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Orange County Music Educators'

 Wind Ensemble

2007-2008 - 18th Season

The Orange County Music Educator's Wind Ensemble, established in 1989, is a non profit organization of dedicated music educators who enjoy preparing and performing great wind ensemble literature for our community. Concerts are given three times a year. Our Artistic Director is Richard Regan.

Orange County Music Educators'

Wind Ensemble

Contact Information
O.C.M.E.A. Wind Ensemble – Steve Austin c/o
Middletown High School

Gardner Avenue Extension

Middletown, NY

845-321-0638, 

 mhsbandboy@hotmail.com

Upcoming Concerts

Tuxedo Performing Arts Group

March 8, 2008 Concert

George F. Baker High School

 7:00 PM

Saturday

 Tuxedo Park, NY

Directions

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Contributions

Artistic Director

Richard F. Regan, our Artistic Director, 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.

Executive Director

Steve Austin, our Executive Director, currently is the High School Band Director at Middletown High School.

Steve is also past President of O.C.M.E.A. Ashley Head is our Personnel Director ,Warwick Valley CSD
email: headashley@gmail.com

Executive Director Emeritus

We would like to thank Don Franklin for his many years of service to OCMEA and the Wind Ensemble.

Don was past Executive Director of the Wind Ensemble and one of the people responsible for it's creation.

Don currently teaches instrumental music at Monroe-Woodbury Middle School and is President-Emeritus of O.C.M.E.A and President of the New York State Band Directors' Association. Bravo!

Past Concerts

December 8, 2007

7:00 PM

Monroe-Woodbury High School

155 Dunderberg Rd
Central Valley, NY 10917

 Program

 Overture to Candide by Bernstein/Beeler

 Blessed are They from Brahm's German Requiem
March of the Belgian Paratroopers by Leemans

Blue Shades by Ticheli

Featuring Bands from:

Central Valley Elementary School

Monroe-Woodbury High School Wind Ensemble
 

Conductor

Richard Regan

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Washingtonville Middle School

7:30 PM

Richard Regan - Conductor

Divertimento by Persichetti
October by Eric Whitacre
Children's March by Grainger
Folk Dances by Shostakovich
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral by Wagner

Spring Concert

April 21, 2007

7:30 PM

C.J. Hooker Middle School

Goshen, NY

Program

Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger
Candide Suite - Bernstein/Grundman
Al Fresco  - Karel Husa
Dances from Crete - Adam Gorb
Folk Festival - Shostakovich

Guest Conductor

Dr. John Laverty
Director of Bands - Syracuse University

John M. Laverty, Professor of Music, joined the faculty of Syracuse University in 1995 as Director of Bands, also having served as chair of Wind and Percussion studies for nine years and as Director of the Syracuse University School of Music. He conducts the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting. A native of Winchester Kentucky, he has held faculty positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Florida and McMurry University. He 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 Syracuse Symphony, the Abilene Philharmonic, the New Columbian Brass Band, the Advocate Brass 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, Sweden and throughout the United States.

As a recording producer, he is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammy organization). He worked with jazz recording legend Rudy Van Gelder and Boston Brass on the 2000 Summit Records release "Ya’ Gotta Try." His most recent recording with the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble was the critically acclaimed Music for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble featuring Vince DiMartino. His other recordings are available from Mark Records, JVC-Victor, Summit Records, with upcoming releases on the Centaur and Gazebo Labels.

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, Boston Brass, the Allentown Band and by NYPD tenor Daniel Rodriguez

Winter Concert

December 9, 2006

Saturday

7:30 PM

Richard Regan, Conductor

Pine Bush High School

Program:

Pine Bush High School Wind Ensemble

Fall Concert

September 16, 2006

Program:

Festive Overture Opus 96 - Dmitri Shostakovich/Donald Hunsberger

The Solitary Dance - Warren Benson

A Movement for Rosa - Mark Camphouse

Shepherd's Hey - Percy Grainger/Mark Rogers

Puszta - Jan Van der Roost

Winter Concert - March 18, 2006

Concert Site: Washingtonville High School

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Conductor: Dr. James W. McRoy -

Director of Bands at Long Island University~C.W. Post Campus;President of NYS Band Directors Association,

NYS Chair of College Band Directors National Association, NYS Chair of National Band Association. 

PROGRAM

Overture to La Forza del Destino (Verdi/Rogers)
Psalm for Band (Persichetti)
Yiddish Dances (Gorb)
March, Op.99 (Prokofiev)
With Heart and Voice (Gillingham

Wind Ensemble at NYSSMA Conference

Rochester, NY

Holiday Concert - Sunday, December 11, 2005

Richard Regan, Conductor

Featuring local Elementary, Middle & High School Band Members: George Grant Mason School (Tuxedo) 5th and 6th Grade Band, Mr. Peter Head, Director Monroe-Woodbury Middle School Symphonic Band, Mrs. Nicole Regan, Director Washingtonville High School Wind Ensemble, Mr. Ari Contzius, Director
 

Program - Courtly Airs and Dances (Nelson),  Lincolnshire Posy (Grainger) and Russian Christmas Music (Reed)

  Conductor for March 2005 Concert-  Dr. Glen Adsit, 

Pacific Fanfare by Frank Ticheli

Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughn Williams

Chant Funeraire by Gabriel Faure

Masquarade Variations by Steve Gryc

Galop by Dimitri Shostakovich

Artistic Director/Conductor - Richard Regan, of Monroe-Woodbury High School

Winter 2004 Program

Shortcut Home by Dana Wilson

Ghost Train by Eric Whittacre

Southern Harmony (1^st. 3 mvts.) by Grantham

Armenian Dances by Alfred Reed

Fall 2004 Program

O.C.M.E.A Wind Ensemble Personnel

(from present & past performances)

 

Biography: Glen Adsit is the director of bands at The Hartt School where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, Contemporary Players Ensemble and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting. Prior to his appointment at The Hartt School, he was the associate director of bands at the University of New Mexico. While in New Mexico he conducted the University of New Mexico Wind Symphony on the College Band Directors regional and national conventions. He was an associate producer for the recently released compact disc entitled Fandango featuring the University of New Mexico Wind Symphony and soloists Phil Smith and Joseph Allessi from the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Adsit’s professional conducting includes a series of concerts with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, a Hartford Symphony pops concert at Talcott Mountain and recently, members of the Hartford Symphony in Dance Connecticut’s production of the Nutcracker. Glen also conducted the University of Michigan All-State Intermediate Orchestra for seven years at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan. Prior to his university appointments, he taught for seven years in the Michigan public schools at both the junior high and high school levels. Under his direction, the Plymouth Centennial Marching Band was a two-time Bands of America Grand National Champion. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education and trombone performance and a master’s degree in wind conducting, both from the University of Michigan.

November 14/15, 2003 - Monroe Woodbury Middle School The 14th Season 2003/2004 PERFORMANCE SEASON Conductor -  Dr. Glen Adsit,  of the Hartt School of Music, at the University of Hartford Program Grainger: Molly on the Shore Holst: Suite in Eb Hesketh: Masque Agapkin: A Slavic Farewell Puccini: Tosca Fantasy – saxophone soloist will be Carrie Koffman, saxophone professor at Hartt Laudison: Magnum Mysterium –

Conductor: Conrad Kushay  Concert: Saturday, November 16, 2002 7:30 PM  Washingtonville Middle School, Washingtonville, NY  Program          EL CAPITAN             ROYCE HALL SUITE             PRELUDE, FUGUE, RONDO             TRIBUTE TO JEROME KERN             SYMPHONIC DANCE#3 "FIESTA"             PERPETUAL MOTION             SONGS OF SAILOR AND SEA             FOUR COLONIAL COUNTRY DANCES             DEVIL'S DREAM

February 2002 rehearsal (combined Wind Ensemble & students)

Concert November 4, 2001 Variants on a Mediaeval Tune - Norman Dello Joio America, The Beautiful - Samuel Augustus Ward, Arranged by Carmen Dragon Early Light - Carolyn Bremer The Stars and Stripes Forever - John P. Souza Arranged Brion/Schissel La Fiesta Mexicana - H. Own Reed Intermezzo from the Opera "Vanessa" - Samuel Barber Arranged by Walter Beeler

Dr. Michael Schaff - guest conductor

State University College at Potsdam

Crane School of Music

MICHAEL SCHAFF (Chair of Music Education) has been a faculty member at Crane since 1997 and conducts the Crane Concert Band and teaches conducting and music education courses. He is currently the Director of General Education for SUNY Potsdam. Additional conducting assignments have included the Crane Spring 1999 opera production, Puccini’s La Boheme and the faculty new music ensemble NUMA. Dr. Schaff holds degrees in music education, horn performance and wind conducting from Ohio State University, The University of Texas at Austin and Indiana University respectively. He previously taught public school music in Texas for six years and was on the faculty at Colorado State University where he was Director of Bands and Instructor of Horn for four years.

This concert was held at the Washingtonville Middle School  
Dr. Michael Schaff guest conductor 2001-2002 Season

Our Conductor for November 1998 Concert
Dr. Peter Loel Boonshaft, Hofstra University
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Past Conductors of O.C.M.E.A Wind Ensemble: Left to Right -

Al Smukala, Jeffrey Gershman, Vic Izzo II, Porter Eidam and Curt Ebersole