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The International
Euphonium Institute Sponsored by the Yamaha Corporation of America
June 12-18, 2005 Atlanta, Georgia Emory University
Sponsored by The Euphonium Foundation, Inc.
Emory University The Woodwind and the Brasswind
Willson Band Instruments The Georgia Brass Band
Carere Music Georgia Council for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
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Welcome to The International Euphonium Institute!! I am so excited to have the opportunity to organize, teach, and perform at this outstanding camp again. This year we have a record number of participants and that growth only stimulates me to think of greater things for our instru-ment! With the addition of the New Works recital and Composer in Residence, I hope to create a sense of tradition and strength for this week long “slice of euphonium heaven” as well as continue to develop quality repertoire. My thanks to my two exceptional helpers of Karen Mullins and Ryan Black!! I look forward to sharing, fun and enjoyment and hope it serves as a massive source of inspiration for all the participants, guest artists, and audiences as it does for me.
Adam Frey
Director, The International Euphonium Institute http://www.euphonium.com Welcome to Emory University! We are pleased to welcome the second annual International Euphonium Insti-tute to our campus! We are proud to host a gathering of such high-caliber teachers and highly-motivated student participants. The goals of musicianship, intellectual stimulation, and reflection align themselves with Emory's academic mission, while simultaneously promoting high-quality artistic and aesthetic ideals and warm fellowship. Please visit Emory often, and especially enjoy the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. This facility truly reflects Emory’s sup-port and sharing of the arts.
You have my very best wishes for a successful and motivating institute! Dr. Scott Stewart Director of Wind Studies, Emory University http://www.emory.edu/MUSIC/
Table of Contents
Schedule and Programs for Weekly Concert Events 4 Biographies of Featured Artists and Guest Artists 12 Daily Schedule of Educational Activities at the IEI 29
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Schedule of Concerts
Please note all concerts will take place at the Performing Arts Studio at Emory University, 1804 North Decatur Road unless otherwise noted.
Sunday, June 12 - 7:30 PM Featured Artist Recital - Thomas Rüedi Monday, June 13 - 7:30 PM Featured Artist Recital - Adam Frey Guest Artists - Kevin Lyons and Dr. Thomas Gibson Tuesday, June 14 - 7:30 PM The New Works Recital featuring all World Premieres Guest Artist - Dr. Ruthie Colegrove Wednesday, June 15 - 6:30 PM Alpharetta First United Methodist Church Alpharetta, Georgia Thursday, June 16 - 7:30 PM Guest Artist Recital - Mark Jenkins and Marcus Dickman Friday, June 17 - 3:30 PM IEI Participants Solo and Chamber Recital #1 Friday, June 17 - 6:00 PM IEI Participants Solo and Chamber Recital #2 Saturday, June 18 - 3:00 PM IEI Participants Solo and Chamber Recital #3 Saturday, June 18 - 7:30 PM Gala Concert featuring The Georgia Brass Band Artists - Thomas Rüedi, Adam Frey, and Mark Jenkins The International Euphonium Institute Mass Ensemble
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Sunday, June 12 - 7:30 PM
International Artist Recital Thomas Rüedi, Euphonium
Caryl Conger, Piano Performing Arts Studio, Emory University
Aria Georg F. Händel from Dettingen Te Deum Sonate for Arpeggione Franz Schubert I. Allegro Moderato Madrigal Enrique Granados Variations on a theme by Rossini Bohuslav Martinu Prayer Ernest Bloch Banjo and Fiddle William Kroll
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Monday, June 13 - 7:30 PM
Featured Artist Recital Adam Frey, Euphonium
Caryl Conger, Piano Performing Arts Studio, Emory University
Concert Prelude Derek Bourgeois World Premiere
Travel Impressions François Glorieux Copacabana Pigalle New Orleans Andalusia
Dr. Thomas Gibson, Trombone American Premiere
The Last Rose of Summer Benjamin Britten Euphonium Concertino Kevin Kaska
World Premiere
— Intermission —
Duett Concertino Rolf Wilhelm Allegro con bio Andante Allegro Moderato
Kevin Lyons, Trumpet American Premiere
Lenski’s Aria Pyotr Tchaikovsky from Eugene Onegin Rule Britannia John Hartman
arr. Frey
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Tuesday, June 14 - 7:30 PM
The New Works Recital Performing Arts Studio, Emory University
Caryl Conger and Magdalena Shumanova, Piano
Romanza de Dulcinea Thomas Brice Martin Cochran, Euphonium
Dreams of a Starry Night Kenneth Friedrich
Robert Pendergast, Euphonium Conversations Barbara York Allegro energico Andante sostenuto Allegro
Adam Frey, Euphonium & Dr. Ruthie Colegrove, Saxophone Groovin’ Robert Pendergrass
Ryan Black, Euphonium Romanze Noah D. Taylor
Patrick Stuckemeyer, Euphonium The Rhetorical Question David Dover
Adam Frey, Euphonium Two Songs Mark Carlson
Carl Berdahl, Euphonium Prayer Kenneth Friedrich
Chris Buckley, Euphonium Harmolodics Ian Power
Phil Giampietro, Euphonium After Alice Jacob Fitzpatrick
Mike Vallez, Euphonium Can You Love Again Kenneth Friedrich
Donald Bruce, Euphonium Concerto for Euphonium Allen Feinstein Zeus Eclipse The Realm of Possibilities
Jamie Lipton, Euphonium
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Thursday, June 16 - 7:30 PM
Guest Artist Recital - Mark Jenkins and Marc Dickman Performing Arts Studio, Emory University
Mark Jenkins, Euphonium Caryl Conger, Piano
Faustbuch Elizabeth Raum I. Faust and Mephistopheles II. Faust and Gretchen III. Walpurgis, Death and Redemption
Pearls Roland Szentpali I. Ducati SPS 916 II. My one and only love III. Susi
The Windows Open to the Ocean Jiro Censhu Thomas Rüedi, Euphonium
Vallflickans Dans Hugo Alvin
— Intermission —
Marc Dickman, Euphonium Kevin Bales, Piano - Scott Smith, Bass - Justin Varnes, Drums
Tunes to be selected from:
In A Mello Tone Duke Ellington Scrapple from the Apple Charlie Parker IEI Blues Marc Dickman I'll Remember You Schertzinger/Mercer Cottontail Duke Ellington Lester Leaps In Lester Young Gregory Is Here Horace Silver
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Saturday, June 18 - 7:30 PM
Gala Concert featuring The IEI Euphonium Ensembles and
The Georgia Brass Band Performing Arts Studio, Emory University
The IEI Euphonium Ensembles Program to be introduced from the stage
— Intermission —
The Georgia Brass Band Joe Johnson, Conductor
Summon the Heroes John Williams Timepiece Norman Bearcroft
John Caputo & Betsy Jones, Euphoniums
Euphonium Concerto No. 1, Opus 64 John Golland Cadenza - Allegro Andante Tranquillo Allegro
Adam Frey, Euphonium
Ave Verum Corpus W.A. Mozart arr. Jakeway Peace John Golland
Thomas Rüedi, Euphonium
Deep Inside the Sacred Temple Georges Bizet Thomas Rüedi, Euphonium Mark Jenkins, Euphonium
Alpine Variations Bertrand Moren
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The Euphonium Foundation, Inc.
The focus of the Euphonium Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3), involves providing more focused promotion of the euphonium through concerts, scholarships, grants, and workshops specifically targeted to promote the instrument as a performance medium and further inspire and embolden young players to enhance their skills and goals as euphonium players. Inquiries and tax-deductible donations may be sent to: The Euphonium Foundation, 7230 Cloverhurst Court, Cumming GA 30041.
Euphonium.com
http://www.euphonium.com
Specialty Euphonium Publisher and Distributor of Sheet Music and Recordings
Euphonium Concerto Vladimir Cosma Fantasy Variations Yasuhide Ito Fantaisie Originale Ermano Picchi Sonata in F Major Benedetto Marcello/ ed. Frey Elégie in C Minor Gabriel Fauré / ed. Frey Nessun Dorma Giacomo Puccini/ ed. Frey Vocalise Sergei Rachmaninov/ ed. Frey Sonata in C Major J. F. Fasch/ ed. Frey and Randolph Gaelic Sonata Duncan MacMillan Russian Sailors' Dance R. Glière/arr. Weaver/ed. Randolph Concerto in C Minor G.F. Teleman/arr.Christoph Müeller The Four Seasons Suite for Euphonium Trio Yukiko Isomura The Spring Suite for Euphonium, Violin, and Piano Yukiko Isomura
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Featured Artist
Thomas Rüedi was born in 1969 in Oberwil, near Berne, Switzer-land and began playing the eu-phonium at the age of 11. His earliest experiences as a player were with local brass bands, in-cluding Brass Band Mühledorf, with whom he was awarded the solo prize at the 'Swiss Enter-tainment Contest' in 1990. In the same year, he won first prize for euphonium at the Swiss Solo and Quartet Championships. Thomas Rüedi studied in Eng-land between 1991 and 1995, following courses in conducting, composition, arranging and eu-phonium with Peter Parkes, Dar-rol Barry, Phillip McCann and David Moore. He held the position of solo euphonium with Sellers Engineering Band and also appeared in concerts with Brighouse and Rastrick Band and Grimethorpe Colliery Band. In 1992, with Sellers, he achieved the title of Solo Champion at the Swiss Open Contest in Berne. Back in Switzerland, Thomas Rüedi was appointed musical director of Brassband Bürgermusik Luzern (1995-2002) and Seeland Brass (1997 to date). He is euphonium and chamber music tutor at the “Musikhochschule Luzern” and “Hochschule der Künste Bern.” He is also active as an arranger, having a particular interest in the enrichment of the euphonium repertoire.
Thomas Rüedi has performed as soloist throughout Europe, and toured Japan in 2003. In 1999 he was awarded first prize at the European Solo Championships for brass players in Munich. The following year he rec-orded his highly regarded solo CD “Elégie.” Current projects include appearances with the “Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich”, the Zurich Opera House Orchestra and a concert series with the newly formed duo “Synthesis”, in which Thomas Rüedi performs alongside Marimba-phone virtuoso Raphael Christen.
Mr. Rüedi is a Yamaha Performing Artist.
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Featured Artist
Adam Frey has traveled the world per-forming more than 60 concerts and mas-ter classes annually since 2001 with his euphonium bringing his sharp intellect, mature musicianship, and charismatic stage presence to audiences all over the world. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Adam began his musical studies at the University of Georgia in 1993 under Dr. David Randolph and earned a Bachelor of Music magna cum laude with High Honors. Adam later completed a Master of Music with Distinction and a Profes-sional Performance Diploma with Dis-
tinction from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England . With concerts in Europe, America, and Austral-Asia, Adam’s performances are varied and diverse appearing with orchestras, wind bands, brass bands, and as a solo recitalist. Some orchestral ensembles have included the Boston Pops, At-lanta, Greensboro, Cheju (South Korea), and Vaasa (Finland) Symphony Or-chestras. Brass band concerts have mainly been concentrated in Europe per-forming with groups such as the National Youth Brass Band of Switzerland and Soli Brass (Holland). Wind band solo appearances have included the Guardians Band (Finland), Bavarian State Police Band (Germany), the Hong Kong Young Musicians Wind Orchestra (China), and numerous American university ensem-bles. He also appears at concert series and music festivals regularly including the Brevard Music Center, the Macau (China) Wind Festival and the Cheju (South Korea) Summer Band Festival to name a few. His recordings include: Listen to THIS!!, featuring the euphonium and piano; Collected Dreams, a wonderful collection of traditional melodies that combines the lush sound of the euphonium with synthesizer accompaniments; and, Little Buckaroos, with Scott Hartman and the Metropolitan Wind Symphony of Bos-ton was released in Spring 2005 and a recording with the New Zealand Sym-phony Orchestra will be available in Spring 2006. His website, www.euphonium.com, contain more information, sound files, per-formance schedules, photos from his world travels, and his publications.
Mr. Frey is a Yamaha Performing Artist.
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Guest Artist
Caryl Conger, Resident Pianist and Accompanist
Pianist, Caryl Worthington Conger, continues her passion of mu-sical collaboration, performing regularly with wind and brass art-ists in recitals and conferences throughout the U. S. and abroad including the annual U.S. Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Confer-ences and the recent ITEA conferences in Finland and Greensbo-ro. Her special niche of interest has been her collaboration with tuba and euphonium artists including tubists, Daniel Perantoni, Patrick Sheridan, Roger Bobo, and Harvey Phillips, and euphoni-umists, Steve Mead, Adam Frey, Roger Behrend, and Brian Bow-man.
As a gift to the low brass repertoire she commissioned “Fantasy” by Daniel Crozier for tuba and piano and recorded it with Daniel Perantoni. Caryl attended the University of Kentucky, where she studied piano with Nathaniel Patch, and also the Cincinnati Col-lege- Conservatory of Music. In the spring of 2003 she retired from the music faculty of Radford University where she was Di-rector of Accompanying and Director of the Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Piano Competition & Festival. She now lives in the mountains outside Estes Park, Colorado.
Caryl’s other musical interests include 4-hand piano and 2 pi-ano repertoire, the art song rep-ertoire, and new solo and cham-ber music.
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Guest Artist
Magdalena Shumanova, Pianist and Accompanist
Magdalena Shumanova was born in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria and started playing piano at the age of 4. She attended school at the Secondary Music School "Dobrin Petkov" in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and was awarded the Special Faculty Award for Ac-ademic and Performance Ex-cellence as well as soloing with the City Philharmonic Orchestra of Plov-div playing Saint-Saens' 2nd Concerto for Piano and Or-chestra. While attending
school there, she studied with Julia Girginova and Svetlana Kos-seva and received her diploma in Piano performance and for sec-ondary specialized education in music and art in 2002. She entered the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida in 2003 and received a full music scholarship and the Tallahassee Music Guild Scholarship in 2002. She is currently studying with Dr. Carolyn Bridger and seeking a Bachelor's of Music in Piano Performance that will be completed in 2007. Ms. Shumanova has competed in many competitions during her studies including: The Mount Dora and MTNA Young Artist Competitions in Florida. Besides competing here in the U.S., she has also competed in Bulgaria in the following competitions: The National Competition for German and Austrian Composers, the First National Competition for Contemporary American Music, the Sixth National Competition for Chech and Slovak Music (honorable mention) and the First International Piano Competi-tion "Zeichler" (finalist).
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Guest Artist Staff Sergeant Mark Jenkins, The US Marine Band
Euphonium player Mark W. Jenkins of Las Vegas, N.V., joined “The Presi-dent’s Own” United States Marine Band in July 2002.
Staff Sergeant Jenkins began his musi-cal instruction at age 11. He graduated in 1996 from Durango High School in Las Vegas and continued his education at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, where he studied eu-phonium performance under Dr. Brian Bowman.
Prior to joining “The President’s Own,” SSgt Jenkins was a two-time winner of the Leonard Falcone Interna-
tional Euphonium Competition, and a finalist in the 2001 ITEC Euphonium Solo Competition, Finland. SSgt Jenkins performs with the Marine Band and Marine Chamber Ensembles at the White House, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, and across the country during the band’s annual concert tour.
SSgt Jenkins, son of Jeanie and Kim Jenkins of Las Vegas, cur-rently resides in Centreville, Va., with his wife, Agatha.
The Marine Band is America’s oldest professional musical organ-ization. Founded in 1798, the band has performed for every U.S. President since John Adams. Given the title “The President’s Own” by Thomas Jefferson, the Marine Band’s primary mission is to provide music for the President of the United States.
Mr. Jenkins is a Willson Performing Artist.
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Guest Artist
Marcus Dickman, University of North Florida Dr. Dickman is Associate Professor of jazz studies and low brass at the University of North Florida where he also conducts Jazz Ensemble and tuba/euphonium choir. His versatility on euphoni-um, trombone, bass-trombone, and tuba in the classical and jazz styles places him in much demand in the Southeastern United States. Dr. Dickman won the Artist's Division of the International Leonard Falcone Competition in 1990. He is principal euphonium with the St. John's River City Band, and trombonist with the Riv-er City Swing Orchestra. He performed on bass-trombone with the legendary One O'clock Lab Band while attending the Univer-sity of North Texas.
Dr. Dickman was a featured jazz euphonium artist at the 2000 International Tuba Euphonium Confer-ence in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, the 2001 ITEC in Lahti, Finland and the 2002 ITEC in Greenville, NC. Dr. Dick-man frequently appears as a soloist and clinician and in January of 2002 he con-ducted the Florida All-State Jazz Ensem-ble. Dr. Dickman is a founding member of the groundbreaking jazz ensemble, the Modern Jazz Tuba Project. The MJT Pro-ject has two critically acclaimed releases; Live From the Bottom Line, and Favorite Things. He is featured with the Swamp Dog Jazz Band on Home and Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now. Dr. Dickman earned degrees from Troy State University, McNeese State University, and the University of North Texas.
Dr. Marc Dickman is a Yamaha Performing Artist.
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Guest Artist
Dr. Robert Ambrose, Georgia State University
Robert J. Ambrose is Director of Bands, Assis-tant Professor of Music and Division Head of Performance Studies at Georgia State Universi-ty where he conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band and University Chamber Winds, oversees the Panther Basket-ball Band, and coordinates the Master of Music in Wind Band Conducting degree program. In addition, he teaches courses in graduate and undergraduate conducting. Prior to this appoint-ment he held conducting positions at the Chica-go College of Performing Arts and Boston Col-lege. He also served for five years as Director of Instrumental Music in the public schools of Norwood and Monson, Massachusetts. Dr. Ambrose received the Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science with a concentration in music from Boston College, the Master of Music degree in music education from Boston University and the Doctor of Music degree in conducting at Northwestern University. While in residency at Northwestern, he served as a graduate assistant conductor of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and conductor of the University Concert Band. His principal conducting teachers have been Mallory Thompson, Frank Battisti and Eric Rombach-Kendall. In addition, he has attended classes with Seiji Ozawa, Robert Spano and Andre Previn at the Tanglewood Music Center. A guitarist by trade Dr. Ambrose has performed in dozens of jazz ensembles, combos, rock bands and pit orchestras in Boston and Chicago. His rock band "Hoochie Suit,” formed with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, received rave reviews throughout the Chicago area and has performed for such distinguished guests as Yo-Yo Ma, Larry Combs and Daniel Barenboim. Dr. Ambrose is a member of Phi Delta Kappa, the College Band Directors National Association, the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles, the Music Educators National Conference and the Georgia Music Educators Association and has served on the Executive Board of the Massa-chusetts Instrumental Conductors Association. In addition, he has been awarded the National Band Association Citation of Excellence.
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Guest Artist
Sy Brandon, Composer in Residence
Dr. Sy Brandon (b. 1945 in New York, NY) holds the rank of professor emer-itus of music from Millersville University, Millersville, PA where he taught low brass, composition, orchestration, music history, electronic music, and music industry for twenty four years. He received his B.S. and M.S. in music education from Ithaca College and his A. mus. D. in composition from the University of Arizona. His composition teachers have been Warren Benson, Elie Siegmeister, and Robert McBride. Dr. Brandon has received numerous prizes for his compositions including first prizes in Kappa Gamma Psi Original Composition Contest (1963), WITF-FM Classical Composition Contest (1996), Tuba Universal Brotherhood Associa-tion Tuba Etude Composition Contest (1996), El Dorado Sacred Music Com-position Contest (2000), Franklin and Marshall College Wind Ensemble Com-position Contest (2001), and New England String Ensemble Competition (2003). He received honorable mentions in the Roth NSOA Composition Con-test (1969), NACWPI Composition Contest (1973 and 1976), International Trombone Association Contest (1974 and 1985), Symposium III for New Band Music (1977), Bucks County Symphony Society Contest (1983), Tuba Univer-sal Brotherhood Association Euphonium Etudes Composition Contest (1995), Diana S. Barnhart American Song Composition Contest (1998), New England String Ensemble Composition Contest (2000), Delius Composition Competi-tion (2000), and Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest (2000). Dr. Brandon has received over twenty commissions for his music from the Boise Philharmonic, York Symphony Orchestra, the Twentieth Moravian Mu-sic Festival, and numerous professional musicians and school music organiza-tions. In December 2001, his "Olympic Prelude" was selected as the competi-tion piece for the 11th Annual Australian Flute Festival Flute Choir Competi-tion. He has been a recipient of an ASCAP Special Award annually since 1998. His music has been recorded by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra on the Albany Records Label, the Philharmonia Bulgarica on the ERM Label, Emeritus Recordings, the Contemporary Record Society, Trutone Records and by the Swiss Duo Delimme on the Arizona University Label. His music is pub-lished by Warner/Chappell Music, T.U.B.A. Manuscript Press, Trombone As-sociation Publishing, Theodore Presser Co. and Co-Op Press. Dr. Brandon's music has been performed both throughout the United States and abroad in-cluding performances by the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force Bands and on National Public Radio’s Performance Today. For more information about Sy Brandon, please visit: http://cooppress.hostrack.net/
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Guest Artist
Dr. Ruthie Colegrove, Wesleyan School
Dr. Ruthie Colegrove, D.M.A Saxophone Performance, University of Georgia (2001); Master of Music, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1998); Bachelor of Music, University of Georgia (1996), is currently on Faculty at Wesleyan School in Norcross where she directs the Middle School Band. Colegrove has served as on the faculty of Georgia College and State University and Toccoa Falls College as Woodwind Instructor. She has been a guest performer, clinician, adjudi-cator, and woodwind instructor all around the Southeast. Colegrove has appeared as soloist, quartet member, and lecturer at several regional and national NASA conferences. In 2000, the Georgia Saxophone Quartet took Runner-Up in the Music Teachers National Association Competi-tion. Colegrove has also performed as soloist and with the Georgia Sax-ophone Quartet at the 2000 World Saxophone Congress in Montreal, Canada. She currently resides in Duluth, Georgia with her husband John Colegrove.
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Guest Artist
Allen Crowell, University of Georgia
Professor Allen Crowell is the Mildred Goodrum Heyward Professor of Choral Music and Direc-tor of Choral Studies at the University of Geor-gia where he conducts the Concert Choir and the Men's Glee Club, as well as teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting. Prior to coming to this position in the fall of 1999, he taught and conducted at Westminster Choir College of Rid-er University in Princeton, New Jersey for twen-ty years.
A native of Mobile, Alabama, he studied at Flor-ida State University and earned his bachelor's degree from Westminster Choir College in 1959. At Westminster, he received the John Gaius Baumgartner Award and was a soloist with The Westminster Choir under the founder of the school, Dr. John Finley Williamson. In 1964, he received a Master of Music from The Catholic University.
In 1959, Professor Crowell entered the U.S. Army as a member of The United States Army Chorus of Washington, D.C. and served for five years as bass soloist and enlisted leader until 1964 when he received a direct commission to Second Lieutenant. He then became Associate Bandmaster of The United States Army Band and Director of The United States Army Chorus a position he held until July, 1979, when he retired as Executive Officer and a Major. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Med-al with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Army Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters.
As a vocal soloist, he has appeared with Washington's National Symphony, the New Jersey Pops, and, among others, the orchestras of Baltimore, Annapolis, Trenton, and York, Pennsylvania; the Paul Hill Chorale, the Princeton Pro Mu-sica and the Washington Cathedral Choral Society. In May 1966 and 1967 he was the bass soloist for the famous Bach Festival of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. For many years, Professor Crowell has worked closely with the musical youth of the nation conducting All-State Bands and Choruses, Honors groups, festi-vals and clinics from Florida to Montana and Maine to Alaska. Since the sum-mer of 1998, he has been the Music Director of the Ghost Ranch Vocal Camp in New Mexico.
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The Georgia Brass Band Joe Johnson, Conductor
The Georgia Brass Band was founded in 1999 by a group of Atlanta area musi-cians eager to explore and perform the wealth of challenging music for British style brass bands. The band performed its first concert after just a few months and has maintained a full concert schedule ever since. The Georgia Brass Band is a volunteer group whose members are selected by invitation, referral, or audition. The members represent a variety of professions, including com-puter specialists, project managers, accountants, attorneys, consultants, retail-ers, and educators. Once a week, however they give up a few hours of their time to make music together. The band’s instrumentation mirrors that of the great brass bands in the UK and includes several instruments not commonly used in the United States. The band is comprised of cornets in E-flat and B-flat, flugelhorn, E-flat alto horns, baritones, euphoniums, tenor trombones, bass trombones, E-flat tubas, B-flat tubas, and percussion. This versatile instrumentation creates a wide palette of timbres and allows the band to sound at home in virtually any musical genre. The Georgia Brass Band has performed in a wide assortment of venues for equally diverse audiences, from churches and colleges to festivals and concert halls. The band has appeared on local television several times and has twice been featured on a WABE FM “Atlanta Music Scene.” The band has been privileged to perform with some of the nation’s finest brass soloists and is de-veloping a program to regularly commission new works from prominent com-posers. The Georgia Brass Band is the only ensemble of its type in the Atlanta area and is a member of the North American Brass Band Association That Georgia Brass Band seeks to expose audiences to the dynamic and exhila-rating sound of the brass band, while simultaneously providing a performing outlet for talented musicians the band is organized as a nonprofit 501(3)(c) and regularly performs educational programs throughout the area. Since its found-ing, the band has enjoyed a special partnership with Boosey & Hawkes musical instruments, England’s largest instrument manufacturer, who has generously provided the Besson Sovereign instruments played by the band.
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Guest Artist
Dr. Tom Gibson, Georgia State University
Dr. Tom Gibson comes to Georgia State by way of Washington, DC. He was a Trombonist with the U.S. Navy Band in Washington for 6 years. He was twice selected to be their fea-tured soloist on the annual national tour. In addition, he was the Navy Band's featured solo-ist in Stockholm, Sweden, for the International Military Tattoo. He premiered the wind ensem-ble arrangement of Hindemith's Trombone Sonate at the Eastern Trombone Workshop in Washington, DC. While a member of the Na-vy Band, Tom completed his Doctorate in Mu-sical Arts at Catholic University in Washing-ton, DC. Prior to that, he completed a Bache-lor's degree at the University of Michigan and a Masters at the University of Northern Colora-do; where he was the graduate assistant to Bud-
dy Baker. Tom has had a very active freelance career as well. He can be heard on more than 30 recordings and has performed with James Taylor, Denyse Graves, Clark Terry, Peter Erskine, Nanci Griffith, the Temptations, William Noll Orchestra, the Four Tops, New York City Lights Orchestra, New Columbia Swing, and others. He has performed in some of the nation's greatest venues, including the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and Wolf Trap. Locally, he's been heard at Spivey Hall, Woodruff Arts Center, Chastain Park, Roswell Performing Arts Center, Atlanta Jazz Festival in Piedmont Park, Mercer University, Jacksonville State University, Columbus State University, Gwinnett Cultural Arts Center, Valdosta State University, Albany Civic Center, Rialto Center for the Performing Arts, and Birmingham Center for the Arts. He has also performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland and the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Versatile in a variety of styles, he has performed with the Atlanta Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Maryland Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony, Fairfax Symphony, and the National Symphony Orchestra. Also a very active studio musician, Tom has recently recorded for Turner television, Cartoon Network, and Allgood Productions. He is a founding member of the Piedmont Trombone Society and the Atlanta Tuba Patrol ; and he is currently playing principal trombone with the Georgia Brass Band. He has been a regular clinician for the Georgia Association of Jazz Educators.
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Guest Artist
Kevin Lyons, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Kevin Lyons comes from Clinton, Mississippi, and has been in-terested in jazz and classical music from a very early age. Mr. Ly-ons attended the Cleveland Institute of Music where he received his bachelor's degree in music performance. While there, he was awarded the Bernard Aldestein Award in trumpet. After conservatory life, he spent two years with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Mr. Lyons has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, Japan, the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean. Mr. Lyons currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is a freelance musi-cian and can be heard in several venues throughout the city. He recently won the audition as 4th Trumpet / Utility Trumpet with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
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Guest Artist
Michael Moore, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Michael was born in Blackwell, Oklahoma, but raised in Decatur, GA. He joined the Atlanta Symphony in 1968 and at the age of 18 was the youngest tubist in any major symphony. He received a B. Mus. Lit. with a minor in composition from Georgia State Uni-versity, where he now serves on the faculty.
At Emory, he also teaches tuba, coaches brass and conducts the Emory Community Brass Ensemble. He has contributed numer-ous arrangements to the brass quintet and solo electric tuba reper-toire. Michael is founder of the Atlanta Brass Society and the ABS Press. In 1979, he performed the Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto and has played hundreds of performances of Tubby the Tuba with the ASO. In 1997 he performed the Gregson Tuba Concerto at Columbus State College, and in October 1998 was guest tubist with the Chicago Symphony. In 1999 he recorded the Gregson with the Emory Wind Ensemble.
His studies have been with Arnold Jacobs and Ed Kleinhammer of the Chicago Symphony, Ward Fearn of the Philadelphia Orchestra, William Hill, and his father, former ASO tubist, E.W. Moore. Besides Georgia State and Emory, Michael is on the faculty of Spelman College. This year, his ASO chair has been endowed by Georgia Pa-cific Corporation.
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Emory University Director of
Wind Studies Scott A. Stewart is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Wind Studies at Emory University, having joined the faculty in the fall of 1999. He serves as music director and conductor of the Emory Wind Ensemble, the Emory Sym-phony Orchestra, and the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony. In addition to teach-ing courses in instrumental conducting and wind literature, he coordinates all instrumental music activities in the Department of Music. He received a Bachelor of Music Education from the Indiana University
School of Music, a Master of Music Education from the University of Texas at Austin, and has recently completed doctoral studies in Conduct-ing at Indiana University. Stewart's instructors include Ray Cramer, Stephen Pratt, David Woodley, Eugene Rousseau, and Jerry Junkin. Professor Stewart has served as Principal Con-ductor of the Star of Indiana Brass Theatre, Assistant Conductor of the Bloomington Sym-phony Orchestra, and instrumental music in-structor at McCallum High School and Lamar Middle School in Austin, Texas. He is a con-tributing research associate for volumes 2, 3, and 4 of Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, published by GIA. He has conducted several premieres and served as the recording producer for four compact discs. Recent activi-ties include the article "The Middle School Fac-tor," in School Band and Orchestra, serving as
conductor/clinician for the Cobb County (GA) 11th and 12th Grade Honor Band, and serving as Director of Instrumental Music for the West Virginia Governor's Honor Program. This year he will conduct the Gwinnett County (District 13) Honor Band in Athens, and will appear as a guest conductor of the Duke University Wind Symphony in November. He is co-founder and director of Bend the Twig, Inc., a non-profit organization which promotes the integration of character education in music classrooms. In this capacity, he has appeared nationally at education and music conferences, presents in-services for teachers and administrators, and frequently writes on topics of character and ethics in the performing arts. Stewart is the former Manager of the Indiana University Summer Music Clinic for High School Students, where he continues to serve on the faculty. Member-ships include the Conductors Guild, American Symphony Orchestra League, National Band Association, Music Educators National Conference, Georgia Music Educators Association, and the Indiana University School of Music Alumni Association Board of Directors.
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Program of Daily Events
Sunday, June 12 12:00-4:00 PM Registration at Schwartz Center 5:00 PM Social Dinner 7:30 PM Opening Concert and Recital International Artist Thomas Rüedi
Monday, June 13 7:30 AM Breakfast 8:45 AM Breathing and Buzzing Class - Adam Frey 9:00 AM Warm-up and Fundamentals - Thomas Rüedi 9:30 AM Mass Ensemble Rehearsal 11:00 AM Master Class - Thomas Rüedi 12:30 PM Lunch 2:00 PM Chamber Music Rehearsal 3:30 PM Focus Class - Adam Frey - How to Practice 5:00 PM Incorporation Time 5:30 PM Dinner 7:30 PM Recital - Adam Frey and Friends
Tuesday, June 14 7:30 AM Breakfast 8:45 AM Breathing and Buzzing Class - Adam Frey 9:00 AM Warm-up and Fundamentals - Adam Frey 9:30 AM Mass Ensemble Rehearsal 11:00 AM Master Class - Mark Jenkins 12:30 PM Lunch 2:00 PM Chamber Music Rehearsal 3:30 PM Focus Class - Adam Frey - Articulation Enhanced 5:00 PM Incorporation Time 5:30 PM Dinner 7:30 PM Recital - New Works Recital
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Program of Daily Events Wednesday, June 15 7:30 AM Breakfast 8:45 AM Breathing and Buzzing Class - Adam Frey 9:00 AM Warm-up and Fundamentals - Mark Jenkins 9:30 AM Mass Ensemble Rehearsal 10:30 AM Master Class - Alan Crowell - Arias and Songs 12:00 PM Lunch 1:30 PM Departure for Alpharetta 3:00 PM Master Class - Mark Jenkins 4:30 PM Staging and Walk-through 5:00 PM Dinner at Alpharetta First United Methodist Church 6:30 PM Outreach and External Concert 8:00 PM Ice Cream Social at Casa de Frey
Thursday, June 16 7:30 AM Breakfast 8:45 AM Breathing and Buzzing Class - Adam Frey 9:00 AM Warm-up and Fundamentals - Thomas Rüedi 9:30 AM Mass Ensemble Rehearsal 11:00 AM Master Class - Marc Dickman 12:30 PM Lunch 2:00 PM Chamber Music Rehearsal 3:30 PM Focus Class - Adam Frey -Phrasing and Musicality 5:00 PM Incorporation Time 5:30 PM Dinner 7:30 PM Recital - Mark Jenkins and Marc Dickman
Friday, June 17 7:30 AM Breakfast 8:45 AM Breathing and Buzzing Class - Adam Frey 9:00 AM Warm-up and Fundamentals - Marc Dickman 9:30 AM Mass Ensemble Rehearsal 11:00 AM Master Class - Mike Moore - Orchestral Perspectives 12:30 PM Lunch 2:00 PM Chamber Music Rehearsal 3:00 PM Exhibits 3:30 PM Participant Recital #1
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Program of Daily Events Friday, June 17(continued) 5:00 PM Master Class - Marc Dickman 6:00 PM Participant Recital #2 7:30 PM Dinner - Cookout - Games - Challenges
Saturday, June 18 7:30 AM Breakfast 8:30 AM Breathing and Buzzing Class - Adam Frey 8:45 AM Warm-up and Fundamentals - Thomas Rüedi 9:15 AM Mass Ensemble Rehearsal 10:00 AM Master Class - Thomas Rüedi 11:00 AM Career Roundtable / Promoting the Euphonium 12:00 PM Lunch 1:15 PM Chamber Music Rehearsal 2:00 PM Getting Inside the Composer's Mind - Sy Brandon 3:00 PM Participant Recital #3 5:00 PM Rehearsal with GBB 5:30 PM Dinner 7:30 PM Gala Concert
Sunday, June 19 7:30 AM Breakfast and Depart 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Participant Pickup
IEI 2005 Assistant and Support Staff Karen Mullins Ryan Black
IEI 2005 Participants Carl Berdahl Ryan Black Tim Brandl Chipper Brickey Donald Bruce Robert Bryant Chris Buckley Mark Carlson Martin Cochran Kevin DeMarcus Colton Doll Hannah Fernandez Phil Giampietro Grayson Holland William Kelly Richard Kesner Brett Keating Kristin Linn Jamie Lipton Eric Miller Karen Mullins Robert Pendergast Robert Pendergrass Bryan Schwartz Colin Simms James Smith Pat Stuckemeyer Mike Vallez Kennedy Wells Elliot Woodbury
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The International Euphonium Institute
Concert Schedule Please note all concerts will take place at the Performing Arts Studio at Emory University, 1804 North Decatur Road , Atlanta 30322 unless otherwise noted.
Sunday, June 12 - 7:30 PM Featured Artist Recital - Thomas Rüedi Monday, June 13 - 7:30 PM Featured Artist Recital - Adam Frey Guest Artists - Kevin Lyons, Tom Gibson Tuesday, June 14 - 7:30 PM The New Works Recital featuring all World Premieres Guest Artist - Ruthie Colegrove Wednesday, June 15 - 6:30 PM Alpharetta First United Methodist Church Alpharetta, Georgia Thursday, June 16 - 7:30 PM Guest Artist Recital - Mark Jenkins and Marcus Dickman Friday, June 17 3:30 PM - IEI Participants Solo and Chamber Recital #1
6:00 PM - IEI Participants Solo and Chamber Recital #2 Saturday, June 18 3:00 PM - IEI Participants Solo and Chamber Recital #3
7:30 PM - Gala Concert featuring The Georgia Brass Band with soloists Thomas Rüedi, Adam Frey, Mark Jenkins, The International Euphonium Institute Mass Ensemble