University of Maryland Wind Orchestra
Michael Votta, Jr., conductor
Repertoire 2021-23
Friday, December 8, 2023
Nkeiru Okoye: Voices Shouting Out
Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques - Rita Sloan, piano
Oliver Nelson: Complex City - Bradley Jopek, conductor
Stanisław Skrowaczewski: Music for Winds
Michael Daugherty: Passacaglia in Primary Colors
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Pedro Angél López Sánchez: Cycle
Stravinsky: Octet
Jess Turner: If I am to Leave - Glen Adsit, conductor
Aaron Copland: Emblems - Christine Higley, conductor
Arthur Bird: Marche Miniature
James Lee III: Solar Testimonies (2021)
Friday, October 6, 2023
Bruce Yurko: A.D.- “L” Fanfare for Wind Ensemble - Bruce Yurko, conductor
Lili Boulanger: Two Miniatures
D’un soir triste
D’un matin de printemps
Florent Schmitt: Dionysiaques, Op. 53 (ed. Hauswirth) - Matthew Westgate, conductor
Reynaldo Hahn: Le bal de Beatrice d’este
Igor Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947)
Leonard Bernstein: Profanation from Symphony No. 1 (“Jeremiah”) - 8’ (have)
Saturday, May 6, 2023
W.A. Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in Bb, K. 370a/361 ("Gran Partita")
J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in Eb, BWV 552 ("St. Anne", arr. Hunsberger)
Karel Husa: Les Couleurs Fauves
Friday, April 21, 2023
"Conductors Concert"
Jennifer Higdon: Fanfare Ritmico - Christine Higley, conductor
Ivan Tcherepnin: Statues - Bradley Jopek, conductor
Dmitri Shostakovich: Festive Overture - Zachary Harwell, conductor
Friday, February 17, 2023 - CBDNA NATIONAL CONFERENCE PERFORMANCE
Clarice Assad, guest composer
James Stern, violin
Kaoru Wada: Fanfare and Prayer
Dana Wilson: ...of my dreams before me… - James Stern, violin
George Walker: Lyric (arr. Disano)
Clarice Assad: Multiverse: Another Rite of Spring ’ (world premiere performance)
Friday, December 9, 2022
Matthew Guilford, bass trombone
Lance Hulme, guest composer
Zachary Harwell, graduate student conductor
Lance Hulme: Leaps and Bounds (world premiere performance)
William Grant Still: Summerland (arr. Teeter) - Zachary Harwell, conductor
James Stephenson: Arch Rhapsody - Matthew Guilford, bass trombone
Georges Auric: Divertimento for Wind Symphony Orchestra
Carlos Simon: Amen! (2017)
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Clarice Assad, guest composer
Bradley Jopek, graduate student conductor
Kaoru Wada: Fanfare and Prayer (world premiere performance)
George Walker (arr. Disano): Lyric for Band
Ingolf Dahl: Sinfonietta
Eugene Bozza: Children’s Overture - Bradley Jopek, conductor
Clarice Assad: Multiverse (workshop performance)
Sunday, October 9, 2022
Imani Winds, guest artists
Nancy Galbraith, guest composer
Christine Higley, graduate student conductor
Julia Wolfe: Zigzag (2021)
Nancy Galbraith: Concerto for Woodwind Quintet and Wind Ensemble (2022)
Bohuslav Martinu: Memorial for Lidice (arr. Rumbelow) - Christine Higley, conductor
Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis - 25’ (arr. Wilson)
Saturday, May 7, 2022
"UMWO goes "Classically Dope"
Derek Maseloff: Dreams (world premiere) - Konshens and UMWO
--- ensemble improvisation ---
Joseph Schwantner: and the mountains rising nowhere
Konshens: Militant (arr. Groom)
Brandon Felder: An Invocation to Come (arr. Votta)
Konshens: God I Pray (arr. Groom)
Konshens: My Pih-Poh (arr. Votta)
Julius Eastman: Stay On It
Derek Maseloff/Konshens: I’m So DC
Konshens the MC, guest artist
Brandon Felder, pianist
Saturday, April 2, 2022
"Conductors Concert"
Karel Husa: Music for Prague 1968 - Christine Higley, Alexander Scott, conductors
Saturday, February 26, 2022
“Point / Counterpoint”
Lubos Fiser: Report - Robert Austin Boudreau, conductor
Richard Wagner: Trauermusik - Andrea Brown, conductor
Percy Grianger: Lincolnshire Posy - Jason Fettig, conductor
Richard Strauss: Suite, Op. 4
Jacques Casterede: Divertissment d’Ete
Friday, December 10, 2021
"...i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces..."
Lili Boulanger: D’une matin de printemps (1918)
Johannes Brahms: Chorale Preludes (arr. Gunther/Boyd) - Christine Higley, conductor
Dana Wilson: Of My Dream Before Me... (world premiere) - James Stern, violin
Karel Husa: Apotheosis of This Earth (1971)
JS Bach (attr.) / Reed: Mein Jesu, Was für Seelenweh, BWV 487 (1736)
Saturday, November 13, 2021
“Shadowcatcher”
J.S. Bach / Votta: Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin (1720 / 2020)
Esther Ballou: Suite for Winds (1957) - Bradley Jopek, conductor
Paul Hindemith: Symphony in Bb
Eric Ewazen: Shadowcatcher (1996)
Saturday, October 9, 2021
“Impressions of …”
Ruth Gipps: Seascapes (1958) - Alexander Scott, conductor
Arnold Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony, Op. 9 (1906)
Shuying Li: Kung Fu (2019, UMD Commission)
Jules Strens: Danse Funambulesque (1925)