2023 All-Illinois Junior Band Program

All-Illinois Junior Band Kevin M. Geraldi, conductor

New Trier High School Symphonic Wind Ensemble Matt Temple, conductor Bruce Daugherty, associate conductor

University of Illinois Krannert Center for Performing Arts Foellinger Great Hall Saturday, January 21, 2023 3:00pm

Dana Hofer

1688 South River Road Des Plaines, IL Call or text: 847-338-6649 Dana@DanaHoferBrassRepair.com www.DanaHoferBrassRepair.com

PROGRAM ALL-ILLINOIS JUNIOR BAND KEVIN M. GERALDI, CONDUCTOR Breakthrough

Tyler Grant

Cape Breton Postcard

Catherine McMichael

Destined to Fly

William Owens

Torch of Liberty

Karl King arr. James Swearingen

The Country Club Stomp

JaRod Hall

NEW TRIER HIGH SCHOOL SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE MATT TEMPLE, CONDUCTOR On the Mall

Edwin Franko Goldman ed. Edward Lisk

Shenandoah

Traditional arr. Omar Thomas

Horn Concerto No. 1, Mvt. III

Richard Strauss ed. John Boyd

Ryan Williamson, Horn, New Trier Class of 2018

Roma

Valerie Coleman

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2023 All-Illinois Junior Band FLUTE Caleb Barnes - Concordia Lutheran School Sophia Cescato - Grissom Middle School Kalila Chen - Westview Hills Middle School Joanna Chua - Plum Grove Junior High School Suah Lee - Field Middle School Kayla Patel - Field Middle School Claire Wellman - Troy Middle School *Carmen Yanguas – Wood Oaks Jr. High School OBOE Tivya Bernier - Geneseo Middle School *Lettie Samuel - McCracken Middle School BASSOON Julianna Capretta - Wilmette Jr. High School *Gabriel Pabst - Parkside Junior High School CLARINET *Sarah Che - MacArthur Middle School Will Choi - Field Middle School Rena Daniel-Evbota - Murphy Jr. High School Abigail Kim - Wood Oaks Junior High School Aislyn Lederer - Conrady Junior High Patryk Maz - Field Middle School Haley Moffett - Westview Hills Middle School Ellie Penavic - O'Neill Middle School Daniel Penning - McCracken Middle School Aaron Samuelson - Prairie Grove Jr. High School Luke Steffens - Lincoln Middle School Audrey Storck - McCracken Middle School Cayden Szeto - Wood Oaks Junior High School Henry Ulrych - Thomas Middle School Justin Yi - Science & Arts Academy

TRUMPET Nate Bennett - Prairie Grove Junior High School Antoni Czarkowski - McCracken Middle School Abraham Friedman - McCracken Middle School Bridget Lantry - McCracken Middle School *Peyton LaPlant - Prairie Grove Junior High School Jongmin Lee - Field Middle School Raphael Mangubat - McCracken Middle School Leah McKenzie - Traughber Junior High School Steven Randles - Prairie Grove Junior High School William Weedon - Wilmette Jr. High School Asa Wormington - McCracken Middle School Zeb Zamoras - Troy Middle School FRENCH HORN Cody Bouchard - Prairie Grove Junior High School Lydia Jayne - Lakeview Jr. High School *Ben Leeb - Edison Middle School Callie Poynton - Monticello Middle School Samara Sokolowski - Field Middle School Evelyn Vargas - Thompson Jr. High School TROMBONE Jacob Berry - Geneseo Middle School Jack Freeman - McCracken Middle School *Simon Girgis - McCracken Middle School Colin Guth - Urbana Middle School Dean Hemmer - Good Shepherd Lutheran School Collinsville Andrew Li - Wilmette Jr. High School Jose Miranda - Prairie Grove Junior High School Sophie Wills - Monticello Middle School

BASS CLARINET *Cadee Click - Prairie Grove Junior High School Dev Gandhi - Field Middle School Evan Miranti - Carterville Junior High School

EUPHONIUM *Sebastian Gonzalez - McCracken Middle School Audrey Killion - Monticello Middle School Rosanna Olaveja - McCracken Middle School Marybeth Reckamp - Prairie Grove Junior High School

ALTO SAXOPHONE *Marcus Lee - McCracken Middle School Kyle Lin - Butler Junior High School Carter Meyer - Wood Oaks Junior High School Jacob Wolfinger - McCracken Middle School

TUBA Gabriela Gomez - McCracken Middle School Karol Kaczmarczyk - River Grove School Andy Nuñez - Beach Park Middle School *James Yum - Field Middle School

TENOR SAXOPHONE *Carter Jarvis - O'Fallon CCS District 90 Reed Maurer - Lincoln Middle School

PERCUSSION Emilee Colton - Thomas Middle School *Jacob Dillon - Prairie Grove Junior High School Oliva Gassman - Wood Oaks Junior High School Jereme Higginbotham - Richland Co. Middle School Dean Hu - Wood Oaks Junior High School Gianna Lazatin - Murphy Jr. High School Elliott Woody - Thomas Middle School

BARITONE SAXOPHONE Tim DeWitt - O'Fallon CCS District 90 *Lukas Merriman - Monticello Middle School *principal

KEVIN M. GERALDI Kevin M. Geraldi is the newly appointed Director of Bands at the University of Illinois. He comes to the University of Illinios from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he was Director of Instrumental Ensembles and Professor of Conducting. He conducted the UNCG Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and Casella Sinfonietta, and teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting.

With UNCG ensembles, he has performed in Dvořák Hall in Prague, Czech Republic, the Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda, MD, at the national CBDNA conventions in Austin, TX, and Greensboro, NC, and at the American Bandmasters Association convention in Norfolk, VA. Previously, he taught at Lander University in Greenwood, SC and in the public schools of Westchester, IL, and was assistant conductor of the Central Illinois and Michigan Youth Symphonies.

Dr. Geraldi appears regularly as a guest conductor and he maintains an active schedule as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the country. Committed to promoting contemporary art music, he has commissioned and premiered numerous compositions and collaborated with composers including Philip Glass, Christopher Theofanidis, Joel Puckett, Steven Bryant, Carter Pann, and John Mackey. He has collaborated with artists including Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Lynn Harrell, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and Lindsay Kesselman. He has published several articles in leading scholarly journals on topics that reflect his interest in the history and performance practice of chamber music for winds, brass, and strings. His recordings with the Minerva Chamber Ensemble, Casella Sinfonietta, and UNCG Wind Ensemble are available on the Equilibrium and Centaur Records labels.

A devoted advocate for music education, Dr. Geraldi conducts dozens of clinics annually with high school orchestras and bands and honors ensembles throughout the country, presents frequently at music education conferences, and has published articles for music educators on concert programming and effective rehearsal strategies.

Dr. Geraldi holds the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in conducting from the University of Michigan, where he studied with H. Robert Reynolds and Michael Haithcock, and the Bachelor of Music Education degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, where he studied with Steven Eggleston. His other conducting teachers include Gustav Meier, Kenneth Kiesler, Daniel Hege, and Rossen Milanov. He has also participated as a conducting fellow in workshops with Pierre Boulez, Paul Vermel, William Henry Curry, and Frederick Fennell. Dr. Geraldi is a recipient of the Thelma A. Robinson Award, presented by the Conductors Guild and the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the Outstanding Teaching Award in the UNCG School of Music. He is a member of the American Bandmasters Association, the Conductors Guild, the College Orchestra Directors Association, the College Band Directors National Association, the National Association for Music Education, Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and is a National Arts Associate of Sigma Alpha Iota.

PARTICIPATING DIRECTORS Amanda J. Allen

Candace Horton

Monticello Middle School • Monticello, IL

Thomas Middle School • Arlington Heights, IL

Eric Bachmann Emerson Middle School • Niles, IL

Jennifer Bolton Parkside Junior High School • Normal, IL

Kimberly Branch Edison Middle School • Champaign, IL

Jim Childers Marion Jr. High School • Marion, IL

Eric Combs Richland County Middle School • Olney, IL

Jeff Crylen

Ilona Hutter Lincoln Middle School • Park Ridge, IL

Josh Johnson Traughber Junior High School • Oswego, IL

Christine Kaminski O’Neill Middle School • Downers Grove, IL

Julianna Karvelius Murphy Jr. High School • Plainfield, IL

Jamie Kotovsky Geneseo Middle School • Geneseo, IL

Nick Krejci

Prairie Grove Junior High School • Crystal Lake, IL

Butler Junior High School • Oak Brook, IL

Chandran Daniel

North Boone Middle School • Poplar Grove, IL

Thompson Jr. High School • Oswego, IL

Chip De Stefano McCracken Middle School • Skokie, IL

Kate DeMonica O’Fallon School District 90 • O’Fallon, IL

Mark Drews Bethel Lutheran School •Morton, IL

Ann Dufek Wilmette Jr. High School • O’Fallon, IL

Johnny Lammersfeld Erika Mennig Countryside School • Champaign, IL

Mike Miller Field Middle School • Northbrook, IL

Karen Moffett Westview Hills Middle School • Willowbrook, IL

Mario Mongello Plum Grove Jr. High School • Rolling Meadows, IL

Jamie Escatel

Dannyel Norrington

Urbana Middle School • Urbana, IL

Carterville Junior High School • Carterville, IL

Julie Fischer Yorkville Middle School • Yorkville, IL

William Goetz Troy Middle School • Plainfield, IL

Wayne Gordon

Tricia Ogdon Chiddix Junior High School •Normal, IL

Steven Olson Logan Junior High School • Princeton, IL

Ralph Petrella

Wood Oaks Junior High School • Northbrook, IL

Old Orchard Junior High School • Skokie, IL

Jennifer Grabot

Attea Middle School • Glenview, IL

Beach Park Middle School • Beach Park, IL

Jody Hagberg Cornerstone Christian Academy • Bloomington, IL

Sara Hawkins Geneseo Middle School •Geneseo, IL

Eric Hipple Concordia Lutheran, Peoria, IL

Allison Reatherford Scott Rudnick River Grove School • River Grove, IL

Sam Simpson MacArthur Middle School • Prospect Heights,IL

Rob Slater Conrady Junior High • Hickory Hills, IL

Ben Sorce Barrington MS - Station Campus •

PARTICIPATING DIRECTORS Barrington, IL

Zachary Stegman

Michael Szczasny

Good Shepherd Lutheran School Collinsville • Collinsville, IL

Grissom Middle School. • Tinley Park, IL

Keri Stone

Lakeview Jr. High School • Downers Grove, IL

Northbrook Jr. High School • Northbrook, IL

Kyler Stuckert

Thomas Tedeschi Bobbi Weber Science & Arts Academy • Des Plaines, IL

Hamilton Elementary School • Hamilton, IL

SPECIAL THANKS AIJB would like to thank the Music Shoppe for sponsoring our Friday night reception for students, directors and families.

THANK YOU, MUSIC SHOPPE!

NEW TRIER HIGH SCHOOL SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE Flute Sarah Choi Sebastian Collins* Sophie Gies Kaminta Hou Katherine Hungness Amelia Schotz Oboe Andrew Xia Bassoon Atlas Hollander Erik Li Clarinet Finola Cahill* Daniel Chang Olivier Coppieters 't Wallant Benjamin Law Jacob Matten Caelum Parkhill Edison Sun Sophia Wang*

Trumpet Alex Acimovic* Aiden Campbell Emily Connerty Katie Hedberg Victoria Hughes Daniel Matten Max Ruben Horn Charlotte Calkins* Theodore Chevalier Declan Smith Trombone Peter Arlandson Matthew Campitelli Will Gutrich Nikita Kovalov* Bass Trombone Ava Siu Euphonium Tyler Wang*

Bass Clarinet Roxana JafariHaddadian

Tuba Garrett Ellensohn Charlie Plater

Alto Saxophone Maxwell Jiang Julia Vago* Tenor Saxophone Zach Gould Gabe Nosek

Percussion Lucy Canel Schuyler Cox* Garrett Pankey Lucas Pazen Josh Phenany Coltin Thomas

Baritone Saxophone Jin Auh

*Section Leader

Matt Temple was appointed Director of Bands at New Trier High School in 2007. Under his direction, the New Trier Symphonic Wind Ensemble has performed at the Midwest Clinic, Music for All National Concert Band Festival, Illinois Music Education Conference, Chicagoland Invitational Concert Band Festival, and the University of Illinois Superstate Festival. He has also led them in performances at the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall in New York City, and throughout Italy. This spring break, the band will return to New York City to perform in the newly renovated David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, home of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The Symphonic Wind Ensemble has been featured three times on Introductions presented by WFMT, Chicago’s classical music station. In 2014, The New Trier Band Program was recognized as an inaugural National Winner of the Blue Ribbon Award for “Programs of Excellence” presented by the National Band Association.

Mr. Temple currently serves as the Vice President for the National Band Association and is humbled to be a member of the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Awareness) committee. A strong advocate for student-centered instruction, Mr. Temple is a Past President of the Illinois committee for Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP).

As a contributing editor for The Instrumentalist magazine, he has authored many articles over the past decade and has also served on the Advisory Committee for NAfME’s Music Educators Journal. Mr. Temple has received the NBA Citation of Excellence multiple times, and in 2015, he was recognized by his colleagues with the Outstanding Chicagoland Music Educator Award. He has presented sessions on music selection, score analysis, student-centered instruction, and innovative band curriculum at multiple universities, state music conferences, and twice at the Midwest Clinic. Mr. Temple frequently serves as a clinician and guest conductor throughout the United States.

The New Trier High School band program consists of 150 students, including the Freshman Concert Band, Varsity Wind Ensemble, Concert Wind Ensemble, and Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Wind and percussion students are concurrently enrolled in four curricular jazz ensembles and two orchestras. With the exception of dress rehearsals, there are no additional sectionals or rehearsals scheduled outside of regular class time. The Symphonic Wind Ensemble prepared for today’s performance in this same manner. New Trier maintains an in-house studio of private teachers for all

wind, string, percussion, and vocal students. Nearly all of the students in Symphonic Wind Ensemble study privately and over 75% of all students in the wind ensemble program study privately.

Ryan Williamson is a regular member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet Orchestra, APEX Ensemble, and Little Orchestra Society. Most recently, he was invited to the Marlboro Music Festival as a 2022 Participant. In October 2021, Ryan gave the world premiere performance of Dana Dimitri Richardson’s Sonata for Horn and Piano with pianist Craig Ketter, which is now available on YouTube. He has also been awarded fellowships to festivals including the National Orchestral Institute & Festival and Aspen Music Festival and School. Ryan is currently pursuing a Master’s of Music at Northwestern University under the tutelage of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen. He completed his undergraduate studies at The Juilliard School. Past mentors include Julie Landsman, Michelle Baker, Eric Reed, Erik Ralske, and Daniel Gingrich. Ryan is a 2018 graduate of New Trier High School. .

GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The All-Illinois Junior Band would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors and advertisers.

Gold Sponsor Quinlan and Fabish Music Company Silver Sponsor Conn Selmer The Music Shoppe Bronze Sponsor Shivelbine’s Music Store Advertisers Dana Hofer Brass Repair PM Music Center

The All-Illinois Junior Band was founded for the express purpose of creating a premier musical experience for the state’s finest middle school band students. As the first statewide middle school honor band in more than half a century, membership in AIJB is determined solely through competitive blind auditions. Its goals are to provide an opportunity for middle school students to perform excellent literature with a mature ensemble and distinguished conductor, to interact with similarly dedicated student musicians from around the state of Illinois, and to encourage and inspire these outstanding young musicians to continue their musical studies.

The AIJB maintains associations with the host site – The University of Illinois School of Music – and with middle school band directors around the state.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS University of Illinois School of Music Jeffrey Sposato, Director Rebekka Price, Public Engagement Director Stephen Burian, Public Engagement Assistant Director William Moersch, Professor and Chair of Percussion Angela Tamman, Admissions Director

University of Illinois Bands Kevin M. Geraldi, Director of Bands Barry L. Houser, Associate Director of Bands Kimberly Fleming, Assistant Director of Bands Hannah Rudy, Assistant Director of Athletic Bands

All-Illinois Junior Band - Board of Directors David Allen Chip De Stefano Wayne Gordon Barry Houser Jason M. Torf

All-Illinois Junior Band - Director Liaisons Chuck Noud, Southern Illinois Karen Debauche, Central Illinois Mike Miller, Northern Illinois

All-Illinois Junior Band - Audition Adjudicators Andrew Beckwith, Robert Blim, Kimberly Farris, Kimberly Fleuchaus, Greg Fudala, BJ Hardesty, Mike Miller, and Carey Valente

Special Thanks Matt Temple, New Trier High School Symphonic Wind Ensemble Quinlan and Fabish for providing student folders Conn-Selmer for providing student lanyards The Music Shoppe for sponsoring our student reception AIJB is very appreciative of the U of I students who have volunteered their time to help with this festival.

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