ACB 2011

CLINICS

Under the Big Top - Featuring the Windjammers Circus Band

We will document and demonstrate elements of musical performance of Karl King music to new generations of musicians and especially music educators. Through presentations illustrated with live musical examples, performance practices of the golden age of the circus band are demonstrated and explained, with special emphasis on capturing these musical styles with modern bands. You'll learn how to make the most out of your marches, and see why Karl was KING of circus music!

Andrew Glover

St. Louis native Andrew Glover joined the staff of the C. L. Barnhouse Company in October 1998, and serves as staff composer, arranger, editor, and Chief Operating Officer. Previously, Glover taught instrumental music in the St. Louis area, most recently as Director of Bands at Rosary High School. He received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Central Methodist University and did graduate work at Southeast Missouri State University. As a composer and arranger, Glover has nearly 200 works to his credit. He began writing music for band while in high school, and his music has been performed, recorded and broadcast by bands worldwide. He has appeared as guest conductor, clinician and speaker on numerous occasions, and for many years also performed as a euphonium soloist. For four years he was a member of the Detroit Concert Band, conducted by Dr. Leonard B. Smith, and participated in numerous recording sessions with the DCB. An enthusiast of classic concert band music and history, Glover is not only involved in new music production at Barnhouse, but also oversees the company's 122-year archive of publications, which serve as the main source for Barnhouse Archive Editions. He is a member of several music associations, including ASCAP.

Alphorn: Instrument of Peace - Featuring  

Alphorngruppe "Alpentraum"

Once used as a communication device in the mountainous regions of Europe, the alpine horn sounds the natural harmonics through its12 foot length.  You'll hear a performance, learn history from Dr. Peggy DeMers, and have an opportunity to find some of those harmonics for yourself!

Dr. Peggy DeMers

Dr. Peggy DeMers, Associate Professor of Horn, joined the Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, (SHSU) faculty in 1991. Her musical and horn studies were at the Cincinnati Conservatory (M.M.) and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (B.M., D.M.A), with Douglas Hill and Michael Hatfield. Her extensive teaching, orchestral, and other ensemble experience includes principal horn with the Minnesota Opera Orchestra and with orchestras in Wisconsin, Minnesota and New York.

Currently she is principal horn of the Lake Charles, Louisiana Symphony.

From 1993-98 she was a member of the Spoleto Festival USA and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto in Italy and has appeared as guest artist (principal horn soloist) at the Mezzogiorno Concert series sponsored by the Gian Carlo Menotti in conjunction with the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy. Since 2004, Peggy DeMers has served as faculty/guest artist at the Assist Music festival performing primarily chamber music during the summer in Assisi, Italy.

Dr. DeMers' research and performances on the Alphorn have been recognized as truly authentic. She has given lectures for the International Horn Symposium in the USA and for regional workshops. She was featured on the cover of the AAA Home and Away magazine (summer 1991) performing on the Alphorn, and in the Minnesota American Traveler (1992). In 1999 she recorded "To the Winter Sun" by Douglas Hill on Thoughtful Wanderings, a MSR Classics label. In 2006, Dr. DeMers was the guest artist performing on the Alphorn for the Sigma Alpha Iota tri-annual national conference in Orlando, Florida. In 2007, the Swiss embassy requested her to perform the Alphorn for the opening of the IMAX Eiger mountain documentary film.

Alphorngruppe "Alpentraum", a Midwest alphorn group invited Dr. DeMers to lead their first Midwest Alphorn retreat in July, 2009. Dr. DeMers has since led the group in their October, 2009, appearance at the first Oktoberfest in Disneyland, Anaheim, CA. When she is available between her many other teaching and performing duties, she serves as Alpentraum's honorary musical leader, historian and guest artist.  

The Art of Performance

Dr. Arthur Campbell will explore managing performance anxiety so you can play your best. Methods that may never have occurred to you will be presented here.

Arthur Campbell

Internationally acclaimed clarinetist, Arthur Campbell, has toured extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, performing in some of the world's most prestigious venues, and benefiting from a celebrated solo recording career.

Reviews in leading publications consistently rank Campbell as a preeminent clarinet virtuoso. Reflecting on clarinet playing of the past century, Fanfare Magazine sums it up with: "That brings us to the American school, which has managed to produce, in my opinion, the finest clarinetists of all-Stanley Drucker, David Shifrin, Richard Stoltzman, Harold Wright, and let us not forget Benny Goodman; and now Arthur Campbell can be added to this prestigious list." Campbell's recording Brahms: Clarinet Chamber Music, on the German audiophile label Audite, won the Supersonic Award in Belgium, the Magnifique Award in France, and the Recomendado in Spain. American Record Guide writes, "Campbell, a Canadian native who studied with Robert Marcellus, is a terrific player...". Germany's Ensemble Magazine raves, "stirring for both heart and mind..." while Audiophile Audition states "potent rainy-day music..." Opus magazine (France) writes "Campbell finds a beautiful instrumental balance for a musical message of remarkable expressive wealth." while Fanfare exclaims "exquisite playing". Campbell is booked to release an In Recital disc and an all Stamitz disc with Audite in the upcoming seasons.

In addition to his highly praised performances of the standard canon, Arthur Campbell is recognized as one of the foremost champions of contemporary repertoire of his generation and has had pieces written expressly for him by dozens of distinguished composers. This season's highlights included the premiere performances of two new clarinet concertos by Max Lifchitz and Ed Green and the premieres of five new electro-acoustic pieces by composers Elizabeth Hoffman, Colby Leider, Benjamin Broening, Kui Dong, and Maurice Wright. About this season's concerto performances in Merkin Hall with Manhattan based NorthSouth Ensemble, The New York Times stated: "Arthur Campbell was the eloquent soloist, ...Unaccompanied for long stretches, his clarinet sang, purred and growled ornate soliloquies during the fitful work..." A review in The Clarinet of his world premiere recording of Shulamit Ran's Three Scenes for Clarinet states: "The performance of this work is exceptional. Campbell's tone, phrasing, and dynamic contrast really portray the essence of this piece, a work which will most likely become a standard in the clarinet repertoire." Also in great demand as a master teacher and performance coach, Dr. Campbell has presented at leading universities, conservatories, and festivals in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Turkey, Estonia, Lithuania, China, Canada and the US. He is a Professor of Music at Grand Valley State University where he has built a thriving studio of clarinet students from Michigan and around the globe. Visit: www.ArthurCampbell.net

Ready, Set, Breathe!

Join Dr. Deanna Swoboda in this participatory session. Through breathing and stretching exercises she will offer solutions for improving tone, technique, phrasing, practice, and overall health. No instrument required. Just bring yourself and a friend!

DEANNA SWOBODA

Deanna Swboda is Assistant Professor of tuba and euphonium at Western Michigan University  and performs regularly with the Western Brass Quintet, a resident brass quintet. Prior to joining the WMU music faculty, Swoboda toured with the Dallas Brass, performing hundreds of concerts in the United States and Europe. Swoboda is the creator and performer of a band recruiting video and music workshop called "Band Blast Off." Her solo CD, "Deanna's Wonderland," was released on Summit Records in 1999. Her new solo tuba CD is entitled "Shamanic Journey" and features the music of women composers. It will be released in Fall 2009. Ms. Swoboda currently serves as Vice President/President elect for the International Tuba Euphonium Association as well as Secretary for the International Leonard Falcone Euphonium Tuba Festival. Ms. Swoboda is a tuba artist for Miraphone

Artistry and Inspiration with a Dose of Reality -

A Conducting Workshop

Michigan State Associate Director of Bands, John T. Madden, will discuss his unique philosophy of conducting concert bands.

John T. Madden 

John T. Madden is the associate director of bands and associate professor of music in the College of Music at Michigan State University. He has held this position since the fall of 1989. Madden's responsibilities include directing the 300-member Spartan Marching Band, as well as serving as conductor of the MSU Symphony Band. He frequently guest conducts the MSU Wind Symphony and Chamber Winds. Madden also serves on the MSU music education faculty, teaching graduate and undergraduate conducting and has taught courses on marching band techniques. His additional College of Music responsibilities include supervising all aspects of the MSU Athletic Bands, including the Spartan Brass, which performs at home men's and women's basketball games, Spartan hockey games, and at selected Big Ten, CCHA, and NCAA tournaments.

As an adjudicator, Madden maintains numerous associations with judging organizations around the United States. His work with community bands includes past conductor and music director of the Lansing Concert Band. He has guest conducted the Grand Rapids Symphonic Band and the Marshall Community Band in Michigan, as well as having served as clinician at the Red Cedar Festival of Community Bands in Okemos and the Berkshire Band Festival in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He is the resident conductor of the Symphony Band at the New England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine, and conducted bands at the Great Lake Music Camp in Indiana for more than 10 years.