butler university showcase concert

Jordan College of the Arts | Butler University | 4600 Sunset Ave | Indianapolis, IN | 46208

BUTLER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC presents

BUTLER UNIVERSITY SHOWCASE CONCERT

Featuring

JAZZ ENSEMBLE Matt Pivec, director

PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Jon Crabiel, director

CHORALE Eric Stark, conductor

Sunday, September 26, 2021 3:00 P.M.

Schrott Center for the Arts

The third program of the Butler University School of Music 2021-22 season


PROGRAM

JAZZ ENSEMBLE

The Deacon Thad Jones (1923-1986)

Bella Meier, piano Quintin Danzi, guitar

Xavier Robertson, tenor saxophone Timio Harris, trombone

JAZZ ENSEMBLE and PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

Brother Ray Michael Phillip Mossman (b. 1959)

Olander Porter, trombone Preston Fox, guitar

Papiro

Michael Phillip Mossman Mitchell Remington, trumpet

James Howard, alto saxophone

PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

Cou Cou Traditional West African drumming from Guinea

Losa

Eric Sammut (b. 1968) Matthew Brush, cajon

Robby Buetow, marimba Mike Ellis, vibraphone

Time Is Relative

Ivan Trevino (b. 1983)

CHORALE

Sanctus from MASS

Frank Martin (1890-1974) Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus deus Sabaoth.


Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth

My Feet are Tired But My Soul is Resting

Francis Smith Thomas Arr. Shawn Kirchner © 1957

In Time of Silver Rain

Rollo Dilworth Luke Barath, solo

Water Fountain

Merrill Garbus David Richards, electric bass Mia Chahmirzadi, percussion

Robby Buetow, percussion

BUTLER UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE Matt Pivec, director

Saxophones Alto Saxophone 1: James Howard Alto Saxophone 2: Mia Traverse Tenor Saxophone 1: Xavier Robertson Tenor Saxophone 2: Megan Dudenhoeffer Baritone Saxophone: Sabin Martinez Trombones Trombone 1: Olander Porter Trombone 2: Timio Harris Trombone 3: Luke Ische

Trumpets Trumpet 1: Nate Peck Trumpet 2: Mitchell Remington Trumpet 3: Ashton Roman Trumpet 4: Vanessa Walker Rhythm Drums: Joseph Alsatie, Jonathan Padgett Bass: David Richards, Van Barnes Guitar: Preston Fox, Quintin Danzi Piano: Bella Meier

BUTLER UNIVERSITY PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Jon Crabiel, director

Christian Beachum Matthew Brush Robby Buetow Mia Chahmirzadi Maddie Darr Mike Ellis Caleb Jansen Alyssa Kuphal Bennett Lang

JT Langdon Fox Lopez CJ McConnell Jonathan Padgett John Qualkenbush Emma Richards Ella Sailer Patrick Thordsen Juliana Zlatniski


BUTLER UNIVERSITY CHORALE

Eric Stark, conductor Alejandro Reyna, assistant conductor

Douglas Perez, accompanist Soprano Elizabeth Bocksenbaum Madeleine Brandenburg Jana Dinkeloo Kate Fehan Brooke Heitman Emma Hubeny Shayna Johnson Marianne Marten Sophie Strasheim Alto Isabelle Calkins Emma Eyrich Kelly Kirk Hannah Knickrehm Bella Marquez Lauren Tooley

Tenor Luke Barath Shawn Lopez Griffin McPhail Sam Reichenbach Alejandro Reyna Ethan Schopp Bass Charles Allen Jason Freer Dylan Lewis Hayden Marshall Ashton McKenzie Spencer Michaels Tim Reed Joey Van Hooser

BIOS

MATT PIVEC As a performer of jazz and popular music, Matt Pivec has worked with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, Dave Rivello, Bob Brookmeyer, Peter Erskine, Maria Schneider, Julia Dollison, Melvin Rhyne, the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Pops Orchestra, and the national touring companies of Hairspray, 42nd Street, and The Producers. As a band leader and soloist, Matt has performed at jazz festivals and venues throughout the United States. He has three albums to his credit: Live at Snider Hall, Psalm Songs, and the recently released Time and Direction. Currently, Matt is the Director of Jazz Studies at Butler University where he leads the Jazz Ensemble and teaches courses in the jazz studies curriculum. Under his direction, the Butler University Jazz Ensemble was named the winner of the 2020 Downbeat Student Music Awards Undergraduate Large Ensemble category. Butler ensembles have performed with world-renowned guest artists such as Benny Golson, Stefon Harris, Maria Schneider, Kurt Elling, Christian McBride, Bobby Sanabria, Donny McCaslin, Fred Sturm, Melvin Rhyne, Steve Allee, Ted Poor, and the Wee Trio. Matt received the Doctor of Musical Arts (Saxophone Performance and Literature) and Master of Music (Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media) degrees from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. While at Eastman, Matt studied with Ramon Ricker. He performed with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Eastman Graduate Saxophone Quartet, and served as lead alto saxophone of the Eastman Jazz Ensemble. Matt received the Bachelor of Music Education degree with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Matt has presented educational clinics and research at the Jazz Education Network Conference, the International Association for Jazz Education Conference, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and the Indiana Music Educators Association Conference. His publications have been featured in


Teaching Music, InForm, Jazzed, www.musicforall.org and www.jazzradio247.com. Matt is a member of the national music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda, and in 2013, he received the Mortar Board, Excellence in Teaching Award from the Jordan College of the Arts. In 2021, Matt received the Outstanding Collegiate Educator Award from the Indiana Music Education Association. Aside from his teaching at Butler University, Matt is also a founding/past president of the Indiana Jazz Education Association and founder/Artistic Director for the Butler Youth Jazz Program and Butler Summer Jazz Camp. From these programs, students have progressed to study at some of the top music conservatories and colleges in the United States.

JON CRABIEL Jon Crabiel is Percussion Artist-in-Residence at Butler University Jordan College of the Arts in Indianapolis, IN. At Butler University, Jon serves as coordinator of percussion studies, conducts the percussion ensembles, and teaches courses in percussion literature, pedagogy, and world drumming. In addition, Jon serves as director and founder of the Butler Percussion Camp held every June at Butler University. In 2017, Jon took a one-year leave of absence from Butler to perform and serve as Acting Assistant Principal Timpani and Percussion with the National Symphony Orchestra for the 2017-18 season in Washington, D.C. Jon is first-call extra percussion with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, Empire Brass, Ronen Chamber Ensemble, Dance Kaleidoscope, and national Broadway tour companies. He has served as Principal Timpani at the Bear Valley Music Festival and toured with the River City Brass Band. In addition to classical music, Jon is equally versed in rock, pop, jazz, Latin American and Brazilian percussion, and drumset. He is a member of The Icarus Ensemble, an eclectic five-piece jazz group made up of members of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The Icarus Ensemble has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in concert as guest artists at the Hilbert Circle Theatre and released their first self-titled CD The Icarus Ensemble in 2015. Jon studied as an Artist Diploma candidate at Carnegie Mellon University and received both his Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts degrees from Eastern Illinois University. His past teachers include Timothy Adams Jr., Professor Johnny Lee Lane, and Richard Paul. In 2014, Jon received the Outstanding Graduate Alumni Award from Eastern Illinois University. An active performer, clinician, and educator throughout the Midwest, Jon serves annually as percussion coach of the Honor Orchestra of America and masterclass clinician for the Music For All National Concert Festival. He has served on the faculties of the United States Percussion Camp, MidWest Percussion Camp, Las Vegas Percussion Camp, Great Lakes Music Camp, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. He has presented clinics for the Percussive Arts Society, Indiana Music Educators Association, and Indiana Percussion Association. Jon is an active and in-demand studio musician for commercial recording sessions and has had solo performances with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (with The Icarus Ensemble), Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Midwest Band and Orchestra International Conference, and the Indiana Music Educators Association Convention. Jon's students have received numerous Butler University Concerto Competition honors and awards, and his former students are currently performing with major symphony orchestras, touring nationally and internationally with Broadway shows, and teaching at universities throughout North America. Jon is a Yamaha Performing Artist and endorses Yamaha Drums and Percussion, Vic Firth Drumsticks and Mallets, Remo Drumheads, and Zildjian Cymbals.

ERIC STARK

In a dynamic career that combines performance, scholarship, and collaborative leadership, conductor Eric Stark has established himself as a choral-orchestral specialist. Stark has led performances of the Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts, Britten’s War Requiem and Saint Nicolas, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bach’s Mass in B minor, the Weihnachts-Oratorium and numerous cantatas, Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Zipoli’s Te Deum,


Beethoven’s Mass in C, Mozart’s “Coronation” Mass and Requiem, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, the Poulenc Gloria, Fauré’s Requiem, and Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna. He has prepared choruses for such notable conductors as Nicholas McGegan, Raymond Leppard, Jahja Ling, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Mario Venzago, Carl St. Clair, Erich Kunzel, Krzysztof Urbanski, and Jack Everly. His choruses are heard on multiple compact discs, including A Festival of Carols with Sylvia McNair (Naxos, 2019); the world premiere recording of Fairouz's Zabur (Naxos, 2016); Festival of Carols Vol I (2014); Mendelssohn’s Elijah (2011); From East to West (2005), a holiday compilation with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir; The Harmonies of Hoosier History (2001), featuring works by Indiana composers performed by the Indianapolis Arts Chorale; and A Festival of Carols (1997) with the Muncie, IN Masterworks Chorale. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2019, Stark was invited to teach and conduct at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and the Pontifical Catholic University in Porto Alegre (Brazil). Stark’s work as artistic collaborator and community leader has been both broad and unique. Under his leadership, his choirs have performed with such groups as the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Dance Kaleidoscope, Indiana Repertory Theater, Indianapolis Children’s Choir, American Pianists Association, Jordan College Academy of Dance, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Clowes Memorial Hall, Orquesta Sinfonica Juvenil de Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), and Butler University. He has conducted in the Oriental Art Center Concert Hall in Shanghai, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Strathmore Hall in Bethesda, MD, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall, and the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. He has made conducting appearances in Greece, Italy, China, Hong Kong, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay, and has led choirs on domestic tours in New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, New Orleans, Orlando, and Tampa. In 2012, Stark served as chorus master for the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, featuring Madonna, Cee Lo Green, Nicki Minaj, and LMFAO. He was honored with a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis in 2005. A firm believer in the power of music to connect diverse audiences and enrich lives, Stark has led a revitalized program of innovative educational outreach programs since joining the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir in 2002. In-Choir-ing Minds is an interactive discussion/performance featuring engaging dialog interspersed with live musical examples. Hallelujah—What’s It to Ya?! is a light-hearted musical inspection of the greatest musical work of all time, Handel’s “Hallelujah” chorus. The in-depth Choral Colloquium focuses on the contextual issues surrounding the great works for chorus and orchestra, and has featured such notable participants as composers Morten Lauridsen and Kyle Gann; scholar/performers Vance George, John Shirley-Quirk, Nick Strimple, Byron Adams, and R. Larry Todd; and theologians Richard Hamilton and Frank Burch Brown. Stark serves as Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music of the School of Music at Butler University’s Jordan College of the Arts. There he leads the graduate program in choral conducting, conducts the Butler Chorale, and teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and choral literature. His former conducting students have received appointments at leading choral positions around the United States, including Stetson University, Hollins University, Purdue University, Princeton University, San Francisco Girls Chorus, Los Angeles Opera, Transylvania University, Fort Wayne Children’s Chorus, and the University of Wisconsin. In 2003 and 2009 he taught a Butler University honors course he designed, Putting Wings on Dreams—the First 100 Years of Powered Flight, using the dramatic stories of aviation pioneers as case studies in human determination and innovation. He has served on the faculties of Christian Theological Seminary, Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne, and Earlham College. He received the doctoral degree in choral conducting from Indiana University, where he was a student of Jan Harrington, Robert Porco, and Thomas Dunn. He is a 2014 Sagamore of the Wabash, the state of Indiana's highest civilian honor. A 1988 graduate of Wabash College, he is also a volunteer pilot for Angel Flight, a non-profit network of pilots providing free air transportation for those with medical needs.


JCA LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT STATEMENT

We acknowledge that we gather here at Butler University on the traditional land of indigenous peoples including the Potawatomi, Miami, Delaware, and Shawnee. We honor with gratitude the land itself and the

indigenous peoples past and present who have stewarded it throughout the generations. This calls us to commit to continuing to learn how to be better stewards of the land we inhabit, while also acknowledging

that some were brought to this land not by choice.

The Butler University School of Music is proud to acknowledge Meridian Piano Movers

as a corporate sponsor of our programs.

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