Horn Recital, Sadie Glass with Natalie Douglass Grana

FACULTY HORN RECITAL

Sadie Glass with Natalie Douglass Grana

Magdalene Myint, piano

Patricia Grimm, piano

Tuesday, March, 2024

7:30 pm

Recital Hall

MARCH 5, 2024, 7:30 PM

Rondo in E-flat major, K. 371 (?1781)

Wolfgang Amadè Mozart (1756–1791)

Natalie Douglass Grana, horn Magdalene Myint, piano

Daylight (2023)

Sadie Glass, natural horn

Natalie Douglass Grana, alphorn

Horn Concerto in D major, op. 2, no. 12 (before 1733; 2005)

Allegro

Adagio

Vivace

A Gentle Yodel

Sadie Glass, Baroque horn Magdalene Myint, piano

Natalie Douglass Grana, alphorn

Land of Fire and Ice (2018)

Intermission

Sadie Glass, horn

Patricia Grimm, piano

Saga for Horn and Fixed Media (2017)

Natalie Douglass Grana, horn

A Suite of Laura Nelson Alphorn Pieces In Early Autumn Liebeslied

Sadie Glass, natural horn

Natalie Douglass Grana, alphorn

Skylar Warren ’25 (b. 2003)

John Humphries (c. 1707–1733) arr. John Humphries (b. 1956)

William Rose (b. 1956)

Paul Basler (b. 1963)

James Naigus (b. 1987)

Laura Nelson (b. 1971)

PROGRAM NOTES

Thank you all for coming to this joint horn recital. Natalie Douglass Grana and Sadie Glass met in 2011 while they were both completing their master’s degrees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since then they have remained close friends and have continued to work together during the summer at the renowned Kendall Betts Horn Camp. They are both passionate in sharing horn pedagogy beyond the modern horn. Tonight you will hear pieces on four different instruments, alphorn, Baroque horn, natural horn, and modern horn. Both Sadie and Natalie are leaders with their respective instruments and are especially excited to share a new work, written for them by Pacific’s student Skylar Warren ’25 merging the alphorn and natural horn worlds. We hope you enjoy hearing all of these instruments and learning where the horn started and what these “old” horns are still capable of today.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Sadie Glass is on faculty at the Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific where she is the brasspercussion program director, teaches modern and historic horn lessons as well as music fundamentals, chamber music, and is a member of the Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet.

Glass leads a varied career as a performer and educator. She performs as a soloist and orchestral hornist with period-instrument ensembles across North America, including Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque, American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, and Seattle Baroque. Recent solo appearances include Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 1 with the horn quartet Quadre (2022) and Telemann’s Double Horn Concerto TWV 52:Es1 with Seattle Baroque (2023). As a modern horn player, Glass is a tenured member of the Monterey Symphony and has performed with many orchestras throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including the San Francisco Symphony and Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera.

As an educator, Glass has also held teaching positions at Pacific Union College, Chabot College, and El Sistema music programs. During the summer, she is on faculty at the Kendall Betts Horn Camp as the natural horn specialist. Glass completed a master’s degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying with Bernhard Scully, and graduated summa cum laude with her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, studying with Patrick Miles. Outside of music, Glass enjoys spending time with her family, is a DIY enthusiast, and loves to travel.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Natalie Douglass Grana is a hornist and educator based in Chicago, Illinois. She is on the faculty of DePaul University, Loyola University, and Lake Forest College and previously served as assistant professor of horn and head of brass at Utah Valley University. Grana is hornist with the Gaudete Brass, a Chicago-based brass quintet that actively commissions new pieces and performs across the country. Her performance experience also includes performing with the Chicago Philharmonic, Boston Brass, Alloy Horn Quartet, Utah Symphony, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Josh Groban, Louisville Symphony, and Mannheim Steamroller. While in Utah, she also recorded musical soundtracks, video game music, and film scores for various recording studios.

Grana is an authority on inner hearing and solfège training and specializes in transferring these skills to horn, inspired by her United States Fulbright Grant to the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy in Hungary. Her book, A Singing Approach to Horn Playing, is available through Oxford University Press. She has been a guest artist at some of the world’s finest musical institutions, including the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in the Netherlands and the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has taught horn and led the musicianship curriculum at the renowned Kendall Betts Horn Camp since 2013. An enthusiastic proponent of the alphorn, she has performed and given masterclasses across the United States and abroad and is on the faculty of the Northwest Alphorn Workshop, the Lake Tahoe Alphorn Seminar, the Windy City Alphorn Workshop, and the Alphorn Institute.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

At University of the Pacfic, Patricia Grimm teaches sight singing, collaborative piano, and serves as a collaborative pianist with students, faculty, and guest artists. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in sacred music with organ concentration from Duquesne University, a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from Kent State University, and a Master of Music degree in collaborative piano from the Hartt School of Music. She also studied piano with Jonathan Feldman at the Juilliard School. As a collaborative pianist, Grimm has performed at the Edinburgh International Music Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland; the Trinity Wall Street Music Series in New York City; and chamber music concerts at the Musica no Museu Festival of Winds, Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art, and the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Unirio). She regularly performs throughout the United States as a collaborative pianist and chamber musician. Prior to moving to Sacramento in 2013, she was a freelance collaborative pianist in the New York City metropolitan area and staff accompanist at Central Connecticut State University, in addition to maintaining an active private teaching studio.

Grimm also serves as organist at Fremont Presbyterian Church, Sacramento.

Magdalene Myint is a third-year student at University of the Pacific pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance under Sonia Leong, along with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology. She was a 2023 scholar of the American Guild of Organists, studying with Patricia Grimm, with whom she has also studied collaborative piano. At Pacific, she is involved in the Pacific Repertoire Orchestra, 28/78 New Music Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, and serves as a private teacher at the Pacific Community Music School.

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