ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR
Patrick Dunnigan is Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the Florida State University College of Music in Tallahassee. A member of the FSU faculty since 1991, Dunnigan is the principal conductor and music director of the University Wind Orchestra. His other teaching duties include undergraduate conducting courses and instrumental music methods. As Director of Bands, he oversees all aspects of the FSU band program which includes five concert bands, a chamber music program, graduate teaching program, and athletic pep bands.
A nationally recognized guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician, Dunnigan has published numerous articles on conducting, instrumental music methodology, and research in leading journals including The Instrumentalist, Music Educators Journal, Bulletin for the Council for Research in Music Education, and the Journal of Band Research. His textbook, Marching Band Techniques, is published by The Instrumentalist Company and has become a leading college textbook of marching band methodology. His transcriptions and arrangements for concert band are performed regularly by major university, community, and professional wind bands including the Dallas Wind Symphony. He has presented clinic sessions for the Midwest Clinic, the Music Educators National Conference, the Florida Bandmasters Association, the College Band Directors National Association, the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and many others.
Dunnigan received the Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education degree from the University of Texas at Austin, the Master of Music in Conducting degree from Northwestern University, and the Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Kentucky. He is an active member of the College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, Florida Music Educators Association, National Band Association, Florida Bandmasters Association, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity. He is also an honorary member of the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Tau Beta Sigma, and received the Friend of the Arts award from Sigma Alpha Iota.
Dunnigan received the prestigious FSU Teaching Award in both 2003 and 2012. In 2006, he was elected to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. He served as National President of the College Band Directors National Association from 2015 to 2017.
ABOUT THE GUEST COMPOSER
John Mackey (he/him) has written for orchestras (Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York Youth Symphony), theater (Dallas Theater Center), and extensively for dance (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Parsons Dance Company, New York City Ballet), but the majority of his work for the past decade has been for wind ensembles (the fancy name for concert bands), and his band catalog now receives annual performances numbering in the thousands.
Recent commissions include works for the BBC Singers, the Dallas Wind Symphony, military, high school, middle school, and university bands across America and Japan, and concertos for Joseph Alessi (principal trombone, New York Philharmonic), Christopher Martin (principal trumpet, New York Philharmonic), and Julian Bliss (international clarinet soloist). In 2014, he became the youngest composer ever inducted into the American Bandmasters Association. In 2018, he received the Wladimir & Rhoda Lakond Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
ABOUT THE FACULTY SOLOISTS
Deborah Bish is Associate Professor of Clarinet at Florida State University. Before moving to Tallahassee in 2001, she served as the professor of clarinet at Henderson State University. She has performed with orchestras throughout the United States, including the Arizona Opera (most notably in a production of the Ring Cycle), the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra under the direction of Jeffrey Siegel, the Phoenix Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, and the Arkansas Symphony. Currently, she is a member of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra.
She has been featured as a recitalist, clinician, and chamber musician at several festivals and conventions including performances at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall; the Shanghai Conservatory in Shanghai, China; the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFests in Lincoln, Austin, Vancouver, Atlanta, and Salt Lake City; the College Band Director’s National Association Convention in Atlanta; the Florida Music Educator’s Association Convention in Tampa, Florida; the Wallowa Lake Chamber Music Festival in Enterprise, Oregon; and the Festival Internacional de Inverno in Vale Vêneto, Brazil.
Bish is very active in the commission, research, and performance of new works. Her recent projects include a recording of the works of Gregory Wanamaker, featuring two pieces written for her by Wanamaker titled clarikinetics and Sonata.
Her biography appears in the twenty-fourth edition of the Marquis Who’s Who of American Women and several editions of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. She has served as an adjudicator in a variety of competitions, including both the Young Artist’s Competition and the High School Competition for the International Clarinet Association. Bish holds degrees from Arizona State University, where she studied under Robert Spring, and Florida State University, where she studied under Frank Kowalsky.
Lauded as “a huge talent [with] hidden power and amazing maturity” (Bart van Oort), Taiwanese-American harpist Noël Wan made her international debut with the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra in 2010. She has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia and has been featured as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, the Muziekgebouw, American Harp Society Summer Institute, World Harp Congress, and Yellow Barn Summer Music Festival. Among her international distinctions are Gold Medal and the Mario Falcao Prize in the 12th USA International Harp Competition; First Prize and the Forgotten Lore Prize in the 2010 Dutch Harp Festival Competition; Grand Prize in the 2014 Carmel Music Society Competition; and Second Prize in the 2013 Nippon International Harp Competition, 2015 Korea International Harp Competition, and 2021 Prix Orford Musique. Additionally, her artistic and scholarly work has been supported by the Illinois Distinguished Fellowship, Chimei Arts Foundation, Presser Foundation, and Ontario Arts Council.
Wan is an alumna of the University of Illinois (B.M., D.M.A.) and the Yale School of Music (M.M.), and her primary teachers include Ann Yeung, June Han, Chimei Hung, Erika Waardenburg, Dan Yu, Doug Rioth, and Linda Wood Rollo. As an educator and scholar, she has contributed to Harp Column, The Collective, and The American Harp Journal, where she has written on philosophy, music education, and feminism. Wan has taught at the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College, and Western University.
NOTES ON THE PROGRAM
Strauss: Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare
Richard Strauss was a German composer and conductor during the Romantic and early Modern Era. As a composer, he is most known for his tone music and operas. Tone music, or programmatic music, aims to recreate the sounds of the natural world through musical means. As a conductor throughout Western Europe and the Americas, he was praised for the interpretations of the works of Liszt, Mozart, and Wagner in addition to the conducting of his own works. His conducting appointments include the Bavarian State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Vienna State Opera, and co-founded the Salzburg Festival.
Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare (Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic), TrV 248, was written for a fundraising event in 1924 to help the orchestra raise funds for the musician’s pension fund. The original fanfare was scored for two sets of brass and timpani ensemble to create an antiphonal effect. Guests would enter the celebration of Fasching (also known as Carnivale or Mardi Gras) and be greeted by the large brass choirs. The Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare was dedicated to the ‘wonderful members’ of the Vienna Philharmonic and originally scored for six trumpets in E-flat, eight horns in E-flat, six trombones in B-flat, two tubas, and two sets of three timpani. The arrangement performed tonight was created by Patrick Dunnigan in 2015. Dunnigan’s version combines the two separate brass choirs into one large brass ensemble with a solo timpani player.
Mackey: A deep reverberation fills the stars
Divine Mischief: Concerto for Clarinet
John Mackey is a leading composer of music for bands and wind ensemble. He is highly regarded by the profession and has received numerous awards, commissions, and other professional recognitions. His career path is especially unique in that he did not grow up playing an instrument in school. Using his experiences from recreating sounds on his computer, he crafts wonderous, spontaneous, and dazzling music known for its use of non-traditional soundscapes and complex meters to immerse audiences in unique musical experiences.
A deep reverberation fills the stars (2022) is dedicated to John Grantham, Director of Bands at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, California to celebrate his twentieth year of dedication to music education. This piece begins with aethereal and unpredictable sounds. Not unlike starting a new journey into learning something unknown. The trance like themes layer on top of one another until a melody begins to emerge from the unpredictable sound scape. A shift occurs in the second half of the piece where the melodies start to be more pronounced and uplifting and triumphant rather than sorrowful and disjointed.
Divine Mischief: Concerto for Clarinet (2022) was composed for virtuoso clarinetist Julian Bliss. The piece was composed to an original story idea from Mackey’s spouse, A. E. Jaques, after hearing a performance of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, Swan Lake. The concerto is thus conceived as an ‘imaginary ballet’ in three acts with the clarinet serving as the whimsical and charismatic lead character. The work is technically demanding for soloist and ensemble but also includes numerous deeply expressive passages representing some of Mackey’s most inspired melodies. Divine Mischief is the result of a consortium that includes the Florida State University College of Music.
Maslanka: Symphony No. 4
David Maslanka is well known for his music for winds. He composed more than 150 works with more than 50 of these being for wind ensemble. This includes eight symphonies, seventeen concertos, a Mass, and many concert pieces. He has written a variety of chamber pieces as well as orchestral and choral works. He attended the Oberlin Conservatory for his undergraduate degree in music and Michigan State for his master’s and doctoral degrees. He has studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg Austria, and with H. Owen Reed.
Symphony No. 4 (1993) was written from many inspirations including the Earth and nature, the hymn tunes: Old Hundred (played while Lincoln’s coffin was transferred to the funeral train), the Bach chorales Only Trust in God to Guide You to Christ and Christ Makes Us Holy. Several more hymn-like melodies can be traced throughout the symphony. Maslanka also draws on his fascination with President Abraham Lincoln saying, “Lincoln’s life and death are as critical today as they were more than a century ago… My impulse through this music is to speak to the fundamental human issues of transformation and re-birth in this chaotic time.”
University Wind Orchestra Personnel
Patrick Dunnigan, Conductor
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Allison Acevedo
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Crisha Joyner*
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Emily Peterson
Brenna Miller
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Thum Rangsiyawaranon
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Tarre Nelson
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Jackson Kowalczyk
Connor Willits
Austin Pellela
Chris Baird
Jacob Dell
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