Belmont University School of Music
MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2025 7:30 P.M. MCAFEE CONCERT HALL
Belmont University School of Music presents
Faculty Woodwinds & Faculty Brass
Faculty Woodwinds
Pictures at an Exhibition Modest Mussorgsky Promenade (1839-1881)
Gnomus arr. Joachim Linckelmann
Promenade
The Old Castle Promenade
Tuileries
Bydlo Promenade
Ballet of the Chickens in their Shells
Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle Promenade
The Marketplace at Limoges
The Catacombs
Cum mortuis in lingua mortua – With the dead in a dead language
The Hut on Fowl’s Legs
The Great Gate of Kiev
Carolyn Totaro, flute
Rebecca Van de Ven, oboe
Daniel Lochrie, clarinet
Dong Yun Shankle, bassoon
Tara Johnson, horn
Intermission
Quintet No. 2
Faculty Brass
Victor Ewald
Allegro risoluto (1860–1935)
Thema con variationi
Allegro vivace
Xylophonia
Joel Treybig, trumpet
Pat Kunkee, trumpet
Tara Johnson, French horn
Jeff Phillips, trombone
Gerald Cates, tuba
George Hamilton Green (1893–1970)
Chris Norton, xylophone
Joel Treybig, trumpet
Pat Kunkee, trumpet
Tara Johnson, French horn
Jeff Phillips, trombone
Gerald Cates, tuba
About the Performers
Gerald Cates is a native of Tullahoma, TN. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Tennessee Technological University in 1985 and a Masters Degree from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign in 1986. In 1989 he was selected as tuba soloist with the U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point, NY, a position he held until his retirement from the U.S. Army in 2009. While at West Point he also performed with the West Point Tuba Quartet, the Regimental Brass Quintet, and the West Point Dixie Players. He currently teaches tuba and euphonium at Belmont University School of Music and has taught tuba and euphonium at Indiana State University, Nyack College, and Tennessee State University.
Tara Johnson is an Adjunct Instructor of Music at Belmont University, teaching Aural Skills courses. Originally from Hudsonville, Michigan, Johnson began her studies in French horn at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. From there she moved to Nashville to attend Belmont University, where she received a Bachelor of Music degree in Horn Performance, with a minor in Music Business. She worked in Nashville as a freelance music transcriber and copyist. Johnson earned a Master of Arts in Music degree in Horn Performance from Middle Tennessee State University in 2012, where she studied with Angela DeBoer, and worked as a teaching assistant in the brass department and in general music and music theory courses. Johnson currently plays as 3rd Horn of the Evansville Philharmonic in Evansville, Indiana, and 2nd Horn of the Owensboro
Symphony in Owensboro, Kentucky. Additionally, she has performed with the Nashville Symphony, the Huntsville Symphony, the Chattanooga Symphony, and the Jackson Symphony. She has taken her horn playing to China with the Hollywood Film Orchestra, and to other parts of the world such as Israel, Romania, and Hungary. As an active freelance horn player, she can also be heard on several soundtrack recordings for movies, video games, and television shows, recorded in Nashville at Ocean Way Studios. She maintains a private studio of horn students across the Nashville area and enjoys playing as a member of the Music City Horn Quartet.
Patrick Kunkee has been Co-Principal Trumpet at the Nashville Symphony since 1991. Previously, he was second trumpet with the Utah Symphony. Kunkee holds a Bachelor of Music degree from California State University, Northridge, where he was a student of John Clyman, Roy Poper and Mario Guarneri. He received a Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California, studying with Boyd Hood. Additional studies at the Manhattan School of Music were with Mel Broiles. As a free-lance musician in Los Angeles, Kunkee performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Los Angeles Opera and the Fine Arts Brass Quintet. He has also studied with Anthony Plog, James Stamp, Rob Roy McGregor and Nick Norton. While at Tanglewood, Kunkee was the recipient of the Shapiro Award for outstanding brass musician.
Dr. Daniel Lochrie is an adjunct instructor in the School of Music, teaching applied clarinet, classical woodwind seminar, and woodwind techniques. Lochrie received degrees from The University of Michigan, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and The Ohio State University, where he studied with James Pyne. Other teachers included Paul Schaller, Brian Schweickhardt, John Mohler, Franklin Cohen, and bass clarinetist, Oliver Green. Before entering graduate school, he joined the National Orchestra of New York, studying with Leon Russianoff and performing regularly with the orchestra in Carnegie Hall. In addition to teaching experience at Lipscomb University, Middle Tennessee State University, The Ohio State University, and the Corsi Internazionale di Musica, Lochrie has been a member of the Nashville Symphony (with recent recordings on the Naxos and Decca labels) since 1992. His chamber music activities include regular appearances on clarinet and bass clarinet at several area universities, recital appearances throughout the US, and performances at summer festivals in Ohio, Colorado, and Italy. With further experience as a Nashville studio musician, managerial experience in the Nashville Symphony, and with success as a composer and arranger (performances by ensembles such as the Tennessee Tech faculty woodwind quintet and the Pacific and Nashville Symphonies), Lochrie maintains a multifaceted musical career.
Christopher Norton is Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at Belmont University. Prior to joining the Belmont faculty in 2001, he taught at Western Kentucky University for fourteen years. His bachelor's and master's degrees are from the Eastman School of Music, and his doctorate is from Louisiana State University. Norton performs regularly as a percussionist with Nashville Symphony, Alias Chamber Ensemble, Sympatico Percussion Group, and the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra. Formerly, he performed, recorded, and toured with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Bob Becker Ensemble, and the Jack Daniel’s Silver Cornet Band. He has held core and auxiliary positions with the Rochester Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony, Baton Rouge Symphony, Alabama Symphony, and Eastern Philharmonic. Dr. Norton has given clinics and recitals in Europe and across the United States, most notably as a featured artist at Percussive Arts Society International Conventions and Days of Percussion. A past state chapter president of PAS, Norton also served as Chairman of the International Keyboard Percussion Committee for several
years. His compositions have been listed on required repertoire lists for international marimba competitions and are published by Alabaster Music, Innovative Percussion, and Pioneer Percussion. He is a Malletech artist.
Dr. Jeffrey Phillips has been an adjunct professor of trombone and commercial brass at Belmont University since 2004 and also performs with the Belmont Faculty Brass Quintet. He also is the adjunct professor of trombone at Trevecca Nazarene University. He retired from secondary school teaching after thirty-four years, which include twenty-nine as the Director of Bands at Hendersonville High School where he coordinated all facets of the program there, including AP Music Theory, marching band, two concert bands, and two jazz bands in addition to founding the school string orchestra. He has earned degrees from Middle Tennessee State University, Western Kentucky University, and Austin Peay State University, and California Coast University with his dissertation on “Implementing Standards in the Band and Orchestra Rehearsal” (which was been published in part by the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors). Phillips also holds a Fellowship (FRSM) in Trombone Performance from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. As a performer, he remains active as a freelance trombonist in the Nashville area. In addition to various recitals and clinics, he is a charter member of the Tri-Star Brass Ensemble and is the Principal Trombonist with the Nashville Praise Symphony.
Dong-Yun K. Shankle is an adjunct bassoon professor at Belmont and Trevecca Universities. She is a member of Belmont’s faculty woodwind quintet. She has also taught at Western Kentucky and Campbellsville Universities. She is the principal bassoonist in the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, and Parthenon Chamber Orchestra. She has also been principal in Orchestra Kentucky, Jackson Symphony, Owensboro Symphony and Western Kentucky. Shankle has had a distinguished career as a symphony bassoonist, recording artist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras in Asia, Europe, Russia and America. During her twenty-year career in Korea, she has worked in the Seoul KBS Symphony Orchestra. She was the principal bassoonist in the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Asian Six Nations Orchestra in Fukuoka, Japan. She has appeared as a soloist with the Russia St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Sofia Orchestra both in Bulgaria, Seoul KBS Chamber Orchestra, Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, Paducah Symphony Orchestra and many other orchestras all over Asia, Europe and America. Shankle had the honor of playing principal bassoon in some of the world's greatest concert halls such as: Carnegie Hall in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur Hall in Malaysian. Also, she performed recitals with internationally known performers such as Emmanuel Abbuel (Principal Oboist/London Philharmonic), Kirill Sokolov (Principal bassoon/St.Petersburg Philharmonic), Valeri Popov (Principal bassoon/ Moscow Symphony), Otto Eifert (Principal Bassoonn/Cincinnati Symphony), and many more. Shankle graduated from Daegu Catholic University, where she received a Bachelors and master’s degree in Bassoon Performance and Music Education. After that, she studied in Holland for a Performance Soloist Degree from the Rotterdam Conservatorium. While in school she won the prestigious Seoul Dong-A International Music Competition. Shankle has three solo CDs on the Sung-Eum label. Her CD’s have received favorable reviews from Ron Klimko of the IDRS.
Dr. Carolyn Totaro is an Assistant Professor (Flute) in the Belmont University School of Music. Before moving to Nashville in 2005, Totaro taught applied flute, music history, and music appreciation at Southeastern Louisiana University and then served as the Graduate Coordinator for
the School of Music at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she also served as an adjunct flute instructor. She has performed with symphony orchestras in Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. Totaro has been the director of the Nashville Philharmonic Flute Ensemble and currently teaches flute and coaches chamber ensembles at the Tennessee Valley Music Festival each summer. Totaro received her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Texas (at Austin), her Master of Music (Flute) and Master of Music (History) from the University of Akron and her Bachelor of Music Education and Bachelor of Music from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music. Totaro’s primary instructors have included William Hebert (Cleveland Orchestra), Jaqueline Hofto (Interlochen Arts Academy), Peter Lloyd (London Symphony, London Virtuosi), and George Pope (Akron Symphony, Solaris Wind Quintet).
Dr. Joel Treybig is Professor of Trumpet in the Belmont University School of Music where he works with undergraduate and graduate trumpet students, performs with the Belmont Brass Quintet, and directs brass ensembles. He serves as the Assistant Director of the School of Music and oversees the graduate music program. His performances of contemporary music have earned the praise of such American composers as John Cheetham, Eric Ewazen, Stanley Friedman, Stephen Michael Gryc, Karel Husa, Anthony Plog, and Joan Tower. Treybig received his Doctor of Musical Arts in performance from the University of Texas at Austin, his Master of Music in performance from the University of Akron and his Bachelor of Music Education from BaldwinWallace Conservatory of Music and has also completed postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music. His primary teachers include Mary Squire, James Darling, David Duro, Scott Johnston, Murray Greig, and Raymond Crisara. Treybig’s solo, chamber, and orchestral performances have been broadcast on public radio throughout the southeast, and he has recorded two CDs, entitled Lux et Lapis – Music for Two Trumpets and Organ, and Awakenings, with Adam Hayes, trumpet, and Andrew Risinger, organ. He has also recorded a CD of music for solo trumpet and organ with Andrew Risinger entitled Rhapsodia Sacra. Treybig is a Yamaha Performing Artist and performs exclusively on Yamaha instruments.
Rebecca Van de Ven joined the faculty at Belmont University and Tennessee State University in 2018 and the faculty of the University of the South in 2011. Prior to that, Van de Ven taught at Middle Tennessee State University, Albion College and Spring Arbor University. In addition, she is on faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival where she coaches and organizes the wind chamber music program. Van de Ven frequently records music in Nashville and can be heard playing English Horn on season three of the Emmy winning hit TV series Fargo as well as the 2016 Evanescence Album. She currently plays second oboe in the Nashville Opera. Her orchestral engagements have included orchestras such as Nashville Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Grand Rapids Symphony. She can also be found playing regionally in Chattanooga and Huntsville Symphonies and in staged works at Tennessee Performing Arts Center. On a full tuition scholarship, Van de Ven received a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory in oboe performance where she was a student of Eugene Izotov, current Principal Oboe of the San Francisco Symphony. She attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison on tuition scholarship where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Science degree. She was a student of Professor Marc Fink. Van de Ven attended the Pierre Monteux Music Festival in Maine and was awarded a full scholarship to the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. She currently resides in Sewanee, Tennessee with her husband and two children.
Program Notes
Modest Mussorgsky was a member of “The Five”, a group of Russian composers committed to cultivating a nationalist school of Russian music. Other members included Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, and César Cui. Mussorgsky enjoyed success with his symphonic poem Night on Bald Mountain (1867) and his opera Boris Godunov (1874) and many songs. Sadly, his death at the age of forty-two from the effects of alcoholism deprived the world of future works.
Mussorgsky’s most famous composition, Pictures at an Exhibition, was originally composed for piano in 1874. The inspiration for this programmatic work was a retrospective exhibition of the artist Viktor Hartmann, Mussorgsky’s close friend who died prematurely of an aneurism at the age of thirty-nine. The suite contains musical depictions of ten paintings by Hartmann alternating with a recurring theme titled “Promenade” that represents the visitor strolling from one picture to the next. Mussorgsky completed the work in 1874, but it reached a far greater audience when it was orchestrated by Maurice Ravel in 1922. Other orchestrations were completed by Sir Henry J. Wood, Leopold Stokowski, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and the British pop group Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. This arrangement for woodwind quintet by German flutist and music engraver, Joachim Linckelmann was published in 1999. Four of the original paintings were lost; the surviving six are featured here.
Victor Hartmann Bydlo Watercolor
Victor Hartmann Chicks in Shell Watercolor
Victor Hartmann Catacombs Watercolor
Victor Hartmann Two Polish Jews Watercolor
Victor Hartmann
The Hut on Fowl’s Legs Watercolor
Victor Hartmann
The Great Gate of Kiev Watercolor
Upcoming Concerts and Events
Wind Ensemble & Concert Band
Monday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.
McAfee Concert Hall
New Music Ensemble
Wednesday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.
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Percussion Ensemble & World Percussion
Wednesday, April 23, 7:30 p.m.
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Belmont Camerata
Monday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.
McAfeee Concert Hall
Graduate Hooding Ceremony
Friday, May 2, 12:00 p.m.
McAfee Concert Hall
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Arts for Sounds of Belmont: The 35th Annual President’s Concert & Reception on Saturday, April 12th in the Fisher Center at Belmont University. Experience an evening of stories and songs to support our talented students. The concert will begin at 6:30 p.m. followed by a festive dessert reception for all guests and performers. The purchase of a ticket to this concert and reception will benefit endowed music and theatre scholarship funds for students in the college. Premier works from the College of Music and Performing Arts Fall 2024-Spring 2025 performance season will be showcased. This concert and reception is celebrating its thirty-fifth year (formerly the President’s Concert and Reception).
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