Dr. Jack Stamp, 2008–2009 University Professor and chair of the IUP Department of Music, was recently invited to present conducting workshops at Great Britain’s Royal Military School of Music. He will present sessions for their student bandmasters and many of the conductors in the field starting November 20, 2009.

The trip will begin with a two-day workshop at RMSM followed by a conducting clinic with the Royal Signals Band in Blanford. His trip will conclude with a concert of his music with the musicians of the Poole Grammar School.

This is Stamp’s third vsit to the Royal Military School of Music, having guest conducted their band in 1995 in a performance featuring his own compositions. The RMSM was established by the Duke of Cambridge at the request of Queen Victoria after a debacled performance of “God Save the Queen” for her fiftieth birthday. The institution is housed in Kneller Hall, former estate of the famous painter Godfrey Kneller.

Stamp is active as a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and composer throughout North America and Great Britain. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by leading military and university bands across the United States, and he has won the praise of American composers Richard Danielpour David Diamond, Norman Dello Joio, Ron Nelson, Michael Torke, Samuel Adler, Robert Ward, Robert Washburn, Fisher Tull, Nancy Galbraith, and Bruce Yurko for performances of their works. He is also a contributing author to the “Teaching Music Through Performance in Band” series released by GIA Publications.

In addition to chair of the Music Department, Stamp serves as director of band and conducts the IUP Wind Ensemble. He founded the Keystone Winds, a unique ensemble combining IUP faculty members and advanced students with professional alumni musicians and others with direct connections to the IUP Department of Music.

A professor of music, he teaches graduate courses in conducting. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from IUP, a master’s degree in percussion performance from East Carolina University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from Michigan State University, where he studied with Eugene Corporon.

Chris, a student of IUP Music Department faculty member Dr. Michael Kingan, has been living in New York City for about a year taking a stab at a performing career. He’s picked up some playing opportunities and is breaking into the scene slowly, doing some substitute teaching to help pay bills. Recently though, he played a successful audition with a production company, the same company that handles groups like Stomp and the Blue Man Group. He was selected as a percussionist to perform with a touring company and go out on a fifteen-week tour starting in mid-November 2009, performing throughout Canada.

One of the scheduled performances will be the Torch Lighting Ceremony at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Interestingly enough, his audition consisted of performing on drum set and (get this) a bucket.

Coca- Cola has a Flickr site with photos of Chris:

Photo 1: Chris Wengert performing during the Olympic Torch Relay 

Photo 2: Chris Wengert performing during the Olympic Torch Relay 

Dr. Collins’ residency was on October 28 and 29, 2009. During his residency, he worked with the tuba and euphonium majors in individual lessons. His recital on the evening of October 29 featured the Southwest premiere of “Three Miniatures” by IUP composition student Anthony O’Toole and a musical collaboration with West Texas A&M faculty member Jeremy Lewis.

The IUP Chorus will be highlighted with choirs from Harvard, California State-Long Beach, University of Maryland, Yale, University of Missouri, and Utah State University, among others. The National Collegiate Choral Organization is the only association exclusively for college and university vocal ensembles. This is a distinct honor for our Music Department and for the director of choral studies, James Dearing.

Department of Music Professor James Dearing will conduct the twenty-seven singers and fourteen instrumentalists, who will be joined by new faculty bass-baritone Joseph Baunoch, in a “Magnificat” by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the composers last works written in 1640 for Saint Mark’s in Venice. For more information call 724-357-4408

The conference will bring scholars of music history to IUP from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia to hear papers on topics ranging from Schumann and Brahms to the music of the French Resistance in World War II. IUP Professor Jim Dearing will speak on composer and conductor Edmund Louis Najera (1936-2009). The conference, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Cogswell Hall 102 and the Music Library. More information.

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His four-movement composition, entitled "Coral Reef," was written for trumpet quartet. It has been accepted for publication by Eighth Note Publications of Toronto, Canada. Eighth Note Publications is a leading seller of music for trumpet ensembles and has a worldwide following.

Chris is from Sinking Spring, Pa., and is a student of Dr. Kevin Eisensmith.

This event is sponsored by the IUP Department of Music, the College of Fine Arts, the Honors College, the Asian Studies Committee, and Karma Thegsum Choling (a Tibetan meditation center).

Tom Schmidt and Lama Topgyal are associated with KTD, Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, one of the main Tibetan monasteries in the U.S., located outside of Woodstock, N.Y., as well as Kunzang Palchen Ling, a Tibetan center in Redhook, N.Y. In their sessions, they will provide demonstrations of Tibetan instruments and discuss their use and significance in Tibetan Buddhist liturgical music.

Lama Tashi Topgyal is from Raktrul Monastery in eastern Tibet. He received empowerments, reading transmissions, and explanations regarding the treasure texts of Terchen Barway Dorje from Lama Karma Thupthen, the main disciple of the Second Bardor Rinpoche. After many years of study, Lama Tashi went into a nine-year, nine-month retreat. He came to the U.S. in 2003 to teach at Kunzang Palchen Ling.

Tom Schmidt is director of Karma Thegsum Choyang Music, a studio associated with KTD and dedicated to the recording and preservation of Tibetan liturgical music. In 1997, Schmidt acted as liaison between the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery and Martin Scorsese's film Kundun, about the life of the XIV Dalai Lama, when scenes were shot in the main shrine room of the monastery. In the summer of 1999 Schmidt traveled to Tibet, China, Nepal, and India to further his research of Kagyu sacred music and recorded ceremonies at the Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim. On December 28, 2001, Tom recorded the Karma Pakshi Chant with His Holiness the seventeenth Gyalwa Karmapa and 3,000 monks in Bodhgaya India. In 2004, Schmidt produced a benefit concert for Karma Triyana Dharmachakra that included Philip Glass as principal guest artist; in 2005 a second benefit concert with Lori Anderson; and, in 2008 a third with Jack DeJohnette and Pat Metheny. Schmidt’s Tibetan musical studies have been guided by Lama Tashi Dhondup, Lama Phuntsok Bista, Tenzin Chonyi, Yeshe Namdag, and Umdze Lodro Samphel, principal chant master of the Rumtek Monastery. (Select for a more complete bio of Tom Schmidt.)

All are welcome to attend the session on Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. in McVitty Auditorium in Sprowls Hall. Attendance vouchers will be available for IUP students. For more information, contact Dr. Linda Jennings at ljenning@iup.edu.

The IUP String Project curriculum consists of weekly private lessons and ensemble classes scheduled at different times throughout the year. Lessons, group classes, and recitals take place on the IUP campus and are taught by IUP music students under the supervision and guidance of the IUP String Area faculty. For more specific information please see the IUP String Project webpage.

The IUP String Project is one of thirty-two similar programs joined under the auspices of the National String Project Consortium, dedicated to promoting string music education in the United States. The String Project is designed to support the string programs in public and private schools. Therefore, all students enrolled in the IUP String Project must also be enrolled in their school orchestra program, if one is available in the student's grade level.

Lessons begin the week of September 21 and applications are due Monday, September 14, 2009. For an application or more information, please contact Dr. Linda Jennings at ljenning@iup.edu or 724-357-2649.

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Dr. Jennings will be joined by Arcadia Trio members Deborah Greitzer, violinist with the Buffalo Philharmonic, and Chindarat Charoenwongse, professor of Piano at the University of Central Oklahoma. They will perform works by Mozart, Turina, and Chen Yi and Violet Archer. The Arcadia Piano Trio will perform the same program on the IUP campus on September 10 in Gorell Hall at 8 p.m.

Also, returning from a semester of study at Zagreb, is IUP Music Education major Kevin Huhn, a student of Nathan Santos. Kevin performed jazz standards on bass with Dr. Stanley Chepaitis on violin and Dr. Mary Logan Hastings (Voice) at a concert in Zagreb during their faculty exchange visit to the music conservatories of Croatia and Slovenia.

Nela Saric will study voice with Dr. Hastings. Antonia Mimica will study music theory with Professor Perlongo.

The three-disk set catalogs all of composer William Kraft’s “Encounters.” Of the fifteen “Encounters” in his repertoire, “Encounters II for Solo Tuba” is unique in that it is the only one that does not feature percussion.

“Encounters II” is one of the landmark pieces in the solo repertoire for the tuba. Written in 1966 for Roger Bobo, it explores the extremes of tonal range, dynamics, and articulation as well as the extended technique capabilities of the instrument such as multiphonics.

The Southwest Chamber Music project is the culmination of two years of live performances and recordings. Both the live performances and recordings of Kraft’s “Encounters” were produced in close collaboration with the composer.

The full CD set can be purchased on line from Southwest Chamber Music, and individual tracks are available from Digstation.

The fourteenth International Conference (July 5-11, 2009) is going to be the most exciting and jam-packed event in the history of WASBE. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to hear fifteen of the finest wind bands in the world, observe a virtual who’s who of conductors and clinicians, and participate in thought-provoking clinics, discussions, and workshops—all set within the state-of-the-art facilities located at the University of Cincinnati’s College–Conservatory of Music. Other ensembles performing include the United States Marine Band, the North Texas Wind Ensemble, the Philharmonic Winds Osaka (Japan), and the China Youth Corps, among others.

Every ensemble that performs at the conference will be featuring special guest conductors, soloists, and new commissions guaranteed to raise the collective consciousness of our profession. But one very special group of conductors will be working with the International Youth Wind Orchestra, and it includes three of the most important wind conductors of the past fifty years—Donald Hunsberger (Eastman School of Music), Frank Battisti (New England Conservatory of Music), and H. Robert Reynolds (formerly of the University of Michigan and now at the University of Southern California). Their rehearsals will be open to all attendees, with repertoire that includes both of the Holst Suites, Lincolnshire Posy by Grainger, and the Hindemith Symphony in B flat.

The Keystone Wind Ensemble will be premiering a new composition by Richard Danielpour titled Icarus, which is scored for large brass ensemble, percussion, and two pianos. Virtually every major orchestra in the United States has performed Danielpour’s music, and he is widely thought of as being one of the most influential composers of his generation. Keystone will also be performing Chronicles by Joseph Turrin, featuring Tom Hooten of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. WASBE host Rodney Winther of CCM recently commented that KWE director Jack Stamp is “one of the most energetic commissioners of new works by important composers for our medium.”

The Keystone Wind Ensemble, directed by Jack Stamp, director of Bands and chairperson of the IUP Department of Music, is composed of IUP faculty members, alumni, and students. They have recorded approximately twenty CDs and have performed at several regional and national events. The IUP wind and percussion faculty who will be performing are Gary Bird (retired), David Borst (retired), Stephanie Caulder, Zach Collins, Chris Dickinson, Kevin Eisensmith, David Ferguson, Ron Horner, Irvin Kauffman, Mike Kingan, Jack Scandrett, Terri Wacker, Jason Worzbyt, and Keith Young.

The Keystone Wind Ensemble, directed by Dr. Jack Stamp of the IUP Department of Music, was featured in a performance on Thursday, May 28, 2009, as part of the thirty-fourth annual conference of the International Trumpet Guild, held at the Hilton Hotel and Conference Center in Harrisburg, Pa.

The conference was cohosted by Dr. William Stowman, chairman of the Music Department at Messiah College and an IUP alumnus (B.S.Ed., 1985). Dr. Stowman is also a member of the trumpet section of the Keystone Wind Ensemble.

The program in Harrisburg featured numerous guest artists with the KWE, beginning with the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets. The Heralds joined the KWE in a performance of Morton Gould’s “American Salute.” The ensembles were conducted by Captain David Paroby, director of the Heralds and a native of Warminster, Pa.

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Herald Trumpets. Lt. Col. (ret.) Gilbert Mitchell, who currently resides in Camp Hill, Pa., cofounded the Herald Trumpets and also directed the KWE during this concert.

Three solo trumpeters were featured with the Keystone Winds: Richard Stoelzel, former solo cornetist with the U.S. Coast Guard Band and professor of Trumpet at Grand Valley State University (Mich.); Thomas Hooten, principal trumpet of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; and Christopher Martin, principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Stoelzel performed “Concerto for Piano and Trumpet” by Erik Morales. Hooten performed Joseph Turrin’s “Chronicles,” and Martin played David Gillingham’s “When Speaks the Signal-Trumpet Tone.” All three composers were in the audience for the concert.

The Keystone Wind Ensemble is based at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and led by IUP Director of Bands and IUP alumnus Dr. Jack Stamp (B.S.Ed., 1976). The fifty members of the ensemble include IUP music faculty, alumni, and students currently enrolled at IUP. The KWE was formed in 1992 “for the express purpose of recording new and more traditional works from the concert band repertoire” and has released approximately twenty compact discs of music for concert band. Over the years, the KWE has also performed at several regional, national, and international conferences.

The International Trumpet Guild “was founded in 1974 to promote communications among trumpet players around the world and to improve the artistic level of performance, teaching, and literature associated with the trumpet.” Its six thousand members represent sixty-four countries and include professional and amateur performers, teachers, students, manufacturers, publishers, and others interested in belonging to an organization dedicated to the trumpet profession. The vice president/president elect of ITG is Dr. Kevin Eisensmith, professor of Trumpet at IUP and an alumnus (B.S.Ed., 1978). He is also a member of the trumpet section of the Keystone Wind Ensemble.

The scholarship is in the amount of $1,500. This award is trienniel (only given every three years) and is divided into performance awards for strings or harp, voice, woodwinds or brass, and piano or percussion. Only one person in each instrument category receives the scholarship.

She will be joined by Arcadia Trio members Deborah Greitzer, violinist with the Buffalo Philharmonic, and Chindarat Charoenwongse, professor of Piano at the University of Central Oklahoma. They will perform works by Mozart, Turina, and Chen Yi. The Arcadia Piano Trio will perform the same program on the IUP campus on September 10 in Gorell Hall.

Zhonghui Dai, professor of Trumpet at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, hosted the event, which brought together over three hundred trumpet students, teachers, and performers from around the world.

Additional guest artists for the conference included:

• Gene Aitken, professor emeritus at the University of Northern Colorado and guest professor of Music at Shanghai Conservatory
• Andrea Giuffredi, Italian trumpet artist
• David Spencer, associate professor of Trumpet at the University of Memphis
• Richard Stoelzel, professor of Trumpet at Grand Valley State University
• Tamas Velenczei, principal trumpet of the Berlin Philharmonic

Also participating in the conference were numerous Chinese trumpet professors and other musicians.

Each day began with a warm-up session presented by one of the guest artists. Comments about breathing, mouthpiece buzzing, and other subjects were shared with the students who were present. Master classes were held throughout the day, and each of the guest artists presented a recital in the evening.

The conference was a great opportunity to hear different playing styles and to exchange ideas on solo, orchestral, and ensemble performance. Everyone involved in this conference had a great time and will benefit from the information they received. The conference ended with a sumptuous banquet featuring many Chinese delicacies.

For pictures of the conference, please visit the China Trumpet Guild.

The Keystone Wind Ensemble, based at IUP, is comprised of the university’s wind and percussion faculty, alumni, and current students. Since 1991, the ensemble has recorded numerous CDs and performed at various conferences and clinics.

Among the works to be performed at the ITG Conference are William Schuman’s “Chester,” Bruce Yurko’s “Intrada,” and and Morton Gould’s “American Salute,” which will feature the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets. Guest soloists schedule to perform with KWE include Richard Stoelzel, the professor of Trumpet from Grand Valley State University; Tom Hooten, principal trumpet with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; and Christopher Martin, principal trumpet with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Their performance begins at 2:30 on Thursday, May 28.

The International Trumpet Guild was founded in 1974 to promote communications among trumpet players around the world and to improve the artistic level of performance, teaching, and literature associated with the trumpet. ITG’s more than 6,000 members represent sixty-four countries and include professional and amateur performers, teachers, students, manufacturers, publishers, and others interested in belonging to an organization dedicated to the trumpet profession. ITG is supported by the dues of individual members. For more information, please visit the Trumpet Guild website.

The Falcone Festival is the premier competition for tuba and euphonium performers.  Jon was selected after a rigorous taped preliminary round. He will compete in the Artist Tuba Division, which is open to all nonprofessional tubists.  Semifinal and final rounds will be held August 14–17 at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan. More information may be found at the IUP Tuba and Euphonium Studio and the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival website.

This ensemble will perform as a prelude performance prior to a concert by the U.S. Army Blues Trumpet Ensemble.

Twelve members of IUP’s thirty-member trumpet ensemble will be selected by audition and will perform premieres of two original compositions—one by Jeremy Leidhecker and one by Dr. Ferguson.

For more information about the International Trumpet Guild or the convention this spring, visit the Trumpet Guild website.

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This concert is being produced in conjunction with the annual PMEA Inservice Conference, held this year at the Valley Forge Convention Center. The program will include “Fall Fair” by Godfrey Ridout, “El Salon Mexico” by Aaron Copland, and the “Polovistian Dances by Borodin.” Rehearsals will be at the Upper Merion High School on Thursday and Friday.

Dr. Laura Ferguson will be making two presentations: “Using Wiki Websites for Special Education University Methods Courses” on Friday morning, April 24; and “So Your Chapter Wants to Hold a PMEA Event” on Saturday morning, April 25. The Friday session will discuss Dr. Ferguson’s use of Wiki websites to increase information covered in her Education Methods class by using blogs. The Saturday session will explain the steps needed to host PMEA events and is based on Dr. Ferguson’s experience as host of this year’s PMEA Elementary/Middle School Bandfest.

Dr. Linda Jennings will present a workshop on “The String Project: Addressing the Crisis in String Education Today.” This workshop introduces a powerful teacher-training program that Dr. Jennings is using at IUP to mentor young string teachers.

Both Dr. Jennings, cellist, and Dr. Stanley Chepaitis, violinist, will perform solos with the IUP Orchestra under the direction of Dr. David Martynuik at their performance on Friday, April 24.

The PMEA Inservice Conference is an annual event that attracts over one thousand music educators from across the state and features performances of high school and college ensembles chosen from dozens of applicants every year.

Their performance will be part of a tour that will include performances on Thursday, April 23, at Quince Orchard HS, 15800 Quince Orchard Rd, Gaithersburg, Md., at 11:45 a.m. and North Harford HS, 211 Pylesville Rd., Pylesville, Md., at 8:00 p.m. On Friday, following their performance at PMEA, they will present concerts at the Mt. Carmel Church, 58th and Race Sts., Philadelphia, at 4:00 p.m. and at Central Bucks East HS, 2804 Holicong Rd., Doylestown, at 8:00 p.m.

The program will include: Symphonic Movement "Blumine" by Gustav Mahler; Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 by Ludwig van Beethoven, featuring Dr. Stanley Chepaitis; Requiebros by Gaspar Cassadó, featuring Dr. Linda Jennings, cello, and the orchestra wind section; and Symphony #2 by Lou Harrison.

All programs except for the PMEA performance are open to the public.

The student auditions consist of singing in a preliminary, semifinal and final round of competition. The following students made the finals and were recognized in their category of participation.

Freshman Women
1st place: Nicole Williams — student of Mary Hastings
2nd place: Erin Thomas — student of Mary Hastings

Freshman Men
1st place: August Matrisch — student of Robert Peavler

Sophomore Women
2nd place: Leanna McGiboney — student of Robert Peavler

Sophomore Men
3rd place: Jonathan Eutsey — student of Mary Hastings

Junior Women
2nd place: Kristin Dudra — student of Robert Peavler

Junior Men
2nd place: Daniel Drumm — student of Robert Peavler
3rd place: Randy Frye — student of Sarah Mantel

Senior Men
2nd place: Sean Cogan — student of Mary Hastings
2nd place: Steven Cosnek — student of Robert Peavler

Musical Theater
1st place: Erika Pealstrom — student of Sarah Mantel
1st place: Joe York — student of Sarah Mantel
3rd place: Tyler Knauf — student of Robert Peavler

The first public event will be a performance by the IUP Trombone Choir, with nineteen trombonists under the direction of Dr. Christian Dickinson, and the IUP Trombone Reunion Choir, with over thirty alumni plus the IUP Trombone Choir. The IUP Trombone Reunion Choir will be directed by Dr. Dickinson, professor of trombone at IUP, and Mr. Richard Thorell, professor emeritus of IUP. This free concert will be held in the Gorell Recital Hall on Saturday, April 18, 2009, at 4:00 p.m.

The second event will be a performance featuring the IUP Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Kevin Eisensmith, and the IUP Jazz Band, under the direction of Dr. Keith Young, with featured guest soloist Harry Watters. Mr. Watters is a trombonist with the United States Army Blues Jazz Ensemble and the United State Army Brass Quintet located in Washington, D.C. Also featured at this concert will be a reunion of The Hickeybones, a jazz trombone ensemble formed during the late 1960s on the IUP campus by Ron Hickey, who went on to work as a staff arranger for the United States Army Band in Washington, D.C. This concert will be held in Fisher Auditorium on Saturday, April 18, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets will be available after April 6, 2009, at the HUB: regular price $9, discount $8, I-Card $6, or sold at the door.

Both concerts are open to the public. On Sunday, April 19, members of the Alumni Trombone Group will perform as part of the 10:30 a.m. worship service at Zion Lutheran Church in Indiana.

For more information visit the IUP Trombone Studio Renuion website.

The program is part of the Music in the Orendorff Commons series. The concert celebrates National Library Week and is sponsored by the IUP Libraries, the College of Fine Arts, and the Center for Northern Appalachian Studies.

The group performs folk songs collected in Pennsylvania as well as other related genres.   The family lives in Gettysburg, and they have given concerts in many venues, including the Gettysburg Governor’s Arts Award celebration, Penn State University Harrisburg Library, and the Fulton County Historical Society.

Each year, the musicians perform and teach at the Greenwood Furnace Folk Gathering in Huntingdon County on subjects including the Samuel Bayard Pennsylvania Folk Song Collection, Scottish and Irish songs, vocal technique, song arranging, and bodhran.

The band includes Stephen Folkemer on concertina, keyboard, and vocals. Since 1979, he has served as the music director at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, where he is associate professor of church music.

Beth Folkemer sings and plays guitar and mountain dulcimer. She serves on the pastoral staff at St. Mark Lutheran Church, Hanover, and volunteers as assistant children’s choir director at Christ Lutheran Church, Gettysburg, and as the music coordinator for “Candlelight at Christ: Songs and Stories of a Civil War Hospital.” She has studied the Samuel Bayard Pennsylvania folk song collection at Penn State University, becoming an expert on Pennsylvania song traditions. 

Joel Folkemer, a recent graduate of Shippensburg University, sings and plays bass and bodhran.  Nathan Folkemer, a student at California University of Pennsylvania, sings and plays low whistle and bodhran.  Margaret Folkemer studies voice at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.  She is still away at school and will not be joining the family for this concert.

The Folkemer family also forms the core of the Irish band Cormorant’s Fancy, which performs actively throughout central Pennsylvania.

She presented a Vocal Master Class and Improvisation Workshop to the Vocal Jazz Ensemble Class, working with the students on presentation, acting and movement skills, diction, and improvisation exercises.

To reach this point, John was first selected as one of forty-five semifinalists out of a field of approximately one hundred who submitted a recording. After performing on Saturday, he was then selected as one of six semifinalists and performed again Sunday for new judges and placed third. In addition to the recognition of being placed, John also earned $750 in cash as a prize. John is a student of Dr. Kevin Eisensmith.

The IUP Trumpet ensemble, under the direction of Dr. David Ferguson, also played extremely well. All students who attended the event learned a great deal through performances and clinics.

This will bring together 250 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade band students from approximately fifty area schools to Fisher Auditorium for a day of music making, culminating with an evening concert at 7:00 p.m. in Fisher.

Guest conductors will be Dr. Susan Creasap of Morehead State University, and Mr. Christopher Hornick, retired band director from the Connellsville Area schools. Dr. Laura Ferguson is the IUP host and coordinator of the Bandfest.

Visitors may observe rehearsals in Fisher during the day. Rehearsal will be held on Fisher Stage and in the seconnd floor rehearsal room from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Dr. Jason Worzbyt recently conducted the PMEA District 6 Band at Berlin High School, January 29–30, at the McKeesport Band Festival at McKeesport High School on February 3, and on February 6–7 at the Prince William County Junior High District Band (Virginia) Battlefield High School.

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Steven Cosnek (B.F.A., Tenor) was voted “Audience Favorite” for his performance of the arias “Ach! So from” from Martha, “Lonely House” from Street Scene, “Il mio Tesoro” from Don Giovanni, “Ev’ry Valley” from Messiah, and the song “Come to Me, Bend to Me” from Brigadoon.

Justin Polyblank (B.S. Music Education) was selected to perform as soloist at the symphony’s March 14 concert. He will perform Claude Smith’s “Fantasia for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra.”

The talented high school students attending the band festival have an intense weekend of rehearsals. The IUP PE has been invited to perform for them as a “break in the action” on Friday afternoon. The festival is located at the Berlin Brothersvalley School District. IUP students will perform selections from the “Intensity” (percussion chamber music) concert scheduled for February 5. The upcoming programs feature the works of Briggs, Kopetski, Levitan, Mackey, Makan, and Morag.

Eisensmith is professor of trumpet at IUP and directs the IUP Jazz Ensemble.

Justin Polyblank, alto saxophone
First Prize: $500 Cash Award and a performance with the JSO on April 4, 2009

Jon Wylie, tuba
Seond Prize: $300 Cash Award

Justin Canzano, alto saxophone
Third Prize: $200 Cash Award

Congratulations go to these students as well as to their studio teachers, Dr. Keith Young, saxophone, and Dr. Zach Collins, tuba.

Winners

Tyler Knauf — Freshman/Sophomore Musical Theatre
Erin Lanigan — Freshman Women
Leanna McGibboney — Sophomore Women
Kristin Dudra — Junior Women
Jamie Markel — Junior/Senior Musical Theatre

Semifinalists

Dan Drumm — Junior Men
Christine Severin — Junior Women
Kenny Biter — Senior Men

Congratulations also to our three fine student pianists who travelled with us and played beautifully for each of our students and especially during the winner’s concert. They were: Randy Frye, Sarah Hager, and Tyler Knauf.

The camp will run for two weeks. Week 1—Sunday, June 21 through Friday, June 26—will be an Orchestra and Honors Chamber Winds camp for talented string and wind players conducted by Dr. David Martynuik and Dr. Stanley Chepaitis. Week—Sunday, June 28 through Friday, July 3—will be a Senior High Band conducted by Dr. Jack Stamp.

Students will be in residence at IUP for each week or, if they live close, can choose the day camper option. Instruction, meals, and recreation are included in both options.

Applications and detailed information about each week of camp will be available on line by January 15.

For more information, please visit the Keystone Music Camp.

The event is a fundraiser for the Alice Paul House, a shelter for survivors of domestic violence.

It will be held in Room 121 of IUP’s Cogswell Hall, at the corner of Eleventh Street and Oakland Avenue. Free parking is available after 5 p.m. in the IUP parking garage, adjacent to the building.

Cost is $4 per person or $6 per couple. Tickets will be sold at the door. Dress for the event is semi-formal.

Men of Swing will provide music for the event. Men of Swing was created in 2005 by IUP student Chris Conte and is now led by student Mark Yochum.

Phi Mu Alpha is a male professional music fraternity established at IUP in 1953. The IUP Zeta Tau chapter has 40 active members.

Sigma Alpha Iota is a female professional music fraternity that offers support to the music community. It was established at IUP in 1999. IUP’s Kappa Beta chapter has 40 active members.

Both groups participate in community service activities.

For more information about the event, contact Samantha Glass at s.s.glass@iup.edu.

Soprano Mary Logan Hastings, a member of IUP’s music faculty, and her daughter, soprano Dora Logan Hastings, will present a concert on Oct. 28 at 8 p.m. in IUP’s Gorell Recital Hall.

Gorell is on the second floor of IUP’s Sutton Hall. The concert is free and open to the community.

The two will present works by Mozart, Schubert, Straub and Bruch and will be accompanied by Jan Halmes on piano and David Martynuik on clarinet. Other performers include IUP faculty members Linda Jennings, Therese Wacker, Stephanie Caulder and Jason Worzbyt.

Mary Logan Hastings has an extensive professional career in opera in both America and Europe.

Her solo concert work includes appearances with the Berliner Philharmonische. In addition to her European career, she has performed recitals and given master classes in the theaters and music conservatories in China.

Dora Logan Hastings is a graduate of IUP and recently completed her second season with The Seagle Music Colony in Schroon Lake, N.Y. She also performed with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Opera Theatre.

Halmes has been an accompanist since the age of 12 and has studied at University of Montana and in Vienna. She also has traveled and performed extensively in Europe and China as an accompanist for choral groups and soloists. She has recorded with Mary Logan Hastings, performing songs of Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky.

On Thursday, September 18, the newly renovated Fisher Auditorium and the Performing Arts Center will be dedicated with a gala performance of several Music Department ensembles including the Marching Band, the IUP Wind Ensemble, the Gorell Trio, the Hoodlebug Brass, the IUP Woodwind Quintet, and the IUP Trumpet Ensemble.

On Sunday, September 21, Dr. Keith Young will present a recital of music for saxophone and brass featuring members of the IUP Brass Department and the Hoodlebug Brass Quintet. On Monday, September 22, Dr. Susan Wheatley will be performing in Gorell Hall, and on Tuesday, September 23, the Celantano String Quartet will perform.

More information about IUP performances can be found on the Lively Arts website.

Find more information concerning auditions.

Audition dates are as follows:

• Thursday, December 4, 2008 (for early admission and entrance for Spring 2009)
• Thrusday, January 22, 2009
• Thursday, Febuary 12, 2009
• Thursday, Febuary 26, 2009
• *Saturday, March 14, 2009
• Thursday, March 26, 2009
• Thursday, April 9, 2009

This year’s featured clinician is Bret Kuhn, Design and Percussion Consultant for the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps percussion specialist at Prospect High School, Mt. Prospect, Illinois.

The camp is sponsored by the IUP Percussion Area, IUP Department of Bands, Yamaha Corporation of America, Innovative Percussion, Remo, Zildjian, and Volkwein’s Music of Pittsburgh.

Tuition of $60.00 covers two full days of group rehearsal, sectionals, individual instruction, special clinics and performances, and the Yamaha “Sounds of Summer” Music Book. This Drumline Camp is intended for percussionists who are currently participating in or about to join the drumline of their school marching band. Clinicians cover drumline fundamentals, basic and advanced techniques, sectional playing, ensemble performance, and leadership skills.

Camp runs 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Meeting place is Cogswell Hall, Room 121 (Large Rehearsal Room) on the IUP campus. Tuition is reduced to $55.00 if postmarked on or before June 22, 2008. Group discounts are available to schools that send six or more students. Call for information regarding off-campus housing. Directors attend free of charge.

For more information, contact the Camp Director:

Dr. Michael Kingan
IUP Director of Percussion Studies
(724) 357-2897
mkingan@iup.edu

A printable registration form is available.

Gary Olmstead was the percussion instructor for the IUP Music Department for thirty-seven years before his retirement in 2003. A scholarship fund for percussion students was established in his name, and the main fundraiser is an annual golf tournament. The cost to participate in the event is a very reasonable $85. It includes all fees, a picnic dinner, and a tax-deductible donation to the fund.

Dr. David Ferguson presented “More than Singing Cats: YouTube and Internet Resources for Music Appreciation”; Dr. Kevin Eisensmith, with Psychology professor Donald Robertson, gave a workshop on “Managing Music Performance Anxiety,” teaching students how performance anxiety happens and what to do; Dr. Jack Scandrett, with the Hoodlebug Brass (IUP faculty members Kevin Eisensmith, David Ferguson, Christian Dickinson, Zachary Collins, and Jack Scandrett) showed the results of their work with student ensembles using videoconferencing, “iNet Prep: Small Ensemble Coaching via Real-Time Videoconferencing”; and the IUP Flute Quartet, under the direction of Dr. Therese Wacker, performed several “mini-concerts.”

The PMEA Annual In-Service Conference is attended by music educators in the Pennsylvania schools and also the students who were chosen to perform in the Pennsylvania All-State music ensembles.