CONTENTS DATE
EVENT
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MAR 3
Siberian State Symphony Orchestra
2
MAR 18
KU Wind Ensemble with Joseph Alessi, trombone
7
MAR 23 & 24
Houston Person & Emmet Cohen
12
APR 2
KU Jazz Ensemble I with Camila Meza, vocals/guitar
14
These events are sponsored, in part, by the Lied Performance Fund.
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Tuesday
MAR 3 7:30 pm
Siberian State Symphony Orchestra with Vladimir Lande, Music Director and Chief Conductor
This event is made possible through the generous support of Robert K. and Dale Jellison Weary.
Sponsored by
Midco is pleased to partner with the Lied Center of Kansas to present the Siberian State Symphony Orchestra.
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PROGRAM Tango from the Ballet The Bolt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) Piano Concerto No. 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) Peter Laul, soloist
20-Minute Intermission Pictures at an Exhibition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881) Please see your pre- and post-performance emails for program notes. Program is subject to change.
SIBERIAN STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Siberian State Symphony Orchestra (SSSO) dates back to 1977, then led by eminent conductor Ivan Shpiller, when they quickly earned the reputation as one of the best orchestras in, what was then, the Soviet Union. SSSO has worked with renowned conductors, such as Leonard Slatkin, Dmitri Jurowski, Gintaras Rinkevicius and Vladislav Chernushenko, among others, and they have performed regularly with illustrious soloists, including Mikhail Pletnev, Vadim Repin, the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky, the late Lazar Berman, Igor Oistrakh, Denis Matsuev, Rudolf Buchbinder and Nikolai Lugansky, to name a few. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, SSSO began touring internationally to critical acclaim. In 1993, by special decree of the Russian Ministry of Culture, SSSO was awarded the title of State Orchestra and, in 2009, received venerable status as a Particularly Valuable Entity of Cultural Heritage. In 2015, Vladimir Lande became the orchestra’s new music director and chief conductor. Since then, SSSO has started successful new collaborations with international recording labels, such as Naxos, Delos and Parma Records, and the orchestra’s televised concerts have become available for online streaming. The orchestra and its new director not only maintain the high performing standards that brought them early prominence, but they also dedicate significant time to the orchestra’s mission as educators in the region of Central Siberia.
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Vladimir Lande Russian American conductor Vladimir Lande is the music director and chief conductor of the Siberian State Symphony Orchestra (Krasnoyarsk, Russia). In 2008, Maestro Lande was appointed principal guest conductor of the St. Petersburg State Symphony, and in 2011, he led the orchestra on a 24-concert “Tour of the Americas” that included New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Baltimore’s Meyerhoff Hall and the Society of the Performing Arts in Houston, as well as the most prestigious venues in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile and Uruguay. A graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and a former student of the renowned professor Gustav Maier, Maestro Lande has enjoyed a remarkable career as principal and guest conductor of major orchestras, including the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, National Gallery Orchestra, Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Peru, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Argentina, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra (Florida), Baltimore Opera Orchestra and many more. Maestro Lande actively tours with various orchestras; his most recent notable tours include Central and South America, South Korea, Europe and the United States. Vladimir Lande boasts an extraordinary recording career. His recordings have received critical acclaim and numerous awards, such as the Clef d’Or Global Music Award and the Award of the German Classical Music Critics Association. His CD of Schubert’s Unfinished and Great Symphonies was released on Brilliant Classics in the summer of 2011, and his CD of American composer James Aikman’s music was released on Naxos. Other notable recordings include work by Respighi and Castelnuovo-Tedesco as well as contemporary works for the Parma label. Maestro Lande is an expert and active champion of contemporary music, having recorded more than 30 CDs of contemporary compositions. Lande’s vision for contemporary music crosses genre boundaries, as demonstrated in such ground-breaking projects as “Concerto for Chef and Orchestra,” and, in collaboration with the perfume industry in France, “The Fragrance of Sound.” In 2011, he successfully launched a series of video recordings for Naxos titled Concerts from the Palaces of St. Petersburg. Lande has collaborated with many of today’s leading soloists and rising stars, including Vadim Repin, Hilary Hahn, Pavel Milyukov, Nikolai Lugansky, Denis Matsuev, Olga Kern, Dmitry Kouzov, Xiayin Wang, Peter Laul, Maxim Mogilevsky, Eldar Nebolsin, Tianwa Yang, Gary Louie, Eugene Ugorski, Sergey Nakaryakov, Sergey Krylov, Alexander Knyazev, Andrei Gavrilov, Otto Sauter and many more. Maestro Lande is equally successful in conducting symphonic, opera and ballet repertoire. His upcoming conducting engagements include the Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Argentina and many others. Maestro Lande divides his time between Russia and the U.S. when not on tour.
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Peter Laul, pianist Peter Laul was born into a musical family in St. Petersburg, Russia and received his education at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied with Professor Alexander Sandler and he has since become a faculty member. He won the Third Prize and Special Prize for the Best Bach Performance in the Bremen International Piano Competition in 1995 and, in 1997, he won the First Prize and Special Prize for the Best Schubert Sonata Performance. Additionally, in 2000, he won First Prize at the Scriabin International Piano Competition in Moscow and, in 2003, he was awarded the Honorary Medal “for achievements in the arts” by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Laul has performed as a soloist with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow State Kapella Orchestra as well as numerous other Russian orchestras under the direction of conductors, such as Maxim Shostakovich, Valery Gergiev, Vassily Sinaiski, Eri Klas, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Nikolai Znaider and Nikolai Alekseev, among others. He has also performed with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Südwestdeutsche Rundfunk, the Dessau, the Bremerhaven and the Oldenburg Theatre Orchestras (Germany), the Brasilian National Symphony Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestras (Estonia), and the Les Siècles (France) under François-Xavier Roth. Laul’s recital performances have taken him to the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Halls, the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater, the Moscow Conservatory Halls, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall and the Moscow International House of Music. Abroad, he has performed in the Auditorium du Louvre, Théâtre de la Ville, Théâtre du Châtelet and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Salle Moliere and Opera Lyon, the Lincoln Center in New York, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vredenburg in Utrecht, Casino Basel, Die Glocke in Bremen, the Montpellier Corum, Sapienza University in Rome, Verdi Hall in Milan, Suntory Hall and Opera City Hall in Tokyo, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Hall, Le Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels as well as in numerous venues and festivals throughout Russia, Europe, Japan and the U.S.
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SIBERIAN STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Vladimir Lande, Music Director and Chief Conductor
FIRST VIOLIN Vladimir Zeyfert Alina Agafanova Lilia Brumm Larisa Fursa Elena Katcko Galina Leshta Elena Maier Inna Nikitina Irinia Samoilova Elena Shirova Snezhana Zakharova Marina Busarkina Yulia Kharyushina SECOND VIOLIN Antonina Rogatkina Liudmila Davydov Svetlana Deriabina Tatiana Filatova Elena Iagodina Irina Khmel Tatiana Kukharenko Artur Kuznetsov Liudmila Paniushina Olga Poliak-Braginskaia Liudmila Shapovalova Tamerlan Tedeev VIOLA Tatiana Uvarkina Liudmila Ivanenko Tatiana Kleimenova Iulia Kulmanakova
Nina Moltyanskaya Mariia Rodygina Konstantin Sobolevskii Olga Ziborova Elena Soboleva Anna Lesnikova Olga Frolova CELLO Konstantin Koksharov Ekaterina Kolotvina Irina Kulik Aleksandra Nesova Ilia Nikolaev Elena Shilina Natalia Sideleva Tatiana Triska Oksana Braddik Zhanna Sorochan DOUBLE BASS Oleg Brattsev Aleksandr Koksharov Svetlana Primak Aleksandr Smagin Ian Sumarokov FLUTE Andrei Khudonogov Petr Khudonogov Sergei Khudonogov OBOE Tatiana Saveleva Irinia Stoliarova
CLARINET Aleksandr Mikheev Damir Valeev Fariza Yeraly Igor Zavialov BASSOON Ninda Andrievskaya Sergey Andrievskaya Leonid Kolesnev FRENCH HORN Alexandr Gidzinskiy Fedor Kukoviakin Alexey Lisovitskiy Andrei Obukhov TRUMPET Evgenii Chepkasov Pavel Lesnikov Viktor Styro TROMBONE Vladimir Diukov Konstantin Kuzminov Oleg Ptushchenko TUBA Aleksei Iurin HARP Tatiana Kravtceva PERCUSSION Marina Aliahchikova Sergei Gazizullin Fedor Stumpf Ekaterina Spravnikova
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KU Wind Ensemble
Wednesay
MAR 18 7:30 pm
with special guest
Joseph Alessi, trombone Conducted by Paul W. Popiel
Sponsored by
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PROGRAM Aria and Dance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thom Ritter George (b. 1942) KU Trombone Choir with Joseph Alessi Far From Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kit Turnbull (b. 1969) Tom Davoren, guest conductor Tintagel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arnold Bax (1883–1953)/trans. Colnot Wind Ensemble premiere
20-Minute Intermission Quaternity (2019). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bruce Broughton (b. 1945) I. Earth II. Air III. Fire IV. Water Kansas premiere Joseph Alessi, soloist
Joseph Alessi Joseph Alessi was appointed principal trombone of the New York Philharmonic in the spring of 1985. Prior to joining the Philharmonic, Alessi was second trombone of the Philadelphia Orchestra for four seasons and principal trombone of the Orchestre symphonique de MontrĂŠal for one season. In addition, he has performed as guest principal trombonist with the London Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, led by Pierre Boulez. Alessi is an active soloist, recitalist and chamber music performer. In April 1990, he made his solo debut with the New York Philharmonic, performing the Creston Fantasy for Trombone, and in 1992, he premiered the Pulitzer Prize-winning Christopher Rouse Trombone Concerto with the Philharmonic, which was commissioned by the Philharmonic for Joseph Alessi, in honor of its 150th anniversary celebration. Alessi has recorded and performed extensively with four prominent trombone quartets: The New York Trombone Quartet, Four of a Kind Trombone Quartet, the World Trombone Quartet and Slide Monsters Trombone Quartet. The Lied Center engagement will include the Kansas premiere of Quaternity, composed by Bruce Broughton and commissioned by a consortium of university and military bands, specifically for Mr. Alessi as soloist.
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Other solo engagements have included the New Japan Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic, Orchestra of Teatro Bellini, Mannheim National Theater Orchestra, The Hague Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, and the Colorado, Alabama, Santa Barbara, Syracuse and Puerto Rico symphony orchestras. Alessi has also participated in numerous festivals, including the Festivale Musica di Camera (Protogruaro, Italy), Cabrillo Music Festival, Swiss Brass Week and the Lieksa Brass Week in Finland. He was featured in the 1997 International Trombone Festival in Feldkirch, Austria and the International Meeting of Brass Instruments in Lille, France. In 2002, Alessi was awarded an International Trombone Association Award for his contributions to the world of trombone music and trombone playing, and in 2014, was elected president of that association. Mr. Alessi is currently on the faculty of The Juilliard School, and he has toured extensively as a master teacher.
Paul W. Popiel Paul W. Popiel, professor of music, is the Director of Bands at the University of Kansas and only the seventh person to hold this position in the band’s 125-year history. Dr. Popiel conducts the KU Wind Ensemble, directs the graduate program in wind conducting and guides all aspects of the university band program. His previous appointments include the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and Oklahoma State University. He also enjoyed several years teaching in the public schools of Texas and Michigan. His Carnegie Hall debut in 2013 was heralded by The New York Times: “The ensemble, conducted by Paul W. Popiel, performed with polish, assurance and copious spirit, eliciting a rousing ovation,” while New York’s Feast of Music said, “Give credit to Popiel, a strong advocate for new music, who went for broke, succeeding in showing us that there is, in fact, real, adventurous music being made over on the other side of the rainbow.” Under Popiel’s leadership, the KU Wind Ensemble has performed at Carnegie Hall in 2013, for President Obama in 2015, at the Kansas Music Educators Association (2012 and 2015), the national convention of the College Band Directors National Association in 2017, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2018. The band’s recent performances have been acclaimed by The New York Times, Gramophone, Feast of Music, Fanfare, and the American Record Guide. A proponent of distinctive new music, Popiel has commissioned and premiered numerous new works for winds, including pieces by composers Joel Puckett, Mohammed Fairouz, Michael Torke, Kevin Walczyk, James Barnes, David Dzubay and Joni Greene, among others. In 2013, Popiel was elected to the membership of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, known for the Grammy Awards.
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Popiel holds degrees from Truman State University, the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University. A recipient of a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, he also earned a postgraduate diploma in twentieth-century music at the University of Bristol, England. Popiel was also the Frank L. Battisti Conducting Fellow, serving as the resident conductor of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.
KU Wind Ensemble Described by The New York Times as “one of America’s most esteemed concert bands,” the KU Wind Ensemble is the premier wind band at the University of Kansas. Their Carnegie Hall debut in 2013 was described by Feast of Music as “showing amazing chops in their transitions and an impressive range of dynamics.” The ensemble performed for President Obama for his address to the University of Kansas in January 2015, and they premiered Kevin Walczyk’s Symphony No. 5: Freedom from Fear at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2018. The band has hosted numerous composers in recent years, including John Corigliano, Frank Ticheli, Steven Bryant, Kevin Walczyk, Joni Greene, Aaron Perrine, Michael Torke, Joel Puckett, John Mackey, Mohammed Fairouz and Eric Ewazen as well as guest conductors Dai Zhonghui, Michelle Rakers, John Whitwell, H. Robert Reynolds and Mallory Thompson. Recent guest soloists with the ensemble include Jim Walker, Gail Williams, Jeff Nelsen, Jon Lewis, Joey Tartell, the Boston Brass and Chris Vadala. The band performs diverse repertoire of the highest caliber, from chamber works to large ensemble pieces, and has a strong commitment to new music as well as the finest standard band repertoire.
FLUTE Pablo Sanchez Puebla, Mexico Kelly Bushouse, picc Overland Park, KS Samantha Holloman Toledo, OH Marie Parker Kansas City, MO Jamie Hankins Olsburg, KS OBOE/ENGLISH HORN Elizabeth Phillips McKinney, TX Brittney Eyerly, English horn Stevensville, MI Alex Griffitt Grain Valley, MO BASSOON Ryan Morris Richardson, TX Gina Moore Petersburg, VA LiYang Wan, bsn/contra Jiang Xi, China Hannah Howell, bsn/contra Alanson, MI
CLARINET Kaitlyn Gerde The Colony, TX Hilary Lowery, Eb Norman, OK Lauren Walbert Lenexa, KS Angela Fornelli Overland Park, KS Katherine Anderson Omaha, NE Bennett Morgan Las Cruces, NM Joey Tangeman Olathe, KS Maddie Cain Olathe, KS Petar Smilev, bass Skopje, Rep. of Macedonia
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SAXOPHONE Lingxiao Li, alto Dalian, Liaoning, China James Lawhn Honolulu, HI Tyler Walker Kearney, NE Christopher Ord O’Fallon IL Sophia Hollman, tenor Shawnee, KS Alexandra Rutkowski, bari Overland Park, KS TRUMPET Robert Vandivier Orlando, FL Tyler Parkridge Bald Knob, AR Hannah Steinert Wichita, KS Tori Klopp Naperville, IL Baset Azizi Kabul, Afghanistan Zak Terp Mt Vernon, MO Madi Howard Appleton, WI HORN Sam Spicer Bellevue, WA Maggie Spotanski Kearney, NE Cole Epley Rose Hill, KS Caleb Kraemer Kansas City, KS Emily Kimball West Plains, MO TROMBONE Sam Rosenbaum Overland Park, KS Colin Wreath Wichita, KS Megann Lawrenz Baldwin City, KS Ty Templeton McKinney, TX PJ Kelly, bass Olympia, WA
MAR 18 | KUWE w/ Joseph Alessi, trombone EUPHONIUM Nathaniel Martin Olathe, KS Sabrina Jacobs Lawrence, KS TUBA Josie Jones Kansas City, KS Webb Adelsperger Vincent, OH Lorren Stroder Olathe, KS HARP Erin Wood Lawrence, KS STRING BASS Ben Tervort Kansas City, MO PIANO Taeri Lee Seoul, South Korea PERCUSSION Grayson Rushing Norman, OK Lauren Molloy Austin, TX Collin Smith Palatine, IL Tom Fabing Gardner, KS Rachael Mrosko Chanhassen, MN Nicholas Wright Olathe, KS Ryan Pearson Mitchellville, IA
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Mon & Tue
MAR 23 & 24 7:30 pm
Pavilion
Houston Person & Emmet Cohen Just Friends Jazz Series
Sponsored by
We are pleased to partner with the Lied Center of Kansas to present the Just Friends Jazz Series.
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MAR 23 & 24 | Houston Person & Emmet Cohen
There will be no intermission during this event. HOUSTON PERSON, American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer, knows the music business inside out. As eclectic as he is talented, Person has recorded everything from disco and gospel to pop and R&B, in addition to his trademark— soulful, hard bop. After years as producer and house tenor for HighNote Records and touring with the late Etta Jones, Person is now known as a master of popular songs played in a relaxed, highly accessible style reminiscent of the great Ben Webster. Person grew up in Florence, South Carolina, first playing piano before switching to the tenor sax at age 17. He went on to study music at South Carolina State College, where he’s included in the school’s Hall of Fame, and later pursued advanced studies at Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. As a member of the U.S. Air Force Band stationed in Germany, he played with Eddie Harris, Cedar Walton and Don Ellis, later working as a sideman for organist Johnny “Hammond” Smith in the mid 1960s. Person built his reputation as a leader with a series of soulful recordings for Prestige in the 60s. However, for a large part of his career, he was best-known for his legendary partnership with the great vocalist Etta Jones, which lasted over 30 years until her death in 2001. Houston’s appearances as sideman are legion and include recordings with Etta Jones, Lena Horne, Lou Rawls, Dakota Staton, Horace Silver, Charles Earland, Joey DeFrancesco and many others. As a record producer, he has worked with many artists, including Etta Jones, Freddy Cole, Charles Brown, David ‘Fathead’ Newman, Dakota Staton and Ernie Andrews. EMMET COHEN, multifaceted American jazz pianist and composer, is in the vanguard of his generation’s advancement of music and the related arts. A recognized prodigy, Cohen began Suzuki method piano instruction at age three, and his playing quickly became a mature melding of musicality, technique and concept. Cohen notes that performing jazz is “about communicating the deepest levels of humanity and individuality; it’s essentially about connections, both among musicians and with audiences.” He leads the Emmet Cohen Trio, is a vibrant solo performer and is in constant demand as a sideman. Possessing a fluid technique, an innovative tonal palette and an extensive repertoire, Cohen plays with the command and passion of an artist fully devoted to his medium. Cohen is committed to the intergenerational transfer of the knowledge, history and traditions of jazz. The Masters Legacy Series, for which he is the producer and pianist, is a celebratory set of recordings and interviews honoring legendary jazz musicians, providing musicians of multiple generations the means to share the unwritten folklore that is America’s unique artistic idiom. Cohen has observed that jazz “is enriched immeasurably by connecting and studying with jazz masters, forging backward to the very creation of the art form.”
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Thursday
APR 2 7:30 pm
KU Jazz Ensemble I with special guest
Camila Meza , vocals/guitar Directed by Dan Gailey
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There will be no intermission during this event. Selections will be announced from the stage.
Camila Meza Equally prized as a vocalist, guitarist and composer, Camila Meza has brought a sound full of warmth, intricacy and rhythmic clarity to the New York jazz scene ever since her arrival from Santiago, Chile in 2009. Inspired by jazz, South American music and popular American songs of many eras and genres, she has uplifted audiences worldwide with her rare combination of talents: assured and beautiful singing; highly advanced guitar (both self-accompaniment and blistering solo work); and vividly colorful, melodic songwriting that reveals complex layers with every listen. Debuting in 2007 with Skylark, Meza followed up in 2009 with Retrato, again in 2013 with Prisma and in 2016 with the ambitious Sunnyside release Traces. She won two Independent Music Awards for Best Adult Contemporary CD and Best Latin CD. Hailed by The New York Times as “a bright young singer and guitarist with an ear for music of both folkloric and pop intention,” Meza has also broken ground leading her ensemble, The Nectar Orchestra, whose CD, Ambar, was released in 2019. She also performs as a member of Ryan Keberle’s Catharsis and Fabian Almazan’s Rhizome, among other top jazz ensembles.
Dan Gailey Dan Gailey is the Director of Jazz Studies and professor of music at the University of Kansas, where he directs Jazz Ensemble I; teaches courses in jazz composition, arranging and pedagogy; and produces the annual KU Jazz Festival. He has been named to a coveted Chancellor’s Club Teaching Professorship at KU for 2017–23. Gailey is the recipient of the 1996 IAJE Gil Evans Fellowship, which is presented to an emerging jazz composer from an international field of candidates. Under his direction, the KU Jazz Studies program has been the recipient of 27 DownBeat Student Music Awards, including Jazz Ensemble I’s 2019 award for Best College Jazz Ensemble in the Graduate Division. As director of the KU Jazz Ensemble I, Gailey has led performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Jazz à Vienne festival in France, the Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival in California, the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy, and the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City. He also directed the band in invited appearances at International Association of Jazz Educators Conferences in New York City, Atlanta and Boston. The Dan Gailey Jazz Orchestra debut CD, What Did You Dream?, was released in July 2010 on Origin/OA2 Records and features all original compositions by Gailey. The CD spent almost two years on the JazzWeek radio airplay charts, and received very favorable reviews from JAZZIZ, JazzTimes and Cadence magazines, among others. Gailey has directed all-state high school jazz ensembles in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington, along with the 2015 NAfME All-Northwest Jazz Ensemble and the 1996
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National Band Association National High School Ensemble. He holds degrees from the University of Northern Colorado (MM) and Pacific Lutheran University (BM), and he is also the vice president of Jazz Education Abroad, a non-profit organization that presents educational workshops and festivals throughout the world with emphasis in Asia and the Middle East.
KU Jazz Ensemble I
The University of Kansas Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Dan Gailey, is the flagship ensemble within the KU Jazz Studies program. The program has received 27 DownBeat Student Music Awards, including Jazz Ensemble I’s 2019 and 2015 awards in the Graduate Division for Best College Big Band in the U.S. or Canada, and their Outstanding Performance Award in the same division in 2017. Jazz Ensemble I performed Gailey’s flamenco suite Palos Nuevos at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. in April 2018. In April 2016, the ensemble performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City with internationally acclaimed vocalist Deborah Brown, and the band was one of six international college finalists that performed at the 2019 and 2017 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival. In July 2018, Jazz Ensemble I played 10 shows in 13 days with Deborah Brown as part of a European tour that included invited appearances at three of the world’s most prestigious jazz festivals: the Montreux Jazz Festival (where the band performed twice), Umbria Jazz and the Jazz À Vienne Festival. The ensemble has also been featured at International Association of Jazz Educators Conferences in New York City, Boston and Atlanta with guest soloists including Dave Liebman, Jim McNeely and Rick Margitza, and guest composer/conductor Maria Schneider. Other major appearances include two recent concerts at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Jazz Ensemble I has had the distinction of performing with such noted guest artists as Toshiko Akiyoshi, Clark Terry, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Anat Cohen, Sean Jones, Kneebody, Renee Rosnes, Steve Wilson, Tia Fuller, Dave Douglas, Louie Bellson, Jeff Coffin, Tim Ries, Peter Erskine, Vince Mendoza, Conrad Herwig, Bob Sheppard, Gary Foster, Steve Houghton, Bob Mintzer, Bobby Shew, Carl Fontana, Dick Oatts, Frank Mantooth, Ingrid Jensen, Jon Hendricks, Pete Christlieb and many others. SAXOPHONES Michael Svoren Overland Park, KS Sophia Hollman Shawnee, KS Luis Matos Kansas City, KS Misha Olarrea Tucson, AZ Zachary Dixon Lawrence, KS Matt Lindboe Overland Park, KS TRUMPETS Robert Vandivier Orlando, FL Tyler Parkridge Bald Knob, AR Nathan Lee Imperial, MO Rafniel Rios Aguada, PR
TROMBONES Colin Wreath Andover, KS Ian Warshaw Overland Park, KS Justin Roderman Plano, TX PJ Kelley Olympia, WA RHYTHM SECTION Alex Frank, guitar Topeka, KS Oliver Moore, piano Chico, CA Ben Tervort, bass Liberty, MO Vaughn Craddock, drums Wichita, KS Donovan Miller, percussion Woodbury, MN
