2025 Provincial Band Festival Programme by Natalie Carroll

OBA PROVINCIAL BAND FESTIVAL

FEBRUARY 10 TH -14 TH

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FROM THE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE!

FEBRUARY 10TH-14TH

We’re so pleased to welcome you back to the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto for our 23rd Annual Provincial Band Festival! There are not enough words to say “thank you” to our sponsors – without you we would never have survived and thrived for over two decades! And we must add special acknowledgement to the OBA’s Patron sponsor –Yamaha Music Canada.

Likewise, a huge shout-out to Steven Fishman and the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto – thank you for your continuing support and co-operation in creating a fantastic home for our Festival.

We’d like to take this opportunity to (re-)introduce the Festival Committee to you: Jessica Puskar (Festival Co-ordinator and Performance Hall Manager), Pratik Gandhi (Syllabus Guru and Performance Hall Manager), Laura Houghton (Student Volunteer Manager), Mark Caswell (Festival Advisor and Chief Errand Runner), Angela Tran (Festival Treasurer), Heather Aitken (all things admin), and Natalie Carroll (Digital Programme Designer).

While we handle the logistical responsibilities of the Festival, we can’t do it without the dedicated teachers who personally help recruit the teams of student volunteers who act as Festival ambassadors, guides, equipment movers, salespeople, and so much more. A big “thank you” to Andria Kilbride, Jeff Wrigglesworth, Cameron Rawlins, Beth Facchini, Graham Church, and Stuart Siu for encouraging your musicians to be a part of something pretty awesome.

Our 23rd Annual Directors’ Social will be sponsored by Long & McQuade, in partnership with Yamaha Canada, to ensure that we can meet as colleagues and friends on Friday, February 14th, 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm). We are looking forward to seeing you all there and catching up with everyone’s news – it’s been too long!

We have all worked hard to get to this week, and we look forward to being embraced by your musicians’ enthusiasm and beautiful music.

Have a great Festival, everyone.

Best Wishes, Your OBA Provincial Band Festival Committee

ANNUAL DIRECTORS’ SOCIAL

February 14th | 6:30PM

The Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto 5183 Sheppard Avenue East, Scarborough, M1B 5Z5

The Ontario Band Association, with the support of Long & McQuade and Yamaha Canada, is proud to invite you to the Annual Directors’ Social on Friday, February 14th! This invitation is extended to all current members of the Ontario Band Association, Festival participants (adults), as well as adjudicators and Provincial Band Festival sponsors.

We will be celebrating the successful completion of our 23rd Annual Provincial Band Festival and presenting the Festival Awards and Scholarships.

The evening will also include complimentary appetizers and bar, great music, a special presentation, and the keynote address by Dr. Shelley Axelson.

Doors open at 6:30pm

Please, we invite you to bring a guest.

Our goal for the Directors’ Social is to provide a venue and atmosphere to celebrate our passion for education and our love of music. It is one of only a few opportunities that we music educators have to socialize during the academic year, and of course, there is as always a lot of catching up to do!

I look forward to seeing you at the Social.

Best wishes,

Jessica Puskar Festival Co-ordinator

Open to ALL CURRENT members of the OBA!

Participation in the Festival is not required.

DIRECTORS’ SOCIAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER

BILL THOMAS

Dr. Shelley Axelson

Interim Director of Bands Radford University, Virginia

Dr. Shelley Axelson is the newly-appointed interim Director of Bands at Radford University in Virginia. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Music Education and Assistant Director of Bands at Montclair State University in New Jersey for 12 years. Her duties included conducting the Symphonic Band and teaching courses in conducting, instrumental methods, and music education. She also served as an academic advisor, faculty advisor for Sigma Alpha Iota, and created a Campus Band and Pep Band so students majoring in a subject other than music would have an opportunity to continue their musical education and experiences.

Dr. Axelson earned her undergraduate degree in music education from the University of South Florida, and continued her training by earning a Master of Music degree in Conducting at the University of Michigan. After earning her Doctorate in Conducting with Mallory Thompson at Northwestern University, Dr.Axelson was appointed Director of Bands at Central College in Pella, Iowa. After three years in Iowa, she relocated to Indianapolis, Indiana to become the Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Indianapolis. In 2009, she joined the faculty of the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

Dr. Axelson is a highly sought-after conductor, clinician, presenter, and adjudicator for professional development events, band festivals, honour bands, and conferences throughout the United States and Canada. Dr. Axelson is a proud member of the College Music Society, College Band Directors National Association, National Association for Music Education, and Sigma Alpha Iota.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 10TH 2025

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON REPERTOIRE

8:50AM Pierre Elliott Trudeau HS

Grade 10 Symphonic Band

Director: Sarah Fabbro

9:10AM Havergal College Concert Winds

Director: Jenny Hwang

9:30AM Father Bressani CHS

Senior Symphonic Band

Director: Antoine Buttigieg

9:50AM St. Michael’s College

Grade 9 Advanced Band

Director: Amy McLennan

10:05AM Pickering College

Grade 8 Concert Band

Director: Jessica Puskar

10:20AM Trinity College School

Tottenham Band

Director: Emma Crawford

10:35AM Pierre Elliott Trudeau HS

Grade 9 Concert Band

Director: Toby Hindel

10:50AM Markham District HS

Concert Band

Director: Stuart Siu

11:20AM CATCH-UP BREAK

11:25AM Father Bressani CHS

Junior Symphonic Band

Director: Antoine Buttigeig

11:40AM Havergal College

Symphonic Band

Director: Sara Spigott

• Tricycle

• Silent Stands the Elm

• Ammerland

• Three Folk Miniatures

• Fate of the Gods

• Ammerland

• Dorian Dreamscape

• March of the Majestics

• Champions Rising

• A Canadian Ballad

• Dance Slav

• Ready to Fly

• Zenith

• Loki, Evil Trickster of Asgard

• Southampton March

• Celtic Air & Dance

• The Water is Wide

• Whirling Novas

• A Zillion Nickels

• Four Dance Episodes

MONDAY

10TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

12:00PM St. Michael’s College

Grade 10 Band

REPERTOIRE

• Chasing Sunlight

Director: Amy McLennan B300

12:20PM Willowdale MS Wind Ensemble

• Inspiration Fanfare

• Innovation

Director: Troy Jones B200

• After the Rain

• Allegory

12:35PM Trinity College School

Trinity Winds

• Joy

• Circles

Director: David Ioannou B200

12:50PM Kingsway College

Concert Band

Director: Andrew Brown

1:10PM Ajax HS Concert Band

• Sure on this Shining Night

• A Sailor’s Tale

B300

Director: Jennifer Cresswell B200

1:25PM The Wilson Winds (Donald A. Wilson SS)

• Loki, Evil Trickster of Asgard

• Western Fair

• Cloud Dancing

• The Lost Temple

Director: Michael Peddle B200

1:40PM Marshall McLuhan CSS

Intermediate Concert Band

• Aggressivo

Director: Eric Mertinz B200

1:55PM Lauremont Upper School Band

Director: Roger Marles

2:10PM CATCH-UP BREAK

2:15PM St. Michael’s College School

Senior Concert Band

Director: Jamie Oatt

• Greenwillow Portrait

• Libertango

• A Song of Hope

• LOL

• Prairiesong

MONDAY FEBRUARY 10TH

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

2:35PM Nantry Shores SS

Triton Music Senior Band

Director: Danny Vaz

2:50PM Marshall McLuhan CSS

Grade 9 Concert Band

Director: Nina Hollington

3:05PM Willowdale MS Festival Winds

Director: Troy Jones

3:25PM Humberside CI

Wind Ensemble

Director: Karen Kress

3:45PM Lauremont Middle School Band

Director: Jaekwan Jung

4:00PM Nantyr Shores SS

Triton Music Junior Band

Director: Danny Vaz

4:15PM Marshall McLuhan CSS Concert Winds

Director: Subrina Sookram

4:35PM Malvern CI Senior Concert Band

Director: Mike Falla

4:55PM Guelph CVI Senior Symphonic Band

Director: Dan Austen

5:10PM DINNER BREAK

REPERTOIRE

• Where Mountains Touch the Sky

• Skyward

• The Intrepid

• …at twilight

• The Meeting Place

• Burn After Reading

• Encanto

• Chasing Sunlight

• Foiled Again!

• Crusade

• A Song for Friends

• Affirmation

• After the Rain

• Dusk

• Rescue

• Three Folk Miniatures

• Boreal Pines

• Moscow, 1941

• Hush

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

5:45PM Marshall McLuhan CSS

Senior Concert Band

Director: Nina Hollington

6:05PM Bill Hogarth SS

Intermediate Concert Band

Director: Miguel Malaco

6:25PM

Malvern CI Junior Concert Band

Director: Laura Norris

6:40PM North Toronto CI Concert Band

Director: Leonidas Varahidis

6:55PM Senator O’Connor Concert Band

Director: Stephen Griffiths

7:30PM St. Elizabeth CHS RAP

Concert Band

Director: Brendan Coutinho

7:50PM Guelph CVI

Junior Symphonic Band

Director: Dan Austin

8:05PM Bill Hogarth SS

Senior Concert Band

Director: Steffan Brunette

8:25PM TYWO Concert Winds

Director: Jessica Puskar

• Falcon Lake Overture

• On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss

• Kingdom of the Sun & Moon

• Themes from First Suite in E-flat

• Guardians

• Newfoundland Folk Song

• Ancient Voices

• Newfoundland Folk Song REPERTOIRE

• Ammerland

• Great Locomotive Chase

• Forever Holding Close the Memories

• Where the Black Hawk Soars

• Starsplitter Fanfare

• Ready to Fly

• Amazing Grace

• Lament and Jig for Mickey

• There Will Come Soft Rains

• Tripwire

B300

B100

B200

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B100

B400

B200

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TUESDAY FEBRUARY 11TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

8:15AM Unionville HS

Grade 9 Concert Band

REPERTOIRE

• The Headless Horseman

Director: Niloufar Barazesh B200

• Misty Rain, Softly Falling

• Fanfare for the Third Planet

8:30AM St. Robert CHS

Intermediate Concert Band

• Creed

• Ignite the Night

Director: Beth Facchini B200

8:45AM Pierre Elliott Trudeau HS

Grade 9 Concert Winds

Director: Toby Hindel

9:00AM St. Andrew’s College Symphonic Band

• Rider of the Mountain

• Ancient Flower

• Evergreen Escapades

B200

Director: Eric McMillan B300

• Rain

• Moscow, 1941

9:20AM Bayview SS Grade 9 Concert Band

Director: Helen Geng

9:35AM St. Robert CHS Junior Concert Band

Director: Beth Facchini

9:50AM Alexander Mackenzie HS

Symphonic Band

• A Scottish Ballade

• Creed

• Scirocco

• Brother James’ Air

• Sleep

B200

B100

Director: Kevin Vuong B500

• Mouvement Frenetique

10:15AM CATCH-UP BREAK

10:20AM Pierre Elliott Trudeau HS

Grade 10 Symphonic Winds

• Rain

• Behemoth

Director: Sarah Fabbro B300

10:40AM Trafalgar Castle Wind Ensemble

• Rescue

Director: Julian Smerdon B300

11:00PM Duke of Cambridge PS Concert Band

Director: Taryn Chesson

• The Meeting Place

• Fires of Mazama

• Chorale Elega’nt

B100

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 11TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

11:15AM Bayview SS

Grade 10 Symphonic Winds

Director: Katelyn McClelland

11:35PM St. Robert CHS Junior Band

Director: Andre De Girolamo

11:50PM Bishop Allen Academy Varsity Concert Band

Director: Davide Garofalo

12:10PM

12:25PM

St. Aloysius Gonzaga SS Symphonic Band

Director: Mark Spisic

Trafalgar Castle Concert Band

Director: Julian Smerdon

12:40PM CATCH-UP BREAK

12:45PM Alexander Mackenzie HS Concert Band

Director: Kevin Vuong

1:00PM Thornlea SS Junior Concert Band

Director: Alicia Kennedy

1:15PM Albert Campbell CI Symphonic Band

Director: Madeline Peterkin

1:30PM Loretto Abbey CSS Wind Ensemble

Director: Adam Caringi

1:45PM Bishop Allen Academy Junior Concert Band

REPERTOIRE

• Chasing Sunlight

• Three Folk Miniatures

• Guardians

• Celtic Air and Dance No. 1

• Kronos

• Portrait of Terry Fox

• Gadget

• A Song of Hope

• Oregon Trail

• Prelude and Celebration

• Linden Lea

• Into the Blue

• Krono s

Director: Davide Garofalo

• Presto!

• Ancient Moon

• A Shaker Gift Song

• Loki, Evil Trickster of Asgard

• Ancient Flower

• Creed

• Dragon’s Lair

• Memories from Another Time

• Crusade

TUESDAY

FEBRUARY 11TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

2:20PM East York CI Concert Band Director: Julianne Bujak

2:40PM CATCH-UP BREAK

2:45PM Newmarket HS Senior Band

Director: Olivia Werden

3:05PM Thornlea SS Senior Concert Band Director: Alicia Kennedy

3:25PM Albert Campbell CI Wind Ensemble Director: Welsley Cheang

3:45PM Loretto Abbey CSS Concert Band Director: Adam Caringi

4:00PM Sir William Mulock SS Festival Winds

• Yorkshire Ballad

• Wolverine Summer

• Whirlybird

• Mountain Thyme

• Three Ayres from Gloucester, Mvmt. 3

• Counterbalance

• Chasing Sunlight

• Land of the Midnight Sun

• OBA Interlude

• Morning Joy

• Solstice Fanfare

• Chorale Elega’nt

• Persis

• Dusk

B300

B400

B300

B400

B100

Director: Chris Uchida B400

4:20PM Pickering College Symphonic Band

4:40PM Richmond Hill HS Grade 9 Concert Band

• Hypnotic Fireflies

• The Cave You Fear

Director: Rebecca MacDonald B300

• Donkey Riding

• Blessing Wind

Director: Cameron Rawlins & Joanna Christopoulos-Sarganis B200

4:55PM Lawrence Park CI Junior Band

Director: Willis Bote

5:10PM DINNER BREAK

• On the Edge of the Sword

• Presto!

• Theme and Variations on a Hymn REPERTOIRE

B100

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 11TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

5:40PM Bur Oak SS Senior Wind Ensemble

Director: Will Stokes

6:00PM Aurora HS Grade 9 Concert Band

Director: Melanie Wong

6:15PM Huron Heights SS Concert Band

Director: Scott Cameron

6:40PM Lawrence Park CI Concert Band

Director: Willis Bote

7:00PM St.Joseph’s College Senior Wind Ensemble

Director: Daniel Hasznos

7:15PM Aurora HS

Grade 10 Symphonic Band

Director: Teri Fowler

7:30PM Milliken Mills HS

Grade 10 Symphonic Band

Director: Sabrina Suleman

7:45PM Festival Wind Orchestra

Director: Keith Reid

8:05PM Huron Heights SS Symphonic Band

Director: Scott Cameron

8:25PM Northdale Concert Band

Director: Mark Caswell

REPERTOIRE

• Mountain Thyme

• All the Earth and Air

• As Twilight Falls

• Odyssey

• Where Mountains Touch the Sky

• As Winds Dance

• Three Folk Miniatures

• “Largo” from New World Symphony

• …And Goodnight

• Allegory

• Ancient Flower

• Tribute and Triumph

• Creed

• Shenandoah

B400

B200

B300

B200

B300

• Land of the Midnight Sun

• Symbiopholie!

• Autumn

• Neon Nights

• O Magnum Mysterium

• Gandalf, from The Lord of the Rings

B400

FEBRUARY 12TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

8:00AM Unionville HS Symphonic Band

Director: Niloufar Barazesh

8:20AM York Mils CI Symphonic Band

Director: Mary-Anne Barter

8:40AM St. Andrew’s MS Wind Ensemble

Director: Hugh Corbett

9:00AM St.Robert CHS Senior Concert Band

Director: Beth Facchini

9:20AM Bayview SS Grade 9 Concert Winds

Director: Katelyn McClelland

9:35AM Heart Lake SS Senior Concert Band

Director: Stephanie Casciaro

9:50AM Monsignor Paul Dwyer CHS

Junior Concert Band

Director: Pamela Doyle

10:05AM Pierre Elliott Trudeau HS

Grade 11 Wind Symphony

Director: Greg Colley

10:25AM St.Aloysius Gonzaga SS

Concert Band

Director: Julia Jung

10:40AM CATCH-UP BREAK

REPERTOIRE

• Rat Race

• Filum Vitae

• Capriccio Espagnol

• Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo

• Toccata for Band

• Evergreen Escapades

• On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss

• Flight of the Griffin

• The Water is Wide

• Rivers

• Flight of the Thunderbird

• The Spree at Kelligrews

• Rippling Watercolours

10:45AM Bayview Glen Concert Band

Director: Alana Scharfstein

• Wild Wyatt

• Apparitions

• An American Elegy

• Kaleidescope Eyes

• Ready to Fly

• On Placid Seas

• Furioso

• Armory

• Colliding Visions

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

11:00AM St. Andrew’s MS Concert Band

11:15AM Monsignor Paul Dwyer CHS

Senior Concert Band

11:35AM O’Neill CVI Senior Wind Ensemble

• Whispers in the Wind

Director: Peter No B100

• Squonk Blues

• Night Chase

• Flight of Valor

Director: Pamela Doyle B300

• Autumn

Director: Nancy Allison B400

11:55AM York Mills CI Concert Band

12:10PM Pickering HS Senior Concert Band

Director: David Kosurko

12:45PM Bayview Glen Symphonic Band

Director: Alana Scharfstein

1:00PM O’Neill CVI Concert Band

• Arabian Dances

• Fire Dance

Director: Mary-Anne Barter B200

• Newfoundland Folk Song

• Energy

• Ammerland

• Quebec Folk Rhapsody

• Rider of the Mountain

• Blue Sky Horizon

• Horizons

B200

Director: Billie-Marie Hunter B200

1:15PM Martingrove CI Concert Band

Director: Julia Chang

1:35PM CATCH-UP BREAK

1:40PM Our Lady Queen of the World

Concert Band

Director: Andria Kilbride

2:00PM Dundas Valley SS Senior Band

Director: Emily Dominey

• ISS Flyover

• Sea Songs

• Choose Joy

• Where Morning Dawns, Where Evening Fades

• Tricycle

• Matters of Kindness REPERTOIRE

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

2:20PM Upper Canada College Festival Winds

Director: Tony Gomes

2:35PM Newmarket HS Grade 10 Band

Director: Olivia Werden

2:55PM St. Andrew’s College M.S. Concert Band

Director: John Richardson

3:10PM Bayview SS

Grade 11/12 Wind Ensemble

Director: Helen Geng

3:35PM Richmond Hill HS

Grade 12 Gold Band

Director: Cameron Rawlins

4:00PM Sir William Mulock SS Intermediate Wind Band

Director: Chris Uchida

Meagan Rowatt

4:15PM Dr. N. Bethune CI Concert Band

Director: Andria Kilbride

David Ross

4:30PM North Toronto CI

Symphonic Band

Director: Leonidas Varahidis

5:00PM DINNER BREAK

5:30PM Cardinal Carter CHS Concert Band

REPERTOIRE

• Cloud Dancing

• Newfoundland Folk Song

• Fields of Honour

• Forever Holding Close the Memories

• Travelin’ Music

• Crusade

• Every Day New

• Blackthorn March

• A Mother of a Revolution

• The Hounds of Spring

• Give Us This Day

B200

B300

B100

B500

B600

• Loki, Evil Trickster of Asgard

• Where Mountains Touch the Sky

• Southampton March

• Where Mountains Touch the Sky

• Greek Folk Song Suite, Mvmts. II & III

B200

Director: Jessica Sharpe

• Where Mountains Touch the Sky

• Hopak!

B200

B300

B200

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

5:45PM St. Joseph’s College School

Junior Wind Ensemble

6:00PM Dr. N. Bethune CI Wind Ensemble

• A Song for Peace

• The Tempest

Director: Daniel Hasznos B100

• The King Across the Water

Director: Andria Kilbride David Ross B300

6:20PM Markham Young Winds

• Prairie Songs

• A Song for Friends

Director: Elizabeth Colley B100

6:35PM TCDSB Honour Band

Director: Anita Anton

Manuel Bermitt

6:50PM Father John Redmond CSS Wind Ensemble

Director: Frank Pincente

7:10PM Milliken Mills HS Wind Ensemble

• Soldiers’ Procession and Sword Dance

• Creed

• Under the Cherry Blossoms

• Air for Band

• Choreography

7:30PM Willowdale Youth Band

• Three Folk Miniatures

Director: Sabrina Suleman B300

• Iron and Ice

• Run

Director: Troy Jones B300

7:50PM Windfields MS Concert Winds

Director: Donald Yoon

8:05PM TYWO Metro Winds

Director: Kevin Vuong

Travis Grubissi

8:30PM Markham Winds

Director: Greg Colley

• Rain REPERTOIRE

• The Crown of Castille

• A Scottish Ballade

• Mother Earth

• October

• A Movement for Rosa

• Gavorkna Fanfare

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

8:20AM Unionville HS Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Director: Jeff Wrigglesworth

8:45AM St. Joseph’s Morrow Park CSS Intermediate Band

REPERTOIRE

• October

• Sparkle

• Lullaby to the Moon

Director: Nicholas Digiannatale B200

9:00AM Dr. G.W. Williams SS Grade 9 Concert Band

• Kronos

• Kyiv, 2022

Director: Scott Harrison B200

9:15AM Dunbarton HS Senior Concert Band

• Three Czech Folk Songs

• March of the Trolls

Director: Lisa Barth B300

• Air for Band

• Mindset

9:35AM Bradford District HS Concert Band

• A Scottish Ballade

Director: Holly Reynolds B200

9:50AM Cardinal Carter Academy of the Arts Concert Winds

• Cloud Dancing

• Persis

Director: Manuel Bermitt B400

• Fantasy on a Japanese Folk Song

10:10AM Keswick HS Concert Band

Director: Andrew Siu B200

10:25AM Unionville HS Chamber Winds

• The Sweet Sounds of Snowfall

• Kronos

• Hillsong No. 2

Director: Jeff Wrigglesworth B500

• A Moorside Suite, Mvmt. II

• Mouvement Frenetique

10:50AM Dr. G.W. Williams SS Grade 10 Symphonic Band

• Rain

Director: Cheryl Wilson B400

11:10AM CATCH-UP BREAK

• Into the Joy of Spring

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

11:15AM St. Aloysius Gonzaga SS

Wind Ensemble

Director: Julia Jung

11:35AM Dunbarton HS

Junior Concert Band

Director: Jennifer Galberg

11:50PM Markham District HS

Wind Symphony

Director: Stuart Siu

12:10PM Upper Canada College Prep

School Year 7 Concert Band

Director: Paul McGarr

12:25PM Cardinal Carter Academy of the Arts Wind Symphony

Director: Anita Anton

12:50PM Georgian Bay DSS

Symphonic Band

Director: Matthew Rodnick

1:10PM Dr. G.W. Williams SS

Wind Ensemble

Director: Scott Harrison

1:35PM St. Michael CSS Thunderbeats Symphonic Band

Director: Gerard Engson

1:50PM Dundas Valley SS Junior Band

Director: Emily Dominey

2:05PM Palermo PS Symphonic Band

Director: Andrew Phillips

REPERTOIRE

• On A Hymnsong of Philip Bliss

• Kingsmere Overture

• Celtic Air and Dance No. 2

• Fragile

• Halycon Hearts

• Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo

• Sandy Bay March

• Psalm 42

• Shadows Unleashed

• Andante and Tranquillo

• Gandalf, from The Lord of the Rings

• Great Blue Heron

• A Mother of a Revolution

• Nitrous

• Hymn to the Sun With the Beat of Mother Earth

• Encore!

• A Song for Friends

B300

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B100

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B400

• The Water is Wide

• Jump Start

• Furioso

• Little Bear’s Lullaby

• North Point March

B500

B100

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

2:20PM CATCH-UP BREAK

2:25PM Markham District HS

Symphonic Winds

Director: Steffanie Tam

2:45PM Georgian Bay DSS Concert Band

Director: Kevin Weiss

3:00PM Newmarket HS

Grade 9 Concert Band

Director: Cheryl Cline

3:15PM St. Monica ES Concert Winds

REPERTOIRE

• Star Ship

• Three Balloons

• The Water is Wide

• Ulterior Motifs

• There Will Come Soft Rains

• Cloud Dancing

• Simple Gifts

Director: Terry Anton B100

3:30PM Sir William Mulock SS Junior Concert Band

Director: Meagan Rowatt

3:45PM Toronto French School Junior Wind Ensemble

Director: Rupert Price

4:00PM St. Michael CSS Thunderbeats Wind Ensemble

Director: Linda Ziemba

4:20PM St. Joseph’s Morrow Park CSS Senior Band

Director: Jivan Stepanian

4:40PM DINNER BREAK

5:10PM Agincourt CI Wind Symphony

Director: Graham Church

5:30PM Bur Oak SS Concert Band

Director: Will Stokes

• Armory

• In the Cool of the Evening

• Whirling Novas

• Spring March

• Creed

• Blue Ridge Saga

• Rain

• Counterbalance

• Ammerland

• Air for Band

• New Places

• Thanks

• Me (reAffirmation)

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

5:45PM Toronto French School

Senior Wind Ensemble

Director: Rupert Price

6:10PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau HS

Grade 12 Wind Symphony

Director: Greg Colley

6:35PM Agincourt CI Wind Ensemble

Director: Graham Church Julia Li

6:50PM Castlemore PS Wind Ensemble

Director: Elizabeth Colley

7:05PM Father John Redmond CSS

Concert Band

Director: Frank Pincente

7:20PM Sacred Heart CHS Concert Band

Director: Michelle Ross

7:40PM Toronto French School Festival

Wind Ensemble

Director: Rupert Price

8:05PM Rouge River Winds

Director: Pratik Gandhi

• The Dambusters

• March First Suite in E-flat

• Give Us This Day

• O Waly, Waly

• Rider of the Mountain

• Ember Skies

• Colliding Visions

• Crusade

• Circles REPERTOIRE

• Forever Holding Close the Memories

• October

• Prairie Ride and Sunset

• Stillwater

• Chester

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON

9:00AM Middlefield CI Intermediate/ Senior Concert Band

Director: Aileen Cheung

9:20AM Aurora HS Senior Wind Ensembl

Director: Teri Fowler

9:40AM Fred Varley PS intermediate Concert Band

Director: Amanda Chan-Da Silva

9:55AM Richmond Hill HS Grade 11 Wind Symphony

Director: Kyle Yuen

10:15AM

Dr. J.M. Denison SS Concert Band

Director: Marianne Hamilton

10:30AM Westside SS Concert Band

Director: Sam Bibby

10:45AM Crosby Heights PS Wind Ensemble

Director: Julie Michopoulos

11:15AM CATCH-UP BREAK

11:20AM Middlefield CI Junior/ Intermediate Concert Band

Director: Jeyapragash Radhaakrishnan

11:50AM St. Jean de Brebeuf CHS Senior Band

Director: Romina Di Gasbarro

12:25AM Dr. J.M. Denison SS Wind Ensemble

REPERTOIRE

• Puszta, Mvmts. I-III

• Fate of the Gods

• Matters of Kindness

• Celtic Air and Dance No. 2

• Skygazer Fanfare

• I Am

• Four Dance Episodes

• Affirmation

• Crusade

• The Water is Wide

• Crusade

• Celtic Air and Dance No. 2

• Whirling Novas

Director: Marianne Hamilton

• Joy

Tides

• El Camino Real

• Air for Winds

• The Maple Leaf Forever

• Cloud Dancing

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14TH

2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TIME LEVEL BAND INFORMATON REPERTOIRE

12:40AM Milliken Mills HS

Grade 9 Concert Band

Director: Jane Batson

12:55PM Crosby Heights PS Symphonic Band

Director: Julie Michopoulos

1:10PM Westside SS Honour Band Director: Sam Bibby

1:30PM Richmond Hill HS

Grade 10 Symphonic Winds

Director: Kyle Yuen

1:50PM St. Jean de Brebeuf CHS

Junior Band

Director: Romina Di Gasbarro

2:05PM Tommy Douglas SS Concert Band Director: Ellisa DeVries

• Celtic Air and Dance No. 2

• Whirling Novas

• Creed

• Fragile

• Winter Sun

• Backlash

• Three Ayres from Gloucester

• Voices of the Sky

• Squonk Blues

• A Prehistoric Suite

• There Will Come Soft Rains

• Cloud Dancing

ADJUDICATORS

DR.

SHELLEY AXELSON

Interim Director of Bands

Radford University, Virginia

Dr. Axelson earned her undergraduate degree in music education from the University of South Florida, where she studied conducting with Jerry Junkin, Michael Votta, and Mallory Thompson. She continued her training by earning a Master of Music degree in Conducting at the University of Michigan, where her principal teacher was H. Robert Reynolds. After graduating from Michigan, she taught at Pasco Middle School in Dade City, Florida (where she co-authored the Secondary Music Curriculum), and Richardson Junior High in Richardson, Texas.

After earning her Doctorate in Conducting with Mallory Thompson at Northwestern University, Dr. Axelson was appointed Director of Bands at Central College in Pella, Iowa, where she was responsible for running all aspects of the band program. After three years in Iowa, she relocated to Indianapolis, Indiana to become the Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Indianapolis. In 2009, she joined the faculty of the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

Dr. Axelson is a highly sought-after conductor, clinician, presenter, and adjudicator for professional development events, band festivals, honour bands, and conferences throughout the United States and Canada. She recently presented at the National Association for Music Education Regional Conference in Atlantic City and the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago.

Dr. Axelson is a proud member of the College Music Society, College Band Directors National Association, National Association for Music Education, and Sigma Alpha Iota.

DR. ARMAND HALL ADJUDICATORS

Eastman School of Music Rochester, NY

Armand Hall (conductor, clarinetist, and educator) is the Director of Programs for the Gateways Music Festival. In this role, he plans, develops, and oversees all musical activities associated with the festival. Additionally, Dr. Hall is also a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music, where he is teaching courses in the Art Leadership Program and Music, Teaching, and Learning (Music Education) Departments.

Prior to his role at Gateways, Dr. Hall served as the Executive and Artistic Director of ROCmusic Collabortive, Rochester’s El Sistema-inspired community-based, free music learning program. Prior to ROCmusic, he served as Associate Director of Bands and Coordinator of Instrumental Music Education at the University of Memphis and, prior to that, as a middle and high school band director in the state of Michigan. Dr. Hall is the immediate past board chair of El Sistema USA® and serves on the boards of the Archipelago Project and the Rochester Youth Philharmonic.

A conductor and clarinetist, Dr. Hall earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in music education from the University of Michigan and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Wind Conducting from Michigan State University. He, along with his partner Dr. Leah McGray, co-conducts the Roads Less Travelled Ensemble, a contemporary music ensemble focused on platforming new works, many by under-represented populations, and designing audience-focused concert experiences.

ADJUDICATORS

DR. BENJAMIN LORENZO

Associate Professor of Music & Director of Bands

Kent State University Glauser School of Music

Benjamin Lorenzo is an associate professor of music and the Director of Bands at Kent State University’s Glauser School of Music where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, teaches conducting, and provides leadership for university bands. Previously, he served as Associate Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Arkansas where he led the Razorback Marching Band, Wind Symphony, and taught courses in conducting.

Passionate about wind bands in Latin America, Dr. Lorenzo has worked with musicians in Mexico, Panama, Peru, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic. He has also conducted bands in Kuala Lumpur and was a clinician for the Malaysian Band Directors Association Conducting Workshop. Additional experience abroad includes guest conducting the World Youth Wind Orchestra Project (WYWOP) in Schladming, Austria. Lorenzo remains active as an adjudicator, conductor, and clinician throughout the United States and has conducted professional ensembles such as the West Point Academy Band, and Banda Militar de la Fuerza Aerea del Peru.

Dr. Lorenzo’s writings on music are found in the Journal of Band Research, the WASBE Journal, and he has contributed to several volumes of the Teaching Music through Performance in Band series. He has presented sessions at the Texas Bandmasters Association, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, College Band Directors National Association conferences, and several state music education conventions.

Committed to amplifying diverse voices, Lorenzo serves on the advisory board of the Music Education Alliance, which sponsors the William P. Foster project, an initiative of CBDNA, Music For All, and the National Band Association, focused on supporting bands in historically underserved and under-resourced communities

Dr. Lorenzo previously held positions at Oklahoma State and Texas Tech University, and his teaching experience includes high schools in Florida and Texas. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in Wind Conducting from the University of Texas at Austin under the tutelage of Jerry Junkin, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Trombone Performance from Florida International University, studying with Mark Hetzler. A native of Havana, Cuba, he is a proud alumnus of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, where he began his teaching career.

DR. DYLAN MADDIX ADJUDICATORS

Assistant Professor, Instrumental Conducting & Community Engagement

Director of the Wind Ensemble Memorial University of Newfoundland & Labrador

Originally from Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Dr. Dylan Maddix is Assistant Professor of Instrumental Conducting and Community Engagement at Memorial University in St. John’s, NL. In this role, he conducts the Memorial University Wind Ensemble and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting.

Before this role, he worked as a Professor of Music and head of wind and brass studies at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario. There, he conducted the wind ensemble and taught courses in music theory, wind/ brass methods, and pedagogy. He also served on the conducting faculty at Laurentian University.

Outside of his teaching and conducting duties, Maddix serves as chair of the Canadian Band Association and is on the board of the Newfoundland and Labrador Band Association. He is also the founder and host of The Band Room Podcast, alongside composer Cait Nishimura, and hosts the conducting leadership podcast titled Changing Your Pattern.

Maddix’s academic journey includes a Bachelor of Music degree from Mount Allison University, a Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Toronto, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Conducting from Arizona State University.

Throughout this academic journey, he had the privilege of learning from accomplished mentors, including Jason Caslor (conducting, Arizona State University), Joe Burgstaller (trumpet, Arizona State University/Canadian Brass), Gillian MacKay (conducting, University of Toronto), Jim Spragg (trumpet, University of Toronto/Toronto Symphony), Linda Pearse (trumpet, Mount Allison University), and Alan Klaus (trumpet, Mount Allison University).

His professional career as a trumpeter is diverse and engaging, involving collaborations with artists such as Sarah McLachlan, Roger Hodgson of Supertramp, The Video Games Live Orchestra, Johnny Reid, The Broadway Tenors, Hannaford Street Silver Band, Toronto Concert Orchestra, Hogtown Brass Quintet, and Vox Aeris Trio.

Maddix has conducted masterclasses at esteemed institutions, including the University of Toronto, Western University, Acadia University, Mount Allison University, and McMaster University. He has also provided his expertise as a conducting and music consultant for Netflix’s Umbrella Academy and Global TV’s Private Eyes.

ADJUDICATORS

DR. CHRISTOPHER MOREHOUSE

Director of Bands & Professional Conducting

Southern Illinois University

Dr. Christopher Morehouse is Director of Bands and Professor of Conducting at Southern Illinois University, where he serves as conductor of the SIU Wind Ensemble, teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting, wind literature, and instrumental methods, and administers the entire SIU Bands program.

Morehouse made his Carnegie Hall debut with the SIU Wind Ensemble at the New York Band and Orchestra Festival in March 2008 and toured the People’s Republic of China with the SIU Wind Ensemble and Concert Choir in May 2009. In spring 2011, the SIU Wind Ensemble hosted percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie for a four-day residency, culminating in a concert of Sean Beeson’s Prometheus Rapture: Seven Legends for Snare Drum (world premiere wind version) and Joseph Schwantner’s Percussion Concerto, and gave a concert with the SIU Concert Choir at Chicago Symphony Center Orchestra Hall. Morehouse has worked with several notable composers in the preparation and performance of their works and with guest artists as soloists with the SIU Wind Ensemble. Recent artistic collaborations include composers Augusta Read Thomas, Morten Lauridsen, Bernard Rands, Chen Yi, Susan Botti, and Dana Wilson, as well as soloists Third Coast Percussion and numerous SIU School of Music faculty.

Morehouse is published in ten volumes of the Teaching Music through Performance in Band series, an encyclopedia of band literature published by GIA Publications, and has contributed clinic reviews for the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles International Conferences held in Killarney, Ireland and Cincinnati, Ohio. He maintains an active schedule as guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator in the United States, Canada, Europe, and East and Southeast Asia, and is currently a member of the College Band Directors National Association, World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, National Band Association, Illinois Music Education Association, and College Music Society.

Morehouse received his Bachelor of Music degree in music education from Ithaca College, Master of Music degree in wind ensemble conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music, as a student of Frank Battisti, and Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting, wind emphasis, from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, as a student of Rodney Winther. He joined the School of Music faculty at Southern Illinois University in August 2005.

DR. COLLEEN RICHARDSON ADJUDICATORS

Coordinator of Bands

Western University, London, Ontario

Dr. Richardson is Coordinator of Bands at Western University, where she directs the Wind Ensemble and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting and instrumental ensemble pedagogy. Under her direction, the Western University Wind Ensemble has produced two CDs, Apparitions and Explorations; both recordings are available through iTunes and Amazon.com. In 2018, Richardson was awarded the Canadian Band Association’s “International Band Award” for her contribution to the international band movement. From 2022-2024, she was the President of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and the Chairperson of WASBE’s Artistic Planning Committee for their 2024 conference in Gwangju, South Korea.

As well as being active as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor across Canada, Richardson has served as a judge for the World Music Contest (Kerkrade, The Netherlands, 2024), the New York International Music Festival (Carenegie Hall, 2023), and the Singapore International Band Festival (2024). She has guest conducted or presented her research in Brazil, Ireland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Wales, and the U.S. In 2018, she presented at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, and her publications include nine study guides for the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series, as well as articles for the Canadian Winds, and the Canadian Music Educator Journal. In 2012, Richardson produced and edited the Hunsberger DVD within GIA’s DVD set entitled Three Icons: Frank Battisti, Donald Hunsberger, and H. Robert Reynolds.

A native of Winnipeg, Richardson graduated from Brandon University (BMus Ed), the University of Calgary (Wind Conducting Diploma, MMus Conducting), and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (DMA Wind Conducting). While in Cincinnati completing her doctorate, she co-directed the Tri-State Chamber Players, as well as served as the Music Director and Conductor of the Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble. In 2005, Richardson became Assistant Professor of Music Education and the Wind Ensemble Director at Converse College in South Carolina. She joined the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University in 2006. The Western Young Winds Program was established by Richardson and Dr. Kevin Watson in 2013 as enrichment for the local grade 6-9 band students. They co-supervise the undergraduate music education students selected to teach and conduct the group.

ADJUDICATORS

BILL THOMAS

Associate Professor and Director of Bands, York University

Bill Thomas is an Associate Professor of Music and director of the Wind Symphony at York University in Toronto. He is a graduate of the jazz program at Humber College and holds Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education degrees from the University of Toronto as well as a Master of Arts (composition) from York University.

Prior to his time at York University, Bill taught music for twentythree years at the elementary and high school levels in the York Region District School Board. He spent most of that time as the Music Department Head at Markham District High School, where his performing groups won many accolades and awards, including the Jazz Report Magazine award for High School Program of the Year.

Bill’s concert band compositions appear on festival lists across Canada and are published by Eighth Note Publications and distributed by Alfred Music. He is a former Drum Corps International adjudicator and started his composing career as an arranger for numerous marching bands and drum & bugle corps in Canada and the United States. Bill is a past board member of the Ontario Music Educators Association and was recently made an honourary lifetime member of the Ontario Band Association. In 2021, Bill was inducted into the Musicfest Hall of Fame. He is much in demand as an adjudicator and clinician.

NATIONAL MUSIC CAMP

Junior Division (grades 3-8) - August 16th - August 23rd

Senior Division (grades 8-12) - August 24th - August 31st Professional

Exciting Camp Activities

Outstanding Facilities and Site

A MULTITUDE OF THANKS!

A festival of this magnitude requires a lot of work. We would like to sincerely acknowledge and thank all of the wonderful people (and their very patient and understanding loved ones) that have made the OBA’s Provincial Band Festival a continued success this year:

ALL OF OUR AWESOME SPONSORS

Geoff Houghton, Steve Bijakowski &

Markham District High School and Stuart Siu

Richmond Hill High School and Cameron Rawlins

Dr. Norman Bethune Collegiate Institute and Andria Kilbride

OUR ON-SITE FESTIVAL TEAM

Pratik Gandhi – Performance Hall Manager and Volunteer Trainer

Jessica Puskar – Performance Hall Manager and Volunteer Trainer

Mark Caswell – Festival Advisor

Laura Houghton – Volunteer Manager and Trainer

Katherine Crosby – Adjudication Secretary

Shashi Ramu – Festival Week Support

Rex Harknett & Harknett Music

Steven Fishman & the Chinese Cultural

The Roshd Family & Tim Hortons

René Kramer, Andrew Bowden

Alan Peng & Peppercorn Photography

Rich Brewda & Multimax Marketing

the Don Wright Faculty of Music, University of Western Ontario

Aubrey Kelly & University of Toronto Faculty of Music

Brian Farrow – Festival Week Support

Beryl Macleod – Directors’ Social Support

Cynthia Johnston Turner, Mieke Kanmacher & Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Music

Julia Brook, Julia Stroud & Queen’s University Faculty of Music

Cathy Ellison, Michelle Branco & Ellison Travel & Tours Ltd.

Alana Mallins & WorldStrides

Anne Fleming-Read, Scott Harrison & Interprovincial Music Camp

Tia Wintre & the National Music Camp

Larry Davidson & D’Addario Canada

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST…

All of our wonderful Adjudicators

The amazing staff of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto

The OBA Board of Directors

The OBA and its Provincial Band Festival Organizing Committee would like to express our deep gratitude to the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto for its continued support and vital sponsorship of our annual Festival.

THANK YOU!

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