SoNA Battle of the Bands 2022-23 Program

Battle of the Bands

April 8, 2023

Battle of the Bands

Saturday, April 8, 2023 – 7:30PM / Baum Walker Hall / Walton Arts Center

Paul Haas, Conductor

Fayetteville Jazz Collective

Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra: Prelude

Sammy Nestico Basie – Straight Ahead

Faltermeyer Darkstar (from Top Gun: Maverick)

Duke Ellington Concerto for Cootie

Mack Gordon & Harry Warren At Last

SoNA and Fayetteville Jazz Collective

Fayetteville Jazz Collective

SoNA

Fayetteville Jazz Collective

Fayetteville Jazz Collective & SoNA arr. Riley Hampton

Genine LaTrice Perez, vocalist arr. Rick Salonen

Carlos Gardel Por una cabeza

SoNA arr. Christoper Selby

Chick Corea Spain

Fayetteville Jazz Collective arr. Paul Jennings

Igor Stravinsky Selections from Firebird

SoNA and Fayetteville Jazz Collective arr. Rick Salonen Infernal Dance Berceuse Finale

INTERMISSION

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony 5 (mvt 1)

SoNA and Fayetteville Jazz Collective arr. Rick Salonen

George Gershwin Summertime

Fayetteville Jazz Collective & SoNA arr. Rick Salonen

Bernard Herrmann Psycho

Gordon Goodwin Sing Sang Sung

Aram Khatchaturian Sabre Dance (from Gayane)

Claudia Burson Goodnight Mr. Waters

Genine LaTrice Perez, vocalist

SoNA

Fayetteville Jazz Collective

SoNA

Fayetteville Jazz Collective arr. Rick Salonen

John Williams

Imperial March

arr. Paul Haas and Rick Salonen Fight Song

Sponsored by Bob and Becky Alexander

Guest Ensemble, Fayetteville Jazz Collective, sponsored by

SoNA

SoNA and Fayetteville Jazz Collective

SoNA Board and Staff

Board of Directors

Mike Russell, Chair

Jack Cleghorn, Vice Chair

Kim Hadley, Treasurer

Marti Sudduth, Secretary

Hannah Breden

Monique Carswell

Malcolm Hayward, M.D.

Drew Hutchison

Carl Frazier-Sparks

Anthony Sumlin

Laura Wilkins

Tod Yeslow

Board of Advisors

Ed Clifford

Cynthia Coughlin

Susan Hui

Jill King

Tom King, Ph.D.

Peter B. Lane

Bill Mitchell

Dick Trammel

Staff

D. Riley Nicholson, Executive Director

Paul Haas, Music Director

Ben Harris, General Manager

Terry Hicks, SoNA Singers Director

Sarah Pearson, Assistant Conductor

Natalie Fernandez, Music Education Director

Marti and Kelly Sudduth Chair

Devanee Williams, Development Manager

Jarrett Bastow, Personnel Manager

Richard Bobo, Music Librarian

Luke Pearson, Accounting

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The Symphony of Northwest Arkansas

Paul Haas Music Director & Conductor

FIRST VIOLIN

Winona Fifield, Concertmaster

Maestro’s Circle Chair

Zsolt Eder, Associate Concertmaster

Evgeny Zvonnikov, Acting Assistant Concertmaster

Andrés Caveda

Rebecca Cutler-Metzger

Merritt Denton

Paulo Eskitch

Ronda Herold

Thane Isaac

Jennifer Sherman

SECOND VIOLIN

Miho Oda Sakon, Principal Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music Chair*

Geronimo Oyenard, Associate Principal

Mary Haley

Cristian Martinez Vega

Martha Mattes

Karol Rulli

Allison Steiner

Aleksis Zarins

VIOLA

Jesse Collett, Principal

Grace Clark, Acting Principal Lester Lewis Endowed Chair

Gloria Britez-Scolari

Logan Mabry

Hailey Treas

Phillip Wachowski

Anne Wenzel

CELLO

Kari Caldwell, Principal Starr Foundation Chair

Pecos Singer, Acting Associate Principal

Diane Bucchianeri

Lauren Green

Jayne Jostad

Michael Puryear

BASS

Jarrett Bastow, Principal Marybeth and Rick Hays Chair

Christine Craddock, Associate Principal

Marc Facci

Benji Wilson

FLUTE

Gabriel Vega, Acting Principal Greenwood Gearhart Chair

Ginny Hudson, Acting Associate Principal Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music Chair*

Carley Flowers, piccolo

OBOE

Kristin Weber, Acting Principal Robert T. Murphy III and Beau G. Reynolds Chair

Andrew Baker

Lauren White, English Horn

CLARINET

Jasper Hensley, Acting Principal

Andrew DeBoer

Orlando Scalia, bass clarinet

BASSOON

Richard Bobo, Acting Principal

Kim Chai

HORN

David Renfro, Acting Principal

Ben Bacni

Katy Luker

Justin Mohling

TRUMPET

Richard Rulli, Principal Ed and Carol Clifford Chair

Andrew Stadler

Jennifer Oliverio

TROMBONE

Cory Mixdorf, Principal Tenor Michael Hollomon and Eric Wailes Chair

Doug Fletcher

Jason Hausback, Principal Bass

TUBA

Ethyn Evans, Acting Principal

TIMPANI

Connor Stevens, Acting Principal

PERCUSSION

James Harris, Principal

Fernando Valencia

Julianne Brown-Meola Chair

Amy Hearting

HARP

Devanee Williams, Acting Principal

KEYBOARD

Erik Lawrence, Acting Principal

*Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music: Liz Allen, Jenny Coogan, Karolyn Farrell, Phoebe Goodwin, Jill King, Natalie Olsen, Lynn Rogers, Jane Scroggs, Jackie Telfair, Laura Wilkins, and Ann Marie Ziegler

Paul Haas Music Director & Conductor

SoNA Music Director Paul Haas enjoys a distinctive career as conductor, composer and installation artist. His guest conducting engagements have included performances with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, San Antonio Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the New World Symphony, among others, as well as festival appearances.

Over the last decade, he has written commissions for a wide variety of iconic venues, including the Park Avenue Armory and Rubin Museum of Art in New York, Grace Cathedral in San

Fayetteville Jazz Collective

The Fayetteville Jazz Collective is a traditional 17 piece jazz big-band featuring some of the finest musicians in Northwest Arkansas. The FJC performs an exciting and energetic mix of old standards and new favorites, from the classics of the swing era to the modern age of big-band music.

Formed in the summer of 2009, the FJC quickly became one of Northwest Arkansas’ most popular and unique live music attractions. Through grass-roots promotion and consistently stellar live performances, the band continues to expand it’s fan-base with every gig.

The FJC’s diverse catalog of music includes a wide range of styles spanning the past seven decades; from the enduring

Trumpets

Chase Cavalier

Rob Kain

Cameron Summers

Michael Howland

Trombones

Matthew Beach

Michael Stine

Graham Stewart

Paul Johnston

Genine LaTrice Perez

Guest Artist

Genine LaTrice Perez grew up singing in the church choir with her cousins directed by her grandmother and her mother, who played piano. It was not until she was 12 that she started singing solo and eventually found Jazz! With heavy roots in gospel, Genine LaTrice Perez is a self-taught jazz & blues singer with a

Francisco, the Anchorage Museum of Art in Alaska and the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

In addition to his positions as Music Director of SoNA and the Thunder Bay Symphony in Ontario, Canada, Haas is the founder and Artistic Director of Sympho, a trailblazing concert production company that creates powerful and emotional musical experiences, collaborating with leading artists and using unexpected performance methods and unorthodox venues.

Haas is a graduate of Yale University and The Juilliard School. He resides in Germantown, New York, with his wife and three children. Find out more at paulhaas.com.

classics of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands, to the boundary-pushing 1960’s work of Gil Evans and Thad Jones, and on to the contemporary styles of Gordon Goodwin and the Clayton-Hamilton band, as well as Latin Jazz material from composers like Tito Puente and Victor Lopez.

While carrying on the tradition of classic big-band excellence, the Fayetteville Jazz Collective is also actively pursuing and promoting new music for the big-band format. Alongside the standard bigband literature, the FJC playlist features new and exciting original music by it’s ‘composer in residence’ Rick Salonen.

Equally at home in front of a captive concert audience or a raucous dance-party crowd, the Fayetteville Jazz Collective carries the spirit of the classic jazz big-band into the modern era.

Saxophones

Michael Hanna, 1st alto

Jonathan Howland, 2nd alto

Austin Farnam, 1st tenor

Cas Harvey, 2nd tenor

Rick Salonen, bari sax

Rhythm

Claudia Burson, piano

Ben Harris, guitar

Garrett Jones, bass

Darren Novotny, drums

booming voice. With elegance, fun, and a soulful vibe, Miss Perez will keep you entertained.

In addition to her musical endeavors, she devotes herself altruistically to serving her community as well as the state of Arkansas. She has been listed on the Arkansas Arts Council Artist in Education (AIE) Roster since 2005. Her AIE residency workshop invites students into the world of Jazz through historical accounts using music, creative writing, and dramatizations, while sharing key messages on the importance of good decision-making, dreaming the impossible dream, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Find out more at geninelperez.com.

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Support for the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas is provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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