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Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData School of Music Programs Music 11-1-2005 Illinois State University Symphony Orchestra Annual Fall Tour Glenn Block Director/Conductor Illinois State University Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/somp  Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Block, Glenn Director/Conductor, "Illinois State University Symphony Orchestra Annual Fall Tour" (2005). School of Music Programs. 2879. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/somp/2879 This Concert Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Music at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in School of Music Programs by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact ISUReD@ilstu.edu. ~ llinois State Universit_y J=.ollege of fine Arts School of Music I I I I I I I I I I I I I ]llinois State [Jniversit~ S_ymphon_y Orchestra Annual fall Tour Glenn !)lock., Music Director and Conductor T uesda~, November 1, 2005 Thursda~, November?, 2005 Normal Communit~ High School (Normal) (Jniversit~ High School (Normal) Glenbard West High School (Glen E__ll~n) Lincoln-Wa~ Central High School (New Lenox) L~ons Township High School (LaGrange) Glenbard E_ast High School (Lombard) York High School (E_lmhurst) This is the fortieth program of the 2005-2006 season. frogram Flease tum ott cell phones and pagers for the duration of the concert. Tha nk You. (5elections to be chosen trom the following tour repertoire) Symphony Fantastique March to the Gallows Symphonic Metamorphosis Andantino March Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Serenade No. 6 in D, K. 239 "Serenata notturna" Marcia Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Menuetto - Trio Rondo Capriccio Espagnol Alborada Variazioni Alborada Scena e Canto gitano Fandango asturiano Sarah Gc:ntr!J, violin (I acult!J) Anton!J Vernc:r, violin Colleen Kuraszek, viola William Koehler, doublt: bass (I a cult!J) Mark E._ricksen, violin 15Ll Artist f acult!:I Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) James Major, Director School of Music Dean Lon Gordon, Dean, College of Fine Arts Sarah Gentry, violin Kate Hamilton, viola Greg Hamiliton, cello William Koehler, bass Kim Risinger,jlute Judith Dicker, oboe David Gresham, clarinet Michael Dicker, bassoon Joe Neisler, horn Amy· Gilreath-Major, trumpet Stephen Parsons, trombone Michael Forbes, tuba/euphonium David Collier, percussion I I E:>iographies I . Glenn Block has served as the Director of Orchestras and Opera and Professor of Conducting at Illinois I State University since 1990. ln addition, he is in his 23'd year as Music Director of the Youth Symphony of Kansas City. Prior to his appointment at Illinois State in the fall of 1990, Dr. Block served for 15 years as Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at the Conservatory of Music of the University of Missouri - Kansas City and Music Director of the Kansas City Civic Orchestra. Born in Brooklyn, Dr. I I Block was educated at the Eastman School of Music. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I A frequent guest conductor, he has appeared in over 42 states with all-state and professional orchestras. Foreign guest conducting have included concerts and master classes at the Fountainebleau Conservertoire in France, and concerts in Spain, Canada, Colombia, Estonia, Russia, Italy, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia. He has served on the Boards of Directors for both the Conductors Guild and the Youth Orchestra Division of the American Symphony Orchestra League. The Youth Symphony of Kansas City and Dr. Block made their Carnegie Hall debut in June, 1997. Dr. Block has served on the faculty of the National Music Camp at Interlachen as Resident Conductor of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra, and at the lnterlochen Arts Academy as Visiting Conductor. In addition, he has served as Music Director of the Summer Festival Orchestra at the Rocky Ridge Music Center in Estes Park, Colorado. In the summer of 2000, Dr. Block and the Youth Symphony of Kansas City were featured as the Festival Orchestra at the Western Slopes Music Festival in Crested Butte, Colorado and at festivals in northern Italy and Tuscany. In the summer of 2001, Dr. Block was invited to return to Italy to guest conduct at a series of Italian music festivals with Italian orchestras and to teach conducting at the Academica Boccherini in Lucca. Dr. Block and the Youth Symphony of Kansas City will return to Italy during the summer of 2006 for a series of concerts at Italian summer festivals. Sarah Gentry is Associate Professor of Violin at Illinois State University, where she also teaches music theory. She studied violin with Sally O'Reilly at Louisiana State University, where she graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Music. Receiving her Master of Music degree from Yale University, Gentry studied violin with Sydney Harth and chamber music with members of the Tokyo String Quartet. Gentry earned her Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University where she studied with Franco Gulli and Henryk Kowalski. While at Indiana she was awarded a full-tuition scholarship plus stipend as an Associate Instructor of Music Theory. Gentry currently perform as Concertmaster of the Illinois Opera Orchestra, first violinist of the ISU Faculty Quartet and violinist of the Ricard Trio which was featured in the Canterbury (England) Music Festival. Gentry has also served as Concertmaster of the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana and Assistant Concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, a post which she held for seven years. Other recent activities include solo performances with the Lake Charles Symphony Orchestra (LA), Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana (IL), Millennium Strings of Morris, NY, and performing and teaching as Faculty Artist at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. William Koehler is Professor of Music at Illinois State University where he teaches applied double bass, string techniques, string pedagogy, graduate courses in music education including psychology of music, and improvisation. He has just released his second CD entitled Vandana Joumey2gether with tabla virtuoso Manpreet Bedi, featuring a number of original compositions in Indian and World music styles, and extended improvisations. The CD has received great reviews in Double Bassist (London) and Bass World, the official publication of the International Society of Bassists. In addition, he has completed a new book entitled A Guide to the Developmemal Process of Improvisation and Composition, which is available through Scharer Publications, in Graebenzell, Germany. A native of New York City, Dr. Koehler has performed in England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Russia and Belo-Russia, Puerto Rico, and throughout the U.S. He has performed in numerous orchestras in New York City, the southeast, the mid-west and has performed with notable jazz and improvising musicians such as Sam Brown, Joe Tekula, Harold Seletsky, Umalpurim Siveraman, Patrick Marks, John Clark, Joe Morello, John Campbell, Carl Fontana, Dave Bun-ell, Jimmy Guiffre, Richard Davis, David Baker, Harvey Phillips, Turk Van Lake, and Nashville country music producer Byron Gallimore. Koehler is also an active performer in the electronic music medium on MIDI Electric Double Bass, having performed annually at the College Music Society - Technology Symposiums. Illinois State (jniversit_y S_ymphon_y Orchestra Violin I Antony Verner, concertmaster, Wellington, New Zealand Victoria Kuchta, co-concertmaster, Countryside Mark Ericksen, co-concertmaster Dekalb Sunhyung Cho, Seoul, Korea ' Katelyn Eldridge, Oakbrook Terrace Hye-Ock Kim, Seoul, Korea Jennifer Kluchenek, Orland Park Kate Markowski , Elmhurst Hyosun Yoon, Austin.TX Violin II Vonique Wilson, principal, Rockford Christina Anderson, LaGrange Park Alexander Choban, Normal Christopher Golick, Bloomington Rebekah Kronborg-Mogil, Park Ridge Arcadia Kust, Brookfield Taylor Nix, Alton David Victor, Buffalo Grove Viola Colleen Kuraszek, principal, Lake in the Hills Colleen Doyle, Elmhurst Ashlei Isaiah, St. Louis Pamela Kaufman, Winslow Edith Klostermann, Juelich, Germany Jakob Sedig, Sterling Cello Aleisha Verner, principal, Wellington, New Zealand Ruth Blakemore, Streator Juliane Festag, Bodelwitz, Germany Gretchen Hornickel, Decatur Nate Kappes, Elgin Kim Wedesky, Aurora Ruth-Anne Yang, Hamilton, Ontario Bass Jacob Mariani, principal, Bloomington Mallory Alekna, Rockford David Genty, Dahinda Chris Griffith, Lake Forest Dorian Jackman, Billings, MT Karl Kieser, Pekin Brandon Mooberry, Morton Christine Riotto, Elgin Michael White, Flossmoor Flute Emily Brooks, principal, Galesburg Erin Lacox, Bloomington Elizabeth Loy, piccolo, Spring Valley Oboe Laura Israelsen, principal, Aurora Anna Keehan, Hoffman Estates Clarinet Jessica Boese, principal, Shorewood Patrick Steadman, Normal Jennifer Bendy, bass clarinet, New Lenox Bassoon Amy Zordan, principal, Odell Michelle Sawyer, Sharpsburg, GA Hillary Miller, contrabassoon, Morrison Horn Anna Henry, principal, McLean Danielle Fisher, Shirley John Hansen, Pontiac Christine Smeltzer Tawnya Smith, Arcanum, OH. Trumpet Joel Adair, principal, Palestine, TX Brandon Kelsey, Aurora Kevin Price, Jackson, TN Trombone Bradley Harris, principal, Forest City, IA Matthew Gabriel, Quincy John Garvens, bass, Freeport Tuba Paul Nesper, principal, Tinley Park Timpani/Percussion Chris Keniley, principal, Mattoon Ken Broy, East Peoria Joe Bailey, Decatur, Ga. Patrick Keelan, Evergreen Park Lawerence Rogers, Homer Glen Staff Jennifer Kluchenek, manager Pamela Kaufman, librarian Victoria Kuchta, tour manager Mark Ericksen, webmaster Chris Griffith, public relations I I I I I I I I I I I I I 

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