FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2019

SCHEDULE

CSU SCHWOB CONDUCTORS WORKSHOPNovember 15-16, 2019Schwob School of Music—RiverCenter for the Performing ArtsColumbus State University (GA)

22nd Annual

2019 Clinicians: Craig Kirchhoff | Scott Boerma | Jamie L. Nix

CONDUCTOR STATUS | $245 (add $10 for SDU/PLU)• Limited to 18 conductors—please provide your

own scores• After slots are filled, additional applicants may

elect auditor status or waiting list• All fees are non-refundable upon confirmation

of slot

AUDITOR STATUS | $75 (add $10 for SDU/PLU)• Unlimited auditor spots—please provide your

own scores• All fees are non-refundable upon confirmation

of slot• Auditors attend all sessions and clinics, but

without one-on-one podium time

WORKSHOP SITEColumbus State University RiverCenter for the Performing ArtsSchwob School of Music900 BroadwayColumbus, GA 31901

OFFICIAL HOTELColumbus Marriott Downtown800 Front AvenueColumbus, GA 31901Directly across from RiverCenter

WORKSHOP COORDINATORBrian Walkerwalker_brian@columbusstate.edu(706) 649-7252

WIND ORCHESTRA (select one—any section or movement)Suite Francaise—Darius MilhaudElegy for a Young American—Ronald Lo PrestiFirst Suite in E-flat—Gustav Holst

CHAMBER WINDS (select one—choose one of the listed movements)Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic— Richard StraussLe Bal de Beatrice d’Este, Mvts. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7— Reynaldo HahnSerenade in B-flat, K. 361, Mvts. 1, 3, 5, 6, 7— W.A. Mozart

WIND ENSEMBLE Festive Overture—Dmitri ShostakovichMake Our Garden Grow from Candide Suite— Leonard Bernstein (trans. Grundman)Dionysiaques—Florent Schmitt FRIDAY EVENING CONCERT PROGRAM (8:00 PM)SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture (Craig Kirchhoff, guest conductor)HAHN: Le Bal de Beatrice d’EsteDAUGHERTY: Songs from a Silent Land (Hila Plitmann, soprano)BERNSTEIN: Make Our Garden Grow from Candide (Scott Boerma, guest conductor)WHITACRE: Goodnight Moon (Hila Plitmann, soprano)JOHN WILLIAMS: Star Wars Trilogy

Required online registration by credit card will open in early September. Visit http://music.columbusstate.edu/windensemble and select Annual Conductors Workshop.

WORKSHOP INFORMATION

2:00-2:30 PM Open rehearsal with Craig Kirchhoff (Legacy Hall)

2:35-3:00 PM Open rehearsal with Scott Boerma (LH)

3:10 PM Conductors Workshop Welcome (Studio Theatre)

3:30-6:30 PM Wind Orchestra Conducting Session (LH)

6:30 PM Dinner Break (on own)

8:00 PM Schwob Wind Ensemble Concert (LH)

8:00-9:00 AM Special Session, Hila Plitmann, soprano (ST)

9:00-9:20 AM Coffee break

9:20-12:45 PM Chamber Winds Conducting Session

12:45-2:00 PM Lunch

2:00-2:45 PM Scott Boerma presentation (ST)

2:45-3:30 PM Craig Kirchhoff presentation (ST)

3:30-4:00 PM Panel Discussion—Kirchhoff, Boerma, Nix (ST)

4:00-4:30 PM Break—drinks/light snacks provided

4:30-7:30 PM Wind Ensemble Conducting Session (LH)

7:30 PM Workshop ends

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2019

REPERTOIRE

JAMIE L. NIXDr. Jamie L. Nix is director of wind ensemble activities, professor of music, and holds The Hal J. Gibson Distinguished Chair in Conducting at Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music. Nix,

the first recipient of the Sam and Jacquie Rawls Distinguished Music Professorship at CSU, conducts the Schwob Wind Ensemble and Wind Orchestra, heads the graduate wind band conducting program, and hosts the Annual Conductors Workshop. Previous posts include serving as associate director of bands and the Donald R. Shepherd Assistant Professor of Conducting at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, where he was director of the famed Michigan Marching Band, and assistant director of bands at The University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music.

Under his direction since 2010, the nationally acclaimed Schwob Wind Ensemble has performed at the 2015 CBDNA National Conference, the 2012 CBDNA Southern Division Conference, and the 2018 and 2012 GMEA State Conferences. Nix has recently served as conductor at the CBDNA North-Central Intercollegiate Band, as a guest conductor of the famed Eastman Wind Ensemble and the United States Army Field Band, and several international events including the Alberta International Band Festival, International Double Reed Society Conference, International Trumpet Guild Conference, and the International Trombone Festival Conference. He has conducted the All State Bands of Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia, the Music for All Summer Symposium, and numerous region and honor bands and orchestras in the U.S. and Canada. Nix has served as a conducting symposium clinician at Louisiana State University, Michigan State University, UMKC, and the University of Texas. As an orchestral conductor, he has led performances with the CSU Philharmonic, was music director and conductor of the Advanced Young Musicians String Orchestra in Coral

Gables, FL, and in 2008 participated in the two-week International Mahler/Brahms Conducting Festival with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic in the Czech Republic.Nix, elected into the prestigious American Bandmasters Association in 2016, holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University of Miami Frost School of Music (Gary Green), two Master of Music degrees, in trombone performance and conducting, from the University of Michigan (H. Robert Reynolds), and a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from Auburn University. Nix is a conductor or producer on the following CDs: Vital Signs (George Curran, New York Philharmonic), Atlanta Chamber Winds, Psychedelia (James Markey, Boston Symphony bass trombone), A Beautiful Noise (featuring trombonists Joseph Alessi, Charles Vernon, Paul Pollard, and others), Wolf Rounds, The Blue Album, Brooklyn Bridge, The Victors Valiant, and the newest, a Schwob Wind Ensemble CD entitled Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs, released on the Summit Records label in 2017.

SCOTT BOERMAScott Boerma is the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Western Michigan University. Prior to this appointment, he was the Associate Director of Bands and Director of the Michigan Marching Band at the

University of Michigan. Before those positions, Boerma was the Director of Bands at Eastern Michigan University, and he began his career teaching music in the Michigan public schools at Novi and Lamphere High Schools. Boerma earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting at Michigan State University, his Master

of Music degree in music education from the University of Michigan, and his Bachelor of Music degree in music education from Western Michigan University.Boerma is an elected member of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. He is active as a band/orchestra conductor, adjudicator, and clinician, also serving as a guest conductor for several honor bands and community bands throughout the nation each year. He often conducts the Detroit Chamber Winds Brass holiday concerts.An active composer, Boerma’s concert band works have been performed by many outstanding ensembles, including “The President’s Own” Marine Band, the Dallas Wind Symphony, and the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, to name just a few. His music has been heard in such

venues as Carnegie Hall and at the Chicago Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. Boerma’s works have been featured in the popular GIA series, “Teaching Music Through Performance in Band.”Also a prolific arranger, Boerma receives yearly commissions to write music for many university and high school marching bands and drum and bugle corps. From 1989-2006 and from 2014-2018, he was the music arranger for the acclaimed Madison Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps. In addition to many of the ensembles across the nation, most of the Big Ten university marching bands have performed Boerma’s arrangements. He has also written arrangements for the Boston Pops and the Detroit Chamber Winds Brass.

CRAIG KIRCHHOFFCraig Kirchhoff is Professor Emeritus of Conducting and Director Emeritus of University Bands at the University of Minnesota where he conducted the University Wind Ensemble and guest conducted in

the University Opera Program. Professor Kirchhoff coordinated the graduate program in Wind Ensemble/Band Conducting and guided all aspects of the University of Minnesota wind band program since 1993. He has won critical acclaim from composers Dominick Argento, Warren Benson, William Bolcom, Henry Brant, Susan Botti. Elliott Carter, Michael Colgrass, John Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, Karel Husa, Libby Larsen, George Perle, Vincent Persichetti, Carter Pann, Stephen Paulus, Kevin Puts, Einojuhani

Rautavaara, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, James Stephenson, Steven Stucky, Elliott Schwartz, Frank Ticheli, Dana Wilson, Chen Yi, and others.Prior to his appointment to the faculty of the University of Minnesota, Professor Kirchhoff served in a similar capacity as Director of Bands at The Ohio State University for fourteen years, as Director of Bands at Washington State University for two years, and Associate Director of Bands at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for one year. Mr. Kirchhoff was the recipient of The Ohio State University Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award and The Ohio State University School of Music Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Kirchhoff serves as an advisor to the BandQuest Series published by the American Composers Forum, he joined James Galway, Eddie Daniels, Donald Hunsberger, Wynton Marsalis, and Dawn Upshaw on the Advisory Board for SmartMusic produced by the MakeMusic Corporation, and he

serves as the Artistic Advisor for the Windependence Wind Band Series published by Boosey & Hawkes.Professor Kirchhoff is past president of the College Band Directors National Association and is a member of the American Bandmasters Association, the National Band Association, the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the Music Educators National Conference, and served as the founding editor and principal advisor of the College Band Directors National Association Journal.Professor Kirchhoff has appeared as guest conductor, clinician, and lecturer throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Europe, and Scandinavia. He enjoyed a long association with the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra during Frederick Fennell’s tenure as Music Director and he has recorded with them on the Kosei Publishing label. Professor Kirchhoff serves as a Yamaha Master Educator.

FACULTY

JAMIE L. NIXDr. Jamie L. Nix is director of wind ensemble activities, professor of music, and holds The Hal J. Gibson Distinguished Chair in Conducting at Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music. Nix,

the first recipient of the Sam and Jacquie Rawls Distinguished Music Professorship at CSU, conducts the Schwob Wind Ensemble and Wind Orchestra, heads the graduate wind band conducting program, and hosts the Annual Conductors Workshop. Previous posts include serving as associate director of bands and the Donald R. Shepherd Assistant Professor of Conducting at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, where he was director of the famed Michigan Marching Band, and assistant director of bands at The University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music.

Under his direction since 2010, the nationally acclaimed Schwob Wind Ensemble has performed at the 2015 CBDNA National Conference, the 2012 CBDNA Southern Division Conference, and the 2018 and 2012 GMEA State Conferences. Nix has recently served as conductor at the CBDNA North-Central Intercollegiate Band, as a guest conductor of the famed Eastman Wind Ensemble and the United States Army Field Band, and several international events including the Alberta International Band Festival, International Double Reed Society Conference, International Trumpet Guild Conference, and the International Trombone Festival Conference. He has conducted the All State Bands of Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia, the Music for All Summer Symposium, and numerous region and honor bands and orchestras in the U.S. and Canada. Nix has served as a conducting symposium clinician at Louisiana State University, Michigan State University, UMKC, and the University of Texas. As an orchestral conductor, he has led performances with the CSU Philharmonic, was music director and conductor of the Advanced Young Musicians String Orchestra in Coral

Gables, FL, and in 2008 participated in the two-week International Mahler/Brahms Conducting Festival with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic in the Czech Republic.Nix, elected into the prestigious American Bandmasters Association in 2016, holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University of Miami Frost School of Music (Gary Green), two Master of Music degrees, in trombone performance and conducting, from the University of Michigan (H. Robert Reynolds), and a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from Auburn University. Nix is a conductor or producer on the following CDs: Vital Signs (George Curran, New York Philharmonic), Atlanta Chamber Winds, Psychedelia (James Markey, Boston Symphony bass trombone), A Beautiful Noise (featuring trombonists Joseph Alessi, Charles Vernon, Paul Pollard, and others), Wolf Rounds, The Blue Album, Brooklyn Bridge, The Victors Valiant, and the newest, a Schwob Wind Ensemble CD entitled Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs, released on the Summit Records label in 2017.

SCOTT BOERMAScott Boerma is the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Western Michigan University. Prior to this appointment, he was the Associate Director of Bands and Director of the Michigan Marching Band at the

University of Michigan. Before those positions, Boerma was the Director of Bands at Eastern Michigan University, and he began his career teaching music in the Michigan public schools at Novi and Lamphere High Schools. Boerma earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting at Michigan State University, his Master

of Music degree in music education from the University of Michigan, and his Bachelor of Music degree in music education from Western Michigan University.Boerma is an elected member of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. He is active as a band/orchestra conductor, adjudicator, and clinician, also serving as a guest conductor for several honor bands and community bands throughout the nation each year. He often conducts the Detroit Chamber Winds Brass holiday concerts.An active composer, Boerma’s concert band works have been performed by many outstanding ensembles, including “The President’s Own” Marine Band, the Dallas Wind Symphony, and the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, to name just a few. His music has been heard in such

venues as Carnegie Hall and at the Chicago Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. Boerma’s works have been featured in the popular GIA series, “Teaching Music Through Performance in Band.”Also a prolific arranger, Boerma receives yearly commissions to write music for many university and high school marching bands and drum and bugle corps. From 1989-2006 and from 2014-2018, he was the music arranger for the acclaimed Madison Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps. In addition to many of the ensembles across the nation, most of the Big Ten university marching bands have performed Boerma’s arrangements. He has also written arrangements for the Boston Pops and the Detroit Chamber Winds Brass.

CRAIG KIRCHHOFFCraig Kirchhoff is Professor Emeritus of Conducting and Director Emeritus of University Bands at the University of Minnesota where he conducted the University Wind Ensemble and guest conducted in

the University Opera Program. Professor Kirchhoff coordinated the graduate program in Wind Ensemble/Band Conducting and guided all aspects of the University of Minnesota wind band program since 1993. He has won critical acclaim from composers Dominick Argento, Warren Benson, William Bolcom, Henry Brant, Susan Botti. Elliott Carter, Michael Colgrass, John Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, Karel Husa, Libby Larsen, George Perle, Vincent Persichetti, Carter Pann, Stephen Paulus, Kevin Puts, Einojuhani

Rautavaara, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, James Stephenson, Steven Stucky, Elliott Schwartz, Frank Ticheli, Dana Wilson, Chen Yi, and others.Prior to his appointment to the faculty of the University of Minnesota, Professor Kirchhoff served in a similar capacity as Director of Bands at The Ohio State University for fourteen years, as Director of Bands at Washington State University for two years, and Associate Director of Bands at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for one year. Mr. Kirchhoff was the recipient of The Ohio State University Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award and The Ohio State University School of Music Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Kirchhoff serves as an advisor to the BandQuest Series published by the American Composers Forum, he joined James Galway, Eddie Daniels, Donald Hunsberger, Wynton Marsalis, and Dawn Upshaw on the Advisory Board for SmartMusic produced by the MakeMusic Corporation, and he

serves as the Artistic Advisor for the Windependence Wind Band Series published by Boosey & Hawkes.Professor Kirchhoff is past president of the College Band Directors National Association and is a member of the American Bandmasters Association, the National Band Association, the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the Music Educators National Conference, and served as the founding editor and principal advisor of the College Band Directors National Association Journal.Professor Kirchhoff has appeared as guest conductor, clinician, and lecturer throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Europe, and Scandinavia. He enjoyed a long association with the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra during Frederick Fennell’s tenure as Music Director and he has recorded with them on the Kosei Publishing label. Professor Kirchhoff serves as a Yamaha Master Educator.

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