Whitworth University
Thailand Concert Tour 2024
Toccata Marziale
Program
The Whitworth Wind Symphony
Richard Strauch, conductor
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (2023) Peter Van Zandt Lane (b. 1985)
Sleepy Hollow (2024) Ryan Jones (b. 1997)
A Hokusai Triptych (2024) Benjamin R. Barker
I. Whaling off the Coast of the Goto Islands (b. 1996)
II. Tiger in the Snow
III. Cuckoo and Azaleas
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The Fairest of the Fair March
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
INTERMISSION
The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble I Jared Hall, director
Program to be selected from the following.
The Deacon…………………………………………………………………….Thad Jones
Say When……………………………………………………………………....J.J. Johnson
Come Sunday…………………………………………………………………Duke Ellington
Connections……………………………………………………………………Patty Darling
Blue Pepper……………………………………………………………………Duke Ellington
Concerto for Cootie………………………………………………………..Duke Ellington
Hometown……………………………………………………………………..Jared Hall
Hoe Down………………………………………………………………………Oliver Nelson
About the Wind Symphony
The threefold mission of the Whitworth Wind Symphony is to train and educate musicians for a lifetime of musical learning; to represent Whitworth’s mind-and-heart education though excellence in performance before audiences on campus, throughout the community and across the globe; and to advocate for and promote wind literature through the study and performance of the ensemble’s core repertoire as well as the commissioning of new works.
The Whitworth Wind Symphony has appeared in concert at state and regional conferences of the Washington Music Educators Association, the National Association for Music Education and the College Band Directors National Association, and has toured throughout the western United States and in Hawaii, Costa Rica and Thailand. The wind symphony can also be heard in performance on the ensemble’s YouTube channel (youtube.com/whitworthwinds). This month, the wind symphony will return to Thailand for performances in Bangkok and Chiang Mai.
As the university’s select auditioned wind and percussion ensemble, the wind symphony has been active in commissioning new works and collaborating with composers around the world. Noted composers David Maslanka, Eric Ewazen, James David and Peter Van Zandt Lane have praised the wind symphony’s performances of their music, and recent performance collaborations have included saxophonist Lawrence Gwozdz, bass trombonist Douglas Yeo and the Travis Brass of the United States Air Force. The ensemble is open by audition to all Whitworth University students in any major who are woodwind, brass, percussion or string bass musicians.
The other components of the wind and percussion studies program at Whitworth include the Whitworth Chamber Winds, Whitworth Symphony Orchestra, the Whitworth Concert Band and a variety of chamber ensembles.
About the Conductor
Richard Strauch is in his 27th year as director of the Whitworth Wind Symphony and professor of music at Whitworth University. He also conducts the Whitworth Chamber Winds, teaches courses in music history and conducting, and leads Whitworth’s Power & Politics of Art: Rome/Florence/Vienna/Berlin study program. Prior to joining the Whitworth music faculty, Strauch served as director of instrumental activities at Phillips University, acting director of the Wheaton College Wind Ensemble and assistant to the director of bands at Yale University. He has toured Europe as music director of the Oklahoma Ambassadors of Music and as conductor of the Fox Valley Youth Orchestra. An active professional trombonist, he is a member of the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, and his other performance credits include the Clarion Brass Choir, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the National Orchestral Institute and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Strauch holds doctor of musical arts, master of musical arts and master of music degrees in trombone performance from Yale University, and a bachelor of music degree in trombone performance and music history from the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music.
About the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble
The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble is an award-winning, nationally recognized collegiate jazz orchestra that is considered one of the most outstanding in the Northwest. It has been recognized for incredible performances at the Chicago-based Elmhurst Jazz Festival both in 2013 and 2017, as well as at several All-Northwest and All-State Conferences over the past three decades. Competing with much larger universities, the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble has placed first at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival numerous times, performed at the Leavenworth Jazz Festival 2023 and recorded 12 studio albums.
Touring annually each year both around the U.S. and internationally, the music ensembles at Whitworth University value students’ cultural experiences and interactions with all people in our globalized world. The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble has experienced a dozen international performance tours to Italy, Brazil, Germany, Australia, Thailand and Cuba, as well as national tours to Hawaii, New York, New Orleans and Chicago.
The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble features yearly guest artist performances with renowned jazz musicians such as Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman, Arturo Sandoval, Kenny Garrett, Branford Marsalis, Maria Schneider, Ellis Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Steve Turre, Nicholas Payton, Steve Turre, Kenny Barron, Joe Lavano, Chris Potter and many others. Master classes are held regularly with these phenomenal artists, as well as with touring world-class jazz musicians, to create a special occasion for our students to learn about and experience this art form.
The Whitworth music program offers numerous jazz scholarships of significant large amounts, which when combined with the university’s large academic scholarships, provide students with an opportunity to pay no more than they would at a state university.
In 2022, the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble released its 12th album, Moon Mist, featuring the music of Maria Schneider. It is available from the Whitworth Music Department Office. In fall 2022, Jared Hall, DMA, became the new director of jazz studies and director of the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble. Since Hall’s arrival, the ensemble has performed with vocalist Tierney Sutton, tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana and trumpeter Brian Lynch; at the Leavenworth Jazz Festival; and at numerous local high schools.
About the Director
Trumpeter, composer and educator Jared Hall, DMA, hails from Spokane, Wash. He studied at Whitworth University, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where he received the degree doctor of musical arts in 2015. His primary teachers include Terence Blanchard, Joey Tartell, Dan Keberle, Whit Sidener, David Baker and Brian Lynch, under whom he pursued his doctoral studies. Hall is the winner of the 2013 National Trumpet Competition – Jazz Division, and has performed and recorded with Paquito D’Rivera, Bob Hurst, John Daversa, Arturo Sandoval, Maria Schneider, Vincent Herring, Peter Erskine, Dave Liebman, Alan Pasqua, Brian Lynch, Ira Sullivan, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Terence Blanchard, Rick Margitza, Wycliffe Gordon, David Binney, Johnny Mathis, George Benson, Gloria Estefan, Fred Hersch, Shelly Berg, the South Florida Jazz Orchestra and the Frost Concert Jazz Band.
Hall’s recording credits include his albums Seen on the Scene (Origin Records, 2021) and Hallways (Hollistic MusicWorks, 2017). Other recordings include Inventions (OA2 Records, 2021), Cheap Thrills: The Music of Rick Margitza (Summit, 2020), North By Freaking Northwest (Skymuse, 2019), Jazz & The Philharmonic (OKeh, 2014), With Love (Jeremy Fox, 2014), Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole (George Benson, 2013) and others.
Hall’s quintet performed regularly at Tula’s Jazz Club, the 2018 Gene Harris Jazz Festival, 2019 Puget Sound Jazz Combo Festival, 2021 Bellevue Jazz Festival and 2023 Leavenworth Jazz Festival. The Piano Grip System: An Approach to Learning Jazz Harmony, a book copublished by Hall and Whit Sidener in June 2020, has been welcomed as an essential guide to learning jazz harmony and theory for nonpianists.
In 2022, Hall returned to his hometown of Spokane to serve at Whitworth University as director of jazz studies while performing in the local area with the Spokane Jazz Orchestra, the Bob Curnow Band and his quartet. Hall has also served on the faculty at Northwest University, Pacific Lutheran University and the Jazz Night School, as well as taught at the University of Miami and Indiana University.
Piccolo
Valerie Hanes ’27 Physics Spokane
Flute
Karen Watarida ’24 Nursing Honolulu, Hawaii
Nevaeh Gariepy ’25 Music Education Spokane
Candice Stilwell ’25 Communication/English Oregon City, Ore.
Sofia Novochekhova ’23 Psychology Spokane
Oboe
Samarra Salcido ’26 Music Spokane
Hope Noranbrock ’25 Music Nine Mile Falls
Bassoon
Conor O’Brien ’24 Psychology Mountlake Terrace
Zoë Johnson ’27 Music Education Spokane
Logan Bateman ’24 Philosophy/Psychology Littleton, Colo.
E-flat Clarinet
Sydney Beers ’25 Applied Mathematics Albany, Ore.
Clarinet
Robert Weener ’24 Applied Mathematics Sherwood, Ore.
Bar Rozenhaimer ’27 History/Philosophy West Linn, Ore.
Kylie Mitchell ’27 Music Education Cheney
Mason Groth ’26 Chemistry Coeur d’Alene
Lila Gamero ’27 Elementary Education Spokane
Rosalind Nordberg ’27 Undeclared Bellevue
Bass Clarinet
Colton Nussbaum ’25 Business Administration Raymond
Soprano/Alto Saxophone
Melissa Jones ’25 Music Performance Richland
Alto Saxophone
Max Cannon ’25 Music Performance Spokane
Will Peterson ’26 Music Education Spokane
Tenor Saxophone
Nicholas Kar ’27 Math Education Spokane
Baritone Saxophone
Ricky Gagliardi ’22 Music Performance Spokane
The Whitworth Wind Symphony 2023-24Horn
Isaac Crawford-Heim ’26 Health Science Spokane
Stella Reitz ’25 Psychology Marysville
Hannah Marcoe ’27 Math/ Moscow, Idaho
Secondary Education
Trumpet
Julia Maher ’26 Music Education Whidbey Island
Matthew Thornell ’26 Business Administration Kingston
Anthony Cao ’25 Chemistry Spokane
Ellie Brueggemeier ’24 Kinesiology/Education Spokane
Faith Willard ’27 Music Education Spokane
Mia Stone ’27 Music Education Pasco
Trombone
Noah Frost ’24 Mathematics/Education San Diego, Calif.
William Strauch ’27 Music Performance Spokane
Caeden Harrison ’26 Theology Houston, Texas
Makenna FalkensteinBarker ’24 Elementary Education Lewiston, Idaho
Conor Waller ’25 Music Spokane
Euphonium
Jacob Blomdahl ’25 Engineering Chehalis
Jacob Blair ’25 Chemistry Spokane
Tuba
Michael Perry ’27 Music Performance Richland
Saul Cuddy ’24 Music Ministry Everett
Piano
Isaac Dorcy ’27 Music Composition Shelton
Percussion
Mary Brown ’24 Music Education
Frenchtown, Mont.
Ryland Gabriel ’26 Undeclared Spokane
Luke Wagner ’25 Computer Science Clackamas, Ore.
Dom Macauley ’25 English/Education Spokane
Mitchell
Schoenbacher ’27 Applied Mathematics Woodinville
Hannah Lind ’27 Front-End Design Liberty Lake
Development
Whitworth Jazz Ensemble I
Saxophones
Alto 1 Max Cannon Saxophone Performance & Music Education
Alto 2 Ricky Gagliardi Jazz Performance
Tenor 1 Nick Kar Math & Secondary Education
Tenor 2 Will Peterson Music Education
Baritone Melissa Jones Saxophone Performance & Music Education
Trumpets
Josh Weigelt Music Performance
Julia Maher Music Education
Ellie Brueggemeier Elementary Education
Anthony Cao Music Education
Trombones
Will Strauch Music Performance
Makenna
Falkenstein-Barker Elementary Education
Michael Perry Music Performance
Rhythm
Guitar Tyler Van Gordon English Literature
Piano Silas Farley Business Administration
Bass Nate Moody Music Composition
Drums Max Bartron Jazz Performance
Drums Ryland Gabriel Psychology
Music at Whitworth
The Whitworth University Music Department, accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, provides superb training in music as well as a thorough introduction to this essential element of the liberal arts. Whitworth music majors have gone on to prestigious graduate schools, fulfilling performance careers and successful teaching positions. Also, many non-music majors participate in the university’s renowned touring ensembles and enroll in private lessons through the music department. Whitworth University offers bachelor of arts degrees in music ministry, composition, instrumental performance, jazz performance, piano performance, piano pedagogy, vocal performance and music education. Music scholarships are available to both music majors and non-majors.
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