02.27.2019 FAC Silverman

Faculty Recital Adam Silverman, composition Performed by Audrey Andrist, piano Scott Herring, percussion Clifford Leaman, saxophone David Stambler, saxophone with Casey Dziuba, cabasa Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building 8:15 PM

This concert has been made possible by support from the Scholarly and Musical Activities Fund at West Chester University

PROGRAM Want It. Need It. Have It. .............................................................................Adam Silverman The RoseWind Duo Clifford Leaman, alto saxophone Scott Herring, marimba

(b. 1973)

Downtown Is The Battery ........................................................................................ Silverman Scott Herring, percussion Casey Dziuba, cabasa

Over a windcloaked nightsoaked starpoked sea ............................................... Silverman Clifford Leaman, alto saxophone Audrey Andrist, piano

Together ....................................................................................................................... Silverman The RoseWind Duo Clifford Leaman, soprano saxophone Scott Herring, vibraphone

The Things That Go .................................................................................................. Silverman I. II. III. IV. V. VI.

First the clarity of sight and the late bed time, followed by the joints, the worry of what others think, and innocent trust; then finally the pulse.

Clifford Leaman, alto saxophone David Stambler, alto and tenor saxophones Audrey Andrist, piano Please Turn Off All Electronic Devices

ARTISTS PROFILES Adam Silverman, composer Professor of music composition and theory at West Chester University, Adam Silverman (b. 1973, Atlanta, GA) is a composer of music for concert performance. Many of his works have entered the standard canon of percussion ensemble literature, including the quartets “Quick Blood,” “The Cruel Waters” and “Spiderweb Lead,” the octet “Sparklefrog,” and sextet “Naked And On Fire.” In the past decade, his work composing for wind symphony has produced several works for percussion soli with wind ensembles, starting with the widely-performed marimba concerto “Carbon Paper and Nitrogen Ink” and including works with drum kit soloist (“Zipzap”), a double concerto for two percussionists (“The Rule of Five”) and “Speaking Truth To Power, 2018” for four percussionists and wind band. His other works for winds include “Alien Robots Unite!,” “Raining Bricks,” “Hard Knocks,” and the saxophone concerto “Alternating Current,” which was premiered with Timothy McAllister as soloist. In addition to these works for percussion and wind ensemble, Silverman’s catalog includes works for chamber ensemble, orchestra, and opera, and have been performed worldwide by such ensembles as The New York City Opera, The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, The Opera Company of Brooklyn, Eighth Blackbird, The Corigliano Quartet, and The Prism Quartet. He also composed the score for “Little Fiel,” which blends stop-motion animation with filmed documentary; in 2018, this film had 50 screenings in 15 countries, winning many awards including Best Original Music at the Oregon Documentary Film Festival. Educated at Yale (Doctor of Musical Arts, 2003), The Vienna Musikhochschule (1994-1995) and in private study with microtonal composer Ben Johnston, Silverman is now an Old-Time fiddle music enthusiast, performing as an amateur on banjo, guitar and mandolin. More information about Adam Silverman and his compositions can be found online at http://www.adambsilverman.com.

The RoseWind Duo Formed in 2005, the RoseWind Duo consists of Scott Herring, percussion and Clifford Leaman, saxophones. They have performed widely across the USA and abroad, including appearances at The University of South Carolina, The University of Southern Mississippi, the NASA Conferences, the South Carolina Music Teachers Association State Conference and the International Navy Band Saxophone Symposium in Washington, D.C. The duo has toured world-wide, performing and teaching at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón, (Zaragoza, SP) the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, (Barcelona, SP) the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, (FR) Selmer Paris Showroom (Paris), SaxOpen (Strasbourg, France), World Saxophone Congress (St. Andrews, Scotland), Percussive Arts Society International Convention (Austin, TX), Lulea Technical University (Piteå, Sweden), Royal Academy of Music (Stockholm, Sweden), Yantai, China; and Beijing Central Conservatory.

Scott Herring holds the position of Associate Professor of Percussion at the University of South Carolina. At USC, Herring directs the Percussion Ensemble and the Palmetto Pans Steel Band. Previously he served as Assistant Professor of Percussion and Assistant Director of Bands at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from East Carolina University and a Master’s degree and Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University. While residing in Chicago, he performed with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago under the batons of Daniel Barenboim, John Adams and Pierre Boulez. He has presented clinics and concerts throughout the US as well as featured appearances at several Percussive Arts Society International Conventions. He previously served as New Music Reviewer for Percussive Notes, Vice-President and President of the SC Chapter of PAS, and currently serves as Chair of the PAS Keyboard Committee. Under Herring’s direction, USC Percussion Ensemble was named a winner of the Percussive Arts Society International Percussion Ensemble Competition and performed at the 2012 Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Austin, TX. Herring’s recent CD, Carbon Paper and Nitrogen Ink was released on Resonator Records in 2014. In addition, the Palmetto Pans Steel Band released their debut CD, The Palmetto Pans in 2012. Herring is an endorser of Malletech instruments and mallets, Zildjian Cymbals, Grover Pro Percussion and Remo Drumheads. His primary teachers include Michael Burritt, Mark Ford, James Ross, and Harold Jones.

Professor of saxophone and Associate Dean, Director of Graduate Studies at the University of South Carolina School of Music, Clifford Leaman received degrees in Music Education from Lebanon Valley College, and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in performance from the University of Michigan. He served on the faculties of Furman University, Eastern Michigan University, and The University of Michigan prior to his appointment at the University of South Carolina. In great demand as a soloist and clinician, he and has performed and taught throughout the United States, Canada, Italy, Spain, China, Taiwan, Thailand and Australia. Leaman has released four critically acclaimed compact discs of saxophone and piano music on the Equilibrium label, and Concerti by Ingolf Dahl, Leslie Bassett and Henry Brant. An avid supporter of contemporary music, Leaman has commissioned and given the world premiere performances of numerous works, including concertos by Pulitzer Prize-winning composers, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, and Michael Colgrass. Leaman is an artistclinician for the Conn-Selmer Company and D’Addario Reeds performs exclusively on Selmer saxophones and D’Addario Reserve Reeds.

The RoseWind Duo performs music in a wide variety of musical styles, and is highly sought-after for performances and masterclasses throughout the United States. The duo has released two compact discs of new works for saxophone and marimba, Release (Equilibrium Recordings, EQ-92) and Devils Garden/Angels Landing (Equilibrium Recordings, EQ-161) and is committed to furthering the repertoire for this genre through the commissioning of new works.

Audrey Andrist, pianist Hailed as a “stunning pianist with incredible dexterity” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Canadian pianist Audrey Andrist has thrilled audiences around the globe, from North America to Japan, China and Germany with her “passionate abandon”, “bright energy”, and “great intelligence.” Ms. Andrist grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan, and while in high school traveled three hours one-way for piano lessons with William Moore, himself a former student of famed musicians Cécile Genhart and Rosina Lhévinne. She completed Masters and Doctoral degrees at New York’s Juilliard School, studying with Herbert Stessin, and garnered first prizes at the Mozart International, San Antonio International, Eckhardt-Gramatté, and Juilliard Concerto Competitions. She has performed in many of North America’s most prestigious venues, including the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Place des Arts in Montreal, Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, and Alice Tully Hall in New York. She is a member of Strata, a trio with her husband, James Stern, violin, and Nathan Williams, clarinet, recipients of a major grant from the Rauch Foundation. She is also a member of the Post-Classical Ensemble in Washington, DC, and the Stern/Andrist Duo with her husband, recently celebrating their thirtieth year of performances together. An avid performer of new music with many world premieres to her credit, Ms. Andrist can be heard on over a dozen recordings of both standard and modern repertoire on the Albany, Centredisques, and New Focus labels, among others.

She currently lives in the Washington, DC area, where she serves on the faculties of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County and the Washington Conservatory, and where she has performed at the Library of Congress, Wolf Trap, and the Smithsonian Institutions. Her CD of major solo works by Robert Schumann is available on Centaur Records. Please visit www.audreyandrist.com.

David Stambler, saxophonist Saxophonist David Stambler is a dynamic and active performer of jazz and classical music, with concert activities including recitals and appearances as a symphonic soloist, as well as “on-call” engagements as saxophonist with many orchestras including the Annapolis Symphony, the Bay Atlantic Symphony, the Richmond Symphony, the National Gallery Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and others. He has performed in numerous countries has appeared with dozens of orchestras across the United States as saxophonist, arranger, and manager of the renowned saxophone ensemble, the Capitol Quartet. Stambler has premiered numerous works, and is the founder and president of the Margot Music Fund, a non-profit organization that sponsors scholarships, performances, and commissions. Stambler has recorded with Capitol Quartet, Baltimore Symphony, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, numerous pop artists, and has played clarinet and saxophone on dozens of nationally broadcast radio and television commercials, soundtracks, and video games. A veteran of thousands of professional performances, he has appeared at the JVC Jazz festival, the Princeton Jazz Fest, the Smithsonian Institution, Strathmore Hall, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, for heads of state at numerous embassies in Washington, and has accompanied many top entertainers including Rosemary Clooney, Debbie Reynolds,

Smokey Robinson, Natalie Cole, Roberta Flack, Bobby McFerrin, Aaron Neville, Melissa Manchester, and many more. David Stambler studied clarinet at the Oberlin Conservatory, and then received his Bachelor of Music degree in saxophone from the University of Michigan, where he was a student of Donald Sinta. He holds a master’s degree from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, and a doctorate from the University of Maryland. He is currently Professor of Saxophone at the Penn State School of Music.

UPCOMING WELLS SCHOOL OF MUSIC EVENTS For full event details visit www.wcupa.edu/music or call (610) 436-2739 Thursday, February 28, 2019, 4:00 PM Wilkinson Lecture Series: Maureen Mahon, NYU Alexander Rozin, director Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building Monday, March 4, 2019, 7:30 PM Faculty Strings, Piano, and Trumpet Jean-Christophe Dobrzelewski, director Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center Thursday, March 7, 2019, 12:00 PM Madeleine Wing Adler Concert Series: Sophomore Scholarship Competition Ralph Sorrentino, director Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Grand Foyer Performing Arts Center Thursday, March 7, 2019, 8:15 PM Winter Choral Festival David P. DeVenney & Ryan Kelly, directors Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center Monday, March 18, 2019, 7:30 PM Faculty Recital: Terry Klinefelter, piano Terry Klinefelter, director Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center *Tickets required for this event.

Steinway & Sons Piano Technical, Tuning and Concert Preparations by Gerald P. Cousins, RPT A majority of performances are available to watch via live stream at Facebook.com/ArtsAtWCUPA and LiveStream.com/wcupa.

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