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This season's Special Events features the Artist Recital Series with UNCW faculty members Richard Thomas (cello), Bridgid Eversole (soprano) and Steve Bailey (bass), to name a few. We have also invited several special guests to perform including saxophonist William Street, who will be joined by world-renown saxophone pedagogue, Jean-Marie Londeix, for a Master Class presentation and lecture. Jazz guitarist and jazz pedagogue, Jack Petersen, is scheduled to perform with the UNCW Big Band during our annual Jazz Festival, and WOOP! (UNC Wilmington Opera Outreach Program) performs Act II of Dei Fledermaus. All events are held at 8 PM in Kenan Auditorium and have a $5 General Admission charge, unless otherwise indicated. For additional information about these events as well as a complete listing of other events presented by the UNCW Department of Music this semester, including our many ensemble concerts and student recitals, please visit our Web site, www.uncw.edu/music or call the events hotline at 910/962-7416. February 16, 3 PM The winner of many awards including the Certificat d'Aptitude de Saxophone, France's highest recognition of excellence in music performance and pedagogy, William Street has earned worldwide respect as one of North America's finest instrumentalists. He holds degrees from Northwestern University, the Conservatoire National de Bordeaux, France and the Catholic University of America. His teachers have included George Etheridge, Frederick L. Hemke, Jean-Marie Londeix, Frederick Ockwell and John P. Paynter. Dr. Street, a member of the Bro-Street Duo and former member of the Ensemble International de Saxophones de Bordeaux, was also a member of the Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Frederick Hemke Saxophone Quartets prior to joining the University of Alberta Department of Music in 1988, where he teaches as saxophone instructor, chamber music coach and Director of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble. He has appeared as recitalist, conductor and soloist with orchestras and bands throughout Europe, Central and North America and Asia. Canadian pianist Roger Admiral graduated with a Doctor of Music degree from the University of Alberta. His main teachers include Helmut Brauss, Peter Smith and Virginia Blaha. Roger's repertoire extends from the music of J. S. Bach to the music of today, with a particular focus on modernist composition. Roger lives in Edmonton and performs in Canada, the United States and in Europe (most recently playing four solo recitals in Poland.) February 16, 7:30 PM Jean-Marie Londeix has become known and appreciated as a concert artist, teacher, lecturer and author of numerous pedagogical works. He has performed more than 600 times as a concert soloist appearing in cities around the world, many times inaugurating the first saxophone concerts and recitals in many of the world's concert halls. In the early 1950's he was even one of the first wind instrumentalists to perform full recitals. He has been frequently recorded and has 13 LPs and 6 compact disks to his credit. About one hundred of the most important works for saxophone have been written for and dedicated to him. More than 130 foreign students have traveled from around the globe to study with him at the Bordeaux Conservatory of Music, among them 47 Americans. Among these former students, now ambassadors of music and concert artists in their own right, a number teach at major universities and conservatories and perform internationally. Monsieur Londeix is frequently invited to teach in the conservatories and universities of Europe, Japan, the United States, Russia, Canada, Scandinavia, or to lecture in well known pedagogical centers. Elected by his peers as Honorary President of the Association of Saxophonists of France (ASAFRA) and President of the International Saxophone Committee of the World Saxophone Congress, Jean-Marie Londeix has also organized a number of international festivals including The World Saxophone Congress and The World Conference on the General State of the Saxophone. He is responsible for the creation of the Ensemble Internationale de Saxophones and he commissioned and premiered over 50 original works of excellent quality with this group. Having carried on a double career as concert artist and teacher, Jean-Marie Londeix is also the author of over twenty important pedagogical works for saxophone, many of which have been translated into five languages. February 22 Steve Bailey, a pioneer of the six-string bass, has toured and recorded with a wide range of artists, including Dizzy Gillespie, Jethro Tull, Rippingtons, and Willie Nelson. Steve attended both the University of North Texas and the University of Miami, where he graduated with a BM in Studio Music and Jazz. Twice named Bass Player Magazine's Bass Player of the Year runner-up, he has been featured in many international Music Magazines and Journals. Author of six Instructional books and three Videos, Steve performs clinics and concerts worldwide and co-leads the "cutting edge" group Bass Extremes, with Victor Wooten. Bob Russell has been a professional guitarist for twenty-eight years appearing on motion picture and TV sound tracks and on stage with Henry Mancini, Bob Hope, Paul Winter and many other well-known entertainers. He recently released his solo jazz CD, entitled Watch This! March 15 Dr. Daniel Rice has held faculty positions at Radford University in Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Rice holds the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the Master of Music degree in trombone performance from Florida State University, and the Bachelor of Music in trombone performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Rice has performed with the North Carolina Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, Carolina Pops, Greensboro Philharmonia, Choral Society of Greensboro, Market Street Brass, Florida State University Symphony, and currently serves as Principal Trombonist with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Rice also performs with the 11 Degree Trombone Quartet, of which he is a founding member. Dr. Rice also maintains an active solo schedule with performances throughout the Southeast, including the North Carolina premiere of Eddie Bass's Sonata for Trombone and Piano in March of 2003. In April of 2003 Dr. Rice performed Jan Sandstrom's BombiBone BrassBitt with the UNCG Symphonic Band. Dr. Rice is also active as a chamber musician and has performed with the UNCG Trombone ensemble, including a solo performance with the Trombone Ensemble at the International Trombone Festival in Nashville, TN in 2002 and has performed with ensembles throughout the United States and Europe. Dr. Pete Zambito is the director of percussion activities, assistant director of bands, and drumline instructor at Concord University. He earned D.M.A. (2003) and M.M. (1999) degrees in Percussion Performance from UNC Greensboro, and a B.A. (1997) degree with a focus on piano performance from Wake Forest University. During his graduate work, Zambito worked as a section percussionist in the Salisbury (NC) Symphony Orchestra and as an engraver and editor for C. Alan Publications. An active performer and clinician, he has appeared on numerous commercial recordings, has performed on marimba throughout the east coast, arranges music and does clinics for local drumlines, and has arrangements and original music published through C. Alan Publications. March 17 During Dr. Bongiorno’s tenure at UNCW, his saxophone as well as jazz students have received national and international recognition by such organizations as Down Beat magazine and Jazzfest USA, among others. He is an active recitalist, orchestral soloist, jazz artist, and clinician throughout the United States and abroad, and has performed solos with various professional and college ensembles throughout the world, as well as in solo recital and also with his jazz group. In addition to his performances as a soloist, Dr. Bongiorno has performed as a supporting musician for headliners such as Kenny Rogers, Aretha Franklin, Red Skelton, Johnny Mathis, and Frankie Vallie among others. His publications include two solo recordings (http://www.lisciorecordings.com), three instructional CD’s, numerous recordings as a side-man, saxophone transcriptions of “Classical” music, original compositions for jazz combo, paper presentations at national conferences, as well as over 50 articles and reviews in various trade magazines. He has been featured in a front cover interview in the January/February 1993 issue of the Saxophone Journal and was recently listed in the International Who’s Who in Music, Seventeenth Edition. March 22 Mike Waddell’s teachers include David Shifrin, Robert Listokin, Fred Ormand, Buddy DeFranco, and Donald Sinta (saxophone). As clarinetist for the world famous Dukes of Dixieland, Mike toured worldwide as well as performed nightly in New Orleans with this group. His two solo CDs, Defining Moments ('00) and Not From Concentrate ('95) received positive reviews. Waddell has also been awarded two Jazz Composer Fellowships from the NC Arts Council as well as two Regional Project Artist Grants from the United Arts Council. Having taught previously at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Mike returned to his hometown of Wilmington, NC in 2003. April 1 Over the years, Jack Petersen has established his reputation as one the finest jazz guitarists as well as jazz pedagogues in this country. Petersen’s resume of musicians and entertainers he has performed for and with throughout his long illustrious career is very much like reading the Who’s Who of music. Some of these performers have included James Moody, Bob Hope, Lou Marini, Stan Kenton, Judy Garland, Henry Mancini, Jerry Lewis, Bunky Green, Buddy DeFranco, Clark Terry, Bill Watrous, Randy Brecker, John Faddis, Dave Brubeck, several notable orchestras, and numerous other artists. Petersen has also been involved as a performer and arranger for ten years in the Dallas, Texas recording studios. As a teacher, Petersen has taught at some of the most prestigious schools of jazz in the United States, including an artist residency at the University of North Texas for 12 years, teacher of improvisation and guitar at the University of North Florida, and he was the chairman of the guitar department at Berklee School of Music for three years. He has authored two text books on improvisation entitled “How to Play Solo Parts Within a Musical Composition” and “Reading Through Keys and Chords Galore.” Petersen has also served on the faculties of the Stan Kenton Clinics, Jamey Aebersold Combo Camps, and the Clark Terry Summer Jazz Camps, among others. April 2 In addition to teaching at UNCW, each member of the UNCW Jazz faculty maintains a busy performance schedule as a soloist as well as a recording and supportive musician. The collective musical experiences of members of the faculty read like a Who’s Who of Jazz. Joining the distinguished UNCW faculty this year is renowned bassist Steve Bailey. The UNCW Jazz Faculty are active clinicians &, performers throughout the country and are dedicated to the pedagogy and perpetuation of jazz as an art form. UNCW Jazz Festival Ensemble Participation: Registration and Information April 6 Dr. Barry Salwen is an international concert pianist, giving performances and master classes in the U.S., Europe, Israel, and Asia. Among his nine CDs is the first recording of the complete piano music of the American master Roger Sessions. Dr. Salwen has given papers at regional, national, and international music conferences. In 2002, he received a prestigious Fulbright Scholars grant to give a seminar on American Music at the conservatory in Freiburg, Germany. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Richard Thomas is principal cellist of the Wilmington Symphony and during the summer is head of the String Department at Camp Encore/Coda in Sweden, Maine. He is a former member of the Orquesta Sinfunica de Colombia (Bogota), the Orquesta Sinfunica Nacional de la Rupublica Dominicana (Santo Domingo), and was on the faculty of the Universidad del Cauca and Universidad del Valle in Colombia and the Conservatorio Nacional in the Dominican Republic. His principal teachers include Hirofumi Canno, Alan Harris, Robert Jesselson and Adolfo Odnoposoff. Mr. Brunjes has recently returned to Wilmington after spending six years in Connecticut as a teacher, conductor, and orchestral player. He is currently principal second violin for the Wilmington Symphony and a violin/viola instructor for the Wilmington Academy of Music. Before coming to UNCW, he was the director of instrumental music at the Hopkins School, as well as a violin, viola, and chamber music instructor at the Neighborhood Music School, and conductor of the Greater Waterbury Youth Symphony. In addition, he has studied chamber music with members of the Emerson, Mendelssohn, Rasumovsky, Harrington, and Blair string quartets. April 16 Bridgid Eversole, soprano, has recently returned to the Wilmington area after completing her Masters of Vocal Performance at the University of Minnesota, where she studied with Jean del Santo and Wendy Zaro Mullins. While in residency, she was a recipient of the Sutton Opera Scholarship, and performed as an ensemble member with the university’s Opera Theatre. In addition to her operatic appearances, Ms. Eversole has appeared as soprano soloist in Vivaldi's Gloria, Fauré's Requiem and Haydn's Missa Brevis. While completing her undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance at UNCW, she won the Richard R. Deas Concerto Competition, and was honored as the UNCW Department of Music Distinguished Graduate. Ms. Eversole, originally from Baltimore, MD was also named a Maryland Distinguished Scholar for Talent in the Arts. April 23
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