Pacific Brass Day
Sunday I February 26, 2023 I 4:30 pm
Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Patrick Sheridan, tuba, guest artist
Lenny Ott, trumpet
Patricia Grimm, piano
Sadie Glass, horn
Braydon Ross, horn
Bruce Chrisp, trombone
Pacific Brass Society
Pacific Brass Day Mass Brass Choir
Vu Nguyen, conductor
Welcome to Pacific Brass Day 2023. We are so glad to host so many musicians from throughout Northern California at the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific. Participants were on campus bright and early to work with co-creator of The Brass Gym and The Breathing Gym, Patrick Sheridan, in warms ups and breathing work. They then had mass brass choir rehearsal with Pacific brass faculty and the director of wind ensembles, Dr. Vu Nguyen. After lunch, everyone was able to try out instruments and browse music and accessories from our vendors, Tim’s Music and Hampson Horns. Later in the day, students could attend masterclasses and lectures. Thank you to everyone who made this day such a success and we hope to see you all next year.
Sadie Glass Program DirectorGolden Trees from Winds of Change: Diversify the Stand (2021)
Lenny Ott, trumpet
Patricia Grimm, piano
Cloudbreak (2021)
Yukiko Nishimura (b. 1967)
James Naigus (b. 1987)
Sadie Glass, Braydon Ross ’22, horns, mixed media
Three Romanzen, op. 94 (1849)
II. Einfach
Bruce Chrisp, trombone
Patricia Grimm, piano
Pure Imagination—Somewhere Over the Rainbow, an Original Medley (2017)
Robert Schumann (1810–1856) arr. Ralph Sauer
Anthony Newley, LeslieBricusse/ Harold Arlen (1931–1999/1931–2021/ 1905–1986) arr. Charles Szczepanek (b. 1986)
Patrick Sheridan, tuba
Patricia Grimm, piano
Sleep (2000)
Pacific Brass Society
Yoshiki Shimokawa, trumpet
Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
arr. Skylar Warren ’23
Mary Denny, Edgar Leyva, Don Parker, Jada Ramos, Reese Romero, Braydon Ross, Owen Sheridan, Skylar Warren, horns
Victor Alvarez, Jayden Laumeister, trombones
William Giancaterino, tuba
Canzon per sonar noni toni, C. 183
Scarborough Fair
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1557–1612)
arr. Michel Rondeau
Traditional/Stan Engebretson (b. 1950)
arr. William Giancaterino ’26
Raising Hope: A Prayer for Ellen (2022)
Scenes from the Midwest V. Valiance
Pacific Brass Day Mass Brass Choir Vu Nguyen, conductor
Megan Vinther (b. 1980)
Wayne Lu (b. 1971)
Patrick Sheridan is one of the most celebrated tuba soloists in his instrument’s history. He has performed more than 3,500 concerts in over fifty countries in venues ranging from the White House to NBA half-time shows to the Hollywood Bowl. He is a former member of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band and has gone on to become an incredibly diverse artist with concert performances transcending stylistic genres and building fans around the world for his instrument, the tuba. He has been featured in television and radio broadcasts on four continents including appearances most recently on NBC’s Today and NPR’s All Things Considered and Performance Today. with concert performances transcending stylistic genres and building fans around the world for his instrument.
Beyond his busy performing life, Patrick’s commitment to education is extensive. His wind students occupy positions in major international ensembles including orchestras in Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Paris, Madrid, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and many others. He has served on the music faculties at Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, the Rotterdam Conservatory, the Royal Northern College of Music, and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Most recently Patrick served on the music faculty at the University of California–Los Angeles where he was the director of the UCLA Wind Ensemble, the UCLA Brass Ensemble, and a professor of tuba and euphonium.
Along with Sam Pilafian, Patrick is the coauthor of the world’s best-selling method for instrumental improvement, The Breathing Gym, which won the 2009 Emmy Award for Instructional/Informational Video Production. As a composer and arranger, Patrick Sheridan’s compositions and arrangements have been performed internationally by symphony orchestras, concert bands, marching bands, jazz bands, and drum corps. Patrick’s compositions, arrangements, CDs, DVDs, and books are published by Focus on Music, GIA Publications, De Haske Music, Carl Fischer, and Mythen Hollanda.
Patrick has over thirty years of experience in the music industry as a design consultant. Instruments influenced by his designs are played in hundreds of professional orchestras, military bands, and chamber ensembles around the world. Thousands of university, high school, middle school, and elementary school students play on instruments for which Patrick has been involved in the design process. He is the chief design consultant for Jupiter Band Instruments, XO Brass, and Hercules Stands.
As a guest conductor, Patrick works across the United States as a with professional and community ensembles, university bands and orchestras, and high school and middle school all-state bands and orchestras. He is a member of ASCAP, an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi, and a Trustee of the International Music Camp. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan and spends his free time with his family hiking and camping in beautiful Arizona while they tolerate his photography obsession.
Leonard (Lenny) Ott, trumpet, has enjoyed a successful freelance career regularly playing with the Modesto, Oakland, Monterey, and Napa Symphonies, as well as the Tutti Forza Trumpet Quartet, the Carmel Bach Festival, the former Sacramento Symphony, and occasionally the San Francisco Symphony. Lenny continues to perform solo recitals, having premiered works by Anthony Kelly and Aaron Blumenfield, and he compliments his performing with plenty of teaching at the University of the Pacific, Chabot College, and a home studio. His other accomplishments include having toured throughout California with the Bel Canto Brass Quintet Community Concert Recitals series, performing at Marine World theme park, serving the Berkeley Shakespeare Music Festival as music director, and touring Europe with the Broadway show A Chorus Line.
Hornist Sadie Glass leads a varied career as a performer and educator. She is the program director of brass and percussion and assistant professor of practice in horn at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music. During the summer she is on the faculty at the renowned Kendall Betts Horn Camp. Sadie performs as an early music specialist with period-instrument ensembles across North America, including Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, and Seattle Baroque Orchestra. In the Bay Area, Sadie has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, and Stockton Symphony and is a tenured member of the Monterey Symphony.
Active in the Bay Area since 1989, Bruce Chrisp is principal trombone of the Santa Rosa Symphony, Marin Symphony, Vallejo Symphony, Oakland Symphony, Sacramento
Philharmonic and Opera, Carmel Bach Festival, and Fresno
Philharmonic, as well as a member of the Opera San Jose orchestra. Chrisp also performs regularly with the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera, and the San Diego Symphony. He is in demand as a recording artist and records frequently at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County. A founding member of the San Francisco Brass Company, a brass quintet based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chrisp also enjoys performing Renaissance and Baroque works on a replica of an instrument made in Nuremberg in 1595. As an active sound engineer and producer, Chrisp—along with violinist Gabrielle Wunsch—performed, produced, and edited a multitrack setting of Giovanni Gabrieli’s Sonata pian’ e forte on original instruments.
CONDUCTOR
Vu Nguyen is an associate professor of music and director of bands at the University of the Pacific. He conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Band, and he teaches courses in conducting and music education. Nguyen maintains an active schedule as a clinician and has served as guest conductor with the United States Air Force Bands of the Golden West and Mid-America as well as honor bands across the country. Ensembles under his direction have performed at state music educator conferences, at the Midwest Clinic, and at the College Band Directors National Association Conference.
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Nguyen holds degrees in conducting from the University of Washington and the University of Oregon, and he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from the University of the Pacific. Prior to his appointment at Pacific, he served in similar roles at the University of Connecticut, University of Indianapolis, and Washington University in St. Louis in addition to being a visiting conductor with the Indiana University Concert Band. He began his teaching career in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District.
In addition to his academic career, Nguyen recently retired as an officer in the Air National Guard (ANG) where he was the commander and conductor of the ANG Band of the West Coast. In this position, he was responsible for all activities of this forty-member squadron, including participation in ceremonies, parades, concerts, and other public performances.
Pacific Brass Society
Trumpet: Yoshiki Shimokawa
Horns: Mary Denny, Edgar Leyva, Don Parker, Jada Ramos, Reese Romero, Braydon Ross, Owen Sheridan, Skylar Warren
Trombones: Victor Alvarez, Jayden Laumeister
Tuba: William Giancaterino
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UPCOMING CONSERVATORY EVENTS
Mar. 1 | 7:30 pm
Faculty Recital
Brittany Trotter, flute
Recital Hall
Mar. 3 | 7:30 pm
Pacific Jazz Festival
Patrick Langham, director
Melissa Aldana, guest artist
Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Mar. 4 | 7:30 pm
Pacific Jazz Festival
Patrick Langham, director
Melissa Aldana, guest artist
Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Mar. 7 | 7:30 pm
Faculty Recital
Sadie Glass, horn
Recital Hall