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1 presents Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble Matthew M. Marsit, conductor Journey to the East with Vanich Potavanich, guest conductor/composer Funded in part by the Deborah E. and Arthur E. Allen, Jr Fund and Hopkins Center Performance Fund No. 3. Sun February 18, pm Spaulding Auditorium Dartmouth College

2 Program Lament for Wind Orchestra (2002) Chang Su Koh (b. 1970) Dragon Rhyme (2010) Chen Yi (b. 1953) Ratchadamnoen Vanich Potavanich (b. 1970) Vanich Potavanich, guest conductor Intermission Suriya Thep Vanich Potavanich (b. 1970) Vanich Potavanich, guest conductor Gloriosa (1990) Yasuhide Ito (b. 1960) Adventure Tale of Professor Alex (2005) Daisuke Shimizu (b. 1980) Program Notes We are so very excited that you have chosen to join us today for this very special concert presentation. The Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble is proud of the diverse and highly varied repertoire that we bring to the Upper Valley in each of our concerts. For those who have enjoyed previous performances, you know that we place a special emphasis on music by living composers, as well as those older works that represent significant periods of change or development for the wind ensemble. This season, the DCWE has taken on the goal of bringing to our audiences works by composers whose work is underrepresented in concert programs throughout the United States. During the fall academic term, we celebrated the great work of four outstanding women composers whose music has earned significant award recognition, including Grammys, Pulitzers and Emmys, and yet sees fewer performances on concert stages than their male counterparts. For this academic term, our focus has moved to the great contributions of Eastern Asian composers. Each of the nations represented in today s concert (China, Thailand and Japan) enjoys a strong wind band tradition, in many ways greater than that which we celebrate here in the United States. In each country, a concert-goer can easily find world-class professional wind bands, government and municipal ensembles, and military bands, as well as outstandingly well-trained school ensembles, many of whom focus their attention largely on the performance of music of composers from their own nation. They have vast repertoires of music that rarely makes its way across the Pacific, until now. To further enrich this experience for our students and audience, we are joined today by an outstanding musician from Thailand, Vanich Potavanich, whose immense talent includes significant work in all three aspects of musical performance: composition, instrumental performance (trumpet) and conducting. We are honored that he has so willingly shared his time and talents with us and are excited to have him take the podium to lead the ensemble through two of his brilliant compositions.

3 Program Notes continued In a time when our nation feels fractured and divided, overly focused on individualism and self, and the practice of artful and constructive discussion and compromise seems lost, I am extremely proud of the work we do here in the Hopkins Center, allowing art to serve as a vehicle for bringing people together. For our students and the talented community members who share in our process, success can only be achieved when we willingly leave our baggage at the door and join in the mutual understanding that our whole can only be enjoyed through the sum of each of its essential parts; that each performer carries equal value as we work toward one common goal of musical excellence. It requires compromise, careful listening and understanding of others, compassion, empathy and invested interest in something greater than one s self. We approach each rehearsal and concert performance with great respect for one another, the composers, the audience and for the art that we serve, all without diminishing others in the process. This is the reason why your attendance means so very much to us. It s not about ticket sales or bravura, but community. We hope that you enjoy today s Journey to the East, and we hope to see you again in May for another outstanding performance by the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble. Matthew M. Marsit About the Artists Vanich Potavanich guest conductor/composer is music director and conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (Thailand), Chaophraya Symphony Orchestra and Rangsit Symphony Orchestra and a guest conductor of the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra since 1995, Burapha Symphonic Band, Kasertsart University Winds Symphony, Princess Galyani Vadhana Youth Orchestra, Mahidol Wind Symphony and Musica Sinfonietta (Penang, Malaysia). He has served as a conductor for such international music festivals as the Asian Composer League Conference and Thailand International Composition Festival and has been invited as a judge for many music competitions. Potavanich has performed as the principal trumpet of Bangkok Symphony Orchestra since A graduate (BM, MM) of the Department of Music, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University, he began his trumpet studies at Wat Suthiwararam School (1982) and the Rotterdam Conservatory, in the Netherlands, where he studied with internationally renowned trumpeter Ed Carroll, of the Dartmouth College music faculty. Potavanich has been a guest trumpet player with Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyushu Symphony Orchestra (Japan), Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Nusantara Symphony Orchestra (Indonesia) and has enjoyed performing engagements with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in Busan, Kwangju, Seoul, Macau, London, Belfast, Dublin and Paris while on tour in He has been invited to teach trumpet and ensemble at many universities and offers master classes throughout Asia, including teaching in Malaysia, Beijing, Shenzhen, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong. As a composer and arranger, he has completed more than 300 arrangements and original compositions. Matthew M. Marsit conductor is an active conductor and clarinetist who has led ensembles and performed as a solo, chamber and orchestral musician throughout the United States. Currently on the artistic staff of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College as Director of Bands, Marsit also serves as the Music Director of the Charles River Wind Ensemble in Boston. He has previously held conducting positions at Ithaca College, Cornell University, Drexel University, Symphony Nova, the Chestnut Hill Orchestra, the Bucks County Youth Ensembles, the Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary and the Eastern US Music Camp.

4 About the Artists continued A champion for new music and advancing the repertoire of original works for wind ensemble, Marsit has led premiere performances from Christopher Marshall, Louis Andriessen, Daniel Basford, Christopher Theofanidis, Richard Marriott, Michael Gandolfi, Matthew Herman, Edward Green and Thomas Miller, among others. Upcoming commissions include new works by Kevin Krumenauer and Jess Turner. As a clarinetist, Marsit has performed with many ensembles including the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Fairmont Chamber Orchestra, Cornell University s Ensemble X and has made solo appearances with the Keene State University Symphony Band, the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble, the Handel Society at Dartmouth, the Cornell University Jazz Ensemble, the Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary, the Drexel University Symphony Orchestra and the Chestnut Hill Orchestra. He has served as clarinet faculty at Plymouth State University and now maintains a small studio of private students in and around Hanover, New Hampshire. An advocate for the use of music as a vehicle for service, Marsit has led ensembles on service missions, collecting instruments for donation to schools, performing charity benefit concerts and offering workshops to benefits struggling arts programs. His current work at Dartmouth allows for outreach projects in the rural schools of New Hampshire and Vermont, working to stimulate interest in school performing arts programs, including the highly successful Dartmouth Youth Wind Ensemble, which partners members of the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble side by side with middle school students from throughout the region. In 2014, Marsit designed led the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble on its first international service and performance tour to San Jose, Costa Rica, partnering with the Costa Rican National Institute of Music, the University of Costa Rica and several SiNEM Schools in the country to share and exchange with young students in financially deprived regions, a location to which the DCWE returned in March A native of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Marsit moved first to Philadelphia to complete his studies in music at Temple University, graduating Summa Cum Laude, where he studied clarinet with Anthony Gigliotti and Ronald Reuben and conducting with Luis Biava and Arthur Chodoroff. Additionally, he has studied conducting with some of the world s most prominent instructors including Mark Davis Scatterday of the Eastman School of the Music, Timothy Reynish of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK, and Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Marsit also holds a graduate degree in orchestral conducting from the Boston Conservatory.

5 Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble Matthew M. Marsit, conductor Flute Cara Ditmar 21 Madeline Miller 18 Frederika Rentzeperis 20 Oboe Eric Forehand 21 Hana Dai 20 Madeleine Waters 19 Clarinet Armond Epps Dorsey 20 Nina Stornelli 20 James Lenz C Marge Tassey C Dwight Aspinwall C Evan Griffith 18 Chris Coscia GR Saxophone Mike Wu 21 (alto) Hanna Bliska 20 (alto) Alex Fredman 20 (tenor) Liam Locke 21 (baritone) Bassoon Robert Castle 20 Michael Schedin 21 Horn Jackson Cashman 21 Janet Proctor C James Haaf C Trumpet Robert Wright 18 Levi Roseman 21 Ben Scammell 18 Glenn Griffin C Stephen Langley C Trombone Maggie Baird 18 Deborah Feifer 21 Margaret Hubble 21 Euphonium Richard Williams 19 Steve Gasiorowski C Tuba Dylan Calhoun GR Benjamin Bonner 18 Percussion Jeho Hahm 20 Naman Goyal 20 Tyler Ansel 19 Robert Nikolai UG Piano Michael Brown 20 C=Community Member GR=Arts & Sciences Graduate Student; UG=Undergraduate Dartmouth Youth Wind Ensemble 2018 Sat March 3 1:30 pm A free concert by dedicated middle-school musicians from throughout the Upper Valley and their Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble mentors!

R Upcoming Events Sally Pinkas, piano Tue April 10 7 pm Solo works reflecting on losses of World War I and modern-day Syria, plus buoyant Filipino salon music.

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6 R Upcoming Events Sally Pinkas, piano Tue April 10 7 pm Solo works reflecting on losses of World War I and modern-day Syria, plus buoyant Filipino salon music. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Fri April 20 8 pm Deadpan musical humor and spot-on interpretations of film scores, pop classics and more. For tickets or more info, call the Box Office at or visit hop.dartmouth.edu. Share your experiences! #HopkinsCenter Hopkins Center Directorate Mary Lou Aleskie, Howard L. Gilman 44 Director Michael Bodel, Director of External Affairs Jay Cary 68, T 71, Business and Administrative Officer Joshua Price Kol 93, Managing Director/Executive Producer Margaret Lawrence, Director of Programming Sydney Stowe, Director of Hopkins Center Film Austin M. Beutner 82, P 19 Anne Fleischli Blackburn 91 Kenneth L. Burns H 93 Barbara J. Couch Allan H. Glick 60, T 61, P 88, GP 19 Barry Grove 73 Caroline Diamond Harrison 86, P 16, P 18, Chair Hopkins Center Board of Advisors Kelly Fowler Hunter 83, T 88, P 13, P 15, P 19 Robert H. Manegold 75, P 02, P 06 Michael A. Marriott 84, P 18 Nini Meyer Laurel J. Richie 81, Trustee Representative Jennifer A. Williams 85 Please turn off your cell phone inside the theater. Assistive Listening Devices available in the lobby. DARTM OUTH RECYCLES If you do not wish to keep your playbill, please discard it in the recycling bin provided in the lobby. Thank you.

Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble

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