PRESENTS: The College of Music Guest Artist Recital Series. Wisconsin Brass Quintet

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1 MSU Music PRESENTS: The College of Music Guest Artist Recital Series Wisconsin Brass Quintet John Aley, trumpet Matthew Onstad, trumpet Daniel Grabois, horn Mark Hetzler, trombone Tom Curry, tuba Wednesday, September 30, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre, MSU Auditorium

2 Program Canzona per sonare No. 2 Giovanni Gabrieli ( ) In the Zone Andrew Rindfleisch Introitus (b. 1963) Canons Brass Quintet Ira Taxin (b.1950) Intermission Rounds and Dances for Brass Quintet Jan Bach Fanfare (b. 1937) Sarabande Carioca Idyl Galop

3 Artists Bios Founded in 1972, the Wisconsin Brass Quintet is a faculty ensemble-inresidence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music. The quintet s musical expertise has been acknowledged by Verne Reynolds, Jan Bach, Karel Husa, John Harbison, Daron Hagen and many other composers. In addition to performing with the WBQ, the players have also been members of the American Brass Quintet, Empire Brass Quintet and Meridian Arts Ensemble. Quintet members John Stevens and Daniel Grabois and former member Douglas Hill have also composed many works for the group. With extensive performances throughout the Midwest and nationally, including appearances at New York s Carnegie Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall, the quintet s educational programs and master classes have been presented in such prestigious settings as The Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music. They perform annual live radio broadcast concerts on Wisconsin Public Radio. Their three CD recordings, on the Summit, Mark and Crystal labels, feature music by John Stevens, Douglas Hill, Verne Reynolds, Daron Hagen, John Harbison and Enrique Crespo. An earlier LP recording features the only recording of Jan Bach s Rounds and Dances and Hilmar Luckhardt s Brass Quintet. Each of these works was composed for the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, in keeping with the WBQ s commitment to commissioning and performing new music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Barry Kilpatrick writes for the American Record Guide: I ve reviewed over 250 brass recordings in the past five years, and this is one of the very best. The WBQ is a remarkable ensemble that plays with more reckless abandon, warmth, stylistic variety and interpretive interest than almost any quintet in memory. John Aley is the professor of trumpet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music. He is a former member of the American Brass Quintet, with whom he performed extensively throughout the U. S. and internationally. He has performed with New York based ensembles such as Musica Sacra, American Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Ensemble and American Composers Orchestra. He has recorded with the American Brass Quintet, the PDQ Bach Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, the American Composers Orchestra, the Wisconsin Brass Quintet and numerous other ensembles. Aley has performed as soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Composers Brass Group, and on various public radio broadcasts throughout the U.S. He has performed as principal trumpet and soloist with the Wichita Symphony, and the Greenwich and Stamford symphony orchestras. Aley has served as an interim principal of the St.

4 Louis Symphony Orchestra. He has been a soloist with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra in concert with Maurice Andre. He is principal trumpet with the Madison Symphony Orchestra and has been featured as a soloist on numerous occasions. Performing with the American Symphony and Brooklyn Philharmonic, he has performed under the baton of legendary musicians Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland. His most recent international performance (2015) was in Cuba, performing for the 500 th Anniversary Celebration of the City of Santiago. During the summer he is an artist/teacher at the Interlochen Arts Camp, Michigan and Interlochen Trumpet Institute. Aley has also taught and performed at the Aspen Music Festival, the Yale Summer School of Music, UW-Madison Summer Music Clinic, the New England Music Camp, Minnesota Festival of the Lakes and the Hot Springs Music Festival. He has been a featured performer, clinician and adjudicator for the International Trumpet Guild. He has given master classes in Mexico City and Toluca. Prior to his appointment at the UW- Madison School of Music, John Aley taught at Brooklyn College of Music, Wichita State University, and Western Connecticut State College. A Wisconsin native, Matthew Onstad is an active musician throughout the Fox Valley and Madison area. He is a member of the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, a faculty ensemble-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin Madison, as well as the 132nd Army Band, a component of the US Army National Guard. Matthew enjoys being a diverse trumpeter, having performed with the Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and Wisconsin Symphonic Winds. He also appreciates a steady flow of jazz performance opportunities, having played lead trumpet with several big bands throughout the state. Matthew received his B.M. at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where he studied under Dr. Marty Robinson and Dr. Robert Levy. He is now in his first year of obtaining his M.M. the University of Wisconsin Madison under the direction of John Aley. Matthew hopes to acquire his D.M.A. in trumpet performance and ultimately teach at the university level.

5 Daniel Grabois is the horn professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music, where he performs in the Wisconsin Brass Quintet and serves as the Curator of SoundWaves, a series he created that combines science lectures with music performances. The former Chair of the Department of Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, he is the hornist in the Meridian Arts Ensemble, a sextet of brass and percussion now in its twenty-ninth season. With Meridian, he has performed over fifty world premieres, released twelve CDs, received two ASCAP/CMA Adventuresome Programming Awards, and toured worldwide, in addition to recording or performing with rock legends Duran Duran and Natalie Merchant and performing the music of Frank Zappa for the composer himself. Grabois will soon release his first solo album, Air Names, for electronic horn, for which he wrote all the music. His compositions, including three etude books and numerous chamber works, are published by Brass Arts Unlimited. Born in Sarasota, Florida in 1968, Mark Hetzler began playing his father's trombone at the age of twelve. He went on to receive a B.M. from Boston University and an M.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music. Mark was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and completed a three-year fellowship with the New World Symphony. As a member of the Empire Brass Quintet from , Mark performed in recital and as a soloist with symphony orchestras in Australia, Taiwan, Korea, China, Venezuela, Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, Italy, Austria, Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland, Bermuda, St. Bartholomew and across the United States. He has appeared with the group on live television and radio broadcasts in Asia and the United States, as well as on several Empire Brass CDs on the Telarc label. Mark has released eight recordings on the Summit record label, including his most recent CD They Said..., which came out in March 2015 and features his experimental quartet Sinister Resonance, with rock, modern classical and improv-based musical styles. Former Principal Trombone of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Mark has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops and the Florida Orchestra. He is the Professor of Trombone at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of the Wisconsin Brass Quintet.

6 A native of Appleton, Wisconsin, Tom Curry enjoys a varied career as a chamber and orchestral musician. He has performed with the Joffrey Ballet, the Chicago Philharmonic, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, the Ars Viva Symphony, and many other orchestras. He has also appeared with numerous local and national rock and popular acts, including the Grammy-nominated group Foster the People and Chicago-based punk marching band Mucca Pazza, with whom he can be heard on their 2014 release, L.Y.A. Mr. Curry s solo playing has been recognized at several international competitions, including the Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments (semifinalist, 2013) and the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Competition (semifinalist, 2008 and 2013). Mr. Curry earned degrees in tuba performance and communication arts from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and a Master of Music degree in tuba performance at Northwestern University, where he is currently completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Mr. Curry was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music in