Monday Evening, April 13, 2015, at 7:00

Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General DirectorJonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic Director

presents

Ring of Fire: Pacific SoundsAnthony Giles, DirectorDistinguished Concerts Singers International

Spice, Magic, and Mystique: Choral Music of Southeast Asia

INCHAI SRISUWAN Phra met ta

CHIEN SHAN-HUA Diu diu dang a

AMERIC TING-WEI GOH Ni wa wa

RODOLFO DELARMENTE Dumbele

NELSON KWEI Potong Padi

BUDI SUSANTO YOHANES Janger

Intermission

Inglemoor High School OrchestraJames Rice, Director

GUSTAV HOLST St. Paul’s Suite for String Orchestra, Op. 29, No. 2I. JigII. OstinatoIII. IntermezzoIV. Finale (the Dargason)

JACK JARRETT Serenade for StringsIII. Meditation

Avery Fisher Hall Please make certain your cellular phone,pager, or watch alarm is switched off.

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ERNEST BLOCH Concerto Grosso No. 1 for String Orchestra with Piano Obbligato

I. PreludeIV. Fugue

Brief Pause

Inglemoor High School Wind EnsembleTed Christensen, Director

WILLIAM CHERRY Dedicatory Fanfare

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Bist Du Bei Mir (If Thou Be Near)

TIMOTHY MAHR Endurance

JULIUS FUCÍK The Florentiner (Grande Marcia Italiana)

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Notes on the ProgramSpice, Magic, and Mystique: ChoralMusic of Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is commonly understood tobe the region north of Australia, south ofChina and east of India although somedefinitions include Taiwan at the north.(NWE 2009). With several races, religions,countries, and political systems, as well ascountless distinct cultures and languages,Southeast Asia is one of the world’s mostdiverse regions. This program focuses onthe six most chorally active countries in theSoutheast Asian region: Indonesia,Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore,Thailand, and Taiwan.

While different in history and culture, thesecountries share increasing prominence inchoral performance and composition. Choirsfrom the Philippines have been present onthe world stage since at least the late1970s. The excellence of Singaporeanchoirs has widely been recognized sincethe 1990s. More recently, the abundanceof choirs in Indonesia has included severalthat have travelled and made their markin international competitions. Malaysiaand Thailand are beginning to competeat an international level; recent events inthese two countries indicate a desire onthe part of local choral musicians to builda vigorous environment for performanceand composition.

These advancements appear to signal thatthe center of gravity in choral music,located in its birthplace of Europe andNorth America, is starting to shift to Asia.Southeast Asia, with its proximity to strongchoral traditions in China, Japan, andKorea, will inevitably become evenstronger and more organized. The regionwill likely be more significant, not only inperformance but in composition as well.

As this shift continues, hurdles in musiceducation, conductor training, publishingand copyright, infrastructure, scholarlyactivity, instrument availability and exper-tise, and performance venues will continueto be overcome.

The birth and spread of choral music inSoutheast Asia is directly related toWestern colonization, industrialization, andglobalization. Further, the spread ofChristianity has been an important contributorto the growth of choral music in SoutheastAsia. The current circumstances andrecent history of each country are dissimi-lar. The Philippines had a long associationwith Spain and the USA and the populationis at least 80% Christian. Thailand, by con-trast, the only country in the region not tohave been ruled by a Western power, ispredominantly Buddhist, and is onlyrecently developing its choral culture. Eventhough Indonesia is a Christian minoritycountry (10% approximately), most of thehundreds of choirs are connected tochurches. In Malaysia (peninsular and East)choirs, although small in number, are inte-grated into church and community. For itssize, Singapore has built an enviable repu-tation as a society that supports excellenceand participation in choral music throughsubstantial government support.

The pieces in this program represent aspecific array of compositional and arrang-ing models. Phra met ta is an original compo-sition using traditional melodic and rhythmicelements; Dumbele, Janger, Potong Padi,and Ni wa wa are arrangements of traditionalsongs. Diu diu dang a is an arrangement of apopular children’s song.

—Boston, January 2008 Andre de Quadros

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Phra met taINCHAI SRISUWAN (born 1953)

Phra met ta is an original setting of twoverses from Psalm 25 adapted by RuthSrisuwan. The a cappella setting for fourvoices builds an intense polyphonic textureall within the pentatonic scale. The workwas written while Srisuwan was a studentat the Asian Institute for Liturgical Music inthe Philippines. The composer describes itas a prayer written during a challengingperiod of his life.

Inchai Srisuwan is an ethnomusicologistand composer living in Bangkok. He wasborn in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, andreceived his first degree in church music atthe Payap University. His studies continuedin the 1980s at the Asian Institute forLiturgy and Music (AILM) in the Philippineswhere he earned degrees in ethnomusicol-ogy and composition. His research hasincluded the development of his own nota-tional system to help disseminate the oralinstrumental traditions of central Thailand.He now works as a church musician and asa composer.

Diu diu dang a CHIEN SHAN-HUA (born 1954)

Diu diu dang a is a pentatonic folk song ofthe I-Lan county area of northeasternTaiwan, the island off the eastern Chinesemainland formerly known as Formosa. Thissong was probably composed during theperiod of Japanese occupation, 1895–1945,and is very famous in Taiwan, existing inmany different arrangements for solosinger, for chorus, and for instrumentalensemble. It was arranged in 1990 andwas premiered by the Yin Qi choir.

Principally, I-Lan has always been a farmingcounty with very few factories where thelocal residents are proud of their fresh air

and unpolluted environment. As there wasno road connecting I-Lan and Taipei (thecapital city of Taiwan), trains were the easiestway to travel. This railway was one of theearliest built on the island. There weremany tunnels on the way, where conden-sation resulted in falling droplets. Whenthe train passed through the tunnels, thedrops falling on the roof of the train madea sound imitated in local dialect as “diudiu dang.”

This unaccompanied setting of the songrepresents the sound of the train startingup very slowly, getting faster, and finallyreaching its destination, blending the “diu diudang” with the “uuu” of the train’s whistle.

Chien Shan-Hua graduated from theNational Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in1976 with a major in voice and composition.He started his music career as a teacherand also conducted field research on theaboriginal music of the Yami tribe, thearea in which he is currently directingfield work.

Professor Chien is currently chairperson ofthe department of music at NTNU. He isalso a board member of the TaiwanComposers’ Association and the ISCM-Taiwan section, and has been commissionedto compose by the Council for CulturalPlanning and Development of Taiwan. He isthe choral director of the Yin Qi choir, andhas conducted the Chin Shei choir, theTaiwan University choir, and the Girls’ Choirof the music department at NTNU.

In addition to his musical achievements inTaiwan, Professor Chien received a mastersof fine arts from the University of Californiaat Irvine, in 1980, a diploma in compositionat the Hochschule fur Musik und darstellendeKunst in Vienna, Austria, in 1986, and alsoreceived the Alban Berg Foundation Award.

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Ni wa waAMERIC TING-WEI GOH

Ni wa wa is a setting of a popular children’ssong which Goh recalls hearing as a boywhen his mother would sing this traditionalsong to his sister and him. Although thetune and lyrics convey a simple sentiment,Goh was struck by the strong emotion achild would feel for a small clay doll. Gohchose to set the tune in four miniatures,with each version presenting the tune in adifferent voice: soprano, alto, tenor, andbass, respectively. The tune appears hereonly as Goh remembers it and he notesthat it may be slightly different from theway other children of his generationremember it.

Americ Ting-Wei Goh studied compositionin the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts,Singapore, under John Sharpley and GohToh Chai. He also studied compositionunder Leong Yoon Pin and Jennifer Thamand abroad at the Universitat fur Musik andDarstellende Kunst, Graz. His music hasbeen performed by choral and instrumen-tal ensembles in Singapore such as theSYC Ensemble Singers, The Singers,Amadeus Choral Society and schoolchoirs, Philharmonic Winds, Mus’ArtPercussion Ensemble, and the SingaporeWind Symphony Percussion Ensemble.

DumbeleRODOLFO DELARMENTE

Dumbele is a piece meant to accompanyritual and was composed by Mr.Delarmente based on Ramon Obusan’sresearch into dance rituals. The piecedepicts a ritual to honor the rain god,Dumbele, after the tribe had suffered for

years under a famine which had come aspunishment for the people’s ingratitude. Thework is divided into four parts: the summon-ing of the people to a ritual in the fields, theresponse from Dumbele, his downpour, andthe Thanksgiving that follows. The composi-tion contains onomatopoeic phonemesthat imitate the sound of rain, transformingfrom a drizzle to downpour. In its originalform this piece was premiered in the 1980s.The current arrangement alludes to thesound of different animals, especially birds.

Rodolfo Delarmente has enjoyed a longand highly praised career as professor andconductor at De La Salle University inManila, Philippines. His choirs have touredthe world, including a renowned series oftours through Europe in the 1990s and 2000s.He has received commendations at everylevel, among them recognition as “Conductorof the Year” from the then-PresidentFerdinand Marcos. His arrangements andcompositions are performed by choirs acrossSoutheast Asia and his prominence in thechoral world is acknowledged internationally.

Potong PadiNELSON KWEI

Potong Padi is an arrangement of a Malaytraditional song and depicts the sights andsounds of the rice paddy (padi) during harvest.The melody and lyrics are derived from thework song and dance of farmers as theyharvest the rice. Mr. Kwei’s beautiful, sim-ple arrangement herein was fashioned forthis edition and is based on his own arrange-ment for men’s chorus. The men’s versionwas commissioned and premiered by theVictoria School Choir of Singapore forthe Singapore Youth Festival ChoralCompetition in 1995.

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Nelson Kwei is a conductor, arranger, andteacher. He was educated in the U.K. atthe Guildhall School of Music. He has sincebecome a highly honored conductor andrecipient of numerous awards and com-mendations for his contributions to thefield of choral music. He has been honoredby organizations such as the JapaneseChamber of Commerce and Industry, thePetr Eben International Choral Competition,and the Choir Olympics held in Germanyand China. Presently he is the chairman ofthe Choral Directors’ Association,Singapore, and a member of Singapore’sNational Arts Council’s Advisory Board forChoral Development.

JangerBUDI SUSANTO YOHANES (born 1979)

Janger is a traditional Balinese song anddance characterized by jagged rhythmsand a quick tempo. This song is frequentlysung by Balinese children while they dancethe Janger together during evening partiesand is usually accompanied by instrumentsfrom the traditional Balinese gamelanensemble, here imitated by the voices.The traditional song commonly features asequence of dancing and singing from thegirls with boisterous physical and vocaloutbursts from the boys.

Budi Susanto Yohanes was born in 1979 inBlitar, East Java, Indonesia, and originallytrained as an electrical engineer. He is thefounder and conductor of the GraciosoSonora Choir for whom he writes many ofhis works. Today he is focused primarily onteaching voice, conducting, and arrangingfolk songs for Indonesian choirs. His wide-spread reputation as a composer hasresulted in his receiving commissions andperformances from around Southeast Asiaand beyond.

St. Paul’s Suite for String Orchestra, Op. 29, No. 2GUSTAV HOLST

Holst completed the St. Paul’s Suite in1913 in thanks to the St. Paul’s Girls’School for providing him with a largesoundproof room for his work. This newstudio sported double windows, twopianos, and central heating. The first move-ment begins with a robust Jig. TheOstinato opens with a figure played by thesecond violins, then a solo viola introducesthe principal theme. In the Intermezzo, asolo violin introduces the principal themeover pizzicato chords, then the solo violajoins in a duet. After an animated sec-tion, the original melody is again heard,now performed by a quartet of soloists.Finally, Dargason is introduced very softly,then cellos enter playing the beautiful“Greensleeves” and the two folk songsare played together.

Serenade for StringsJACK JARRETT

Meditation is an exceptionally lyrical worktaken from Jarrett’s Serenade for Strings.The engaging harmonies, slow develop-ment, and full breadth of expressive oppor-tunities allow our orchestra to strive for thehighest levels of musicianship.

Concerto Grosso No. 1 for StringOrchestra with Piano ObbligatoERNEST BLOCH

Concerto Grosso No. 1 was composedduring 1925 and 1926, and is scored forstring orchestra with piano obbligato infour movements. The contrasting timbresof the strings and the piano suggest theBaroque figured bass and the texture is gen-erally contrapuntal and actually polytonal. In

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the Prelude, the melodic material is oftenshort and motivic. The last movement notonly is in a Baroque form, the fugue, but alsocontrasts solo strings against the full ensem-ble, reminiscent of Bach’s BrandenburgConcerto No. 3. This piece wonderfully con-trasts the Baroque compositional tech-niques with the 20th century techniques ofpolytonal clashes and polymetric shifts.

Dedicatory FanfareWILLIAM CHERRY

Dedicatory Fanfare by contemporary com-poser William Cherry follows the traditionalpurpose of this type of composition: to intro-duce an instrumental performance. Fanfaresare also well known for their use in militarybands in the United States to announce thearrival of the President, a general or otherhigh-ranking dignitaries. This particular fan-fare is very contemporary in sound, with richharmonies, various styles and broad melodiclines, yet it manages to maintain the pompand circumstance of the traditional fanfare.

Bist Du Bei Mir (If Thou Be Near)JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Bist Du Bei Mir (If Thou Be Near) was com-posed by Johann Sebastian Bach of the lateBaroque period. Bach, a music teacher aswell as an organist and choirmaster copiedout two collections of music for his secondwife, Anna Magdalena Wulken, who was afine soprano. These volumes of music havecome to be known as the Anna MagdalenaNotebooks. In the second of the note-books are included several songs, one ofwhich is Bist Du Bei Mir ( If Thou BeNear).

Bist Du Bei Mir is an expression of a deepand abiding love of a husband for his wife orwife for her husband.

EnduranceTIMOTHY MAHR

Endurance, composed by Timothy Mahr(born 1956 ), is a reflection upon the infi-nite endurance of the human spirit, the reli-gious spirit, and the spirit of the earth.Initial inspiration for this work came froma book of the same title by AlfredLandsing, documenting the amazingstory of the ill-fated expeditions of theAntarctic explorer Sir Edward Shackeltonin 1914. His ship the Endurance becameice-bound and eventually sank, strandingShackelton and his crew of 27. They sur-vived for 15 months exposed to the unre-lenting, dangerous Antarctic weather andmiraculously lived to tell the tale. Thestrength of character by these men in endur-ing incredible hardships is truly awe-inspir-ing. All three spirits—human, religious, andearth are intertwined in this amazing storyof human survival against all odds.

The Florentiner (Grande Marica Italiana)JULIUS FUCÍK

Composer Julius Fucík (1872–1917) wasamong the brightest jewels in wind bandcomposers. Anyone associated with windband music would have instant recognitionof Fucík and his particular style. In hisshort, brilliant career during which heserved as bandmaster to the 86thHungarian Infantry Regiment at Budapest,Fucík developed his own wide-rangingstyle of writing marches. This was a popu-lar dual profession among bandmastersamidst the ongoing nationalism flourishingin Europe. Thus, it is not surprising to find aHungarian writing a grand Italian march andoutdoing many of Italy’s own composers.

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Texts and TranslationsPhra met taINCHAI SRISUWAN

Phra pen jao song mi met taKhaw nam pha ya hai kha longHai jit jai khong kha man khongDoen trong pai tam phra thaiMi jit man khong nai ong phra jaoPhu song mi met ta.Hai kha doen tam phra ongMai long jak nam phra thai.Mi jit jai man khongDoen trong pai tam phra thai

The Lord God is merciful He will not lead me astray. Make my heart steadfast Walk according to Thy will Make my heart firm in Thee,The Lord of mercy. Let me follow Thee So I may never stray from Thy will. So I may walk according to Thy will. Make my heart firm.

Diu diu dang aCHIEN SHAN-HUA

A train races swiftly and enters a tunnel.Inside the tunnel, water droplets falling on the train car roofmake a sound: “diu diu dang.”As the train rapidly progresses, the “ho-

ho” voices of the train whistle mix with the “diu diu dang” tune.

Ni wa wa AMERIC TING-WEI GOH

Ni wa wa, ni wa wa, yi ge ni wa wa.Ye you na mei mao, ye you na yan jing,yan jing bu hui zha.Ni wa w,a ni wa wa, yi ge ni wa wa.Ye you na bi zi, ye you na zui ba,zui ba bu shuo huaTa shi ge jia wa wa, bu shi ge zhen wa wa,Ta mei you qin ai de ba ba,ye mei you ma ma,Ni wa wa, ni wa wa, yi ge ni wa wa,Wo zuo ta ba ba, wo zuo ta ma ma,yong yuan ai zhe ta.

Clay doll, clay doll, a clay doll. She has those brows, those eyes, eyes that do not blink. Clay doll, clay doll, a clay doll. She has that nose, that mouth, a mouth that does not speak. She is unreal, not a genuine child. She has neither a loving mother, nor a

father. Clay doll, clay doll, a clay doll. I’ll be her mother; I’ll be her father, loving her forever.

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Potong PadiNELSON KWEI

Waktu potong padi di tengah sawah Sambil menyanyi bersukaria Marilah kita bersama-sama Memotong padi di tengah sawah Mari, mari potong padi.

It is harvest time! While we work In the middle of the paddy

field, Let’s sing, dance, and be merry. Come, come harvest the rice paddy.

JangerBUDI SUSANTO YOHANES

Ngiring mejangeran di jabe tengahe Cak, ara kijang jangi janger kopyak epong.Kopyak sede kopyak sedopak dedopong.Sriag sriog, ngining mejangeran di jabe

tengahe.

Let’s dance (janger) in the middle of thehouse (jabe tengahe).[Lines 2 and 3 are comprised of phonemesmeant to imitate a traditional Balinesegamelan ensemble]Swaying to and fro, let us dance in the mid-dle of the house.

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Meet the Artists

Anthony Giles, Director

Anthony Giles is the director of highschool choirs and the high school fineand performing arts chair at InternationalSchool Bangkok where he has servedsince 2010. Since moving to ISB hisensembles have been featured at regionalevents including BICF, IASAS CC,EARCOS, and most recently the 2013 ThaiMinistry of Education Conference. For 18years before teaching at ISB, Mr. Giles wasthe director of choirs at Kentridge HighSchool and director of music ministries atFirst Evangelical Presbyterian Church, bothsoutheast of Seattle. His award-winningchoirs at Kentridge performed at theWashington State and NW RegionalNAFME conferences as well as with theVancouver Symphony Orchestra (theOrpheum), the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra(the Pantages), and the New EnglandChamber Orchestra (Carnegie Hall). Formore than a decade he co-directed theNorthwest Choir Camp Senior Choir atFlathead Lutheran Bible Camp on FlatheadLake, Montana, and served as thefounder and director of Southlake ChoirCamp (now a musical theater campthrough the Kent Civic and PerformingArts). In addition to his current post inBangkok, Mr. Giles is active as a guestconductor, singer, and clinician. He andhis wife, Jackie, and children, Zachary, 12,and Cruz, 5, love living in Thailand. Theirdaughters, Amanda, 19, and Mackenzie,21, attend Colorado School of Mines, andrecently graduated from WashingtonState University, respectively. Mr. Giles isexcited to be presenting music of south-

east Asia in this, his Lincoln Center andDCINY conducting debut.

James Rice, Director

Jim Rice is an orchestra, band, and jazzband director at Inglemoor High School inthe Northshore School District ofWashington State. He is also an affiliateteacher of the Woodring College ofEducation at Western WashingtonUniversity and Everett CommunityCollege, and has been the music directorand conductor of the Everett YouthSymphony and a brass coach for theCascade Youth Symphony Orchestras. Mr.Rice, an avid proponent of a well-balancedmusic program, has had outstandinggroups, earning consistent superior or firstplace ratings in all areas of instrumentalmusic performance involving concert, jazz,marching, and small ensembles in eachschool music program in which he hastaught. He is a summa cum laude graduateof Central Washington University with aB.A. Ed. in music, and he has earned aM.A. in music from the University ofWashington. In addition to his teachingassignments Mr. Rice is the president-elect of the Washington Music EducatorsAssociation and past president of theNorthwest Division of NAfME: TheNational Association for Music Education.He has served as vice president of theWMEA, and in 2008 he was selected as acandidate for MENC (now NAfME) nationalpresident. As a member of the MENCNational Executive Board, Mr. Rice servedas chair of the Partnership ReviewCommittee, member of the CentennialPlanning Committee and NationalConventions Selection Task Force, andwas board liaison to CMENC, Society for

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General Music and General Music Today.He has served as chair of the MENCSociety for Orchestra Education, theOrganizing Chair of the 2007 MENCBiennial Northwest Division In-ServiceConference, the coordinating chair of the2005 MENC All-Northwest Honor Groups,and the 2002 WMEA All-State HonorGroups, as well as the organizing chair ofthe 1997 MENC All-Northwest Orchestra,and the 1990 WMEA All-State JazzEnsemble. He was inducted into theWMEA Hall of Fame in 2008, theNorthwest Bandmasters Association in2010, and in 2011 was honored to receivethe MENC Northwest Division DistinguishedService Award. In 2010 he was recognizedby Central Washington University as anOutstanding Alumni and in 2014 theInglemoor High School OutstandingEducator. Mr. Rice has served on severalcomprehensive curriculum developmentcommittees, and is active throughoutthe western states and Canada as anadjudicator/clinician, conducting theWyoming All-State Orchestra in 2007 and theWashington All-State Junior Orchestra in2011. He also has served as congregationalchairman, elder, music committee member,and choir member at his church. He and hiswife, Donna, have two children, Rachel, anelementary music specialist at Fall CityElementary School in the Snoqualmie ValleySchool District, and Rebecca, an elementarymusic specialist at Canyon Creek ElementarySchool in the Northshore School District.

Ted Christensen,Director

Ted Christensen is the coordinator of musicfor the Northshore School District anddirector of bands at Inglemoor Senior High

School in the Northshore School District(Kenmore, Washington), where he has taughtfor 32 years. Prior to his teaching position atInglemoor, Mr. Christensen taughtinstrumental music at Naches High andMiddle Schools in Naches, WA. Instrumentalgroups from Inglemoor are generally inthe top places at various contests andconsistently receive superior ratings. InFebruary 2000 the Inglemoor WindSymphony was selected to perform at theWashington Music Educators AssociationBiennial Conference as the only high schoolband selected to perform at that conference.In 2003 the Inglemoor Wind Symphonyperformed for the Northwest Division MusicEducators Conference in Bellevue, WA.

Mr. Christensen graduated from SeattlePacific University in 1981 with a bachelors ofarts degree in secondary music education. In1987 he completed his fifth year at theUniversity of Washington. The year of 1993marked the completion of a master of educa-tion degree. In 2006 Mr. Christensen wasinducted into the Washington MusicEducators Hall of Fame and received theInglemoor High School PTSA GoldenAcorn Award in 2010. 2011 marked hisinduction into the Northwest BandMasters Association. The WashingtonInterschool Activities Association Hallinducted him into their hall of fame in 2012.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Mr.Christensen served as Washington MusicEducators Association collegiate president atSeattle Pacific University and was local chair-man (1989) and organization chairman (1990)for the Washington All-State Band. He hasserved 12 years on the board of directors forthe Washington Music EducatorsAssociation. In 1998 he was electedpresident of WMEA. Mr. Christensen isfrequently invited to guest conduct atfestivals and adjudicate competitionsthroughout the Northwest.

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American International School of Guangzhou(China), Tony Bott, Director

The British School Jakarta (Indonesia),Elizabeth Alwi, Director

International School of Bangkok ChamberChoir (Thailand), Anthony Giles, Director

Mark Morris High School Vivace Treble Choirand Advanced Mixed Ensemble (WA),Brian Mitchell, Director

NIST Concert Choir (Thailand), Nicholas Trebesh,Director

Performing Arts PartnersDCINY would like to thank our Performing Arts Partners, who, with their financial support,have made this performance possible.

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Inglemoor High School Orchestra

Violin IEmma ArnoldJanae ChanKatherine DiekemaMichael EclipseZhanpei FangJasmine HawkinsFrederick HuyanVictor HuyanGrace KimLeah MaroneJoe MatsuzawaCaitlin PankratzBenjamin PorterShreya ShahKane Tiedt-HensonKellee Xing

Violin IIJin Seong AhnAndrey ButenkoCarlos Cabullos

Kate ConditSabrina DoElizabeth GrabowskiMichelle GrowseMarcelina HenthornEthan HoffmanZiyan HuKara Lyons-HammondRizelle MartinMichael PadernoAnna PietschJessica PrasetyoMegan SchuhCassandra StarrTong SuAditi TeriarHannah TreeceWilliam TresnonSarah VanlandinghamMayaka WimberleyZoe Young

ViolaPatrick BiIsabella CabullosRebecca CrawfordHanna DudsicGokul GowriThea LundMeghna ManojNathan MorganSharada NarayananFedor PolyanskiyJorge ReyesColin RobinsonErika SchoenhalsRiley SmithDanielle TeifkeAntonia Willnow

CelloEmma AtkinsonMax ChiangNa Young Chung

JoHanna FlahiffSerafina FortinerHeather HablewitzMonika HokeClara Hope SimpsonThomas HughesYuqing LiuMartin NeifertIngrid PonténClaire ShinnerChristian SoperAriel StiberStanley Wu

String BassNolan BushSarah GrabowskiForrest LlyrRyan Ritter-JonesStefan SmetkoTerra Strecker

Inglemoor High School Wind EnsemblePiccoloOlivia Cole

FluteJiwon SeoKatherine BechtelChristiane FlynnMadison RussellAidan PriceAllison TannerNatasha Van Damme

OboeMolly LieShachaf Zahavy

MittelmanKirsten Merritt

ClarinetRosalind FarrellBenjamin CongdonGary WangSummer JohnstonHannah EudyAlyssa Johnsen-KroghSeong Hong

Bass ClarinetMaredith HeckelAdrienne KindschiBrandon Lane

Contra Alto ClarinetElizabeth Williamson

BassoonEmma ChristensenCameron PaulyRachel PetersonEdward Kesicki

Alto SaxophoneTaylor HayaseShelby ColeGarrison FarleyCierra Cameron

Tenor SaxophoneArko BanikAriana HibbardPaige Marler

Baritone SaxophoneHunter NieldAllison Johnson

TrumpetGrant GoheenDaniel NeifertSamina HelsleyRobert ZhouEdward YangMichael LeeTobin HansenMadeline VaughtNoelle SorichEvan Ponto

French HornGia-Angelica GoEmilie KlierKallie GreenshieldsLee-Way WangAnthony Kuykendall

TromboneMark OdendahlRebecca ConnerColin RiceDevin RachelMatthew Hayes

BaritoneAnders SkogPhi NguyenAaron Rowley

TubaTristan WisontArthur Taylor

PercussionSoren StewartTimothy MarchelloMichael van der

LindenTyler CouchSteven WrightAdam KrpanCharles BohlinHannah SvendsenStephen VaughtKendall HarrisBrandon PottsConner ReddickElizabeth SullivanRyan Treece

The Performing Arts Partners list includes names supplied by directors as of February 26, 2015. Anyquestions regarding missing or misspelled names should be addressed to the individual directors.

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DCINY Administrative Staff

Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General DirectorJonathan Griffith, Co-Founder, Artistic

Director, and Principal ConductorDanuta Gross, Director of Finance and

AdministrationKevin Taylor, Associate Director of Program

DevelopmentJason Mlynek, Program DevelopmentJames Meaders, Program DevelopmentNeil McDonald, Program Development

Andrea Macy, Marketing & PromotionsEdmundo Montoya, Production ManagerDeAnna Choi, Finance & AccountingEmily Nelson, Concert OperationsJoshua Grace, Program Development

AssistantMaria Braginsky, Program Development

AssistantKayla Perconti, Marketing AssociateConnor Murphy-White, Intern

For press inquiries please contact Ms. Shira Gilbert at Press@DCINY.org or 212.707.8566 x 316.

2015 DCINY Concert and Artist SeriesPlease join us for one of our other events:

Friday Evening, May 22, 2015, at 7:00Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallA HIGH, LONESOME BLUEGRASS MASSTim Sharp: Come Away to the Skies: A High, Lonesome Mass (New York Premiere)Tim Sharp, Composer/ConductorFeaturing The Chuck Nation Bluegrass Band and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Sunday Evening, May 24, 2015, at 8:30Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallVERDI REQUIEMJonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal ConductorFeaturing Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Monday Evening, May 25, 2015, at 7:00Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln CenterLIFE AND REMEMBRANCEMark Hayes: RequiemMark Hayes, Composer/ConductorPepper Choplin: Our Father: A Journey Through the Lord’s Prayer (New York Premiere)Pepper Choplin, Composer/Conductor Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Sunday Afternoon, June 7, 2015 at 2:00Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallREQUIEM À DEUXFauré: RequiemCraig Jessop, Conductor LaureateDuruflé: RequiemJonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal ConductorFeaturing Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers InternationalDinos Constantinides: Homage-A Folk Concerto for Flute and OrchestraIris Derke, Flute

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Sunday Afternoon, June 14, 2015, at 2:00Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallFUTURE VIBRATIONSMusic for Treble and Youth VoicesFrancisco Núñez, Guest ConductorFeaturing Distinguished Concerts Singers InternationalCentral Oregon Youth OrchestraAmy Goeser-Kolb, DirectorVancouver Pops SymphonyTom Kuo, Director

Friday Evening, November 20, 2015, at 7: 00Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie HallDistinguished Concerts Artist SeriesTHE MUSIC OF DINO CONSTANTINIDES

Sunday Afternoon, November 29, 2015, at 2: 00Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallMESSIAH...REFRESHED!Jonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal ConductorFeaturing Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Monday Evening, December 7, 2015, at 8: 00Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie HallDistinguished Concerts Artist SeriesDEBORAH POPHAM, SOPRANO

For DCINY’s full season listing, visit DCINY.org.

Distinguished Concerts International New York250 W. 57th Street, Suite 1610, New York, NY 10107(212) 707-8566 | DCINY.org

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