Dr. John Zastoupil, Conductor
with
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHAMBER SINGERS
Dr. Angela L. Batey, Conductor
Carolyn Gahan, Graduate Assistant
Tami Newsom, Accompanist
All-East Senior Clinic
East Tennessee Band and Orchestra Association
Friday, February 3, 2023 at 6:30 p.m.
Park Vista Hotel
Gatlinburg, TN
Dr. Michael Stewart, guest conductor
Dr. Fuller Lyon, guest conductor
Dr. Katie Johnson-Webb, horn
Dr. Alex Van Duuren, trombone
The Cowboys Overture (1972/2008)
John Williams (b. 1930)
Trans. Bocook
These Lights, Which Shine (2021/22)
Ryan Nowlin (b. 1978)
Fuller Lyon, guest conductor
Overture to Candide (1955/1986)
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
arr. Grundman
Michael Stewart, guest conductor
Dual Strides (2022)
Kevin Day (b. 1996)
- In Step
- In Tune
- In Sync
Katie Johnson-Webb, Horn
Alex van Duuren, Trombone
The commissioning of Dual Strides was made possible by a generous gift from Admiral Title, Inc. The University of Tennessee School of Music is grateful for the support of this important new work.
Frozen Cathedral (2013)
John Mackey (b. 1973)
Cowboys Overture – Williams
The movie required a vigorous musical score to accompany virtuoso horseback riding and calf roping, and when my friend André Previn heard fragments of the score, he suggested that a concert overture lay hidden within the film's music. Several years slipped by, and each time I saw the indefatigable Previn he would ask, "Have you made an overture of Cowboys yet?" He kept this up until 1980, when I finally worked out the piece and played it at a Boston pops concert. Both the orchestra and audience seemed to enjoy the music to such an extent that it has been part of our repertoire ever since. – program note by John Williams
These Lights, Which Shine – Nowlin
Col. Jason Fettig, of the United States President’s Own Marine Band approached composer in residence, Ryan Nowlin, in spring of 2021 to write a piece for chorus and orchestra to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 events. The first challenge was what text should be set; Nowlin new he would find the right text, but started out thinking about what the piece needed. The poem he chose is Yeish Kochavin, loosely meaning “from the stars,” by Hanna Senesh, translated by Bruce Ruben.
There are stars who light reaches the earth
Even after themselves are no more
There are people who’s radiant memory shines in this world
Even after themselves have left it
These lights, which shine in the darkest night
These, these illumine the path for us all
Nowlin says, “it was difficult to set, because the poem is so powerful, you don’t want to say it more than once. I found myself mediating on all the people impacted over the years…I found myself rising with emotion and I wanted to capture that rising. After listening to the piece, I hope people find comfort and that people find hope. We hope people use this 6-minute piece to engage with the emotions about that day. Allow yourself to experience the rising section of emotion, and feel the since of hope and companionship and love.”
-Transcribed from an interview with Ryan Nowlin, September 10, 2021
Overture to Candide – Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein always said he wanted to write “the Great American Opera.” He probably came closest with Candide (1956), which he labeled “a comic operetta.” Based on Voltaire’s satirical novel of 1759, it chronicles the misadventures of Candide, a naive, pure-hearted youth, and his much more tough-minded sweetheart, Cunégonde.
Dual Strides - Day
Dual Strides is my 6th concerto collaboration and is also the first concerto I have written for duo instruments. The title of the composition is based on the concept of finding ways to move and commune together, helping each other through difficult obstacles, and walking alongside one another. The movement titles help convey this idea of togetherness, taking two voices that are far apart and eventually bringing them into synchronous harmony.
This work was commissioned by the University of Tennessee-Knoxville for professors Katie Johnson-Webb and Alex van Duuren, with the world premiere performance taking place by the UTK Wind Ensemble, John Zastoupil, conductor in November 2022.
- Program note by the composer
Frozen Cathedral – Mackey
The Koyukon call it Denali, meaning “the great one,” and it is great. It stands at more than twenty thousand feet above sea level, a towering mass over the Alaskan wilderness. Measured from its base to its peak, it is the tallest mountain on land in the world, a full two thousand feet taller than Mount Everest. It is Mount McKinley, and it is an awesome spectacle. And it is the inspiration behind John Mackey’s, The Frozen Cathedral.
The piece was born of the collaboration between Mackey and John Locke, Director of Bands at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Locke asked Mackey if he would dedicate the piece to the memory of his late son, J.P., who had a particular fascination with Alaska and the scenery of Denali National Park. Mackey agreed, and immediately found himself grappling with a problem: He had never been to Alaska.
How could I tie the piece to Alaska, a place I'd never seen in person? I kept thinking about it in literal terms, and I just wasn’t getting anywhere. My wife, who titles all of my pieces, said I should focus on what it is that draws people to these places. People go to the mountains -- these monumental, remote, ethereal and awesome parts of the world -- as a kind of pilgrimage. It’s a search for the sublime, for transcendence. A great mountain is like a church. “Call it The Frozen Cathedral,” she said.
I clearly married up.
The most immediately distinct aural feature of the work is the quality (and geographic location) of intriguing instrumental colors. The stark, glacial opening is colored almost exclusively by a crystalline twinkling of metallic percussion that surrounds the audience. Although the percussion orchestration carries a number of traditional sounds, there are a host of unconventional timbres as well, such as crystal glasses, crotales on timpani, tam-tam resonated with superball mallets, and the waterphone, an instrument used by Mackey to great effect on his earlier work Turning. The initial sonic environment is an icy and alien one, a cold and distant landscape whose mystery is only heightened by a longing, modal solo for bass flute, made dissonant by a contrasting key, and more insistent by the eventual addition of alto flute, English horn, and bassoon. This collection expands to encompass more of the winds, slowly and surely, with their chorale building in intensity and rage. Just as it seems their wailing despair can drive no further, however, it shatters like glass, dissipating once again into the timbres of the introductory percussion.
The second half of the piece begins in a manner that sounds remarkably similar to the first. In reality, it has been transposed into a new key and this time, when the bass flute takes up the long solo again, it resonates with far more compatible consonance. The only momentary clash is a Lydian influence in the melody, which brings a brightness to the tune that will remain until the end. Now, instead of anger and bitter conflict, the melody projects an aura of warmth, nostalgia, and even joy. This bright spirit pervades the ensemble, and the twinkling colors of the metallic percussion inspire a similar percolation through the upper woodwinds as the remaining winds and brass present various fragmented motives based on the bass flute’s melody. This new chorale, led in particular by the trombones, is a statement of catharsis, at once banishing the earlier darkness in a moment of spiritual transcendence and celebrating the grandeur of the surroundings. A triumphant conclusion in E-flat major is made all the more jubilant by the ecstatic clattering of the antiphonal percussion, which ring into the silence like voices across the ice.
The Frozen Cathedral was commissioned by The University of North Carolina, Greensboro; The University of Michigan; Michigan State University; University of Florida; Florida State University; University of Georgia; University of Oklahoma; The Ohio State University; University of Kentucky; Arizona State University; and Metro State College. The work received its world premiere on March 22, 2013, with the University of North Carolina Greensboro Wind Ensemble, conducted by John Locke.
- Program note by Jake Wallace
Dr. Zastoupil assumed the role of Director of Wind Studies and tenured associate professor of music at the University of Tennessee in the fall of 2022. His primary responsibilities at UT include conducting the critically acclaimed University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble, teaching graduate courses in music, guiding the graduate wind conducting program, and providing the administrative leadership for all aspects of the University of Tennessee’s diverse and historic band program.
Dr. Zastoupil previously served as Director of Concert Bands and tenured associate professor of music at Missouri State University where he guided all aspects of a comprehensive concert band program of five concert ensembles - over 400 students. He conducted the Missouri State Wind Ensemble, Wind Symphony, Springfield Youth Wind Ensemble, Community Band, and taught the graduate wind conducting studio. While at MSU, he founded three nationally recognized events: the MSU Conducting Workshop, the Springfield Youth Wind Ensemble, and the Palen Concert Clinic for concert bands. The MSU Wind Ensemble received national attention with invited performances at the 2018 and 2022 CBDNA Southwestern Regional Conventions, the 2018 MMEA Conference, as well as performances at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, MO and the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, TX. The University Wind Symphony was selected and performed for the 2020 MMEA Conference and the Community Band was selected and performed at the MBA Summer Convention in 2021.
An advocate of music education and advancing the wind repertoire, Zastoupil has collaborated with composers such as James Stephenson, Kevin Day, Michael Daugherty, William Bolcolm, Augusta Read-Thomas, Stephen Gryc, Gunther Schuller, Scott McAllister, Paul Dooley, Scott Boerma and others. Since 2013, his online conducting course through Conn Selmer’s MusicProfessor platform has received worldwide recognition as a valuable resource for online conducting pedagogy. Since 2021, he works extensively with the Yamaha Corporation of America to assist in the education and outreach of the Harmony Director 300, helping band directors all over the globe incorporate this technology into their classrooms. Zastoupil regularly guest conducts professional and student honor ensembles throughout the United States and has conducted abroad in Europe and Asia.
Zastoupil’s professional experience includes having served as the Associate Director of Bands/Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Texas – Arlington and Eastern Michigan University, as well as brass staff faculty for the Santa Clara Vanguard DCI corps. Originally from Texas, Zastoupil holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Northwestern University where he was the L.K. Skornia endowed fellowship winner and was an adjunct instructor in the Bienen School of Music. He received his Master of Music degree in wind conducting from the University of Michigan, his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baylor University, and is a former student of the Aspen Music Festival and School.
Dr. Angela Batey is recognized as a prominent conductor, clinician, adjudicator and teacher whose wide variety of experience encompasses professional, university, high school, community and church choruses. Dr. Batey is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Music, Director of Choral Activities, and James Cox Professor of Music. She conducts the Chamber Singers and teaches conducting courses at the graduate levels. Dr. Batey is also Director of Music at Farragut Presbyterian Church.
She is a Past-President of the Tennessee American Choral Directors Association and is currently serving on the Executive Board of Southern Division ACDA. Batey has been Associate Conductor of Schola Cantorum of Florida, a professional chorus and Associate Music Director of the Florida Ambassadors of Music, and Festival Director of the International Cathedral Music Festival.
Dr. Batey has appeared as a clinician for the American Choral Directors Association, South Carolina Music Educators Association, Florida Vocal Association, East Tennessee Vocal Association, West Virginia Vocal Association, Georgia Vocal Association, and is a frequent adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor of choral festivals, honors choirs and educational workshops. Her concern for excellence in education is the focal point of her teaching career.
Dr. Batey holds two degrees from Birmingham-Southern College in Music Education and Musical Theatre, a master's degree from The Florida State University in Music Education and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting from the University of South Carolina. In addition, she has studied Conducting with Hugh Thomas, Joseph Flummerfelt, Robert Shaw, Colleen Kirk, Clayton Krehbiel, Andre Thomas, Don V Moses and Larry Wyatt.
Fuller Lyon serves as the Assistant Director of Wind Studies and Associate Director of the “Pride of the Southland” Marching Band at his alma mater, the University of Tennessee. His duties include working with the Pride of the Southland Marching Band, the Basketball Pep Band, conducting the UT Concert Band, and teaching courses in the Music Education area.
Prior to his return to Knoxville, Dr. Lyon served as the Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Missouri, assisting with Marching Mizzou, Mini Mizzou, conducting the Symphonic Band and University Band, teaching undergraduate conducting and marching band techniques, and coordinating all special events hosted by the MU Band program, including Band Day, Champion of Champions marching festival, and the Homecoming Parade competition. He also served as the tubist in the Mizzou Faculty Brass Quintet.
Dr. Lyon graduated with his DMA and Master’s degrees in Wind Conducting from LSU and his Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the University of Tennessee. As a Graduate Assistant at LSU, he conducted all three concert ensembles, the Bengal Brass Pep Band, assisted with the “Golden Band from Tigerland,” and served as a tubist in both the LSU Wind Ensemble and Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble. In addition to his Graduate Assistant duties, he served as the Assistant Conductor of the LSU Performing Arts Academy Youth Wind Ensemble for two years. Dr. Lyon has studied conducting with Donald McKinney, Carlos Riazuelo, Gary Sousa, and Don Ryder, and tuba with Joe Skillen, Robert Nunez, Joe Hebert, Sande MacMorran, and the late Neil Tidwell.
During his previous tenure at UT, he served as Drum Major of the “Pride of the Southland” Marching Band for two years (1998 and 1999) and earned both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Sport Management. After completing his Master’s degree in 2001, he spent the next seven years on staff with the UT Band program, and performing in both the Old City Brass Quintet and Southern Stars Symphonic Brass Band.
Dr. Lyon has been a drill designer for such groups as the LSU “Golden Band from Tigerland”, the Marching Mizzou, the University of Kentucky Wildcat Marching Band, Grand Valley State University, and the Tennessee “Pride of the Southland” Marching Band. The Madison Scout alumnus has been on the brass staffs of both the Cavaliers and the Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps.
Dr. Lyon is a member of the College Band Directors National Association, the National Band Association, the National Association for Music Education, the Tennessee Music Education Association, and is an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma.
Dr. Michael Stewart is an Associate Professor of Music and serves as the Associate Director of Wind Studies and Director of the "Pride of the Southland" Marching Band at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Beyond directing the marching band, Dr. Stewart conducts the UT Symphonic Band, Basketball Pep Bands, as well as teaching undergraduate courses in Music Education.
Dr. Stewart received his Bachelor of Music Education from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. His teaching career began within in the Delaware City School district (Delaware, Ohio) teaching music education to students from grades 5 through 12. Dr. Stewart received his masters and doctorate degrees from The Ohio State University where he served as the Graduate Assistant Director with the Marching Band and Teaching Assistant within the School of Music.
Dr. Stewart continues to actively serve as a clinician, adjudicator, drill writer, and guest conductor throughout the nation. Dr. Stewart is a member professional organizations such as the College Band Directors Association, National Band Association, East Tennessee School Band & Orchestra Association, National Association for Music Education, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma (honorary), and Phi Mu Alpha (honorary).
Katie Johnson-Webb is the Associate Professor of Horn at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She excels as a flexible, thoughtful, and active performer of solo repertoire, chamber music, and orchestral literature. Katie frequently performs with the Knoxville Symphony and other regional ensembles. In past years, Katie was selected to perform with the Aspen Summer Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado, the Kent/Blossom Music Festival in Kent, Ohio, and the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado.
Katie has been heard in recital at the 2018 International Horn Symposium at Ball State University, the 2016 International Horn Symposium at Ithaca College, and the 2015 International Horn Symposium at the Colburn School. Additionally, Katie has given recitals and masterclasses at universities across the United States and Canada. In May 2020, Katie released her first CD, La Loba, on the Summit Brass label with pianist, Kirstin Ihde. La Loba received the third prize award in the American Prize Competition and third prize in the Ernst Bacon Award for American Music Competition.
As an active chamber musician, Katie is a member of the Tennessee Brass Quintet and a founding member of the Cobalt Horn Quartet, winners of the 2018 International Horn Society Horn Quartet Competition – Professional Division.
Katie completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012 under the direction of Professor Emeritus Douglas Hill and Professor Daniel Grabois. While completing the Master of Music degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she worked closely with Professor Douglas Hill as a Bolz Fellow. In 2018, she was awarded a grant from the American Scandinavian Foundation to collaborate with Norwegian hornist and pedagogue, Frøydis Ree Wekre in Oslo, Norway. Katie completed her undergraduate studies in music and political science at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Alex van Duuren is a dynamic and versatile trombonist currently serving as Associate Professor of Trombone at the University of Tennessee. Dr. van Duuren has performed with a variety of professional ensembles including the Knoxville Symphony and Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, the Nashville Recording Orchestra, Greenville Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Symphony Augusta, and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Sonora. He is a member of the Quintasonic Brass Quintet with colleagues Vince DiMartino, Jason Dovel, Matthew Haislip, and Alexander Lapins. In addition to his activities on trombone, Dr. van Duuren still performs on his original instrument, serving as a piano accompanist for professional recording sessions as well as for his students and guest artists at the University of Tennessee.
In addition to maintaining a highly active performing schedule, Dr. van Duuren also enjoys an active career in the recording studio, playing trombone and bass trombone on the 2020 film The Wolf of Snow Hollow, appearing with the American Chamber Winds on Radix Tyrannis and Live at WASBE (Mark Custom Records), as well as producing La Loba, a solo album released by Dr. Katie Johnson-Webb on Summit Records. His own solo album, Vocalizations, can be heard on most streaming services including Spotify and Amazon Music.
Dr. van Duuren completed his doctorate at the University of Arizona under the instructor of Moisés Paiewonsky. In addition, he completed a doctoral minor in Entrepreneurship with Eller College of Management, which he received while participating in the nationally renowned McGuire Entrepreneurship Program. Dr. van Duuren was honored with the 2018 Governor’s School for the Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award.
* = principal
Flute
Whitney Applewhite*
Parrel Appolis
Andrea Byrd
Allan Cook
Kaylei Malone
Oboe
Nathan Ebbs
Jada Laws
Jessie Wilson*
Bassoon
Ava Kroepler
Austin Hill
Contra Bassoon
James Carnal
Clarinet
Anna Hutchinson
Alberto Martinez*
Noah Melvin
Bryce Neely
Lillian Smith
Troy Weatherford
Joshua Zhou
Bass Clarinet
Emily Ayers
Meredith Williams
Saxophone
Sean Keenan (tenor)
Matthew Rhoten* (alto)
Brooklynn Williams (alto)
Benjamin Strobel (bari)
Horn
Rose Capooth
Caleb DeLong
Nichole Hollenbeck
Aaron O’Donnell
James Roddy*
Trumpet
Nathan Coffman
Micah Ireland
Lexy Kilgore*
Thomas Mika
Philip Troutman
Carver Whitson
Tenor Trombone
Alex Boone
Hugh Lindsay*
Jacob Noel
Jarod Schafer
Bass Trombone
Chandler DeArmond
Elijah Hoffmann
Euphonium
Stephanie Hensley
Brett Rodgers
Amy Smith
Tuba
Jonathan Bradshaw
AJ Johnson*
Cameron McKenzie
Percussion
Tyler Delaney
Eli Garcia
Trik Gass
Grant Gordon
Caleb Hupp*
Julia Larcoque
Luke Lawley
Piano
Lily Witemeyer
Double Bass
Will Ross
Harp
Marissa Purnell
Jacob Altrock, Deven Asbell, Nora Beckett, Hannah Casman, Alec Daugherty, Jacob Engle, Amanda Fintak, Carolyn Gahan, Ben Gouffon, Arnashia Gray, Kyra Green, Jackson Guthrie, Hunter Hawthorne, Emma Howard, Jantson Hundley, Sarah Kitts, Alexa Ligons, Mikayla Maldonado, Kallen Miller, Sherleen Mwaura, Anna Owens, Amara Pappas, Jasmin Power, Seth Reynolds, Jack Rosamond, Solomon Sharp, Evelyn Spencer, Matt Stanley, Luke Tresner, Grace Warnock, Waverly Watkins, Rhiane West, Wyley Wilkin, Logan Williams, Blaise Wolfe, Teyah Young, Ameila Zahn
Dr. Maria Fernanda Castillo, flute
Dr. Victor Chavez, clarinet
Phylis Secrist, oboe
Zach Millwood, bassoon
Dr. Allison Adams, saxophone
Dr. Arthur Zanin, trumpet
Dr. Katie Johnson-Webb, horn
Dr. Alex van Duuren, trombone
Dr. Alex Lapins, euphonium/tuba
Dr. Andrew Bliss, percussion
Dr. Michael Stewart, Associate Director of Wind Studies, Director of Athletic Bands
Dr. Fuller Lyon, Assistant Director of Wind Studies, Assoc. Director of Athletic Bands
February 23, 2023
Symphonic and Concert Bands
February 28, 2023
Wind Ensemble
April 25, 2023
Wind Ensemble and Dobyns-Bennett HS Wind Ensemble
April 27, 2023
Symphonic and Concert Bands
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