UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA

Wind Symphonyin concert with

Oak Bay Secondary Bands

Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 7:00 p.m.Oak Bay High Theatre

ProgramOak Bay Grade 9 BandJeff Weaver, Conductor

Ghost Dancing Brant Karrick

Blue Ridge Saga James Swearingen

Portsmouth Overture Robert W. Smith

Oak Bay Senior Concert BandJeff Weaver, Conductor

Festivo Vaclav Nelhybel

With Quiet Courage Larry Daehn

Sea Songs Ralph Vaughan Williams

I n t e r m i s s i o n

University of Victoria Wind SymphonyDr. Gerald King, Conductor

Paul Vickers, Graduate Assistant Conductor

Gavorkna Fanfare Jack Stamp

Scenes from the Louvre Norman Dello Joio III. Kings of France V. Finale

Paul Vickers, Conductor

Of Sailors and Whales (Five Scenes from Melville) W. Francis McBeth I. Ishmael II. QueeQueg III. Father Mapple IV. Ahab V. The White Whale

Steven Price, Narrator

The Little Ripper StanhopePaul Vickers, Conductor

An American Elegy Frank Ticheli

Folk Song Suite Ralph Vaughan Williams I. Seventeen come Sunday III. Folk Songs from Somerset

Oak Bay Senior Students perform with the UVic Wind Symphony

The Army of the Nile Kenneth Alford

B I O G R A P H I E S

Jeff Weaver

Jeff Weaver is a conductor, music educator and the Director of Bands at Oak Bay High School in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Currently, he is the Vice-President of the BC Music Educators Association and sits on the board of the Canadian Music Educators as a representative for B.C.

Jeff studied percussion, conducting and Music Education at the University of Victoria. In 2008, Jeff was awarded the Premiers Award for Excellence in Teaching. Jeff’s ensembles have received accolades across Canada for their preparation and performances. He is cur-rently working towards his Masters Degree in Music through the American Band College.

In the community, Jeff is a mentor teacher to local middle schools promoting quality music education in Victoria. He also volunteers for the UJAM society, a group that promotes jazz music to young teens.

Steven Price

Baritone, Steven Price has earned a place for himself on the stages and in the concert halls of Canada, the United States and Europe. With his versatility, rich tone and command-ing stage presence he has received praise from audiences and critics alike. His operatic repertoire ranges from the works of Mozart and Rossini to those of Puccini and Bizet. On the oratorio platform, he is called upon to perform works by composers such as Handel, Orff and Mendelssohn. Steven’s encouraging manner with soloists and choristers of all ages is highly regarded and he is highly sought after as a vocal and choral adjudicator and clinician.

Steven lives with his wife and his four children in Victoria. He teaches Musical Theatre and Drama at Oak Bay High School.

Paul Vickers, B Mus Studies, Grad Dip Ed.

Paul Vickers is currently the Graduate Assistant Conductor of the University of Victoria Wind Symphony where he is completing his Masters of Music in conducting with Dr. Gerald King. Prior to his placement in Victoria, Paul conducted wind and jazz ensembles in Sydney, Australia guiding several ensembles to award winning performances at festivals across the country. Paul was also the Assistant Conductor for an Australian honours-band performing at the prestigious Midwest Band and Orchestra Directors Conference in Chicago, 2007.

As a trombonist, Paul was a performance major at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he studied with the Principal Trombonist of the Australian Opera Ballet Orchestra, and Associate Principal Trombonist of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He has also earned a Graduate Diploma in Music Education from the University of New England, Australia. Paul has conducted on training programs with professional orchestras in Australia and New Zealand, and in 2010 he travelled to the University of Texas at Austin as the recipient of a scholarship from the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles.

Dr. Gerald King

Dr. King is Professor of Music at the University of Victoria where he serves as the conductor of the UVic Wind Symphony and heads the graduate Wind Conducting program. Prior to his initial position at the University of Victoria in 1988, Dr. King taught in the public schools of British Columbia for 12 years where his instrumental and choral ensembles received national and international acclaim.

Dr. King is considered one of Canada’s most respected conductors, adjudicators, and educators. Although he is primarily recognized as a conductor of Wind Bands, he is equally comfortable conducting Orchestras and Choirs. A former student of internationally renowned conductor, Maestro Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Dr. King’s professional career has taken him throughout Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Japan, Mexico, Hong Kong, and most recently in October 2011 to Australia.

Over the past 18 years in his capacity as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician he has worked with over 10,000 bands, choirs and orchestras representing more than 500,000 musicians. Dr. King is an Artist-Conductor for the Yamaha Corporation.

PiccoloThomas Law

Flute I Thomas Bauer (principal) Lynette LaiII Jennifer Messelink Jane Wong

OboeI Diana Doublet (principal)II Georgia Dowgert

Eb Clarinet Caitlin Miller

ClarinetI Paul Gilcrest (principal) Marcella Barz Erin Onyschtschuk II James Yi Matthew Kaufhold William Constable Sunny Chu III Emma Litzcke Mark Kim Dominic Thibault

Bass ClarinetKylie Flower

Contra BassTBA

BassoonLee Whitehorne

Alto SaxophoneI Paul Spelt (principal)II Jacqueline Cable

Tenor SaxophoneSean Maynard

Baritone SaxophoneAlice Maundrell

Wind Symphony Personnel, Fall 2012

CornetI Ian Cohen (principal) Alfons Fear (assistant principal)II Cameron KenisIII Adam Bendorffe

TrumpetI Alex WhiteII Victoria-Rose Hunt

French HornI Justin Malchow (principal)II Simon DawkinsIII Norbert ZieglerIV Katherine Brown

TromboneI Trevor Hoy (principal)II Megan White Bass Andrew Coldwells

EuphoniumJake Autio (principal)Jaclyn Kreke

TubaDoug Nelson (principal) Russell Larden

Percussion Camden McCallister (principal)Will ExnerSky KimJesse LeForteJulia Albano-CrockfordAllyssa Haigh

TimpaniBrandon Chow (principal)

Piano James Yi