THE WHITWORTH WIND SYMPHONY
Richard Strauch, conductor presents
WIND CURRENTS 2025
with special guests
NORTH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
WIND ENSEMBLE
Tim Blaydon, conductor
MEAD HIGH SCHOOL
WIND ENSEMBLE
Rob Lewis, conductor
The Whitworth Wind Symphony
Richard Strauch, conductor
Wind Currents 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
7:30 pm
The Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox PROGRAM
North Central High School Wind Ensemble
Tim Blaydon, conductor
Hands Across the Sea John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
Ascent from Darkness Rossano Galante (b.1967)
Until the Scars John Mackey (b.1973)
Mead High School Wind Ensemble
Rob Lewis, conductor
In the Center Ring Robert Sheldon (b.1954)
To Gently Serenade Richard L. Saucedo (b.1957)
Head Rush Jay Bocook (b.1953)
INTERMISSION
Richard Strauch, conductor
200: Tercera
1. Interdependencia
2. Territorios Norte
3. Territorios Sur
4. Utopía
Whitworth Wind Symphony
Suite para Banda Victoriano Valencia Rincón (b.1970)
North Central High School Wind Ensemble
Tim Blaydon, conductor
Flute
Emelia Canfield
Katrina Chau
Anya Harmon
Eva Iannelli
Rosalee Jack
Adelaide Snodgrass
Clarinet
Jade Denlinger
Tayria Dodson
Hana Partridge
Emma Pell
Marcus Vander Giessen
Kamikah WaltonMoore
Bass Clarinet
Liam Johnson
Bassoon
Kieran Marsh
Alto Saxophone
Andre Blewett
Will Merg
Micah Prior
Tenor Saxophone
Andrea Voss
Bari Saxophone
Blake Day
Trumpet
Izayah Alexander
Zach Gagne
Blake Howard
Zach Kenagy
Carter Phillips
Zach Schlettert
Bennett Smith
Ziva Zemke
French Horn
Gavin Rolwes
Oliver
Sonnemaker
Noah Thompson
Trombone
Jack Jack
Jonah McKinley
Henry Rasmussen
Nick Zepeda
Euphonium
Liam Fitzgerald
Dylan Simmons
Tuba
Jack Winters
String Bass
Ava Dalton
Ruby Matelich
Piano
Sebastian Wolf Percussion
Everett Bodnar
Neilia Eyer
Isabella
Farrington
Aiden Miller
Andy
Poffenberger
Marshall Poush
Aaliyah Regan
Archimedes
Stephenson
Isaiah Stubbs
Mead High School Wind Ensemble
Rob Lewis, conductor
Flute
Trinity Babcock
Oliver Felt
Rachel Ji
Kate Phillips
Helen Zhao
Oboe
Isaac Ojennus
Bassoon
Ashley Conner
Clarinet
Colin Baker
Collin Capeller
Jacob Evans
Dietrich Huber
April Jones
Jace Samaha
Bass Clarinet
Kambria DeGroat
Chandra Henderson
Madelynn Foss
Alto Saxophone
Teghan Bright
Abigail DeWinter
Drake Watkins
Tenor Saxophone
Charlie Moore
Lindy Nelson
Baritone Saxophone
Jack Poole
Trumpet
William Bright
Valin Gabriel
Hadeon Pawluk
Asher Wynne
Horn
Ariana Gamero
Zachary Kadyk
Abigail Ritz
Trombone
Sam Garrett
Khang Nguyen
Euphonium
Zachary Hardy
Tuba
Eli Connelly
Asher Kendoll
Percussion
James Batchelder
Maddax Batt
Quinn Fuller
Oban Jensen
Alina LeBlanc
Axel Leach
Izabella Myers
Carlynn Perley
Katherine Selby
Ben Trotz
Lillian Yarbro
About the Whitworth Wind Symphony
The threefold mission of the Whitworth Wind Symphony is to train and educate musicians for a lifetime of musical learning; to represent Whitworth’s mind-and-heart education through excellence in performance before audiences on campus, throughout the community and across the globe; and to advocate for and promote wind literature through the study and performance of the ensemble’s core repertoire as well as the commissioning of new works.
The Whitworth Wind Symphony has appeared in concert at state and regional conferences of the Washington Music Educators Association, the National Association for Music Education and the College Band Directors National Association, and has toured throughout the western United States and in Hawaii, Costa Rica and Thailand. The wind symphony can also be heard in performance on the ensemble’s YouTube channel (youtube.com/whitworthwinds).
As the university’s select auditioned wind and percussion ensemble, the wind symphony has been active in commissioning new works and collaborating with composers around the world. Noted composers David Maslanka, Eric Ewazen, James David and Peter Van Zandt Lane have praised the wind symphony’s performances of their music, and recent performance collaborations have included saxophonist Lawrence Gwozdz, bass trombonist Douglas Yeo and the Travis Brass of the United States Air Force. The ensemble is open by audition to all Whitworth University students in any major who are woodwind, brass, percussion or string bass musicians.
The other components of the wind and percussion studies program at Whitworth include the Whitworth Chamber Winds, Whitworth Symphony Orchestra, the Whitworth Concert Band and a variety of chamber ensembles.
About the Conductor
Richard Strauch is in his 28th year as director of the Whitworth Wind Symphony and professor of music at Whitworth University. He also conducts the Whitworth Chamber Winds, teaches courses in music history and conducting, and leads Whitworth’s Power & Politics of Art: Rome/Florence/Vienna/ Berlin study program. Prior to joining the Whitworth music faculty, Strauch served as director of instrumental activities at Phillips University, acting director of the Wheaton College Wind Ensemble and assistant to the director of bands at Yale University. He has toured Europe as music director of the Oklahoma Ambassadors of Music and as conductor of the Fox Valley Youth Orchestra. An active professional trombonist, he is a member of the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, and his other performance credits include the Clarion Brass Choir, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the National Orchestral Institute and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Strauch holds doctor of musical arts, master of musical arts and master of music degrees in trombone performance from Yale University, and a bachelor of music degree in trombone performance and music history from the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music.
The Whitworth Wind Symphony 2024-25
Piccolo
Valerie Hanes, ’27 Physics Spokane
Flute
Nevaeh Gariepy, ’25 Music Education Spokane
Rachelle Austin, ’28 Music Education Spokane
Elizabeth Addison, ’28 Music Education Deer Park
Tori Ratliff, ’28 Biology Forest Grove, OR
Oboe
Samarra Salcido, ’26 Music Spokane
Hope Noranbrock, ’25 Music Nine Mile Falls
Melody Hough, ’28 Music Composition Spokane
Bassoon
Zoë Johnson, ‘27 Music Ed Spokane
Celeste Depew, ’28 Psychology/English Lynden
Clarinet
Robert Weener, ’24 Data Science Sherwood, OR
Kylie Mitchell, ’27 Music Ed Cheney
James Fischer, ’28 Music Spokane
Noah Wells, ’28 Computer Science Post Falls, ID
Lila Gamero, ’27 Elementary Ed Spokane
Mason Groth, ’26 Chemistry Coeur d’Alene
Rosalind Nordberg, ’27 Environmental Sci. Bellevue
Luciano Bellissimo, ’27 Music Comp./ Cashmere Comp. Science
Bass Clarinet
Colton Nussbaum, ’25 Business Raymond
Soprano/Alto Saxophone
Melissa Jones, ’25 Music Education Richland
Alto Saxophone
Max Cannon, ’25 Music Performance Spokane
Will Peterson, ’26 Music Education Spokane
Tenor Saxophone
Nicholas Kar, ‘27 Math Education Spokane
Baritone Saxophone
Nathaniel Kurano, ’28 Engineering Honolulu, HI
Horn
Isaac Crawford-Heim, ’26
Health Science Spokane
Samuel Wisenor, 28 English Spokane
Stella Reitz, ’25
Hannah Marcoe, ’27
Neuroscience Marysville
Math/Secondary Ed Moscow, ID Trumpet
Julia Maher, ’26
Matthew Thornell, ’26
Alexis Hochberg, ’28
Music Education Whidbey Island
Sports Business Kingston
Music Education Liberty Lake
Anthony Cao, ’25 Chemistry Spokane
Faith Willard, ’27
Dakota Bair, ’28
Music Education Spokane
Music Ministry Lake Steven s Trombone
Conor Waller, ’25
Music Composition Spokane
Caeden Harrison, ’25 Theology Houston, TX
Michael Perry, ’27
Music Performance Richland Euphonium
Jacob Blomdahl, ’25 Engineering Chehalis
Jacob Blair, ’25 Chemistry Spokane Tuba
Julian Crandell, ’27
Music Composition Deer Park
Owen Moe, ’28 Biochemistry Spokane Cello
Grace Aloha
Anna Seppa
Bass
Guest Artist
Guest Artist
Patrick McNalley Faculty Spokane
Piano
Isaac Dorcy, ’27
Music Composition Shelton Percussion
Ryland Gabriel, ’26 Psychology Spokane
Luke Wagner, ’25 Computer Science Clackamas, OR
Dom Macauley, ’25
ELA Education Kahului, HI
Madeleine Lyon, ’26 Biology Hockinson
Hannah Lind, ’27 Front End Design Liberty Lake
Loren Lehne, ’27 Biochemistry Damascus, OR
Off-stage trumpet
Logan Pintor Faculty Spokane
WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY
Since 1890, Whitworth has held fast to its founding mission to provide “an education of mind and heart” through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated Christian scholars. Recognized as one of the top regional colleges and universities in the West, Whitworth University has an enrollment of about 2,500 students and offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
Whitworth University’s 200-acre campus of red-brick buildings and tall pines offers a beautiful, inviting and secure learning environment. More than $115 million in campus improvements have been made in recent years, including an expanded music center, a renovated auditorium stage, an expanded dining hall, a rec center, a science hall, an athletics leadership center and a graduate health sciences building.
In all of its endeavors, Whitworth seeks to advance its founder’s mission of equipping students to “honor God, follow Christ and serve humanity.”
For application information: Office of Admissions
Whitworth University
300 W. Hawthorne Road Spokane, WA 99251
509.777.3212
admissions@whitworth.edu whitworth.edu/admissions
MUSIC AT WHITWORTH
The Whitworth University Music Department, accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, provides superb training in music as well as a thorough introduction to this essential element of the liberal arts. Whitworth music majors have gone on to prestigious graduate schools, fulfilling performance careers and successful teaching positions. Also, many non-music majors participate in the university’s renowned touring ensembles and enroll in private lessons through the music department. Whitworth University offers bachelor of arts degrees in music ministry, composition, instrumental performance, jazz performance, piano performance, piano pedagogy, string pedagogy, voice performance and music education. Music scholarships are available to both music majors and non-majors.
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