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San Francisco
Martin H. Seggelke, ConductorWind Symphony
BridgesBridgesSalnikov
RudinAlfvén
ChastainFerran
The San Francisco Wind Symphony, originally founded as the San Francisco Wind Ensemble, is one of the finest wind bands of its kind on the U.S. West Coast. Comprised of leading musicians from all across California, the SFWS brings high-quality performances of world-class wind band reprtoire to Bay Area audiences and beyond.
One of the San Francisco Wind Symphony’s primary goals is to explore the best music for the wind band genre from around the globe. Since its creation in 2012, the ensemble continues to bring an ever- increasing number of world premieres, U.S. premieres, and West Coast premieres to its concert audiences.
Invited performances at the international conference of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and the California All-State Music Education Conference, as well as live and studio recordings attest to the growing reputation and outstanding musicality of the San Francisco Wind Symphony. Composers, guest artists, critics, and audiences continue to praise the ensemble’s flexible color palette and artistic mission. Most importantly, the members of the SFWS relish the joy of collaborative musicianship - a joy that is passionately shared with you today!
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SAN FRANCISCO WIND SYMPHONYMartin H. Seggelke, Founding Artistic Director and Conductor
PICCOLOAlicia Unis
FLUTEJeannine Dennis*+Beverly Johnson
Grace LaiSusan Roloff
OBOETroy Davis*+
Tiffany Fajardo
ENGLISH HORNAlayne Gyetvai+
BASSOONNathaniels Echols*
Gail Selburn
CONTRABASSOONJuliet Hamak
Eb CLARINETTaylor Jordan*+
Bb CLARINETBecca Ellis
Amar KhalsaChristy Mazzaferro
Peter Norman Alex Robinson+ Robert Smith+
Stephanie Watkins+
BASS CLARINETJeff Bowles
Stephen Zielinski
ALTO SAXBrian Adams
Ron Bowman*
TENOR SAXJohn RobertsonKatie Nishimori
BARITIONE SAXTed Ferrucci
TRUMPETDavid AdamsGene BoyleIan Cochran
Laura HoltzmanMike PakalukDaniel Santos
Laura Shea-Clark*
HORNFabian AlvarezEric Anderson
Alexander ArmsteadKenton KuwadaDawn Murakami
Stephanie PaloczNathan Stroud
TROMBONERandall ChaseTetsuya EndoRami HindiyehMax Perkoff
BASS TROMBONE Todd Weinman*
EUPHONIUMRyan Black
Richard ConcepcionMike Shannon
TUBANeil Bliss
James Manganaro*
CELLOAlex Kahler
Whitman Poling
DOUBLE BASSJim Mazzaferro
Rob Woodcock*
PERCUSSION Ryan Blauvelt+
Mateo Dillaway*Tom Dreiman
Mike KielyJonathan Pedroni
Erica RichstadJason SanderBrian Sears
Wendy Tran
HARPDana Wallace
PIANO Esther Hollander+
*section leader+SFWS board member
German-born conductor Dr. Martin H. Seggelke is the Founding Artistic Director and Conductor of the San Francisco Wind Symphony, currently residing as a music professor and administrator at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Previously, he has held several professional positions as Music Director and Conductor, and has taught at universities in California, New York, Minnesota, Illinois, and Germany.
Ensembles under Dr. Seggelke’s leadership have enjoyed critical acclaim at national and international conferences and performance venues. He has recorded on the Naxos, Klavier, and Mark Custom labels, including productions at Skywalker Ranch and winning the American Prize in 2015. He is a highly sought-after guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator across the globe, and has commissioned and premiered dozens of new compositions. In addition, Seggelke has presented at national and international conferences, authored book chapters and articles for a variety of music magazines, and has won numerous awards, prizes and grants as a connductor. Composers, ensemble musicians, audiences, and critics continue to praise his emotional interpretations and innovative concert programming.
Seggelke holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Conducting from the Eastman School of Music, and further degrees from universities in the U.S., Canada, and Germany. His teachers include Mark Scatterday, Neil Varon, Brad Lubman, Donald Hunsberger, Christoph Eschenbach, Toshiyuki Shimada, Paula Holcomb, Glenn Price, Felix Hausworthm, Gunther Schuller, Paul Vermel, Pierre Kuijpers, Baldur Bronnimann, Frederick Fennell, and Claus Peter Flor.
Dr. Martin H. Seggelke
CREDITS: Recorded in San Mateo, CA, June 1st - 3rd, 2018Produced by Brad Genevro and Martin Seggelke
Recorded, edited and mixed by Bruce LeekCover art by KTJ Design
THANK YOU:Pamela Alms, Maxime Aulio, Frank Banuelos, Eva Banuelos, Susan Bell, Ryan Blauvelt, Bruce Blauvelt, Tyler Blauvelt, Sharman Blood, Jeff Bowles, Meire Bremer, Todd Caporaso, Susan Carol, Julie Ceballos, Brian Chang, Scott Chow,
Sue Crum, Laura Dalton, Troy Davis, Angela De Natale, Jeannine Dennis, Stephanie Dowd, Tom Dreiman, Nathaniel Echols, Maggie Eggert, Kathy Ellis, Anton Estaniel, Natalia Estassi Papakostas, Katie Fortune, Brad Genevro, Daniel Giray, Marcie
Gradwohl, Jonathan Gragg, Jeremiah Graves, Chris Griffis, Mara Grimes, Alayne Gyetvai, Shannon Hernandez,Calisa Hildebrand, Colleen Hildebrand, Brad Hogarth, Frank Hunt, Taylor Jordan, Victoria Jordan, Kristine Kellar,
Sasha Launer, Dale Lee, Bruce Leek, Heather Leigh, Mike Loeser, Maximilian Maksutovic, Craig Manno, Elizabeth Marquis, David Martin, Rochelle Martin, Kem Martinez, Harold Matzner, Christy Mazzaferro, Jim Mazzaferro, Penny McGuire,
Tina Minn, Raayan Mohtashemi, Melissa Nieves, Chris Norman, Ira Novoselsky, Linda O'Bannion Hendrickson, Aidar Omar,Liam O'Sullivan, Mike Pakaluk, Angela Ping, Kit Raye, Erica Richstad, Julian Riley, Jerry Robredo, Norma Robredo,
Ann Roehrich, Nelson Ruiz Jr., Sally Samuels, Jason Sander, James Sander, Sheila Sardi, Porter Schmidt, Oliver Scofield, Alexandra & Martin Seggelke, Jana Sejkorova, Mike Shannon, Paula Sheil, Pablo Siguenza, Keith Sklower, Doris Smith,
Urs Steiner, Dana Stiernberg, Dave Strickler, Barbara Svenson, Katie Swayze, Maxine Tanner, Jordan Tom, Wendy Tran,Ivonne Valdes, Christina Walker Feger, Terri & Tim Weber, Todd Weinman, Henry Williams, William Willis, Richard Wolf,
Emily Wolski, Nette Worthey, Kai Xu, Kevin Yang, George Yefchak, Melia Zimmerman, Blauvelt Electric, Dolby Labs, Hillsdale Highschool, KPMG, Lighthouse Public Affairs.
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Burlesque op. 42 (1988) by Georgi Salnikov (1923-2015)Born in Moscow in 1923, Salnikov studied composition at the Conservatory of St. Petersburg and piano at the Moscow Conservatory, where he later taught instrumentation for many years. His Burlesque is inspired by the tonality and character of Russian folksongs, but does not explicitly reference any known melodies. Commissioned for Molenaar’s Muziekcentrale, this piece is best described as rhapsodic, bright, and virtuosic.
World-Why-Die I I? Minutes of Commemoration for the Victims of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Ataacks in the United States of America
op. 64 (2001, rev. 2015) by Rolf Rudin (b. 1961)German composer Rolf Rudin studied composition, orchestral conducting, and music theory at the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt and later composition at the Hochschule fur Müsik in Würzburg. World-Why-Die II ?, originally composed in 2001 immediately following 9/11, was revised by the composer in 2015 for its world premiere by the San Francisco Wind Symphony, and reflects upon the horror faced around the globe from that fateful day. Long reverberations similar to those achieved in big cathedrals are essential to this piece, and the acustic effects are precisely organized and structured. By the end the sound clusters become major chords - and the music decays into the emptiness.
Vallflickans Dans from Bergakungen (1944) by Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960), arr. José Schyns (b. 1959)Primarily known as a choral composer in his native Sweden through the 1920’s and 30’s, Alfvén’s four movement suite “Bergakungen” grew to become his most well-known instrumental composition after his death in 1960. Retooled from parts of the composer’s 5th Symphony, the suite tells a classic Swedish pastorale tale. The fourth movement, Vallflickans Dans (Herd-Maid’s Dance), is vigorous and virtuosic, and has become the best-known excerpt from the score.
Metanoia (2016) by Robert Chastain (b. 1981)Bay Area composer Chastain studied composition, bassoon, and conducting at the San Francisco Conservatory, the University of Florida, and the University of Oregon, and is the recipient of several prestigious international awards and grants. The harmonic language of Chastian’s Metanoia is wildly dissonant, and explores the unorthodox tonal application of a 12-tone row.
noun: met-a-noi-a (theology) change in one’s way of life resulting from penitence or spiritual conversion.(psychology) the process of experiencing a psychotic “breakdown” and subsequent, positive psychological re-building or “healing”.
Concert N. 3 for Symphonic Band (2013) by Ferrer Ferran (b. 1966)Spanish-born Ferran teaches composition at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Castellón and the Conservatorio Profesional de Musica de Valencia . His works are known for their sonority and for fusing avant-garde styles with the musical language of Romanticism. Concert N. 3 begins with a four-note motif upon which the entire piece is built. Each section of the ensemble comes together virtuosic artisrty, displaying grandiosity, tension, mystery, splendor, and delicacy throughout the composition.
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1. Burlesque op. 42 6:19 Georgi Ivanovits Salnikov Molenaar N.V. Wormerveer - Holland
2. World-Why-Die II ? op.64 15:20 Rol Rudin edition flor * World premiere recording
3. Vallflickans Dans from Bergakungen 4:19 Hugo Alfvén, arr. José Schyns Gehrmans Musikforlag AB Taylor Jordan and Robert Smith, clarinet
4. Metanoia 10:40 Robert Chastain Robert Chastain * World premiere recording
5. Concert N.3 for Symphonic Band 25:23 Ferrer Ferran Ferrer Ferran
Total running time 62:01
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Mart in H . Segge lke - Found ing Art ist ic D i rector and Conductor