rbergefrk)V.ee Arts School of Music "LITURGICAL MUSIC" Chamber Winds Gary W. Hill, Conductor Concert Choir David Schildkret, Conductor KATZIN CONCERT HALL Thursday, October 9, 2003 • 7:30 p.m. Asa AR IZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Chamber Winds Personnel Flute Katayoon Hodjati Tina Wibe Oboe Mary Cicconetti Heather Guadagnino English Horn Dominique Bellon Clarinet Leslie Moreau Jana Starling Bassoon Christin Schillinger Julie Schlafer Horn Amanda Dix Lauralyn Padglick Trumpet Jason Mosall Joshua Whitehouse Trombone Jason Malloy Hilario Triana Bass Trombone Garrett Stephen Tuba William Russell Concert Choir Personnel Soprano Joanna Banta Dawn Graham Kristin Jensen Jung Eun Lee Priya Palekar Courtney Sherman Grace Yum Alto Sara Binette Christina Forkner Cora Kerwin Brianna Kramer Joanne Martens Laura Noble Anne-Marie Pennies Yen-Yu Shih Chelsea Smith Tenor Elijah Frank Ted Gibson Erik Gustafson Kevin Hanrahan Kenny Miller Max Miller Bass Robb Butler Sean Campbell Jacob Herbert Robbie Hutson Jeff Jones John Miller Ken Owen Craig Peterson Michael Sample Kenneth Owen, assistant Robert Mills, accompanist PROGRAM Canzon noni toni a 12 (1597) Giovanni Gabrieli, ed. Eric Crees (c. 1554 - 1612) Ruminations (2003) Chamber Winds (b. 1972 - 1980) Reflections on a Sixteenth Century Tune (1999) Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (b. 1936) Arizona State University Chamber Winds Gary W. Hill, conductor **There will be a 10-minute intermission** Veni Sancte Spiritus (2003) Mass (1948) Kyrie Gloria Credo Sanctus Agnus Dei George Emlen (b. 1944) Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Christina Forkner, soprano Elijah Frank, alto Erik Gustafson, tenor Max Miller, tenor Michael Sample, baritone Arizona State University Concert Choir David Schildkret, conductor Gary W. Hill is Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Arizona State University where he conducts the Wind Symphony and the Chamber Winds, teaches conducting, and is director of the Digital Conducting Laboratory. Hill also serves as conductor for iChamber, Phoenix's professional new music ensemble. Prior to Hill's appointment at ASU, he held similar posts at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, at East Texas State University, and was Associate Director of Bands at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A native of Michigan, he earned degrees in music education and wind instruments from the University of Michigan and then served as Director of Bands for the West Bloomfield and Traverse City public schools. High school, university, and professional ensembles under Dill's direction have given performances for the National Band Association, the Music Educators National Conference, the College Band Directors National Association, the International Horn Symposium, the National Flute Association, at many state conventions, and throughout North America, and Europe. As a guest conductor and clinician. Hill has performed with myriad high school honor bands, numerous college and university wind bands and orchestras, and has given hundreds of workshops on conducting and rehearsal technique for instrumental teachers of all levels. Performances conducted by him have consistently drawn praise from composers, performing musicians, and critics alike for their insightful, inspired, and cohesive realizations, and for their imaginative programming. Hill has developed a conducting pedagogy that promotes the systematic and parallel evolution of the musical and kinesthetic perceptions and skills utilized in conducting, thereby advancing the genuine articulation of musicianship through bodily actions. As the director of Arizona State University's Digital Conducting Laboratory, Hill is involved with the investigation of digital technologies applicable to the teaching of conducting. Gary W. Hill is a member of numerous professional organizations including the Music Educators National Conference, The Society for American Music, the Conductor's Guild, the American Bandmasters Association, The World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and the College Band Directors National Association, for which he hosted the Fiftieth Anniversary National Conference (1991) as well as the joint conferences of the North Central and Southwestern Divisions in conjunction with The Society for American Music (1998), served as president of the Southwestern Division (1989-91). and is currently National President. David Schildkret is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Arizona State University. He conducts ASU's Choral Union and the highly select Concert Choir, teaches classes in conducting and choral repertory, and oversees the doctoral program in choral conducting. Schildkret, a conductor, scholar, performer, and educator, holds the Doctor of Music and the Master of Music degrees in Choral Conducting front Indiana University School of Music and the Bachelor of Arts in Music from Rutgers University. Prior to his appointment at ASU. he served for seven years as the Dean of the Salem College School of Music in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. where he conducted choirs and taught courses in music history and conducting. He has also taught at Centre College in Danville. Kentucky, and at the University of Rochester. Since 1999, he has been the Music Director of the Mount Desert Summer Chorale in Bar Harbor, Maine. His conducting experience includes nine seasons as Music Director of the Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra in Geneva, New York, numerous appearances as guest conductor with regional choirs at all levels, and appearances with various small orchestras and ensembles, in addition to conducting his collegiate groups. These have included select choirs, men's and women's choirs, and college-community ensembles. He has been a frequent guest conductor with the Piedmont Chamber Singers, a semi-professional chorus in Winston-Salem. NC, with whom he gave a highly acclaimed performance of Bach's B-Minor Mass. His choirs at Salem College produced an outstanding CD of Christmas music and were featured in the musical score to the film "Changing Habits." A noted expert on the music of the eighteenth century, Schildkret has given numerous talks and published papers on the music of Bach, Mozart, and Handel. His articles have appeared in the newsletters of the Mozart Society of America and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, in the Choral Journal, Bach, Eighteenth Century Life, and the NATS Bulletin. He has published reviews in the American Choral Review and has written liner notes for numerous recordings. Schildkret is deeply interested in the visual arts and in culture. A recent paper, "Echoes of Eden: the Garden as Metaphor in Art and Literature." investigates the ways in which artists and writers employ the symbolism of the garden. He incorporates visual art and literature into his teaching of music history, and has led several study trips to England and Italy. In addition to his work as a conductor and scholar, Schildkret performs as narrator and singer. With faculty members at Salem College. he gave a series of annual recitals celebrating such popular song composers as George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Hoagy Carmichael. and Steven Sondheim. He has appeared as narrator with orchestras across the country and has worked for National Public Radio affiliates in Indiana and North Carolina. Schildkret is active in a number of professional societies, including The American Bach Society, which he served for nine years as secretary-treasurer, the Arizona Music Educators Association, and the College Music Society. lie is the Repertoire and Standards chair for Colleges and Universities in the Arizona Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. THE KATHERINE K. HERBERGER o COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS EA School of Music PO Box 870405,Tempe, AZ 85287-0405 Events Information: 480-965-TUNE (8863)