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About the Conductors

Brent Wallarab is David N. Baker Professor of Jazz Studies and associate professor of music in jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Since 1991, he has been lead trombonist with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the jazz orchestra in residence at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. As lead trombonist, he specializes in recreating the entire spectrum of jazz brass styles. In 1992, Wallarab was appointed specialist in jazz for the Smithsonian Institution and serves as transcriber, researcher, editor, and advisor for the Smithsonian’s extensive jazz program. Wallarab has transcribed and edited more than 300 masterworks for jazz orchestra and is considered one of the leading authorities on historical composition for jazz orchestras, such as those of Duke Ellington, Sy Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, and Gil Evans. Wallarab has been instrumental in identifying and cataloguing many pieces from the Ellington archives housed at the Smithsonian Institution.

Kyle Cantrell is a musician and music educator based in Indianapolis. Cantrell earned dual degrees in music education and jazz saxophone from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where they studied under Greg Ward and Tom Walsh. During their time at IU, Cantrell performed with the Plummer Jazz Group and as lead alto in the Brent Wallarab Jazz Ensemble, strengthening their skills in composition, arranging, performance, and leadership. Cantrell now serves as the assistant director and director of jazz at New Palestine High School and Jr. High, teaching students in grades 7-12. Cantrell is dedicated to educating the next generation about jazz and believes it’s important that people of all backgrounds support this art form, not only those studying it professionally. Alongside teaching, Cantrell is an active musician who gigs frequently around Indiana on saxophone and upright bass and plans to release their first album as a bandleader later this spring.

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Repertoire
W. A. Mozart: Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro (1786)
Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem (1936)

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Repertoire
M. Watkins: Five Movements in Color (1993)
W. A. Mozart: Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major, K.271 (Jeunehomme)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 (1887)

Piano soloist to be announced

About the Conductor

American conductor Mélisse Brunet, a native of Paris, France, is quickly gaining attention on both sides of that Atlantic as a skilled and polished conductor with panache (ClevelandClassical.com). She is music director of the Lexington Philharmonic (the first woman to hold the position) and of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. Brunet is one of the five conductors featured in Maggie Contreras’s Tribeca Audience Award-winning documentary Maestra. Last season, she conducted the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, Orchestre National Avignon Provence (France), and University of Illinois orchestra, while promoting Maestra in various festivals. A dynamic advocate of contemporary music, Brunet has collaborated with such composers as Shawn Okpebholo, Mary D. Watkins, T. J. Cole, Steven Stucky, Michael Daugherty, Shulamit Ran, James Barry, Loren Loiacono, and Jennifer Higdon, among others. As an opera and music-theater conductor, Brunet has conducted Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief, Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, and Verdi’s La Traviata. As a pops conductor, Brunet has programmed concerts for holiday pops, Independence Day, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, and other thematic concerts, performing indoors and out for up to 6,000 people. She also conducted orchestras for live movie projections. A respected educator in both France and the United States, Brunet recently served as the first woman director of Orchestral Studies at the University of Iowa-School of Music, where she conducted symphonic concerts, operas, and musical theater. In addition, she headed the orchestral conducting program at the master’s and doctoral levels, from which her students won major positions. Brunet began her studies on the cello, later learning trumpet, horn, and piano. She holds six diplomas from the Paris Conservatory and a professional studies diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music. She earned a bachelor’s degree in music from the Sorbonne and a doctorate in conducting from the University of Michigan.

About the Artist

Violinist James Ehnes is professor of practice in violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. A Grammy Award winner, Ehnes has established himself as one of the most sought-after musicians on the international stage as a concert soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Manitoba, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, where he is a visiting professor. Ehnes has been artist-in-residence with the National Arts Centre of Canada and artistic partner with Artis–Naples. He is also leader of the Ehnes Quartet and has been artistic director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society since 2012. Recent highlights include appearances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. Ehnes has an extensive discography and has won many awards for his recordings, including two Grammys, three Gramophone Awards and 11 Juno Awards. In 2021, he was announced as the recipient of the coveted Artist of the Year title in the 2021 Gramophone Awards, which celebrated his recent contributions to the recording industry, including the online recital series Recitals from Home, released in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent closure of concert halls. The recordings were met with critical acclaim worldwide, and Ehnes was described by Canada’s Le Devoir newspaper as being at the absolute forefront of the streaming evolution. Ehnes began violin studies at age five, became a protégé of the noted Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin at age nine, and made his orchestra debut with L’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal at age 13. He continued his studies with Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School of Music and The Juilliard School, winning the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music upon his graduation in 1997. Ehnes plays the Marsick Stradivarius of 1715.

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Repertoire
Felipe Lara: Mosaic Maze (2024)
Eugene O’Brien: In the Country of Last Things (1998)

About the Director/Conductor

David Dzubay‘s compositions have been performed in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Asia by the symphony orchestras of Aspen, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Guangxi, Guiyang, Honolulu, Kansas City, Louisville, Memphis, Minnesota, Oregon, Oakland, St. Louis and Vancouver; the American Composers Orchestra, National Symphonies of Ireland and Mexico, New World Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, and New York Youth Symphony; and ensembles including the Grossman Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Onix, Manhattan and St. Louis Brass Quintets, Voices of Change, the Alexander, Orion and Pacifica string quartets, the League/ISCM, Earplay, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. His music has been championed by conductors including James DePreist, George Hanson, Keith Lockhart, David Loebel, Michael Morgan, Eiji Oue, Richard Pittman, Iván del Prado, Mark Russell Smith, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Michael Stern, Carl Topilow, David Wiley, Kirk Trevor, Thomas Wilkins, and David Zinman. Honors include two Fromm Music Foundation commissions; Guggenheim, MacDowell, Yaddo, Copland House, and Djerassi fellowships; the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition, Utah Arts Festival Commission, William Revelli and Walter Beeler Memorial Prizes, Wayne Peterson Prize; and grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music for two portrait CDs. Currently professor of music and director of the New Music Ensemble at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Dzubay was previously on the faculty of the University of North Texas in Denton. Since 2011, he has taught composition for three weeks each summer at the Brevard Music Center. From 1995 to 1998, he served as composer-consultant to the Minnesota Orchestra and during the 2005-06 season, he was Meet the Composer/American Symphony Orchestra League Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. Dzubay has conducted at the Tanglewood, Aspen, and June in Buffalo festivals as well as the National Symphony of Columbia, Grossman Ensemble, League of Composers Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Music from China, and Voices of Change.

Felipe Lara‘s appearance is made possible in part by the Five Friends Master Class Series (honoring Robert Samels).

Five Friends Master Class Series – Honoring Robert Samels

The Five Friends Master Class Series honoring the lives of five talented Jacobs School of Music students—Chris Carducci, Garth Eppley, Georgina Joshi, Zachary Novak, and Robert Samels—was established in 2012 with a gift of $1 million from the Georgina Joshi Foundation, Inc. This annual series of lectures, master classes, and residencies by a number of the world’s leading musicians and teachers focuses on areas of interest most relevant to the lives of the five friends—voice performance, choral conducting, early music, music theory, composition, and opera. The Georgina Joshi Foundation was established in 2007 as the vision of Georgina Joshi’s mother, Louise Addicott-Joshi, to provide educational and career development opportunities for young musicians and to encourage and support public performance of music. The gift to the school establishes a permanent way for the world to learn about each of the five friends, their musical talents and passions, and to encourage the development of similar talents and passions in current and future music students. The establishment of this endowment by the families is administered by the IU Foundation.

Bass-baritone and composer Robert Samels was born on June 2, 1981, and died in a plane crash on April 20, 2006. He was a doctoral student in choral conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and had studied voice with Giorgio Tozzi and Costanza Cuccaro. He began his vocal studies with Alfred Anderson at the University of Akron and Andreas Poulimenos at Bowling Green State University. Samels had recently appeared as Mr. Gibbs in the world premiere of Our Town by Ned Rorem, as Marco in the collegiate premiere of William Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge, and as Joseph and Herod in the collegiate premiere of El Nino by John Adams. In September 2005, he conducted the premiere of his own opera, Pilatvs. As a member of the Wolf Trap Opera Company for 2006, he would have added three roles that summer, including Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, Friar Laurence in Roméo et Juliette, and Pluto in Telemann’s Orpheus. Other opera credits included the title roles of Don Pasquale and Il Turco in Italia, as well as Leporello in Don Giovanni, Falstaff in TheMerry Wives of Windsor, and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In the summer of 2004, he performed Creon in the New York premiere of John Eaton’s Antigone. Samels also frequently performed in the oratorio repertoire. In the spring of 2005, he was selected as a semi-finalist in the annual competition of the Oratorio Society of New York. He was an announcer with public radio station WFIU, as well as the host and producer of its Cantabile program. A soloist with Aguavá New Music Studio, he had recently performed a concert at the Library of Congress. Samels was an associate instructor in the Jacobs School’s Music Theory Department, where was loved and admired by his students.

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Repertoire
Schuman: Chester (1957)
Simon: Go Down Moses: Let My People Go (2022)
Sierra/Scatterday: Fandangos (2000)
Maslanka: Symphony No. 4 (1993)

About the Director

Donald McKinney is professor of music in bands at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he serves as director of bands and chair of the Bands Department. From 2013 to 2024, McKinney was professor of conducting at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music, where he was director of bands and chair of the conducting area. Prior to his appointment at CU Boulder, he was the director of wind ensembles and associate professor at Louisiana State University. He has held additional faculty positions at Interlochen Arts Academy and Duquesne University Mary Pappert School of Music. McKinney has conducted the Dallas Winds, Concordia Santa Fe, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, Greater Boulder Youth Orchestra, and several honor ensembles. He has also conducted concerts and clinics in Costa Rica and Canada. His performances with the Dallas Winds have been featured on NPR’s Performance Today. As a teacher of conducting, McKinney has presented conducting master classes at institutions including East Carolina University, University of Central Florida, UCLA, and more. His recording credits include projects with the Dallas Winds, University of Michigan Symphony Band, and University of Texas Wind Ensemble, among others. He was nominated for a 2019 Grammy Award for producing the Dallas Winds recording John Williams at the Movies. In 2017, McKinney was featured in The Instrumentalist, a prominent journal for instrumental music educators. He has published articles in numerous conducting resources, including five volumes of Teaching Music through Performance in Band and The Conductor’s Companion. He has also authored a chapter about Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon in Women of Influence in Contemporary Music. McKinney earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting degree from the University of Michigan. His primary conducting teachers include Michael Haithcock, Jack Stamp, and Robert Cameron, with additional studies under H. Robert Reynolds and Frank Battisti.

Repertoire to be announced

About the Artist

Cypriot pianist Andreas Ioannides seeks to share his passion for great music and music making through a multifaceted career dedicated to performance, interpretation, and teaching of the piano. He has made concert appearances throughout Europe, Asia, and North and South America. Some highlights include performances at Boston Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Seoul Arts Center, the Temppeliaukio Kirkko in Helsinki and the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro. As soloist, he has performed under such maestros as Neil Varon, David Effron, Paul Nadler, and Roberto Tibiriçá. A devoted chamber musician, he has collaborated with esteemed artists, including Joseph Swensen, John Sharp, Atar Arad, Peter Stumpf, the Fry Street Quartet, and composer P. Q. Phan. Ioannides has received enthusiastic reviews from the Boston Globe, and his performances have been broadcast on television and radio across three continents. A prizewinner in the BNDES International Piano Competition and the Hastings International Piano Competition, he recently turned his attention to recording projects, including a two-disc album released by NAXOS in 2020 in honor of the 250^th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. A passionate and experienced educator, Ioannides is currently assistant lecturer of piano and chamber music at Technological University Dublin – Dublin Conservatoire. He previously served as lecturer of piano at Indiana State University and the Cork School of Music at Munster Technological University (Ireland). He is also the founder and artistic director of ChamberFest Brown County, a chamber music festival that seeks to inspire audiences in rural Indiana through classical music performance and education of the highest caliber. Ioannides earned a Doctor of Music degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, mentored by Distinguished Professor of Music Menahem Pressler. Additional teachers include Vladimir Viardo and Natalya Antonova.

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About the Artists

A new music ensemble for the twenty-first century, the [Switch~ Ensemble] is dedicated to the creation of new works for chamber ensemble. [Switch~] brings bold new acoustic, electroacoustic, and multimedia projects to life. At the core of each performance is a commitment to the total integration of technology and live musicians. They strive for compelling artistry achieved through the seamless creation, production, and execution of new music, and believe that working directly with composers—in a medium where the score is a point of departure rather than a finish line—allows for new and thrilling musical possibilities. [Switch~] contributes to the future of the genre by strongly advocating for and commissioning the music of a new generation of emerging young composers. The ensemble has enjoyed fruitful collaborations with both emerging and established composers, with commissions and premieres of works by composers including Anna-Louise Walton, Alican Çamci, Igor Santos, Katherine Young, Stefano Gervasoni, Stefan Prins, Wojtek Blecharz, Anthony Vine, Rand Steiger, Philippe Leroux, Timothy McCormack, Tonia Ko, James Bean, Matt Sargent, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Esaias Järnegard, Sivan Eldar, Julio Zúñiga, Zeynep Toraman, Alexander Schubert, Adrien Trybucki, Elvira Garifzyanova, Santiago Diez-Fischer, Lisa Streich, Anthony Pateras, and many others. [Switch~] has given performances and held residencies at Cornell, Bard College, University of Chicago, Ithaca College, Buffalo State, University of California Berkeley, the VIPA Festival (Spain), Eastman School of Music, and Avaloch Farms Music Institute. Additional outlets have included concerts at the Image/Sound Festival, San Francisco Center for New Music, MATA Interval Series, NYCEMF, Vanguard New Music Series at Kent State University, and the Queens New Music Festival, as well as the CD release of Christopher Chandler’s Smoke and Mirrors (SEAMUS). Founded in 2012 at the Eastman School of Music, the [Switch~ Ensemble] looks toward the future of contemporary music. Dedicated to performing high-level chamber music integrated with cutting-edge technology and supporting emerging and early career composers, the ensemble is passionate about helping to build a diverse canon of twenty-first-century works that leaves space for all voices, especially those that have historically been excluded from our field.

Repertoire
Chopin: Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57 (1844)
Chopin: Twelve Etudes, Op. 10 (1832)
Chopin: Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2 (1835)

About the Artist

Cypriot pianist Andreas Ioannides seeks to share his passion for great music and music making through a multifaceted career dedicated to performance, interpretation, and teaching of the piano. He has made concert appearances throughout Europe, Asia, and North and South America. Some highlights include performances at Boston Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Seoul Arts Center, the Temppeliaukio Kirkko in Helsinki and the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro. As soloist, he has performed under such maestros as Neil Varon, David Effron, Paul Nadler, and Roberto Tibiriçá. A devoted chamber musician, he has collaborated with esteemed artists, including Joseph Swensen, John Sharp, Atar Arad, Peter Stumpf, the Fry Street Quartet, and composer P. Q. Phan. Ioannides has received enthusiastic reviews from the Boston Globe, and his performances have been broadcast on television and radio across three continents. A prizewinner in the BNDES International Piano Competition and the Hastings International Piano Competition, he recently turned his attention to recording projects, including a two-disc album released by NAXOS in 2020 in honor of the 250^th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. A passionate and experienced educator, Ioannides is currently assistant lecturer of piano and chamber music at Technological University Dublin – Dublin Conservatoire. He previously served as lecturer of piano at Indiana State University and the Cork School of Music at Munster Technological University (Ireland). He is also the founder and artistic director of ChamberFest Brown County, a chamber music festival that seeks to inspire audiences in rural Indiana through classical music performance and education of the highest caliber. Ioannides earned a Doctor of Music degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, mentored by Distinguished Professor of Music Menahem Pressler. Additional teachers include Vladimir Viardo and Natalya Antonova.

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Repertoire
Stravinsky: Petrushka – Complete music from the ballet (1947 version)
Bates: Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra (Concerto for orchestra and animated film) (2021)

About the Artists

Jeffery Meyer has captivated audiences throughout North America, Europe, Russia, and Asia with a passion for championing contemporary orchestral music and groundbreaking collaborations. Meyer is professor of music in orchestral conducting at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as well as artistic partner with the Northwest Sinfonietta, one of the Northwest United States’ most dynamic orchestras. Artistic director of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic for two decades, his work with the orchestra was noted for its breadth and innovation. His programming has been awarded multiple prizes, including three ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming and two Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Awards in Orchestral Programming. Recent projects and upcoming appearances include a newly-developed multimedia performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Petrushka with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong with soprano Dawn Upshaw, a world premiere of Carlos Simon’s Graffiti performed and recorded alongside internationally renowned graffiti artists, a theatrical symphonic concert focused on themes of social justice developed in collaboration with Daniel Bernard Roumain and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, the world premiere recording of Laura Kaminsky’s Piano Concerto with pianist Ursula Oppens, a new semi-staged production of Nkeiru Okoye’s Invitation to a Die-In, nearly one dozen world premieres of new works, and engagements with the Sichuan Symphony, Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, and the Grossman Ensemble. Passionate about working with young musicians and music education, Meyer is an active adjudicator, guest clinician, and master class teacher. Prior to his appointment at the Jacobs School, he led the acclaimed orchestral programs at Arizona State University and Ithaca College. He has given master classes throughout the United States as well as Canada, Europe, and Asia. Meyer holds degrees in piano as well as composition and earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance with Gilbert Kalish at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Christian Claessens is senior lecturer in music in ballet at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Born in Brussels, Belgium, Claessens began his ballet training at the Conservatoire de la Monaie. In 1978, he came to New York as a scholarship student at The School of American Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre School simultaneously. After graduating, he performed with the Kansas City Ballet and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. In 1984, he returned to Europe as a member of the Dutch National Ballet. As a soloist, Claessens toured internationally in such ballet troupes as Stars of the American Ballet, Stars of the New York City Ballet, Stars of the Hong Kong Ballet, and Kozlov and Friends. In 1991, he cofounded the Scarsdale Ballet Studio with Diana White. In 1999, he codirected the International Ballet Project with Valentina Kozlova and White, both of the New York City Ballet. In 1998, he was asked to take over the directorship of the Purchase Youth Ballet, a division of the Conservatory of Dance at The State University of New York. He was the director of La Leçon: Christian Claessens School of Ballet in Westchester, New York.

Sarah Wroth is professor of music in ballet and chair of the Ballet Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She began her ballet training at the Frederick School of Classical Ballet in Frederick, Maryland. After graduating from high school, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Ballet Performance with an Outside Field in Education from the Jacobs School of Music in 2003 and became a member of the corps de ballet of Boston Ballet Company under the artistic direction of Mikko Nissinen. Wroth began working part time for Boston Ballet School in 2004, further studying her craft through the teaching of other dancers. She began teaching for the Boston Ballet Adaptive Dance Program for Children with Downs Syndrome in 2005, and in 2009, she was awarded the E. Virginia Williams Inspiration Award for her unwavering dedication to ballet and the Boston Ballet Company. In 2013, Wroth began her experience with ballet company management by working on a panel to create a Boston Ballet partnership with Northeastern University. The partnership offered undergraduate education opportunities along with a scholarship to any Boston Ballet dancer willing to weave a formal education into their complex ballet schedule. The partnership also allowed Wroth to earn a master’s degree in nonprofit management. Wroth performed numerous roles in a variety of styles while dancing with Boston Ballet. She has performed principal roles in works by William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Marius Petipa, Jerome Robbins, Helen Pickett, and Mikko Nissinen, as well as soloist roles in ballets by Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, and August Bournonville. She has performed with Boston Ballet internationally in Spain, England, South Korea, and Finland, also performing with great acclaim at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City.

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About the Directors

Kevin Bobo is professor of music (percussion) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, a position he has held since 2007. Prior to his appointment at the Jacobs School, he served as assistant professor of percussion at the University of Kansas (2003-07). He studied percussion with J. C. Combs and Gordon Stout, and composition with Greg Woodward and Dana Wilson. Internationally respected as a solo marimba artist, Bobo has performed on five continents. His travels have taken him to Taiwan, Singapore, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Australia, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, and nearly 40 states in the United States. As a composer, Bobo’s compositions are performed all over the world, with his solo works frequently appearing on international competition repertoire lists. He has authored two method books and composed numerous pieces for a variety of instruments and ensembles. Bobo currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with his wife, Emily, and their children, Penelope and Eli.

Joseph Gramley is professor of music in percussion and chair of the Percussion Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. A Grammy Award-winning multi-percussionist, Gramley has performed and taught internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, in addition to playing with major symphony orchestras. He released eight albums as a founding member of the Silkroad Ensemble and served as the group’s first associate artistic director, working directly with Yo-Yo Ma. Gramley’s two solo recordings, American Deconstruction and Global Percussion, represent definitive, milestone works in the modern multi-percussion canon. Gramley came to Bloomington after 12 years of leading the percussion program at the University of Michigan, where he successfully placed a generation of percussionists in varied posts worldwide—from symphony orchestras to Broadway, and top-tier universities and conservatories to world stages with pop artists and chamber musicians alike. His versatility as a percussionist has found him performing alongside a broad cross section of artists, including Ma, Elton John, Michael Stern, Renee Fleming, Wu Man, Glen Velez, and Keiko Abe. Gramley’s cross-genre collaborations have seen him involved with more than 100 new commissions from the leading composers of our time. His duo, Organized Rhythm, with Clive Driskill-Smith, is the world’s premier and most active organ/percussion collaboration. Born in 1970, Gramley grew up in Oregon and was named a presidential scholar in the arts in 1988. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan. Festival experience includes Tanglewood, Salzburg Mozarteum, Spoleto Festival, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and 15 summers at the Marlboro Music Festival. He made his concerto debut with the Houston Symphony and his solo debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Gramley earned his master’s degree from Juilliard and directed its Summer Percussion Seminar for 17 years.

John Tafoya is professor of music in percussion at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He served as principal timpanist of the National Symphony Orchestra from 1999 to 2007. Tafoya has held previous principal timpani positions with the American Wind Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, Owensboro Symphony (Kentucky), Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra (Indiana), and Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed with the symphony orchestras of Indianapolis, St. Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit. Tafoya has presented numerous master classes and clinics at universities across the United States and Canada. He was a featured clinician at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in 2002, 2007, and 2011. His website, johntafoya.com, is accessed by thousands of percussion students and professional players each month. He has served on the faculties of the University of Evansville, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Florida International University, and University of Maryland. He is the author of two orchestral timpani repertoire books: The Working Timpanist’s Survival Guide (2004), published by Carl Fischer, and Beyond the Audition Screen (Hal Leonard, 2011). Tafoya performed on the award-winning recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 by the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of James Judd and on orchestral recordings by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. Tafoya can also be heard on the American Wind Symphony Orchestra’s CD Concertos All and Sundry performing Kaoru Wada’s Concertante for Timpani, Percussion, and Winds under the direction of Robert Austin Boudreau. Tafoya also participated on the Summit Brass CD All American Brass (Pro Arte, 1987) and on the 1992 Arkay CD William Albright: Music for Organ and Harpsichord, featuring organist Douglas Reed. Tafoya has worked under many prestigious conductors, including Marin Alsop, Vladimir Ashkenazy, James Conlon, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christopher Hogwood, Lorin Maazel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leonard Slatkin, John Williams, Hugh Wolff, and David Zinman, among others. He proudly endorses American Drum Manufacturing Co., Avedis Zildjian Company, Grover Pro Percussion, Remo Inc., and Yamaha Corporation.

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Repertoire
Durante: Magnificat in B-Flat Major
W. A. Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K.618
J. Y. Jeong: Arirang (2008)
J. Haydn: Die Beredsamkeit, Hob.XXVc:4
Vautor: Mother, I will have a husband (1619)
MacMillan: Christus vincit (1994)

About the Artist

Amy Hamburg began her carillon studies with Albert Gerken at the University of Kansas (KU) while pursuing a B.F.A.in Music Theory with minors in composition and piano performance. After earning her degree from KU, she pursued graduate studies at the University of Michigan, where she also studied the carillon with Margo Halsted and Stephen Ball. Several years ago she and her husband relocated to Bloomington, Indiana, where she performed the first recital on the expanded and refurbished Arthur C. Metz Bicentennial Grand Carillon. In recent years, she has enjoyed mentoring and premiering new carillon pieces by student and professional composers. She is currently a carillon associate, and as of June of this year, she is a full senior member of the nationally recognized Guild of Carillonneurs of North America.

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This event is made possible with the generous funding of the Fox Family Trust.

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About the Artists

A new music ensemble for the twenty-first century, the [Switch~ Ensemble] is dedicated to the creation of new works for chamber ensemble. [Switch~] brings bold new acoustic, electroacoustic, and multimedia projects to life. At the core of each performance is a commitment to the total integration of technology and live musicians. They strive for compelling artistry achieved through the seamless creation, production, and execution of new music, and believe that working directly with composers—in a medium where the score is a point of departure rather than a finish line—allows for new and thrilling musical possibilities. [Switch~] contributes to the future of the genre by strongly advocating for and commissioning the music of a new generation of emerging young composers. The ensemble has enjoyed fruitful collaborations with both emerging and established composers, with commissions and premieres of works by composers including Anna-Louise Walton, Alican Çamci, Igor Santos, Katherine Young, Stefano Gervasoni, Stefan Prins, Wojtek Blecharz, Anthony Vine, Rand Steiger, Philippe Leroux, Timothy McCormack, Tonia Ko, James Bean, Matt Sargent, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Esaias Järnegard, Sivan Eldar, Julio Zúñiga, Zeynep Toraman, Alexander Schubert, Adrien Trybucki, Elvira Garifzyanova, Santiago Diez-Fischer, Lisa Streich, Anthony Pateras, and many others. [Switch~] has given performances and held residencies at Cornell, Bard College, University of Chicago, Ithaca College, Buffalo State, University of California Berkeley, the VIPA Festival (Spain), Eastman School of Music, and Avaloch Farms Music Institute. Additional outlets have included concerts at the Image/Sound Festival, San Francisco Center for New Music, MATA Interval Series, NYCEMF, Vanguard New Music Series at Kent State University, and the Queens New Music Festival, as well as the CD release of Christopher Chandler’s Smoke and Mirrors (SEAMUS). Founded in 2012 at the Eastman School of Music, the [Switch~ Ensemble] looks toward the future of contemporary music. Dedicated to performing high-level chamber music integrated with cutting-edge technology and supporting emerging and early career composers, the ensemble is passionate about helping to build a diverse canon of twenty-first-century works that leaves space for all voices, especially those that have historically been excluded from our field.

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About the Director

Tom Walsh is Robert J. Waller Sr. and Robert J. Waller Jr. Professor of Music (saxophone) and chair of the Jazz Studies Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. An active performer of jazz and classical music, he has presented concerts and workshops in South Africa, China, Brazil, Japan, Azerbaijan, Costa Rica, in Europe, and across the United States. He is the co-author of the fifth edition of Creative Jazz Improvisation (2022) with Scott Reeves. His beginning improvisation book Jazz Master Teaches You to Improvise was published by Shanghai Music Publishing House in 2019. Recent recordings include The Pandemic Sessions by the IU jazz faculty, Luke Gillespie’s Moving Mists, Basically Baker, Vol. 2, with the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (Patois), and Mike Hackett’s New Point of View (Summit). Premiere performances include Scott Jones’s concert band arrangement of Russell Peck’s The Upward Stream, Chris Rutkowski’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble, and David Baker’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra. His latest solo CD release is Intersections (Arizona University Recordings). Earlier solo CDs include New Life (RIAX) and Shaking the Pumpkin (RIAX). Other releases include the David Baker Concerto on Paul Freeman Introduces David Baker, Vol. XII (Albany), Basically Baker with the Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (Patois), and Sky Scrapings: Saxophone Music of Don Freund (AUR). Walsh is a Yamaha Performing Artist and a Vandoren Artist. He taught at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops from 1991 to 2019. He co-leads the IU Summer Saxophone Academy with Otis Murphy and is co-director of the College Audition Preparation Workshop. Walsh earned degrees in Saxophone Performance and Jazz Studies from Indiana University, where his principal teachers were distinguished classical saxophonist Eugene Rousseau and renowned jazz educator David Baker. His other influential teachers include Mike Tracy, Pat LaBarbera, Jerry Coker, and David Liebman.

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About the Director

Jeffrey Smith is professor of practice in organ and sacred music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Prior to his appointment, Smith was director of music at St. Paul’s Parish, K Street, in Washington, D.C. He served as Jacobs visiting associate professor of music from 2009 to 2011. Smith was music director at St. Paul’s K Street for 17 years. St. Paul’s is well known as a beacon of liturgical and musical excellence. From 2004 to 2009, Smith served as canon director of music at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. While there, he conducted its Choir of Men and Boys in an extensive liturgical program, devised and conducted tours and recordings, and oversaw a weekly concert series. He is active as a choral conductor, workshop leader, and recitalist, and in the work of the Royal School of Church Music, American Guild of Organists, and Association of Anglican Musicians. He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University and also studied at Northwestern University and the Royal College of Music, London. He won highest honors in receiving the fellowship of the American Guild of Organists. He is a fellow of the Royal School of Church Music and of the Guild of Church Music (U.K.). His teachers included Thomas Murray, Wolfgang Rübsam, John Birch, and David Willcocks. He studied improvisation with Gerre Hancock and Philippe Lefebvre, organist of Notre Dame de Paris. As a commentator on church music, Smith has been heard on both NPR and BBC radio, and his choral and organ disks on the Pro Organo label have been critically praised. His compositions are published by E. C. Schirmer.

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