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University Symphony Orchestra
Sinfonietta

"A Symphonic Collage"
Jacob Harrison, Joel Neves and Daniel O'Bryant, conductors

School of Music
Herberger College of Fine Arts
Arizona State University

Monday, November 22, 2004
7:30 p.m.
Gammage Auditorium

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Program
SINFONIETTA

Franz Schubert
(1797 – 1828)

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, D. 485
I. Allegro
Jacob Harrison, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770 – 1827)

Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
II. Allegretto
Daniel O'Bryant, conductor

Gustav Mahler
(1860 – 1911)

Symphony No. 1 in D major
III. Feierlich and gemessen, ohne zu schleppen
Joel Neves, conductor

Jean Sibelius
(1865 – 1957)

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
Finale: Allegro moderato
Daniel O'Bryant, conductor
Intermission

UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Overture to The Flying Dutchman

.Richard Wagner
(1813 – 1883)

Jacob Harrison, conductor
..Aaron Copland
(1900 – 1990)

El Salon Mexico
Daniel O'Bryant, conductor
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28

Richard Strauss
(1864 – 1949)

Joel Neves, conductor

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

Biographies
Jacob Harrison began his musical training at the age of four
with the Suzuki Violin Method in Russellville, Arkansas. He also
studied piano privately and later started playing the trombone
in the Russellville Public School band program. In 2001, he
received his Bachelor of Music degree in Trombone Performance
from the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Harrison currently
studies orchestral conducting with Dr. Timothy Russell and opera
conducting with Dr. William Reber, while pursuing a Master's
degree in Music Education at Arizona State University. Jacob is
a conductor of Sinfonietta and guest conductor for the ASU orchestra program. He
is a Regent's Scholar and last year was an Artsbridge Scholar aiding arts education by
teaching music in the Phoenix Public Schools.
Before moving to Arizona, he lived in Chicago where he worked with groups such
as the Peoria Youth Orchestra, the Lake Shore Symphony Orchestra, the University
of Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the Mason Youth Orchestra in Michigan. This
past summer, Jacob was one of four selected to participate in the Romanian National
University of Music's conducting master class led by Maestro Dumitru Goia in
Bucharest, Romania.

Joel Neves began his formal musical studies at Brigham Young
University studying trumpet performance, where he was trumpet
section leader in Marching Band, lead trumpet in pep and jazz
bands, and principal trumpet of the Philharmonic Orchestra.
Joel also free-lanced in Utah recording trumpet spots for TV,
movies and theatrical productions, and performing in plays,
community orchestras and for local pop artists. After receiving
his Bachelor's degree in Music from BYU, Joel pursued his true
love — orchestra conducting — and completed his Master's degree
in Orchestral Conducting, studying with conductors David Blackinton and Kory
Katseanes. During his studies, Joel had the opportunity to be the principal conductor of
both the University and BYU String Orchestras, assistant conductor of the Philharmonic
Orchestra and a My Fair Lady production, and conductor of multiple recitals for new
music.
After graduating, Joel enjoyed many diverse conducting opportunities, including
conducting the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra (California), the Bard Festival
Orchestra (New York), Sanpete Community Orchestra, Pleasant Grove Symphony
and Chorus, Orchestra of Southern Utah, and various community religious choirs in
Utah. Joel's recent experiences have given him the privilege of working with conducting
teachers Daniel Lewis, Donald Thulean, Larry Rachleff and Harold Farberman. He is
currently pursuing a D.M.A. in Orchestral Conducting at ASU, studying with Timothy
Russell; he is also studying opera conducting with William Reber.

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. Daniel's conducting teachers include Daniel
Lewis, Gustav Meier, Murry Sidlin, Donald Thulean, Donald Portnoy and Kory
Katseanes. He is currently studying conducting with Timothy Russell and William
Reber at Arizona State University. O'Bryant's conducting engagements include assistant
conductor of the Salt Lake Opera Company, assistant conductor of the Brigham
Young University Philharmonic, principal conductor of the BYU University and String
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 plans
to finish his doctoral studies at ASU and pursue a career in college and professional
orchestral conducting.

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 many concerts on campus each year in the internationally acclaimed
Gammage Center for the Performing Arts, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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 Colin Carr,
Stephen Kates, and Lazio Varga; pianists Ursula Oppens and Jeffrey Siegel; guitarist
Manuel Lopez-Ramos; soprano Faye Robinson, 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 Handers Messiah, the
Vaughan Williams Hodie, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and other great choral works.
Outstanding student soloists, chosen through a rigorous competition on campus are
presented in a "Concert of Soloists." 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 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,
Gunther Schuller, Joan Tower and George Walker. The 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 mid-size orchestra, which presently performs four 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,
which is performed, the ensemble also undertakes "readings" of other music.
Please visit our websites at http://music.asu.edu for further information on the
Arizona State University School of Music, and http://music.asu.edu/performance/
orchestras.htm for its Orchestra Program.

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UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Timothy Russell, conductor

Violin I
Sharma Swaringen**
Robert Dunger 2.4.7
Eva Liebhaber 4•'
Chun-Chih Chen'
Liana Austin 2.•
Heide Hine 7
Xian Meng 2.6.7
Britanie Hall 1 ' 2' 6
Lydia Mittelman'
Ellen Tollefson 6
Jamie Forseth
Amy Cote Megan Kemp'
K. Brandon Ironside 6
Lauren Rausch 7
Kimberly Watson'
Melissa Nino 6' 7' 10
Danica Terzic 7

Cello-cont.
Jennifer Hartman
Derek Stein'
Michelle Morales'
Stefanie Schatz
Jenna Dalbey 7
Annemarie Smith '
Joel Morgan Marie Allen 5

Violin II
Matthew Fritz*
Patricia Cole'
Jcnwci Yu
Steven Crichlow 7
Sarah Bowlin 7
Acryn Burley
Cayce Miners
Bonnie Teplik
Heather Gill
Amy Anderson '
Crystal Smothers '
Crystal Blakley
Kaelie Retts
Crystal Gheen 7
Lindsay Parker
Taylor Morris
Gina Dyches

Flute
Katie Lindeman^
Elany Mcjia Lynch^
Nina Moran
Angela Rich'

Viola
Mat thew Gordon* 7
Willinda M. Watkins 7.0
Amelia Daniels
J.J. Johnson
Jackie Son
Ryan Berkseth 6,7
Alexander Vittal
Steven Heitlinger 7
Louis Privitcra, Jr. 7

Clarinet
Natalie Pascale^ 7
Wesley Ferreira^ '
Sarah Brown

Cello
Nick Alvarez*
Mart Ryan-Kelzenberg
Brian Ashton
Erin Richardson'
Ajay Patel 7
Hope Shepherd 7

Bass
\Valdir Bertipaglia'
Blake Thomson Krunoslav Kupresanin
Allison Zenner
Marisin Alzamora 7
Daniel Stott'
David Kopper'
Jerome Lopez

Piccolo
Nina Moran
Angela Rich'
Oboe
Ashley Reid^ 7
Rebecca Jolly^ 1.7. '°
Rachel Cullers
Holly Swartz
English Horn
Rebecca Jolly 1.7

Bass Clarinet
Jeff Quamo

Horn
Gustavo Camacho^ 7
Amanda Dix^ '
David Simon
Katie Paetz '
Ryan Castonguay
Trumpet
Ryan Lehr^
Eric Baker^
Ryan Nielsen Jennifer Stirling
Trombone
Paul Fahring * 7
Shiori Yoshida'
Bass Trombone
Jason Malloy Tuba
Curtis Peacock
Harp
Kathryn Black*
Ingrid Lincoln
Piano
Robert Springer
Timpani
Ellen Simon^ 2
Matt Holm^ '
Percussion
Ellen Simon A 2
Matt Holm A I
Joe Goglia 7.9
Chris Cameron
Valerie Hagstrom
Concertmaster
• Principal
" Co-principals

**

Orchestra Assistants
Kayoko Dan
Daniel O'Bryant

Bassoon
Benjamin Yingst A 7
Jim Onstott ^'
Becky Mestek 7
Ian Newton

Orchestra Librarians
Kayoko Dan
Jacob Harrison

Contra Bassoon
Ian Newton

Orchestra Manager
Chris Niileksela

SIN FON I ETTA
Kayoko Dan and Daniel O'Bryant, conductors

Violin I
Melissa Lou"
Ji-Hyun Lee 7
Anna Evenson
Amanda Meyers
Denisse Vallecillos
Laura Gremlich
Carlee Shumway
Megan Faraoni
Grayson Steinberg
Jessica Ham
Violin II
Bee-Lian Quah*
Kelly Varady
Rachel Lindsay
Christina Dragonetti
Janelle Esler
Karla P. Martinez
Stacey Payne
Carlos E. Cervantes, Jr.
Megan Ekstrom
Viola
Cicely DeSalle*
Kimberly Gram
Michael Suyehira
Tyler Hudson
Mafia Clark

English Horn
Kendra Hawley
Clarinet
Ryan Sandell^
Stefanie Harger^ 7
Sean Lucius
Korbi Adams
Bass Clarinet
Korbi Adams
Bassoon #
Ashley Haney
Kallie Knutson
Mikaela Miller
Horn
Jackie Allen^
Scan Bayman A
David Simon
Amanda Dix

Orchestra Assistants
Kayoko Dan
Daniel O'Bryant
Orchestra Librarians
Kayoko Dan
Jacob Harrison
Orchestra Manager
Chris Niileksela

Trumpet
Ryan Nielsen
Jennifer Stirling
Trombone
Tim Ness'
Derik Dalby7
Todd Jacobs

Cello
Hayne Lee* 7
Aubrec Frost
Erin Green
Erin Hutchinson
Arid Dunn

Tuba
Jamie VanValkenburg s.7

Bass
Robert Flanz*
King-Wea Ng
Nathan Browneagle

Timpani
Valerie Hagstrom

Flute
Aileen Kilgore^ 7
Katie Valadez^ 1
Sixto Montesinos

** Concertmaster
• Principal
A Co-principals
# For this concert,
this section is
using a rotating
seating plan.

Harp
Noriko Ujiie

Percussion
Valerie Hagstrom
Aaron Morales
Joseph Goglia 7•9

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Friends of Music Scholarship
General Music Student Scholarship

' George Umberson Choral Scholarship
Katherine K Ilerberger Scholarship
Louise

Piccolo

Aileen Kilgore'
Oboe
Kendra Hawley^
Chris Nguyen^
Timothy Barnes.

Lincoln Kerr Music Scholarship

° Phoenix Symphony Guild Scholarship
Regents Scholarship
" Richard 6. Marilyn Wurzburxer String Award
" Mervin Britton Memorial Scholarship
." Gary Mack Music Scholarship

UPCOMING EVENTS
University Symphony Orchestra and ASU Choral Union
Holiday Concert

Sunday, December 5, 2:30 p.m.
Gammage Auditorium
Timothy Russell and David Schildkret, conductors
Admission: $12.50 general, $7.50 students
ASU Gammage Box Office: 480-965-3434
www.asugammage.com

Herberger College Box Office: 480-965-6447
http://herbergercollege.asu.edukickets/

University Symphony Orchestra and
Regina Carter, jazz violinist, and her Quintet
Monday, February 7, 7:30 p.m.
Orpheum Theatre, Phoenix
Timothy Russell, conductor
ASU String Faculty soloists: Danwen Jiang, violin;
Katie McLin, violin; and Thomas Landschoot, cello
Admission $25 general, $12.50 students
ASU Gammage Box Office: 480-965-3434
www.asugammage.com

Herberger College Box Office: 480-965-6447
http://herbergercollege.asu.edu/tickets/

ASU Sinfonietta
Light Classics and American Pop Favorites
Monday, February 21 7:30 p.m.
Orpheum Theatre, Phoenix
Free Admission