Students Will Conduct Friday's DePauw Band Concert
May 3, 2011
May 3, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — The DePauw University Band will present its Student Conductors Concert this Friday evening, May 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium, located within DePauw's Green Center for the Performing Arts. Six School of Music students will guest conduct the ensemble in eight works for symphonic band and six student musicians from local high schools will join in the performance.
DePauw music majors Katherine Blakey, Ariel Detwiler, Renata Dworak, Bradley King, Andrew Muth, and Orlando Ramirez were selected by audition for this opportunity to conduct the University Band.
"Our School of Music students strive to become well-rounded musicians, and the University Band is proud to offer this chance to showcase these six talented musicians as conductors," says Craig Paré, professor of music and conductor of the Band. "In addition, six local high school musicians have been joining us for rehearsals."
Trombonists Rachael Campbell (North Putnam High School) and Keith Cassida (Cloverdale H.S.), hornist Michael Walters (Cloverdale H.S.), percussionist Michael Jackson (Cloverdale H.S), tubist Michael Zuver (North Putnam H.S.), and Bret Huber (North Putnam H.S.) on euphonium, have attended rehearsals at DePauw University and will join the University Band in its Friday performance. (photo, l-r: Andrew Muth, Katherine Blakey, Orlando Ramirez, Renee Dworak, Bradley King, Ariel Detwiler)
"It is a privilege to work with these young high school musicians," states Dr. Paré. "They bring enthusiasm, energy, and a great interest in learning to our work together. I would like to thank their band directors, William Cole from Cloverdale and John Pinson from North Putnam, for their support and encouragement of their students' participation.”
The concert repertoire will include First Suite in E-flat by Gustav Holst, Nitro and Cajun Folk Songs II by Frank Ticheli, Festivo by Edward Gregson, Ye Banks and Braes O’Bonnie Doon by Percy Grainger, O Magnum Mysterium
by Morten Lauridsen, Toccata by Girolamo Frescobaldi, and Festival Prelude by Alfred Reed.
The performance is presented free of charge and is open to the public. Those attending the performance are asked, if possible, to bring one non-perishable food item as admission. All donations will go to the Putnam County Emergency Food Pantry.
Founded in 1884, the DePauw University School of Music is one of the nation's oldest private institutions for post-secondary music instruction and the longest-running in Indiana. Learn more here.
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