WIND ENSEMBLE Emily Threinen, conductor Shaun Evans, graduate conductor Preston Weber, graduate conductor "Imaginations"
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 | 7:30 pm TED MANN CONCERT HALL
PROGRAM: IMAGINATIONS
EUGÉNE BOZZA | 1905-1991
Children's Overture (1964) [7:00 mintues]
MICHAEL COLGRASS | 1932-2019
Winds of Nagual (1985)
[25:00 minutes] The desert: don Juan emerges from the mountains Carlos meets don Juan: first conversation Don Genaro satirizes Carlos Carlos stares at the water and becomes a bubble The gait of power Asking twilight for calmness and power Juan clowns for Carlos Last conversation and farewell: Carlos leaps into the unknown and explodes into a thousand views of the world • INTERMISSION • SHUYING LI | b. 1989
The Last Hive Mind (2018)
[6:30 minutes] Shaun Evans, graduate conductor JENNIFER HIGDON | b. 1962
Mysterium (2002/2011)
[6:45 minutes] Preston Weber, graduate conductor ALBERTO GINASTERA (ARR. DONALD PATTERSON) | 1916-1983
Dances from "Estancia" (1941/2006)
[11:00 minutes] I. Los trabajadores agricolas (The agricultural workers) II. Danza del trigo (Dance of the wheat fields) III. Los peones de hacienda (The cattlemen) IV. Danza final (Malambo)
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PERSONNEL
Flute/Piccolo Alexandra Brouillard Amy Katzman Alejandro Meza Megan Reich* Savannah Ridley Sarah Weisbrod Oboe Claire Arnold Alyssa Jermiason* Arielle Wolf English Horn Arielle Wolf E-flat Clarinet Claire Zwiefelhofer Clarinet Sheng Chen Emma Gehlbach Kelley Harrell Noah Holz Kaylee Mina Brooke Linzmeier Allison Maxa* Maya Yokanovich Claire Zwiefelhofer Bass Clarinet Teighan Brummel Contrabass Clarinet Teighan Brummel Jonah Jensen Bassoon Evan Judson Marta Troiki Hui Zhang
Contrabassoon Ariel Detwiler* Soprano Saxophone Russell Sweet* Alto Saxophone Emily Brewer* Andrew Nelson Russell Sweet* Tenor Saxophone Adam Shew Baritone Saxophone Charlie Gannon Horn Alysaa Inglett Molly Lampone Aisling O'Sullivan* Ryan Penshorn Jean Smith Broden Wanner Nicholas White Trumpet Judy Gaunt* Bobby Hahn Alan Jermiason Nathan Loesch William Neace Zachary Ploeger Marshall Yoes Trombone Samuel Charlton Christian Howard* Mairyn Schoshinski Jacques Tousignant
Bass Trombone Neftaly Gonzalez Johannes Weibling Euphonium Justin Schoenherr* Chris Michalski Tuba Austin Comerford* Roger Gomoll Isaac Portoghese Joseph Weiler String Bass Brock Drevlow Irving Steinberg Percussion Nathan Brown Jack Donovan* Peyton Green Bjorn Grina Annaliese Heim Calvin Stromwall Mackenna Tolfa Rachel Yurik Piano/Celesta Leonie Li Harp Hannah Palmquist *denotes Section Principal
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Emily Threinen is director of bands and associate professor at the University of Minnesota. She conducts the Wind Ensemble, guides the graduate wind band conducting program, and provides administrative leadership for the University Bands. Threinen consistently works with composers, arrangers, and performing artists of varied disciplines. She is active across the nation and abroad (recently in Australia, Brazil, Spain, and Canada) as a guest conductor, clinician, and conference presenter. An advocate for music education, Threinen is a Yamaha Master Educator and is active in ABA, WASBE, CBDNA, NBA, NAfME, and the Conductors Guild.
Preston Weber grew up in the small town of Pierz, Minnesota. Preston taught band, orchestra, and jazz band at Hill-Murray School in Maplewood, Minnesota. He also conducted the Crosstown Community Band in southeast Minneapolis. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota in Music Education while playing oboe and English horn in Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and Orchestra, and playing tenor saxophone in Jazz I and Jazz II. He lives with his wife and their one child, who was just born in July 2019.
Shaun Evans is a first-year doctoral student in wind band conducting at the University of Minnesota. In 2018, he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a master’s degree in wind band conducting. His career began as a band director in Cobb County, Georgia, at Harrison High School. Prior to his appointment at Harrison, he earned a bachelor of arts degree in music performance and a teaching certification in music education at Georgia State University. He currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Hannah, and two dogs.
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