The UniversiTy of ArizonAString Symposium

C O L L E G E O F F I N E A R T S

Fred Fox School of Music

Richard Meyer & José Luis GomezDistinguished Guests

Theodore BuchholzEvent Coordinator

Saturday, September 15, 2018Tucson, Arizona

Dear Colleagues, Musicians, and Students,

Welcome to the University of Arizona String Symposium. We are honored to have you here at the Fred Fox School of Music, along with internationally celebrated composer, arranger, and pedagogue Richard Meyer who will offer sessions to UA students, high-school students and Arizona orchestra teachers. The symposium will also feature Maestro José Luis Gomez, Tucson Symphony Orchestra music director, and Dr. Tammy Yi, who joined the music education faculty this fall. This event is made possible by the generous philanthropy of Julie Gibson, longtime friend of the Fred Fox School of Music.

At the Fred Fox School of Music, students experience a thriving string area within a highly demanding, yet supportive atmosphere. The strings program offers an abundance of opportunities for performances and master classes with distinguished guest artists, outreach events, pedagogical development, teaching opportunities and research projects.

University of Arizona string students encounter a wide variety of superb ensemble experiences including the Arizona Symphony Orchestra, University of Arizona Philharmonic Orchestra, Arizona Baroque, Arizona Contemporary Ensemble, HarpFusion, and a robust chamber music program. Our department features a variety of competitions and many opportunities to collaborate across disciplines. Music education students are immersed in a rich program that reaches out into the community, and our music education graduates enjoy a one hundred percent job placement success rate.

Graduates of the University of Arizona go on to rewarding careers as performers, teachers, and advocates, and as music leaders. Whether you are an undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral student studying performance or music education, you will find a home here that challenges, nurtures, and prepares you to make a difference and succeed as a musician in the twenty-first century.

Please visit the Fred Fox School of Music online at music.arizona.edu for more information. You can also stay up to date on news and current offerings by following us on social media.

Cordially,

Theodore Buchholz, DMA Event Director, String Symposium Assistant Professor of Cello String Area Coordinator String Project Director The University of Arizona, Fred Fox School of Music buchholz@email.arizona.edu

The University of Arizona College of Fine Arts

Fred Fox School of MusicTucson, Arizona

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The University of Arizona String SymposiumRichard Meyer & José Luis Gomez

Distinguished Guests

Saturday, September 15, 2018Tucson, Arizona

S C H E D U L E & P R O G R A M

9:00 a.m. The First Ten Minutes .............................................................................................................................Room 162 Presenter: Richard Meyer

The beginning of any rehearsal sets the tone for whatever follows. Mr. Meyer will share how he begins a typical string orchestra rehearsal with his own students. He will discuss set-up, how students are expected to enter the room and unpack, his tuning procedures, and he will share his thoughts and materials regarding warm-ups.

10:00 a.m. Back of the Orchestra: High School Students’ Experiences ..............................................................Room 162 with Alternative Seating Practices Presenter: Tammy Yi

This session discusses alternative seating practices (ASP) within a public school orchestra. Traditionally, orchestras have employed hierarchical seating structures through the use of chair challenges and seating auditions in efforts to motivate students to practice. Students reported that ASP influenced their awareness of self and others, and through their perceived experiences, they were able to transfer their awareness to the outside world. This study asserts that using ASP in an orchestra can satisfy measures of musical performance and promote an equitable classroom in which students can form socially just principles to use as members of society.

11:00 a.m. Non-Performance Lesson Plans............................................................................................................Room 162 Presenter: Richard Meyer

Music education goes far beyond performing on an instrument. Mr. Meyer will illustrate and share lesson plans that he uses to teach musical skills and appreciation to his own students. These plans help develop listening skills and knowledge of theory, history and composition, preparing students to become well-educated audience members and well-rounded musicians. Useful to orchestra and band teachers at all levels.

1:00 p.m. Holberg Suite Clinic .........................................................................................................................Crowder Hall Presenter: José Luis Gomez

Maestro José Luis Gomez, music director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, will work with 100 high school students from across the state on the Sarabande from Grieg’s Holberg Suite.

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1:00 p.m. ASTA General Membership Meeting ....................................................................................................Room 162 Presenter: Toru Tagawa

This meeting is for members of the American String Teachers Association, led by the president of ASTA-Arizona, Toru Tagawa.

1:30 p.m. Beginning String Players from Scratch ................................................................................................Room 162 Presenter: Richard Meyer

Mr. Meyer will share the system that he has found most successful for starting string players in a “mixed instruments” classroom setting. This system has been used at the elementary (grades 4-6) and middle school (grades 7-8) levels, with classes ranging in size from four to 50. Curriculum and assessment materials will be shared.

2:00 p.m. Orchestra Clinic ...............................................................................................................................Crowder Hall Presenter: Tammy Yi

Fred Fox School of Music faculty member Tammy Yi offers intensive clinics with the orchestras from Rincon/University, Red Mountain, and Perry High Schools. Repertoire includes works by Holberg, Sibelius and Vaughan Williams.

2:30 p.m. Reading Session of Works by Richard Meyer ...........................................................................Crowder Hall Presenter: Richard Meyer

Mr. Meyer will lead participants in a reading session of his works, where he will discuss pedagogical concepts explored in his music. Bring your instruments for this interactive session.

4:00 p.m. Master Classes and Technique Sessions Presenters: Members of the University of Arizona String Faculty Timothy Kantor (violin) ........................................................................................................................Room 162

Lauren Roth (violin) ..............................................................................................................................Room 170

Hong-Mei Xiao (viola) ...........................................................................................................................Room 114

Theodore Buchholz (cello) ...................................................................................................................Room 232

Philip Alejo (double bass) ....................................................................................................................Room 106

7:30 p.m. Arizona Symphony Orchestra Concert .......................................................................................Crowder Hall Guest Conductor: José Luis Gomez (Ticket required) Doctoral Conductors: Sean Bresemann and Martin Gaines The Arizona Symphony is honored to welcome Tucson Symphony Orchestra music director José Luis Gomez to the podium to conduct Manuel de Falla’s exuberant dances from the ballet El Sombrero de Tres Picos. The first half of the program will feature UA orchestral conducting students, coached for performance by Maestro Gómez.

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P R O G R A M

Two Dances from The Bartered Bride (1870)...................................................................................................Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) Furiant Dance of the Comedians

Martin I. Gaines, conductor

Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo (1942) .......................................................................................................... Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Buckaroo Holiday Corral Nocturne Saturday Night Waltz Hoe-Down

Sean Bresemann, conductor

I N T E R M I S S I O N

Dance Suite from El Sombrero de Tres Picos (1919) ....................................................................................... Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) Dance of the Miller’s Wife – Fandango Dance of the Neighbors – Seguidillas Dance of the Miller – Farruca Danse Finale – Jota

José Luis Gomez, conductor

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The Arizona Symphony OrchestraJosé Luis Gomez, guest conductor

Sean Bresemann & Martin I. Gaines, doctoral conductors

Saturday, September 15, 2018Crowder Hall

7:30 p.m.

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Violin Isabella BryantLauren CarrascoLaura CásarezGabrielle DietrichAlexandra FallgatterChiara Ferrero**Stella Kim*Yvette LanzJessica Muiseke-WilkisonCourtney PinskiCarissa PoweRafael Reyes-WormanCallum Robbins-GennerichDaniel Worms

ViolaKatie BairdJoseph BinghamGabriella CiocaJenn Trần ĐoànXiaochen DongAngel MorenoTiezheng Shen**

CelloCaroline BellRong CaoJacob Ginn**Victor MolinaLevi PoweMaria SavareseDiana Yusupov

The Arizona Symphony OrchestraThomas Cockrell, music director (sabbatical leave fall 2018)

TromboneRafael MarquesNeal RombergKatie Trent

TubaWilliam Hammer PercussionPorter EllermanMarcus HawkinsAlyssa PrichardEric SorensonZachary White

HarpAudrey CadoganYvonne Cox

PianoMinjun Dong

CelesteEleni Persefoni Stavrianou

Assistant ConductorRiddle Orchestral AssistantSean Bresemann

* Concertmaster** Principal

BassMatthew CarlyonDallas CarpenterGareth MontanarelloBryce Putt**Jeffrey Sandberg

FluteAlysonn HoffmannDavid RamírezIvo Shin

OboeTad BiggsMichaela Gauthier, English hornMaya Griswold

ClarinetMartin Duarte, bassBaiyu Li Charles du Preez

BassoonJacob FernandezCurtis Novak

HornChristopher BlancoAnne CotinMichael MesnerMarcia Anne Molter

TrumpetConnor BagheriTony BellettiDanny Saufley

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Biographies

Guest Artists

RICHARD MEYER has been involved with music education for over 16 years. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University of Los Angeles and taught instrumental music at both the middle and high school levels in the Pasadena Unified School District for 12 years. Currently, he directs the orchestras at Oak Avenue Intermediate School in Temple City, California, and is in charge of the city’s elementary school string program. Mr Meyer is in his eleventh year as conductor of the Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestra, a 90-piece honor orchestra composed of seventh, eighth and nineth grade students, which he has led in concerts in Vienna, Austria, Carnegie Hall, New York City and in Sydney, Australia. Mr. Meyer has served as a guest conductor and clinician on many occasions throughout California, and has been a member of the Bellis Music Camp staff for 15 years. He has a variety of orchestral and band music in print. In 1989 his composition Celebration (written especially for the 1988 SCSBOA All Southern Honor Orchestra in California) won the National School Orchestra Association composition contest. Most recently, his Geometric Dances won the Texas Orchestra Directors Association composition contest. In 1994 he was the recipient of the Outstanding Music Educator Award from the Pasadena Area Youth Music Council, and in 1997 received the Pasadena Arts Council Gold Crown Award for performing arts. He lives in Arcadia, California, with his wife and three daughters.

The Venezuelan-born, Spanish conductor JOSÉ LUIS GOMEZ was catapulted to international attention when he won first prize at the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors’ Competition in Frankfurt in September 2010, securing a sensational and rare unanimous decision from the jury. Gomez’s electrifying energy, talent and creativity earned him immediate acclaim from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra where he was named assistant conductor, a post created especially for him by Paavo Järvi and the orchestra directly following the competition. Gomez started his musical career as a violinist, and by the age of 11 he was concertmaster of the Youth Orchestra of Zulia State, part of El Sistema de Orquestas Juveniles de Venezuela. He graduated in music and violin from the Manhattan School of Music before embarking on a European orchestral career. Deciding to follow his dream to have more creative input and influence on musical direction, he took conducting lessons from Lu Jia, Muhai Tang and John Nelson. After just six months of study he won the Georg Solti competition. Since then he has worked with the RTVE National Symphony Orchestra of Madrid, the Houston and Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestras, National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa, Hamburg Symphony, Basel Sinfonietta and Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto. From 2012 to 2015, he was principal conductor of the Orchestra 1813 Teatro Sociale di Como where he led performances of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, to name a few. The 2016/2017 season saw Gomez named music director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. The season also included appearances with Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio, Winnipeg Symphony, Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Daegu Symphony Orchestra, and return engagements with the Edmonton Symphony and the Macau Orchestra.

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Fred Fox School of Music Faculty (For full biographies please visit music.arizona.edu)

TIMOTHY KANTOR (violin) joined the University of Arizona faculty in 2016. A member of the Afiara Quartet, he is also former concertmaster of the Evansville Philharmonic. Mr. Kantor was featured as the Young Artist in Residence for Performance Today, and has performed with many of today’s leading musicians including Joshua Bell, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Atar Arad, Alexander Kerr and the Pacifica Quartet. Mr. Kantor studied at Bowdoin College, the Cleveland Institute of Music and Indiana University. tkantor@email.arizona.edu

LAUREN ROTH (violin) joined the University of Arizona faculty in 2013 and simultaneously began her tenure as concertmaster of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Prior to these appointments she was concertmaster of the Canton Symphony in Ohio. Prof. Roth holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Washington and a master’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with Cleveland Orchestra concertmaster William Preucil. laurenroth@email.arizona.edu

HONG-MEI XIAO (viola) was the first-prize winner of the Geneva International Music Competition. Her extraordinary artistry and brilliant virtuoso technique have gained accolades from reviewers across the globe. A recipient of the coveted Patek Philippe Grand Prize, Prof. Xiao has made an international career as a soloist with performances in major concert halls and with orchestras of great distinction throughout the world. Her recordings for Naxos and Delos have received international acclaim. hmx@email.arizona.edu

THEODORE BUCHHOLZ (cello, chamber music coordinator) has recorded as featured artist for Centaur and Toccata Records, performs internationally as a soloist, and is the cellist of the Deco Piano Trio. During the summers he teaches and performs at the Killington Music Festival. He previously served as president of ASTA-Arizona. Dr. Buchholz studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of Arizona, and the Manhattan School of Music. buchholz@email.arizona.edu

PHILIP ALEJO (double bass) joined the University of Arizona faculty in 2013. He previously taught at St. Ambrose University and served as visiting professor of double bass at the University of Michigan. As a chamber musician and recitalist, his interests range from baroque to contemporary music and he collaborates regularly with harpist Claire Happel in River Town Duo. Dr. Alejo holds degrees from Oberlin College, the Yale School of Music and the University of Michigan. palejo@email.arizona.edu

TAMMY YI (music education, strings) joined the University of Arizona faculty in 2018. Specializing in string education, democratic classrooms, creativity and social justice, Dr. Yi holds degrees from Columbia University, University of Southern California and Azusa Pacific University. She was an instructor at Columbia University and conductor of the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Orchestras. She presents her work on social justice in orchestral pedagogy at conferences around the world. tyi@email.arizona.edu

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For more information please contactDr. Theodore Buchholz, string area coordinator

520-621-7012, buchholz@email.arizona.edu

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The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of MusicA premier university experience in an environment of musical excellence!

At the Fred Fox School of Music students experience a thriving string department within a highly demanding, yet supportive atmosphere. The strings program offers an abundance of opportunities for performances

and master classes with distinguished guest artists, outreach events, pedagogical development, teaching opportunities and research projects.

University of Arizona string students encounter a wide variety of superb ensemble experiences, including the Arizona Symphony Orchestra, University of Arizona Philharmonic Orchestra,

Arizona Baroque, Arizona Contemporary Ensemble, HarpFusion, and a robust chamber music program. Our department features a variety of competitions

and many opportunities to collaborate across disciplines.

Music education students are immersed in a rich program that reaches out into the community, and our music education graduates enjoy a

one hundred percent job placement success rate.

Graduates of the University of Arizona go on to rewarding careers as performers, teachers, advocates and music leaders. Whether you are an undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral student studying

performance or music education, you will find a home here that challenges, nurtures, and prepares you to make a difference and succeed as a musician in

the twenty-first century.

Degrees Offered

Undergraduate Degrees

B.M. Composition, Jazz Studies, Performance, Music Education

B.A. Music

Master of Music and Doctoral Degrees

M.M. Composition, Conducting, Musicology,Music Education, Music Theory, Performance

D.M.A. Composition, Conducting, Performance

Ph.D. Music Education, Music Theory, Musicology

The University of Arizona, College of Fine Arts, Fred Fox School of Music1017 North Olive Road - P.O. Box 210004, Tucson, Arizona, 85721-0004

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The University of Arizona String Symposium

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Participant High Schools:

Perry High School – Gilbert, Arizona – Valerie Dopp, director

Red Mountain High School – Mesa, Arizona – John Haggard, director

Rincon-University High School – Tucson, Arizona – Michael Geddes, director

9:00 a.m. Richard Meyer Session “The First Ten Minutes” Room 162

10:00 a.m. Tammy Yi Session “Back of the Orchestra: Alternative Seating Practices” Room 162

11:00 a.m. Richard Meyer Session “Non-Performance Lesson Plans” Room 162

12:00 p.m. ASTA Fall Workshop Lunch

1:00 p.m. José Luis Gomez with all High School Students Crowder Hall

1:00 p.m. ASTA General Membership Meeting Room 162

1:30 p.m. Richard Meyer Session “Beginning String Players from Scratch” Room 162

2:00 p.m. Orchestra Clinics with Tammy Yi Crowder Hall

2:30 p.m. Richard Meyer Reading Session Room 162

3:30 p.m. Social Break for High School Students

4:00 p.m. Master Classes and Technique Sessions Timothy Kantor (violin) – Room 162 Lauren Roth (violin) – Room 170 Hong-Mei Xiao (viola) – Room 114 Theodore Buchholz (cello) – Room 232 Philip Alejo (bass) – Room 106

5:30 Dinner Break

7:30 Arizona Symphony Orchestra Concert Crowder Hall