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Opera, the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra and Players, the
Potomac String Trio and the Clarendon String Quartet. She is on the
teaching staff of the Gettysburg College Chamber Music Workshop,
the Chamber Music Conference and Composer’s Forum of the East
in Bennington, VT, and the Levine School of Music. DEBORAH
MILAN, cello, is a member of the Contemporary Music Ensemble,
Collaborationa, and the Washington Bach Consort. She is an Adjunct
Instructor of Cello at Columbia Union College and has a private
studio as well. LOIS NARVEY, harpsichord, has performed in solo
and chamber concerts in the U.S. and Canada, and was recently guest
soloist with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.
BIGGS AND DUTTON DUO
- Besides touring with
the Biggs and Dutton Duo, BEVERLY BIGGS is Co-Artistic
Director of ALLEGRO -- BAROQUE AND BEYOND, a period
music organization based in Spokane, Washington. She is also
Co-Producer/Director of the Royal Fireworks Concertm, a fourteen-year-old tradition in the Inland Pacific Northwest that draws an
audience of more than 40,000 people each summer. DAVID
DUTTON oboist, tours with his musical partner, fortepianist and
harpsichordist Beverly Biggs, as one of only two classical duos on the
prestigious WESTAF Touring Roster. Dutton is owner of B&D
Publications and Master Oboe Reeds. In addition, he is conductor
and Co-Director of the Royal Fireworks Concerts, the largest
independent musical event in the Pacific Northwest. Dutton, who
studied with DeVere Moore and Marcel Tabuteau, is a former
member of the St. Louis and Dallas Symphony Orchestras.
ENSEMBLE LA GUERRE is dedicated to
playing the music of the Baroque and early classical eras on
instruments of the period. Now in its second year of residency at
Mount Vernon College, the group has also been named ensemble in
residence for 1990-91 at the Levine School of Music, where three of
its members are on the faculty. Ensemble La Guerre has appeared in
concert with the Strathmore and Music at Noon series, as well as at
the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The group performs
periodically in the Washington, D.C. Public Schools under the
auspices of Young Audiences. MELISSA GRAYBEAL, violin,
currently plays with the Handel Festival Orchestra, the Washington
THE HENSCHEL ENSEMBLE
is an unusual trio of
musicians whose interests range from the Elizabethan period through
the 20th Century. The group derives its name from Sir George
Henschel, the first conductor of the Boston Symphony. Performing
together since 1980, the musicians have commissioned 12 works for
oboe, bassoon and guitar. THOYAS GREENE, guitar, was until
recently Chairman of the Music Department of the Warwick, RI
public schools. He has been a Guitar Instructor at Boston University
and Brown University He has degrees from the New England
Conservatory and the University of Connecticut Mr. Greene has a
large collection of stringed instruments dating from the 17th century
on which he has performed throughout New England. DELIGHT
IMMONEN oboe, has a bachelor’s degree from the University of
Michigan and a master’s from the New England Conservatory. Her
primary oboe teachers were Robert and Sara Lambert Bloom. She
has also worked with Blanche Honneger Moyse in Brattleboro, VT.
She is a member of the New Music Ensemble of Providence and has
played principal oboe with Concerts on the Island in Newport, RI,
the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra, and the Providence
Singers. She teaches at Rhode Island College and Wheaton College.
SUSAN WOOD, bassoon has degrees from the State University at
Potsdam, Indiana University and has done doctoral work at Boston
University. Her teachers include C R. Reinert, Leonard Sharrow
and Matthew Ruggiero. She is presently Bassoon Instructor at
Rhode Island College and performs with the New Music Ensemble
of Providence, Concerts on the Island and for the past three
summers with the Newport Music Festival.
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JUDITH KAY JAZZ TRIO
THE HUNTINGTON TRIO
- The membea of the
Huntington Trio are all classically trained musicians who have
collectively and individually appeared as members of numerous
orchestras and chamber music ensembles. For the IDRS conference
they have chosen to play the music of Mozart in commemoration of
the bicentennial of his death. MARGO EASTER is known as an
active freelance artist, recitalist and chamber musician. Originally
from upstate New York, Ms. Easter studied with Philip MacArther
of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. She received her academic
training from West Chester University and continued study with
Louis Rosenblatt of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Recently Ms. Baster
has served as Artist/Faculty for the Virginia Governor’s School for
the Arts and performed with the internationally acclaimed Audubon
Quartet. Presently she is a member of the music faculty at Radford
University. DAVID WIDDER is Principal Clarinetist with the
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and a member of the music faculty at
Virginia Tech. He is active as a performer, guest conductor, clinician
adjudicator and soloist and has performed throughout the U.S. and
abroad. He is a graduate of the University of Arkansas and North
Texas State University. DOUGLAS KEHLENBRINK is a member
of the music faculty at James Madison University. A graduate of Ball
State University and James Madison University, he has performed
extensively in chamber music and recital. He studied with Homer
Pence, William Waterhouse, Mark Popkin, and Sol Schoenbach.
Most recently, he has performed with the Washington Bach Consort
at the Kennedy Center and with the Contemporary Music Forum in
Washington, D.C
- JUDITH KAY, guitar and
vocals, and CHUCK HOLDEYAN, Buffet bassoon, have been
performing together since 1980 when they gave a joint concert to
conclude fellowships they had both been awarded that year. Since
then they have been artists-in-residence for the city of Wilmington,
Delaware and in various schools, as well as giving concerts and
playing for parties and weddings. RICKY LOSA, percussionist and
Latin percussionist lives in Washington, D.C and has appeared there
with Chuck and Judith several times, as well as traveling north for
performances in Delaware. JUDITH KAY is responsible for the
trio’s arrangements as well as composing a number of original songs.
The rest of the group’s repertoire includes jazz standards and
Brazilian bossa nova standards, many sung in Portuguese. Judith
Kay’s first recording *‘Everybody’s Talkin” (TASTY 100-l) was
recorded in Rio de Janeiro. Her second recording entitled “Judith
Kay Live at JJ’s Grotto” (TASTY CS-95) will be rereleased in the
summer of ‘9l as a CD under the title, “Judith Kay Live.” An active
composer and arranger, Judith Kay’s pieces include string quartets,
chamber works, big band arrangements and about 2.5 songs in English
and Portuguese. (See SOLOISTS for information on CHUCK
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creative endeavor of the bassoonists of Professor David DeBolt’s
studio class at Kent State University. Members perform, compose,
and arrange in a variety of styles from the Renaissance, Baroque,
and Classical masters to contemporary jazz, minimalist, and elec
tronic music. Skills and enthusiasms are thus shared in building of a
broadly-based musicianship for the twenty-first century. In addition
to their own works, the group has inspired compositions by noted
composers Halim El-Dabh and Stephen Griebling, which will also be
performed for the IDRS convention. Members include: Collin J.
Anderson, Timothy Bishop, Sabastianna Bonacci, David DeBolt,
Sharon Geil, Phoebe Peterson, Roberto Iriarte, and Lynnette White.
(For information on Director, DAVID A. DEBOLT, see under
Sandpoint Festival during August of 1990 and was semi-finalist in the
1990 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. CHRISTOPHER
WEAIT was Principal Bassoon of the Toronto Symphony for 17
years before joining the Ohio State faculty in 1984 where he teaches
applied bassoon and conducts the OSU Wind Ensemble. He was
founder and music director of the Toronto Chamber Winds and was
woodwind coach for the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. He
has been a Visiting Professor at the Eastman School of Music and
Indiana University and has taught at the University of Toronto and
the Festival at Sandpoint. He has recorded solo and chamber music
albums and his compositions have been nerformed around the world.
OBOHIO’S
director and founder is ROBERT H. SORTON,
Professor of Oboe, at the Ohio State University. For thirteen years,
he was Assistant Principal Oboe of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
After graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts, he
earned both his BM and MM degrees, summa cum laude, from the
Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with John Mack,
Principal Oboe of the Cleveland Orchestra. He has performed with
the Cleveland Orchestra, the Miami Philharmonic, the Columbus
Symphony and the Charlotte Symphony. He has taught at Oakland
University and Wayne State University. He is a member of Pi Kappa
Lambda and was awarded the 1990 OSU School of Music
Distinguished Teaching Award. Mr. Sorton is internationally recognized as an authority on reed-making, gouging machines and oboe
repair. P. BAILEY SORTON holds a BM degree, magna cum
laude, from Appalachian State University and an MM degree from
James Madison University. She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda.
She is former Principal Oboe of the Western Piedmont Symphony
and the Salisbury Symphony. She is currently English Homist in the
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. She has been an instrumental music
teacher in North Carolina and has taught oboe at Wake Forest
University. YARK DuBOlS received his BM and MM degrees
from the Cleveland Institute in 1983 and 1984. While serving as
Principal Oboe of the Flint Symphony, he was a member of the
faculty of the Center of Creative Studies in Detroit He performed
with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and was adjunct faculty
member at Macomb Community College. At present, he is pursuing a
doctorate degree at OSU where he holds a performance assistantship. SARAH HAMILTON was English Hornist of Canada’s
Windsor Symphony before beginning her doctoral studies at OSU
where she holds a teaching assistantship in theory. She earned a BM
degree with honors in performance from the University of Western
Ontario and an MM degree from Wayne State University. As a
member of the Columbus Chamber Winds, she attended the
THE PENNSYLVANIA QUINTET is the
wind
faculty chamber ensemble at Penn State University. Its present
members have performed together since 1985, receiving acclaim for
performances throughout the East and Midwest. In 1987 the Quintet
was ensemble-in-residence for Arizona’s Sedona Chamber Music
Festival and the following year was named finalist in the prestigious
East and West Artists’ Competition. The Quintet’s CD recording,
AMERICAN WIND MUSIC, including works by Rochberg, Fine,
Etler, and Bach has recently been released by Centaur Records.
Composers Steven Stucky and Nicholas Thome have been commissioned by the Quintet to provide new works for premiere in 1990 and
1991. DARYL DURRAN, Assistant Professor of Bassoon at Penn
State University, has performed with the Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra, and was Principal Bassoonist with the Milwaukee Ballet
and Waukesha Symphony Orchestras. An active chamber music
player and recitalist, he has performed in music festivals in Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Arizona. Prior to coming to Penn State, Mr. Durran
served as a member of the music faculty at the Kenosha campus of
the University of Wisconsin. During the summers he has taught at
the National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan, and is presently
Principal Bassoonist of the Music at Penn’s Woods Festival
Orchestra Mr. Durran holds degrees from the University of Arizona
and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. BARRY KROEKER,
Assistant Professor of Oboe at Penn State University, came to the
University from South Dakota where he was Principal Oboist with
the South Dakota Symphony and the Dakota Wind Quintet. Mr.
Kroeker has performed at the Aspen and New College Music
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Festivals and was invited to perform at the 1988 IDRS convention in
Victoria. He is presently the Principal Oboist of the Music at Penn’s
Woods Festival Orchestra and the Altoona Symphony. In addition to
his performances
with the Pennsylvania Quintet, he is an active
recitalist and clinician. He has studied with Ray Still, Principal
Oboist of the Chicago Symphony, and Bert Lucarelli at the Hartt
School of Music. ELEANOR DUNCAN ARMSTRONG is
Assistant Professor of Flute at Penn State University. She previously
performed with the Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, taught at
Oklahoma City University, and was a member of the Aspen Festival
Orchestra. During the summers she has been Co-Principal Flutist
with the Breckenridge Music Institute Orchestra in Colorado and
Principal Flutist with the Music at Penn’s Woods Festival Orchestra.
As a member of the Pennsylvania Quintet and the Armstrong Flute
and Percussion Duo, she performs extensively as a chamber musician
and as a solo recitalist. Dr. Armstrong holds graduate degrees from
Juilliard and the University of Michigan. Her teachers include
Feodora Steward, Albert Tipton, Arthur Lora, and Keith Bryan.
SMITH TOULSON is an Associate Professor at Penn State
University where he teaches clarinet, conducts the Symphonic Wind
Ensemble, and is Principal Clarinetist of the Music at Penn’s Woods
Festival Orchestra. His educational background includes a BA
degree from the University of Illinois and an MM degree from Yale
University, where he was a student of Keith Wilson. He has been
Principal Clarinetist with the New Haven Symphony, performed with
the Pittsburgh Symphony, and appeared in concerts in Washington’s
National Gallery and New York’s 92nd Street YMCA Concert
Series. His performances include recordings for Crystal and CRI
recording companies. As a member of the Claremont Quintet, he
participated in the New School Chamber Music Festival in Sarasota,
Florida, and the Waterloo Festival in New Jersey, working with
members of the Dorian and New York Woodwind Quintets. LISA
0. BONTRAGER, Assistant Professor of Horn at Penn State
University, has performed with the Cincinnati Chamber and Ballet
Orchestras, the Chautauqua Symphony, the Aspen Festival and
Chamber Orchestras, and the Harrisburg Symphony. Presently she is
the Principal Hornist of the Altoona Symphony and the Music at
Penn’s Woods Festival Orchestra. Active as a soloist and chamber
musician, she has performed at the 1987 and 1989 New York Brass
Conventions, the Great Lakes Horn Workshop, and the 1988
convention of the International Horn Society. She also serves as
clinician for the Holton/Leblanc Corporation. Her performance
degrees are from the University of Michigan and her teachers
include Louis Stout, Michael Hatfield, Eugene Wade, and Laura
Klock.
THE PLYMOUTH TRIO
is a unique combination of
soprano, oboe, and keyboard accompaniment that delights in
bringing neglected repertory to public attention. CHRISTINA
PRICE is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and
studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She has sung with the
Choral Arts Society in Washington, DC., the Louisville Bach
Society, and is currently a member of the Robert Page Singers. Ms.
Price has presented preconcert programs for the Cleveland Orchestra on the vocal music of Charles Ives and Samuel Barber. She is an
active performer in several Cleveland musical organizations and
soloist at Plymouth Church of Shaker Heights, Ohio. JOHN HERR
is Minister of Music at Plymouth Church of Shaker Heights. His
studies in organ, piano, and church music were at the Eastman
School of Music and with Flor Peetem in Belgium. He is active in
many Cleveland musical organizations and has played recitals
throughout the United States. He has lectured for the University of
Michigan Organ Conferences, the Bach Riemenschneider Institute,
and American Guild of Organists’ Chapters. Mr. Herr has taught at
the Cleveland Institute of Music and at Kent State University.
JOHN MACK is Principal Oboist of the Cleveland Orchestra. (see
SOLOISTS.)
THE
RAMEY
DUO is comprised of Richard Ramey,
bassoonist and Maxine Ramey, clarinetist. MAXINE RAMEY is
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Clarinet Professor at Eastern New Mexico University. She holds
degrees from Arizona State University and Michigan State
University, where she studied with Dr. Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr.
Other teachers include Keith Stein, Fred Ormand, and Ron DeKant.
She is Principal. Clarinet with the Southwest Symphony and is a
member of the Roswell Symphony. She has also been a member of
the Arizona Opera Company Orchestra and the Nouveau West
Chamber Orchestra of Scottsdale, Arizona. She is completing the
DMA degree at MSU. RICHARD RAMEY Assistant Professor of
Bassoon at the University of Arkansas, holds degrees in Bassoon
Performance from Arizona State University, and in Musicology and
Bassoon Performance from the University of Southern California.
His teachers include Norman Herzberg, Willard Elliot, and Manuel
Zegler. He has been a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony, the
Lansing Symphony Orchestra, and is currently a member of the
North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and the Festival Orchestra of
the Flagstaff Summer Arts Festival, Flagstaff, Arizona. Mr. Ramey is
the co-founder of the Nouveau West Chamber Orchestra based in
Scottsdale, Arizona. He is currently completing the DMA degree in
Bassoon Performance from Michigan State University.
and Walter Stein. He has been Principal Bassoon with the National
Orchestra of Costa Rica, the McKeesport Symphony, and the Des
Moines Metro Opera, and has toured with the New York City
Opera National Company. Most recently, he performed on the
Casals Festival in Puerto Rico.
SPONTANEOUS WINDS
was formed in 1 9 8 5 when
three old friends were reunited as students at the Juilliard School.
They were coached by professors David Weber and Steven Maxym
there. The trio has performed at Columbia University, at the loft of
artist Frank Stella, for Senator Bill Bradley, and at the Juilliard
School. Winners of the Artists International Competition, the
Spontaneous Winds gave their debut recital in Weill Recital Hall at
Carnegie Hall in 1988. The trio has commissioned new compositions,
including those written by members of the group, and through
research and arrangement, has expanded the repertoire for this
combination with music from all periods. PEDRO DIAZ, of Puerto
Rico, began his musical studies there at the Escuela Libre de Musica.
At 17, he came to Pittsburgh where he studied with James Gorton at
Duquesne University. He later finished his bachelor’s degree at
Juilliard where he was in the class of Elaine Douvas. He has played
with the McKeesport and Wheeling Symphonies, on the Musica de
Camara series in New York and with the Queens Philharmonic. A
native of Perry Hall, Maryland, ROBERT DILUTIS is the new
Assistant Principal Clarinetist with the San Antonio Symphony. He
also received his bachelor’s from Juilliard under the tutelage of
David Weber. His other teachers include William Blayney, Roger
Hiller, and Clark Brody. He is a two-time winner of the
International Clarinet Society Competition, and is an accomplished
teacher and repairman. JOHN FALCONE, of New York, has
degrees in bassoon from Carnegie-Mellon University and the
Juilliard School. His teachers include Steve Maxym, Arthur Kubey
TENNESSEE BASSOON QUARTET was
formed in 1985 by Keith McClelland, James Lotz, James Lessen, and
Michael Benjamin. The four, from Knoxville and Oak Ridge, were
all looking for an additional performance outlet for their varied
bassoon talents. The result has been an ensemble which has brought
smiles and ovations from audiences in Tennessee, North Carolina,
and Kentucky with a repertoire from Renaissance to Jazz with stops
at Gilbert and Sullivan, Saint-Siiens, and Joplin. KEITH McCLELLAND has been Principal Bassoonist in the Knoxville Symphony and
Bassoon Instructor at the University of Tennessee since 1972 A
native of upstate New York, he received his BM degree from
Eastman School of Music and MA degree from Columbia University.
He is also a former faculty member at Sewanee Summer Music
Center, Eastern Music Festival, and Tennessee Governor’s School
for the Arts. MICHEAL BENJAMIN is a native of Oak Ridge and
received his BA and MM degrees from the University of Tennessee.
He has been a member of the Rome Festival Orchestra and has
participated in festivals at Blossom Music Center and Yale Summer
Session at Norfolk, He is currently a member of the Knoxville
Symphony and performs as a jazz pianist in the Knoxville area.
JAYES LASSEN received a BM degree from the University of
Tennessee and received an Assistantship to complete his MM degree
at Indiana University. He is a former member of the Knoxville
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Symphony and also held the position of Co-Principal Bassoon with
the National Orchestra of Chile. He grew up in Oak Ridge, has been
on the faculties of Austin Peay State University and Tennessee Tech
University, and currently is a member of the bassoon section of the
New Orleans Symphony. JAYES LOTZ is from Knoxville and
graduated with a BM degree from the University of Tennessee and
an MM degree from Yale University where he studied with Arthur
Weisberg and Steven Maxym. He is currently Assistant Professor of
bassoon at Tennessee Tech University and a member of the
Cumberland Woodwind Quintet He has held bassoon positions with
the Mexico City Philharmonic, Knoxville Symphony, Oakridge
Symphony, Bridgeport Symphony, Norwalk Symphony, Stamford
Chamber Orchestra, Connecticut Grand Opera, and Jaap Schtider
TUCHINA
TOWSON FINE ARTS WIND QUINTET is
one
of four faculty chamber ensembles in residence at Towson State
University. SARA LANDGREN, flutist, is on the faculties of
Towson State University and the Baltimore School for the Arts. In
addition to being principal flute of the Baltimore Opera, she
performs with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Towson Chamber
Players, Resmusic America, and, on baroque flute, with Pro Musica
Rara. She is also a member of the Towson Fine Arts Quintet which
will be giving concerts and master classes in Russia this fall in
affiliation with the Leningrad Conservatory. EDWARD PALANKER, clarinetist, is the bass clarinetist with the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra. He previously taught at the Eastern Music Festival in
Greensboro, NC where he was principal clarinetist of the Eastern
Philharmonic and Chamber Players. He has recorded for the Golden
Crest, Orion, and Shall-U-MO record labels. KAREN THORNTON, hornist, was a member of the Royal Ballet Orchestra in
London and Principal Horn with the Jacksonville Symphony before
coming to Baltimore. Besides playing principal horn with the
Baltimore Opera Orchestra, National Chamber Orchestra, and the
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, she is a busy freelancer and has
appeared often with the National Symphony and the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestras. (See under HOSTS for information on H.
GENE GRISWOLD, bassoonist, and ANN BILEZIKIAN,
oboist)
is a chamber ensemble formed by three Northwestern University graduates who have converged on the greater
Oklahoma City area. Flutist, VALERIE WATTS, a native of New
York, is Visiting Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of
Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, flutist with the Oklahoma
Woodwind Quintet and Principal Flutist with the Oklahoma City
Philharmonic Orchestra. She has a BM degree from Northwestern
University where she studied with Walfrid Kujala and an MM
degree from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with
Bonita Boyd. She is currently pursuing the DMA degree at Eastman.
Oboist, SALLY BENNETT, comes from Georgia and is Assistant
Professor of Oboe and Theory at the University of Oklahoma, oboist
with the Oklahoma Woodwind Quintet and Principal Oboist with
the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra. She holds BM and
DMA degrees from the University of Georgia, where she studied
with John Corina and an MM degree from Northwestern University
where she studied with Ray Still. Pianist, KIMBERLY HOLLINGBURY, has returned to her native Oklahoma City after several years
of study in London with the distinguished British pianist Benjamin
Kaplan. She holds the BM and MM degrees from Northwestern
University where she studied with Donald Isaak and Robert
Weirich. In addition to her private studio, Hollingbury is pursuing an
active career as a solo collaborative pianist The ensemble’s name,
TUCHINA, is a Choctaw Indian word which means ‘Three.” The
name was chosen as a tribute to the rich Indian heritage in the state
of Oklahoma where the three members presently reside.
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THE WINDS OF WASHINGTON REED
TRIO - Bassoonist, NANCY SEEGER, graduated from the
Interlochen Arts Academy and went on to study at the Curtis
Institute of Music where she received a Performance Certificate.
During the summers, she attended programs at Interlochen and
Tanglewood. Currently Ms. Seeger holds the Principal Bassoon
position and is Personnel Manager of the Prince William Symphony
under the direction of Joel Revzen. She also freelances in the
Washington area with the National Symphony, Maryland Symphony,
Fairfax Symphony, Roanoke Symphony, and the Genesis Chamber
Players. JAMES BRYLA made his solo clarinet debut in 1987 as a
winner of the Young Soloist Competition with the National
Symphony Orchestra in the Kennedy Center. His other solo
achievements include the Milton King Memorial Certificate, winner
of the National Young Performen’ Competition, and winner, for two
years, of the International Clarinet Competition. Mr. Bryla has
performed throughout the United States as an orchestral and
chamber musician including performances with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic Institute, the Handel Festival Orchestra, and the
Cambiata Winds. DOROTHY DARLINGTON, oboist and founder
of the Winds of Washington, is a graduate of the Eastman School of
Music, Michigan State University, and the Catholic University where
she finished her doctorate in wind music. Before coming to
Washington, she performed with the National Symphony of Costa
Rica, Savannah Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, and the Richmond Symphony. In 1981, she joined the United
States Marine Band where for six years she performed as concerto
soloist at the White House, chamber musician at the Library of
Congress, and toured with the band. In fact, it was on a trip in 1986
with the band to the Netherlands that she commissioned the TRIO
XII for English Horn (Oboe D’Amore), clarinet and basroon. Since
1987 Ms. Darlington has freelanced in both the Washington and New
York areas where she performs with such groups as the National
Symphony, Washington Opera, Wolf Trap, National Theater, New
Jersey Symphony and Summer Ballet at the MET. She also appears
with the D’Amore Duo, oboe and guitar, and in 1989, captured First
Prize in the Baltimore Chamber Music Competition.
THE
UNITED
STATES
AIR
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
FORCE
has the distino
tion of being the only symphony orchestra in the US. Armed Forces.
A unit of the United States Air Force Band, The Air Force
Symphony Orchestra has performed at official functions given by all
American presidents since Truman, and was one of the first
American orchestras to make an overseas concert tour. With its
appearance in Bodo, Norway in 1955, it became the first major
American musical organization to have performed north of the
Arctic Circle. The Air Force Symphony Orchestra has always served
as an instrument for introducing new American music. It has
premiered many compositions by contemporary American composers
and has given numerous concerts for the National Association for
American Composers and Conductors. A majority of the Air Force
Symphony Orchestra’s concerts are presented in the Washington,
DC. area. In addition to its numerous performances at official
military and governmental functions, it has appeared frequently at
the Pan American Union and has performed at Washington’s D.A.R.
Constitution Hall and New York City’s Carnegie Hall. The Air
Force Symphony Orchestra is composed of musicians representing
several symphony orchestras and numerous colleges, universities and
music conservatories. The highly versatile woodwind, brass and
percussion instrumentalists also perform in The Air Force Concert
Band; the string players form the Air Force Band’s world renowned
Strolling Strings and The U.S. Air Force String Orchestra.
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Symphony, the California Symphony, the Modesto Symphony, and
other chamber groups. In addition, he has appeared with the San
Francisco Opera Orchestra and with the San Francisco Symphony.
Sergeant Munds joined the The United States Air Force Band in
July, 1989. Presently he performs as homist in The Concert Band
and in The Air Force Woodwind Quintet. (For information on
TECHNICAL SERGEANT REBECCA BROWN WILLIAMS,
oboe, and MASTER SERGEANT DANNY PHIPPS, bassoon, see
SOLOISTS.)
THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WOODWIND QUINTET is composed of the principal
woodwind players of The United States Air Force Concert Band in
Washington, D.C The quintet was organized in 1962 The present
soloists in the quintet are Sergeants Judith Genovese Lapple, flute;
Rebecca Brown Williams, oboe; Steven Lawson, clarinet; Philip
Munds, horn; and Danny Phipps, bassoon, The United States Air
Force Woodwind Quintet is a nationally recognized ensemble that
has performed coast-to-coast They have appeared in recital for
various chamber music performance series, as well as for many of the
nation’s leading colleges and universities. In addition, The United
States Air Force Band uses The Air Force Woodwind Quintet in
performances for protocol functions and in recitals and concerts for
our nation’s civic and military leaders. SENIOR MASTER
SERGEANT JUDITH ANN GENOVESE LAPPLE,
flute, joined
the United States Air Force Band in 1978. She is from Rochester,
New York, and received her BM degree from the Eastman School of
Music. She received her master’s degree from Northeast Louisiana
University in Monroe. While at Eastman, her teachers were Joseph
Mariano and Leone Buyse. Other teachers have included Samuel
Baron, John Krell and Britten Johnson. Besides appearing as soloist
with The Air Force Band, Sergeant Lapple has had solo appearances
with South Arkansas Symphony, Monroe Symphony, Eastman
Chamber Ensemble Orchestra, and the Rochester Philharmonic.
Before joining the Air Force Band, Sergeant Lapple was the Flute
Instructor at the University of Mississippi and Northeast Louisiana
University. CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT STEVEN LAWSON,
clarinet, attended California State University, Northridge, before
joining The United States Air Force Band in 1975. While there, he
was Principal Clarinetist with the Wind Ensemble and Orchestra. He
has also performed with the Aspen Festival Woodwind Quintet and
its Repertory Orchestra under James Chambers. His clarinet
teachers have been Charles Bay and Ignatius Genausa. Chief
Lawson is an active freelance artist and recitalist in the metropolitan
Washington, D.C. area, where he is also in great demand as a teacher
and clinician. He is the Woodwind Supervisor of the United States
Air Force Band and performs as concertmaster with The Concert
Band. TECHNICAL SERGEANT PHILIP YUNDS, horn, is a
native of California. He attended the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music where he studied with Arthur David Krehbiel. Upon
graduation, Sergeant Munds established himself as a freelance artist
in high demand in the San Francisco Bay area, where he performed
with such groups as the Berkeley Symphony, the Santa Cmz
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