The International Euphonium Institute

Presented by the Yamaha Corporation of America

June 14-20, 2009

Atlanta, Georgia Emory University

Major Sponsors Euphonium.com

Besson Miraphone

Sterling Willson Band Instruments

The Woodwind and the Brasswind Yamaha Corporation of America

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Welcome to The International Euphonium Institute 2009!

Welcome to our 6th Year of IEI!! It has been another fantastic year in the making and we have some special guests that include not only our international guest, Thomas Ruedi, but also many art-ists from around the US. Thank you for being a part of this amazing week and also a personal thanks to our sponsors that make this week possible. I look forward to being inspired by the vitality and musicianship of the participants.

Adam Frey Artistic Director, The International Euphonium Institute

Table of Contents

Daily Schedule and Programs 4

Biographies of Artists and Staff 17

Presenting and Major Sponsors

Supporting Sponsors Cimarron Music Meinl-Weston Brassworks 4 Ken Friedrich

Solid Brass Music & Gary Bricault Warburton Mouthpieces

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Program of Events Sunday, June 14 1:00-5:30 PM Registration at Tharp Rehearsal Hall at the Schwartz Center 5:00 PM Meeting, Social, and Dinner - Tharp Rehearsal Hall 7:30 PM Opening Recital - International Artist Thomas Ruedi

Monday, June 15 7:30 AM Breakfast (Everyday) 8:30 AM Warm-up and Fundamentals - Thomas Ruedi / Steve Call (tubas) 9:15 AM Massed Ensemble Rehearsal 11:00 AM Master Class - Thomas Ruedi 12:30 PM Lunch - Arts Common Room 1:15 PM Master Class - How to rehearse chamber music

ARTIST COURSE STUDENT COURSE 2:00 PM Chamber Music 2:00 PM Practice / Break 3:00 PM Practice / Break 3:00 PM Chamber Music 4:00 PM Master Class - Kelly Thomas 5:30 PM Dinner 7:30 PM Evening Concert - Adam Frey and Friends

Tuesday, June 16 8:30 AM Warm-up and Fundamentals - Thomas Ruedi / Steve Call (tubas) 9:15 AM Massed Ensemble Rehearsal 11:00 AM Master Class - Dwight Coleman - A Vocal Perspective 12:30 PM Lunch - Arts Common Room

ARTIST COURSE STUDENT COURSE 1:30 PM Chamber Music 1:30 PM Master Class - Jamie Lipton 3:00 PM Practice / Break 3:00 PM Chamber Music 4:00 PM Master Class - Adam Frey 4:00 PM Master Class/Practice / Break 5:30 PM Dinner 7:30 PM Evening Concert - Jamie Lipton, Martin Cochran, and Demondrae Thurman

Wednesday June 17 8:30 AM Warm-up and Fundamentals - Demondrae Thurman / Kelly Thomas (tubas) 9:15 AM Massed Ensemble Rehearsal 11:00 AM Master Class - Demondrae Thurman 12:30 PM Change/Prepare to Depart 1:00 PM Box Lunches and Departure for Alpharetta 3:00 PM Master Class - Tom Gibson 5:00 PM Dinner at Alpharetta First United Methodist Church

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Wednesday, June 17 (continued) 6:30 PM Outreach and External Concert 8:00 PM Ice Cream Social at Casa del Frey

Thursday, June 18 8:30 AM Warm-up and Fundamentals - Adam Frey / Kelly Thomas (tubas) 9:15 AM Massed Ensemble Rehearsal 11:00 AM Master Class - The View from the Podium - A Conductor’s Perspective 12:30 PM Lunch - Arts Common Room

ARTIST COURSE STUDENT COURSE 1:30 PM Chamber Music 1:30 PM Duets and Music Exploration 2:45 PM Duets and Music Exploration 2:45 PM Chamber Music 4:00 PM Master Class and Jazz Improv Class - Steve Call 5:30 PM Dinner 7:30 PM Concert - Kelly Thomas and Jazz Night with Steve Call

Friday, June 19 8:30 AM Warm-up and Fundamentals - Kelly Thomas / Eric Bubacz (tubas) 9:15 AM Massed Ensemble Rehearsal 10:00 AM Master Class - Adam Frey 11:30 AM Chamber Music 12:30 PM Lunch 1:15 PM Career Roundtable and Discussion / Exhibits 3:00 PM Participant Recital #1 4:45 PM Master Class - Martin Cochran 6:00 PM Participant Recital #2 8:00 PM Dinner - Cookout - Games - Challenges

Saturday, June 20 8:30 AM Warm-up and Fundamentals - Martin Cochran / Steve Call (tubas) 9:15 AM Massed Ensemble Rehearsal 11:00 AM Master Class - Thomas Ruedi 12:30 PM Lunch 2:00 PM Participant Recital #3 3:30 PM Participant Recital #4 5:00 PM Dinner 7:30 PM Gala Concert with the IEI Ensembles and the Georgia Brass Band

Sunday, June 21 8:00 AM Breakfast and Depart 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Participant and Instrument Pickup at New Turman Hall

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The Euphonium Foundation, Inc.

The focus of the Euphonium Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3), involves providing more focused promotion of the euphonium through concerts, scholarships, grants, and commissions specifically targeted to promote the instrument as a performance medium and further inspire and embolden young players to enhance their skills and goals as euphonium players.

Join the 2009 Consortium Commission Project

1) Euphonium Fantasy - Bruce Fraser (Scottish Brass Band Composer) A 7 to 8 minute, single movement, high school and college level work 2) Sonata for Euphonium - Allen Feinstein (Harvey Philips Award Winner) A 8 to 12 minute, 3 movement, college level work with piano 3) Gemini for Euphonium and Horn (Piano Reduction) - Tony DiLorenzo (Studio musician and composer) - 10’ chamber work, advanced college level

More information at: www.euphonium.com/consortiumcommission.html

Inquiries and tax-deductible donations may be sent to: The Euphonium Foundation, 7230 Cloverhurst Court, Cumming GA 30041.

Euphonium.com

THE source for euphonium music!!

Featuring titles from around the world by major composers such as Ito, Sparke, Curnow, Barat, Ellerby, Richards, Wilby, Bowen, Bourgeois,

Cosma, Feinstein, Brusick, Rochut, Wilhelm, Linkola, along with many new award winning works and arrangements by Adam Frey,

David Childs, and Tormod Flaten.

Locate wonderful chamber music for 2, 3, and 4 euphoniums as well as du-ets with other instruments.

PDF and MP3 samples available for most works.

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Sunday, June 14 - 7:30 PM International Artist Recital - Thomas Ruedi

Caryl Conger, Piano Sonata Nr. 1 (RV47) Antonio Vivaldi

Largo Allegro Largo Allegro

Sonate for Bassoon and Piano Paul Hindemith Symphonic Rhapsody Edward Gregson Ave Maria Astor Piazzolla Études «tanguistique » Nr.1 Astor Piazzolla 3 Preludi David Beovic

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Monday, June 15 - 7:30 PM Artist Recital - Adam Frey and Friends

Caryl Conger, Piano Canonic Sonata No. 3 G.F. Telemann arr. Frey Vivace Soave Allegro assai

Kelly Thomas, euphonium Two Songs Robert Spillman

Eric Bubacz, tuba

Euphonium Fantasy Bruce Fraser Consortium World Premiere

2009 Euphonium Foundation Consortium Commission

Sonatina Kazimierz Serocki

Tom Gibson, trombone Pearls 2 Roland Szentpali 300 ZX

2008 Euphonium Foundation Consortium Commission

— Intermission —

Nessun Dorma from Turandot Giacomo Puccini arr. Frey Largo al Factotum from Il barbiere di Siviglia Giacomo Rossini arr. Frey Che Gelida Manina from La boheme Giacomo Puccini arr. Frey Napoli Herbert Bellstedt

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Tuesday, June 18 - 7:30 PM Artist Recital

Concerto Leuny Grondahl A Walk in the Woods Jiro Censhu Vintage David Gillingham

Jamie Lipton, euphonium Magi Shumanova, piano

Euphonium Concerto Joseph Horowitz Moderato Lento Con Moto Sicilienne Maria Theresa von Paradies

Martin Cochran, euphonium Magi Shumanova, piano

The Fantastic Fast Fingered Fandango Bruce Fraser

Martin Cochran and Jamie Lipton, euphonium Magi Shumanova, piano

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Sonata for Euphonium and Piano “Child’s Play” Barbara York Quarter-note equals 132 Dolce, espressivo e rubato Quarter-note equals 132

Roon Sonata Patrick Schulz

Prelude: Bluesy, with bite Main Course: Aggressive; energetic Nocturne: Mysterious and very expressive

Slavische Fantasie Carl Hohne

Demondrae Thurman, euphonium Caryl Conger, Piano

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Thursday, June 18 - 7:30 PM Artist Recital - Kelly Thomas and Steve Call

Relentless Grooves Sam Pilafian Bolero Mambo Sonata for Tuba and Piano John Cheetham Moderato Lamentoso Giocoso Sonata for Unaccompanied Euphonium Fred Clinard Introduction and Allegro Song Finale The Southern Cross Herbert L. Clarke

Kelly Thomas, euphonium and tuba Caryl Conger, Piano

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IEI Jazz Night Perdido Juan Tizol Jitterbug Waltz Thomas “Fats” Waller Stardust Hoagy Carmichael Autumn Leaves Joseph Cosma Black and Tan Fantasy Duke Ellington Martha’s Vineyard Steve Call The Man I Love George and Ira Gershwin It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) Duke Ellington Steve Call, euphonium/tuba Justin Varnes, drums Tommy Sauter, bass José Manuel Garcia , piano

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Saturday, June 20 - 7:30 PM Gala Concert

The IEI Euphonium Ensembles Adam Frey, Tom Gibson, Richard Prior, Scott Stewart, Conductors

Deus in Adjutorium from Vespers Claudio Monteverdi Arr. Patrick Hoffman

World Premiere Euphonium Euphoria Martha Bishop

The Eagle Ensemble

Finlandia Jean Sibelius Arr. Gary Bricault March from the Second Suite in F Gustav Holst Come thou fount of every blessing Marc Wilberg Arr. Adam Frey

World Premiere

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The Georgia Brass Band John Caputo, Conductor

Selections from: Brillante Peter Graham

Adam Frey, euphonium Pilatus Goff Richards

Thomas Ruedi, euphonium Softly As I Leave You Alfred de Vita

Steve Call and Kelly Thomas, euphonium Donegal Bay Paul Lovatt-Cooper

Betsy Jones, baritone Two Part Invention Philip Sparke

IEI Guest Artists and Georgia Brass Band Euphonium and Baritone Sections

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Adam Frey - Artistic Director Adam Frey travels the globe sharing his virtuoso talent, sensitive lyricism, and connection with audi-ences. Whether Adam’s performing with orchestras, wind bands, brass bands, or in solo recitals, au-diences love his charismatic personality and accessible musical interpretations, and critics rave over his technical prowess and championship of the euphonium.

A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Adam received his musical training at the University of Georgia and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. As a major young ambassador of the euphonium, Adam has more than 60 works that have been composed or specifically arranged for him.

Adam has played with ensembles the world over, including the world famous Boston Pops, Cheju Symphony Orchestra in South Korea, the Vaasa Symphony Orchestra in Finland, and along with symphonies in Seattle, Oregon, Atlanta, Greensboro, and Charleston in the United States. He also performs regularly with wind bands and brass bands that have included Soli Brass in Holland, Point of Ayr in Wales, the National Youth Brass Band of Switzerland and wind bands from Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong, and the United States.

As a teacher, Adam has published articles and reviews internation-ally and served as an assistant editor of the Euphonium Source Book. He serves as president of The Euphonium Foundation Inc., a non-profit established to promote the euphonium, and as Artistic Director of The International Euphonium Institute, North Amer-ica’s largest camp dedicated specifically to the euphonium. Adam also serves as Adjunct Professor of Euphonium at Georgia State University and as an Artist Affiliate with Emory University.

Adam has an impressive collection of recordings that range from his first solo recording, Listen to THIS!!, with piano to Collected Dreams, an enchanting collection of traditional Scottish, Irish, and classical melodies with synthesizer to his partnership with Scott Hartmann, former trombonist with the Empire Brass Quintet, on Little Buckaroos. His pioneering two discs released with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra: Taking Flight and Majestic Jour-ney are the first of their kind for euphonium and he also released a third recording in 2007 featuring new works for the euphonium entitle Beyond the Horizon. Three more recording projects are currently underway.

His website, www.euphonium.com, contains more information, sound files, performance schedules, photos from his world travels, and his publications.

Adam Frey is a Yamaha Performing Artist.

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Thomas Ruedi - International Guest Thomas Rüedi’s multi-faceted career is testament to his con-tinual search for new ways to introduce the euphonium to a wider public. Whether performing new or familiar works from the euphonium repertoire, arranging his own music, or coming together with colleagues for chamber music, Mr Rüedi strives to find connections that stimulate the imagina-tion. Thomas Rüedi maintains a balance between his engage-ments as soloist with orchestras, wind- and brass bands throughout the world and his recital and chamber music ac-tivities. He draws inspiration from a wide range of collabo-rators, creating programs with such artists as Alexandre Du-bach, Sérgio Carolino, Raphael Christen, Andreas Spörri, Wieslaw Pipczynski, François Kilian, Daniel Glaus and Phillip McCann. Thomas Rüedi is strongly committed to educational work. He is professor for euphonium and chamber music at Berne University of the Arts and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. While touring, he takes time whenever possible to lead master classes as well as giving private tuition. Thomas Rüedi has performed as soloist throughout Europe, USA, Africa and Asia. As well as win-ning many national solo awards, he was awarded first prize at the European Solo Championships for brass players in Munich in 1999. His solo CD recordings “Elégie” and “Synthesis” were highly praised. He regularly performs with some of Switzerland’s finest Symphony Orchestras, such as the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. Thomas Rüedi was born in 1969 near Berne, Switzerland and began playing the euphonium at the age of 11. He soon showed a great affinity for the instrument which led to him winning many na-tional solo prizes in his youth. Thomas Rüedi went on to study music in England between 1991 and 1995, following degree courses at the Sheffield University in euphonium, conducting, composition and arranging. During his studies, he played with some of the finest brass bands in Great Britain.

Thomas Ruedi is a Besson Artist.

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Bruce Fraser - Featured Composer Bruce Fraser has established a reputation as a multi-faceted composer with Lomond Music's range of titles for young brass and wind bands, test pieces at all levels and a range of arrangements for the Swiss pub-lishers – Obrasso, Difem and Musikverlag Frank. He has also a vast number of titles for wind band published mainly by G&M Brand, Stu-dio Music and Gobelin Music. He has composed many commissions for a variety of groups, including a Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra for John Wallace and the Fife Youth Orchestra and SUN for BBC Young Brass player Katrina Marzella.

As a conductor he has been conducting brass bands, choirs and wind bands for over thirty years. As an adjudicator he has appeared at many Music Festivals, Brass Band Competitions and Wind Band Festivals throughout the UK and Europe. He took early retirement as Head of Music at Buckhaven High School in 2007 and is developing his career as a composer, conductor and adjudicator. His Brass band work IM-

PERIUM was selected as the Third Section National Test Piece at Harrogate in September 2007. He has plans for further test pieces and works for band. His work, HELLAS for Trombone and Piano was the set piece for the British Trombone Society competition for young players, and he was commis-sioned to write TWIN SLIDES for Brett Baker of the famous Black Dyke Mills Band. The Tuba Concerto for James Gourlay has been performed in several countries in Europe and US. The concerto exists in various accompaniments – Brass Band, Concert Band, 10 piece brass ensemble, Or-chestra and Piano which are available from Studio Music, London. Bruce is delighted to have been asked to compose a work for Adam Frey, the renowned Euphonium soloist and teacher.

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Eric Bubacz - Georgia State University Eric Bubacz has an extensive career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral performer. He studied for three years at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY before transferring to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he completed his Bachelor of Music. As an orchestral player, Eric has been named Principal Tuba of the Had-donfield Symphony, the Canton Symphony, and the Reading Symphony. He has also performed as an extra musician with the Philadelphia Or-chestra, Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Blossom Festival Band. In 1997, Eric began working as an extra with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. From 2002-2005, Eric regularly acted as Principal Tuba of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He has also substituted regularly with the Atlanta Symphony, Birming-ham Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Greenville Symphony, Colum-bus Symphony and Augusta Symphony. For the 2007-2008 school year, he began as adjunct professor of tuba at Georgia State University, in addition to his extensive studio of private students in the Atlanta metro area and in 2009-2010 will begin teaching tuba and euphonium at Mercer University in Macon, GA.

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Steve Call - Brigham Young University Steve Call has been a member of the Music Faculty at Brigham Young Uni-versity since 1979 where he is currently a Professor of Music. He teaches courses in tuba and euphonium performance, jazz keyboard, and music educa-tion. He also directs the award-winning BYU Jazz Legacy Dixieland Band. As a soloist, he has presented guest recitals and concerto performances throughout the United States. His solo performance of Tubby the Tuba for solo tuba, narrator and orchestra was released on CD as part of Macmillan-McGraw Hill’s Share the Music series. Call has performed with a variety of jazz and chamber groups throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He has served as Principal Euphonium with Utah Premiere Brass and Principal Tuba with the Wintergreen Summer Festival Orchestra in Virginia. As a freelance musician, Call has performed with Ray Charles, Henry Mancini, Doc Severinsen, and many other well-known artists. He currently plays euphonium with the Great Western Rocky Mountain Brass Band of Colorado and contrabass saxhorn (American Civil War-era tuba) with Yankee Brass Band of New England. A crusader for the tuba in jazz, Call has published numerous articles and reviews on jazz tuba and is the author of two chapters on the tuba in jazz and commercial music that appear in The Tuba Source Book, published by Indiana University Press. His doctoral dissertation, Tuba Studio Teaching: Three Case Studies of Highly Effec-tive Teachers, was the first such publication dealing exclusively with tuba pedagogy.

Steve Call is a Yamaha Performing Artist.

Martin Cochran - University of Montevallo Martin Cochran enjoys an extremely active career as a soloist, teacher, clinician, and adjudicator. Martin has appeared as a soloist with ensembles from Wisconsin to Georgia to the British Isles. Some of these include the Marquette University Sym-phonic Band, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Symphonic Band, the Uni-versity of Alabama Wind Ensemble, and the Georgia Brass Band. His numerous recital credits include the 2008 and 2007 International Tuba-Euphonium Confer-ences, the U.S. Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conference, and numerous regional ITEA conferences. Martin has also recently presented master classes at the Univer-sity of North Texas, Louisiana State University, and Western Michigan University. Martin is a former winner of the prestigious Leonard Falcone International Eupho-nium Competition. He is also a former winner of the International Tuba Euphonium Conference Solo Competition, Mock Service Band Competition, and Tuba Quartet Competition as a member of the University of Alabama Tuba Quartet. He has been a member of several award-winning ensembles, including principal euphoniumist with the Georgia Brass Band, and has toured with the Sotto Voce Quartet. In addi-tion to his performing experience, Martin has also served as Director of the Monte-

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vallo Wind Ensemble, Assistant Conductor of the University of Alabama Wind Ensemble and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Symphony Band and Youth Wind Ensemble Program. He is the founder/conductor of the University of Montevallo Brass Ensemble, a unique ensemble consisting of college music-majors and select high school students from the Birmingham area. Martin is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Montevallo, where he teaches applied low brass and courses in music education and instrumental pedagogy. Martin received the Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance from the University of Alabama, and degrees in Music Education and Wind Conducting from Louisiana State University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His primary teachers include Mike Dunn, Alan Baer, and Larry Campbell.

Martin Cochran is a Sterling Artist.

Dwight Coleman - Georgia State University W. Dwight Coleman, lyric baritone is currently director of the School of Music at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the artistic director of the nationally recognized Harrower Summer Opera Workshop and Resident Stage Director of the La Musica Lirica Summer Opera Festival in Italy. He holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Northwestern University. Maintaining an active performing career in opera, recital and oratorio, Mr. Cole-man has performed leading and secondary baritone roles with the Atlanta Opera, Pensacola Opera, New Orleans Opera, Teatro di Verdi in Busseto, Italy, Skylite Opera, Shreveport Opera, Mississippi Opera, North Carolina Symphony and Mil-waukee Symphony. His roles include: Sharpless in Madama Butterfly; Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus; Silvio in I Pagliacci; Valentin in Faust; Germont in La traviata; Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor; Ping in Turandot; Peter in Hansel and Gretel; Ford in Falstaff and others. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1992 in Brahms' Ein Deutches Requiem and in 1994 he was featured at Avery Fischer Hall in Lincoln Center as baritone soloist in Five Mystical Songs by Vaughan Williams.

Caryl Conger, Pianist

Pianist, Caryl Worthington Conger, continues her passion of musical collabora-tion, performing regularly with wind and brass artists in recitals and conferences throughout the U.S. and abroad including the annual U.S. Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conferences and the recent ITEA conferences in Finland and Greensboro. Her special niche of interest has been her collaboration with tuba and euphonium artists including tubists, Daniel Perantoni, Patrick Sheridan, Roger Bobo, and Harvey Phillips, and euphoniumists, Steve Mead, Adam Frey, Roger Behrend, and Brian Bowman.

As a gift to the low brass repertoire she commissioned “Fantasy” by Daniel Crozier for tuba and piano and recorded it with Daniel Perantoni. Caryl attended the University of Kentucky, where she studied piano with Nathaniel Patch, and also the Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music. In the spring of 2003 she

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retired from the music faculty of Radford University where she was Director of Accompanying and Director of the Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Piano Competition & Festival. She now lives in Estes Park, Colorado.

Tom Gibson - Kennesaw State University Dr. Tom Gibson comes to Georgia State by way of Washington, DC. He was a Trom-bonist with the U.S. Navy Band in Washington for 6 years. He was twice selected to be their featured soloist on the annual national tour. In addition, he was the Navy Band's featured soloist in Stockholm, Sweden, for the International Military Tattoo. He premiered the wind ensemble arrangement of Hindemith's Trombone Sonate at the Eastern Trombone Workshop in Washington, DC. While a member of the Navy Band, Tom completed his Doctorate in Musical Arts at Catholic University in Wash-ington, DC. Prior to that, he completed a Bachelor's degree at the University of Michi-gan and a Masters at the University of Northern Colorado; where he was the graduate assistant to Buddy Baker. Tom has had a very active freelance career as well. He can be heard on more than 30 recordings and has performed with James Taylor, Denyse Graves, Clark Terry, Peter Erskine, Nanci Griffith, the Temptations, William Noll Orchestra, the Four Tops, New York City Lights Orchestra, New Columbia Swing, and others. He has performed in some of the nation's greatest venues, including the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and Wolf Trap. Locally, he's been heard at Spivey Hall, Woodruff Arts Center, Chastain Park, Roswell Performing Arts Center, Atlanta Jazz Festival in Piedmont Park, Mercer University, Jacksonville State University, Columbus State Univer-sity, Gwinnett Cultural Arts Center, Valdosta State University, Albany Civic Center, Rialto Center for the Per-forming Arts, and Birmingham Center for the Arts. He has also performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Hol-land and the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.

Jamie Lipton - Henderson State University

Jamie Lipton is an emerging euphonium soloist who came to in-ternational prominence after winning both the ITEC and Falcone euphonium solo competitions in 2006. Originally from the Chi-cago area, Jamie holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of North Texas, where she is currently a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow. She teaches euphonium at Hen-derson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. A well-established musician in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex, Jamie is heavily in demand as a private instructor and clinician. She is a former member of the University of North Texas Wind Sym-phony and a current member of the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, and can be heard both groups’ recordings.

Jamie Lipton is a Willson Performing Artist.

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Richard Prior, Conductor

Richard Prior's musical training began in his native England, where he received a BA with high honors from Leeds University and an AMusD degree in con-ducting and composition from Nottingham University. His performances have been reviewed in the professional press as having 'stirring conviction,' 'precision' and 'stylishness and flexibility' while another article cited the 'meteoric rise' of ensembles under his direction. Dr. Prior's principal teachers and mentors include Sir Simon Rattle, James Paul, William LaRue Jones, and James Fulkerson. Currently, Dr. Prior serves as Director of Orchestral Studies at Emory Univer-sity, where he conducts the Emory Symphony Orchestra and Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra. Prior was a selected participant in the 2001 Pierre Boulez Professional Training Workshop at Carnegie Hall, NY and the 2002 Conductors' Workshop of America.

Magdalena Shumanova, Pianist Magdalena Shumanova was born in Pazardzhik , Bulgaria and started her piano studies at the age of four. At the age of six she was accepted in the Secondary School of Music-“Dobrin Petkov”- Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She graduated with a Special Faculty Award for Academic and Performance Excellence in June, 2002. She was the soloist with the City Philharmonic Orchestra of Plovdiv, performing Saint-Saens' 2nd Con-certo for Piano and Orchestra in the same year. While attending school there, she studied with Julia Girgi-nova and Svetlana Kosseva and received her diploma in Piano Performance and Secondary Specialized Education in music and arts in 2002.

She entered the Florida State University College of Music in Tallahassee, Florida in 2003 with a full mu-sic scholarship. She also received the Tallahassee Music Guild Scholarship in 2002, The Griswold Schol-arship 2005-2007 and was recently awarded the Kiwanis Capital Club scholarship. She studied with Dr. Carolyn Bridger and completed her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance in Spring 2008.

Ms. Shumanova has competed in many competitions during her studies, including the Mount Dora and MTNA Young Artist Competitions in Florida. In addi-tion to competing here in the U.S., she has also com-peted in Bulgaria in the following competitions: The National Competition for German and Austrian Com-posers, the First National Competition for Contemporary American Music, the Sixth National Competition for Chech and Slovak Music (honorable mention) and the F i r s t I n t e r n a t i o n a l P i a n o C o m p e t i t i o n "Zeichler" (finalist).

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Scott Stewart, Conductor Scott A. Stewart is the Director of Wind Studies at Emory University, hav-ing joined the faculty in the fall of 1999. He serves as music director and conductor of the Emory Wind Ensemble and the Atlanta Youth Wind Sym-phony. He received a Bachelor of Music Education from the Indiana Uni-versity School of Music, a Master of Music Education from the University of Texas at Austin, and has recently completed doctoral studies in Conduct-ing at Indiana University. Stewart's instructors include Ray Cramer, Stephen Pratt, Eugene Rousseau, and Jerry Junkin. Professor Stewart has served as Principal Conductor of the Star of Indiana Brass Theatre, Assistant Conductor of the Bloomington Symphony Orches-tra, and instrumental music instructor at McCallum High School and Lamar Middle School in Austin, Texas. He is a contributing research associate for volumes 2, 3, and 4 of Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, pub-lished by GIA. He has conducted several premieres and served as the re-cording producer for four compact discs.

Kelly Thomas - University of Arizona Dr. Thomas was appointed tuba/euphonium instructor and director of pep bands at the University of Ari-zona in 2001. A native of Flagstaff, Arizona, he began his studies with R. Winston Morris at Tennessee Technological University. There he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in music education. He also holds a Master of Music degree in music education from Arizona State University where he studied with Sam Pilafian. Kelly completed a Doctor of Musical arts degree at Arizona State University in 2006.

Professor Thomas participated in the famed Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble (TTTE), under the direction of R. Winston Morris, while at TTU. Kelly has appeared as a solo-ist as well as an ensemble member on the following recording's affiliated with the TTTE: Euphoniums Unlimited (Mark Re-cords 2004), The Kings of Brass (Mark Re-cords 2001), Tubalogy 601 (Mark Records 2000), and Unleash the Beast (Mark Records 1995). In 1995 and 2007 Kelly performed at Carnegie Hall as a soloist and ensemble member with the TTTE. Dr. Thomas has collaborated with Gunther Schuller, Adam Gorb, James Grant, Greg Danner, and David

Maslanka in recent years.

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Professor Thomas has also performed at the International Tuba Euphonium Association (ITEA) Conferences in Las Vegas, NV; Conway, Arkansas; Cincinnati, OH; Tucson, AZ and Regina, Canada. He has also performed at the United States Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conference in Washington D.C. In 2003 and 2007 he hosted the ITEA Regional Conference in Tucson, AZ on the campus of the University of Arizona. In 2005, Kelly con-ducted the University of Arizona Brass Choir and performed at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Bangkok, Thailand.

Kelly is a founding member and tubist for the Original Wildcat Jass Band, a traditional New Orleans and Chi-cago jazz band. This touring ensemble has been featured throughout Tucson as well as New Mexico, Califor-nia, and Colorado. They released their debut recording entitled Introducing...The Original Wildcat Jass Band in 2004. Their second recording, I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, was released in 2007.

Kelly Thomas is a Besson Artist.

Demondrae Thurman - University of Alabama Demondrae Thurman is quickly becoming one of the most recognized names in a new generation of euphonium soloists. His solo recording entitled Soliloquies was released on the Summit Records label in 2005. He plans to make a recording of songs and arias in June 2008. Demondrae is in high demand as a clinician/adjudicator. He has been a featured artist for many of the International Tuba-Euphonium and U.S. Army Band Conferences in addition the Leonard Falcone Festival. Thurman has performed and recorded as euphoniumist with several or-chestras included the Atlanta Symphony under the baton of Grammy Award-winning conductor Robert Spano. As a champion of contemporary music, Demondrae has premiered numerous works for solo euphonium includ-ing Soliloquies by John Stevens and Fantasy for Euphonium and Orchestra by Doug Bristol.

Demondrae is also an active chamber musician. He is a founding member of the highly acclaimed Sotto Voce Quartet. Sotto Voce has performed exten-sively throughout North America and Europe and has three recordings on Summit Records. Sotto Voce's second release, Viva Voce!: The Complete Quartets of John Stevens, won the first ever Roger Bobo Award for Excel-lence in Chamber Music Recording given by the International Tuba-Euphonium Association. Demondrae also plays first baritone horn with the world renowned Brass Band of Battle Creek. Equally in demand as a trom-bonist, Demondrae has performed with the Mobile Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Tuscaloosa Symphony, Hot Springs Festival Orchestra, and as a member of the Tuscaloosa Horns with such Motown recording artists as The Temptations, The Four Tops, and The Supremes. Demondrae Thurman is a Miraphone Performing Artist and plays exclu-sively the Miraphone 5050 Ambassador “Edition” euphonium which was designed specifically for him. He also plays the “Demondrae” model mouth-piece manufactured by Warburton Music Products. Demondrae Thurman teaches at The University of Alabama where he is Assistant Professor of Euphonium and Tuba.

Demondrae Thurman is a Miraphone Artist.

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The Georgia Brass Band

The Georgia Brass Band was founded in 1999 by a group of Atlanta-area brass players eager to explore the challenging repertoire for British-style brass band. The band performed its first concert after just a few months and has maintained an active schedule ever since. The mission of the band is twofold: the band allows talented area musicians the opportunity to hone their individual and collective skills through rehearsals and concerts, and the band introduces local concertgoers to this exciting genre of brass music. Band members are selected by audition or invitation and include some of the finest musicians in the area. All members and staff volunteer their time and talents to the band. The band members represent a variety of profes-sions, including lawyers, doctors, salespeople, freelance and military musicians, business owners, educators, students, computer professionals, a college vice president, a financial planner, and a pipe organ builder. The Georgia Brass Band has appeared on local television, as well as the Atlanta NPR affiliate. The band has performed at numerous concert halls, festivals, churches, and colleges throughout Georgia and beyond. The band has also appeared with a number of renowned brass soloists, including those at the IEI. In recent years the band has achieved national acclaim through its successes at the annual North American Brass Band Association Championships. In 2006 the band made its first appearance in the competition, earning the First Place trophy in the Challenge Section and garnering accolades and rave reviews from all present. In 2007 the band moved up to the highly competitive Honors Section and came in second place, missing a victory by a scant margin. In 2008, the band returned to the Honors Section and took home the coveted First Place tro-phy. The reviewer from 4barsrest.com, England’s leading brass band website, offered effusive praise of the band’s performance, stating “Georgia’s rendition of Journey Into Freedom was stunning. They produced a quite remarkable dark sound, whilst their technique was virtually flawless…a real class act.”

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Nathan Adams Duncan Albert Max Ashton Josh Bolden Jason Casanova Ryan Chen Adam Cipinko Noelle Christie James Cunico Reid Dickinson Mike Drosd Ron Duncan Derek Floyd Nicolas Fraire Gary Garvin Phil Giampietro

Ryan Hartman Alexander Hayes Grayson Holland Nikki Holstein Michael Horsford John Huber Jonathan Hunt Patrick Jones Malcolm Katzen Brett Keating Joseff Kolman Genna Krecicki Sam LoBue Michelle Lock Robert Madeson Marcelino Medley

John Metcalf Kayla Phipps Bill Pritchard Irving Ray Karla Romero George Streitenberger Blake Unger Michael Vecchio Peter Weimer David Wells Kennedy Wells Kyle Wilson Tim Wood Elliott Woodbury William Wright III

Adam Frey Thomas Rüedi Steve Call Martin Cochran Tom Gibson Jamie Lipton Kelly Thomas Demondrae Thurman Caryl Conger Karen Mullins Janet Frey Magdelena Shumanova Scott Stewart Richard Prior John Lynch Dwight Coleman Bruce Fraser Eric Bubacz The Georgia Brass Band

IEI 2009 Participants

IEI 2009 Staff

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The International Euphonium Institute Concerts Please note all concerts will take place at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts at Emory University,

1700 North Decatur Road expect for the Wednesday evening concert.

Sunday, June 14 - 7:30 PM International Artist Recital - Thomas Ruedi

Monday, June 15 - 7:30 PM Artist Recital - Adam Frey and Friends

Tuesday, June 16 - 7:30 PM Artist Recital - Martin Cochran, Jamie Lipton and

Demondrae Thurman

Wednesday, June 17 - 6:30 PM Alpharetta First United Methodist Church

Alpharetta, Georgia

Thursday, June 18 - 7:30 PM Artist Recital - Kelly Thomas

Jazz Night - Steve Call

Saturday, June 20 - 7:30 PM Gala Concert featuring The International Euphonium Institute Ensembles

Guest Soloists with the Georgia Brass Band

For more information, visit www.euphonium.com