Kennesaw State University Symphony Orchestra Program

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ORCHESTRA Nathaniel F. Parker, Music Director and Conductor

Saturday, January 30, 2021 | 7:00 pm Georgia Music Educators Association In-Service Virtual Conference

K E N N E S A W S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y

AUDITION DATES Sat., January 23, 2021

Sat., February 13, 2021 Sat., March 27, 2021

APPLICATION DEADLINES Sat., January 16, 2021

Sat., February 6, 2021 Sat., March 20, 2021

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About Us

The School of Music at Kennesaw State University offers a world class undergraduate education…training future performers, music educators, and leaders in the field of music. More than 270 majors and minors pursue degrees in performance, music education, composition, applied studies, theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology. Our programs and students stand out as the forerunners for the next generation of inspired musical scholars. We pride ourselves on our students’ accomplishments: from successfully acing their first theory exams, perfecting their collective sounds in performances, to signing contracts for their first real jobs!

KSU School of Music has a long-standing tradition of student ensemble performances at state, regional, and national music conferences. Our student ensembles are regularly featured at prestigious conferences throughout the country, including the Georgia Music Educators; National Collegiate Choral Organization; National Band Association; Southern Division College Band Directors National Association; and the American Choral Directors Association Southern Division and National Conferences.

Our faculty are dynamic artists-performers-scholars who are conductors, teachers, composers, researchers, and artists who regularly perform with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Opera, Atlanta Chamber Players, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, to highlight just a few. KSU School of Music is a leader in music training regionally, nationally, and internationally.

We invite you to join us at the School of Music at Kennesaw State University. Start your journey … where talent is cultivated, creativity is nurtured, performers are inspired, and where passion is heard.

Leslie J. Blackwell, DMA Interim Director, School of Music

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Performancce REPERTOIRE

Kennesaw State University Symphony Orchestra Kennesaw State University Symphony Strings Nathaniel F. Parker, Music Director and Conductor Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) Pines of Rome (1924)

I. Pines of the Villa Borghese

II. Pines Near a Catacomb

III. Pines of the Janiculum

IV. Pines of the Appian Way

Recorded Live on March 8, 2020, in Morgan Hall, Dr. Bobbie Bailey and Family Performance Center, Kennesaw State University

Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981) Source Code (2013)

Scott Lozier, violin

Recorded Live on October 30, 2020, in Morgan Hall, Dr. Bobbie Bailey and Family Performance Center, Kennesaw State University

Edward Kennedy “Duke� Ellington (1899-1974) Orchestrated by Luther Henderson and Maurice Peress Harlem (1950)

Kennesaw State University Jazz Ensemble I Sam Skelton, director

Recorded Live on November 21, 2019, in Morgan Hall, Dr. Bobbie Bailey and Family Performance Center, Kennesaw State University

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Program

NOTE

Source Code The first sketches of Source Code began as transcriptions of various sources from African American artists prominent during the peak of the Civil Rights era in the United States.

I experimented by re-interpreting gestures, sentences, and musical syntax (the bare bones of rhythm and inflection) by choreographer Alvin Ailey, poets Langston Hughes and Rita Dove, and the great jazz songstress Ella Fitzgerald into musical sentences and tone paintings. Ultimately, this exercise of listening, re-imagining, and transcribing led me back to the black spiritual as a common musical source across all three genres. The spiritual is a significant part of the DNA of black folk music, and subsequently most (arguably all) American pop music forms that have developed to the present day. This one-movement work is a kind of dirge, which centers on a melody based on syntax derived from black spirituals. The melody is continuous and cycles through like a gene strand with which all other textures play. —Jessie Montgomery

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Personnel

Kennesaw State University Symphony Orchestra Kennesaw State University Symphony Strings Nathaniel F. Parker, Music Director and Conductor STUDENT ASSISTANTS: Jeavanie Desarmes, Gabriella Paul, and Tyler D. Lovelace SYMPHONY STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL: Melissa Ake, Daniel Barket, Michael Brown, Lorin Green, Joseph Grunkemeyer,

Tyler D. Lovelace, Charles Page, Daniela Schirmer, and Andrew Yi

RESPIGHI PERSONNEL FLUTE Don Cofrancesco Lorin Green, principal Rachel Reaves PICCOLO Rachel Reaves OBOE Naomi Israel Robert Simon, principal ENGLISH HORN Emily Gunby CLARINET Brenden Ayestaran, principal Faith Kirkpatrick BASS CLARINET Jessica Bell BASSOON Mia Rodriguez Grayson Saylor, principal CONTRABASSOON Meghan O’Harra HORN Benjamin Farrow Heather Leach-Trickel, principal CJ Markow Johnny Stewart TRUMPET Eli Rickles Cierra Weldin Andrew Wynn, principal TENOR TROMBONE Davis Pitz Victoria Shrote, principal BASS TROMBONE Michael Karantonis TUBA Nick Collins OFF-STAGE BRASS Andrew Berry Michael Brown, solo trumpet Kameron Clarke Jalen Dobson Zachary Leinberger Andrew Olsen

TIMPANI Christopher Bowers PERCUSSION Jared Cook Jason Frey Christian Kilgore Michael Makrides Andrew Yi HARP Laurel Buchanan PIANO Jesse Cook

Joseph Grunkemeyer, associate principal Lacee Link^ Gabriella Paul Aidan Thompson Noah Zenn BASS Daniel Barket, principal Stephane Nazaire, associate principal Nolan Rodack Clay Rogers Daniela Schirmer ^ John and Linda Cooke String Quartet Scholar * Faculty Artist

CELESTA Bethany Johnston ORGAN Judy Cole* VIOLIN Deevon Aird Melissa Ake^, concertmaster Melody Bearden Jayna Burton, associate principal Abigail Carpenter Sarah Chang Robert Cox^ Mary Catherine Davis Jeavanie Desarmes MK Guthrie Bethany Johnston Esther Kim^, associate concertmaster Jessica Kim Andrew Lim Scott Lozier^, principal Matt Marcacci William Merritt Michael Parrish Javier Schirmer Sydney Sims Gamela Zaki VIOLA Dajon Carter, principal Nathan Gay, associate principal Isabella Giordano Tyler D. Lovelace Megan McMichen CELLO Garrett Clay Laci Divine Colin Gregoire^, principal Jair Griffin

MONTGOMERY PERSONNEL VIOLIN Deevon Aird Brandon Gasaway Bethany Johnston Esther Kim^, principal Jessica Kim Andrew Lim Scott Lozier^, concertmaster Matt Marcacci Nicholas Olmstead Javier Schirmer Russell White Landon Wilkins^ VIOLA Dajon Carter^, principal Bella Giordano Nathan Gay Tyler D. Lovelace^ Lesly Marcos^ CELLO Colin Gregoire^, principal Jair Griffin Joseph Grunkemeyer Jill Norman^ Noah Zenn BASS Daniel Barket, principal Jacob Cherry Stephane Nazaire Daniela Schirmer ^ John and Linda Cooke String Quartet Scholar

Personnel ELLINGTON PERSONNEL KSU Jazz Ensemble I Sam Skelton, Director REEDS Raphael DeJesus Jonathan Steltzer Jimmy Snyder Kevin Worley Josh Inglis TRUMPETS Jason Dokes Jordyn Mader Steven Lukehart Andrew Olsen TROMBONES Grady Housworth Zach Opitz Noah Minch Tyler Quick RHYTHM Zachary Wilson, piano Trey Dunnahoo, guitar Francisco Lora, bass Zack Smith, drums KSU Symphony Orchestra Nathaniel F. Parker, Music Director and Conductor FLUTE Ruth Bearden Lorin Green, principal Rachel Reaves PICCOLO Ruth Bearden OBOE Naomi Israel Robert Simon, principal ENGLISH HORN Emily Gunby CLARINET Brenden Ayestaran, principal Natalie Klein BASS CLARINET Jessica Bell BASSOON Meghan O’Harra Grayson Saylor, principal HORN Benjamin Farrow Heather Leach-Trickel, principal CJ Markow Johnny Stewart

TUBA Nick Collins TIMPANI Jared Cook PERCUSSION Andrew Creech Jason Frey Andrew Yi HARP Laurel Buchanan VIOLIN Melissa Ake^, concertmaster Jayna Burton Abigail Carpenter Sarah Chang Robert Cox^, associate concertmaster Mary Catherine Davis Jeavanie Desarmes Ryan Finlayson MK Guthrie Bethany Johnston Esther Kim^ Andrew Lim Scott Lozier^, principal Matt Marcacci William Merritt Charles Page^ Michael Parrish, associate principal Javier Schirmer Sydney Sims Heesuk Son Gamela Zaki VIOLA Dajon Carter^ Nathan Gay, principal Isabella Giordano Tyler D. Lovelace, associate principal Megan McMichen CELLO Garrett Clay, associate principal Laci Divine Colin Gregoire^ Jair Griffin Joseph Grunkemeyer, principal Lacee Link^ Gabriella Paul Aidan Thompson Noah Zenn BASS Daniel Barket Stephane Nazaire, associate principal Nolan Rodack Clay Rogers, principal Daniela Schirmer ^ John and Linda Cooke String Quartet Scholar

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Sam SKELTON A native of Conyers, Georgia, Sam Skelton has been active on the Atlanta music scene for well over three decades. Mr. Skelton graduated summa cum laude from Georgia State University with a degree in Jazz Studies. During his course of study at GSU, Sam was a Montgomery Music Scholar and a two-time fellowship recipient to the Aspen Music Festival. He continued his saxophone studies with Kenneth Radnofsky at Boston University in 1991 focusing on classical saxophone and music education. Other teachers include David and James “Dub” Hudson and Jeff Benedict.

Sam Skelton

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Sam is currently Director of Jazz Studies and Senior Lecturer in Saxophone at Kennesaw State University.

He is also Artistic Director of GSO Jazz and GYSO Jazz.

Sam served as Professor of Saxophone at Georgia State University from 1991 to 2004 and was Jazz Ensemble Director at Georgia Tech from 2002-2004 and Artist-in-Residence at The University Of Georgia Jazz Department. He served as Visiting Professor of Saxophone at Furman University 2001-02. Professional associations include: The Jazz Educators Network, Georgia Music Educators Association, Georgia Association of Jazz Educators, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (voting member) and the American Federation of Musicians. For his contributions to the city’s cultural life, Atlanta Public Broadcasting named him a “Lexus Leader in the Arts” in 2003. Sam is proud to be a Conn-Selmer and D’Addario Artist.

Nathaniel F.

PARKER

Nathaniel F. Parker has conducted orchestras in the United States, Peru, Russia, Poland, England, and the Czech Republic. Equally at home working with professionals and training future generations of musicians, Dr. Parker is Director of Orchestral Studies at the Kennesaw State University School of Music, Music Director and Conductor of the Kennesaw State University Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director and Conductor of the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Parker’s conducting accolades include being named a finalist for a Conducting Fellowship with the New World Symphony, a semi-finalist for a Conducting Fellowship at Tanglewood, 3rd Place Winner in the London Classical Soloists Conducting Competition, and a Candidate for the Respighi Prize in Conducting; he also received a Citation of Excellence in Teaching from the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association. An active scholar, Dr. Parker’s writings have been published by the Conductors Guild and the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA). He has presented research at the College Orchestra Directors Association’s international conference and served as Editor of the Journal of the Conductors Guild.

Nathaniel F. Parker

Parker earned graduate degrees in orchestral conducting from Michigan State University (DMA) and Bowling Green State University (MM). His primary conducting instructors are Leon Gregorian, Raphael Jiménez, and Emily Freeman Brown; other important mentors include Stephen Osmond, Gary W. Hill, and Timothy Russell. Parker also earned a BM in Bassoon Performance from Arizona State University, where he studied with Jeffrey G. Lyman and graduated magna cum laude.

For more information, please visit www.nathanielfparker.com.

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Orchestral Strings Faculty HELEN KIM

Professor of Violin String Area Coordinator

• Assistant Concertmaster, Atlanta Opera Orchestra • MM in Violin Performance, Juilliard • BM in Violin Performance, Juilliard

CHARAE KRUEGER

Artist-in-Residence in Cello String Chamber Music Coordinator

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Principal Cello, Atlanta Opera Orchestra Principal Cello Atlanta Ballet Orchestra Artist Diploma in Cello Performance, Longy School of Music BM in Cello Performance, New England Conservatory

NANCY CONLEY

Assistant Professor of String Music Education Director, KSU String Project

• PhD in Music Education (Viola Performance Cognate), Michigan State • MM in Viola Performance, SUNY—Binghamton • BM in Viola Performance and Music Education, Ithaca College

DAVID COUCHERON

Distinguished Artist-in-Residence in Orchestral Studies

• Concertmaster, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra • Master of Musical Performance, Guildhall School of Music and Drama • MM in Violin Performance, Juilliard • BM in Violin Performance, Curtis Institute

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Orchestral Strings Faculty KENN WAGNER

Artist-in-Residence in Violin

• First Violinist, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra • BM in Violin Performance, Indiana

ADELAIDE FEDERICI Artist-in-Residence in Violin

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Assistant Principal Second Violin, Atlanta Opera Orchestra Violinist, Atlanta Ballet Orchestra MM in Violin Performance, USC (CA) BM in Violin Performance, Eastman

YINZI KONG

Artist-in-Residence in Viola

• Founding Violist, Vega String Quartet • MM in Viola Performance, Manhattan School of Music • BM in Viola Performance, Harid Conservatory (FL)

JOE MCFADDEN

Artist-in-Residence in Double Bass

• Principal Double Bass, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra • MM in Double Bass Performance, Indiana • BM in Double Bass Performance, Cal State—Northridge

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Orchestral Strings Faculty JAMES BARKET

Artist-in-Residence in Double Bass

• Orchestra Director, Webb Bridge Middle School • Fulbright Scholar, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Vienna) • DMA in Double Bass Performance, North Carolina-Greensboro • MM in Double Bass Performance, Yale • BM in Double Bass Performance, University of Hartford

ELISABETH REMY JOHNSON Artist-in-Residence in Harp

• Principal Harp, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra • Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Music and French (Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard

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KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY

Orchestra Program DR. NATHANIEL F. PARKER Director of Orchestral Studies Music Director and Conductor of the KSU Symphony Dr. Nancy Conley Music Director and Conductor of the KSU Philharmonic The Kennesaw State University orchestra program was founded in 2004 with the establishment of the KSU Symphony Orchestra and expanded in 2010 to include the newly-formed KSU Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Symphony—comprising over 80 KSU students—is committed to artistic and technical excellence in the performance of music from the symphonic canon, as well as contemporary compositions and pops literature. Recent repertoire highlights include Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, Brahms’s Symphony No. 2, Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”, Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3 “Organ”, Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite, and Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, orchestrated by Ravel. The Symphony also regularly engages in collaborative performances with guest and faculty performers, guest and faculty composers, the KSU choirs, the KSU Opera Theater, and the KSU Department of Dance.

Notable guest artists who have performed or led masterclasses with students in the KSU Symphony include violinists Midori, Augustin Hadelich, Andrés Cárdenes, David Perry, and David Coucheron, cellists Zuill Bailey and Jesús Castro Balbi, MacArthur Fellow and pianist Jeremy Denk, tubist Alan Baer, conductors Robert Spano, David Becker, and Ovidiu Balan, and composers Chen Yi, Kamran Ince, and James M. Stephenson.

In addition to their performance here, the KSU Symphony was also featured at the 2019 and 2009 Georgia Music Educators Association’s In-Service Conferences. The Symphony was also invited to perform at the 2021 College Orchestra Directors Association’s (CODA) National Conference; in 2010 the orchestra both hosted and performed at that conference. In January 2011, the Symphony completed a three-concert tour of Beijing and Xian, China.

The KSU Philharmonic is a string orchestra that provides KSU students—both non-music majors and music majors performing on a secondary instrument—the opportunity to advance their instrumental technique and musicianship, explore improvisation, and cultivate problem-solving and teamwork skills. The Philharmonic presents multiple concerts each semester encompassing a wide range of musical genres and styles, from the Baroque to bossa nova. The orchestra frequently collaborates in performance with KSU faculty artists, the KSU University Band, the KSU Percussion Ensemble, and KSU student chamber ensembles.

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College of the Arts Dr. Ivan Pulinkala (Dean) Prof. Harrison Long (Sr. Associate Dean) Dr. Peter Fielding (Associate Dean) Prof. Geo Sipp (Director, School of Art & Design) Prof. Marsha Barsky (Chair, Department of Dance) Dr. Leslie Blackwell (Interim Director, School of Music) Prof. Chuck Meacham (Chair, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies)

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