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from Chris Jones
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High School
All CountyConcert: January 26, 2008, 5:00 PM
Festival Site - Warwick Valley High School Site Chairperson - Keely Gould
Festival Weekend - January 25-26, 2008 (Fri, Sat) (snow date - February 1-2)
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Vocal Auditions: Tuesday, October 23 |
Instrumental Auditions: Thursday, October 25 |
| Minisink Valley High School | Pine Bush High School |
| Vic Izzo - Chair | Ralph Wagner - Chair |
Audition Information
Measures #31 (page 6) - stop on measure #46 on the world night (3 beats)
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Band Chair- Mike Pacer (PJ) Conductor -Dr. John Laverty, Syracuse |
Chorus Chair - Vic Izzo (MV) Conductor -Dawn Becker, Wallkill HS |
Orchestra Chair - Bonnie Glazier (MW) Conductor - Jonathan Handman |
 DR. JOHN LAVERTY, ALL-COUNTY BAND John M. Laverty, Professor of Music, joined the faculty of Syracuse University in 1995 as Director of Bands where he conducts the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting. He also serves as chair of Wind and Percussion Studies. A native of Winchester, Kentucky, he has held faculty positions at the University of Texas, the University of Florida, and McMurry University, and holds degrees from the University of Kentucky and Florida State University. A versatile musician, he has performed at state, regional, national, and international music festivals including the College Band Directors National Association, The World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the Syracuse Jazz Festival, the Notre Dame Jazz Festival, and the Mobile Jazz Festival. As a trumpet player, he has performed internationally with numerous professional orchestras and bands including the American Chamber Winds, the Abilene Philharmonic, the New Columbian Brass Band, the national touring company of The Producers, the Excelsior Cornet Band, and with Grammy and Tony award winners in both the classical and jazz arenas. He has performed in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Caribbean, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Scotland, Singapore, Sweden and throughout the United States. As a recording producer, he is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences with over thirty recordings to his credit. He has recorded with acclaimed musicians such as Andy Russo, Corey Cerovsek, Ursula Oppens, Vince DiMartino, Rob Parton, Scott Hartman, and John Daniel to name a few. In 2006, pianist Andy Russo's Corigliano Violin Sonata Etude Fantasy received a Grammy nomination in the Best Chamber Music Performance category, available on the Black Box label. Other credits include Boston Brass' Ya' Gotta Try (Summit Records), a collaboration with jazz recording legend Rudy Van Gelder. His most recent recording with the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble is The Trumpet Concertos of Karel Husa (Mark Records). His other recordings are available from JVC-Victor, Centaur, Gazebo, Raven, and Endeavour Classics labels. Many of these recordings are available from Apple's iTunes Store. An accomplished arranger, his works have been performed throughout the United States by high school, collegiate and professional bands including "The President's Own" United States Marine Band, the Millennium Brass Quintet, The Excelsior Cornet Band, the Allentown Band, and by renowned soloists such as NYPD tenor Daniel Rodriguez, Karl Leister (principal clarinet, Berlin Philharmonic) and Frank Kaderabek (principal trumpet, Philadelphia Orchestra). |
| DAWN BECKER,
ALL-COUNTY
CHORUS
Dawn Becker received her Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Ithaca College and her Master of Music in Music Education from the University of Hartford Hartt School of Music. She has worked with renowned conductors and composers such as Weston Noble, Alice Parker, Donald Neuen, Janet Galvan and James Mulholland. Her professional affiliations include the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), the New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) and the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). Miss Becker has served as an All-County Chorus judge for the Orange County Music Educators Association many times, as well as having been a NYSSMA solo judge. She has been a group chairperson for Ulster County All-County Chorus and the Zone 9 Area All-State Mixed and Women's Choruses. Miss Becker is currently the Director of Choirs at Wallkill Senior High School in Wallkill, New York. Her major ensembles have received numerous Gold and Gold with Distinction awards at the NYSSMA Major Ensembles Evaluation Festival during her 12 years there. The Mixed Choir has been awarded the Most Outstanding Mixed Choir Trophy (twice) and the Women's Choir has been awarded the Best Overall Choir Trophy (twice) at the Festivals of Music Competition |
| JONATHAN
HANDMAN, ALL-COUNTY
ORCHESTRA
Jonathan Handman is in his fourth year as the Orchestra Director at Arlington High School in Poughkeepsie, NY, where he is the conductor of two symphony orchestras. Prior to teaching in Arlington, he spent 7 years as an Orchestra Director for the Spackenkill Union Free School District. During Jonathan’s tenure in Spackenkill, the 3-12 string program grew from 75 students to over 250. In 2000, his 7th and 8th grade String Ensemble from O.A. Todd Middle School was an invited performing ensemble at the NYSSMA Winter Conference. At the high school level, his string ensemble received 2 level VI gold with distinction ratings at NYSSMA Majors. Jonathan is also a co-director/founder of Stringendo, Orchestra School of the Hudson Valley and Summer Strings Music Camp. The orchestra program, founded in the fall of 2001, is a youth orchestra program of over 200 students ages 7 to 18 and 6 orchestras dedicated to the growth and development of string playing in the Hudson Valley. Stringendo’s most advanced orchestra, Vivace was a featured performing ensemble at the NYSSMA Winter Conference in 2002 and at the Music Educators National Conference in Minnesota during April of 2004. Summer Strings began in 1998 and is a day camp that explores the diversity and excitement of fiddle and orchestra playing. This camp runs in Poughkeepsie, NY for 3 week long sessions and registers over 350 students each summer. Mr. Handman has conducted for American Music Abroad Tours, numerous regional Orchestras, and has been the faculty and high school orchestra director at the NY-ASTA String Camp in Ithaca, NY. He spent a 6 month residence in La Paz, Bolivia as a cellist in the Arka-Ira String Quartet, The Bolivian National Symphony, and Professor of Cello at the Bolivian National Conservatory. He has performed as both a cellist and trombonist with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and in November of 2002, he was Oberlin Conservatory’s invited guest speaker representing the decade of the 1990’s, celebrating its 100th year anniversary of Music Education. Jonathan’s studies include The Eastman School of Music (Trombone performance), The Oberlin Conservatory (B.A. in Music Education, Cello) and an M.A in orchestral conducting from SUNY Fredonia.
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All County
Jazz FestivalPre-rehearsal at Minisink Valley Middle School - 2/5/08 (4-6:30 PM) (snow date -2/7/08)
| Jazz Auditions Chairperson - Chris Persad |
| JH Jazz Chair- Don Franklin - MW HS Jazz Chair - Frank Petrocelli - MW |
County Music Faculty Jazz Ensemble will be performing on the program.
The
story of jazz saxophonist Todd Williams is truly one of a kind. He grew up in
Saint Louis, playing in the University City High School Jazz Band during the
early 1980s. This excellent youth band traveled to various national
competitions, racking up honors, with Williams repeatedly winning “most
outstanding soloist.” Their Cinderella story grew in popularity and in 1983 they
were invited to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Thanks to generous
hometown fund-raising, it snowballed into a tour of several major European
cities. The local PBS station even sent along a camera crew to film a
feature-length documentary.
At barely 20 years old, he was invited to join Wynton Marsalis’ band. He spent six years in Wynton’s quintet, sextet and septet, during which time they recorded such classics as the Soul Gestures In Southern Blue trilogy, Blue Interlude, Citi Movement (the soundtrack to a bold new ballet,) In This House On This Morning, as well as two Marcus Roberts sessions. Wynton documented these years in the book Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life, wherein Williams was nicknamed "Deacon" for his outspoken Christianity. Wynton wrote that Todd's parents cook the best barbecue in the world, a hefty claim from a New Orleans native who has eaten practically everywhere as a VIP. Of course, Todd whole-heartedly backs this claim.
As a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Williams made many more recordings and earned greater recognition for his solos on Duke Ellington’s “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue” on their first national tour. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and graduated with honors from the Manhattan School of Music. He took Jimmy Heath’s place as visiting assistant professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music for three years. He also taught as assistant professor at Queens College, right across the street from Louis Armstrong’s historic home. As a composer, he has won four annual ASCAP Special Awards.
 Junior High School - Tim Savage Crane Youth Music, Canton Central Schools |
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All County Jazz Ensemble Festival 2008 Slide Show
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Windows Media Player All County High School Jazz Ensemble |
Junior High All
County FestivalConcert: April 12, 2008
Festival Site: Valley Central High School Auditorium - Concert 3:00 PM
Audition Information
Auditions: February 9, 2008, (Fri.) Circleville MS - Jennifer Wagner - Snow Date - February 12-13 (Tues.-Wed.)
Chorus - "D" Audition List Band and Orchestra - "A" Audition List
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Band Chair Nicole Regan - MW |
Chorus Chair Laura Magee - VC |
Orchestra Chair Jennifer Santacroce - VC |
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Scott J. Dunn is currently in his first
year directing the Baldwin High School Symphonic Band. He comes to
Baldwin following four years as the Associate Director of Bands in the Herricks Public Schools, and one year teaching in the Commack Public
Schools. Mr. Dunn founded and directed the Herricks Middle School Wind
Ensemble, consistently receiving the highest
ratings at NYSSMA Major Organization Festivals with both his high school
and middle school bands. In addition to his public school duties, he
serves as the Associate Conductor of the Long Island Youth Orchestra,
and as an Artist in Residence for Nassau Suffolk Performing Arts. Scott
earned his BM in Music Education from Rutgers University and his MM in
Trombone and Wind Conducting from the Cincinnati Conservator. As a
trombonist, he has performed with the Cincinnati Symphony and Opera
Orchestras, the Richmond
(IN), West Virginia and Kentucky Symphonies, and the Aspen Chamber
Symphony. During the summer of 2006, Mr. Dunn led the Concert Band and
Wind Ensemble in successful performances at the Eastern US Music Camp at
Colgate
University. Last March, Scott served as guest conductor for the Suffolk
County (East) Division II Band, and will return to the East End to
conduct two more honor bands this winter. This past summer, Scott
conducted the Long Island Youth Orchestra on their summer tour in
Greece, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Georgia and Turkey. He lives in Kew Gardens with his wife,
flutist Patricia Blackman Dunn. |
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Alvera T. Sylvester studied piano with concert pianist Robert Guralnik and went to graduate from SUNY Fredonia with a major in music and a minor in theatre. After her grad work was completed, she continued her training in NY with such teachers as Phil Black and Frank Hatchett in dance, Shep Colman in conducting and Ron DeFesi in voice. She teaches HS. Choral/Dance at Port Jervis High School and directs their Spring Musical. Alvera has been heard on the radio with her own classical radio program called Sunday Symphony. She has conducted various All-County Choirs in Sullivan, Orange and Ulster Counties, the Zone 5 Area All-State Woman's Choir, and has spent several summers on the staff of the Eastern Music Camp at Colgate as the guest conductor for their vocal performing groups. She worked two season in NYC for an off-Broadway theatre company called Tada! and has locally directed or performed with such companies as Presby, Forestburgh, DVO, OCMTE and Creative Theatre Group. In 2002, she traveled to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music to assist in China's first University Theatre program in its' history. |
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Richard F. Regan, the Artistic Director of the Orange County Music Educators' Wind Ensemble, currently teaches instrumental music at Monroe-Woodbury High School, Central Valley, NY. His responsibilities include teaching brass and percussion lessons and directing the Freshman Band, Chamber Winds, and Wind Ensemble. The Wind Ensemble has consistently earned Level VI Gold with Distinction ratings at NYSSMA Majors festivals since he joined the Monroe-Woodbury faculty in the fall of 1997. His Chamber Winds was selected to perform at the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center Young Artists Program in Alice Tully Hall and also appeared on the National Public Radio broadcast series “From the Top”.
Rick has served on the brass and band faculty at the Crane School of Music Summer Youth Program and makes numerous guest-conducting appearances at county and regional festivals throughout the state.
In addition to his conducting obligations, Rick enjoys an active schedule as a professional trombonist and brass clinician in the New York Metropolitan Region and currently holds the principal trombone desk in the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Rick received his Masters in Trombone Performance from the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida; and his Bachelors in Music Education with a performers certificate in Trombone from The Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY.
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Elementary
All County FestivalFestival Site: NFA ( Newburgh Free Academy)
Audition Information
Audition Date: January 19, 2008 - Seward Academy (Florida) - Tina Krawcyk
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Band Chair Peter Head - T/Tina Krawcyk - F |
Chorus Chair Jeremy Groth/Mark Brown - W |
Orchestra Chair Analise Reed/Eleanor Allen - N
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Friday Rehearsal - 4 - 6:30 PM
Saturday Rehearsal - 9 - 12 PM
Split Concert - 1:30 PM - Chorus (band and orchestra will watch)
2:30 PM - Orchestra and Band
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Matthew
Sisia
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Chorus - Karen Gagliardi
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Orchestra - Marissa Cooper
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Matthew Sisia is currently in his fifth year as Director of Bands at Oyster Bay High School where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band and coordinates the chamber music program. Mr. Sisia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music and a Master’s degree in Wind Conducting from The Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Sisia has studied conducting with Dennis Glocke, Timothy Topolewski, Jerry Junkin, Glen Adsit and Ray Cramer, and his saxophone teachers include Timothy McAllister and Carrie Koffman. In addition to his role as Associate Conductor at Long Island University’s C.W. Post campus, Mr. Sisia is the founder and director of the New York Chamber Ensemble; a group of professional musicians from the New York Metropolitan area that have come together to help spread chamber music to the public schools of New York. An advocate for new music, Mr. Sisia has received praise for his conducting from several of today’s leading composers including Samuel Adler, Thomas Duffy and Frank Ticheli. Mr. Sisia is a member of the College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, Nassau Music Educators Association, and serves on the executive board of the New York State Band Directors Association.
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Karen Gagliardi currently teaches General Music
and is the Choral Director at Smith Middle School in the Solanco School
District, southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Her choirs and
special vocal ensembles have earned over 25 awards for Superior Middle
School Performances in multiple festivals in recent years. The Smith
vocal groups have performed in Boston, at Riverside Church in New York
City, at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, and at the Kennedy Center and
the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The vocal groups are in high demand for
community service and outreach performances, including singing the
National Anthem at the Lancaster Barnstormers minor league baseball
team’s games.
Mrs. Gagliardi earned her Bachelors of Music in Education degree from the University of Maine and her Masters in Music Education from VanderCook College of Music in Chicago. She has taught at Brunswick Junior High School in Brunswick, Maine; the Walwourth Barbour American International School in Israel; and in the Tuxedo Union Free School District here in Orange County, New York. Her past festival work includes the Maine District IV Junior High School Honors Choir, the Dutchess County (NY) Elementary All-County Choir, and the Orange County (NY) Elementary All-County Choir. Mrs. Gagliardi lives in Willow Street, Pennsylvania, with her husband Joe, a big-band jazz trumpet player; her older daughter Jill, an accomplished clarinetist and pianist; and younger daughter Rachel, a percussionist and reserve champion rodeo cowgirl. |
Marissa Cooper is currently the orchestra director at Spackenkill High School in Poughkeepsie, NY. Ms. Cooper also teaches music at Todd Middle School. She graduated from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, studying music education, violin, and conducting. Her principal violin teachers are Joey Corpus and Milan Vitek. Her conducting mentors are Sandra Dackow, Steven Smith, and Harold Farberman. She is originally from Passaic County, NJ. When she is not practicing or teaching, Ms.Cooper enjoys reading, traveling, and gardening. |
