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5-30-1997

Concert: "A Little Night Music" Alumni Concert -1997 ReunionIthaca College School of Music Alumni

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Friday, May 30, 1997

8:15 p.m.

Ford Hall Auditorium

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Cinco Piezas

I. Campero II. Romantico Ill. Acentuado V. Compadre

Largo from The Barber of Seville

Granada Where Is the Life of Late I Led

from Kiss Me Kate

Golliwogg's Cakewalk (1908)

Drastic Measures

Poco adagio, molto espressivo Allegro

Sahib Supreme

You Stepped Out of a Dream Tricrotism The Days of Wine and Roses Absquatulation

Petar Kodzas, M.M. '94, guitar

Donald Davis '91, baritone Jason Alfred '96, accompanist

The National Saxophone Quartet David Dees, soprano saxophone

Todd Morrison '95, alto saxophone Connie Frigo '96, tenor saxophone

David Yusko '93, baritone saxophone

The Steve Brown Quartet Steve Brown '64, M.S. '68, guitar

Chris Persad '84, trumpet and flugelhorn Miles Brown, bass

Tom Killian '87, M.M. '92, drums

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Agustine Lara Cole Porter

(1891-1964)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

arranged by E. Zajac Russell Peck

(b. 1945)

Charles Rochester Young (b. 1965)

G. Kahn/N. H. Brown Oscar Pettiford Henry Mancini

Steve Brown

Jason Alfred graduated from Ithaca College in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in music performance, having studied with Professor Phiroze Mehta. While attend-ing a summer session at the Moscow Conservatoire in the summer of 1995 he studied with Mikhail Mezhlumov and Gleb Axelrod. He has performed in master classes for Simone Pedroni, Jeffrey Kahane, Valery Kastelsky, Ani Kavafian, David Shifrin, Carol Webber, and Elly Ameling. A two-time winner of the Ithaca College Concerto Competition, he performed Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 with the Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra in 1995 and Brahms's Concerto No. 2 in 1996. He has received the Civic Morning Musicale Vocal Competition Best Accompanist Award three times and was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society in 1995. He is currently a staff accompanist for the Ithaca College School of Music.

Bassist Miles Brown has just completed his first year of study at the Eastman School of Music, where he is majoring in music education and jazz studies. During his high school career he performed in the symphony orchestra, the string orches-tra, the vocal jazz ensemble, the jazz ensemble, an improvisational group called the Players, the concert band, and the chamber orchestra. He also played in the pit orchestra for Guys and Dolls, Bye Bye Birdie, and The Wiz. During that time he won the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award, the Six Flags Music in the Parks Outstanding Soloist

Award, and an honorable mention in the National Foundation of the Advance-ment of the Arts Competition. He played in the All State String Orchestra in 1994 and was the bassist for the All State Jazz Ensemble in 1995. He is in great demand as a bassist in New York State and is a co-leader of the local rock band the Sour Lemmings. He can be heard on the latest Sour Lemmings CD, What Choo Ta/kin Bout Willis?

Guitarist, composer, and arranger Steve Brown is a professor of music and director of the jazz studies program at Ithaca College. He has two albums presently available under his own lead-ership, Good Lines and Child's Play, both on Cafe Records, and a new release, Night Waves, on his own label, Brown Cats Productions. He is coauthor with Ray Brown '68 of An Introduction t Jazz Improvisation, and he has record-ed with Chuck lsraels's National Jazz Ensemble, Chuck Mangione, and the California big band Full, Faith and Credit. His latest writing projects have included commissioned works for the Hal Galper Trio, the Airmen of Note, the Celebration of the Arts Jazz Festival (C.O.T.A. Cats) featuring himself and Phil Woods, and the Harvard University Band. His recent releases as a guitarist/arranger include three CDs under the leadership of Steve Gilmore-/'m All Smiles, Silhouette, and The Jazz Dancer and the Bass Player on Jazz Mania-and three CDs under the lead-ership of drummer Danny D'lmperio, Blues for Philly Joe, Hip to It, and

Glass Enclosure on V.S.O.P. An active performer/clinician in the United States and Europe, he has performed with Chuck Israels, Billy Hart, Bobby Watson, Bill Goodwin, Jimmy Smith, Steve Gilmore, Barry Harris, Gerry Niewood, and others. He is also featured on the new Brown Cats Production CD, Impressions of Point Lobos by the Ray Brown Great Big Band.·

Donald Davis earned his bachelor of music degree from Ithaca College in 1991 and has completed three years of graduate work at the University of Cincinnati and a two-year apprenticeship with the Pittsburgh Opera. He is a three-time Metropolitan Opera National Council district winner and regional finalist, as well as the winner of the 1994 Norman Treigle Opera Award. In 1995 he received the Tito Capobianco Young Artist Award, presented by the Pittsburgh Opera International Guild, and in 1996 the Shoshana Foundation awarded him the Richard F. Gold career grant. He has performed such roles as Papageno (The Magic Flute), Figaro (The Barber of Seville), Escamillo (Carmen), Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro), Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), Germont (La Traviata), and Belcore (The Elixir of Love) for such companies as the New York City Opera National Company, Pittsburgh Opera, Nashville Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Roanoke Opera, and Ithaca Opera Association.

Drummer Tom Killian is a graduate of Ithaca College, where he received his bache-lor's degree in 1987 and his master's degree in 1992. He is presently the director of instrumental music at Corning East High School in Corning, New York. He is also the jazz ensem-bles director of Signature Band Camp and 171 Cedar Arts Jazz Camp and has been an adjunct faculty member at Ithaca College. He performs throughout New York State and has played with Gap Mangione, Joe Salzano, Steve Brown, Steve Gilmore, Richard Boukas, and others. Locally he performs with his own trio, a Jazz Messengers-style group called the Greenhouse Effect, and a number of other area musical acts. In addition, he has performed with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Binghamton Symphony, Empire Sax Quartet (composed of Ithaca College faculty members Steve Mauk and Jamal Rossi '80), and in numerous faculty concerts at Ithaca College. He lives in Corning, New York, with his wife, Patricia, and children, Amanda and Peter.

Classical guitarist Petar Kodzas received his bachelor's degree from the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia and, in 1994, a master of music in performance from Ithaca College. He recently received a doctorate of musical arts in performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music. A winner of the National Solo Guitar Competition and the National Chamber Music Competition in Belgrade, he currently

teaches at the Hochstein Music School in Rochester, New York, and through the Community Education Division of the Eastman School of Music.

:hris Persad graduated from Ithaca College in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in music education. After receiving his master's degree from the Eastman School of Music in jazz studies and con-temporary media in 1986, he toured with the Glenn Miller Orchestra as featured trumpet soloist, making consecutive tours through Japan, Iceland, Brazil, and Canada. He has taught in the public schools of New York State and was for two years an assistant professor of music at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Currently he is a freelance trumpet player in New York City. As well as playing in the Broadway show Dream, he has per-formed with such artists as the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Slide Hampton, and Jimmy Heath.

The National Saxophone Quartet is a clas-sical chamber ensemble comprising saxophonists from the premier military bands in Washington, D.C. David Yusko, Todd Morrison, and Connie Frigo received their bachelor of music degrees from Ithaca College, where they studied saxophone performance with Steven Mauk and Jamal Rossi. They are currently members of the United States Navy Band. David Dees is a graduate of the University of North Texas and Northwestern University, and is a member of the United States Army Band-Pershing's Own. The NSQ has a diverse repertoire. Its members have performed recitals at George Mason University and the University of Maryland, College Park, and lighter programs for a variety of social functions throughout the Washington area. In the fall of 1996 they toured upstate New York, performing numerous public recitals as well as clinics for college and high school music students. All members of the quartet maintain private teaching studios and active freelance performance schedules in the Washington area. In May 1997 the National Saxophone Quartet was awarded second prize in the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.