PROGRAM
Comments by Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor of Musicology Dr. Denise Von Glahn
Pastorale (1933 revision) Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Eric Ohlsson, oboe; Margaret Cracchiolo, English horn
Jonathan Holden, clarinet; Jeff Keesecker, bassoon; Corinne Stillwell, violin
Octet (1923)
I. Sinfonia
II. Theme and Variations
III. Finale
Karen Large, flute; Jonathan Holden, clarinet
Jeff Keesecker and Josie Whiteis, bassoon
Christopher Moore and Vance Garven, trumpet
Hana Beloglavec, trombone; Grant Keel, bass trombone
Rodney Dorsey, conductor
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Comments by Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor of Musicology Dr. Denise Von Glahn
Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) (1918)
Part 1
I. Soldier’s March
II. Airs by a Stream
III. Pastorale
Part 2
I. Soldier’s March (reprise)
II. Royal March
III. The Little Concert
IV. Three Dances
1. Tango
2. Waltz
3. Ragtime
V. The Devil’s Dance
VI. Little Chorale
VII. The Devil’s Couplet
VIII. Grand Chorale
IX. Triumphal March of the Devil
Larry Gerber, narrator
Jonathan Holden, clarinet; Jeff Keesecker, bassoon
Christopher Moore, trumpet; Hana Beloglavec, trombone
Corinne Stillwell, violin; George Speed, double bass; Kylan Bigby, percussion
Rodney Dorsey, conductor
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Trombonist and pedagogue Hana Beloglavec has a dynamic career performing as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and teaching at Florida State University. Beloglavec has performed as a guest artist soloist at the 2022 International Women’s Brass Conference and with the U.S. Army Orchestra at the 2020 American Trombone Workshop. Her debut album, Bayou Home, was released through Summit Records in February 2023. This project was funded through the State of Louisiana Board of Regents ATLAS grant.
Also deeply interested in orchestral music, Beloglavec currently performs as the principal trombonist of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra and has served as the acting principal trombone with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra for the 22-23 season. In summer of 2019 she performed as a substitute for the Armenian National Philharmonic’s production
of Verdi’s Otello – the first female brass player to perform with the orchestra. She has also performed as a substitute trombonist with the Chicago-based early music ensemble Music of the Baroque as well as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Beloglavec was a core member of Seraph Brass from 2017-2020 and with the group performed and taught around the world. With Seraph, she was a guest artist at the 2019 Busan Maru International Music Festival in South Korea, the 2017 and 2018 Lieksa Brass Week in Finland, and the 2019 Artosphere Music Festival in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Beloglavec received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Northwestern University, where she studied with Professors Michael Mulcahy, Douglas Wright, Timothy Higgins, Randall Hawes, and Christopher Davis. She completed the Master of Music degree at Yale University and the Bachelor of Music degree at Western Michigan University, where she studied with Professor Scott Hartman and Dr. Steve Wolfinbarger, respectively. In 2019 she was awarded the Early Career Award from Western Michigan University’s College of Fine Arts. Beloglavec is currently an assistant professor of music at Florida State University and has formerly held positions teaching at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. Beloglavec is a Shires Artist and an Ultimate Brass Artist.
Rodney Dorsey is Professor of Music at the Florida State University College of Music where he conducts the FSU Wind Orchestra and guides the graduate wind conducting program.
Dorsey comes to FSU from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he conducted the IU Wind Ensemble and taught graduate conducting courses. Prior to his tenure at the Jacobs School, Dorsey served on the faculties of the University of Oregon, University of Michigan, DePaul University and Northwestern University. He also gained extensive experience teaching in the public schools of Florida and Georgia.
Dorsey studied conducting with Mallory Thompson, John P. Paynter, and James Croft. He was a clarinet student of Fred Ormand and Frank Kowalsky.
During his conducting career, Dorsey has led performances at several prominent events including the American Bandmasters Association Convention, College Band Directors National Conference North/Northwest Regional Conference, and the Bands of America National Festival. He is active as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator in the United States. International engagements include Hungary, Canada, and Bulgaria.
Dorsey’s commitment to community has been demonstrated by his participation on the board of directors for Music for All and the Midwest Clinic. He currently serves as the president of the Midwest Clinic. Other professional memberships include the College Band Directors National Association, National Association for Music Education, Florida Bandmasters Association, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma (honorary), Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. Dorsey is also an elected member
of the American Bandmasters Association. Most recently Dorsey was named a Yamaha Master Educator.
Larry Gerber is Professor Emeritus at Florida State University’s College of Music. He came to Tallahassee in 1979 and has been active in Catholic Music Ministries since then. Gerber helped found the Men’s Chorus of Good Shepherd in 1995 and has been conducting that ensemble since then. At FSU, Gerber (a tenor) taught voice, vocal pedagogy and conducted the FSU Men’s Glee Club (The Collegians) for 35 years.
Jonathan Holden is Associate Professor of Clarinet at Florida State University, Principal Clarinetist of the West Michigan Symphony and a member of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. A frequent guest of numerous orchestras, he has performed with ensembles such as the Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Baton Rouge and Lansing symphony orchestras, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the Mobile Symphony and the Sarasota Orchestra. He is a founding member of the Vireo Ensemble (clarinet, violin, cello, piano) and the Argot Trio (clarinet, violin, piano).
Holden is an ardent soloist and chamber music collaborator. He has made guest appearances with ensembles such as the Degas, Ciompi and Voxare string quartets and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician by invitation of the British Clarinet Congress, Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, College Music Society, Music Teachers National Association, Festival South, Festival Contempoaneo (Brazil), Alfredo de Saint Malo Festival (Panama), Chamber Music Wilmington, American Music Festival and Saugatuck Chamber Music Festival. He has given performances, clinics and masterclasses at collegiate establishments in the US and overseas including Vanderbilt, Michigan State University, the national conservatories of Panama and Paris and the universities of Memphis, Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas and Rio de Janeiro.
A proponent of new chamber music, Holden’s latest work with the Argot Trio has yielded notable fundraising success and the commissioning of several new trios to be included on a forthcoming CD, Made in Mississippi, featuring works inspired by the birthplace of America’s music. Contributing composers include Luigi Zaninelli, Michael Burns, Alan Theisen and James Sclater. The Argot Trio’s recording of a new work by Steven Holochwost was released in 2013 on the Albany label. Holden has also prepared and performed works for composers Bright Sheng, Peter Sculthorpe, Ricardo Tacuchian and Judith Zaimont.
Holden received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Michigan State University where he studied with eminent soloist and chamber musician Dr. Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, as well as Nathan Williams and Theodore Oien. He received BM and MM performance degrees from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama under Joy Farrall, Andrew Webster and celebrated recording artist Dame Thea King.
Professor of Bassoon Jeff Keesecker is Principal Bassoonist with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, holds the Paul W. and Phyllis G. Runge Principal Bassoon Chair with the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra and is the Bassoon Mentor of the National Music Festival. He has been a member of the Florida Orchestra, the Sarasota Orchestra, the St. Gallen Sinfonie, the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival), and Solisti New York. He has performed as soloist and chamber musician across North America, and in Europe, South America, and Asia, and is a frequent performer at the annual conferences of the International Double Reed Society. He has taught masterclasses and workshops on three continents and has been on the faculties of the Interlochen Arts Camp, Utah Music Festival, and Animas Music Festival. Keesecker gave the world premiere of Eric Ewazen’s Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble in 2003, and in 2006 released a solo CD entitled Bassoon Music of the Americas.
A native of Sarasota, Florida, Keesecker first studied bassoon with Trevor Cramer. He received the Bachelor of Music from FSU, studying with William Winstead, and the Master of Music from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Steven Maxym. His training included participation in the Aspen Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, and the New York String Orchestra Seminar.
Associate Professor of Flute Karen McLaughlin Large teaches flute lessons, flute ensemble, low flutes, Baroque flute, and Wind and Percussion Pedagogy at the FSU College of Music. Large is passionate about helping students navigate their unique paths in the music world. She does this in her lessons and classes through activities in areas such as music entrepreneurship, audition and competition preparation, community outreach, and grant-writing. Large previously served as Associate Professor of Flute and Music Theory at Kansas State University.
Large enjoys performing in concerto, solo, chamber, and large ensemble settings. She plays regularly with Traverso Colore: Baroque Flute Ensemble, Tornado Alley Flutes, and the Florida Flute Orchestra. She also previously performed with the Konza Wind Quintet, Topeka Symphony Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, and Pensacola Symphony Orchestra. As a guest artist, she has enjoyed performing and teaching at universities in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, Tennessee, and Florida.
Large’s research interests include flute transcriptions of Romantic music, creation of the world’s first Virtual Flute Choirs, Baroque flute performance practice, and the intersection of music theory and flute performance. In Spring 2018 she released her first solo CD which featured her original transcriptions, String to Silver: Flute Transcriptions of Works in the Romantic Tradition. Large regularly performs and presents her research at national and international conferences. Large earned the DM, MM, and BM degrees from Florida State University studying with Eva Amsler, Stephanie Jutt, and Joshua Carter.
Grammy Award-winning artist Christopher Moore has taught trumpet at FSU since 2003. Prior to his appointment at FSU, Moore was Associate Professor of Trumpet at the University of Kansas, where for seven years he directed the trumpet studio, conducted the trumpet ensemble and performed as a member of the Kansas Brass Quintet. Moore also served as Assistant Professor of Music at Morningside College from 1989 to 1993, and from 1994 to 1996 was a full-time member of the Philadelphia professional brass quintet, The Chestnut Brass Company, recording 4 CDs with that group and winning the Grammy Award in their field in 2000 with Hornsmoke, a CD that featured the brass chamber music of Peter Schickele.
Moore holds the DMA degree in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, the MM in Performance from the University of New Mexico, and the BM in Performance from Florida State University. He has won numerous solo competitions, including top prize at the ITG competition and at state and regional MTNA competitions. Moore has also been a finalist at the Ellsworth Smith International Trumpet Competition as well as the MTNA National Finals.
Moore has presented clinics at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the National Association of Wind and Percussion Instructors (NACWPI) National Convention, and has performed at the National MENC and International Trumpet Guild Conferences. He is past president of NACWPI and is currently on the Executive Board of the National Trumpet Competition. Moore is a Selmer Artist and can be heard on his first solo CD, Trumpeting the Stone, on the Mark Masters label as well as in the most recent edition of Sigmund Hering’s Progressive Etudes by Carl Fischer Publications. Most recently, Carl Fischer Publications released Student’s Essential Studies for Trumpet, A Sequential Collection of 42 Standard Etudes for the Advancing Student, compiled and edited by Moore.
Eric Ohlsson, Charles O. DeLaney Professor of Oboe in the College of Music at Florida State University since 1986, is dedicated to both performing and teaching on a national and international scale and enjoys a significant musical career that is varied and far reaching in scope.
Ohlsson performs regularly as principal oboist of the Tallahassee Symphony, the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra, and in the summer months, with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, where he has been a member of the Artist Faculty since 1994. He was formerly principal oboe of the Naples Philharmonic (1986-96), the Columbus Symphony (197580), the Augusta Symphony (1982-86), and the South Carolina Philharmonic (1980-86). Additionally, he has played in the same capacity as a guest performer with groups such as the Charlotte Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, and the Jacksonville Symphony.
Ohlsson has many engagements to his credit as a recitalist and chamber musician the US, Canada, Europe, and South America, and has given solo and chamber recitals at venues such as Weill Recital Hall in New York City, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Brevard
Music Festival in North Carolina, with the City Music Chamber Orchestra in Cleveland, at the Casa Rui Barbosa in Rio, at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida, and at the Grand Castle of Vianden in Luxembourg, to name a few. He has performed at Conferences of the International Double Reed Society on ten separate occasions.
Ohlsson has been a featured soloist with the Naples Philharmonic, the Tallahassee Symphony, the Augusta Symphony, the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, City Music Cleveland, the Brevard Music Center Festival Orchestra and Brevard Sinfonia, the South Carolina Philharmonic, the South Carolina Chamber Orchestra, the Florida State Chamber Orchestra, and the University Orchestras of Florida State University and The Ohio State University. His repertoire includes the concertos of Haydn, Mozart, Strauss, Francaix, Martinu, Vaughan-Williams, and Zwilich.
As a pedagogue, Ohlsson has taught hundreds of young oboists at FSU, Brevard Music Festival, and at the Vianden International Music Festival. Many of these students now hold important positions as university professors, symphonic performers, and educators across the country. He has also taught at the University of South Carolina, the South Carolina Governors School of the Arts, Otterbein College, and Denison University.
Ohlsson holds DMA and MM degrees from The Ohio State University the BME from James Madison University. His most influential teachers are John Mack, William Baker, James Caldwell, Ben Wright and Travis Cox.
Associate Professor of Double Bass George Speed enjoys a career that combines teaching with solo, chamber, and orchestral performing. He joined the College of Music faculty after 14 years as Associate Professor of Double Bass at Oklahoma State University, where he received the 2009 Wise-Diggs-Berry Award for Teaching Excellence. For the past four summers, Speed has served on the artist faculty of the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, North Carolina.
Orchestral playing is central to Speed’s career. Recently appointed principal bass with the Tallahassee Symphony, he served as Principal Bass of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic from 2005-2019. For 17 years Speed was a regular player with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, including numerous television broadcasts and domestic and international tours. He has also performed with the Boston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, and Handel and Haydn Society, among others.
Speed is passionate about both chamber music and solo performance. The Pierre Boulez Workshop at Carnegie Hall selected him to perform Schoenberg’s Kammersymphonie, Op. 9 in Weill Recital Hall under Maestro Boulez in 1999. From 2005-2019 he performed regularly with the Oklahoma City-based chamber ensemble Brightmusic. In August 2018, Centaur Records released Speed’s recording of his Vivaldi cello sonata 1-6 transcriptions, with forthcoming print publication by Recital Music.
A native of Spartanburg, South Carolina, Speed earned the BM degree, summa cum laude, from Vanderbilt University, and the MM degree from Boston University. Additional studies include two summers at both the Aspen Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center, where he received the Rose Thomas Smith Legacy Prize. His principal teachers were Edwin Barker, Edgar Meyer, and William Scott. Speed plays on a late 19th century Neapolitan bass by Carlo Loveri.
Violinist Corinne Stillwell has enjoyed an active and varied career as a performer, mentor, and arts advocate. Her performance background began when she was selected to enter The Juilliard School at the age of ten, subsequently spending 15 years working with the famed pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. With early successes as the winner of numerous competitions, her concert career has since included a wide range of solo appearances, orchestral leadership, and chamber music collaborations.
As a frequent concerto soloist, Stillwell has been featured more than 50 times with orchestras including the New Jersey Symphony, the Nanjing Philharmonic in China, the Amarillo Symphony, the Greater Rochester Women’s Philharmonic, and on tour to Romania, Hungary, and Poland. As a recitalist, she has performed at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess series, and in Germany, Canada, and across the United States.
Currently Concertmaster of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, she has been a frequent orchestral leader for more than 25 years, having served as Concertmaster of the Amarillo Symphony, Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Janiec Opera Company, and the School of American Ballet Orchestra; Guest Concertmaster of the Nanjing Philharmonic in China; and Associate Concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic and the Victoria Bach Festival. She is also a member of the Arizona MusicFest, an ensemble comprised of colleagues from major symphony orchestras across the country, from New York and Boston to Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles.
An avid chamber musician, Stillwell has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today; was a founding member of Trio Solis; and has collaborated with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, violinist Mikhail Kopelman, and members of the Ying, Cavani, Pro Arte, and Carpe Diem quartets. She has also performed at Alice Tully Hall and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, Chamber Music Rochester, the Amarillo Chamber Music Society, Kosciuszko Foundation, and the American Festival of Microtonal Music. Other festival appearances include Saarburg (Germany), Aspen, Norfolk, and Skaneateles. As a member of the Harrington String Quartet, she performed extensively across the Midwest, from Texas to Wisconsin. Other projects with the Quartet included a PBS documentary, TV and radio broadcasts, and collaborations with clarinetist David Shifrin, pianist Robert Levin, and guitarist Pepé Romero. Her mentors have included members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, Amadeus, and Vermeer quartets, and her chamber recordings can be heard on Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, Navona, and MSR Classics.
Stillwell is also a dedicated teacher, empowering young musicians on their paths into a variety of careers, including professors, orchestral and chamber performers, high school orchestra directors, private studio teachers, music therapists, and teaching artists. Appointed to the faculty at Florida State University in 2007, she also taught at the Brevard Music Center from 2009-2022, and has given masterclasses at many music schools, including the Eastman School of Music and Vanderbilt University. Previously, she served on the faculties of West Texas A&M University, Kinhaven Music School, Point CounterPoint Music Festival, and the Hochstein School of Music, where she was the Director of Chamber Music.
With a passion for community engagement activities, Stillwell created “Building Bridges” in 2018, a multi-year project featuring performances of the complete Beethoven String Quartets in collaboration with advanced FSU students. She has taught courses for senior adults at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and is currently the coach and mentor for the educational performance activities of the Carriola Quartet, Sinfonia Gulf Coast’s Quartet-in-Residence. She also curates a series of chamber music concerts in our community as Co-Artistic Director of Music For Food Tallahassee, a nation-wide musician-led initiative to fight hunger and further social justice.
Denise Von Glahn’s scholarly interests include music and place, music and institutions, ecomusicology, gender studies, biography, and the works of Charles Ives. She has published two books on music and nature topics, The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape, which won a 2004 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, and Music and the Skillful Listener: American Women Compose the Natural World, which won the 2015 Pauline Alderman book award from the International Alliance for Women in Music. With Michael Broyles she has written a biography of Leo Ornstein, Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices, which won the 2009 Irving Lowens Award for distinguished scholarship in American music, and a critical edition of Ornstein’s Quintette for Piano and Strings, Op. 92 that appeared in the MUSA series. In 2017 she published Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life, the first full-length scholarly study of this contemporary composer, and Circle of Winners: How the Guggenheim Foundation Shaped American Music Culture in 2023. Her scholarship has been published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS), the Journal of the Society for American Music (JSAM), and American Music among other journals and essay collections. Von Glahn founded and co-edited the Music, Nature, Place series at Indiana University Press with Sabine Feisst from 2012-2017. She was Director of the Center for Music of the Americas from 2008 to 2020, and the Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor and Coordinator of the Musicology Area from 2015 to 2021 at Florida State. She has won university awards for both her undergraduate and graduate teaching, been recognized with the Distinguished Service Citation from the Society for American Music in 2022, and is a frequent visiting scholar on campuses in the U.S. and abroad.
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