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2010 Melville Jazz Retreat Presents:
A Conversation with Online Special Guest Artist
Mr. Frank Foster
Friday, December 2
3:00 - 4:30 PM
University of Manitoba,
Rm. 326 Education
As of the summer of 2002, Dan Haerle retired from
full-time teaching. He was a faculty member in the
Jazz Studies Division of the College of Music at the
University of North Texas for 25 years (Regents
Professor for the last 10 years). At UNT he taught
Jazz Piano, Jazz Fundamentals, Advanced Jazz
Improvisation, Jazz MIDI, Graduate Jazz Improvisation, Rhythm Section Master Class and he supervised the jazz chamber music program. He directed
the Jazz Strings and a keyboard ensemble called
The Zebras. He taught the courses in basic MIDI
theory, sequencing and jazz notation. Dan has recorded many Jamey Aebersold playalongs, published several jazz text books, is an active jazz clinician nationally and internationally, and has had considerable performing experience.
Dan was inducted into the International Association
of Jazz Education "Hall of Fame" in 2003. The IAJE Hall of Fame Award honors individuals
whose musical contributions and dedication to jazz education over the past 25 years have created new directions and curricular innovations for jazz education worldwide.
As a player, Dan has:
Toured the U. S. and Canada with the Stan Kenton Band during Stan's illness,
Toured the U. S. and Europe with the Clark Terry Quintet,
Done extensive recording and show work in Dallas, Miami Beach and New York,
Performed with Chris Connor, Mel Torme, Al Jarreau, Pat Metheny, Dave Liebman, Woody
Shaw, Kai Winding and Freddie Hubbard,
• Been active as clinician and guest artist at many colleges and universities.
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All Faculty of Music students and teachers are invited to attend.
An immensely talented tenor saxophonist
and arranger, Frank Foster has been
associated with the Count Basie Orchestra
off and on since 1953. Early on, he played
in Detroit with the many talented local
players and, after a period in the Army
(1951-1953), he joined Basie’s big band.
Well-featured on tenor during his Basie
years (1953-1964), Foster also contributed
plenty of arrangements and such originals
as "Down for the Count," "Blues
Backstage," and the standard "Shiny
Stockings." In the latter half of the 1960s,
Foster was a freelance writer who worked
with many leading musicians including
Fank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughn. In addition
to playing with Elvin Jones (1970-1972)
and occasionally with the Thad Jones/Mel
Lewis Orchestra, he led his Loud Minority
big band. In 1983, Foster co-led a quintet
with Frank Wess and he toured Europe with
Jimmy Smith in 1985. Although influenced
by John Coltrane in his playing, Foster was
able to modify his style when he took over
the Count Basie band in 1986, revitalizing
it and staying at the helm until 1995.
Outside of his Basie dates, Foster has led
sessions for Vogue, Blue Note (1954 and 1968), Savoy, Argo, Prestige, Mainstream, Denon,
Catalyst, Bee Hive, SteepleChase, Pablo, and Concord. He is the recipient of two Grammy
Awards, a National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master and the subject or a recent documentary.
Now in his eighties, Mr. Foster is still composing and involved with his big band in his home in
Chesapeake, Virginia.
Saturday, October 23 1:00 PM
Melville Community Centre
Contact Stewart Smith for details [email protected]
The Marcel Desautels Faculty of Music and the ALIVE Project present
Live Online Trumpet Masterclass with
BOBBY SHEW
Thurs. March 1
7:00 - 8:30 PM
St. John’sRavenscourt School
Bobby Shew began playing the trumpet at the age
of ten. He spent most of his high school days playing as many as six nights a week in a dinner club,
giving him an early start to his professional career.
He then spent three years as the jazz trumpet soloist
in the famed NORAD multi-service band. Shortly after leaving the NORAD band he joined the
Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. After his stint with Tommy Dorsey, Bobby was asked to play with
Woody Herman's band upon Bill Chase's recommendation. He then spent some time playing for
Della Reese and Buddy Rich, whose big band had just been formed.
Upon moving to Los Angeles, Bobby spent time with the groups of Art Pepper, Bud Shank, and
Horace Silver, as well as numerous big bands such as Bill Holman, Louie Bellson, Toshiko
Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin, Oliver Nelson, Benny Goodman, Maynard Ferguson, Neal Hefti, and
Bob Florence. During this time Bobby also found a great deal of studio work, including TV
shows like 'Hawaii 5-O', 'Streets Of San Francisco', 'Bob Newhart', 'Mary Tyler Moore', 'Happy
Days', and others. His work on soundtracks includes 'Grease I and II', 'Rocky I and II', 'Six-Pack',
'The Muppet Movie', ‘The Drivers’ and 'Taxi'.
He has also recorded extensively as a leader and one of his albums, 'Outstanding In His Field'
was nominated for a Grammy in 1980, while, 'Heavy Company' was awarded the Jazz Album Of
The Year in 1983.
Today, in addition to a busy performing and private teaching schedule, Bobby spends a considerable amount of time actively involved in the educational system, conducting clinics and master
classes at high schools and college campuses all over the world.
All Faculty of Music students and teachers are invited to attend.
For details contact Stewart Smith: [email protected]
Mr. Tillmon Galloway talks about...
Getting
Inside
the Music
Monday, Nov. 10 3:00 PM
St. John!s-Ravenscourt School
Tillmon "T.S." Galloway is without a doubt one of
the leading trombonists, composers, arrangers and
educators of his generation.
At the age of twenty-two he joined the Count Basie
Orchestra where his playing can be heard on the classic album “Basie Straight Ahead”.
For over twenty years he freelanced and toured the U.S., Europe and South Africa while playing and recording with artists such as Count Basie, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight,
Stevie Wonder, John Clayton, Eddie Harris, Ahmad Jamal, and others. For several years he lived in
Europe where he performed with several big bands, taught arranging at a number of conservatories, and
served as musical director for the musicals “A Night at the Cotton Club”, “Josephine” and “Bubblin’
Brown Sugar”.
His formal music education began at Roosevelt University in Chicago and was completed at the University of North Texas in Denton, where was a graduate assistant to composer and arranger Paris Rutherford.
From 1998 to 2003 he taught composition/arranging at Columbia College in Chicago and served as musical conductor and arranger for project STOP TIME, an initiative from the McArthur Foundation to explore the music of Jelly Roll Morton, for the Center for Black Music Research. For the last five years Mr.
Galloway was based in Amsterdam where he played trombone, taught, conducted and continued to write
music. "T.S.” recently returned to North America and the Chicago area where he now teaches at North
Central College in Naperville, IL and maintains an active schedule as a performer and writer. In the summer of 2008 the Chicago Jazz Orchestra premiered an original work of featuring renowned trombonist
Julian Priester.
His vast experience as a performer, composer, arranger, educator and musical director allows him a broad
perspective on many aspects of a career in music. Mr. Galloway will speak on several aspects of music
and his career but welcomes questions from the participants.
Contact Stewart Smith for details [email protected]
The University of Manitoba Faculty of Music and the ALIVE Project present:
Euphonium
Masterclass
with renowned performer/teacher
Dr. Brian Bowman
Thursday, February 28
7:00 - 8:30 PM
St. Johnʼs-Ravenscourt
Dr. Brian L. Bowman is Professor of Euphonium in the Instrumental Studies Division at the
University of North Texas. Currently he is the only full time professor of euphonium in a major
music school in the United States.
Dr. Bowman enjoys a distinguished career as a soloist, clinician, recording artist, educator and
administrator. Dr. Bowman has held the principal euphonium and soloist position in each of the
bands he has been associated with: The University of Michigan Symphony Band, The United
States Navy Band, The United States Air Force Band, The River City Brass Band and The Summit Brass. He is in demand as a guest soloist with high school, university, municipal and professional ensembles. He has performed as a soloist in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico, The Virgin Islands, Norway, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Australia,
Japan, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. He has appeared as tenor tubist with the National Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and has performed concertos with the Lexington Kentucky Symphony, the Sapporo Japan, Symphony Orchestra and the North Carolina
Symphony. In addition to his live performances, Dr. Bowman can be heard on over 35 service
band recordings and his six solo albums.
The Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music and the ALIVE Project are pleased to present:
The Tuba:
Performance and Pedagogy
Online Masterclass with Rex Martin
Thursday, January 29 7:30!9:00 PM
St. John’s!Ravenscourt School 400 South Drive
Rex Martin, professor of music at Northwestern Univer!
sity, has been playing the tuba since the age of nine and is
one of the most respected performers and pedagogues in
the world. He received performance degrees from Illinois
State University and Northwestern University, where he
studied with Arnold Jacobs and Edward Livingston. His
playing can be heard on more than 100 recordings of
various ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony Or!
chestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Pro Mu!
sica, Tower Brass, Chicago Sinfonietta and the Lyric Op!
era of Chicago. He has played on over 3000 television
and radio commercials and has also performed with the
New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra,
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Or!
chestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Zurich Ton!
halle Orchestra. His students occupy positions in orches!
tras and universities throughout the world, and he was
awarded the Outstanding Young Alumni Award by Illinois
State University. He previously held professorships at
DePaul University, Illinois State University, University of
Illinois at Chicago, The University of Notre Dame, and
The Oberlin Conservatory. As a soloist and clinician, he
has performed and taught throughout North America,
the Far East and Europe. A Swiss citizen, he also teaches
at Ticino Musica in Lugano, Switzerland, and has trav!
elled to Europe ninety!nine time times to give recitals
and masterclasses. His solo CD, "Rex Martin Live in
Japan" was released in 2008 on the WAKO label.
Students and teachers of all levels are welcome.
Students, performers and teachers of all levels are invited to attend.
Contact Stewart Smith for details: [email protected]
Contact Stewart Smith for details: [email protected]
The Marcels A. Desautels Faculty of Music and the ALIVE Project present
TROMBONE
MASTERCLASS
Featuring
NORMAN
BOLTER
Saturday, April 10
11:00 - 12:30
St. John’s-Ravenscourt School
400 South Drive
The Universtiy of Manitoba Faculty of Music and the ALIVE Project present:
Horn Masterclass
GAIL
WILLIAMS
featuring
Thursday, April 2
7:00 - 8:30 PM
St. John’s-Ravenscourt
400 South Drive
Gail Williams is an internationally recognized hornist and brass pedagogue. She has
presented concerts, master classes, recitals
and tectures throughout North America, as
well as in Europe and Asia. Ms. Williams
joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in December 1978, and was appointed Associate Principal Horn in 1984, a position she held until her retirement from the orchestra in 1998.
Norman Bolter played in the trombone section of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1975 through 2007. He
joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1975 at age 20, becoming the youngest member of the orchestra at that
time. He is a former principal trombonist of the Boston Pops Orchestra, as well as being a founding member of the
Empire Brass Quintet. Mr. Bolter also has received critical acclaim as a guest soloist and regularly appears in recital
both as a performer and premiering a number of his own compositions. In addition to his numerous trombone solos,
Bolter performed the acclaimed tenor tuba solo in the 1990 BSO recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 7 and also
plays euphonium on the Minnesota Orchestra recording of Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss.
She is currently principal horn of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra. As featured horn
soloist, Ms. Williams has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, SapCamera, New
World Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Syracuse Symphony,
among others. Ms. Williams has also performed in 2004 as Principal Horn with the Saito Kenin
Orchestra with Maestro Ozawa in Matsumoto, Japan. And in 2005 she performed as Principal
Horn with the World Orchestra for Peace with Maestro Gergiev at concerts in London, Berlin,
Moscow and Beijing.
Norman Bolter has composed music from a very early age, with the last decade witnessing an outpouring of new
works, winning him acclaim as a composer both in the U.S. and abroad. Compositions by Bolter have been
commissioned by numerous organizations and individuals, including Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the ZellmerMinnesota Orchestra Trombone Competition, the University of St. Thomas, the Online Trombone Journal, New
York Philharmonic principal trombonist Joseph Alessi, and several Boston Symphony Orchestra colleagues. His
conducting and coaching includes the NEC Trombone Ensemble and brass chamber music groups as well as the
Frequency Band, which he co-founded and directs.
She has performed with the Vermeer Quartet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in
New York City, and was the featured artist on a chamber music series in Ottawa, Canada with the
National Arts Orchestra of Canada. She is a founding member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians
and an original member of the Summit Brass.
Norman Bolter has been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory since 1981 and also teaches at the Longy
School and Amherst College. He is co-author, with Dr. Carol Viera, of several papers and booklets, including
Methods of Effective Practice, High Range Exercises, It's Not All in the Air, and Metronome Meditation.
There is no admission.
Ms. Williams has given master classes and recitals around the world, working with musicians at
Juillard, New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, the New World Symphony,
Eastman School of Music, and many other insitutions.
Gail Williams is currently the horn professor at Northwestern University, where she has been on
the faculty since 1989. During 2009, Ms. Williams will be recording three new CD’s of chamber
and solo works.
Brass players and educators of all levels are welcome.
There is no admission fee. Players and teachers of all levels are invited.
For details contact Stewart Smith at [email protected]
Contact Stewart Smith for details: [email protected]