UW-Green Bay presents Brass and Flute Ensembles

GREEN BAY — The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay’s Music Performing Arts is hosting a brass and flute ensembles concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 29. The event will take place in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, 2420 Nicolet Drive, and is free and open to the public.

The brass quartet will perform a suite from “12 Heroic Marches,” by Georg Philipp Telemann. Also performed will be “Coup de Brass,” by Fisher Tull; “Amparito Roca,” by Jaime Texador Dalmau; and “Good Morning,” by Uli Nehls.

Faculty members in the brass section include Prof. Adam Gaines, trumpet, and Prof. Kevin Collins, trombone. Alumni include Gregg Frederickson on tuba and Bill Dennee on trombone. Current students include Kayla Johnson, trumpet, Bill Burroughs, trombone and Timothy Kiefer, euphonium. Additional players are Clint Piper, Pam Wieseckel and Stephanie Doepker.

Gaines, assistant professor of trumpet and jazz at UW-Green Bay, directors the brass ensemble. In addition to teaching the trumpet studio, Gaines directs the Jazz Ensemble II and the New Music Ensemble, and teaches jazz history and brass techniques. A native of Kentucky, Gaines has performed as a soloist throughout Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and at the Montreux and North Sea jazz festivals in Europe.

The flute ensemble will feature “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba,” by Georg Friedrich Handel; “I’ll Love My Love,” a Cornish folk song made familiar by Gustav Holst; “Prelude and Rondo,” by Anne McGinty; and “Sephardic Medley” and “La Milonga,” by Christopher Caliendo.

“La Milonga” is an Argentine peasant dance, one of the forerunners of the tango. It is bright, up-tempo and filled with energy. It won first prize in the Newly Published Music competition at the National Flute Association convention in 1999.

Caliendo’s “Sephardic Medley,” arranged for the flute ensemble by Sandra Howard, is a medley of dances from the Hebrew, Yemenite and Israeli traditions.

“I’ll Love My Love” is an arrangement for flute ensemble of a Cornish folk song, which was made familiar by Gustav Holst in his “Second Suite in F for Band.” Phyllis Avidan Louke arranged the piece.

“The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” is a “sinfonia” on the 3rd act of the oratorio “Solomon” HWV 67 by Georg Friedrich Handel, which was arranged for flute ensemble by Hans Martin Zill.

“Prelude and Rondo” is a piece that is a standard in the flute ensemble repetoire, with a lyrical opening followed by a lively jig-like section. It was written by Anne McGinty, a well-known flute ensemble composer.

Flute ensemble members, all students, include Kristin Francies, Tara Groth, Siobhan Meyers, Erin VanAsten, Tina Wold and Zachary Yost.

Adjunct Instructor Nancy Collins is the director of the flute ensemble.
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