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Illinois State University College of Fine Arts School of Music

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Symphonic Band

and

University Band

Dan Dietrich, conductor Johannes Krohn, conductor Shannon Shaffer, conductor

Center for the Performing Arts Thursday Evening December 1, 2016 8:00 p.m. This is the eightieth program of the 2016-2017 season.

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Program

Please silence all electronic devices for the duration of the concert. Thank you.

University Band

Shannon Shaffer & Johannes Krohn, conductors

Invicta (1981) James Swearingen

(born 1947)

6:00

Rippling Watercolors (2015) Brian Balmages

(born 1975)

4:45

A Longford Legend (1996) Robert Sheldon

(born 1954)

7:10

Lone Star Celebration (1995) James Curnow

(born 1943)

7:40

Symphonic Band

Dan Dietrich, conductor

Commemorating the Illinois State University Career of George Foeller

A Christmas Intrada (1980) Alfred Reed

(1921-2005)

Members from the Symphonic Wind Brass section 6:00

Carnival of Venice (1950) Traditional

arranged by Herbert L. Clarke

(born 1929) (1948)

3:00

Nutcracker Sweets (2010) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

arranged by Neil Corwell

(born 1958)

5:00

Canterbury Chorale (2010) Jan Van der Roost

(born 1956)

5:00

The Demon (1966) Paul Huber

(1918-2001)

arranged by George Foeller

10:00

“Radetzky” March (1885) Johann Strauss, Sr.

(1804-1849)

arranged by George Foeller

2:30

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Program Notes

Welcome to Illinois State University! Thank you for joining us for today’s performance of the ISU

University Band and Symphonic Band. We hope that you will enjoy our concert and that you

might consider joining us again for future performances at the ISU School of Music. Please visit

http://www.bands.illinoisstate.edu for more information. Thank you for your support!

James Swearingen (born 1947)

James Swearingen's talents as a performer, composer/arranger

and educator include a background of extensive training and

experience. He has earned degrees from Bowling Green State

University and The Ohio State University. Mr. Swearingen is

currently Professor of Music, Department Chair of Music

Education, and one of several resident composers at Capital

University located in Columbus, Ohio. He also serves as a staff

arranger for the famed Ohio State University Marching Band.

Prior to his appointment at Capital in 1987, he spent eighteen

years teaching instrumental music in the public schools of

central Ohio.

Mr. Swearingen's numerous contributions for band have been

enthusiastically received by school directors, student performers, and audiences worldwide. With

over 500 published works, he has written band compositions and arrangements that reflect a

variety of musical forms and styles. Many of his pieces, including eighty six commissioned works,

have been chosen for contest and festival lists. He is a recipient of several ASCAP awards for

published compositions and in 1992 was selected as an Accomplished Graduate of the Fine and

Performing Arts from Bowling Green State University. In March of 2000, he was invited to join

The American Bandmasters Association, which is considered to be the most prestigious

bandmaster organization in the world. Mr. Swearingen received the 2002 Community Music

Educator Award given annually by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. In that same year, he

became conductor of the Grove City Community Winds. This highly talented ensemble consists of

many fine musicians from the central Ohio area. He is a member of numerous professional and

honorary organizations including OMEA, MENC, ASBDA, Phi Beta Mu and Pi Kappa Lambda.

- Biography courtesy of the composer

Invicta (1981) was composed as a tribute to Mark S. Kelly, Director of Bands at Bowling Green

State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. Regarding the dedication, James Swearingen expressed

the following; "Several times during my eighteen years of public school teaching, Professor Kelly

provided me with educational guidance which helped to mold my career as a teacher. Needless to

say, I owe many of my successes to this man's valuable advice."

This composition, which utilizes ABA form, is introduced by a bold maestoso fanfare in the key

of Bb major. The main theme (allegro con moto) is then passed back and forth between several

sections of the ensemble. Having modulated to the key of Ab, a beautiful middle section is

masterfully developed before an eventual return to the key of Bb. The recapitulation then allows

the composer an opportunity to display his skill at inter-weaving previously introduced themes

simultaneously. Invicta is another classic in the long list of Swearingen favorites.

- Program notes courtesy of the composer

Brian Balmages (born 1975) is an award-winning composer, conductor, producer, and

performer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music from James Madison University and a master’s

degree from the University of Miami in Florida. His compositions have been performed

worldwide at the state, national, and international level. His active schedule of commissions and

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premieres has incorporated groups ranging from elementary

schools to professional ensembles, including the Baltimore

Symphony Orchestra, Miami Symphony Orchestra,

University of Miami Wind Ensemble, Boston Brass, and the

Dominion Brass Ensemble. In 2012, Mr. Balmages

received the prestigious Albert Austin Harding Award from

the American School Band Directors Association. He is

also a 2010 winner of the Harvey G. Phillips Award for

Compositional Excellence, presented by the International

Tuba-Euphonium Association.

As a conductor, Mr. Balmages enjoys engagements with

numerous all-state and regional honor bands and orchestras

along with university and professional groups. Notable

guest conducting appearances have included the Midwest Clinic, Western International Band

Clinic, National Association for Music Educators, American School Band Directors Association,

CBDNA, the Kennedy Center, and Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. He has also served as an adjunct

professor of instrumental conducting and Acting Symphonic Band Director at Towson University

in Maryland.

Currently, Mr. Balmages is the Director of Instrumental Publications for The FJH Music Company

Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He resides in Baltimore with his wife Lisa and their two sons.

- Biography courtesy of the Frank J. Hackinson Music Company

Rippling Watercolors (2015)

“Many often underestimate the extensive colors, harmonies, and emotional range that are often

achievable in younger ensembles. It is in this spirit that the musical lines of Rippling Watercolors

were born. This was not meant to be a lyrical piece for younger ensembles; rather, it was written

as a fully expressive lyrical work that happens to be playable by younger ensembles. I believe

there is a significant difference. No phrases were truncated, no ranges were “limited,” and no

rhythms were watered down for the sake of playability. This piece just happens to be attainable by

younger groups, yet the music exists exactly as it would even if I had written this for a college

group.

The title comes from a range of inspiration. I often get asked about my last name. As most can

imagine, there are very few of us left in the world. At present, my wife and I are one of only two

couples in the United States that can carry on our family name. My cousins Ben and Carrie on the

west coast are the other couple, and they now have two beautiful girls. We all share a lot of beliefs

– we encourage our children to be creative, spontaneous, and we enjoy watching where their

imaginations take them. The idea for this piece came from a simple set of watercolors. When

children get hold of these and use their imagination, the most amazing things can happen. Children

can see things that adults never see. They open our minds as much (if not more) than we try to

help them grow. With a little imagination, these watercolors can become a magnificent sunrise or

sunset over the ocean, a gorgeous view from a mountaintop, or an image of a supernova in space.

The smallest drop can change the pattern and create something entirely new, either with a brush or

entirely within nature. It is my hope that Lily and Charlotte grow up with an infinite palette of

watercolors, and that every drop creates a new, fantastic world.

Rippling Watercolors was commissioned by the Springer Middle School Bands (Wilmington,

Delaware, Robert J. Baronio, director). It is dedicated to my cousins Lily and Charlotte Balmages,

who combined with my two boys, form the next generation of the Balmages name in the United

States.”

- Program notes courtesy of the composer

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Robert Sheldon (born 1954) is well known as a

frequently published composer of music for bands and has

successfully taught instrumental music in the public schools of

Florida and Illinois. He was Assistant Director of Bands and

Director of the Marching Band at Florida State University, where

he was also actively involved in the music education program. He

received his Bachelor of Music Education from the University of

Miami in 1975 and his Master of Fine Arts in Conducting from

the University of Florida in 1980.

Sheldon has received numerous awards for his compositions,

including the Volkwein Award, the American Society of

Composers, Authors and Publisher’s Standard Award, and the

Phi Beta Mu International Outstanding Bandmaster of the Year

Award. He is one of eleven American wind band composers

featured in Volume I of Composers on Composing Music for Band (GIA Publications, Inc., 2002).

A Longford Legend was Sheldon’s first publication with Alfred Music Company, where he

currently serves as Concert Band Editor while maintaining an active schedule composing and

guest conducting.

- Biography courtesy of Teaching Music through Performance in Band

A Longford Legend (1996) was commissioned by the Normal Community West High School

Band (Normal, Illinois, Lisa Preston, director). The piece was written in 1996 and premiered in

April of that year with the composer conducting. It is based on the composer’s impressions of

three poems found in a collection of Eighteenth Century Irish ballades, and is written as a tribute

to the wonderful music of Grainger, Holst, and Vaughan Williams. Sheldon heard A Longford

Legend, the poem that inspired the first movement of the suite, on “A Writer’s Almanac”

broadcast on National Public Radio, read by Garrison Keillor. Taken with the potential for musical

inspiration in the poem, he sought to find the author with the intent of writing a suite based on a

variety of poems from the same venue. Through his research, he found that A Longford Legend

was written by an anonymous author. He later found a collection of eighteenth century Irish street

ballades by anonymous authors, and selected an additional two works, Young Molly Brown and

Killyburn Brae, from this collection to complete the instrumental suite.

- Program notes courtesy of Teaching Music through Performance in Band

James Curnow (born 1943) is an

American composer, conductor, educator, and publisher. He

received some of his earliest training in the Salvation Army

Instrumental Music program, a debt he later repaid as editor of

their music publications. He undertook undergraduate studies at

Wayne State University (BM 1966) and graduate studies at

Michigan State (MM 1970), studying euphonium with Leonard

Falcone and conducting with Harry Begian. His composition

teachers were F. Maxwell Wood, James Gibb, Jere Hutchinson,

and Irwin Fischer. He has over 400 works in his catalog, mostly

tonal, many of which take their inspiration from literature. He

is widely known for his symphonic band and brass band works,

several of which have won major awards: Symphonic

Triptych, Collage for Band (ASBDA/Volkwein, 1977,

1979), Mutanza, Symphonic Variants for Euphonium and

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Band (ABA/Ostwald, 1980, 1984), and Lochinvar (Coup de Vents, France, 1994). His prolific

output for young musicians reflects his many years teaching at public school and college levels.

He founded and presides over Curnow Music Press, Inc.

- Biography courtesy of Grove Music Online

Lone Star Celebration (1995)

Texas is called the Lone Star State because of the single star on its flag. Through the years, the

flags of six nations have flown over Texas. Besides the United States, these nations were Spain,

France, Mexico, The Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States of America. On December

29, 1845, Texas officially became the twenty-eighth state in the union. This overture is designed

to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of this event.

- Program notes courtesy of Curnow Music Press

Alfred Reed (1921–2005) Alfred Reed, a Florida

resident, is one of the most celebrated, prolific, and frequently

performed band composers of the Twentieth Century. His

works, over 200 of which have been published, have been on

contest required performance lists for well over twenty years.

He succeeded Frederick Fennell as conductor of the Miami

University Wind Ensemble and has lived in the Miami area

since 1960. In 1966, he joined the faculty of the School of

Music at the University of Miami where he held a joint

appointment in the Theory/Composition and Music Education

departments, and developed the unique music merchandising

degree program at the institution.

- Biography courtesy of Community Band of Brevard

A Christmas Intrada (1980)

The celebration of the Nativity has called forth countless songs, dances, carols, plays, and

combinations of these, involving both vocal and instrumental forces. Throughout the centuries,

music for the Nativity has intertwined the feeling of radiant joy and infinite tenderness in many

different ways. A Christmas Intrada represents an attempt to portray, in musical terms alone, five

contrasting moods associated with the festivities of the Christmas season. These five sections are

played without pause. They are: Fanfare: Christus Natus Est, for brass, chimes, bells and

percussion only; Lullaby for the Christ Child played by the woodwind and saxophones;

Processional of the Kings and Shepherds played by the full group; Carol for the Holy Night for

woodwinds, saxophones and muted brass; and, finally, Wassail and Alleluia beginning with the

bells and chimes alone, and gradually growing to include not only the full group but also

antiphonal brass choirs, to bring the entire work to a joyous and triumphant conclusion. A

Christmas Intrada was commissioned by the Middle Tennessee State University Band and

dedicated to the bands who annually participate in the Contest of Champions, on the occasion of

its twentieth anniversary (1981). The first performance took place on that occasion, at

Murfreesboro, Tennessee, October 23, 1981, with the U.S. Marine Band, plus antiphonal brass

choirs.

- Program notes courtesy of Community Band of Brevard

Herbert L. Clarke (born 1929) was the cornet soloist and assistant conductor for the

Sousa Band between 1893 and 1917. In addition to his position with the Sousa Band, Clarke was

also employed during his lengthy musical career as solo cornetist with the professional bands of

Victor Herbert, Patrick Gilmore, Frederick Innes, and Ernest Neyer. In addition to his notable

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career as cornet soloist, Clarke served as the conductor of the Reeves American Band of

Providence, Rhode Island, the Huntsville, Ontario Anglo−Canadian Leather Company Band, and

the Long Beach, California Municipal Band, a post that he held from 1923 until 1943.

- Biography courtesy of The University of Illinois

Carnival of Venice (1950)

The band concerts of the early twentieth century, directed

by John Philip Sousa and Arthur Pryor, were significant

social and musical events. The audiences were dazzled and

the skills of the musicians were often tested in works

similar to these variations on the Carnival of

Venice composed by Herbert L. Clarke. Although written

after Clarke retired from his performing career, it

embodies the difficult tonguing and perfect fingering

Clarke knew was needed by the soloist to bring forth the

phrasing, arpeggios, and intervals as a testimony of that

player’s skills. It has become a rite of passage for many

brass musicians. Consisting of an introduction, theme, two

variations, and a finale, the demands on the soloist never

stop. In the last variation, it sounds like the soloist is

accompanying himself in multiple octaves.

- Program notes courtesy of Foothill Symphonic Winds

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was born in Votkinsk, Vyatka region, Russia.

He played piano since the age of five; he also enjoyed his mother's playing and singing. He was a

sensitive and emotional child, and became deeply traumatized by the death of his mother of

cholera, in 1854. At that time he was sent to a boarding school in St. Petersburg. He graduated

from the St. Petersburg School of Law in 1859, and then worked for three years at the Justice

Department of the Russian Empire. In 1862-1865, he studied music under Anton Rubinstein at the

St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1866-1878, he was a professor of theory and harmony at the

Moscow Conservatory. At that time he met Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz, who visited Russia

with concert tours. During that period, Tchaikovsky wrote his first ballet The Swan Lake, opera

Eugene Onegin, four Symphonies, and the brilliant Piano Concerto No1.

In 1883-1893 Tchaikovsky wrote his best

Symphonies: No.5 and No.6, ballets The Sleeping

Beauty and The Nutcracker, and operas The Queen of

Spades and Iolanta. In 1888-1889, he made a

successful conducting tour of Europe, appearing in

Prague, Leipzig, Hamburg, Paris, and London. In

1891, he went on a two-month tour of America,

where he gave concerts in New York, Baltimore, and

Philadelphia. In May of 1891 Tchaikovsky was the

conductor on the official opening night of Carnegie

Hall in New York. He was a friend of Edvard

Grieg and Antonín Dvorák. In 1892, he heard Gustav

Mahler conducting his opera Eugene Onegin in

Hamburg. Tchaikovsky himself conducted the

premiere of his Symphony No.6 in St. Petersburg,

Russia, on the October 16, 1893. A week later he

died of cholera after having a glass of tap water. He was laid to rest in the Necropolis of Artists at

St. Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg, Russia.

- Biography courtesy of International Movie Database

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Nutcracker Sweets (2010) is an arrangement of Nutcracker Suite for symphonic band and

euphonium solo. The solo part is a virtuosic show of technical and lyrical ability. The solo adds

another layer of excitement and interest while still staying true to the original piece.

Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite is a piece of music that uses selections from his ballet simply

titled The Nutcracker. This suite has become one of Tchaikovsky’s most famous works, and is his

most widely performed piece of music. It has also become a standard part of holiday literature, and

is a favorite for winter concerts. The two movements being performed tonight, Arabian Dance and

Trepak have starkly contrasting styles. The first features a slow, darker melody over a drone-like

accompaniment. The second is significantly more upbeat, and is one of the most instantly

recognizable melodies from the suite.

- Program notes courtesy of Illinois State University

Jan Van der Roost (born 1956) was born in Duffel,

Belgium, in 1956. At a very young age he was introduced to the

prominent names in the concert band, fanfare band, and brass

band repertoire which inspired him to put something on paper

himself. He studied trombone, music history, and musical

education at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven (Louvain). He

continued his studies at the Royal Conservatoires of Ghent and

Antwerp, where he qualified as a conductor and a composer.

Jan Van der Roost currently teaches at the Lemmensinstituut in

Leuven (Belgium), is a guest professor at the Shobi Institute of

Music in Tokyo, guest professor at the Nagoya University of Art,

and guest professor at Senzoku Gakuen in Kawasaki (Japan).

Besides being a prolific composer he is also very much in

demand as an adjudicator, lecturer, holder of clinics and guest

conductor. His musical activities have taken place in more than forty-five countries in four

continents and his compositions have been performed and recorded around the world.

- Biography courtesy of the composer

Canterbury Chorale (1841) is a quiet piece with broad tones originally written for brass band

on request of Robert Leveugle, chairman of the composers own band: Brass Band Midden Brabant

(Belgium). The direct cause was a visit to the beautiful cathedral of the English city Canterbury, in

which so many fine compositions sounded throughout the centuries. Eventually Van der Roost

rescored this piece for symphonic wind band, exploring the full richness of colors of this

formation. Besides solo phrases for several instruments, there are some massive tutti passages

making the wind orchestra sound like a majestic organ. An “ad libitum” organ part adds an extra

richness, color, and power to this piece, making it sound even more broad and grand.

- Program notes courtesy of windliterature.org

Paul Huber (1918-2001) began to compose

music while still a high school student at the Collegium St.

Fidelis in Stans. At that point his career had already been

decided: comprehensive studies at the Zurich Conservatory

were supplemented by tuition in composition with Nadia

Boulanger in Paris in 1947. The young composer was asked

at very short notice to replace the ailing J.B. Hilber who had

been commissioned as the official composer for the Swiss

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Music Festival in 1948. The premier of Huber’s Piece Frau Musica made his name known

throughout Switzerland overnight. Following Frau Musica, he composed over 400 works. Huber

has received numerous prizes and honors for his compositions; for example, he received the

Culture Award of the City of St. Gallen in 1982.

- Biography courtesy of Katrin Dubach

The Demon (1966)

With furtive cunning and shrill impudence, the evil spirit controls the field until the people are

startled by the suppressed intoning of the “Day of Wrath” and are reminded of the last judgement.

However, the evil spirit is not yet beaten and is able to maintain himself through ever new

disguises. A penetrating funeral march affirms once again the gloomy vision of death and justice.

The demonic opponent is stimulated to ever more furious activity, permanently persecuted by the

Dies Irae motive which, by threatening thematic splintering, becomes ever more forcible. The

struggle ends unresolved, concluding with a questioning dissonance.

- Program notes courtesy of the composer

Johann Strauss Sr. (1804-1849) was born on the

March 14, 1804, as the son of an innkeeper. The location of his

father's inn at the Danube Channel and the neighboring harbor

with its rafts and boats from different countries and the music

played by the sailors, influenced Johann Sr. enthusiasm for

popular dance music.

After the death of both parents he began working as an

apprentice for bookbinding in 1816 and started studying the

violin. He got hired for the chapel of Michael Pamer as violin

player but soon Strauss decided to become independent with his

own orchestra. After a longer period of existential and financial

problems he managed his breakthrough. He started to tour

through Europe where he celebrated his popularity and he even

played at the crowning of Queen Victoria in London.

His success was enormous and he became conductor of the first civil regiment, where he

composed the Radetzky Marsch.

- Biography courtesy of aboutvienna.org

Radetzky March (1966)

Johann Strauss Sr. composed Radetsky March in honor of Field Marshal Joseph Radesky von

Radez to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Custoza in 1848 (during the first Italian War of

Independence). Despite its martial background, the music is more celebratory than military and

seems more suited for the dance floor than the battlefield. It consists of an introduction followed

by six musical figures, each of which is repeated and mixed with the next. When the chorus was

first played for the Austrian army, the officers clapped and stomped their feet. This tradition

continues in many venues as audiences clap rhythmically and softly during the first time the

melody is heard, and then thunderously the second time. The Radetzky March may be Johann

Strauss Senior's most enduring legacy

- Program notes courtesy of the Butte Symphony

Dan Dietrich holds both Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Music Education from

Illinois State University. Dan retired in 2010 after thirty-three years of teaching, thirty of which

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he spent as the Director of Bands at Illinois Valley Central High

School of Chillicothe. The IVC Band is well known around the

state of Illinois due to the quality of its well-rounded program and

its numerous appearances at State and National Events. Under his

direction, the Marching Grey Ghosts were Class State Champions

eleven times and placed six times. In 2003, IVC was the first

band in nineteen years to win both its class at the State of Illinois

Marching Band Championship and the coveted Governor’s

Trophy at the University of Illinois Marching Band Festival. IVC

Bands have performed at the Holiday Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Gator

Bowl, Indy 500 Parade and Race, Holland Michigan Tulip

Festival Parade, The Kentucky Derby Parade, the Citrus Bowl

Parade, Mount Rushmore, the National Memorial Day Parade,

Washington DC, and the Hui Ana Parade in Honolulu. The IVC

Band program has had up to three concert units under his

direction. The top Band, the IVC Wind Ensemble, has received only Superior Ratings at State

contests since 1980 and has been asked to perform at Illinois Music Educator’s State Convention,

State PTA, American Legion, and Township Officials Conventions. The IVC Jazz Band One has

consistently placed in the top three at the prestigious “Jazz in the Meadows” festival and was a

finalist in 2008. That same year Jazz I performed at the Illinois Music Educator’s All State

Convention. The Jazz Program has produced several All State musicians over the years, many of

whom have gone on to professional careers.

Dan served on the Illinois High School Association Music Committee and was given a

Distinguished Service Award for his efforts in re-organizing the State's Music Contests. For six

years, Dan was the Assistant to the Director of the IHSA and oversaw all their music related

activities. In 2007, he received Outstanding Music Educator Award from the National Federation

of High School Associations. For seventeen years, he was in charge of logistics and equipment for

the Illinois Music Educators State Convention in Peoria. For that service the IMEA awarded him

its Distinguished Service Award in 2007. He has been a guest conductor, clinician, lecturer at

schools, festivals, and workshops throughout the Midwest. In 1999, School Band and Orchestra

Magazine named Dietrich as one of its “50 Directors that Make a Difference.” In 2003, he

received the “Friend of Youth Award” from the Optimist Club.

Mr. Dietrich is also an active performer. He has been the featured trombone soloist with the

Prairie Wind Ensemble four times. He has performed with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, the

Peoria Opera Orchestra, the Peoria Municipal Band, the Pontiac Municipal Band, Corn Stock

Theater and Peoria Players Theater, Central Illinois Brass Band, the Central Illinois Jazz

Orchestra, and the River Valley Brass Ensemble.

Since retiring, Dan has been active as the low brass instructor for Streator, Normal West,

Washington, and Metamora High Schools, where he has over forty private students. He is an

Assistant Professor of Clinical Experiences at Illinois State University where he observes and

mentors student teachers for the music department and is now conducting the Symphonic Band.

- Biography courtesy of the conductor

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University Band Personnel

Shannon Shaffer & Johannes Krohn, conductors

Flute Kelsey Anello Kaity Bricker

Anamarija Dimevska Larisa Falconer Mary Gerbatsch Marissa Hartke

Makenzie Heinen Malea Holm

Jesenia Kolimas Anna Krecklow Hannah Maack Maggie Miller

Amanda Rodriguez Angela Taylor

Jessica Thurman Anna Yakey

Oboe

Margaret Bourdon Ye Jin Jang

Bassoon

Brandon Johnson Ashley Peterson

Jessica Sorg

Clarinet Alyssa Arkin

Rebecca Behrendt Jack Blahnik

Katherine Cosenza Bailey Craig

Melissa Fowler Miranda Hilliard Collin Marcum

Maddie McDonald MaLana McCloud

Juan Moon Ellie Phillis

Tiara Redmond Edward Sulaitis Terri Thomas

Bass Clarinet

Kyle Abel Andrew Hinderliter

Saxophone Delaney Brummel

Jeffrey Burke Bill Darrow

Catalina Hernandez Noelle Ortega Michael Rickey Jennifer Roesler

Scott Stewart Andrew Stouffer-Lerch

Horn

Amanda England William Felgenhauer

Erin Jessup

Trumpet Liam Farrell

Samuel Foster Ricky King

Elizabeth Kraus Jamie Rago

Grace Steinke

Trombone Hailee Brauer Tyler Dietz

Hannah Lehmann Scott Piekarski Robert Skogh Tom Sturino Billy Wright

Euphonium Darius Echols Ryan Guerin Jacob Veyette

Tuba

Nick Klecki Faith Potetti

Percussion

Benjamin Dahms Nicole Gregor Andrew Kenny Mitch Martin

Kimberly Nicholson Antonio Rodriquez Ethan Stoneburner

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Symphonic Band Personnel

Dan Dietrich, conductor

Flute

Brennon Best Ivette Enriquez Anna Howell Melissa Fulkes Sarah Lange

Amelia O’Donnell Jonathan Popper

Sarah Rasmussen* Ryan Starkey

McKayla Scroggins Clare Takash

Meghan Wilson

Oboe Alyssa Dees

Colleen Horne

Bassoon Courtney Baltzer

Emma Scalf

Clarinet Lydia Armour

Lauren Crumble* Madison Klintworth

Caitlin Massey Nathaniel Reginald

Andrea Ruiz Terri Thomas

Bass Clarinet

Sam Green

Saxophone Matthew Garbin* Katelyn Luckett

Ben Long Andrea McAfee

Tony Raff

Horn Katie Battista*

Rebecca Hartmann Laura Tam

Kristin Wooldridge

Trumpet

Amy Caulk Tom Gloodt* Nessa Guerra

Timothy Linden Ben Mussell

Robin Olmsted Noah White

Abbey Wolski

Trombone Emma Benjamin

Darius Echols Emanuel Guzman*

Elias Karris Andrew Thul

Bass Trombone Stephen Dupré Eric Gilardon

Raahmedd Williams

Euphonium Giovanni Avila Matthew Fink Greg Watson*

Tuba

Andrew Bilgri* Jeffrey Humphrey

Michael Mayer Jim Wellwood

Percussion

Ryan Brennan Matt Cowsert Laura Hanson Jakob Kocanda

Alejandra Martinez-Aviles Anh Nguyen

Sam Price Daniel Rehm Isaac Soares

Chuck Willard*

Acknowledging the important contributions of all ensemble members, this list is in alphabetical order.

*Denotes Section Leader

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