Special Thanks to our Festival Partners ·Herberger Institute Xondo :festiva{ Celebrating the Music ofJapanese Composer Kohei Kondo FOR DESIGN AND THE ARTS ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY www.music.asu.edu Monday September 19th= Composition Masterclass @ ASU 3-4:30pm Concert@ASU Organ Hall 7:30pm «-v.t.RS f.f4R-t: """' ~.j.._ -4..4.J.! Sunday September 18th: Meet-and-Greet@ King Coffee 2-4pm (:',,_ Tuesday September 20th: Concert@ Tempe Center for the Arts 10am CLARK PARK SINCE 2015 PRESTIGE MUSIC ACADEMY 1FMp£. t>."\. Wednesday September 21st: In-School Concert@ Desert Garden Montessori 11:30am prestigemusicacademy.com tempeaction.org Friday September 23nl: Composer Talk@ Phoenix Center for the Arts 6:30pm Finale Concert@ Phoenix Center for the Arts 7:30pm Tickets: www.tandemduo.yapsody.com ~ kingcoffeeaz.com Thursday September 22nd: Equinox Concert@ Clark Park Community Garden 8:30pm •! tempe.gov/tea PHOENI'< CENTER FOR THE phoenixcenterforthearts.org ~RTS www.KondoFestwix.com/music T~~ Festival Works Selected works for each concert will be announced from the stage. *Rainy Morning 2016 marimba and violin Tandem Duo Prayer on the Seashore 2011 solo bassoon/solo cello Dr. Joseph Kluesener Veil Park *Three Sketches of the West Coast of Ireland 2007 arr. marimba and steel pan 1. Galway 2. Lisdoonvarnar 3. Limerick Sugar & Carbs Old Campsite of Predecessors 2016 solo violin Sarah Off *Travel to the Headwaters 2014 solo saxophone Tyler Flowers Life and the Circulation of the Water 2013 percussion solo Dr. Marilyn Clark Silva Three Pieces for Violin and Cello 2007 arr. violin and marimba Tandem Duo *Three Preludes for Guitar "Sunny Weekend Weather Forecast" 2015 Solo guitar John Oeth *Imaginary Folktales About the Valleys in Arizona 2016 Marimba and violin Tandem Duo Tan emdufu) =-------- w www.TandemDuoMusic.com TandemDuoMusic@gmail.com www.facebook.com/TandemDuoMusic lnstagram: @TandemDuoMusic Twitter: @Tandem_Duo TandemDuo.Bandcamp.com *world premiere For more information on the music, composer, and performers please visit the festival website at KondoFest.wix.com/music www.KoheiKondo.com Thanks to our Sponsors: Prestige Music Academy, Fushicho Daiko, Nina Krebs, John Millea, Chunyang & Anne Sorenson Wang, Kathleen P. Clark Yuko Halada is serving as a Japanese translator for the Kondo Festival. She is a spiritual minister who has over 20 years of training as a Divine Light practitioner, and is a certified Brain Training Activator (BTA). In 1998 she created Spiritual Shodo, a unique concept that combines traditional Japanese calligraphy and the practice of Divine Light. Through Spiritual Shodo Yuko has accessed a higher dimensional energy, enabling her Shodo art to emit Divine Light healing powers. She has pioneered Brain Training Activation, a practice grounded in state-of-art science that integrates brain waves, memory processing and conscious breathing. Yuko's unique insight, intuitiveness, deep caring and highly skilled abilities have enabled her countless clients, which include entrepreneurs, scholars, artists and healers, to be aware of and activate their innate, full potential. KoheiKondo Satoe Ogawa is serving as a Japanese translator for the Kondo Festival. She is currently working towards her Bachelors Degree in Secondary Education at ASU. She specializes iri Japanese language and is active in her community as a volunteer and assistant elementary school teacher. has written music for nearly every instrument and combination of small chamber ensembles, as well as several orchestral pieces. His music is highly influenced by nature and the rural Japanese landscape. In 2002 he won a prize for a composition at the International Piano Duo Competition in Tokyo Kodaira. In 2006 his Piano Concerto op. 84 was performed by Maya Fukumura and the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paolo Ferrara. In 2010 he won 2nd prize at the composition competition "Klang der Welt Ostasien" of Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2013 his Guitar Concerto "Travelin with Guitar" was premiered by Gaku Yamada in Tokyo. In 2014 Izumi Tateno performed "Snow on the Seashore - in memoriam of the victims of the earthquake and the tsunami Op. 122" in the Berlin Philharmonie Chamber Music Hall. In 2015 members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra performed "Concerto for Violin and Percussions Op. 110" on the Sunday Chamber Music Concert. Mr. Kondo has been working with Tandem Duo remotely for the past five years and has written them several premiere compositions for marimba and violin, as well as arrangements of his existing pieces and a percussion solo and violin solo. Through his association with Tandem Duo Mr. Kondo has incorporated marimba bowing into his compositions, creating unique and transcendental works. The Kondo Festival is the first time that Mr. Kondo and Tandem Duo have worked together in person. John Oeth is a classical guitarist from Jackson, Mississippi. He is an advocate of 21st century guitar compositions as well as underperformed Renaissance lute and vihuela works. John has recently completely his coursework and doctoral teaching assistantship at Arizona State University, studying with Frank Koonce. He teaches music and guitar at Sequoia Charter School in Mesa. His latest album, Sketches, is an album of contemporary works. Kohei Kondo graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art Studies, School of Humanities Kwansei Gakuin University and is a member of both The Japan Federation of Composers and the Japan Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM Japanese Section). Tyler Flowers is currently a second-year Doctoral student and fourth-year Saxophone Teaching Assistant studying Saxophone Performance with Dr. Christopher Creviston at Arizona State University. He received his Master of Music in Saxophone Performance at ASU with Dr. Christopher Creviston, and received his Bachelor of Music in Saxophone Performance at the University of South Carolina under the direction of Dr. Clifford Leaman. Joseph Kluesener is a versatile performer, educator and concert curator. He is Second Bassoonist at Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and a member of Paradise Winds. Internationally, he has performed and taught at Aveiro International Music Festival (Portugal), Saarburg Serenaden (Germany) and at !DRS 2015 in Tokyo. He is the Executive and Artistic Director of Fountain Hills Chamber Players and co-founder and event curator for Classical Revolution PHX. He serves on the faculty at Grand Canyon University and the Maricopa Community College District. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts from Arizona State University. Veil Park serves as section cellist at Arizona Opera Other orchestral engagements include the Castleton Festival Orchestra, and substitute positions with the Phoenix Symphony and Des Moines Symphony. He has collaborated with members of the Cleveland Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the St Lawrence and Shanghai String Quartets. He is winner of the !SU Concert of Soloists Competition and has served as Principle Cellist of the !SU and ASU Symphony Orchestras. Yeil is currently a OMA Candidate at Arizona State University where he is teaching assistant to Tom Landschoot. Tandem Duo Founded by Sarah Off and Dr. Marilyn Clark Silva, is an innovative violin and marimba duo that performs original commissions, compositions, and arrangements, as well as established works for the ensemble. Tandem Duo is presenting the international Kondo Festival for which they commissioned and are premiering two new pieces for the ensemble. Tandem Duo formed in Fall 2010 and performed a series of concerts featuring original arrangements including a performance at the Southern California Marimba Competition in 2011. After a three year hiatus while Marilyn completed her doctorate Tandem Duo returned with a university tour in the Spring of 2016, a Southern Colorado tour in Summer 2016, and recently released their first album of original arrangements "Bars and Bows." Passionate advocates for animal rescue Tandem Duo has founded a benefit concert series with proceeds going to animal rescue organizations. Sarah Off is MT. currently A.B.D. for her D.M.A. in violin performance at Arizona State University and is the founder and MUSIC "' Artistic Director of the Mt. Blanca Summer Music Conservatory. Ms. Off has performed in Iceland's Harpa International Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival in Vermont, Music in the Mountains Festival in Colorado and in such venues as Lincoln Center, Meyerson Symphony Center, Boettcher Hall and a tour of Latvia. Sarah performed as soloist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra's "Up Close and Musical" and Conservatory Music ~ ~h~~~~~ CONSERVATORY in the Mountains Chamber Orchestra and marimba one· she is looking forward to performing 11 Brahms Double Concerto with the llllllllllm11r nwc.~1 Boulder Symphony in their 2016 season. Dr. Clark Silva is a Marimba One Educational Artist and an Arizona Teaching Artist through the Phoenix Center for the Arts. She is a founding member of Sugar and Carbs who were featured artists on the Interference Series' debut season. Dr. Clark Silva was a panelist and presenter for the 2015 College Music Society National Convention and is the developer of the Start-Up Steel pedagogical method. She is a faculty member and performing artist for the Mt. Blanca Summer Music Conservatory, and premiered a new chamber work at the 2016 American Harp Society, Inc. National Conference. She will be a guest artist at CSU Sacramento's Festival of New American Music 2017, and was a panelist and presenter at Phoenix Comicon 2016. Dr. Clark Silva is a pioneer in the technique of bowing the marimba. Joe Millea is a freelance percussionist in Phoenix and a member of the Sugar & Carbs percussion duo and is playing with the Tandem Collective chamber Group. In 2013 and 2014 Joe studied at the Royal College of Music in London, England performing and researching the marimba. At the Royal College, he was supported by a Leverhulme Postgraduate Studentship. Previously, Joe served as a Faculty member at Veritas Preparatory Academy, Collins College (Phoenix, AZ), National American University (Brooklyn Center, MN) teaching courses in music appreciation, digital audio, music theory, music history, music business, and music composition. From 2010 to 2013 Joe was the principal Percussionist and Timpanist with the Scottsdale Arts Orchestra in Scottsdale, AZ, under the direction of Brett Robison. He was also a percussion instructor and arranger with the Arizona State University Sun Devil Marching Band and Director of Instrumental Music at La Casa de Cristo Church in Scottsdale, AZ. Sugar & Carbs is a duo formed by Dr. Joe Millea and Dr. Marilyn Clark Silva. They perform both "concert" and "consumable music" and seek to present traditional instruments and classical performance in new and innovative ways through extended techniques and preparation of those instruments. As performers, Joe and Marilyn like to be challenged, and to in turn challenge the audience to examine new sonorities, artistic ideas, and idioms within the context of a classical performance. Through the use of transcription, prepared instruments, electronics, and use of alternative materials their programs are designed to elicit a strong response, positive or otherwise. Fushicho Daiko offers classes, workshops, artist in residence programs, interactive performances, and innovative specialty programs. We've worked with numerous schools and community groups throughout the region, and our flexible programs can be tailored for your school or group. Joseph Kluesener is a versatile performer, educator and concert curator. He is Second Bassoonist at Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and a member of Paradise Winds. Internationally, he has performed and taught at Aveiro International Music Festival (Portugal), Saarburg Serenaden (Germany) and at !DRS 2015 in Tokyo. He is the Executive and Artistic Director of Fountain Hills Chamber Players and co-founder and event curator for Classical Revolution PHX. He serves on the faculty at Grand Canyon University and the Maricopa Community College District. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts from Arizona State University. Veil Park serves as section cellist at Arizona Opera Other orchestral engagements include the Castleton Festival Orchestra, and substitute positions with the Phoenix Symphony and Des Moines Symphony. He has collaborated with members of the Cleveland Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the St Lawrence and Shanghai String Quartets. He is winner of the !SU Concert of Soloists Competition and has served as Principle Cellist of the !SU and ASU Symphony Orchestras. Yeil is currently a OMA Candidate at Arizona State University where he is teaching assistant to Tom Landschoot. Tandem Duo Founded by Sarah Off and Dr. Marilyn Clark Silva, is an innovative violin and marimba duo that performs original commissions, compositions, and arrangements, as well as established works for the ensemble. Tandem Duo is presenting the international Kondo Festival for which they commissioned and are premiering two new pieces for the ensemble. Tandem Duo formed in Fall 2010 and performed a series of concerts featuring original arrangements including a performance at the Southern California Marimba Competition in 2011. After a three year hiatus while Marilyn completed her doctorate Tandem Duo returned with a university tour in the Spring of 2016, a Southern Colorado tour in Summer 2016, and recently released their first album of original arrangements "Bars and Bows." Passionate advocates for animal rescue Tandem Duo has founded a benefit concert series with proceeds going to animal rescue organizations. Sarah Off is MT. currently A.B.D. for her D.M.A. in violin performance at Arizona State University and is the founder and MUSIC "' Artistic Director of the Mt. Blanca Summer Music Conservatory. Ms. Off has performed in Iceland's Harpa International Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival in Vermont, Music in the Mountains Festival in Colorado and in such venues as Lincoln Center, Meyerson Symphony Center, Boettcher Hall and a tour of Latvia. Sarah performed as soloist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra's "Up Close and Musical" and Conservatory Music ~ ~h~~~~~ CONSERVATORY earthquake and the tsunami Op. 122" in the Berlin Philharmonie Chamber Music Hall. In 2015 members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra performed "Concerto for Violin and Percussions Op. 110" on the Sunday Chamber Music Concert. Mr. Kondo has been working with Tandem Duo remotely for the past five years and has written them several premiere compositions for marimba and violin, as well as arrangements of his existing pieces and a percussion solo and violin solo. Through his association with Tandem Duo Mr. Kondo has incorporated marimba bowing into his compositions, creating unique and transcendental works. The Kondo Festival is the first time that Mr. Kondo and Tandem Duo have worked together in person. John Oeth is a classical guitarist from Jackson, Mississippi. He is an advocate of 21st century guitar compositions as well as underperformed Renaissance lute and vihuela works. John has recently completely his coursework and doctoral teaching assistantship at Arizona State University, studying with Frank Koonce. He teaches music and guitar at Sequoia Charter School in Mesa. His latest album, Sketches, is an album of contemporary works. Kohei Kondo graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art Studies, School of Humanities Kwansei Gakuin University and is a member of both The Japan Federation of Composers and the Japan Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM Japanese Section). Tyler Flowers is currently a second-year Doctoral student and fourth-year Saxophone Teaching Assistant studying Saxophone Performance with Dr. Christopher Creviston at Arizona State University. He received his Master of Music in Saxophone Performance at ASU with Dr. Christopher Creviston, and received his Bachelor of Music in Saxophone Performance at the University of South Carolina under the direction of Dr. Clifford Leaman. Yuko Halada is serving as a Japanese translator for the Kondo Festival. She is a spiritual minister who has over 20 years of training as a Divine Light practitioner, and is a certified Brain Training Activator (BTA). In 1998 she created Spiritual Shodo, a unique concept that combines traditional Japanese calligraphy and the practice of Divine Light. Through Spiritual Shodo Yuko has accessed a higher dimensional energy, enabling her Shodo art to emit Divine Light healing powers. She has pioneered Brain Training Activation, a practice grounded in state-of-art science that integrates brain waves, memory processing and conscious breathing. Yuko's unique insight, intuitiveness, deep caring and highly skilled abilities have enabled her countless clients, which include entrepreneurs, scholars, artists and healers, to be aware of and activate their innate, full potential. KoheiKondo Satoe Ogawa is serving as a Japanese translator for the Kondo Festival. She is currently working towards her Bachelors Degree in Secondary Education at ASU. She specializes iri Japanese language and is active in her community as a volunteer and assistant elementary school teacher. has written music for nearly every instrument and combination of small chamber ensembles, as well as several orchestral pieces. His music is highly influenced by nature and the rural Japanese landscape. In 2002 he won a prize for a composition at the International Piano Duo Competition in Tokyo Kodaira. In 2006 his Piano Concerto op. 84 was performed by Maya Fukumura and the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paolo Ferrara. In 2010 he won 2nd prize at the composition competition "Klang der Welt Ostasien" of Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2013 his Guitar Concerto "Travelin with Guitar" was premiered by Gaku Yamada in Tokyo. In 2014 Izumi Tateno performed "Snow on the Seashore - in memoriam of the victims of the Festival Works Selected works for each concert will be announced from the stage. *Rainy Morning 2016 marimba and violin Tandem Duo Prayer on the Seashore 2011 solo bassoon/solo cello Dr. Joseph Kluesener Veil Park *Three Sketches of the West Coast of Ireland 2007 arr. marimba and steel pan 1. Galway 2. Lisdoonvarnar 3. Limerick Sugar & Carbs Old Campsite of Predecessors 2016 solo violin Sarah Off *Travel to the Headwaters 2014 solo saxophone Tyler Flowers Life and the Circulation of the Water 2013 percussion solo Dr. Marilyn Clark Silva Three Pieces for Violin and Cello 2007 arr. violin and marimba Tandem Duo *Three Preludes for Guitar "Sunny Weekend Weather Forecast" 2015 Solo guitar John Oeth *Imaginary Folktales About the Valleys in Arizona 2016 Marimba and violin Tandem Duo Tan emdufu) =-------- w www.TandemDuoMusic.com TandemDuoMusic@gmail.com www.facebook.com/TandemDuoMusic lnstagram: @TandemDuoMusic Twitter: @Tandem_Duo TandemDuo.Bandcamp.com *world premiere For more information on the music, composer, and performers please visit the festival website at KondoFest.wix.com/music www.KoheiKondo.com Thanks to our Sponsors: Prestige Music Academy, Fushicho Daiko, Nina Krebs, John Millea, Chunyang & Anne Sorenson Wang, Kathleen P. Clark Special Thanks to our Festival Partners ·Herberger Institute Xondo :festiva{ Celebrating the Music ofJapanese Composer Kohei Kondo FOR DESIGN AND THE ARTS ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY www.music.asu.edu Monday September 19th= Composition Masterclass @ ASU 3-4:30pm Concert@ASU Organ Hall 7:30pm «-v.t.RS f.f4R-t: """' ~.j.._ -4..4.J.! Sunday September 18th: Meet-and-Greet@ King Coffee 2-4pm (:',,_ Tuesday September 20th: Concert@ Tempe Center for the Arts 10am CLARK PARK SINCE 2015 PRESTIGE MUSIC ACADEMY 1FMp£. t>."\. Wednesday September 21st: In-School Concert@ Desert Garden Montessori 11:30am prestigemusicacademy.com tempeaction.org Friday September 23nl: Composer Talk@ Phoenix Center for the Arts 6:30pm Finale Concert@ Phoenix Center for the Arts 7:30pm Tickets: www.tandemduo.yapsody.com ~ kingcoffeeaz.com Thursday September 22nd: Equinox Concert@ Clark Park Community Garden 8:30pm •! tempe.gov/tea PHOENI'< CENTER FOR THE phoenixcenterforthearts.org ~RTS www.KondoFestwix.com/music T~~