KUWE with Joey Tartell Program

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Wednesday

KU Wind Ensemble

NOV 9 7:30 pm

with special guest

Joey Tartell, trumpet Conducted by Director of Bands

Dr. Paul W. Popiel

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Program The Blue Valley West High School Wind Ensemble: 7 pm The Blue Valley West High School Wind Ensemble will open the evening.

They perform under the direction of Cheryl Lee. Gustav Holst — Second Suite in F Morten Lauridsen — O Magnum Mysterium John Philip Sousa — Washington Post March

KU Wind Ensemble: 7:30 pm Jaime Texidor (1884-1957) arr. Winters (1870–1955) — Amparita Roca (1935) . . . Cheryl Lee, guest conductor Michael Gandolfi (b. 1956) — Vientos y Tangos (2010) ��������������������Anthony Messina, guest conductor Kevin Walczyk (b. 1964) — Concerto Gaucho (2007). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joey Tartell, soloist

20-Minute Intermission Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) — La ville d’en-haut (1987). . . . . Han Wang, soloist Allen Vizzutti (b.1952) — American Jazz Suite (1992) . . . . . . . Joey Tartell, soloist Please see your pre-and post-performance emails for program notes.

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Joey Tartell, trumpet Joey Tartell is an associate professor of trumpet and the director of undergraduate studies at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Before joining the faculty, he enjoyed a career as an in-demand lead and freelance trumpet player. Tartell was the lead player for Maynard Ferguson, touring the United States, Australia, Asia and Europe and can be heard on the recording These Cats Can Swing. He also played lead for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, including a State Department tour of Egypt; the U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors, including a State Department tour of India and appearances at the Montreux and North Sea Jazz Festivals; and the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

Although teaching full time, Tartell remains an active performer. He is a regular guest lead trumpet/soloist with several orchestras for Pops concerts, including serving as the Guest Principal for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s entire 2014–15 Pops season. Tartell has also played with the St. Louis, Houston, Cincinnati, Detroit, National Arts Centre (Ottawa) and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras. Also active in the recording studios, he has recorded for the Bob and Tom Show, Hal Leonard Publications, Shawnee Press, Cedar Point Amusement Park, Williams Gaming and many others. Tartell has also toured with Boston Brass and Canadian Brass.

Tartell is also active as a soloist and clinician. Recently, he has been a featured soloist and clinician at both the International Trumpet Guild conference and the National Trumpet Competition. He maintains an active calendar as a clinician nationally, presenting clinics from Boise, Idaho to Tallahassee, Florida last year.

Tartell has a master’s degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Miami and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he was also awarded a Performer’s Certificate. He had the great fortune to study with Barbara Butler, Mel Broiles, Gil Johnson and Vince DiMartino.

Paul W. Popiel, conductor Paul W. Popiel is the director of bands at the University of Kansas, only the seventh person to hold this position in the band’s storied 125-year history. 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 six years teaching in the public schools of Texas and Michigan.

His Carnegie Hall debut with the KU Wind Ensemble 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.”

Popiel has lectured and performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, China, Singapore and Japan. He has several highly acclaimed performance and

NOV 9 | KU Wind Ensemble w/Joey Tartell, trumpet Page 14 production credits for CDs on the Klavier, Naxos, Ecstatic, Summit and Mark Custom labels. His latest recording project will feature the premiere recordings of works by Joel Puckett, Aaron Perrine, John Mackey, James Barnes and Joni Greene.

Under Popiel’s leadership, the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble has performed at Carnegie Hall in 2013, for President Obama in 2015, at the Kansas Music Educators Association (2012 and 2015) and was recently selected for the national biennial convention of the College Band Directors National Association in 2017. The band’s recent performances have been acclaimed by The New York Times, Gramophone, Feast of Music, Fanfare and the American Record Guide.

Popiel is a contributing author to several volumes of the renowned series, Teaching Music through Performance in Band, as well as the journal Alta Musica. His recent lectures on wind band literature include Oberwolz, Austria; Hammelburg, Germany; Coimbra, Portugal; and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore.

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, Joni Greene and 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.

The University of Kansas Wind Ensemble Described by the New York Times as “one of America’s most esteemed concert bands,” the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble is the premier wind band at the University of Kansas and is conducted by Paul W. Popiel, director of bands. 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” and by The New York Times as “performing with polish, assurance and copious spirit, eliciting a rousing ovation.” The Wind Ensemble performed for President Obama for his address to the University of Kansas in January of 2015.

The band enjoys a long history of excellence and musical leadership in the State of Kansas, across the nation and around the world. Former conductors include Russell Wiley, Kenneth Bloomquist, Robert E. Foster, John Lynch and Scott Weiss.

The ensemble is at the forefront of commercial wind band recording and can be heard on the Klavier, Naxos Wind Band Classics, Ecstatic and Mark Custom labels.

Their most recent release, In the Shadow of No Towers, was described in Gramophone Magazine as “...eloquent, disciplined performances that come across with stunning dynamic range and almost dimensional transparency.”

The band has hosted numerous composers including 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 Michelle Rakers, John Whitwell, H. Robert Reynolds and Mallory Thompson. Guest soloists performing with the Wind Ensemble include Gail Williams, Jeff Nelsen, Jon Lewis, Joey Tartell, the Boston Brass and Chris Vadala.

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KU Wind Ensemble Members FLUTE

HORN

Deborah Hass • Shawnee, KS Emily Churchwell (picc) • DeSoto, KS Marie Parker • Kansas City, MO Cara Mallonee • Olathe, KS Maria Pileski (and alto) • Eudora, KS

Caroline Strickfaden • McHenry, IL Bridget Saito • Fresno, CA Alice Kirsch • Marion, IA Alexandria Rogers • Columbia, MO Kenzie Kimble • Topeka, KS Brady O'Donnell • Kansas City, MO Tristan Bartley • Kansas City, MO

OBOE Matt Butterfield • Pittsburgh, PA Maggie Nickl • Arlington Heights, IL Elizabeth Phillips (ob/EH) • McKinney, TX Cassidy Markley • Baldwin City, KS BASSOON Sarah Vogts • Dakota Dunes, SD Ryan Weaver • Double Oak, TX Randall Himes (and contra) • Keller, TX Kylie Hansen • Friendswood, TX Daryn Zubke (contra) • Waterford City, ND CLARINET Richard Adger • Kansas City, MO Justin Harbaugh • Emporia, KS Hilary Lowery (Eb) • Norman, OK Chase Wallace • Overland Park, KS Courtney Nottingham • Lawrence, KS Justin Kline • Overland Park, KS Lauren Walbert • Lenexa, KS Stacia Fortune (bass) • Urbandale, IA Abby Brabant (contrabass) • Lawrence, KS SAXOPHONE Nick May • Lincoln, NE David Berrios • Lakewood, NJ Chris Agnew • Spring Hill, KS Bennett Johnson (tenor) • Victoria, MN Maxwell Rohlf (bari) • Overland Park, KS

TROMBONE Mark Sweeney • Durham, NC Roy Schmeidler • Hays, KS Ben Cooper • Overland Park, KS Megann Lawrenz • Baldwin City, KS Andy Newbegin (bass) • Deforest, WI Keon Jackson (bass) • Junction City, KS EUPHONIUM Josh Hugo • Rosemount, MN Brett Keating • Madison, WI Erin Bonifield • Overland Park, KS TUBA Alex Taylor • Birmingham, AL Chloe Gilligan • Lawrence, KS Evan Norkey • Olathe, KS Braden Oliphant • Derby, KS HARP Grace Clark • Lawrence, KS STRING BASS Murphy Smith • Westwood, KS PIANO Jack Yarbrough • Birmingham, AL

TRUMPET

PERCUSSION

Trent Warbis • Boise, ID Michael Raehpour • Andover, KS Jong Ho Kim • Seoul, South Korea Robert Vandivier • Orlando, FL Devin Carey • Dodge City, KS Miguel Cubero • San Jose, Costa Rica Guangyu Dong • Beijing, China Tyler Hanson • Lawrence, KS

Theodore Musick • Garden City, KS Johnathon Westcott • Copperas Cove, TX Lauren Molloy • Austin, TX Tanner Lynn • Lawrence, KS Alex Alfaro • Wildwood, MO Remi Thornton • Bixby, OK Jonathan Trudeau • Lake Zurich, IL Stephanie Dwiggins • Troy, MO