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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)

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