Personnel Flutes Oboes Monica Sauer and Amy Tatum Erik Behr* and Lara Saville Bassoons Saxophone Rehccca Cain and Koula Zambounis David Jenkins* Clarinets Trumpets Tamara Cuypcrs and Allison Storochuk Michael Arndt and John Marchiando Horns Trombone Andrey Astaiza* and Eric Brown Chris Niileksela Percussion Tuba Casey Farina, Jordan Gallaher, Michael Richau and Melanie Tebay* Scott Choate Violins Viola Astasia Al-Shamilch, Tara Barnes, Debbie Dennis. Andrew Irvin* Grace Park and Maria Roggenhofer Patrick Rosalez Cello Harp Kerry Campbell ---- School of Music Arizona State University It, ASU CHAMBER WINDS GARYW.HILL CONDUCTOR Rebecca Foreman Assisting Musicians Eric High, trombone Gary Moss, horn Matt Smith, horn Performance Events Staff ManagerPaul W. Estes BERNARD RANDS GUEST COMPOSER MARTIN SCHURING OBOE Assistant Performance Events Staff ManagerGary Quamme Performance Events StaffAndrey Astaiza. Jennifer Cook, Erin Dow, Elizabeth Maben James Parkinson. Grant Striemer, Jessica Wood E' ARlzoNA STATE UNNERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS School of Music Main Campus, P.O. Box 870405, Tempe, AZ 85287-0405 480-965-3371 • www.asu.edu/ cfa/music KATZIN CONCERT HALL Sunday, October 8, 2000 • 2:30 p.m. BERNARD RANDS Through more than a hundred published works, Bernard Rands is established as a major figure in contemporary music. His work Canti del Sole, premiered by Paul Sperry, Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic, won the1984 Pulitzer Prize in Music. His orchestral suites Le Tambourin won the 1986 Kennedy Center Freidheim Award. The originality and distinctive character of his music have been variously described as 'plangent lyricism' with a "dramatic intensity" and a "musicality and clarity of idea allied to a sophisticated and elegant technical mastery"- qualities developed from his early studies with Dallapiccola and Berio. Born in England in 1934, Rands emigrated to the United States in 1975 since when he has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters; B.M.I; the Guggenheim Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Bartow, Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations among others. Recent commissions have come from the Suntory concert hall in Tokyo; the New York Philharmonic; Carnegie Hall; the Boston Symphony Orchestra; the Chicago Symphony; the Cincinnati Symphony; the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Philadelphia Orchestra; the B.B.C Symphony, London; the National Symphony Orchestra; the Internationale Bach Akademie, Stuttgart; and the Eastman Wind Ensemble. Many chamber works have resulted from commissions from major ensembles and festivals around the world. Rands' music has been conducted by many including Boulez, Berio, Maderna, Marriner, Mehta, Muti, Ozawa, Rilling, Salonen, Sawallistti', Schiff, Schuller, Schwarz, Silverstein, Sinopoli, Slatkin, von Dohnanyi, and Zinman. He has been guest composer at many international festivals and Composer in Residence at the Aspen and Tanglewood festivals. His Chamber Opera Belladonna was commissioned by the Aspen Festival for its fiftieth anniversary in 1999. He was Composer in Residence with the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1989 to 1995. Rands is the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard. GARY HILL 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, and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting. Prior to Hilrs appointment at ASU, he was Director of Bands at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, where he also served as Music Director for the Kansas City Youth Wind Ensemble, and conducted two professional groups: the Kansas City Symphony Brass Ensemble and newEar, a chamber ensemble devoted to contemporary music. Previously, he held a similar post at East Texas State University and was Associate Director of Bands at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Hill began his teaching career in Michigan where he served as Director of Bands for the West Bloomfield and Traverse City public schools. High school, university, and professional ensembles under Hill'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. 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. Ensembles conducted by Hill have recorded for composers, publishers, and National Public Radio, and have appeared 'in concert' on PBS and CBS television networks. PROGRAM Pulitzer Winners Fanfare for the Fighting French ( 1944) Dances (1986) Divertimento for Wind Quintet and Percussion Walter Piston 1894-1976 William Schuman Music for Eighteen Winds (1985) 1910-1992 John Harbison b. 1938 **There will be a JO-minute intermission** Concertino ( 1998) Bernard Rands b. 1934 Martin Schuring, oboe MARTIN SCHURING Martin Schuring has held orchestral positions with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, The Florida Orchestra and the Phoer.ix Symphony Orchestra. Since 1980, Schuring has been a regular participant at the Grand Teton Music Festival, playing English Horn and oboe in the Festival Orchestra as well as making frequent appearances on the Festival's chamber music series. In other summer activities, he has participated in the Bach Aria Festival, served as professor of oboe at the 1996 Londrina Music Festival in Brazil, and performed as principal oboe of the Orchestre Philharmonique Rhodanien and professor of oboe at the Academie Europeenne de Musique in Tournon-sur-Rh6ne, France. Schuring has recorded for Philips, Koch International, and Summit Records, both as soloist and as an orchestral player. RecentlY., he recorded the world premiere of Oboe Concerto, Op. 57 by Eric Funk with the Prague Radio SymphonfOn the MMC label. He has performed at every Conference of the International Double Reed Society since 1997, including a featured concerto performance at the 2000 conference in Buenos Aires. Together with bassoon colleague Jeffrey Lyman, Martin Schuring hosted the 1998 Conference of the International Double Reed Society at Arizona State University where he is Assistant Professor of Oboe. Mr. Schuring studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with John de Lancie. March II (c.1892) with the air "Son of a Gambolier" Charles I vcs 1874-1954 *************** In respect for the performers and those audience members around you, please turn all beepers, cell phones, watches to their silent mode. Thank you. Personnel Flutes Oboes Monica Sauer and Amy Tatum Erik Behr* and Lara Saville Bassoons Saxophone Rehccca Cain and Koula Zambounis David Jenkins* Clarinets Trumpets Tamara Cuypcrs and Allison Storochuk Michael Arndt and John Marchiando Horns Trombone Andrey Astaiza* and Eric Brown Chris Niileksela Percussion Tuba Casey Farina, Jordan Gallaher, Michael Richau and Melanie Tebay* Scott Choate Violins Viola Astasia Al-Shamilch, Tara Barnes, Debbie Dennis. Andrew Irvin* Grace Park and Maria Roggenhofer Patrick Rosalez Cello Harp Kerry Campbell ---- School of Music Arizona State University It, ASU CHAMBER WINDS GARYW.HILL CONDUCTOR Rebecca Foreman Assisting Musicians Eric High, trombone Gary Moss, horn Matt Smith, horn Performance Events Staff ManagerPaul W. Estes BERNARD RANDS GUEST COMPOSER MARTIN SCHURING OBOE Assistant Performance Events Staff ManagerGary Quamme Performance Events StaffAndrey Astaiza. Jennifer Cook, Erin Dow, Elizabeth Maben James Parkinson. Grant Striemer, Jessica Wood E' ARlzoNA STATE UNNERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS School of Music Main Campus, P.O. Box 870405, Tempe, AZ 85287-0405 480-965-3371 • www.asu.edu/ cfa/music KATZIN CONCERT HALL Sunday, October 8, 2000 • 2:30 p.m.