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From the Ashes (Premiere) Nathan Daughtrey

Dum Spiro, Spero Chris Pilsner

Dr. Jeffrey Miller, Guest Conductor

Black Dog: Rhapsody for Clarinet Scott McAllister

Dr. Jessica Lindsey, clarinet

Candide Suite Leonard Bernstein/Grundman

I. The Best of All Possible WorldsII. Westphalia Chorale and Battle Scene

III. Auto-Da-Fe (What a Day)IV. Glitter and Be Gay

V. Make Our Garden Grow

Dr. Elizabeth Sullivan, English horn

Cartoon Paul Hart

UNC CHARLOTTE WIND ENSEMBLE, DR. SHAWN SMITH, CONDUCTOR NORTH CAROLINA MUSIC EDUCATOR S ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE | NOVEMBER 2017

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Shawn Smith is Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Conducting at UNC Charlotte. In high demand as a band and orchestra conductor, clinician, and adjudicator, Smith has been invited to conduct professional and educational ensembles throughout the United States and conducts regularly in South America. His professional engagements include concerts with the State Symphonic Band of São Paulo (Brazil), the Symphonic Band of Córdoba (Argentina), the Corpus Christi Symphony (Texas), and members of the Charlotte Symphony (North Carolina). Most recently, Smith served as conductor of the Montana All-State Band.

Equally at home with opera and musical theater productions, Smith has conducted pit orchestras for the Marriage of Figaro and a six-

week run of Les Misérables. His performances have been heard frequently on American Public Media’s Performance Today, the most popular classical music radio program in the United States.

Smith has presented numerous rehearsal and conducting clinics in the United States, Europe, and South America. His rehearsal clinic at the 2009 International Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago was attended by over 400 band and orchestra directors from around the world. As a public school teacher, Smith served as Director of Bands and Orchestra at one of the largest high schools in Idaho, where he administered a comprehensive instrumental music program. While at Meridian High School, ensembles under his direction were distinguished as among the finest in the state.

As Director of Bands at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, he was twice awarded the Texas A&M System Teaching Excellence Award. Smith was also awarded Second Prize in Band Conducting in the 2015 American Prize competition.

Dr. Shawn Smith

Jeffrey Miller is Associate Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands at UNC Charlotte, where he directs the Symphonic Band, Basketball Pep Band and the “Pride of Niner Nation” Marching Band, and teaches the Marching Band Techniques course.

Prior to his appointment at UNC Charlotte, Miller served as Interim Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In this position he served as Assistant Director of the Golden Buffalo Marching Band, director of the Buff Basketball Band, and conductor of the Concert Band. Miller also served as the Musical Director and Conductor for the Boulder Concert Band, a community-based wind band.

Before his University appointments, Miller served as a public school instrumental music educator in the state of Florida, having taught at middle and senior high schools. Bands under his direction consistently received high ratings at music performance assessments in the state.

Miller has presented research and teaching clinics at regional and state-level conferences, including the College Band Directors National Association Athletic Band Symposium, CBDNA Southern Division Conference, and the Florida and Colorado Music Educators Conferences. Additionally, Miller is an active guest clinician/conductor, adjudicator, drill writer, and music arranger.

Dr. Jeffrey Miller

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Recent transplant to North Carolina Dr. Elizabeth Sullivan currently serves as Assistant Professor of Oboe and Musicianship at UNC Charlotte, where she teaches oboe, music theory, and ear training, and coaches woodwind chamber ensembles. She is active as a recitalist, orchestral musician, and pedagogue throughout the region with a strong commitment to engagement with local public schools and music educators.

Prior to joining the faculty at UNC Charlotte, she held teaching positions at Eastern Illinois University and Daytona State College. Her previous students have gone on to pursue music degrees at the undergraduate and graduate level at Florida State University, University of Florida, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northern Illinois University, and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

Sullivan holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree and Master of Music degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was the recipient of the Bill A. Nugent Fellowship award, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Stetson University. Her dissertation “Rhythm and meter as a means towards musical expression in Elliott Carter’s Oboe Concerto” discusses performance practice techniques for the work specifically and details Carter’s very specific and metered musical expression. Dr. Sullivan’s primary teachers include John Dee, Dr. Ann Adams, Eric Olsson, and Janet Mascaro.

Dr. Elizabeth Sullivan

Dr. Jessica Lindsey is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at UNC Charlotte, where she teaches clarinet and chamber music. In previous positions she taught clarinet, saxophone, and music related courses in Alaska, Colorado, and Nebraska.

An active performer, Dr. Lindsey performs with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra as substitute clarinet and the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra as bass clarinetist. She has performed with the Lincoln and Omaha Symphonies, ProMusica Colorado, Fairbanks Symphony, and Opera Fairbanks. Passionate about new music, Dr. Lindsey is a founding member of the Spatial Forces Duo, which was recently featured at the National Association of Wind and Percussion Instructors National Conference. Pursuing a research agenda of new music written by composers identifying as women, Dr. Lindsey has performed at the national gatherings of the International Clarinet Association and College Music Society.

Since 2012, Dr. Lindsey has been a member of Andover Educators, the organization that grants licensure in Body Mapping. She maintains an active outreach schedule presenting clinics, recitals and chamber music concerts throughout the U.S. and

internationally in China and New Zealand.

Dr. Lindsey completed a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a Master of Music from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her primary clarinet teachers include Daniel Silver and Diane Barger.

Dr. Jessica Lindsey

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UNC Charlotte Wind EnsemblePiccoloDanielle Castellucci

FluteDanielle CastellucciDanielle Dameron*Jennifer HeidenLydia RobinsonMadison Snelson

OboeDonte Washington*

BassoonGina Vannais*

ClarinetKathryn FreemanGavin FulkerKellie JoynerChelsea Karpeh*Elizabeth LanierMari Jane SuttonKristian Vasquez

Bass ClarinetConnor BeckDeanna Glenn*

Alto SaxAvery BumgarnerJackson CiniBryce Harris*Tucker Smith

Tenor SaxMatthew Nofsinger

Bari SaxTori Mitchell

TrumpetKevin ButlerRichard Hall*Liam McMahonYovanny Romero-GomezAndrew Sokolowski

HornTaylor KennedyJoshua MurrayBenjamin Shafer*T.J. Zuber

TromboneNicholas CarlWill CochranVirginia CrooksPatrick Foray*

EuphoniumIan GraggRiley Kirwan*Quinten Wrenn

TubaHector Gonzalez*Bryson Harding

Percussion Jacob BohanEvan CoreyMegan ElmoreDaniel FerreiraChris Merida*Raven Pfeiffer

TimpaniNick Francis*

HarpTamar Rowe

PianoKou Vee Thao

*Principal