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March 19-21, 2015Salt Lake City, Utah

American String Teachers Association

2015

NationalOrchestraFestival®

Abravanel HallCenter for the Arts

123 West South TempleSalt Lake City, UT 84101

Sponsored by:

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2015 National Orchestra Festival ®

Clark High School Orchestra - Las Vegas, Nev. Charles Cushinery, Jeremy Paredes, Directors

Explorer Middle School Advanced Orchestra - Everett, Wash. Robin Enders, Director

Grandview High School Orchestra - Aurora, Colo. Alison Reifschneider, Director

Hebron High School Silver Orchestra - Carrollton, Texas Dawn Oyedipe, Director

Hyde Park Middle School Orchestra - Las Vegas, Nev. Jeremy Woolstenhulme, Director

Interlake High School Chamber Orchestra - Bellevue, Wash. Shira Katsman, Director

Klein High School Chamber Orchestra - Klein, Texas Keith Markuson, Creston Herron, Directors

Liberty High School Chamber Orchestra - Liberty, Mo. Mary Lou Jones, Director

Lincoln Middle School Chamber Ensemble - Santa Monica, Calif. Jim Wang, Director

Hilary Klee, Instructional Assistant

McQueen High School Orchestra - Reno, Nev. Kenny Baker, Director

Newport High School Chamber Orchestra - Bellevue, Wash. Christine Gero, Director

North Coast Strings Adult Orchestra - Carlsbad, Calif. Paula Simmons, Director

Olympus High School Symphony Orchestra - Holladay, Utah Micah Fleming, Director

Roosevelt Junior High School 8th Grade Orchestra - Roosevelt, Utah Rachel Wheeler, Director

Scripps Ranch High School String Orchestra - San Diego, Calif. Russell Shedd, Director

University High School Symphony - Irvine, Calif. Grace Lee, Director

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March 19-21, 2015 • Salt Lake City, Utah

Welcome!Dear Festival Enthusiasts,

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the annual Na-tional Orchestra Festival, (NOF) sponsored by Thomastik-Infeld/Connolly Music. The 2015 NOF showcases 16 spectacular ensem-bles representing 16 schools from across the United States. Before this event even begins, we want to offer our sincere congratula-tions on all your hard work and accomplishment on being accept-ed into ASTA’s premier festival.

The NOF is proud to present some of the nation’s finest music ed-ucators as our adjudicators, performance clinicians, and master class clinicians. Each festival group receives taped and written comments, as well as ratings by each of the three concert adjudicators.

At the end of each concert performance, one of our highly-qualified clinicians will provide each group a personal clinic focused on enhancing their music-making. Ad-ditionally, all orchestras will have the opportunity during the conference to work with master class clinicians. These clinicians have national and international reputations as musicians and teachers. ASTA is committed to delivering the highest artistic and educational experience to its members and their students. We are confident that the 2015 NOF will meet this goal.

For the vast majority of students, teachers, and educators who are part of NOF, Ray Charles’ statement about music and its profound impact on his life is perhaps, rele-vant to us all.

“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”

The students and teachers involved in performing at the NOF are blessed to have such on opportunity to discover and present the beauty and excitement of music. Thank you for your devotion to this art and for your preparation and dedication to each other. And, lastly . . . we thank you for your performance today in Salt Lake City. We wish you all the best of success!

Sincerely,Valerie M. PalmieriOrganizing Chair

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AdjudicatorsJohn Fetter

John Fetter, Ph.D., is assistant professor of music education at the Eastman School of Music. He also serves as collegiate instructor in violin for the Eastman Community Music School and as director of the philharmonia and sinfonia youth orchestras for the Hochstein School of Music and Dance. His research interests include identity development, alternative styles in string music education, music in urban schools, and string peda-gogy. An active guest speaker and clinician, he has presented at the ASTA national conference and other music associations and societies, as well as state and local music education associations across the United States and in Ireland.

As a conductor, Fetter has worked with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rich-mond Symphony Orchestra, and the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. Equally com-fortable with orchestras in educational settings, he is known for his engaging teaching style. He is passionate about young orchestras and is a frequent guest conductor with festival and regional orchestras of all ages. He received the University of Rochester’s Presidential Diversity Award in 2012 and the Rochester Education Foundation’s “Making a Difference” Award in 2013 for his efforts to forge partnerships and opportunities in music teaching and learning for urban students.

William LaRue JonesWilliam LaRue Jones is an active and versatile symphonic conductor. He has the ability to work effectively with musicians at all levels and ex-perience, which has made him a sought after teacher of conducting. His conducts more than 100 concerts annually and includes an array of professional, festival, collegiate, and student ensembles nationally and internationally. As a professional performer, he is noted for his outstanding tech-nique and musicality. Jones was principle bassoon of the Minnesota Op-era and Minnesota Ballet and was first-call associate with the Minnesota Orchestra and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for more than 15 seasons.

Since 1997, Jones has been professor of music and director of orchestral studies and conductor of orchestras and opera at the University of Iowa (Iowa City). He was selected as the Jones for the Regents Award for faculty excellence. In 2011, he received the designation of Collegiate Fellow in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For his work on behalf of music education, he has been honored with 2013 Medal of Honor presented by the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. He has received the ASTA Exceptional Leadership and Merit Award, the Sigma Alpha Iota Musician of the Year Award, the David W. Preuss Leadership Award, and the State of Minnesota Governors’ Proclamation of “Dr. William LaRue Jones Day.”

Rebecca MacLeodDr. Rebecca MacLeod, a frequent guest conductor and clinician through-out the United States, is associate professor of music education at the University of North Carolina (UNCG) at Greensboro, where she directs the string education program and conducts the UNCG Sinfonia. Previous-ly, she was the assistant artistic director and conductor of the Tallahassee Symphony Youth Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra in Tal-lahassee, Florida. A native of Pennsylvania, she taught elementary, mid-dle, and high school orchestra in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania and was orchestra director and chair of music activities in Beaver, Pennsylvania.

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MacLeod is published in many scholarly journals including the Journal of Research in Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, ASTA String Research Journal, and the Florida Music Educators Journal. She currently serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Research in Music Education and the ASTA String Re-search Journal. She gives a lot of time to ASTA and recently served on its board of directors as secretary. In 2014, she won the prestigious ASTA String Research Award. Her research on working with underserved populations, vibrato technique, music teacher education, and mu-sic perception has been presented at the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition, Music Educators National Conference, National Association for Music Education National Conference, ASTA National Conference, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, Soci-ety for Music Teacher Education, and several music educators’ state conferences. MacLeod received her undergraduate degree from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Penn-sylvania and her M.M.E. and Ph.D. from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

CliniciansLouis Bergonzi

Louis Bergonzi holds the Daniel J. Perrino Chair in Music Education, and is professor of orchestral conducting at the University of Illinois, where he specializes in conducting and string education and is music director/con-ductor of the University of Illinois Philharmonia. Prior to his appointment at Illinois in 2005, for 17 years he was on the music education faculty at the Eastman School of Music. While at Eastman, he was director of the Rochester-Eastman Urban String Project, a multifaceted program for preparing studio and group string teachers for work in urban settings. He was string specialist and orchestra conductor for the Lexington (Mas-sachusetts) Public Schools and is a past president of ASTA.

In addition to his teaching, conducting, and research responsibilities, Bergonzi is active as a string clinician. He has served as a guest conductor for all-state and regional honors youth orchestras and as a clinician both nationally and internationally. Bergonzi is a clinician for Scherl & Roth String Instruments. He was co-director of Establishing Identity: LGBT Studies and Music Education I and II (2010/2012), symposia designed to provide energy to the discussion of how LGBT issues operate within music education in terms of research, curriculum, teacher preparation, and the musical lives and careers of LGBT music students and teachers.

Douglas DrosteConductor Douglas Droste is the artistic director of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra and director of orchestras at Ball State University. He is rec-ognized as possessing “obvious joy” for making music and a “sure sense of timing” when on the podium. Droste has served as director of orchestral studies at Oklahoma State University (OSU) and principal guest conductor of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. During his tenure at OSU, Droste was lauded for his performances. He also helped establish the opera studies program. With the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Droste conducted a variety of concerts, as well as productions with the Oklahoma City Ballet.

A dedicated advocate of youth orchestras and music education, Droste conducts all-state and region orchestras, as well as other youth orchestras throughout the country. Droste is an active clinician and adjudicator. Believing that outreach is an important tool for the promo-tion of music education, Droste established a Young People’s Concert series with the OSU Orchestra. A talented violinist, Droste has performed with the orchestras of Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Nashville, Memphis, Lubbock, and the Lancaster Festival in Ohio.

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C/MSO – Competition Middle School Orchestra C/HSSO – Competition High School String Orchestra RC/HSSO – Ratings and Comments, High School String Orchestra C/AYO – Comments, Adult Youth Orchestra

Thursday, March 19

9 a.m. Roosevelt Junior High School 8th Grade Orchestra Roosevelt, Utah

Rachel Wheeler, Director C/MSO

Hopak (from The Fair at Sorochinsk) Modest MoussorgskyHighland /Etling Arr. Merle J. Isaac

Conquistador! Deborah Baker MondayHighland /Etling

Fantasia on an Original Theme Joseph J. PhillipsHighland /Etling

America’s Cup Alan Lee SilvaCarl Fischer, LLC

10 a.m. McQueen High School OrchestraReno, Nev.

Kenny Baker, Director RC/

HSSO

Toccata Johann PachelbelHal Leonard Corporation Arr. Llyod Conley

Fugue in F George Frideric HandelNeil A. Kjos Music Company Arr. Robert Frost

Allegro (from Sonata in E Minor K. 304) Wolfgang Amadeus MozartDorabet Music Co. Transcribed for String Orchestra by Herman Clebanoff

The Lord Forgets Not His Own (from Paulus, an Oratorio) Felix Bartholdy MendelssohnUnpublished Arr. Clark Potter

Tibetan Dance (Xiyi Ge) Traditional Tibetan Folk SongKendor Music, Inc. Arr. Albert Wang

Mock Morris, No. 1 of “Room Music Tid-bits” Percy Aldridge GraingerTempo Press Arr. Sandra Dackow

A Childhood Hymn David R. Holsinger

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Winger-Jones Publications Transcribed for String Orchestra by the Composer

Dance of Joy Beth Korinn BultmanSynkros

11 a.m. Olympus High School Symphony OrchestraHolladay, Utah

Micah Fleming, Director RC/HSS

Le Déluge , op. 45 Camille Saint-SaënsEdwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.

Simple Symphony , op. 4 Benjamin Britten Boisterous Bourrée Playful PizzicatoSentimental Sarabande Frolicsome Finale

Oxford University Press

2 p.m. Hyde Park Middle School OrchestraLas Vegas, Nev.

Jeremy Woolstenhulme, Director C/MSO

Cripple Creek TraditionalGrand Mesa Music Publishers Arr. Michael Hopkins

Such Sweet Sorrow Jeremy Woolstenhulme Neil A. Kjos Music Company

Symphony No. 13 in D Major, Mvt. 1 Franz Joseph Haydn Neil A. Kjos Music Company Arr. Thomas LaJoie

Adagio for Strings Samuel Barber G. Schirmer, Inc. Arr. Jamin Hoffman

Russian Gypsy Song TraditionalKendor Music Inc. Arr. Betty Dardess

Jupiter from The Planets, op. 32 Gustav Holst Neil A. Kjos Music Company Arr. Deborah Baker Monday

Durango Tango Doris GazdaNeil A Kjos Music Company

The Creation of Stonehenge Jeremy WoolstenhulmeNeil A Kjos Music Company

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3 p.m. Interlake High School Chamber OrchestraBellevue, Wash.

Shira Katsman, Director C/HSSO

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 Johann Sebastian Bach

Allegro Adagio Allegro

Bärenreiter

Adagio for Strings, op. 11 Samuel BarberG. Schirmer, Inc.

Serenade No. 3 in E minor for String Orchestra, opus 21 Robert Fuchs

Romanze–Andante sostenuto Menuetto Allegretto grazioso Finale alla Zingarese – Allegro con fuoco

Fr. KistnerSerenade No. 3, op. 21 by Robert Fuchs was provided by the

Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia.

4 p.m. University High School SymphonyIrvine, Calif.

Grace Lee, Director C/HSSO

Adagio Cantabile from String Quartet op. 76, “Emperor” Franz Joseph HaydnTempo Press Arr. Robert Sieving

Introduction and Allegro, op. 47 Edward ElgarEdwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.

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5 p.m. Lincoln Middle School Chamber EnsembleSanta Monica, Calif. Jim Wang, Director

Hilary Klee, Instructional AssistantC/MSO

Heyr, himna smiður Þorkell SigurbjörnssonÍslensk tónverkamiðstöð Arr. Jim WangUnpublished

Sinfonia X in B Minor Felix Mendelssohn-BartholdyEdwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc. Ed. Hellmuth Christian Wolff

Serenade for Strings in E Major, op. 22 Antonín DvořákLarghetto

Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.

Hoe Down from “Rodeo” Aaron CoplandBoosey & Hawkes

Friday, March 20

8 a.m. Explorer Middle School Advanced OrchestraEverett, Wash.

Robin Enders, Director C/MSO

Overture to Lucio Silla Wolfgang Amadeus MozartTempo Press Arr. Sandra Dackow

Symphony No. 8 in G Major, op. 88 Antonin Dvorák Finale Arr. Sandra Dackow

Tempo PressSerenade, op. 11 Dag Wirén PreludiumLuck’s Music Library

Enigma Variations: Nimrod Edward Elgar Kendor Music, Inc. Arr. Mitchell Bender

Escape the Lost City Alan Lee SilvaCarl Fischer, LLC

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9 a.m. Grandview High School OrchestraAurora, Colo.

Alison Reifschneider, DirectorRC/

HSSO

Sinapu J. Cameron LawCopyright J. Cameron Law

Commissioned by the Grandview High School Orchestra for their 2015 National ASTA Conference Performance

Don Quixote Suite G. P. Telemann Overture (Largo – Allegro – Largo) The Awakening of Don Quixote (Andantino) His Attack on the Windmills (Moderato)

Luck’s Music Library

Nocturne from String Quartet No. 2 Alexander Borodin Highland/Etling Arr. Andrew H. Dabczynski

Sinfonia for String Orchestra (String Quartet No. 8, op. 110) Dimitri Shostakovich Arr. and Edited by Lucas Drew

AllegrettoLargo Edwin F. Kalmus and Co., Inc.

Reflexions Carold NunezNeil A. Kjos Music Company

10 a.m. North Coast Strings Adult OrchestraCarlsbad, CA

Paula Simmons, Director C/AYO

Carnival of the Animals Camille Saint-Saëns Arr. Frank J. Halferty

Royal March of the LionThe ElephantFossils

Almitra Music Company Cordoba Isaac Albéniz The FJH Music Company Arr. Bob Lipton

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L’Estro Armonico Antonio Vivaldi/ Johann Sebastian Bach The FJH Music Company Arr. Bob Lipton Allegretto (from Symphony No. 7) Ludwig van Beethoven Arr. Robert Longfield Ablaze Chris M. BernotasHighland/Etling Publishing Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major Johann Sebastian Bach First movement Arr. Steven H. BrookBelwin-Mills Publishing

Waltz (from Coppélia) Léo Delibes Hal Leonard Corporation Arr. Robert Longfield

Autumn from “The Four Seasons” Antonio Vivaldi Highland/Etling Arr. Richard Meyer

221B Baker Street Jeffrey S. BishopWingert-Jones Publications

North Coast Suite William BradburyIIIIIIIV

Not Published

11 a.m. Scripps Ranch High School String OrchestraSan Diego, CA

Russell Shedd, Director C/HSSO

Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’ Ralph Vaughan WilliamsOxford University Press

Irish Tune from County Derry Percy GraingerEdwin F. Kalmus

Sinfonia No. 10 in B Minor Felix Mendelssohn Adagio – Allegro – Piu presto

Lucks Music Library

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1 p.m. Newport High School Chamber OrchestraBellevue, WA

Christine Gero, Director C/HSSO

Sinfonia No. 10 in B Minor Felix Mendelssohn Adagio – Allegro – Piu prestoLucks Music Library

Aria (from Suite No. 3, BWV 1068) Johann Sebastian BachEdwin F. Kalmus & Co. Inc. Orchestration Leopold Stokowski Serenade for String Orchestra in E Flat, op. 6 Josef Suk

Andante con motoEdwin F. Kalmus & Co. Inc.

Concerto Grosso No. 1 for String Orchestra with Piano Obbligato Ernest Bloch

PreludeFugue

Broude Brothers Limited

2 p.m. Liberty High School Chamber OrchestraLiberty, MO

Mary Lou Jones, Director C/HSSO

Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra Vittorio Giannini Allegro

Elkan-Vogel, Inc.

The Shores of Avalon Jeremy SchwingerCommissioned for the Liberty High School Chamber

Orchestra’s Performance at the National ASTA Conference 2015

Serenade in C Major, op. 48 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Walzer Élégie Finale (Tema Russo)

Edwin F. Kalmus & Co. Inc.

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3 p.m. Klein High School Chamber Orchestra Klein, Texas

Keith Markuson and Creston Herron, Directors

C/HSSO

Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra Vittorio Giannini Allegro

Elkan-Vogel, Inc.

Serenade for String Orchestra in E Flat, op. 6 Josef Suk Andante con moto

Luck’s Music Library

Holberg Suite, op. 40 Edvard GriegSarabandeGavotte

Edwin F. Kalmus & Co. Inc.

Minuetto Giovanni Bolzoni Arr. Johannes DietrichFJH Music Company Inc.

Maracaibo Eugene FriesenOnegin Music

4 p.m. Hebron High School Silver OrchestraCarrollton, TX

Dawn Oyedipe, Director C/HSSO

Serenade for Strings Norman LeydenPreludeFugueCakewalk

Plymouth Music Company, Inc.

Freedom Train Robert Sieving Highland/Etling

Vistas de Mexico Ken KeuningFlores y GuittarasCancione De AmorFiesta

Southern Music Company

Appalachian Folk Fantasy TraditionalQueenwood/Kjos Arr. Anne McGinty

Stepp Down Hoedown William SteppMark O’Connor Musik International Arr. Mark O’Connor

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5 p.m. Clark High School OrchestraLas Vegas, NV

Charles Cushinery and Jeremy Paredes, Directors

C/HSSO

A Moorside Suite Gustav Holst

MarchG & M Brand Publications Limited

Concerti Da Chiesa, op. 2, No. 8 Evaristo Felice Dall’AbacoAllegroLargoPresto

Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.

Simple Symphony Benjamin BrittenSentimental Sarabande

Oxford University Press

Molly on the Shore Percy Aldridge GraingerLucks Music

Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra with Piano Obbligato Ernest Bloch

FugueBroude Brothers Limited

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Elizabeth A.H. Green School Educator Award

William Bitter

Awarded annually to a teacher with a distinguished current career in a school orchestral setting.

Award presentation on Saturday, March 21 at 11:15 a.m. at the National Orchestra Festival Winner’s Concert

Currently in his 34th year with Gilbert Public Schools, Gilbert, Arizonia, William “Bill” Bitter, director of orchestras and chairman of the Performing

Arts Department at Highland High School, is our 2015 Elizabeth A.H. Green School Educator award winner. Since joining the newly opened Highland High School in 1993, Bitter has built an award-winning program that currently consists of five performing ensembles, with an en-rollment of more than 300 students. In 2002, the school’s Highland Symphonic Strings became the first orchestra from an Arizona high school to perform in the world-renowned Carnegie Hall in New York City. This ensemble also has appeared three times (1997, 2007, and 2013) at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois. Bitter has been active in his field’s professional organizations, including the Arizona Band and Orchestra Directors Association, serving as vice president of high school orchestra activities, state concert festival chairman, fall orchestra festival chairman, and regional orchestra chairman. He was a nine year member of the staff of the National High School Honors Orchestra, sponsored by ASTA with NSOA, serving as organizing chairman in 2005. Bitter has served as an adjudicator and clinician for festivals throughout the southwest United States and Hawaii. He has been awarded the O. M. Hartsell “Excellence in Teaching Music” award by the Arizona Music Educators Association (AMEA), and the Outstanding Public School Teacher Award in Arizona by the Arizona Chapter of ASTA. In 2014, the AMEA named him the Arizona Music Educator of the Year. ASTA is proud in having such an outstanding member to honor with this award for 2015. Congratulations, and thank you for all you do for your students and in service to your profession.

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