The UTSA School of Music presents UTSA Orchestra
Troy Peters, conductor Rachel Woolf, flute
Northern Lights
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
UTSA Recital Hall
Finlandia, Op. 26 (1899)
Flute Concerto in D major, Op. 283 (1908)
Jean Sibelius (1865 1957)
Carl Reinecke
Allegro molto moderato (1824 1910) Lento e mesto
Finale: Moderato
Rachel Woolf, flute
Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (1933 34)
Sergei Prokofiev
Birth of Kijé (1891 1953)
Romance
Kijé’s Weddding
Troika
The Burial of Kijé
Dr. Rachel Woolf serves as Assistant Professor of Instruction of Flute at the University of Texas at San Antonio School of Music. Under her leadership, the UTSA Flute Ensemble has been invited to perform twice at the National Flute Association (NFA) Convention and at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention (TMEA 2023), the Austin Flute Festival (2022), the Texas Flute Society Festival (2021), and the San Diego Flute Guild Festival (2021). In 2021, Rachel commissioned four compositions for the UTSA Flute Ensemble to perform at NFA, three by UTSA alumni composers.
Accomplished as a multidimensional artist, Rachel is Principal Flute of Symphony of the Hills, flutist in Dallas based symphonic pop rock band, The Polyphonic Spree, and a member of middle eastern fusion group Viatorum. Rachel has performed at the NFA Convention six times most recently she participated in the NFA’s 2022 premiere performance of Julia Wolfe’s Oxygen. Rachel has also performed with the San Antonio Philharmonic, Dallas Winds, East Texas Symphony Orchestra, Abilene Philharmonic, Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra, among others, and spent two summers performing at the Brevard Music Center. She has performed under the baton of such luminaries as JoAnn Falletta, Keith Lockhart, Leonard Slatkin, Peter Oundjian, Michael Tilson Thomas, Jeff Tyzik, Marin Alsop, and Mattias Barnert. She has also performed with Swedish Argentinian indie folk singer José González, Iranian pop legend Aref, multi platinum operatic pop superstars Il Divo, GLEE star and Emmy winning Darren Criss, and has recorded with Grammy winning producer John Congleton on experimental rock band Swans record, The Glowing Man (2016). Not one to be boxed in by notes on a page, she has
sought out an array of opportunities to improvise from freeform to jazz to Indian ragas. Notably, she was selected to perform traditional Hindustani North Indian flute during the Dalai Llama’s visit to Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Rachel previously taught flute and chamber music at Brookhaven College and extensively across the DFW metroplex. She has given masterclasses and clinics at The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Wisconsin Madison, the University of Oregon, SUNY Potsdam, Lamar University, Baylor University, Oklahoma State University, Texas Lutheran University, Grand View University, and Central College. She has been a Guest Artist Teacher at Texas A & M Commerce and has given clinics and recitals at the Austin Flute Society’s Festival, Texas Flute Society’s Festival, Texas Summer Flute Symposium, Floot Fire camps, among others. She has also been on judging panels for the Texas Music Education’s Association (TMEA) All State Convention, Myrna Brown Competition (Texas Flute Society), and VOCE Competition (San Diego).
An avid champion of contemporary music, Rachel has been a founding member of multiple new music groups in Ann Arbor and Los Angeles and has premiered numerous new works for flute and piccolo, including Paul Schoenfield’s Psychobird (A Sonatina for Piccolo and Piano) with Paul Schoenfield on piano. She can be heard premiering works by William Bolcom and Jennifer Higdon on the widely released Classical Structures with the University of Michigan Symphony Band on Equilibrium Records. Additionally, she can be heard playing principal and bass flute on the GIA Windworks label, Canvases and Offerings, with the UNT Wind Symphony.
Beyond her performances across the United States, she has performed in Sweden, Finland, Russia, Italy, Luxembourg, Germany, France, and England. She received her Bachelor of Music at the University of Michigan, obtained her Master of Music at Bowling Green State University, where she was the flute Teaching Assistant, and completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of North Texas as a Teaching Fellow with a related field in Ethnomusicology. She has studied under the tutelage of Amy Porter, Dr. Conor Nelson, Terri Sundberg, Dr. James Scott, Marianne Gedigian, and Karen Reynolds.
Conductor Troy Peters is Orchestra Director at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Music Director of Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA). Musical America featured him in their 2016 special issue, The MA30 Professionals of the Year: The Innovators. A former Resident Conductor of the San Antonio Symphony, Peters has guest conducted many orchestras, including the Oregon Symphony, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and Round Rock Symphony. He was previously Music Director of the Vermont Youth Orchestra and Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, and conducted college orchestras at Texas State University and Middlebury College. He has also gained international attention for his orchestral collaborations with rock musicians, including Blind Pilot, Jon Anderson (of the band Yes), and Trey Anastasio (of the band Phish), with whom he recorded two albums on Elektra Records. Peters conducted the world premiere recording of Daron Hagen’s Masquerade with violinist Jaime Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson, and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, on Bridge Records. Among the other soloists with whom he has collaborated are Branford Marsalis, Midori, Edgar Meyer, Time for Three, and Richard Stoltzman. Awarded a Vermont Arts Council Citation of Merit in 2009, he has been honored with eight ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music and has conducted more than three dozen world premieres.
Peters is also active as a composer, where his honors include the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and grants from Meet the Composer and the Rockefeller Foundation. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Pennsylvania, where his primary compositional mentors were Ned Rorem and George Crumb.
UTSA Orchestra
Troy Peters, conductor
VIOLIN I
Shawn Demuth, co concertmaster
Richard Peralta, co concertmaster Keith Beene Harmony Skinner L.J. Lepovitz Nicholas Garza Grace San Juan Karyl De Guzman Jaymes Edwards Jessica Lara Ben Spivey Monica Carlos Gracie Hende
VIOLIN II
Eliud Vela, principal Stephanie Zapata Nicholas Ruiz Stefan Nashawati Mario Hernandez Jared Cuevas Hannah Bradley Lacey Elrod Fernanda Cuevas Cynthia Elias Nuñez Samantha Uria Nadia Jones Karina Elizondo Katya Zaragoza VIOLA
Bryan Echeveste, principal Jakob Meza Jackson Bosenbark Micah Gentles
Andre Alvarado Lucas Kampe Kaylie Dana Sydney Castillo Luke Alvarado Tamara Jackson
CELLO
Isaiah Valdez, principal Isabella Villalobos Sofia Salazar Arguelles Alex Valles Seth Zapata Anthony Jackson
CELLO (continued)
Serena Kallead Nayeli Delgado Nathanael Colling BASS Heri Ayma, principal Robert Serna Brendan Owen Oscar Muñoz FLUTE Esmerelda Acosta Zack Cuellar Bryana Ramirez OBOE
Daniel Aguilar Michael Tijerina (UTSA alumnus) CLARINET Jadee Dovalina Joanna Sanchez BASSOON Jared Worman Jaime Viejo HORN Noe Loera Daniel Campa David Vladez Francis Maille TRUMPET Regina Seeman Celestino Rodriguez Gregory Valean TROMBONE
Andrew Garcia José Ibarra Wong BASS TROMBONE Javier Lopez TUBA Jake Jones
TIMPANI & PERCUSSION
Jacob Vaquera Gabriel Durand Hollis Christian Cortez Juan Martinez HARP
Ornina Schneker PIANO Eymen Geylan
