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UA School of Music presents Huxford Symphony Orchestra in concert

Tuscaloosa, AL – The University of Alabama College of Arts & Sciences School of Music presents the Huxford Symphony Orchestra Concerto and Aria Concert on Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building on the campus of The University of Alabama. The program will include the world premier of “Manifestation” by Balee Pongklad, and performances of “Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra” by Gordon Jacob featuring Bruce Faske on trombone, “Violoncello Concerto in A Minor” by Robert Schumann featuring Samuel Nordlund on violoncello. Demondrae Thurman, UA Associate Professor of Euphonium and Tuba and Chair of the Brass Area at The University of Alabama is the conductor. The concert is FREE and open to the public.  For more information visit: http://www.music.ua.edu/calendar or call 205-348-7111.

Balee Pongklad began studying music composition while completing his bachelor’s degree at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.  In 2005, he came to the United States to pursue his master’s degree in music composition at San Francisco State University with Ronald Caltabiano and Richard Festinger.  He also was a member of the school orchestra as the French horn player.  During his studies, he has composed a number of compositions, ranging from small ensemble to symphonic band to large orchestra. His orchestra piece “Dawn for orchestra” was cited for honorable mention by the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute in 2008. He was also selected a finalist for his symphonic band piece “The Grand Palace” by The 2nd International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest for Concert Band in 2009.  Currently, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in music composition at The University of Alabama with Dr. Craig P. First.

Bruce Faske is currently completing his final semester of coursework toward earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Trombone at The University of Alabama, where he studies with Jonathan Whitaker.  In addition to his responsibilities at UA, he is currently the Second Trombonist of the Starkville Symphony Orchestra in Mississippi, and has performed on several occasions with both the Tuscaloosa and Meridian Symphony Orchestras.  In 2011, he earned one of six tenor trombone Participant positions at the prestigious Alessi Seminar, a bi-annual trombone workshop with Joseph Alessi, Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic.

Prior to enrolling at UA, Bruce balanced teaching and performing careers, maintaining a private studio of over fifty trombone and euphonium students and performing on numerous occasions with the Dallas Opera, San Antonio Symphony, Waco Symphony, and the Nelson Riddle Big Band, among others.  He was a charter member of the Lone Star Wind Orchestra of Dallas, and is heard on the ensemble’s first album, American Tapestry, on the Naxos label. In the summer of 2008, he was a trombonist with the Festival Orchestra at the International Festival Institute at Round Top.

Bruce’s previous solo engagements have included appearances at The University of West Georgia, Texas State University, and public school bands in Lewisville and Brenham, Texas.  In addition to these guest appearances, he has won university concerto competitions at Baylor University (Creston Fantasy) and Texas A&M University at Commerce (Gröndahl Concerto) and was semi-finalist in the 2006 Eastern Trombone Workshop National Solo Competition, Division III.

Bruce’s former teachers include Brent Phillips, Jimmy Clark, John McCroskey, Joseph Cox, Don Lucas and Larry Campbell.

Samuel Nordlund is an active cellist, teacher, and conductor.  He currently studies with Carlton McCreery, pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts at The University of Alabama, where he is a graduate teaching assistant and member of the Capstone String Quartet.  In addition, he is Music Director of Scrollworks and the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Central Alabama. Scrollworks is a non-profit community music school that provides musical training to Birmingham-area children who might not otherwise have the opportunity.

After earning his Bachelor of Music Degree in Cello Performance,  magna cum laude, from The University of Alabama, Samuel moved to Chicago where he earned his Master of Music degree at Northwestern University. In addition to Carlton McCreery his primary instructors have included Hans Jensen, Richard Aaron, Stephen Geber, Alan Stepansky, Jonathan Pegis, Richard Hirschl, Patricia Pilon and conducting with James Setapen. He has attended summer festivals including Music Academy of the West, the Kent/Blossom Festival, Encore School for Strings, Brevard Music Center, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. In the summer of 2006, Samuel was the teaching assistant for Hans Jensen at the Meadowmount School of Music.

During his time in Chicago, Samuel began building an active performing and teaching career.  He has been a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, along with the Illinois Philharmonic, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, and Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra.  In addition, he has performed with the symphony orchestras of Fort Wayne (IN), Elmhurst (IL), Tupelo, Tuscaloosa and Huntsville.  He has also been a substitute player with the Chicago and Milwaukee symphony orchestras.  As a soloist, Samuel has performed with the Huntsville Symphony, and is performing for his second time with the Huxford Symphony.

Samuel has also been an active chamber and recital musician. He has given performances at Luther College, Gustavus Adolphus College, The Music Institute of Chicago, Sherwood Music Conservatory (Chicago), and the Chicago Cultural Center.  In addition, he has collaborated with ensembles such as Bach Week, the Chinese Fine Arts Society of Chicago, and the North Shore Chamber Arts Ensemble.

Samuel was previously Assistant Director of Performance Activities at the Music Institute of Chicago, where he also taught cello and coached chamber music.  This summer will be his fourth as a member of the artist faculty at Lutheran Summer Music Festival.  At LSM, he teaches cello, coaches orchestra sectionals and chamber music, and performs as a member of the faculty Omega String Quartet.  Additionally, he will direct the early music collegium in 2012.

Demondrae Thurman is considered one of the stars of the formidable generation of brass soloists.  His euphonium playing has been described as “awe inspiring”, and he is touted as “an amazing musician”. Demondrae has a firm international reputation as a euphonium soloist having performed in France, Germany, England, Norway, Romania, and throughout North America.  Many of America’s premiere colleges and universities have hosted him as a performer and teacher and he continues to be in high demand.  Over the last ten years, Demondrae has been an invited guest artist/clinician at many of the world’s prestigious euphonium festivals including the International Tuba/Euphonium Conference, U.S. Army Band Tuba and Euphonium Conference and the Leonard Falcone Competition.  His primary teachers are John Stevens, J. Michael Dunn, James Jenkins, and Daniel Drill.

Demondrae’s conducting career began in 1999 when he co-founded the Wind Ensemble at Alabama State University.  In the six years with that ensemble, his reputation grew as a conductor and clinician.  He conducted several honor bands and served as an adjudicator for the Alabama Bandmasters Association.  While living in Montgomery, Alabama, Demondrae conducted a performance of the Christmas portion from Handel’s Messiah with the Alabama State University choir and chamber orchestra.  His symphony orchestra debut came in 2008 conducting Scheherazade, by Rimsky-Korsakov, with the Huxford Symphony Orchestra of the University of Alabama.  Demondrae’s primary conducting teachers Kenneth Ozzello, David Becker, and Gerald Welker.

Demondrae is also an active chamber musician.  He plays first euphonium and trombone in the highly regarded Sotto Voce Quartet which tours extensively.  The quartet has released three recordings on the Summit Records label; all of which have received stellar reviews.  Viva Voce!: The Complete Quartets of Johns Stevens won the International Tuba/Euphonium Association award for best chamber music recording in 2006.  The quartet has been featured several times on American Public Media’s, Performance Today.  He also plays first baritone horn in the Brass Band of Battle Creek, a British brass band comprised of many of the world’s best brass and percussion performers.  In addition to his chamber music work, Demondrae is in demand as a euphonium specialist for symphony orchestras including the Atlanta, Eastern Music Festival, and North Carolina Symphony Orchestras.

In addition to the Sotto Voce Quartet recordings, Demondrae released his first solo recording on the Summit Records label in 2005 entitled, Soliloquies. It received a 9/9 out of 10/10 from classicstoday.com and he was referred to as “having earned (his) stripes as one of the premiere euphonium players in the world”.  Showing his dedication to new music, all of the music on the recording was written for him or with his playing in mind.  His second release, Songs of a Wayfarer, is set for release in 2010. Demondrae can also be heard on recordings with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the New South Jazz Orchestra.

Currently, Demondrae is Associate Professor of Euphonium and Tuba and Chair of the Brass Area at The University of Alabama.  His students have been extremely successful having won many of the prestigious international competitions for low brass.  He is also teaches at the annual Miraphone Academy.

Demondrae Thurman is a Miraphone Performing Artist and plays exclusively the Miraphone 5050 Ambassador “Edition” euphonium which was designed specifically for him.  He also plays the custom “Demondrae” model mouthpiece manufactured by Warburton Music Products.

BIOGRAPHIES

About The Band:

The English alternative rock band Radiohead was formed in 1985, releasing their first single in 1992 and first album in 1993. The cutting edge 5-piece group achieved notoriety in the U.K. by the mid-1990s and international recognition before the turn of the century. In 2005, they were ranked 73rd in Rolling Stone’s list of “The Greatest Artists of All Time,” and they are commonly viewed as the most inventive and successful band in modern rock.

Radiohead members Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano), Jonny Greenwood (guitars, keyboards, etc.), Ed O’Brien (guitars, backing vocals), Colin Greenwood (bass, synthesizers), and Phil Selway (drums, percussion) have cited the music of jazz icons Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus as inspirational sources. The band has abandoned conventional instrumentation and standard song forms, and they’ve employed rhythms and grooves seldom found in the rock genre. They claim that they’ve drawn many conceptual elements from jazz. “We bring in our favorite jazz albums and say: We want to do this,” says Radiohead lead guitarist and principal arranger Jonny Greenwood. “That’s what we do, and that’s what bands have always done, since the late ’50s — a bunch of guys in England listening to American blues records and copying them. In our case, it’s jazz.”

About The Music:

Many jazz solo artists and small ensembles have recorded Radiohead songs and frequently include them as “new standards” performance repertoire. To name but a few: Pianist Brad Mehldau (“Exit Music from a Film,” “Paranoid Android,” “Everything in Its Right Place,” and “Knives Out”); saxophonist Chris Potter (“Morning Bell”); singer Jamie Cullum (“High and Dry”); ensemble Bad Plus (“Karma Police”); and pianist Robert Glasper (cleverly combining Herbie Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage” with Radiohead’s “Everything in Its Right Place”).

It’s a logical progression to expand jazz solo and small group interpretations of Radiohead tunes to the large jazz ensemble format, and the RADIOHEAD JAZZ PROJECT is the first grand scale effort to arrange multiple Radiohead compositions for the jazz big band.

Jazz composers/arrangers/educators James Miley (Willamette University), Patty Darling and Fred Sturm (Lawrence University Conservatory of Music) established the RJP in the summer of 2010, selecting Radiohead song titles and establishing the international team of jazz artists to arrange the music. Sturm coordinated the writers, developed project funding, and produced the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble studio recordings with engineer Larry Darling. Sierra Music Publications (Bob Curnow, owner/president), released the resulting 12 titles as the “Radiohead Jazz Series” in the summer of 2011. The internationally renowned HR Big Band of Frankfurt has scheduled September 2011 RJP performances in Germany, and numerous American universities are planning concert programs showcasing the RJP repertoire.

Balee Pongklad began studying music composition while completing his bachelor’s degree at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.  In 2005, he came to the United States to pursue his master’s degree in music composition at San Francisco State University with Ronald Caltabiano and Richard Festinger.  He also was a member of the school orchestra as the French horn player.  During his studies, he has composed a number of compositions, ranging from small ensemble to symphonic band to large orchestra. His orchestra piece “Dawn for orchestra” was cited for honorable mention by the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute in 2008. He was also selected a finalist for his symphonic band piece “The Grand Palace” by The 2nd International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest for Concert Band in 2009.  Currently, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in music composition at The University of Alabama with Dr. Craig P. First.

Bruce Faske is currently completing his final semester of coursework toward earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Trombone at The University of Alabama, where he studies with Jonathan Whitaker.  In addition to his responsibilities at UA, he is currently the Second Trombonist of the Starkville Symphony Orchestra in Mississippi, and has performed on several occasions with both the Tuscaloosa and Meridian Symphony Orchestras.  In 2011, he earned one of six tenor trombone Participant positions at the prestigious Alessi Seminar, a bi-annual trombone workshop with Joseph Alessi, Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic.

Prior to enrolling at UA, Bruce balanced teaching and performing careers, maintaining a private studio of over fifty trombone and euphonium students and performing on numerous occasions with the Dallas Opera, San Antonio Symphony, Waco Symphony, and the Nelson Riddle Big Band, among others.  He was a charter member of the Lone Star Wind Orchestra of Dallas, and is heard on the ensemble’s first album, American Tapestry, on the Naxos label. In the summer of 2008, he was a trombonist with the Festival Orchestra at the International Festival Institute at Round Top.

Bruce’s previous solo engagements have included appearances at The University of West Georgia, Texas State University, and public school bands in Lewisville and Brenham, Texas.  In addition to these guest appearances, he has won university concerto competitions at Baylor University (Creston Fantasy) and Texas A&M University at Commerce (Gröndahl Concerto) and was semi-finalist in the 2006 Eastern Trombone Workshop National Solo Competition, Division III.

Bruce’s former teachers include Brent Phillips, Jimmy Clark, John McCroskey, Joseph Cox, Don Lucas and Larry Campbell.

Samuel Nordlund is an active cellist, teacher, and conductor.  He currently studies with Carlton McCreery, pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts at The University of Alabama, where he is a graduate teaching assistant and member of the Capstone String Quartet.  In addition, he is Music Director of Scrollworks and the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Central Alabama. Scrollworks is a non-profit community music school that provides musical training to Birmingham-area children who might not otherwise have the opportunity.

After earning his Bachelor of Music Degree in Cello Performance,  magna cum laude, from The University of Alabama, Samuel moved to Chicago where he earned his Master of Music degree at Northwestern University. In addition to Carlton McCreery his primary instructors have included Hans Jensen, Richard Aaron, Stephen Geber, Alan Stepansky, Jonathan Pegis, Richard Hirschl, Patricia Pilon and conducting with James Setapen. He has attended summer festivals including Music Academy of the West, the Kent/Blossom Festival, Encore School for Strings, Brevard Music Center, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. In the summer of 2006, Samuel was the teaching assistant for Hans Jensen at the Meadowmount School of Music.

During his time in Chicago, Samuel began building an active performing and teaching career.  He has been a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, along with the Illinois Philharmonic, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, and Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra.  In addition, he has performed with the symphony orchestras of Fort Wayne (IN), Elmhurst (IL), Tupelo, Tuscaloosa and Huntsville.  He has also been a substitute player with the Chicago and Milwaukee symphony orchestras.  As a soloist, Samuel has performed with the Huntsville Symphony, and is performing for his second time with the Huxford Symphony.

Samuel has also been an active chamber and recital musician. He has given performances at Luther College, Gustavus Adolphus College, The Music Institute of Chicago, Sherwood Music Conservatory (Chicago), and the Chicago Cultural Center.  In addition, he has collaborated with ensembles such as Bach Week, the Chinese Fine Arts Society of Chicago, and the North Shore Chamber Arts Ensemble.

Samuel was previously Assistant Director of Performance Activities at the Music Institute of Chicago, where he also taught cello and coached chamber music.  This summer will be his fourth as a member of the artist faculty at Lutheran Summer Music Festival.  At LSM, he teaches cello, coaches orchestra sectionals and chamber music, and performs as a member of the faculty Omega String Quartet.  Additionally, he will direct the early music collegium in 2012.

Demondrae Thurman is considered one of the stars of the formidable generation of brass soloists.  His euphonium playing has been described as “awe inspiring”, and he is touted as “an amazing musician”. Demondrae has a firm international reputation as a euphonium soloist having performed in France, Germany, England, Norway, Romania, and throughout North America.  Many of America’s premiere colleges and universities have hosted him as a performer and teacher and he continues to be in high demand.  Over the last ten years, Demondrae has been an invited guest artist/clinician at many of the world’s prestigious euphonium festivals including the International Tuba/Euphonium Conference, U.S. Army Band Tuba and Euphonium Conference and the Leonard Falcone Competition.  His primary teachers are John Stevens, J. Michael Dunn, James Jenkins, and Daniel Drill.

Demondrae’s conducting career began in 1999 when he co-founded the Wind Ensemble at Alabama State University.  In the six years with that ensemble, his reputation grew as a conductor and clinician.  He conducted several honor bands and served as an adjudicator for the Alabama Bandmasters Association.  While living in Montgomery, Alabama, Demondrae conducted a performance of the Christmas portion from Handel’s Messiah with the Alabama State University choir and chamber orchestra.  His symphony orchestra debut came in 2008 conducting Scheherazade, by Rimsky-Korsakov, with the Huxford Symphony Orchestra of the University of Alabama.  Demondrae’s primary conducting teachers Kenneth Ozzello, David Becker, and Gerald Welker.

Demondrae is also an active chamber musician.  He plays first euphonium and trombone in the highly regarded Sotto Voce Quartet which tours extensively.  The quartet has released three recordings on the Summit Records label; all of which have received stellar reviews.  Viva Voce!: The Complete Quartets of Johns Stevens won the International Tuba/Euphonium Association award for best chamber music recording in 2006.  The quartet has been featured several times on American Public Media’s, Performance Today.  He also plays first baritone horn in the Brass Band of Battle Creek, a British brass band comprised of many of the world’s best brass and percussion performers.  In addition to his chamber music work, Demondrae is in demand as a euphonium specialist for symphony orchestras including the Atlanta, Eastern Music Festival, and North Carolina Symphony Orchestras.

In addition to the Sotto Voce Quartet recordings, Demondrae released his first solo recording on the Summit Records label in 2005 entitled, Soliloquies. It received a 9/9 out of 10/10 from classicstoday.com and he was referred to as “having earned (his) stripes as one of the premiere euphonium players in the world”.  Showing his dedication to new music, all of the music on the recording was written for him or with his playing in mind.  His second release, Songs of a Wayfarer, is set for release in 2010. Demondrae can also be heard on recordings with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the New South Jazz Orchestra.

Currently, Demondrae is Associate Professor of Euphonium and Tuba and Chair of the Brass Area at The University of Alabama.  His students have been extremely successful having won many of the prestigious international competitions for low brass.  He is also teaches at the annual Miraphone Academy.

Demondrae Thurman is a Miraphone Performing Artist and plays exclusively the Miraphone 5050 Ambassador “Edition” euphonium which was designed specifically for him.  He also plays the custom “Demondrae” model mouthpiece manufactured by Warburton Music Products.

The musicians/musician-scholars include: Davitt Moroney, harpsichord and organ: An authority on Couperin and early keyboard music in general; Julianne Baird, soprano: An authority on vocal performance practice; Geoffrey Burgess, baroque oboe: An authority on French opera; Julie Andrijeski, baroque violin: An expert baroque dancer and authority on violin performance practice; Tony Boutté, tenor: A specialist in the French haute-contre repertoire; Gail Ann Schroeder, viola da gamba: A master teacher and basso continuo expert and Colin
St-Martin, baroque flute: An expert in performance practice on historical and modern flutes.

Public events will all be held in Moody Music Building and will include a Violin/Viola Master Class with Julie Andrijeski, at 2:00 p.m. in the Recital Hall; an Organ Master Class with Davitt Moroney at 4:00 p.m. in the Concert Hall, both events on Tuesday, February 14. On Wednesday, February 15 at 3:45 p.m. an Opera Master Class with Julianne Baird in the Choral/Opera Room, then at 7:00 p.m. a dance class “Baroque dance for musicians” with Julie Andrijeski in the Choral Opera Room. Thursday, February 16 will see a lecture “The Pope, the Emperor and the Grand Duke: The Rediscovery of a Musical Masterpiece from the High Renaissance”, Davitt Moroney 7:00 p.m. in Room 257. On Friday, February 17, beginning at noon, Convocation will be held for public coaching of chamber music ensembles by selected Endowed Chair guests, then a lecture “Reading Music, Reading Dance: The Parodie des caractères de la danse”, Geoffrey Burgess in Room 180, 4:00 p.m. and at 5:30 p.m. a concert Chamber music with Music Faculty and guests in the Recital Hall. Saturday, February 18 at 8:00 p.m., will see a concert, Chamber Music of the French Baroque by Endowed Chair Guests in the Concert Hall. The music will be pieces by Couperin, Jacquet de La Guerre, Rebel, Clerambault and Charpentier.

There will also be separate visits by two musicologists, who will give public lectures. First, March 22-23 will see Georgia Cowart, who has written extensively on musical aesthetics, politics and relationships between music and the visual arts during and post Louis XIV.  Her most recent monograph is The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Then, during the week of Apr. 9 (dates still TBA) Thierry Favier (professeur, U. de Poitiers, France), authority on the cultural history of sacred music in 17th/18th-C France. He has written two books recently Le motet à grand chœur (1660-1792): Gloria in Gallia Deo (Paris: Fayard, 2009) and Le chant des muses chrétiennes. Cantique spirituel et dévotion en France (1685-1715) (Paris: Société Française de Musicologie, 2008).

Since 1982 musicians of national and international reputation have taught on the University of Alabama campus through UA Endowed Chair in Music. Originally, the chair rotated annually among four areas: composition/theory, history/musicology, education/therapy, and performance. Since 1988, the chair has rotated only among the first three areas, and there has been a smaller performance component each year.

The ALABAMA WIND ENSEMBLE is a select group of the finest wind players and percussionists from within the University Band Program and the School of Music.  The ensemble has been invited to perform at prestigious events such as the College Band Directors National Association Convention, the Southern Division of the Music Educators’ National Conference and the Alabama Music Educators’ State In-service Conference.  The Alabama Wind Ensemble has been active in commissioning and premiering new works for wind band over the past several years and has worked with numerous outstanding composers including Ira Hearshen, Donald Grantham, Richard Saucedo, and Nigel Clarke.

BIOGRAPHY

Mark Davis Scatterday is Professor of Conducting and Chair of the Conducting and Ensembles Department at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. As only the fourth conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Scatterday joined a prestigious line of conductors in the past fifty-plus years of the famed ensemble – Donald Hunsberger, Clyde Roller, and Frederick Fennell. In 2004, he led the EWE in their return tour to Japan, as well as to Taiwan and Macao. In 2005, Scatterday led the Eastman Wind Ensemble in a highly acclaimed performance at Carnegie Hall and also conducted a concert in Japan as part of the opening ceremonies of a new concert hall in Karuizawa, joined by members of the Tokyo Philharmonic. Recently, the EWE and Scatterday recorded a new CD with the Canadian Brass entitled Manhattan Music featuring music of Bernstein, Bramwell Tovey, Rayburn Wright and Jeff Tyzik — released in 2008 on Opening Day Records with ArchivMusic, nominated for a 2009 Canadian Grammy, the “JUNO”. In December 2009, Scatterday and Hunsberger performed together with the EWE in the University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor and at the prestigious Midwest Clinic in Chicago to an audience of over 4,000. Also, in the fall of 2010, Dr. Scatterday conducted a celebrated performance of music by Schwantner, Stravinsky, Dvorak and Husa with the New World Symphony in Miami, Fl.

Having received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting at the Eastman School of Music in 1989, Professor Scatterday has directed wind ensembles and orchestras throughout North America and Asia. Dr. Scatterday also conducts the Eastman Wind Orchestra, teaches undergraduate conducting classes and supervises doctoral conducting students. Previous to his appointment at Eastman, Dr Scatterday was Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music at Cornell University. While at Cornell, he was one of the principal conductors of the professional new music group Ensemble X, which performed in Carnegie Hall in 2003, and was also the conductor and music director of the Cayuga Chamber Winds, a professional chamber winds ensemble in Ithaca, New York.

Dr. Scatterday has studied conducting with Donald Hunsberger, David Effron, Sidney Hodkinson, Carl St.Clair, H. Robert Reynolds, and Richard Jackoboice, and trombone with H. Dennis Smith, Edwin Anderson, Milt Stevens, David Langlitz, Hal Janks, and Edward Zadronzny. His previous teaching experiences also includes music directorships in Wooster and Medina, Ohio following a master’s degree in trombone performance at the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in performance and music education from the University of Akron.

Professor Scatterday maintains an active guest conducting schedule as well as researching and writing articles involving score analysis, performance practices, and conducting. His articles on Venetian Renaissance wind music and the wind and percussion music of Karel Husa have been published in editions of Wind Works, College Band Director’s National Association Journal, and Band Director’s Guide. He is also one of the lead clinicians in the Frederick Fennell Conducting Masterclasses held annually by the Conductor’s Guild. An advocate of contemporary music, especially the music of Husa and Roberto Sierra, Scatterday has commissioned and premiered over 25 works including Sierra’s Diferencias (1997), Fanfarria (2000) and Octeto (2003) and transcribed his Fandangos (2004) and Symphonia No. 3 (2009). He conducted the premiere recording of Roberto Sierra’s Cancionero Sefardi with members of the Milwaukee Symphony on Fleur De Son Classics (2001), Judith Weir’s Concerto for Piano and Musicians Wrestling Everywhere with Ensemble X on Albany Records (2005), Danzante with James Thompson and the Eastman Wind Ensemble on Summit Records (2006) and Barcelonazo with the Eastman Musica Nova on Bridge Records (2008) – nominated for a 2008 Latin Grammy.

Ensembles to perform include the Alabama Wind Ensemble, Jazz Standards Combo, Oboe Studio, Trombone Choir, Horn Quartet, University Singers, Jazz Ensemble, Faculty Brass Quintet, Huxford Symphony Orchestra, Percussion Ensemble. The program will include “Festival of Lights” by David Marleatt featuring Trumpet Ensemble with Eric Yates, conductor, “Kpanlogo” from the Ga ethnic group of Ghana, “Fire Dance” by Anthony DiLorenzo, “Trio pour piano, hauthois et bassoon” by Francis Poulenc, “Black Narcissus” by Joe Henderson, “Ein Feste Berg” Traditional,  “Body Snatchers” by Radiohead, “Dance” by Wilke Renwick, “Saber Dance” by Aram Khatchaturian, “Water Night” by Eric Whitacre, “Whirlwind” by Brian Balmages, “Metric Lips” by Bela Fleck, Heads Up! By Mark Ford.

The concert will culminate with a featured appearance by the entire University of Alabama Million Dollar Band performing the favorite cheers and songs associated with football at Bryant-Denny.  Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear this group “up close” along with the other stars of the UA music program. Everything from classical to jazz will be featured with a variety suited for everyone. There is no admission to this concert. Dress is casual; “football weekend attire”. Come early to insure a good seat. For more information visit www.music.ua.edu/calendar or call 205-348-7111.

The program will include “Transcendent Journey” by Rossano Galante, “Hymn to a Blue Hour” by John Mackey, “The Shadow of Sirius” by Joel Puckett featuring Diane Schultz, flute, and “Dreamland” by Michael Markowski. UA Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Bands Randall O. Coleman is the conductor of the Alabama Symphonic Band. The concert is FREE and open to the public. For more information visit: http://www.music.ua.edu/calendar or call 205-348-7111.

The program will include “Gloria In Excelsis Deo” by Irvin L. Wagner, “Water Night” by Eric Whitacre, “Summer from The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi, “Sabre Dance” by Aram Khachaturian, “Kpanlogo” from the Ga ethnic group of Ghana, “The Simpsons” by Danny Elfman, “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey, “Metric Lips” by Bela Fleck and “The Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Phillip Sousa. The concert is FREE and open to the public.  For more information visit: www.music.ua.edu/calendar or call 348-7111.

If you can’t make it in person…you can view the concert via live stream.  The link can be found at www.rollslide.com.

Featuring the music of UA composition faculty and student composers

Friday, February 24, 2012 7:30 P.M.  Recital Hall

Refreshments following (Meet the artists!)

Admission is free.

Seating is very limited; early arrival is strongly suggested.

Beth Gottlieb is a performer, teacher, clinician, and soloist, whose experience covers the entire musical spectrum. Beth is the new Percussion Instructor at the University of Alabama. She previously taught at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL and the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, MI. Beth is a member of the Lt. Dan Band with actor Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump, CSI NY), Principal Percussionist with the Walt Disney World Candlelight Orchestra and Percussionist with many touring artists, shows, and recording projects. She has performed and/or recorded with the Disney Company, Andy Williams, Henry Mancini, Peabo Bryson, Celine Dion, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Natalie Cole, Shirley Jones, Tony Bennett, Sandi Patti, Roger Williams, Carol Channing, Kansas, Milton Berle, Henny Youngman, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea, Victor Wooten, Muriel Anderson, Johnny Mathis, many orchestras in Florida and much more. Beth has had experience in the world of total percussion, including: marching snare drum in Tom Float’s Spirit of Atlanta drum line, playing timpani and percussion in Orchestras, Broadway shows, commercials, churches, movie soundtracks, performing in Epcot’s Future Corps, Future World Brass, Epcot Pops Orchestra, The World Dancer’s Show Band, Candlelight Orchestra, drum set and percussion in a variety of commercial venues and performing solo marimba and percussion concerts. Beth plays all styles of percussion, including classical percussion, hand percussion, show percussion, jazz/rock, and rudimental snare drum. Beth and husband Danny, The Gottlieb Duo, perform many concerts and clinics all over the world including Latvia, UK, Norway, Sweden, US, Italy, Germany, Vietnam, Africa and more.

They also love performing for children with their educational program, The Rhythms of Music and Life. Both, as members of the Lt. Dan Band have traveled to Afghanistan, North and South Korea, Japan, Europe, Canada, the UK, Guantanamo Bay and performed all over the United States for the USO, including performances at the Pentagon, Walter Reed Hospital, Ft. Hood Memorials, and a Memorial Day television performance. Beth has held many offices in the Percussive Arts Society, MENC, MTNA, and the Florida Bandmasters organizations, and hosted PASIC 98 in Orlando. She is in charge of the all state music and selection committee with the FBA/FMEA and is the head of the Solo and Ensemble Percussion Music List for Florida. Beth wrote her first book, Masterworks for Mallets, published by Row-Loff Productions and has published several other Mallet Ensembles. She holds a Master of Music degree in Percussion Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with John Beck, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Alabama, where she studied with Larry Mathis. She is a clinician/endorser for Ludwig/Musser Percussion, Zildjian Cymbals, Innovative Percussion, Grover Pro Percussion and the Remo Corporation. Beth is an avid runner, having been featured in Runner’s World, Glamour, and Woman’s Day magazines.