughtful, and active performer of chamber music, solo repertoire, and orchestral literature. In past years, Dr. Johnson has been selected to attend the Aspen Summer Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado, the Kent/Blossom Music Festival in Kent, Ohio, and the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado. As a soloist, Katie took first place in the horn division of the Susan Slaughter Solo Brass Competition in 2012 and gave a solo recital at the 2015 International Horn Symposium in Los Angeles, CA featuring Ann Callaway’s large-scale work, Four Elements for horn and piano. Katie recently performed Dana Wilson’s Concer-to for Horn and Wind Ensemble with the University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble and lectured at the 2015 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, IL. Dr. Johnson completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madi-son in 2012 under the direction of Professor Emeritus Douglas Hill and Professor Daniel Grabois. While completing the Master of Music degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Katie worked closely with Professor Douglas Hill as a Bolz Fellow. Katie completed her undergraduate studies in music and political science at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana.

JUST TWO, a horn and guitar duo featuring Sarah Schouten, horn and Tom Cody, guitar was formed in the summer of 2012. In addition to performing existing compositions, the duo actively creates its own arrangements, with the hope of expanding the repertoire for this unique pairing. The arrangements include a wide variety of genres, from Jazz to Chopin. The duo has performed at the Southeast Horn Workshop, The Northeast Horn Workshop, and The International Horn Symposium. For the past two years, they have also been featured performers in the First Friday Faculty Series, at Edinboro University. Tom Cody is on the music faculty at The Pennsylvania State University and Sarah Schouten is on the music faculty at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and Marywood University (Scranton, PA).

YONI KAHN is pursuing a double life as a physicist and a historical hornist. He received his B.A. in physics and math and his B.Mus in music performance from Northwestern University in 2009, studying horn with Gail Williams and Bill Barnewitz. While pursuing his Ph.D. at MIT, he began natural horn studies with Jean Rife. Currently a postdoctoral re-searcher studying dark matter at Princeton University, he is co-founder of the period-instrument group Grand Harmonie, and has performed with leading historical performance groups around the country, including Handel & Haydn Society, Clarion Music Society, REBEL Baroque Ensemble, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Pacific MusicWorks, and Bach Society Houston. As part of Grand Harmonie, he has given master classes on historical performance techniques at Princeton University and the University of Washington, and recently completed a reconstruction with Thomas Carroll of the original chamber version of the Brahms Serenade op. 11, which received its premiere in December 2015.

PHILIP KASSEL originally from Culpeper, VA, is a member of Gaudete Brass and is the Associate Principal Horn of the Boise Philharmonic. During his first season with the Philharmonic, he was the featured horn soloist in their performance of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Winds. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Serenata Chamber Orchestra and, in 2015, will again perform as a soloist with the Boise Philharmonic in two performances of Robert Schumann’s Konzertstuck for Four Horns and Orchestra. Philip has performed with the MLW Festival Philharmonie in Germany and the Nether-lands, the McCall Summerfest Orchestra, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, the Sun Valley Opera Orchestra, Mannheim Steam-roller, Josh Groban, Wicked the Musical, Opera Idaho, and the Chicago Classical Philharmonic. He also has been heard on public radio broadcasts with the Boise Philharmonic and the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra. He studied horn at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, and at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His primary teachers were Jonathan Boen, Oto Carrillo, Jeff Fair, Jack Masarie, and Floyd Cooley. When not playing horn, Philip enjoys cooking, computer programming, traveling, hiking, and spending time with his wife, Holly, who is a clarinet player.

Dr. NICHOLAS A. KENNEY earned the Bachelor of Music from Western Carolina University and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Nebraska. He has performed in venues around the globe, including the Conser-vatorium in Brisbane, Australia, the Waterford Opera House in Waterford, Ireland and Carnegie Hall (twice). Nicholas is an award-winning soloist – having won both North Carolina and Nebraska’s MTNA competitions twice, winning the 2006 West-ern Carolina University Concerto Competition, and in 2009, he was named a finalist in the International Horn Competition of America. Dr. Kenney has been extremely active as a teacher and clinician, presenting master classes in Mexico, North Car-olina, Nebraska, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, and Virginia. He has served as Adjunct Professor of Horn at UNC-Pembroke and Concordia University and as Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently the Assistant Professor of Horn at Southeast Missouri State University where he teaches applied horn, horn ensemble, music theory, and is the assistant director to the athletic bands. Dr. Kenney strives to inspire all of his students to attain all of their goals – small and large – using the horn and music as his medium. A Siegfried’s Call artist, Dr. Kenney performs exclusively on the Lewis and Duerk LDx5 horn and Houser mouthpieces. He currently lives in Jackson, Missouri, with his Bengal cat, Oakley.

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSBRIGETTE KNOX, Staff Sergeant, joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in December 2013. After

graduating in 2003 from Eldorado High School in Albuquerque, she attended the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) in Ohio where she earned a bachelor’s degree in music performance in 2007. In 2009 she completed a master’s degree in music performance from The Juilliard School in New York. Staff Sgt. Knox has pursued doctoral studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in Ohio. She studied with Rick Solis of CIM, William Purvis of Juilliard, and Randy Gardner of CCM. Prior to joining “The President’s Own,” Staff Sgt. Knox was the band and choir director for Central Catholic Junior-Senior High School in Lafayette, Ind. She performed regularly with the Santa Fe Concert Associa-tion and was on the faculty at the Sandia Music Festival in Albuquerque,both in New Mexico. She has also performed with the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra and Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra in Indiana, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra in Newport, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut.

CECILIA KOZLOWSKI, Staff Sergeant, joined the “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in May 2013. Af-ter graduating in 2004 from Sterling Heights High School, she earned a bachelor’s degree in 2008 from Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo. In 2010, she earned a master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Con-servatory of Music (CCM). She studied with Lin Folk of WMU, Elizabeth Freimuth of CCM and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and Randy Gardner of CCM and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Prior to joining “The President’s Own,” Staff Sgt. Kozlowski was the acting principal horn of the Beijing National Opera House in China and performed with the Columbus and Lima Symphony Orchestras in Ohio, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra in Newport, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra in Indiana, and the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra in St. Joseph.

AMY LAURSEN is horn instructor at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, AR where she teaches applied horn, music theory and music education courses. Dr. Laursen recently completed her DMA in Horn Performance from Univer-sity of North Texas where she studied with William Scharnberg. While at UNT she performed and recorded with the Wind Symphony, Symphony Orchestra, Baroque Orchestra, Opera program, and in the Center for Chamber Brass Quintet. As a teaching fellow at UNT, Ds. Laursen taught brass methods and in the horn studio, and was heavily involved in the Music and Medicine program working with Dr. Kris Chesky. Ds. Laursen received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Wyoming and a master’s in French horn Performance from UNT in 2006. Before returning to UNT to begin her doctoral degree in the fall of 2010, she taught elementary general music, band, and orchestra for two years in Wyoming. She has taught private lessons in the DFW area and in Arkansas. She currently performs with the HSU Faculty Brass Quintet, HSU Faculty Woodwind Quintet, Natural State Brass Band, and Orchestra of New Spain where she plays natural horn.

STEPHEN LAWSON, DMA, is Professor of Horn and Music Theory at Marshall University in Huntington, WV. He is a member of the Maezel Wind Quintet that performs on 18th century instruments. Additionally, Lawson is a member of the Huntington Symphony Orchestra, Marshall University Faculty Brass Quintet and Kingsbury Woodwind Quintet and free-lances throughout the region. Previously, Lawson has served on the faculties of Minot State University, ND, and Western Carolina University, NC. and performed with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Ohio Valley Symphony Orchestra, Minot Symphony Orchestra, and Asheville Symphony Orchestra. Through more than 30 years of university teaching, Law-son has been active as a chamber musician, and arranger/composer.

HILARY LEDEBUHR appears regularly in many orchestra, opera, theater, and chamber groups throughout New England, and has performed with the Albany, New Hampshire, Portland and Vermont Symphony Orchestras, Connecticut Opera, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and at Mohegan Sun. She currently plays third horn with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, where she has shared the stage with such performers as Joshua Bell, Andrea Bocelli, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma, and Luciano Pavarotti. She and her trumpeter husband founded a brass quintet, Brass Venture, with which she recently recorded new works by Berklee composer Thomas Hojnacki. A native of the Finger Lakes region of New York, Ms. Ledebuhr earned her bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College and her master’s degree from New England Conservatory.

PATRICE MALETESTINIC French horn Instructor and Brass Ensemble Coach at Skidmore College, is a free lance French hornist in New York’s capital region, and a member of the Glens Falls and Schenectady Symphonies, and Hubbard Hall Opera Theater Orchestra. Ms Malatestinic is a founding member of fünf woodwind quintet, she sings with the Choir of Historic St Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Church, she directs the St Peter’s Horn Choir, and has been a member of North Winds, On Cor, and Saratoga Brass. Active in the International Horn Society, she hosted the 2008 regional Northeast Horn Workshop at Skidmore College. Her Masters degree in Performance and Pedagogy culminates from graduate work at Northern Illinois University, where she studied with Virginia Culpepper, Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie - Detmold, Die Hochschule fur Musik ‘Mozarteum’ Salzberg, and work at the College of St Rose. She is also adjunct faculty at The College of St Rose; and maintains an active private teaching studio in Albany, NY and at her home in Saratoga Springs, NY.

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JOSHUA MICHAL, a native of Ohio, is the Assistant Professor of Horn at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In addition to the Hartford Symphony, he performs regularly with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, and plays 2nd horn with the Lancaster Music Festival in the summer. Josh has toured with the Boston Brass and has recently performed with the Charleston Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Cincinnati Chamber Or-chestra, the Chicago Brass Ensemble, and the Breckenridge Music Festival. Josh received his degrees from Indiana Univer-sity (B.M.), Northwestern University (M.M.), and The Ohio State University (D.M.A.). He completed additional studies at Bowling Green State University and the IES Institute in Vienna, Austria. His principal teachers include Rosemary Wil-liams, Michael Hatfield, Michael Höltzel, Richard Seraphinoff, Jeff Nelsen, Volker Altmann, Gail Williams, Liz Freimuth, and Bruce Henniss.

J.G. MILLER, originally from Colorado, holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern Califor-nia, a Master of Music degree from the University of Arizona, and a Bachelor of Music Performance and Music Education degree from the Eastman School of Music. His teachers include Peter Kurau, James Thatcher, Daniel Katzen, and Kendall Betts. JG has performed with The Who, Mariachi Sol de Mexico, La Sinfonica Nacional De Las America, and Los Angeles area studio orchestras on several major motion picture scores. He was also a performer at the “12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief ” at Madison Square Garden. He has taught as a high school band director and as a clinician at the Kendall Betts Horn Camp and the Colburn Horn Camp. He has also trained as a machinist and welder while working for Lawson Horns, and writes and arranges as co-founder of Veritas Musica Publishing. He currently serves as a section member of The Unit-ed States Army Field Band and Federal Brass Quintet and has presented and performed at IHS Symposiums in Valencia, Denver, Brisbane, and Los Angeles.

MONMOUTH WINDS, formed in 2009, is a woodwind quintet featuring musicians from the Garden State: Jenny Cline, flute; Nicholas Gatto, oboe; Cathy Adamo, clarinet; Richard Sachs, horn; and Linda Balavram, bassoon. They have been steadily building a following, delighting audiences in the tri-state area with their entertaining performances of eclectic reper-toire. Lately they have been busy commissioning new works for their ensemble, including works by composers Jeff Scott (of the Imani Winds), Gary Schocker, Daniel Dorff, David Evan Thomas and Laurence Dresner. They have performed at the 2013 (New Orleans) and 2015 (Washington, D.C.) National Flute Association conventions, and they premiered their latest commis-sion, a work by Eric Ewazen, at the Juilliard School in October 2015.

MEREDITH MOORE is an international horn player with a diverse, prolific career. As a freelance orchestral musician, Mer-edith has played with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Ballet, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra along with numerous other orchestras across the U.K, Europe and the USA. She has played principal horn with the BBC Philharmonic, Bath Philharmonia, Oxford Philharmonia and the Symphony Orchestra of India. As a soloist, Meredith has performed Richard Strauss’s Horn Concerto no. 1 with the Helios Chamber Orchestra and was the winner of the 2007 IHS Northeast Concerto Competition. A specialist on the Clas-sical and Baroque natural horns, Meredith has performed with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Classical Opera Company, Norwegian Wind Ensemble (as guest principal) and numerous times as a soloist in Bach’s B Minor Mass. She has also appeared as a soloist with the Amadè Players performing Mozart’s Horn Concerto no.2 K.417. In addition, Meredith has given recitals at the King’s Place (London), Brighton Early Music Festival, Spectrum (NYC) and has commissioned numerous contemporary works for the Natural Horn. Meredith can be heard on the soundtracks to ‘Thor’ (2011) and ‘Brave’ (2012), and on the 2012 UK Christmas no.1 single ‘He Ain’t Heavy’. Currently Meredith is freelancing in the New York City area and plays regularly on the Broadway Shows ‘Phantom of the Opera’ and ‘The King and I’ and as part of Josh Groban’s 2015 ‘Stages’ Tour.

JACK MUNNECOM (1976) studied at the Conservatory Maastricht in the hornclass of Willy Bessems, Will Sanders and Erich Penzel where he earned his degrees in Music Performance and Teaching in 2004. Furthermore, he had lessons and mas-terclasses with Jacob Slagter, Radovan Vlatkovic, Hermann Baumann and Frank Lloyd. In 2008, he was 1st prize winner at the International Soloist and Ensemble Contest in Kerkrade (NL). He recieved research grants from the Royal Society for Music History of The Netherlands (2014) and the Netherland-America Foundation (2015). He has held principal horn positions at the Royal Dutch Orchestra Thorn (NL), Symphonic Impulse (NL) and the Netherlands Students Orchestra (NL). He also played in the Bayreuth Festival “Junger Künstler” (Ger), the Netherlands Youth Orchestra (NL), the European Youth Wind Orchestra, the Limburg Chamber Orchestra (NL) and the New York Pops Orchestra (USA). He has performed in concert halls like: Carnegie Hall New York (USA), the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (NL), Konzerthaus Berlin (Ger), Alte Oper Frank-furt (Ger), Semperoper Dresden (Ger) and the Lucerne Concert Hall (CH). Currently, Jack is principal horn with TransAtlan-tic Brass (USA/NL). He holds a teaching position at SKO Maasdal (NL), the Academy Myouthic (NL) and he is a researcher at Utrecht University (NL). In his research, he is focussing on “the Velvet Hornsound of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra”.


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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSDANIEL NEBEL, Airman First Class, is currently serving as a bandsman with the United States Air Force Band of the

Golden West stationed at Travis Air Force Base, CA where he performs with the concert band and Golden West Winds Woodwind Quintet. Nebel is a 2008 Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY and went on to earn a master’s degree from Wichita State University while performing third/associate principal with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and principal horn with the Wichita Grand Opera. Nebel then began doctoral work at the University of Northern Colorado before joining the air force in 2013. In addition to his duties in the air force, Nebel is an active freelancer in the Bay area and is currently the acting principal horn of the North State Symphony (Chico and Redding, CA). He has had the pleasure of performing with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Philharmonic, Music Theatre of Wichita, Mannheim Steamroller, and Santa Rosa Symphony.

Dr. ABIGAIL PACK, Associate Professor of Horn at UNCG, native of Roanoke, Virginia, received her training from East Carolina University (BMA), University of Iowa (MM), and University of Wisconsin-Madison (DMA), where she was a Bolz Teaching Fellow. From 2001 to 2008, she was horn professor at James Madison University. She has also been on faculty at Knox College in Galesburg, IL; Western State College in Gunnison, CO; and taught in the Gunnison Watershed School District. An avid symphony player, Dr. Pack has held positions with the Barton Symphony Orchestra, Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and currently performs regularly with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival Orchestra, the Southwest Chamber Orchestra, the Opera Roanoke Orchestra, and the Southeast Brass Quintet with faculty from North Carolina School of the Arts, East Caro-lina University and UNC Chapel Hill. She has joined the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra as substitute utility horn, the Monarch Brass, and substitutes regularly with the Greensboro and Winston Salem Symphony Orchestras. Other venues have included performances with the Iowa Brass Quintet, Western Slope Brass Band, and Massanutten Brass Band. Recent perfor-mance and presentation highlights include the National Flute Association (Washington D.C. with the Montpelier Winds), the IHS Symposium (University of Cape Town, South Africa and University of Alabama), the International Midwest Band and Orchestra Conference (Chicago 2003 and 2008), and the Kennedy Center of The Performing Arts (Washington).

ANDREW PELLETIER is a Grammy Award-winning soloist and chamber musician and respected teacher/mentor. Prin-cipal horn of the Michigan Opera Theatre (Detroit Opera House) and the Ann Arbor Symphony, he has appeared as guest principal horn for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Toledo Symphony and Toledo Opera, and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus. He was the first-prize winner of the 1997 and 2001 American Horn Compe-tition and is active internationally as a solo artist. He has appeared at the International Horn Society Annual Symposia in 1997, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2014 and has presented solo performances in 28 U.S. States, Australia, England, Canada and Mexico. As a member of Southwest Chamber Music, he won a 2005 Grammy Award for Best Classical Recording (small ensemble category). Dedicated to new music, he has commissioned and premiered over 25 works for the horn as a solo voice. He spent almost a decade as an active freelance performer in Los Angeles and can be heard on film soundtracks for Battle: Los Angeles, Your Highness, Lethal Weapon 4, The X-Men, Against the Ropes and Frequency, as well as numer-ous television movies for Lifetime TV and the SiFi Channel, and has recorded for Cambria Master Classics, Koch, Delos and MSR Classics. A lifetime member of the International Horn Society, he serves on its Advisory Council. Since 2004, he is proud to serve as the Associate Professor of Horn at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USA.

SONJA REYNOLDS has twenty four years of horn teaching experience, including nine years at The Music School and over twenty years with the American Fork band programs. She completed a horn performance degree at Brigham Young University and has studied under such well-known instructors as Dr. Ellen Powley, Dr. Randy Faust, Laurence Lowe and Ronald Beitel.

GRETA RICHARD, Gunnery Sergeant, joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in June 2000. Upon graduating in 1992 from Mahtomedi High School Mahtomedi, Minn., she attended Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y., where she earned a dual bachelor’s degree in music education and performance in 1997. In 2000, she earned a master’s degree in music performance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Her instructors included Jack Covert of Ithaca Col-lege and Gregory Hustis of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Prior to joining “The President’s Own,” Gunnery Sgt. Richard performed with the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, South Africa; the Dallas Wind Symphony; and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSCATHERINE ROCHE-WALLACE is Associate Professor of Horn and Music Theory at University of Louisiana, Lafay-

ette. She holds the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music from Youngstown State University where she studied with William B. Slocum, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of Memphis, where she studied with Rich-ard Dolph. Dr. Roche-Wallace performs with the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, and the Louisiana Brass Quintet. Com-missions and premieres include Yehudi Wyner’s HORNTRIO, G. Bradley Bodine’s Rhapsody for Horn and Percussion, and Anthony Plög’s Horn Quartet No. 1. She has performed with orchestras in Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, and Michigan, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and has presented recitals in nine U.S. states, Canada, and Finland. Dr. Roche-Wallace is an adjudicator and clinician for Conn/Selmer Musical Instruments, Inc. and has presented programs at Northeast, Southeast, Mid-South, and International Horn Symposia.

LORI ROY is currently working on her doctoral degree at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with Randy Gardner. She formerly served as the lecturer of horn at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the tenured second horn of the Boise Philharmonic and has performed regularly with the Reno Philharmonic, the Reno Chamber Orchestra, and the Reno Philharmonic’s resident brass quintet, Great Basin Brass. She has been a featured soloist with the Boise Philharmonic, the TOCCATA Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and the University of Nevada, Reno Wind Ensemble, as well as other groups. Lori received her Master’s degree from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Adam Unsworth and Bryan Kennedy and she is an Ithaca College alumna, having received her undergraduate degree under the guidance of Alex Shuhan.

NICHOLAS RUBENSTEIN has been 4th horn with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra since joining in 2014. In 2007, he received his Bachelor’s Degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois as a student of Gail Williams of the Chicago Symphony and William Barnewitz of the Milwaukee Symphony. Upon graduation, Nick re-located to Florence, Italy to continue studies with the horn as well as pursue his life-long dream of becoming a chef. After Nick returned to the States he took up studies with Richard Sebring of the Boston Symphony and received his Masters’ degree in Horn perfor-mance from the New England Conservatory in 2011. He recently received his Graduate Diploma from NEC under the tutelage of Eli Epstein, formerly of the Cleveland Symphony. Nick is an active freelancer throughout New England, and a member of the Redline Brass Quintet. He can be found frequently performing in the Boston Philharmonic, Discovery Ensemble, Symphony Nova, Springfield Symphony, and as principal horn of Boston Chamber Orchestra/ Video Game Orchestra, as well as many other ensembles.

RICHARD SACHS, horn, has a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Audiology from Northwestern University. He has played horn for over 50 years in various ensembles, orchestras and chamber music groups. Rich’s professionally-coached chamber music experience is extensive, having attended Chamber Music Workshops at Wellesley College for 16 summers, Summertrios for 3 summers, Kendall Betts Horn Camp for 4 summers, the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival Fellowship Program at Juilliard for 2 summers, and more. In addition to performing with the Monmouth Winds, he also plays with the Greater Shore Concert Band, the Central Jersey Wind Ensemble, the Colts Neck Community Band, Toms River Municipal Band, and The Monmouth Symphony Orchestra, having served as the orchestra’s president for nearly four years. Rich is also the “Master-Blaster” shofar blower for Monmouth Reform Temple in Tinton Falls, NJ, and mentors aspiring young shofar players there. After 19 years, Rich recently abandoned his Alexander 101 double horn, and has been performing since last summer on a nearly new Alex double-descant 107X.

Dr. STEVEN SCHAUGHENCY, born in Endicott, New York, began playing Horn in one of the strongest high school jazz programs in the north eastern United States, solidifying an early foundation for playing in jazz and popular music styles. At the Ithaca College, he was the only Horn player to pursue a jazz oriented course of study, which continued though graduate schools, culminating with an earned Doctorate in Jazz Pedagogy from the University of Northern Colorado. His teachers have included Louis Stout, Jack Covert, Jack Herrick and Jerry Peel. As a performer, Dr. Schaughency has worked with interna-tionally recognized jazz artists such as Quincy Jones, Chuck Mangione, Diane Reeves, J. J. Johnson, Clark Terry, Paul Winter, Dave Brubeck, Marvin Stamm, and Rob McConnell. In the 1990s, he was lead Horn and soloist with the Joel Kaye Neophonic Orchestra, giving weekly big band jazz performances in Colorado. For 20 years, Steve was a member of the United States Air Force Band, performing all styles of music, from Classical to Pop for audiences on 4 continents. Steve has also held positions in various Symphony orchestras in the United States and Europe. Dr. Schaughency has been on the faculty at the University of Northern Colorado teaching Jazz History. Additionally, Steve has been a Yamaha sponsored adjudicator at Jazz Festivals, worked as a Jazz concert promoter working directly with such artists as Arturo Sandoval, the New York Voices, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Mike Stern and, recently, a clinician at European Horn workshops teaching Jazz styles.

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSSARAH SCHOUTEN currently serves as Instructor of High Brass at Edinboro University and Instructor of Horn at

Marywood University (Scranton, PA). In addition to her university duties, she is an active free-lance artist, clinician, and teacher throughout Pennsylvania. Her orchestral experience includes the Erie Chamber Orchestra, the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ocala Symphony, the Altoona Symphony, the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, among many others. Sarah is a member of Just Two, a horn/guitar duo with Thomas Cody, and has been an active lecturer and performer at numerous conferences, workshops, and festivals including the Southeast Horn Workshop, the International Horn Symposium, the Stander Symposium, the Music at Penn’s Woods Festival, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. She was a featured soloist with the Erie Philharmonic in 2015 and with the Blue Lake Festival Orchestra in 2008. She has also given recitals and master-classes at Wright State University, The Pennsylvania State University, Florida State University, Ouachita Baptist University, The University of South Alabama, and Pensacola Junior College. Dr. Schouten earned her DM from Florida State Universi-ty, her MM from The Pennsylvania State University, and BA in history, Spanish, and music, from the University of Day-ton. She is also an alumnus of The Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestral Musicians.

AMR SELIM, winner of the 2012 Northeast Horn Solo Competition, this Egyptian Hornist is quickly establishing a rep-utation as one of today’s foremost horn players. Having started playing the Horn at the age of eleven, won his first job only five years later at the age of sixteen with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra –being the youngest member to ever join the sym-phony. He has also served as Guest Principal Horn with Amman Symphony Orchestra, National Algerian Orchestra, Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra and Symphony of the Americas in Florida under the batons of renowned conductors: Daniel Barenboim, Frank Shipway, Christopher Muller, Ingo Metzmacher, Gunther Schuller among many others. Amr has toured as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher throughout Europa, South Korea, and across the Middle East and United States. As an educator, Amr Selim is the horn professor at Adelphi University, Mahanaim Conservatory, and Director of Chamber and World Music Ensembles at the Knox School and has given masterclasses at Manhattan and Aron Copland Schools of music, NYU, Stony Brook University and San Francisco School of the Arts, among others. He recently finished his etude book titled “Vocalizing the Horn” A pedagogical approach to interpreting Arab vocal music on the horn. Amr Selim holds a Bachelor of Music from Cairo Conservatory, a Professional Performance Certificate from Lynn Conservatory as a Dean Scholar, and as a recipient of the prestigious Staller Scholar Award he holds a Master’s of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University. More information: www.amrselimhorn.com

BRENT SHIRES is Horn Professor and Brass Chamber Music Coordinator at the University of Central Arkansas, and teaches courses in pedagogy and music theory. He directs the UCA Horn Ensemble and coaches brass ensembles. Brent currently holds positions of third horn with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Texarkana Symphony Orchestra; prin-cipal horn with the Conway Symphony Orchestra; regular theatrical work with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre; and is the founding hornist of Pinnacle Brass, the resident quintet at UCA. In addition, Brent teaches horn at Hendrix College, Dixie Band Camp, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. Brent has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Australia and China. Internationally Brent has been Principal Horn for the Haydn Festival Orchestra in Eisenstadt, Austria; Guest Princi-pal Horn with the Fujian Symphony in Fuzhou, China; and has appeared multiple times as Guest Principal Horn or as solo-ist with the East China Normal University Symphony Orchestra in Shanghai. Dr. Shires earned degrees from State Univer-sity of New York - Potsdam, Northern Illinois University, and the University of Illinois, with a DMA research area focusing on original works for solo horn and wind band. He also spent one semester studying at the Birmingham Conservatoire in England. His horn teachers include W. Peter Kurau, Roy Schaberg, Norman Schweikert, Timothy Jones, John Fairfield, and Kazimierz Machala. Dr. Shires serves the International Horn Society as the worldwide Regional Workshop Coordinator and Arkansas Area Rep. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Horn Competition of America.

ALEXANDER SHUHAN, Associate Professor of Horn, joined the Ithaca College faculty in 1998. He is principal horn of the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra and the Fort Smith (AR) Symphony Orchestra and was principal horn of the Ca-yuga Chamber Orchestra from 2000–2010. His group, the Shuhan-Luk Trio, has performed music for flute, horn and piano in concerts throughout the U.S. and was featured at last year’s International Horn Symposium and National Flute Associ-ation conventions. He is presently on the faculty of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, but has taught previously at the Ithaca College Summer Music Academy and served as Valade Instructor of Horn at the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp. He performs frequently with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and has played with the Syracuse Symphony Orches-tra, the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival and the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic. As a founding member (1993), hornist, pianist and composer of Rhythm & Brass, he has performed extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Japan and the Middle East. He was a member of Dallas Brass from 1985–1993. As a member of Rhythm & Brass and Dallas Brass, he has appeared as soloist with numerous U.S. symphony orchestras, including those in Dallas, Detroit, Milwaukee, Rochester, Syracuse, Tucson, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Oregon, Denver and Grand Rapids. He studied at Southern Methodist University with Greg Hustis, the Eastman School of Music with Verne Reynolds, and the Pre-College Division of the Juil-liard School with Harry Berv. Other teachers include Marvin Howe, Nancy Cochran, John Jacobsen and Henry Babcock.

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSPETER SILBERMAN is an associate professor of music theory at Ithaca College. In addition to his work as a music

theorist he holds a degree in horn performance from Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied with Robert Fries and Alan DeMattia. He has published articles on the Brahms Horn Trio and on the music of John Harbison, among other topics.

JEFFREY SNEDEKER has been on the music faculty at Central Washington University since 1991. His teaching duties have included horn, music history, and directing the Brass Choir and Horn Ensemble. He has received several awards for teaching, research, and service, most recently the 2012 Higher Education Music Educator of the Year by the Washington Music Educators Association, the 2014 Phi Kappa Phi National Artist Award, and the 2014 Washington State Timm Orms-by Faculty Citizenship Award. He was selected Distinguished University Professor for Service at CWU in 2012. Jeff has been a featured artist, clinician, lecturer, and host of regional, national, and international conferences for the International Horn Society, Historic Brass Society, Northwest Horn Society, Washington Music Educators Association, among others, all over the US, and in Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, Finland, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, and England. He is recognized as a leading performer and scholar of the horn solo repertoire, chamber music, jazz, and historical perfor-mance, and has published over 50 articles on a variety of musical topics, including entries in The Encyclopaedia of Popular Music, journals of the International Horn Society, Historic Brass Society, and seven articles in the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He has released four solo recordings featuring the natural horn and the horn in jazz settings. Jeff has been Principal Horn of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra since 1992. He lives in Ellensburg, Washington, with his extremely patient wife and two talented sons.

MAURICIO SOTO began on horn with his father, Juan Soto. He also studied with Howard Katz (Venezuela), Guelfo Nalli (Argentina), Gordon Campbell (UNAM) and William Brown (former Principal, New York City Opera). At age 19, he was selected to join the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra. He earned his B.M. from the “Universidad del Uruguay”. Mr. Soto earned his Masters Degree at the “University of Georgia” (Scholarship from the “Organization of American States” /Assistant-ship from UGA) studying horn with Dr. Jean Martin and playing with the “Bulldog Brass Quintet”, coached by Mr. Fred Mills. Mr. Soto has been a Faculty member at the “Escuela Superior de Música” (National Center for the Arts-Mexico), the “Escuela Nacional de Música” (UNAM), the Universidad de Guanajuato, etc. He had been Principal and Associate Principal Horn with Professional Orchestras in Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay. He was a Faculty member at the Hartwick Summer Music Festival & Institute (Hartwick College, Oneonta-New York) between 1998 and 2008. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Venezuela, Uruguay, Mexico, USA, Perú and Brasil. He is Principal Horn with the “Orquesta Filarmonica de Queretaro” and Director of the Band Program at the JFK School. In October 2014, a scholarship award was allocated to him by the CONA-CULTA (Mexico´s National Council for the Culture and Arts) to commission 5 new works for horn and piano by Mexican composers. In 2015, he was selected to be the horn player for Disney’s musical ¨Lion King¨ in Mexico.

MICHAEL STANLEY, Gunnery Sergeant, is currently serving as Head of Advanced Academics and Instrumental Conducting at the U.S. Naval School of Music in Virginia Beach, VA. Gunnery Sergeant Stanley joined the United States Marine Corps Bands as a French Horn instrumentalist in 1999, having served as Principal Horn of the Marine Forces Pacific Band from 1999-2003 and with the U.S. Marine Band-Parris Island from 2003-2005. During this time, he was fea-tured as a soloist on numerous tours throughout the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and the eastern United States. In 2005, he auditioned and was selected as an Enlisted Conductor for the U.S. Marine Music Pro-gram and immediately served as the Ceremonial Conductor of the U.S. Marine Band-Parris Island followed by Associate Conductor of the U.S. Marine Band-Quantico. He has recently been selected to serve as the Bandmaster for the III Marine Expeditionary Force Band in Okinawa, Japan. GySgt Stanley attended Florida State University and The University of South Carolina. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a Master of Music in Music History. His horn instructors include Bill Robinson, William Capps, Erich Penzel and Terry Roberts. His conducting instructors include James Croft, Eugene Corporon, and Anthony Maiello. He is active as a freelance musician and has performed with the Savannah, Honolulu, Harrisburg, Charleston, and Hilton Head Symphony Orchestras.

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSDr. CARRIE D. STRICKLAND moved to Texas in 2010 and has maintained a large studio throughout the New Braunfels

and San Antonio area and is currently the hornist with Olmos Basin Brass. Active in solo and chamber music competitions, she has been a finalist in the Farkas Competition with the International Horn Society and Semi-Finalist at the Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition. Also, her students have won competitions at several local and regional horn workshops as well as been selected for study at summer music festivals including Sewanee Music Festival and Brevard Summer Music Institute. She has performed with orchestras throughout the southern and northeastern U.S. as well as Oslo, Norway and has judged competitions and performed at regional and international horn workshops as well as performed as a soloist and recitalist throughout the U.S. and Europe. As a Fulbright Scholar in 2003-2004, Dr. Strickland completed her dissertation through which she worked with hornist Frøydis Ree Wekre and composer Wolfgang Plagge. Before moving to Texas, Dr. Strickland was Instructor of High Brass at Jones County Junior College and has previously held positions at Toccoa Falls College, Augusta State University, and was a music appreciation instructor at the University of Georgia. Dr. Strickland holds degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi (B.M.), West Virginia University (M.M.), and the University of Georgia (D.M.A.). Her teachers have included Dennis Behm, Frøydis Ree Wekre, Dr. Virginia Thompson, Dr. Jean Martin-Williams and Arnold Jacobs.

RADEGUNDIS TAVARES obtained his BA in music from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) under the guidance of Professor Cisneiro de Andrade. At the age of 15, Radegundis was granted the honorable mention award at the Sixth Weril Award, and debuted as a soloist at the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo. At the age of 17, he performed as guest solo horn with the Paraiba Symphony Orchestra, a position he held until he was 19 years old, when he passed a public contest for the post of tenured professor of horn at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. In 2009, at age 20, he recorded his first horn and piano CD, entitled “UNIVERSAL”. Since then he has worked as teacher, soloist and chamber musician in various major musical venues in Brazil. In 2012 he recorded his second CD, entitled Radegundis Tavares. In 2013 he creat-ed with the support of many Brazilian Horn players the Brazilian Horn Association and was elected the first president.

HEATHER THAYER is the Assistant Horn Instructor at Ouachita Baptist University. Dr. Thayer performs regularly with the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Natural State Brass Band and freelances in Dallas/Fort Worth. Dr. Thayer has degrees in horn performance and music theory from Eastern Michigan University and Bowling Green State University. In 2011 she received her doctorate in horn at the University of North Texas. Having previously taught at Southeastern Oklahoma State University and Austin College, as well as privately in Dallas/Fort Worth, Dr. Thayer’s teaching experience includes all levels of horn in-struction, music theory, aural skills, and music appreciation. She has performed with several groups including the Ann Arbor Symphony, the Toledo Symphony, The Firelands Symphony, and the University of North Texas Wind Symphony.

Dr. CANDACE THOMAS completed her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in December 2014, under the tutelage of Bernhard Scully. She also holds a Master of Music in Horn Performance from University of Massachusetts-Amherst with Laura Klock, and a Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance from Boston University with Eric Ruske. As a freelancer she has performed with numerous ensembles from local community orchestras to jazz bands to chamber music. She is also committed to supporting new music for horn. In 2011 she was a recipient of the International Horn Society’s Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Fund. This grant helped fund a recital featuring four new works for horn. Here in the South you will find her playing with groups like the Beltline Brass Quintet, Chamber Cartel, Huntsville Symphony, Augus-ta Symphony, and more. You can also find her on the recently released album, “Interiors” with performances of the music of Adam Scott Neal by the Chamber Cartel. In 2011, Candace completed her yoga teacher training through Corepower Yoga in Minneapolis, MN and has been actively teaching ever since. Her most recent yoga project is creating yoga sequences for each instrument to suit the physical demands to help make playing more comfortable and enjoyable. She is currently the horn profes-sor at Reinhardt University, busy freelancer in North Carolina and Georgia, and yoga instructor at Corepower Yoga.

JAIME THORNE is a native of Marion, New York and was most recently 3rd Horn with the United States Coast Guard Band in New London, CT. She was also a member of the United States Coast Guard Brass Quintet and the Radiance Wood-wind Quintet. She received an Artist Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Richard King, Principal Horn of the Cleveland Orchestra. As a fellowship recipient, Jaime graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Music Education, followed by a Masters Degree and Performer’s Certificate from Pennsylvania State University, where studying with Lisa Bontrager. While living in Cleveland, Jaime was 2nd horn with the Canton Symphony Orchestra and City Music Cleveland. She also performed regularly with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, and Akron Symphony. Jaime is currently on faculty at University of Rhode Island, Connecticut College, and Thames Valley Music School.

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSDr. TIMOTHY THOMPSON serves as Professor of Music at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he has

served on the faculty since 1979. He is hornist with the Lyrique Quintette, woodwind quintet in residence at the univer-sity, as well as the Boston Mountain Brassworks, the university’s resident brass quintet. He appears regularly with regional ensembles and in recital. Dr. Thompson has appeared as soloist with the National Orchestras of Bolivia and Thailand, North Carolina Symphony, Music Festival of Arkansas, Pinnacle Players (Little Rock, AR), North Arkansas Symphony, Fort Smith (AR) Symphony, Southeast Kansas Symphony, Kasetsart University Wind Symphony (Bangkok, Thailand) as well as orchestras and bands of the Universities of Arkansas, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. He has been featured as guest soloist, teacher and with ensembles in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Thailand, and throughout Europe and the United States. Additional travels have taken him to China and India. In addition to the University of Arkansas, faculties served on include the University of Wisconsin, the University of North Carolina, and numerous summer music camps and festivals, including Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (MI) and the Music Festival of Arkansas. He has served guest residencies at dozens of schools and universities worldwide, including the Queensland Conservatorium of Music (Brisbane, Australia), the Nation-al University of Bolivia (La Paz), the Instituto de Bellas Artes (Santa Cruz, Bolivia), and several universities in Thailand. Dr. Thompson earned the degrees Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music from the University of Wisconsin as well as Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina. [Principal horn teachers were Douglas Hill and Boris Rybka. Additional studies included work with Dale Clevenger, Roland Pandolfi, Wayne Amick, and Jack Masarie.]

TRIO MÉLANGE is composed of faculty members at The University of Louisiana at Monroe, and is dedicated to pro-moting and performing new music for soprano, horn, and piano.

Dr. MARGARET TUNG is the Assistant Professor of Horn at The University of Akron. She has performed with the Chi-cago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), Zurich Opera Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orches-tra, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. In 2015, Dr. Tung performed in Yerevan, with an orchestra comprised of 123 musicians from 43 different countries, to commemorate the 100th year anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. In 2011, she had the privilege of collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma in CSO’s Once Upon a Symphony. She performed the world premiere of Spangled Unicorn by Anna Clyne with CSO’s MusicNOW. As an avid chamber musician, Dr. Tung is a member of the Faculty Brass Quintet and Solaris Wind Quintet at The University of Akron. As a soloist, she performed Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 3 with the Colorado College Summer Music Festival. Dr. Tung has participated in Music Academy of the West, National Repertory Orchestra, and Spo-leto Festival USA. Prior to joining The University of Akron, Dr. Tung served on the faculty of Towson University, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Olivet Nazarene University, Wheaton College, Zurich International School in Switzerland and is currently on faculty at Marrowstone Music Festival. Dr. Tung completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts at The Ohio State University and holds a Master of Music from Rice University and a Bachelor of Music from DePaul University. Her teach-ers include Dale Clevenger, William VerMeulen, Oto Carrillo, Jon Boen, David Griffin, and Bruce Henniss.

UNCG HORN CHOIR is a performing ensemble made up of Undergraduate and Graduate level education, performance, and composition majors studying horn at University of North Carolina - Greensboro under the direction of Dr. Abigail Pack. They perform at least once a year on campus especially featuring horn students’ new compositions and arrange-ments, as well as at the annual Southeast Regional Horn Workshop. Members: Rachel Knierim, Kyla Bartron, Frank Leon-ard, Erin Massey-Nowadly, Allen Lanier, Jourdain McCord, Andrew Savage, Rocky Ankeny, Derek Pothoff, John Tester, Ben Lawson, Tyler Ingram, Drew Forsyth, Jacob Kadan, Corinne Policriti, Brian Speice, Ian Blegen, Drew Phillips, Cather-ine Creasy, Shayna Prace.

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSROSE VALBY is pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Horn Performance at The Sarah and Ernest Butler School

of Music at The University of Texas at Austin, where she served as the Graduate Teaching Assistant for the horn studio. She is a member of the award-winning woodwind quintet, QuinTexas, with whom she received the 2015 Coleman-Saunderson Prize in Winds, Brass, and Percussion at the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition. Rose has performed with the Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio, Ash Lawn Opera, and Austin, Brazos Valley, Round Rock, and Fort Smith sympho-nies, among others. In Austin, she has also performed with Ballet Austin, ZACH and Salvage Vanguard theaters, Chorus Austin, and Texas Choral Consort. As an active teacher and clinician, Rose has coached students from beginner to college level throughout the country and internationally, including La Serena, Chile and Shenzhen, China while on performance tours. She also maintains a private studio in Austin. She has been a participant of several music festivals including the National Orchestral Institute, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and Youth Orchestra of the Americas. Rose received the Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was an inaugural member of the Graduate Brass Quintet Scholarship program and recipient of the John Barrows Scholarship, and the Bachelor of Music degree from Ithaca College, where she was a winner of the Ithaca College Annual Concerto Competition. Rose’s principal teachers include Patrick Hughes, Douglas Hill, and Alex Shuhan.

CORBIN WAGNER, born in Kansas City, received his bachelor’s degree in 1979 from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Professor Louis Stout. Upon graduation he became a member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and later his master’s degree from U of M in 1989. Prior to his appointment at Michigan State University he served as adjunct horn professor at Oakland University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. Wagner has received many prestigious performing honors, including a third prize at the 1983 Munich International Horn Competition. He also took first prize at the Heldenleben International Horn Competition in hand horn, valve horn and horn quartet. In 1989 and later in 2002, Wagner joined three of his colleagues and the DSO in performing Robert Schumann’s Konzertstück for four horns and orchestra. In 1994, he performed Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 2 as a guest with the Farmington Philharmonic, and in 1998 he performed Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4 with the Pontiac-Oakland Symphony, and performed the Britten Seranade with the Pontiac Oakland Orchestra in 2009 and 2011. He performed Godfrey’s Shindig at the 2013 Mid-west Band Conference. Wagner also performs with the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings. He is also an experienced clini-cian, giving clinics around the country. Wagner and his wife Wendy have five children.

Dr. JEB WALLACE, recently appointed as Principal horn of the Wichita Symphony and Asst. Professor of Horn at Wichita State University, pursues a diverse career as performer and teacher. He has performed with numerous symphonic ensembles such as the American Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Boise Philharmonic, Louisiana Philharmonic, Utah Symphony, Utah Lyric Opera, Erie Philharmonic, Harrisburg Symphony, and Dallas Wind Symphony, among others. He has appeared as a soloist at the Park City Interna-tional Chamber Music Festival, Swedish National Orchestral Institute, Beethoven Festival, Performing Arts Institute, and at numerous regional and international IHS workshops and symposia. Dr. Wallace recently served as the featured guest artist at the Calgary Hornfest!, where he gave clinics and performed alongside members of the Calgary Philharmonic. An advocate for contemporary music, he has collaborated with groups such as Alarm Will Sound, TACTUS, New Music New Haven and others. He has commissioned and premiered more than a dozen new works featuring the horn. Previously, he served as a tenured faculty member at Utah Valley University, at Susquehanna University and James Madison University. He received his education at Stony Brook University (DMA), the Yale School of Music (AD), the Cleveland Institute of Music (MM), and Southern Methodist University (BM). His primary teachers were William Purvis, Eli Epstein, and Greg-ory Hustis. He has recorded for many labels including Naxos and Beauport Classics and for numerous film and television soundtracks, and can be heard on the widely popular 2007 album, Boxer, by the Brooklyn Indie Rock Band “The National”.

WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FACULTY BRASS QUINTET was established in the fall of 2008 at Washburn University in Topeka, KS. During the past eight years the group has performed over 200 educational performances and masterclasses in the American Midwest, including state music education conventions and regional concert series. The group also tours each fall and spring, visiting a variety of high schools, colleges, and universities. The Washburn University Faculty Brass Quintet has been the recipient of four state and national grants for the arts, which have provided funding for the group to perform throughout urban “at risk” schools in the Midwest. The quintet has been featured on KTWU, a PBS affiliate in the Midwest, and members of the group have participated in three Emmy award winning broadcasts. In the summer of 2015, they began recording their debut, self-titled album. The members of the quintet include; Michael Averett and Tim Thomas, Trumpets, Matthew Haislip, Horn, Brian Scarborough, Trombone, and Jason Tacker, Tuba.

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTSCARSTEN WILLIAMS learned with Philip Eastop as a teenager. Offers of scholarships to attend all the Music Colleges were

a result of Pip’s outwardly comedic pedagogy. Carsten then opted to study with Tony Chidell, Jeff Bryant and Tony Halstead at the Guildhall School of Music. After only a year, Carsten won a position as a high horn player at the English National Opera and spent a good number of years ploughing through Wagner and Strauss Operas with Conductor Mark Elder. In December 2007, he emerged from the Pit and joined the Philharmonia Orchestra where he remains to this day. Carsten has given horn clinics at UT Austin, El Paso, Baylor, Abilene, San Angelo, Sul Ross and NMSU in Las Cruces. Carsten’s grandad played horn under Furtwängler with the Berlin Philharmonic for 28 years before moving to the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1965. Carsten still plays his Grandfather’s prized Alexander Horn (this is a lie). When he gets a break from his busy schedule, he can often be spotted mincing around Shoreditch on a fixed-gear bicycle. When in his beloved West Texas, he can be found talking to rocks.

IAN ZOOK is an active orchestral and solo performer and has appeared in concerts throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is Associate Professor of Horn at James Madison University and performs regularly as a recital-ist, clinician, adjudicator, and with the Montpelier Wind Quintet and Madison Brass. An active orchestral musician, he performs frequently with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Harrisburg, Roanoke, Richmond and Virginia Symphonies. Past summer engagements have included the Verbier Music Festivaland Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland, Pacific Music Festival in Japan, the Aspen, Sarasota, and AIMS/Graz Music Festivals, and the National Orchestral Institute. Also versatile as a period instrumentalist, he has performed on natural horn with the New York Collegium, Washington Bach Consort, and the Staunton Music Festival, and trompe de chasse at the Northeast Horn Workshop.

HORN HEALTHDr. CANDACE THOMAS is currently the horn professor at Reinhardt University, a busy freelancer in North Carolina

and Georgia, and yoga instructor at Corepower Yoga. Her most recent yoga project is creating yoga sequences for each instrument to suit the physical demands to help make playing more comfortable and enjoyable. Candace will be offering “Yoga and Horn Players: Building strength and mindfulness for practice and performance,” a class that will discuss the importance and benefits of yoga, strength building, and meditation for horn players, and will be demonstrated through low-intensity yoga class, with some discussion, Tuesday-Friday at 8 a.m. in the Green Room (3106) or in an outdoor loca-tion TBD if the weather cooperates. Wear comfortable clothing.

AMY THAKURDAS, N.D., (naturopath) will lead simple, short tai chi based exercises involving breath work, flexibility and balance. She will show specific stretches, postural alignments and strengthening exercises for horn players. No experi-ence needed. Tai Chi for horns: An elegant and beautiful way to relax and re-energize. Enjoy a 30 minute Tai Chi session in the college quad at 12 noon daily.

CAROLYN CHRISTIE, Mental Skills Coach for Performers and Educators - Recently retired from the Second Flute Chair of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra after a 37 year tenure. During her career with the MSO, she appeared on 100 recordings, performed more than 30 times in Carnegie Hall, and toured the world. Carolyn now brings her performance experience into her second career as a mental skills coach for musicians, dancers, and actors. Currently an MHK student at the University of Ottawa, she is being trained in the counseling and coaching skills employed by Olympic mental skills coaches, and is applying this knowledge to her work with performing artists, both professional and amateur, student and elite. In partial fulfillment of her degree, Carolyn is offering free private mental skills instruction to IHS members during this symposium. Topics covered may include managing performance stress, focusing under pressure, confidence building for yourself and your students, work/life balance, and goal-setting. Carolyn will also offer workshops at the convention that will target these issues. As she can attest from her years on the stage, mental focus can help musicians to perform on stage more like they perform in the practice room. Finally, the sort of coaching that has been available to athletes for more than 40 years is being offered to musicians!Please contact Carolyn by email to set up a private coaching session this week: [email protected]. Caroline will be available for private sessions in the Music Building Room 2307.

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SUPPORTING ARTISTSCATHY ADAMO holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in music education from West Virginia University, and a Mas-

ter’s Degree in library science from the University of Pittsburgh. She has played and given woodwind instruction in both West Virginia and New Jersey. Besides her role as principal clarinetist in the Monmouth Symphony, Cathy is also a mem-ber of the Central Jersey Wind Ensemble and several other ensembles. She is currently an Adult Services Librarian at the East Brunswick Public Library.

LINDA BALAVRAM, bassoon, graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia with a degree in music performance. Linda has performed with Sinfonietta Nova, Westminster Chamber Orchestra, Central Jersey Wind Ensemble, Staten Island Philharmonic, the Plainfield Symphony, the Monmouth Symphony and many chamber ensembles in the tri-state area. A longtime resident of Highland Park, NJ, she frequently performs solo recitals there and also freelances in the pit orchestras of several of New Jersey’s community theaters. She has participated in the Summertrios music program as well as several Main Line chamber music seminars. Her first love is playing chamber music, but when she is not performing, Linda loves to travel with her family to exotic places. She also runs a small business creating specialty personalized baby gifts.

BILL BAXTRESSER is a Chicago based soloist and chamber musician who performs for both contemporary and classi-cal trumpet audiences around the country. Bill plays in Gaudete Brass, a chamber group committed to the enhancement of the brass quintet genre through the commissioning of new works and music education. Gaudete Brass joined the Cedille Records catalog in 2012 and released their debut album “Chicago Moves”. He is also the 2nd trumpet in the West Michigan Symphony, and is Artist Faculty at Roosevelt University. Bill teaches at Music Institute of Chicago and has lead masterclass-es at some of the most esteemed music establishments in the United States including Juilliard, Eastman, Cal Arts, and the University of Michigan. Bill studied trumpet at Western Michigan University under Dr. Stephen Jones and Scott Thorn-burg. He has also studied with some of the world’s preeminent trumpeters, including Barry Bauguss, Ramón Parcells, and Marcus Belgrave. Furthering his dedication to young musicians, Bill co-founded a music education publishing company, TKBB Press, in 2011. TKBB Press provides innovative new ideas to young musicians through its products, recordings and philosophies. In 2013 Bill was honored as the Detroit’s Artist of the Year by Tuesday’s Musicale.

RYAN BERNDT is one of the trumpet players of the Gaudete Brass. His talents in business development have helped the quintet expand into new markets and develop exciting new publicity for the group. Ryan brings a strong background in both education and performance to the quintet. He has performed with numerous ensembles including the Silk Road Ensemble, Chicago Civic Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Barenboim and Jay Friedman, and has appeared with the Minnesota Orchestra’s “Share A Chair” program under the direction of Eiji Oue. He has performed internationally at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia and at the Isao Satoshi in Kurashiki, Japan. Outside of classical music, he has performed with the National High School cast for the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie and appeared with the Regis Philbin Big Band. Ryan has taught trumpet at the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana and is currently the Trumpet Faculty Chair at the New Music School in Chicago. Ryan is a graduate of the Chicago College of Performing Arts where he earned an Artist Diploma in Orchestral Studies. He also earned degrees of Master of Music in Performance and Literature from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor of Music from Saint John’s University in Collegeville, MN.

KATHIA BONNA was born in São Paulo, Brazil, where she began her piano studies at the age of five at the Municipal Music School of São Paulo. Káthia then studied at the State University of São Paulo, where she studied composition and conducting and also received a piano performance degree from the Marcelo Tupinambá College. Káthia performed as a collaborating pianist at the ITF (International Trombone Festival) at the University of Illinois and the University of Bel-mont in the USA. Kathia recorded “Collectânea” a CD featuring Brazilian Music for Trombone and Piano, with trombone player Wagner Polistchuk, which has received with many acclaims from both critics and public. Káthia has performed as a collborating pianist at many International Horn Society symposiums: Valencia, Spain in 2004; La Chaux de Fonds in Swit-zerland in 2007; Denver, Colorado, USA in 2008; Memphis, Tennessee, USA in 2013 and in London, England in the UK in 2014. Káthia also recorded a CD entitled, “Imagens”, which features Brazilian music for Horn and Piano with Brazilian horn player Luiz Garcia. Presently, Káthia is the President of Marcus Bonna Cases (MB). Along with her husband, Marcus Bonna, they have devoloped an important social project that is recognized for teaching free music educaiton to children and adolescents from the outskirts of Bragança Paulista, the Bonna’s hometown in Brazil.

DENNIS BULHÕES - Studied percussion with Professor Francisco Xavier at the Federal University of Paraíba, where he obtained his BA in music. Among the drummers the most influenced are Glauco Andrezza, Gledson Meira, Kiko Freitas and Dave Weckl. In 2010, he won first prize at the drum national contest “Batuka Drum Fest”. Since 2009 Dennis is a tech-nical musician at the Federal University of Paraíba.

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SUPPORTING ARTISTSJENNY CLINE is a flourishing orchestral flutist and chamber musician whose teachers include Mary Ann Archer,

Walfrid Kujala, and Gary Schocker. In addition to her work with the Monmouth Winds, she is the principal flutist of the Monmouth Symphony, and performs regularly as a flutist and piccoloist with several other orchestras around the state. She has performed with the Uptown Flutes, toured Europe with the Metropolitan Flute Orchestra, and was a member of the 2013 National Flute Association Professional Flute Choir. With guitarist Carlos Cuestas, she is a member of the Cline/Cuestas Duo, performing numerous concerts in the Northeast, and, in August 2015, at the National Flute Association Con-vention in Washington, D.C. Their first CD, Facets, will be released in 2016. Cline has been on the faculty of the New Jersey Workshop for the Arts since 1996, and her flute students regularly achieve honors at the local, regional, state, and national level. She has served on the board of the National Flute Association.

TOM CODY is on the music faculty at Penn State University and is a free-lance guitarist (doubles on mandolin and banjo), accompanist, and an arranger. He performs with and arranges music for Just Two, a horn/guitar duo with Sarah Schouten. Tom and Sarah have performed at the Southeast Horn Workshop, the Northeast Horn Workshop, and the Inter-national Horn Symposium. Tom also works regularly in music theatre pit orchestras. He has been in the pit band/orches-tra for The Last Five Years, Annie, Rent, The Rocky Horror Show, and many others. He has also does arranging for music theatre productions and film. Tom earned a MM in Music Theory/Composition and a BM in Guitar Performance from Youngstown State University. He is currently working on a PhD in Music Theory from The Ohio State University.

GREG EVANS, a native of Liverpool, New York, earned his Masters of Music at Ithaca College in 2011 with a focus in per-cussion studies. While at Ithaca College, he studied with the incomparable marimbist, educator and Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame inductee, Gordon Stout. Evans holds a Bachelors of Music in jazz studies from the Manhattan School of Music (2009) where he studied with the Assistant Dean and Chair of the Jazz Arts Program, Justin DiCioccio, and John Riley. Evans has also spent many years as a student of Herbert Flower, principal percussionist of the Syracuse Symphony. Evans’ buoyant, and joyous groove has facilitated an active a performing life. He has performed in multiple national tours, including those of the bands ISM, Remington, and Turkuaz . He has also recorded with these bands as well as the Danny Rivera Orchestra, The Mike Titlebaum Jazz Band, Hank Roberts’ Phonetix, Aaron Tindall’s award winning album This is My House…, and The Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble. Evans has appeared with many artists including: The Count Basie Orchestra, Jonathan Ba-tiste, Terence Blanchard, Chick Corea, Joey DeFrancesco, Melinda Doolittle, Kurt Elling, Robin Eubanks, Jimmy Heath, Joe Magnarelli, Eric Marienthal, Branford Marsalis, John Pizzarelli, Hank Roberts, Dave Samules, John Stetch, and Allen Vizzutti. Evans also keeps a fulfilling teaching schedule. Evans teaches at Ithaca College and at Cornell University. Evans strives in his teachings to help guide students to realize their potential as improvisers, ensemble players, and consumers of music. By refer-encing jazz tradition, Evans helps students assimilate sounds of the past to create the new sounds of the future.

NICHOLAS GATTO graduated summa cum laude from The College of New Jersey in music education, and received his Master’s degree in music performance from Carnegie Mellon University. Nick is principal oboist of the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra and freelances with many other ensembles. His recording of Tim Keyes’ “New England Tapestry,” a Concerto for Oboe, Orchestra, and Choir (which he premiered in 2011) is available on Amazon and iTunes. His oboe playing can also be heard on several recently released tracks by Contemporary Jazz/R&B recording artist Will Downing. He is also the Director of Music and Organist at St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church in East Brunswick, and a staff piano accompanist at The College of New Jersey.

JAMES JONES is professor emeritus of clarinet at Wichita State University and former principal clarinetist with the Wichita Symphony. He has appeared as soloist with the WSO several times and is a frequent recitalist in the Wichita area and at na-tional conferences. He has appeared as soloist with the Rogue Valley Symphony in Oregon and the Western Nebraska Cham-ber Players in Scottsbluff and was guest principal clarinetist with the San Diego Symphony in 1985. Dr. Jones holds degrees from The Ohio State University and the University of Iowa; he is a founding member of Wichita’s Wiedemann Trio which per-formed its east coast debut at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. He also performed at Merkin and Carnegie Recital Halls in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., at Composers Inc. in San Francisco and on tours throughout Europe with the Lieurance Woodwind Quintet which also produced three compact discs on the Summit label. Jones and pianist Karen Schlabaugh also produced “French Recital Favorites” for Centaur Records in 2004.

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SUPPORTING ARTISTSDOUGLAS JURS, pianist, has performed throughout North America, Europe, and beyond. He is in his first year as

Assistant Professor of Music at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. For the 2015-16 season, Dr. Jurs will be per-forming throughout the Southeast and Northeast as soloist and collaborative pianist (60). As a recent recipient of a Mel-lon Foundation Grant for Research in the Humanities, this summer Dr. Jurs will mentor two Allegheny Music majors in developing an upcoming commission, recording, and creative outreach project. Recent performances include a two-week residency in India as a guest of Kolkata Classics, where Dr. Jurs presented several collaborative concerts in Kolkata and Jamshedpur, as well as master classes and private lessons for students at the Calcutta School of Music. Of one of his perfor-mances there, The Telegraph wrote, “The performance was spectacular…the pianists had reached a level of near-telepathic coordination.” and, “As impressive as a teacher as he is a performer,. Dr. Jurs has degrees from the University of Wiscon-sin-Madison, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Indiana University - Bloomington, where he double majored in piano and English Literature and rode for the Cutters Cycling Team.

KAY LAWSON, EdD, MM. earned master’s degrees in bassoon performance and music education from Michigan State University and a doctorate in education: Curriculum Instruction from Marshall University Graduate College. She per-forms with the Maezel Wind Quintet that performs on 18th century instruments and is a member of the Kingsbury Wood-wind Quintet. Kay Lawson is an adjunct professor at Marshall University and has taught music education courses, bassoon lessons, and graduate education courses. She has performed with the Huntington Symphony Orchestra, Minot Symphony Orchestra, and Asheville Symphony Orchestra.

CAMILA MEIRELLES , Viola and chamber music professor at the Rio Grande do Norte Federal University in Brazil, holds a Master’s degree from Northern Illinois University where she studied viola with Richard Young and chamber music with the Vermeer Quartet. She played with Lorin Maazel, Benjamin Zander, Rachel Barton Pine, Wynton Marsalis, Yukiko Ogura and performed with Rockford Symphony Orchestra and Dubuque Symphony Orchestra. Participate in many music festivals in Brazil and has been performed with orchestras from different states in Brazil. As a dedicated and passionate teacher, Ms. Meirelles has been organizing strings workshops and has been committed as a principal director of an import-ant social youth orchestra, which has brought free orchestral music education to many low-income communities in Brazil.

MATTHEW NELSON is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of Louisville, where he performs with the Lou-isville Winds woodwind quintet and the Grawemeyer Players contemporary music ensemble. He has performed as guest principal clarinet with the Virginia and Utah Symphonies, and his performance engagements throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan include international competitions and premieres. Prior to his appointment in Louisville, he was Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Utah Valley University. While in Utah, he held the position of principal clarinet with the Utah Cham-ber Orchestra (Ballet West) and was a NOVA Chamber Music Series artist. From 2011 – 2014 he served as artist/faculty at the Tuacahn Summer Symphonic Institute in St. George, UT. He will perform and teach at the 2016 Beyond the Music Interna-tional Chamber Music Festival in Benasque, Spain, and he was a faculty member/performer at the 2014 Curso Internacional “Eduardo Ocon” and the 2013 Instituto para el Desarrollo Musical in Spain. He has performed at the Schumann Festival, the Gentse Vleugels Festival, the Utah Music Festival, the Beethoven Festival Park City, and the Park City International Music Festival. Nelson is a D’Addario Woodwinds artist, and performs exclusively on D’Addario Reserve reeds.

TERRIE SHIRES teaches class piano and serves as a faculty accompanist at the University of Central Arkansas. As the UCA Horn Studio accompanist, she works with students as well as visiting artists such as Thomas Bacon, Richard King, Eli Epstein, Richard Todd, and Roger Kaza. Recently she was hired to serve as an official accompanist for the 45th International Horn Symposium and the International Horn Competition of America. She also works as a choir accompanist at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in the summers, and has played keyboard for the Arkansas Repertory Theatre and the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Hanover College, Indiana, and her MM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at Northern Illinois University. Her primary teachers were C. Kimm Hollis and William Koehler. Terrie has performed in Austria, France, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, and 22 states. She and Brent attempt to balance work with family, including daughters Rebecca (17) who plays horn and Rachel (14) who plays violin and sings.

RICHARD SEILER of Brevard, North Carolina, is a Professor of Music and Keyboard Area Coordinator at the University of Louisiana at Monroe where he teaches piano, piano literature, and music theory. Dr. Seiler holds performance degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (BM), Illinois State University (MM), and Louisiana State University (DMA). A Fazioli artist, Seiler has taught masterclasses and performed as a solo/collaborative pianist in the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, and China, has soloed with orchestras in North Carolina, Illinois, and Louisiana, and has recorded for Centaur Records (twice) and MSR Classics. Seiler performs and tours frequently, and has performed at numerous international and national con-ventions. He served on the guest artist faculty at the International Music Festival in Yantai, China, and as a faculty collaborative pianist at the Curso Internacional de Musica Vocal in Aveiro, Portugal. Seiler has worked closely with world-renowned

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SUPPORTING ARTISTScomposers including William Bolcom, Eric Ewazen, Libby Larsen, Stephen Paulus, Gary Schocker, Frank Ticheli, Gwyneth Walk-er, and Chen Yi. Eric Ewazen’s Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Piano was commissioned by and written for Seiler and flutist Sandra Lunte and is published by Theodore Presser. He holds professional memberships with Pi Kappa Lambda, American Guild of Organists, College Music Society, Music Teachers National Association, and is a National Patron of Delta Omicron.

ELIZABETH SHUHAN is a visiting lecturer of flute at Cornell University, a lecturer in music education at Ithaca College, the flute instructor at Opus Ithaca Music School and has her own private flute studio in Ithaca. As the current principal flutist with the Fort Smith Symphony (AR), she has recorded three CDs for the Naxos label. Ms. Shuhan performs regu-larly with Opera Ithaca, the Shuhan-Luk Trio and Ithaca Flute Duo. She has also performed with the Rochester Chamber Orchestra, the Binghamton Philharmonic and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. Prior to moving to New York, Ms. Shuhan was the director of the University of Arkansas Suzuki Music School, served as visiting assistant professor of flute at the University of Arkansas and was an active chamber musician, clinician and adjudicator in Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklaho-ma and Missouri. She has also held positions in the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Meridien (MS) Sympho-ny Orchestra. Ms. Shuhan is a past winner of the NFA Professional Performer’s competitions, a finalist in the National MTNA competitions, a finalist in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competitions and won first prize in the Mid-South Flute Society Competition. She holds degrees from the University of Arkansas and the University of Southern Mississippi and has received advanced Suzuki flute teacher and performance training from Toshio Takahashi, the founder of the Suzuki flute method. Her primary teachers include Sheryl Cohen, Sharon Lebsack and Ronda Mains. Ms. Shuhan has recorded for Albany Records, Naxos and PBS and is a Burkart Flute and Piccolo Artist.

MAX SHUHAN is a jazz piano performance major at the Oberlin Conservatory where he studies with Dan Wall. He is an active singer/songwriter and an accomplished orchestral composer, with his orchestral compositions performed by the Cor-nell University Symphony Orchestra, and commissioned by the Ithaca Community Orchestra and the Fort Smith Symphony.

SAMUEL SHUHAN is currently pursuing a master’s degree in performance at the University of Southern California while studying double bass with professor David Allen Moore. Although his education is rooted in classical music, Shuhan stays active playing jazz, electric bass, recording, and composing in Los Angeles. He has toured and performed internation-ally across genres and studied at summer programs such as Tanglewood, the Eastman Jazz Workshop, and most recently Domaine Forget in Quebec where he had the opportunity to study with master and pedagogue François Rabbath. In 2011, Shuhan won the Lee Strebel Memorial Youth Concerto Competition and in the following year performed as a soloist with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra

SCOTT TEGGE is the tubist in the Gaudete Brass, and works to create performance opportunities for the group. A Chicago native, Scott received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music in Tuba Performance. He continued his studies and received his Master’s degree from University of Miami and Professional Diploma in Orchestral Studies from Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts. While in Miami, he performed with numerous orchestras such as the New World Symphony, Miami Bach Society, Palm Beach Symphony, and he also served as the Prin-cipal Tuba with Miami Symphony Orchestra. In Chicago, Scott has performed with Elgin Symphony, Rockford Symphony, and Chicago Sinfonietta. In addition to his performing career, he serves on faculty at Carthage College, where he made his solo debut with the Carthage College Wind Ensemble on their tour to Japan. Scott also teaches at Merit School of Music, and coaches chamber music at Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras.

COLLEEN POTTER THORBURN, Harpist. Her playing, acclaimed as “full of spirit and sensitivity” (Greenwich Citizen), “engrossing,” and “winning” (The New London Day), has earned her national recognition as a winner of the American Harp Society’s Anne Adams competition. She currently performs as Principal Harp with the Eastern Connecticut Sym-phony Orchestra in New London, Connecticut, with whom she recently performed Ginastera’s harp concerto as a soloist, and performs as a harp substitute with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. Festival credits include the Aspen Music Festival, the International Festival-Institute in Round Top TX, and the Atlantic Music Festival in Waterville ME. Colleen teaches as harp faculty at Virginia Commonwealth Universi-ty in Richmond, Liberty University in Lynchburg VA, and has also taught at Bluefield College in Bluefield VA. She teaches at Coda Mountain Academy in Fayetteville WV in the summer as founding harp faculty. She is an active proponent of re-gional harp activities in southern Appalachia as president of the Southwest Virginia chapter of the American Harp Society and throughout the state as a Touring Artist with the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Colleen is the first harpist to have earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music. She also holds both Master of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from Yale, where she studied with June Han, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign where she studied with Ann Yeung. colleenpotterthorburn.com

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SUPPORTING ARTISTSCLAIRE VANGELISTI’s voice has graced both national and international concert and operatic stages, performing rep-

ertoire from Bach to Berg. In 1998, her international debut was well received in Lisbon, Portugal at the Centro Cultural de Belém. Invited to return to Lisbon the following year, Dr. Vangelisti toured in Portugal as concert soloist with the Orches-tra Filarmonia das Beiras under the baton of Osvaldo Ferrierra. In the Fall of 2002 while serving as Artist-in-Residence at the Universidád de Aveiro, in Aveiro, Portugal, Vangelisti performed an additional solo recital of American Twentieth-cen-tury Song. In the U.S., Dr. Vangelisti has performed as concert soloist with organizations such as The San Antonio Sym-phony, The Temple Philharmonic Orchestra, The Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Texas Chamber Consort, and the Monroe Symphony Orchestra. Her stage career includes appearances with Austin Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of San Anto-nio, Southwest Opera, and The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin. Vangelisti is an avid champion of the music of living American composers, and has subsequently collaborated with artists such as Libby Larsen, John Harbison, Daron Hagen, Lowell Liebermann, William Bolcom, and Jake Hegge. As a well-known educator and artist herself, she has presented lec-ture-recitals on a national and international level at the Texoma and Southern Regional National Association of Teachers of Singing conventions, and the Canadian University Music Society’s annual convention. She was an active member of the voice faculty at Southwestern University from 1996-2007, and she is currently Voice Area Coordinator/Associate Professor at University of Louisiana at Monroe.

SOPHIA SUBBAYYA VASTEK, pianist, is an active performer based in New York City. As a solo artist, she has per-formed in Cape Town, South Africa, in her hometown of Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center, the United States State Department for an awards ceremony presented by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Canadian Embassy, and Polish Cultural Institute, as well as in venues throughout her adopted home of New York City. Sophia is one half of Tilted Arc, a new electroacoustic duo with electronic sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Sam Torres that seeks to explore how music exists in space, and how space exists in music. Other upcoming projects include a collaboration with UK born electronic music composer David Ibbett, as well as aiding in the development of a new music program at Arts Letters & Numbers this summer. This spring, Sophia will be recording her debut solo album with music by Michael Harrison, Donnacha Dennehy, and John Cage. She loves elephants and rhinos, podcasts, popcorn and lemons, and living her life in the questions. Sophia received a Bachelor of Music from Indiana University, Bloomington where she studied with Emile Naoumoff, the last pupil of Nadia Boulanger, and a Master of Music from Manhattan School of Music.

PAUL VON HOFF is a trombonist and chamber music specialist who performs extensively on both historic and modern trombones. Paul is a founding member of the Gaudete Brass Quintet, a modern brass quintet founded in 2004 that has toured extensively, given masterclasses at schools such as Juilliard and Eastman, recorded three albums, most recently recording Chicago Moves for Cedille Records, and has premiered over thirty new works. Paul is also a founding member of Rook, a chamber ensemble dedicated to performing the music of the 16th and 17th centuries, where he plays baroque alto, tenor and bass trombones and Renaissance slide trumpet. Rook recently recorded their first album, eleven, featuring the rare instrumen-tal combination of violin, bass violin, harpsichord and trombone. He is the trombone instructor at Carthage College as well on the music faculty at Roosevelt University as artist-in-residence with the GBQ. Paul holds a Bachelors degree cum laude from Northwestern University, a Masters Degree from Roosevelt University and has studied historic trombone with Greg Ingles, as well as modern trombone with Frank Crisafulli, Lawrence Borden, and Jay Friedman.

SUSAN WATERBURY, violinist, has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Turkey, and China. The New York Times commended her playing, writing, “Waterbury’s songful flights…were especially compelling”. The Los Angeles Times wrote, “...achieved strong, characterful playing – as was the case throughout the evening – of the excellent violinist, Susan Waterbury”. She is Professor of Violin at the Ithaca College School of Music in Ithaca, NY and maintains an active performing schedule. Former faculty positions include at the Cleveland Institute of Music with the Cavani String Quartet as String Quartet in Residence, at The University of Memphis as an Associate Professor of Violin and member of the Ceruti String Quartet, and at Garth Newel Music Center as Co-Artistic Director and Artist in Residence. As a founding violinist in the Cavani String Quartet, for eleven years she performed and taught regularly for concert series and festivals through-out the U.S and abroad, garnering awards including First Prize in the Walter W. Naumberg Chamber Music, Cleveland Quartet, and Carmel chamber music competitions, as well as prizes in the Banff International, Fischoff, and Coleman competitions. Principal teachers were Donald Weilerstein at the Eastman School of Music; Jens Ellerman, Aspen Music Festival; Michael Davis, Ohio State University; and Walter Levin, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Extensive chamber music training was with members of the Cleveland, Tokyo, Emerson, Guarneri, and Juilliard String Quartets. Su-san plays on an 1865 Postiglione violin and also enjoys playing Old Time fiddle and other improvised music with her banjo playing husband, playing on her grandfather’s fiddle.

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COLLABORATIVE PIANISTSTOMOKO KANAMARU, described by The Philadelphia Inquirer as “charismatic pianist,” first appeared with a pro-

fessional orchestra at the age of nine in Tokyo. She made her US solo debut in 2000 with Savannah Symphony perform-ing Grieg’s Concerto. Since then, Ms. Kanamaru has made solo appearances with National Repertory Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, Binghamton Philharmonic, Middletown Symphony (Ohio), Symphony of Southeast Texas, and Annapolis Symphony. Equally active in chamber music, she has appeared in the Philharmonic Ensembles at Merkin Hall, performed with the Philharmonic Quintet of New York, and presented a recital with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra’s horn section during the company’s Japan Tour. Ms. Kanamaru regularly performs for the New York Chamber Music Festival, including the “September 11th Tenth Anniversary Commemorative Concert,” which was reviewed favorably by Allan Kozinn in The New York Times. As a part of the Delphinium Trio with Elmira Darvarova (former concertmistress of the MET Orchestra) and Howard Wall, she performed in Red Rocks Music Festival in Arizona. Other past performances were taken place in such venues as Weill Recital Hall, Perelman Theater at Kimmel Center, Kravis Performing Arts Center, among others, while also taking her to Austria, Holland, Sweden, Australia, and Japan. She has recorded for Nippon Columbia, MSR Classics, and Urlicht AudioVisual, and co-edited numerous volumes of pedagogical piano music for Yamaha Music Foundation. Her workshop at the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in 2009 was featured in The Washington Post and the BBC’s The World Today. As a “horn collaborator,” this counts as her tenth participation in IHS symposium. An Associate Profes-sor/Keyboard Area Coordinator at The College of New Jersey, Ms. Kanamaru has co-hosted two sessions of Barry Tuckwell Institute and masterclasses led by Randy Gardner and the late William Capps among other piano events. She is a card-car-rying member of IHS amateur/enthusiast category.

SIU YAN LUK is currently a staff pianist at Boston University, Suzuki School of Newton, and Unitarian Universalist Area Church-First Perish in Sherborn. She recently joined the piano faculty at South Shore Conservatory in Hingham, MA. Grad-uated from Eastman School of Music with Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance and Literature (Piano) and Master of Arts in Music Theory Pedagogy, she previously held adjunct faculty positions at Rochester Institute of Technology, Opus Ithaca, Hochstein School of Music and Dance in Rochester NY, and Monroe Community College. Siu Yan studied with prestigious teachers such as Barry Snyder, Ann Koscielny, Lillian Kallir, Claude Frank, Ju-Ying Song, and Eva Lue. She has performed in Vienna, Paris, Hong Kong, and various cities in the US, including engagements as piano soloist with the Hong Kong Academy Orchestra in Hong Kong and Eastman Philharmonic in Rochester NY, and premiering compositions for EAMA (European American Musical Alliance) at La Schola Cantorum, Paris. Siu Yan is also a winner of multiple concerto competitions in-cluding the Eastman Piano Concerto Competition, and the Hong Kong Academy Concerto Competition. As a collaborative pianist, Siu Yan is a member of the Shuhan-Luk Trio. The Shuhan-Luk trio has been invited to perform in various universities in the United States. They have recently performed in the International Horn Society conference at Coburn School of Music, LA, and National Flute Association in DC. Siu Yan has also held positions as staff accompanist and accompanying assistant at Boston University Tanglewood Institute, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Eastman School of Music, Universi-ty of Rochester, Ithaca College, Hochstein School of Music and Dance, Monroe Community College, the International Viola Congress 2012, and 2013 Northeast Regional Tuba & Euphonium Conference.

NICK WEISER is steeped in both the jazz and classical idioms and has performed at events as far reaching as the Um-bria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy, and Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival. During his formative years in western Kan-sas, Weiser studied piano with the late jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Frank Mantooth before matriculating to the University of Kansas. There, he developed his classical background while maintaining an active involvement in the jazz and musical theater programs, winning the prestigious Dick Wright Award in 2006 and performing with such greats as Peter Erskine, Ingrid Jensen, Rich Perry, John Abercrombie, and Gary Foster, to name a few. He received his Bachelor of Music degree with highest distinction in 2008 before attending the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. At Eastman, he studied with artists Harold Danko and Bill Dobbins, and was a member of the Downbeat Award-winning Eastman New Jazz Ensemble, whose performance with renowned trombonist, composer, and arranger Bob Brookmeyer garnered international acclaim. Actively sharing his passion for music with others, Weiser is on the jazz faculty at Ithaca College and Cornell University and has given lectures and master classes at universities and institutions nationwide. He continues to teach privately while maintaining an extensive jazz and classical performance schedule throughout the northeast.

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COMPOSERSDANIEL BALDWIN was born in 1978 in Blackwell, Oklahoma, and is quickly becoming one of the most highly sought af-

ter and widely performed composers in the world today. His music has been described as “epic”, “refreshingly beautiful”, “gor-geous and moving”, and “beautifully inspired” by critics around the country. He is an award winning composer who has been commissioned by performers from the top orchestras in the world to include the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Sympho-ny, and National Symphony Orchestra, among others as well as prestigious ensembles to include the Lincoln Symphony, Tulsa Symphony, and the West Point Band. His music has been presented on National Public Radio, in prestigious venues around the world such as Carnegie Hall, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, on hundreds of Uni-versity stages around the world, and at National and International conventions around the world to include the Masterworks Festival, Midwest Clinic, MENC National Convention, Kansas Bandmasters Convention, and at the International Festivals of the associations of Clarinet, Horn, Trombone, and Double Reeds, among others.He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Music in Education from Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, OK, Master of Music in Composition with an emphasis in Wind Band Conducting from Kansas State University, and a DMA in Composition with an emphasis in Orchestral Conduct-ing from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. His primary composition teachers include Eric Richards and Craig Weston as well as additional studies with Max Ridgway and Eric Ewazen. His primary conducting teachers include Michael Knedler at NWOSU, Frank Tracz at Kansas State University, and Tyler Goodrich White at UNL.

WILLIAM BERR, winner of the 2003 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship for music, is a musi-cian whose career encompasses every aspect of the field. He has found success as a performer, composer, arranger, director, producer, writer, and educator. Berry is a member of ASCAP and the American Music Center, the New York advocacy group for composers, and his compositions and arrangements have been commissioned and performed by professional ensembles including Canadian Brass and the New York Philharmonic. KSPS Public Television produced an edition of Northwest Profiles which highlights Berry and his music.

RICHARD BISSILL (FRAM) studied horn and piano at the Royal Academy of Music before joining the London Sym-phony Orchestra. He served as Principal Horn of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for 25 years before taking up his current position, Section Principal Horn of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2009.

He has been a Professor of horn at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for over 30 years. Since 1990 he has been a member of the virtuoso ensemble London Brass. As a composer and arranger he has written works for the LPO, BBC, LSO and London Brass, and is the author of The Good Brass Guide for Horn as well as numerous other horn compositions, many of which appear on the graded exam lists. He is a Yamaha Artist.

ANDREW BOYSEN, Jr. is presently a professor in the music department at the University of New Hampshire, where he conducts the wind symphony and teaches conducting and composition. Under his leadership, the UNH wind symphony has released six recordings and been invited to perform at regional conventions of the College Band Directors National Association and National Association for Music Education. Previously, Boysen taught at Indiana State University and Cary-Grove (IL) High School, and was the music director and conductor of the Deerfield Community Concert Band. He remains active as a guest conductor and clinician, appearing with high school, university and festival ensembles across the United States, Great Britain, and Australia.

JOHN E. CHEETHAM, Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Missouri-Columbia, was born in Taos, New Mexico in 1939. He received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees from the University of New Mexico in 1962 and 1965, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Washington in 1969. During his tenure at Missouri from 1969 to 2000, he has written compositions for virtually all media and his works have been widely performed in the United States and abroad. Much of his music has been published commercially and since 2001, through his own publishing firm, BoonesLick Press. Recordings of many of his works are available on Crystal, Concord, Mark, Pro-Arte, Summit, Antara and NPR Classic labels. In addition, Dr. Cheetham has received numerous commissions includ-ing those from prestigous university groups as well as professional ensembles and soloists. He is a member of ASCAP and has received several ASCAP Plus Awards and in 1992 won the Abraham Frost Prize in Composition. He has also been the recipient of a Centennial Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of New Mexico.

BRENT EDSTROM’s active performance career has placed him on stage with many well-known performers including Clark Terry, Ernie Watts, Lee Konitz, John Faddis, Bob Berg, Bob Mintzer and Peter Erskin. In addition to teaching and performing, Edstrom is active as a composer and arranger. He currently works as a freelance writer and arranger for Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation.

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MICHAEL PATRICK COYLE is a composer/arranger in Minneapolis, and also the executive producer for an indepen-dent, multi-media production company based in New York City. He is the former composer-in-residence for the Manhat-tan Performance Group and the Cottage Theater in New York, and was the editor of Stagebill Magazine at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Michael’s works have been featured on television, film, and stage, and in art installations in New York, Boston, and Minneapolis, and Philadelphia. He uses electronic, sampled, and acoustic sources in order to have access to as wide a palette of raw sound as possible, and therefore works mostly in the recorded medium. Most evident in Michael’s music is a rich use of both traditional and extended harmony balanced with sections of harmonic ambiguity and atonality. He believes that the combination of tonality and atonality is critical to the appreciation of both. By his own admission, he is obsessed with novel variation in both tone color and texture, and has been recognized as an adept and imaginative orches-trator. Michael did his undergraduate work at the Eastman School of Music, graduate work at the New England Conser-vatory of Music, the Institute of Audio Research, New York University, and the University of Minnesota. Michael plays the piano, trombone, and a wide variety of electronic instruments. His greatest musical influences and mentors have been: Robert Bailey, James Hepokoski, Daniel Pinkham, Jan Gorbaty, Dominic Argento, and Henry L. Schmidt. Michael is the Program Coordinator for “Composer Nights,” an event sponsored by The New Ruckus, an organization in the Twin Cities, which promotes new music. He is also an active member of The American Composers Forum.

PAUL ENGLISH (b. 1951) is an internationally recognized composer, pianist, producer and educator. He has performed and recorded with such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Arnett Cobb, Kirk Whalum and David Liebman, and he has pro-duced a number of jazz and classical recordings, including a 2009 collaboration with country legends Willie Nelson, Ray Price and Johnny Bush, a 2010 CD, “Bring Him Home”, a debut recording for lyric tenor, Todd Miller and a 2014 CD for mezzo soprano Sonja Bruzauskas, “Hour of Tranquility”. Equally at home in jazz, popular or classical settings, Mr. English enjoys composing for in various genres. Recent commissioned works include “Lumière Lunaire”, a fantasy for orches-tra, “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep” for SATB choir, cello and piano, “Discovering Sønderho” for wind quintet, “The Gospel According to John Coltrane” for jazz quartet and SATB choir and fourteen jazz arrangements of works by J. S Bach for jazz septet and SATB choir. His catalog includes two horn sonatas: “English Suite” (1994) and “Her Name Shall Remain Unspo-ken” (1997), both commissioned by horn virtuoso, William VerMuelen. He has performed extensively as a jazz pianist and with his crossover groups, PICO (Paul’s Improvising Chamber Orchestra) and PIVO (Paul’s Improvising Vocal Orchestra), mixing styles and improvisational techniques. Mr. English has served on the faculties of Texas Tech University, Sam Hous-ton State University, San Jacinto College and Houston Community College. He is an alumnus of The University of Miami and The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University (B.M, M.M.), where he studied composition with the late Dr. Paul Cooper. Paul English is a registered Steinway concert artist and records for PEM. www.paulenglishmusic.com

ERIC EWAZEN’s music has been performed by distinguished soloists, chamber ensembles, vocalists, wind ensembles and orchestras around the world. His music can be heard on some 70 commercially released CDs, by some of the finest recording artists of the 20th/21st centuries. He has been a guest at over 150 colleges and universities worldwide, including 19 different countries and 47 states of the 50 United States. During the summer of 2015, he was the composer-in-residence with the Jeju Festival of Winds in Korea, the SliderAsia Brass Festival in Hong Kong, the Trombone Convention in Valen-cia, Spain, and the Stavanger Conservatory in Norway. During the current season, Ewazen’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello was premiered by the Anchorage Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic performed his Bass Trombone Concer-to, and the Colorado Youth Orchestra performed his “Fantasy for Taiko Drummers and Orchestra” in Carnegie Hall. He was also the recipient of the Distinguished alumni Award from the Eastman School of Music, awarded to him at the 2015 Meliora Festival at Eastman. During the summer of 2016, he will be a guest of the International Tuba, Trombone and Or-gan conventions, as well as a faculty member with the NY Phil Brass Quintet at a composers workshop in Sonoma, CA. Dr. Ewazen received his Bachelors of Music Degree from the Eastman School of Music in 1976, and his Master’s and Doctor-ate Degrees from the Juilliard School in 1978 and 1980, He has been a faculty member of The Juilliard School since 1980, teaching Music Theory in the College Division and Composition in the Pre--College Division. He was Vice-President of the League of Composers-ISCM and Composer-in-Residence with the Orchestra of St. Lukes in NYC.

Dr. GINA GILLIE is an Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where she teaches horn, aural skills, in-troductory general music courses, conducts a horn choir, and performs frequently in solo and chamber recitals. She is a mem-ber of two faculty chamber ensembles at PLU, the Camas Wind Quintet and the Lyric Brass Quintet. As an orchestral player, she is Assistant Principal with the Tacoma Symphony and also performs as a freelancer with the Northwest Sinfonietta, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Seattle Symphony, the Auburn Symphony and in Seattle studio recordings. In 2006, she attended the Tanglewood Music Festival as an orchestral fellow where she worked with several world-class musicians such as James Levine, Elliot Carter, Bernhard Haitink, Stefan Asbury, Herbert Blomstedt, Charles Rosen, Barry Tuckwell and John Williams. Dr. Gillie received her BM from Pacific Lutheran University where she studied with Kathleen Vaught Farner, and she received her MM and DMA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied with Douglas Hill.

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COMPOSERSPHILIP SPAETH, composer, conductor, and liturgical musician, began studying music at a young age with musician and

artist Anne Miller. His love of the piano eventually drew him to study the French Horn with Patrice Malatestinic. A Capital Region native, he is a graduate of the Crane School of Music, where he obtained a Bachelor of Music in Composition and a Performance Certificate in the French Horn. While at Crane, he studied composition with David Heinick, French horn with Roy Schaberg and John Ericson, and conducting with Timothy Topolewski. Since 2001, Philip has been the Music Director and organist/pianist at the Church of St. Peter in Saratoga Springs, and, since 2014, has served as Music Director of the Festival Celebration Choir of Albany. While at St. Peter’s, he has composed several choral and liturgical pieces, has written a highly regarded Mass setting, and was the winner of the Albany Diocesan hymn contest honoring St. Kateri Tekakwitha in 2012.

TYLER OGILVIE received his undergraduate degree in music education from Ithaca College in 2005, after which he served the public schools of New Jersey and Connecticut. In 2008, he returned to his alma mater to pursue graduate studies in horn performance (M.M., 2010). Ogilvie serves on the music faculties of Susquehanna University and Dickin-son College, teaching horn and chamber music. During summers, he instructs horn at the Susquehanna University Wind Ensemble Institute as well as the Ithaca College Summer Music Academy. Ogilvie is principal horn in the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, where he has appeared as a featured soloist. In addition to his freelance performances with regional orchestras and ensembles throughout New York and Pennsylvania, Ogilvie regularly performs with Symphoria (Syracuse, NY). As a composer, Ogilvie’s works range from traditional styles to more experimental, electroacoustic pieces utilizing sound effect processors, pre-recorded soundtracks, and visual multimedia (www.tyviemusic.com). He specializes in bringing his own brand of music and visual art to youthful audiences, having presented at schools throughout New York and Pennsylvania. The aim of his music is to make cross-curricular connections to the sciences, math, nature, history, and visual arts. In 2016, he was awarded composition grants from the Society for New Music in Syracuse, NY as well as the Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Fund, courtesy of the International Horn Society. Tyler resides in Syracuse, NY. His primary teachers include Alexander Shuhan and Edward Albinski.

DANA WILSON’s works have been commissioned and performed by such diverse ensembles as the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Formosa String Quartet, Xaimen Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony, Dallas Wind Sym-phony, Voices of Change, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Syracuse Symphony, and Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. Solo works have been written for such renowned artists as Gail Williams, Larry Combs, James Thompson, Adam Unsworth, Rex Rich-ardson and David Weiss. Most recently, his trombone concerto was commissioned by thirty-five soloists and ensembles around the country and in Europe. He has received grants from, among others, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, Arts Midwest, and Meet the Composer. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, East Asia and Australia, and are published by Boosey and Hawkes.

Dana Wilson holds a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, and is currently Charles A. Dana Professor of Music in the School of Music at Ithaca College. He is co-author of Contemporary Choral Arranging, published by Prentice Hall, and has written on diverse musical subjects, including his own compositional process in A Composer’s Insight and Composers on Com-posing for Band. He has been a Yaddo Fellow (at Yaddo, the artists’ retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York), a Wye Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a Charles A. Dana Fellow, and a Fellow at the Society for Humanities, Cornell University.

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