ASBDA

2007 ASBDA Honors Band
Tuesday November 13, 2007
Snow Date - Wednesday November 14, 2007

Schedule

8:30am     Arrive at Coginchaug HS
8:45am     Ensemble Seating
9:00am     Rehearsals begin
11:00am   Break
1:00pm     Lunch break - Bring your own
5:30pm     Dinner Break - provided
7:00pm     Honor Band Festival Concert

Important Items

Please give your director $25 for participation fee
Dress appropriately but casually for rehearsals
Bring additional snacks and water if you wish  
Lunch – bring your own  
Dinner is provided
Recordings of the concert can be ordered the night of the concert  
Always have a pencil for rehearsals 
 The concert is free and open to the public

 Martin Piecuch - Wind Ensemble Conductor
Click here for recordings of the Wind Ensemble Program 

2007 Wind Ensemble Program
Gandolf - De Meij
Eternal Father Strong to Save - Smith
Kentucky Sunrise - Karl King

 
Martin Piecuch (pronounced PQ in USA and Pietsook in Europe) is Music Director and Conductor of the U.S. Congressional Philharmonic Society which promotes American music and serves as the artistic voice of Congress. It has been endorsed by both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

In December 2003, Maestro Piecuch was named Permanent Guest Conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic. During his seventh tour of Russia in Spring 2003 he made his debut with St. Petersburg Opera and was invited to conduct the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 2005. He will also debut with Helsinki Philharmonic in Finland.

From 1990-98 as Music Director & Conductor of Washington Symphony Orchestra, Mro. Piecuch led the orchestra through a growth period of budget, audience, and artistic development with concert seasons at Constitution Hall. Crowning his tenure with WSO he produced an international orchestra with musicians from the WSO, the Bohuslava Martinu Orchestra from Zlin, Czech Republic, and the Ukraine Radio/TV Orchestra in a 21-Concert Tour of Germany and Austria.

In 1995 he became the first American to conduct the Krasnoyarsk (Siberia) Symphony Orchestra. In the International Music Festival of Asian Pacific Countries he led the first performance of Dvorák's Symphony No. 8, Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, and The Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofé. With the Music Comedy Theater he conducted The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár. He returned in 1996 to conduct two KSO concerts, and Die Fledermaus. Russia's Minister of Culture presented him with a Bronze Medal. In 2002 he conducted Verdi’s Il Trovatore and four symphonic concerts with the orchestras of Krasnoyarsk and Vladivostok, where he also led their first playing ever of Stravinsky’s Firebird. Mro. Piecuch made his Kennedy Center conducting debut in 1996: the world premiere of LanYing. In September 2001 he made his New York debut at the Society for Ethical Culture, leading A Puccini Ring Cycle: Gianni Schicchi and Messa di Gloria.

Mro. Piecuch has led Indiana University Orchestra in Bloomington, Hradec Králové Philharmonic in Czech Republic, the Danville (IL) Symphony Orchestra, and the Vogtland Philharmonie of Greiz/Reichenbach,Germany as the first American conductor. He was resident conductor, orchestra manager and chorusmaster at Wolf Trap, Music Director/Conductor of Washington Civic Opera and Symphony, and Conductor of Alexandria Choral Society. He has led over 800 performances at Wolf Trap, Carter Barron and Kennedy Center and was Music Director of Aldersgate Choir which he led on tour in Germany, Austria and Hungary.

This native of Maine became the saxophone soloist with the U. S. Marine Band. He holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in each woodwind instrument, Summa Cum Laude, and an M.M. in Orchestral Conducting from Catholic University of America, studying with Frederick Fennell. He was Founder/ Director of Washington Woodwind & Saxophone Quartet, guest flutist at Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, and from 1963- 1992 Saxophone Soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra under Aaron Copland, Antal Dorati and Julius Rudell. He accompanied Beverly Sills, Henry Mancini, Dinah Shore, Johnny Mathis and Anthony Newley at Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, National and Ford's Theaters. He's served on the faculties of St. Mary’s College, Howard University and Catholic University of America.

Glen Adsit -  Concert Band Conductor
Click here for recordings of the Concert Band Program

2007 Concert Band Program
Lullaby for Noah - J Turrin
Fortress - Frank Ticheli
Chorale & Shaker Dance - Zdechlik
Galop - Shostakivich

Glen Adsit is associate director of the Instrumental Studies Division and the director of bands at The Hartt School where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, Symphony Band, Contemporary Players Ensemble, teaches undergraduate conducting and guides all aspects of the graduate wind conducting degrees. Under his direction, the Hartt Wind Ensemble has performed twice at both the College Band Director’s National Association regional conference and the Connecticut Music Educator’s All-State Conference. In addition they have performed at the 2007 College Band Director’s National Association Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Guest soloists have included Joseph Alessi, Robert Black, Marc Goldberg, Scott Hartman, Carrie Koffman and Ben Toth. Composers Joan Tower, Michael Daugherty and Joseph Schwantner, Susan Botti, Joe Turrin, Steve Gryc, Bright Sheng and Nebjosa Zivkovic have all been composers in residence with the Wind Ensemble. An advocate of new music, he is the founder of the National Wind Ensemble Consortium Group, which has over 50 member schools with a mission to commission the world’s finest composers to write for wind ensemble. The group consists of Board members, Leonard Slatkin, Phillip Smith, Fran Richards, Joseph Schwantner, H. Robert Reynolds, Jerry Junkin, Mike Haithcock, and Eric Rombach-Kendall. His professional conducting includes three productions of The Nutcracker, two pops concerts, many educational concerts with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and a series of educational concerts with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in Rochester, New York. In addition to his professional orchestral experience, he also conducted the University of Michigan All-State Intermediate Orchestra for seven years at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan. Prior to his appointment at The Hartt School, he was the Associate Director of Bands at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Previous to his university appointments, he taught for seven years in the Michigan public schools at both the junior high and high school levels. Under his direction, the Plymouth Centennial Marching Band was a two-time Bands of America Grand National Champion. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education and trombone performance and a master’s degree in wind conducting, both from the University of Michigan.

 
Directions to Coginchaug Regional High School

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FROM THE SOUTH:
TAKE I-91 NORTH TO EXIT 15(RT 68)
TURN RIGHT ONTO RT. 68
CONTINUE UNTIL RT. 68 ENDS AT RT. 17, DURHAM
TURN RIGHT ONTO 17 FOR ONE BLOCK
TURN LEFT ONTO PICKET LANE(ENTRANCE ROAD) FOR COGINCHAUG REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
FOLLOW PICKET TO TOP OF THE HILL
PARK ON RIGHT HAND SIDE OF BUILDING
JULIAN THAYER AUDITORIUM ENTRANCE

FROM THE NORTH:
TAKE I-91 SOUTH TO EXIT 15 (RT 68)
TURN LEFT ONTO 68
CONTINUE UNTIL RT. 68 ENDS AT RT. 17, DURHAM
TURN RIGHT ONTO 17 FOR ONE BLOCK
TURN LEFT ONTO PICKET LANE(ENTRANCE ROAD) FOR COGINCHAUG REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
FOLLOW PICKET TO TOP OF THE HILL
PARK ON RIGHT HAND SIDE OF BUILDING
JULIAN THAYER AUDITORIUM ENTRANCE

FROM WATERBURY SOUTHINGTON AREA:
I-84 EAST TO I-691 TORAD MERIDEN/MIDDLETOWN
FOLLOW I-691 UNTI IT CHANGES FROM A 4 LANE HIGHWAY TO A 2 LANE ROAD
AT TRAFFIC LIGHT(SEE SMALL RESTAURANT)TAKE RIGHT ONTO RT. 147
FOLLOW RT. 147 TO STOP SIGN
TAKE RIGHT ONTO COMBINED ROUTES 147/157
FOLLOW 147 STRAIGHT TO TRAFFIC LIGHT(157 GOES OFF TO THE RIGHT AT LYMAN ORCHARDS-DON'T FOLLOW)
AT TRAFFIC LIGHT AT INTERSECTION RT. 147/17, TAKE RIGHT ONTO RT. 17 SOUTH
GO THROUGH 2 TRAFFIC LIGHTS
TURN LEFT ONTO PICKET LANE(ENTRANCE ROAD) FOR COGINCHAUG REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
FOLLOW PICKET TO TOP OF THE HILL
PARK ON RIGHT HAND SIDE OF BUILDING
JULIAN THAYER AUDITORIUM ENTRANCE

FROM SHORELINE:
RT 9 NORTH TO EXIT 11 RANDOLPH ROAD
LEFT OFF EXIT
FOLLOW TO INTERSECTION OF RANDOLPH AND RT 17
LEFT ONTO RT 17 SOUTH
FOLLOW RT 17 INTO DURHAM
PASS VALERO GAS STATION
LOOK FOR STRONG MIDDLESCHOOL