Ftierberger College
of Fine Arts

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

ASU Sinfonietta
University Symphony Orchestra

"Celebrating the King of Instruments 40 years with the
Aeolian-Skinner Organ"
Timothy Russell, conductor
Daniel O'Bryant, Joel Neves, and Jana Minov, conductors
Joshua Hillmann, piano
Homer Ferguson, Sunmin Kim, and Robert Richter, organ

School of Music
Herberger College of Fine Arts
Arizona State University

Monday, November 21, 2005
7:30 p.m.
Gammage Auditorium

Program
Die Weihe des Hauses (Consecration of the House), Op. 124

Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770 – 1827)

Daniel O'Bryant, conductor

Enigma Variations, Op. 36

Edward Elgar
(1857 – 1934)

Introduction
Variation I (C.A.E.)
Variation III (R.B.T.)
Variation IV (W.M.B.)
Variation XIII (Romanza)
Variation VIII (W.N.)
Variation IX (Nimrod)
Joel Neves, conductor
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18

Sergei Rachmaninoff
(1873 – 1943)

Adagio sostenuto
Joshua Hillmann, piano
Jana Minov, conductor
Intermission

Crown Imperial (Coronation March)

William Walton
(1902 – 1983)

Robert Richter, organ
Timothy Russell, conductor
Sospiri, Op. 70

Edward Elgar
(1857 – 1934)
Sunmin Kim, organ

Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows)

Ottorino Respighi
(1879 – 1936)
Homer Ferguson, organ

Out of respect for the performers and those audience members around you, please
turn all pagers, cell phones and watches to silent mode. Thank you.

The Aeolian-Skinner Organ was installed in 1965 to provide an instrument for use in recitals, with
orchestra, and for university functions. Its specification is representative of the time, fusing neobaroque elements with some of the orchestral sounds for which Aeolian-Skinner organs were famous
in the 1950s. Joseph Whiteford was the tonal designer, and he sought great clarity and brilliance in
the voicing. In 1973, Manuel Rosales helped to provide greater depth and power to the organ's sound
through extensive tonal refinishing, also adding a trumpet to the Great. Following the renovation of
Gammage Auditorium in 1998, the organ was cleaned, and the Parsons Organ Company of New
York, guided by Manuel Rosales, futher refined the tonal finishing and tuning. The organ was a
generous gift from Mr. and Mrs. Hugh W Long. Mrs. Long and her son, Hugh W. Long Jr., were
present for the dedication ceremonies and the inaugural concert, performed by Alexander Schreiner
of the Mormon Tabernacle. The screen covering the organ pipes was a gift of Mr. Dean Smith, and
special lights to show the organ pipes are being commissioned by Mr. David Dodge.

Biographies
Timothy Russell is in his 13 th year as a Professor of Music and Director of
Orchestras at ASU. He is one of America's most versatile and dynamic conductors
and foremost music educators. He is equally at home conducting the great
symphonic literature, music for chamber orchestra, ballet, large choral works,
pops concerts, and children's programs. An articulate spokesperson for the arts, his
obvious joy in discussing music and building new audiences is only surpassed by
the insight and energy that his concerts possess...entertaining and enlightening
programs of music spanning over four centuries, powerfully presented for listeners
of all ages. In addition to his conducting at ASU, Dr. Russell directs the School's
graduate orchestral conducting program. He is also the co-founder and Music
Director of the award-winning ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Ohio.
Russell has been a frequent guest conductor with The Phoenix Symphony including highly
acclaimed full-length productions of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Nutcracker ballets. This season he will
also lead Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. Other guest conducting appearances have included the Charlotte
Symphony, Baton Rouge Symphony, American Classical Orchestra, Hawaii Symphony Orchestra,
South Dakota Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music
Ensemble, Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, Summit Brass, and symphony orchestras in Arkansas,
Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, and Texas.
As conductor/producer of 25 CDs, Russell has received two Grammy nominations. All
of his recordings have been enthusiastically received by listeners and critics alike, as has his vital and
imaginative orchestral leadership.
Russell just celebrated his 26th season as music director of ProMusica. His achievements
with that ensemble have been remarkable. A recipient of the Greater Columbus Arts Council's
"Artistic Excellence Award," the orchestra continues to maintain its outstanding reputation for artistic
performance and exciting, adventuresome programming. On eight occasions the American Society of
Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) has honored Russell and ProMusica for their service to
contemporary music. Together, they have been active in the commissioning of new works. Russell has
conducted the world premiere performances of more than 90 new compositions.
This past summer Dr. Russell guest conducted at the Oklahoma Arts Institute and the Music
in the Mountains Festival in Durango, Colorado. In recent years, he has conducted All-State Orchestras
in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Prior to coming to the Valley of the Sun, Russell served for nine seasons as the Music Director
and Conductor of The Naples Philharmonic. For the last four years of his tenure he was the resident
conductor in Naples, Florida in addition to serving as Director of Music Education for the city's
spectacular Philharmonic Center for the Arts.
A Danforth Foundation Fellow, Dr. Russell has held academic appointments at Ohio State
University and the University of Rochester. Dr. Russell regularly leads pre-concert talks and symposia
and continues to be a featured speaker at music conferences and workshops. He is actively involved in
research and publication, currently writing two books with renowned Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer,
Mindful Music and Mindful Tennis.
Russell and his wife, Jill, and their children, Kathryn and Geoffrey, reside in Phoenix, Arizona.
Daniel O'Bryant completed a bachelor's degree in string bass performance and a
master's degree in orchestral conducting at Brigham Young University. Since then, he
has worked extensively as a bassist, conductor, and educator in various professional
and academic positions. His bass teachers include Bruce Bransby, of the Indiana
School of Music, and Walter Birkedahl. O'Bryant served as assistant principal
bassist with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and section bassist with Music of the
Baroque, the Elgin Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, Ballet West, and Salt Lake
Opera Company. He was awarded a full fellowship to study bass at the Aspen Music
Festival and has been a featured soloist with many prominent orchestras.
O'Bryant has taught bass privately for many years and worked as the faculty bass
instructor at Utah Valley State College. O'Bryant's conducting teachers include Daniel Lewis, Gustav
Meier, Murry Sidlin, Donald Thulean, Donald Portnoy, and Kory Katseanes. He is currently studying
with Timothy Russell at ASU. O'Bryant's conducting engagements include assistant conductor of the
Salt Lake Opera Company, assistant conductor of the Brigham Young University Orchestras, founder

and conductor of the Utah County Chamber Players, assistant conductor of the Utah Valley Youth
Symphony, and orchestra director at Jackson Intermediate in Houston, Texas. He has also conducted
the Bakersfield Symphony, the Conductors Institute of South Carolina Orchestra, and the Aspen
Music Festival's American Academy of Conductors Orchestra. He is currently a conductor of the
ASU Sinfonietta and an assistant conductor for the ASU Orchestra Program. He recently served as
Music Director for the ASU Lyric Opera Theatre's production of the The Boy Friend. He will complete
his doctoral studies at ASU in May of 2006 and plans to pursue a career in college and professional
orchestral conducting.
Joel Neves began his formal musical studies at Brigham Young University studying

trumpet performance, where he was principal trumpet of the philharmonic
orchestra, brass choir, marching band, jazz ensemble, and brass quintets. After
receiving his bachelor's degree in music, Neves pursued his true love and completed
his master's degree in Orchestral Conducting at BYU, studying with conductors
David Blackinton and Kory Katseanes. During his studies, Neves was principal
conductor of the university and BYU string orchestras, assistant conductor of
the philharmonic orchestra, and conductor of multiple recitals for new music. As
conductor for the acclaimed BYU School of Music production of My Fair Lady,
Neves was honored to be the only conductor in the west to receive the "Meritorious
Achievement Award" from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Neves' recent conducting engagements include the Sanpete Community Orchestra, Pleasant
Grove Symphony & Orchestra, Orchestra of Southern Utah, various community religious choirs, and
the world premiere of "Essay for Freedom" for 24 trumpets. He enjoyed working side-by-side with
noted conducting teachers Harold Farberman, Daniel Lewis, Donald Thulean, and Larry Rachleff at the
Bakersfield Conducting Workshop in California and Bard Conductor's Workshop in New York. Neves'
commitment to education is evident in his work as guest clinician and adjudicator at the Southern
Utah Orchestra Festival, instructor of intermediate orchestral conducting at BYU, band conductor of
5 th and 6th graders at two elementary schools, and private instructor of trumpet and trombone. Neves is
currently pursuing a DMA in orchestral conducting at ASU, studying with Timothy Russell; and he is
also studying opera conducting with William Reber.
Jana Minov graduated with a degree in conducting from the Conservatory of

Music in Belgrade-Serbia. During her studies, Minov attended master classes and
seminars with prominent conductors such as Emil Tabakov, Urog Lajovic, and
Mladen Jagust.
Minov's academic honors and work experience include first prize and
a special award at the International Choir Competition in Shanghai, China in
July 2004. She led a series of concerts with the NIS Symphonic Orchestra as a
guest conductor. She is the youngest conductor to conduct an opera (Magic Flute)
in the National Opera Theater in Belgrade. She also conducted stage music for
many operas, which were part of the standard repertoire in this prestigious opera
house. Minov had the privilege of organizing, supervising, and conducting a series of performances
with some of the most talented students within the Music Academy in Belgrade, who were assembled
in the school's string chamber orchestra. She conducted a series of concerts with the Army Symphonic
Orchestra and Choir in Belgrade and worked as a conducting assistant. In addition, she directed many
public concerts with the amateur choir "Belgrade Madrigalists."
Minov also worked with church choirs for a two-year period during her studies and conducted
several highly acclaimed concerts in Serbia and abroad. Before coming to Arizona, Minov worked as a
music professor at the music high-school "Mokranjac." She is currently a doctoral student in orchestral
conducting at ASU, studying with Timothy Russell. She is a conductor of the ASU Sinfonietta, and an
assistant conductor for the ASU Orchestra Program.
Joshua Hillmann, a St. Louis native, is a candidate for the Master of Music in Piano Performance

degree at ASU, studying with artist and teacher Dr. Baruch Meir. He received his Bachelor of Music
degree in Piano Performance from the University of Kansas, where he studied with Dr. Jack Winerock.
He received earlier musical training from the St. Louis Symphony Music School where he studied with
distinguished pianist and teacher Jane Allen. Other former teachers have included Dr. Richard Cass
and Karen Kucharczyk. Hillmann was the winner of the 2003 Kansas City Musical Club Collegiate
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Piano Competition, was awarded first place in the Kansas Music Teacher's Association Collegiate Piano
Competition in 2002, and was the runner up in 2001. He is also listed on the National Dean's List for
2004-05. A member of the Music Teacher's National Association, Joshua has been teaching private and
group piano for several years and currently teaches class piano at ASU. Hillmann is a member of the
Phoenix Bach Choir, a former member of the Kansas City Chorale, current member of the Herberger
Singers and soloist at Church of the Beatitudes in Phoenix.
Robert Richter is currently pursuing a master's degree in Organ Performance studying with Kimberly

Marshall. He is a graduate of Oberlin College Conservatory of Music where he obtained a Bachelor of
Music in Organ Performance studying with David Boe. While at Oberlin he also studied harpsichord
with Lisa Goode Crawford. Richter performs regularly as a recitalist and continuo player. He is also an
active church musician currently serving as the organist of Desert Hills Presbyterian Church in Carefree,
Arizona.
Sunmin Kim studied piano at the age of six, graduating from Yeawon Art Middle and Seoul Art High

School (both in Seoul) with a major in piano. She earned a bachelor's degree at Yonsei University
majoring in organ in Seoul in 2001 and her master's degree at ASU in 2003, studying with Robert Clark.
She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Organ Performance with Kimberly Marshall at ASU.
Sunmin Kim has presented a recital that was sponsored by the New Mexico chapter of the
American Guild of Organists in September 2002 and the Lenten Organ Recital in American Lutheran
Church of Sun City in 2005. She has attended the Tucson conference sponsored by the Southern
Arizona Chapter of the American Guild of Organists in March 2005 and the St. Albans (England) 22nd
International Competition in July 2003. While studying at ASU, she played Haydn's Te Deum (2002)
with the ASU orchestra.
Sunmin Kim has played on historical organs in Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria. She
played the Hildebrandt organ in Naumburg, Germany with Robert Clark in August 2002. She has also
made study trips to Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle, and Boston, as well as Guanajuato, Mexico, with
Kimberly Marshall between 2002 and 2005.
Homer Ashton Ferguson III, a native of Belleville, Illinois is currently a doctoral candidate in Keyboard

Performance under the tutelage of Kimberly Marshall, director of the Organ Studies program in the
School of Music at ASU. In May 2002, he received the Master of Music degree from ASU in Organ
Performance.
Ferguson began studying piano at the age of five with Peggy Shaw and continued into more
advanced piano studies under the auspices of Glenn Freiner, former professor of music at McKendree
College. Ferguson's passion for the organ developed in high school and upon enrolling at Illinois College
in the fall of 1996, Ferguson furthered his skill and technique under the direction of Rudolf Zuiderveld.
In the summer of 1998, Ferguson gave his first international performance in Leens,
Netherlands. Ferguson also broadened his musical training at Illinois College by studying piano and
conducting with Garrett Allman. His achievements were many at Illinois College having also served as
the co-editor of The Rambler, awarded the McGaw Citation in the Fine Arts, the Sturtevant Leadership
Award, the Ruth Bellatti Music Scholarship, and listed in the 2000 edition of Who's Who Among
Students in American Colleges and Universities. Ferguson graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts
degree, with a major in music and a minor in Political Science, in May 2000.
While at ASU, Ferguson has been the recipient of the Wurzburger Organ Scholarship, the
Arizona Regent's Music Award, and recently the Graduate College Award. An active performer and
recitalist, Ferguson has also spent several semesters teaching music appreciation courses at ASU as a
teaching assistant and faculty associate. In the spring of 2004, Ferguson was invited to teach at Illinois
College as the sabbatical replacement for Zuiderveld where he served as full-time instructor of Music and
College Organist.
Professionally, Ferguson serves as the Music Associate and Organist at Central United
Methodist Church in Phoenix, the historic first protestant church and the Mother of Methodism in the
Arizona territory. Ferguson is also the organist for the Mater Misericordiae Latin Mass Mission Parish
and a REALTOR® with West USA Realty.

ASU Orchestra Program
The Arizona State University Orchestra Program in the Herberger College of Fine Arts School of
Music is dedicated to providing the finest musical and educational opportunities for those qualified
individuals interested in studying and performing a wide variety of orchestral music. The faculty and
administration are committed to the training and development of professional orchestral performers
(instrumentalists and conductors), orchestral music educators and therapists, musicologists, theorists,
composers, arts administrators, and future arts supporters. The students share in this commitment,
aspiring to the highest possible standards of musical excellence.
Currently the program includes three ensembles: the University Symphony Orchestra, the
Chamber Orchestra, and the Sinfonietta. The University Symphony Orchestra presents approximately
seven concerts on the ASU campus each year in the internationally acclaimed Gammage Auditorium
for Performing Arts, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In February 2005, the ASU Symphony Orchestra
performed the featured concluding concert at the American String Teachers Association's National
Conference in Reno, Nevada. They offered "An Evening of Jazz" with the acclaimed jazz violinist Regina
Carter, her quintet and members of our own ASU string faculty. In recent years, the orchestra has
collaborated with the Bolshoi Ballet and Ballet Arizona in highly acclaimed performances. Soloists with
the orchestra include renowned faculty performers as well as such visiting guest artists as violinists
Glenn Dicterow, Szymon Goldberg, Dylana Jenson, Ani Kavafian, and Edvard Melkus; cellists Cohn
Carr, Stephen Kates, and Lazio Varga; pianists Ursula Oppens and Jeffrey Siegel; guitarist Manuel
Lopez-Ramos; sopranos Faye Robinson, Anna Christy and mezzo-soprano Isola Jones, the Roger
Wagner Chorale; guest conductors Lukas Foss and Vincent Persichetti; and the hilarious PDQ Bach
and Victor Borge. Annually the orchestra combines with the University Choral Union to present a
"Holiday Concert" to sold-out houses - featuring such works as Handel's Messiah, the Vaughan Williams
Hodie, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, and other great choral works. They also collaborated on such giant
masterworks as the Verdi and Brahms Requiems, Orff's Carmina Burana, and Mahler's "Resurrection"
Symphony.
Outstanding student soloists, chosen through a rigorous competition on campus are presented
in a "Concert of Soloists" each spring. Each year the ASU Symphony Orchestra also presents the world
premiere performance of the work that has won the annual ASU Student Composition Contest. The
University Symphony Orchestra has a commitment to the performance of contemporary music and has
premiered pieces by Michael Conway Baker, Randall Shinn and Chinary Ung, and performed concerts
with visiting composers Michael Daugherty, Joan Tower, Phillip Glass, George Walker, and Gunther
Schuller. The Symphony Orchestra has also produced two CD recordings, one of works by Eugene
Anderson called Perception, available on d'Note Classics, and the other of music by Pulitzer Prize-winner
George Walker, entitled Lilacs and available on the Summit label.
The Sinfonietta is a midsize symphony orchestra of students (music majors and nonmajors) that presently performs four to six concerts annually under the direction of selected graduate
students. Repertoire is chosen from the standard works for symphony orchestra. In addition to the
programmed repertoire, that is performed, the ensemble also undertakes "readings" of other music.
Please visit our Web sites at http://music.asu.edu for further information on the ASU School
of Music, and http://music.asu.edu/performance/orchestras.htm for its Orchestra Program.

Sinfonietta
Jana Minov and Daniel O'Bryant, conductors

Violin I

Flute

Melissa Lou**
Charlene Bashore
Matthew Wright
Jihyun Lee
Melina Letham
Brian Hoblit
Megan Faraoni
Rosemary Vallecillos

Jessica Polin^
Sixto Montesinos Jr.^
Michelle Buckley
Kathryn Schaap

Orchestra Assistants

Oboe

Jana Minov
Daniel O'Bryant

Megan Radcliff'
Timothy Barnes

** Concertmaster
* Principal
A Co-principals

Orchestra Librarian
Jacob Harrison

Violin II

Clarinet

Bee-Lian Quah*
Elizabeth Hutchins
Jessica Brooksby
Jaclyn Hawtin
Miaka K. Golden
Katherine Florence
Sara Guzman
David Ou

Ryan Sandell*
Evan Lynch

Bassoon
Michael Kato^
Kallie Knutson^

Horn

Lance Heisler*
Maia Clark
Ryan Berkseth
Jenwei Yu

Eddie Althea^
Sean Bayman A
Jayme Goldstein
Elijah Smith
Justine Ascanio
Jordan Robert

Cello

Trumpet

Katy Olsen*
Susan Jacob
Aubree Legler
Courtney Grimm
Eunyae Ji
Sara Starks

Kyle Anderson*
William Anonie

Viola

Trombone
Derik Dalby*
Amber Lakotish

Bass

Bass Trombone

Marisin Alzamora*
Stephen Tessier
Dawn Weaver
Andrew Bates

Allison Barsnica

Tuba
Keith Munson

Timpani
Brian Connolly

Percussion
Brian Connolly*
Tasia Malone

Orchestra Managers
Jana Minov
Derek J. Stein

University Symphony Orchestra
Timothy Russell, conductor
Violin I
Xian Meng**
Shanna Swaringen
Steven Crichlow
Sarah Bowlin
Angela Cassette
Melissa Nino
Laura Speck
Rachael Massengill
Jamie Brooke Forseth
Tamara Freida
Lauren Rausch
Brian Chen
Agnieszka Laskus
Xi Wang
Violin II
Shumin Lin*
Amy Cote
Patricia Cole
Chrystal Smothers
Aeryn Burley
Holly Roberts
Gina Dyches
Bonnie Teplik
Danica Terzic
Allison Kellis
Taylor Morris
Lindsay Parker
Amy Anderson
Melyssa Ostler
Viola
Michi Aceret*
Louis Privitera
Ryan Berkseth
Jenwei Yu
Alexander Vital
Ellen Tollefson
Matthew W. Gordon
Crystal Gheen
Elizabeth Rexroat
Cicely DeSalle
Jackie Son

Cello
Nick Alvarez*
Ajay Patel
Michael Levin
Derek J. Stein
Hope Shepherd
Erin Richardson
Adele Stein
Jenna Dalbey
Jennifer Hartman
Annemarie Smith
Amy Huzjak
Sara Starks
Stefanie Schatz
Kathleen Snyder
Vanessa Belknap
Bass
Waldir Bertipaglia*
Christopher Rose
Daniel Stotz
Nicholas Villalobos
Blake Thomson
Robert Flanz
Krunoslav Kupresanin
John Chapman
Allison Zenner
Barrett Brickner
William Brichetto
David Kopper
Flute
Elany Mejia Lynch^
Monica Sauer^
David Nischwitz
Katie Valadez
Piccolo
Katie Valadez^
David Nischwitz^
Oboe
Rebecca Jolly^
Ashley Williams^
Katie Mordarski
English Horn
Chris Nguyen^
Ashley Williams^
Clarinet
Sarah Brown^
Josh Gardner^
Duy Tran

Bass Clarinet
Haley Ross
Bassoon
Benjamin Yingst^
Ian Newton^
Julie Link
Contra Bassoon
Kristilyn Woods
Horn
Gustavo Camacho^
Sally Bailey^
Eric Damashek
Ryan Gastonguay
Robbie Buss
David Simon
Trumpet
Eric Baker^
Kent Foss^
Tim Wootton
Daniel Thrower
Trombone
Matthew Petterson*
Samuel Winston Price
Bass Trombone
Keith Munson
Tuba
Kevin Bock
Harp
Virginia Blake*
Ingrid Lincoln
Piano
Megan Reilly
Celesta
Donna Clavijo
Timpani / Percussion
Matt Holm*
Darrell Thompson
Chris Cameron
Laura Wiedenfeld
Jesse Parker

** Concertmaster
* Principal
A Co-principals
Orchestra Assistants
Jana Minov
Daniel O'Bryant
Orchestra Librarian
Jacob Harrison
Orchestra Managers
Jana Minov
Derek J. Stein
Special thanks to:
Kimberly Marshall
Jonathan Swartz
Katie McLin
Nancy Buck
Thomas Landschoot
Catalin Rotaru
Martin Schuring
Sam Pilafian
John Ericson