Band Series:

University Wind Ensemble

Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 3pm Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center

Pacific Lutheran University School of Arts and Communication / Department of Music present

Band Series:

University Wind Ensemble Edwin Powell, Conductor

Ronald Gerhardstein, Guest Conductor

Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 3pm Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center

Welcome to Lagerquist Concert Hall.

Please disable the audible signal on all watches, pagers and cellular phones for the duration of the concert. Use of cameras, recording equipment and all digital devices is not permitted in the concert hall.

PROGRAM

Catching Shadows ............................................................................................................................................. Ivan Trevino Wind Ensemble Percussion Section

Four Miniatures ............................................................................................................................................ Caleb Medeiros The Gateway The Garden The Dance The Finale

World Premier Ron Gerhardstein, Guest Conductor

The Star Wars Trilogy .................................................................................................................................... John Williams

The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme) Princess Leia’s Theme The Battle in the Forest Yoda’s Theme Star Wars (Main Theme)

INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 4 ........................................................................................................................................... David Maslanka

About the Conductors

Edwin C. Powell maintains an active schedule as a clinician and adjudicator worldwide conducting groups from San Francisco, California to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is a contributing author for the immensely popular ten volume textbook series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, by GIA Publications, and is published in the Journal of Band Research. Dr. Powell has also been active as a producer for multiple recordings including Made in Tacoma featuring Erik Steighner, saxophones, Made in America with the Lyric Brass Quintet, was a production assistant for the Klavier Wind Recording Project, and served as the Associate Producer for the Albany Records recording of Bandanna, an Opera in Two Acts by Daron Aric Hagen. Dr. Powell is the Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University, where he is responsible for conducting the University Wind Ensemble. Additionally, he teaches Conducting and Music Education courses. Dr. Powell comes to PLU via the University of Tennessee, where he was Assistant Director of Bands responsible for the Symphonic Band, the 350 member Pride of the Southland Marching Band, conducting courses and music education methods courses. Dr. Powell has earned degrees from the University of the Pacific, the Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music and The University of North Texas where he completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting. At North Texas, Dr. Powell was a Graduate Teaching Fellow studying conducting with Eugene Migliaro Corporon while responsible for teaching conducting courses, Chamber Winds and the North Texas Concert Band. While in Cincinnati he served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant studying Music Education with Dr. Lizabeth Wing while responsible for teaching a variety of courses from Instrumental Methods to Music in Childhood Education. Dr. Powell maintains active memberships in the College Band Directors National Association, the Conductors Guild, the National Band Association, the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE), Music Educators National Conference, Washington Music Educators Association and Pi Kappa Lambda. Dr. Ron Gerhardstein is Assistant Professor of Music Education at Pacific Lutheran University. In addition to directing the University Concert Band, his duties include coursework related to music education, music elective courses in the department, and supervision of music student teachers. He has also appeared as a guest conductor with the PLU Wind Ensemble and the University Jazz Ensemble. Dr. Gerhardstein comes to PLU having taught instrumental and vocal music in public and private school setting for 18 years in the states of Washington, Idaho, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. He earned a Ph.D. in Music Education from Temple University where he studied with Edwin Gordon and Beth Bolton. He studied saxophone performance at the University of Idaho with Robert Miller, now an adjunct professor at PLU. From 2005 – 2014, Dr. Gerhardstein was the band director at West Valley High School in Yakima, WA. His band program had a strong reputation for excellence in all areas (Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, and Marching Band). His groups won numerous awards of excellence and were honored with clinic performances at the WMEA state conference, EWU invitational festival, and featured professional jazz guest artist concerts in collaboration with CWU Jazz Band I. Dr. Gerhardstein is an active member of WMEA (Washington Music Education Association) serving a term as the President of the Yakima Valley Region, WMEA All-State Concert Band Site Manager, and was elected to the WMEA Board as the Band Curriculum Officer for the 2010-12 Biennium. He is frequently asked to adjudicate and clinic at regional concert and jazz band festivals, and has been called upon as a guest conductor for honor groups at both the middle school and high school levels. Dr. Gerhardstein was honored as the 2014 WMEA / WIAA Music Educator of the Year. He makes his home in Puyallup with his wife, Jerilyn, a first-grade teacher in the Bethel School District.

University Wind Ensemble

Flute Sarah Crum Joey Erberich* Jessica Fletcher Angela Froschauer Emma Pierce Oboe/English Horn Austin Bastrom Kelsey Johnson* Lydia Robinson Bassoon Helene Beck* Jennifer Brown Megan Cummings Clarinet Kathleen Davidson Daniel Kennett Lyndi Knox* Jarel Sanders Ingrid Smith Devin Turner Bass Clarinet Mielle Hubbard Contra Bass Clarinet Caitlin Whitley Noah Kime

Alto Saxophone Austin Baduria Gabriel Johnson Tenor Saxophone Nick Barene Baritone Saxophone Will Radford* Horn Lucas Batanian Alexander Justice Taylor Mills* Calley Odum Trumpet Kristi Eckroth Sebastian Hernandez John Heckel Robert Layton Kenneth Lorentzen* Mykal Moody Claire Rehmke Trombone Taylor Bauer Paul Dalenberg Jonathan Julius Collin Ray Nathan Tunheim*

Euphonium Pablo Hernandez Annaliese King Matthew Serino* Tuba Alan Young* Stephan Young String Bass James Hatley Jordan Hamilton Harp Victoria Norman Keyboards Alexa Bayouk Miki Yamamoto Percussion Shayla Chakin Emilio Gonzalez Timothy Hagen Kelsey Kosin Kaela Shoe* Eric Sundberg Amy Van Cleave * = Section Leader