Wind Conducting Symposium – July 16-20, 2012
Guest Clinicians – Frank L. Battisti and Jerry Junkin
Symposium Hosts – Andrew Yozviak and M. Gregory Martin
2012 Conducting Symposium Brochure
Overview
The West Chester University Summer Wind Conducting Symposium is designed to provide musicians the opportunity to sharpen conducting skills, strengthen score study techniques, broaden knowledge of wind literature and refine rehearsal strategies. Students may participate in the symposium in one of two different levels. Conducting participants will conduct chamber ensembles during morning sessions and a full wind ensemble in the afternoon. Participation at this level will be limited to the first 16 applicants with paid deposits. Observers will be engaged in all of the day’s activities but will not conduct the ensembles.
Daily Schedule
Monday, July 16, 2012
8:00-9:00 AM Registration and Refreshments
Tuesday – Friday, July 17-20, 2012
9:00-10:00 AM Morning Seminar and Group Conducting
10:00-12:00 noon Chamber Repertoire
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch on your own
1:00-2:00 PM Afternoon Seminar
2:00-5:00 PM Band Repertoire
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
7:00 PM Collaboration with Temple University, details TBA
Friday, July 20, 2012
5:00 PM Reception or Evening Concert
Fees
Non-refundable deposit $100.00
Conducting Participant $500.00
Observer $300.00
Required Text: Battisti, Frank L. On Becoming a Conductor. Galesville, MD: Meredith Music Publications, 2007
Act 48 credit will be offered.
University credit is available at an additional fee.
Applicants taking the course for university credit must participate as a Conducting participant.
Repertoire
Morning Chamber Works
Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 Antonin Dvorak
Old Wine in New Bottles Gordon Jacob
Serenade in C-minor, K. 388 W. A. Mozart
Serenade in E-flat, Op. 7 Richard Strauss
Afternoon Band Classics
Lincolnshire Posy Percy Aldridge Grainger
Second Suite in F Gustav Holst
Elegy for a Young American Ronald Lo Presti
Pageant Vincent Persichetti
Sleep Eric Whitacre
Contact Information
Contact Dr. M. Gregory Martin at mmartin@wcupa.edu with any additional questions.
GUEST CLINICIANS
Frank L. Battisti - Conductor Emeritus, New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble
Frank L. Battisti is Conductor Emeritus of the New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble. He founded and conducted the ensemble for 30 years (1969-99). Today the NEC Wind Ensemble is recognized as one of the premiere ensembles of its kind in the United States and throughout the world. It’s performances and recordings for Centaur, Albany and Golden Crest records have earned high critical praise and accolades. Performances by the NEC Wind Ensemble have been broadcast over National Public Radio (NPR) and other classical music radio stations throughout the United States and world . Battisti was Principal Guest Conductor of the Longy School of Music Chamber Winds, Cambridge, MA from 2000 – 2008 and founder and Music Director of the Tanglewood Institute’s Young Artists Wind Ensemble from 2000 - 2004. In 2005 he became the ensemble’s Conductor Emeritus.
Dr.Battisti is responsible for commissioning and premiering over 60 works for wind ensemble by distinguished American and world composers including Warren Benson, Leslie Bassett, Robert Ceely, John Harbison, Robin Holloway, Witold Lutoslawski, William Thomas McKinley, Vincent Persichetti, Michael Colgrass, Daniel Pinkham, Gunther Schuller, Robert Selig, Ivan Tcheripnin, Sir Michael Tippett, William Kraft, Robert Ward and Alec Wilder. Critics, composers and colleagues have praised Battisti for his commitment to contemporary music and his outstanding performances.
Battisti has conducted numerous university, college, military, professional and high school bands/wind ensembles and served as a visiting teacher/clinician throughout the United States, England, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Scandinavia, Australia, China, Taiwan, Canada, South America, South Korea, Iceland and the former U.S.S.R.
Past President of the U.S. College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), Battisti is also a member of the American Bandmasters Association (ABA) and founder of the National Wind Ensemble Conference, World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE), Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble (MYWE) and New England College Band Association (NECBA). He has served on the Standard Award Panel of American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts Recognition and Talent Search Panel (ARTS).
Considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on wind music literature, Battisti has written many articles on wind ensemble/band literature, conducting and music education for national and international professional journals and magazines (The Instrumentalist, WASBE Journal, WINDS, MENC Music Journal, etc.). He is the author of The 20th Century American Wind Band/Ensemble (1995), The Winds of Change (2002), On Becoming a Conductor (2007), The Best We Can Be (2010), The Winds of Change II (2012) and co-author of Score Study for the Wind Band Conductor (1990) and Lead and Inspire (2007). Battisti has also served as editor for various music publishing companies and is currently a consulting editor for The Instrumentalist magazine.
In 1986 and 1993, Dr. Battisti was a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, England. He has received many awards and honors including Honorary Doctor of Music degrees from Ithaca College in 1992, Rhode Island College in 2010, New England Conservatory of Music in 2012; the Ithaca College Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003, New England Conservatory Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2008; the first Louis and Adrienne Krasner Excellence in Teaching Award from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1997, the Lowell Mason Award from the Massachusetts Music Educators Association in 1998, the New England College Band Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999, Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic’s Medal of Honor in 2001 and the National Band Association’s AWAPA in 2006.
In June 2001 Ithaca (NY) High School presented the first “Frank L. Battisti Instrumental Music Award.” This award is presented annually to an Ithaca High School Band member “possessing high musicianship, a desire for excellence, creativity and enthusiasm.” Dr. Battisti graduated from Ithaca High School in 1949 and was its Director of Bands from 1955 – 67. Under his leadership the band established a reputation for being one of the best and most unique in the United States. Among its notable achievements was the commissioning and premiering of a series of 24 works by important American composers including Vincent Persichetti, Leslie Basset, Gunther Schuller, Karel Husa and Warren Benson.
Since 2009, Ithaca’s Boynton Middle School Band has also presented two annual Frank L. Battisti Conducting Awards to students selected from its membership.
Officially retired, Battisti maintains a very active guest conducting, teaching and writing career. He lives in Leverett, Massachusetts with his wife of 57 years, Charlotte.
Jerry Junkin – Director of Bands, University of Texas and Artistic Director and Conductor, Dallas Wind Symphony
Jerry Junkin has served as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Dallas Wind Symphony since 1993. In 2003 he was also appointed Music Director and Conductor of the Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia. Additionally, he holds the Vincent R. and Jane D. DiNino Chair for the Director of Bands at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds the holds the title of University Distinguished Teaching Professor. He has served on the faculties of both the University of Michigan and the University of South Florida. In addition to his responsibilities as Professor of Music and Conductor and Music Director of the Texas Wind Ensemble, he serves as Head of the Conducting Division and teaches courses in conducting and wind band literature. He is a recipient of the Texas Excellence in Teaching awards, presented annually by the Ex-Student’s Association, and his former students hold major positions throughout the world. In 2004, he was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers and in 2005 was the recipient of the Fine Arts Achievement Award.
Performances under the direction of Mr. Junkin have won the praise of such notable musicians as John Corigliano, David Del Tredici, Gunther Schuller, Karel Husa, William Kraft, Jacob Druckman and Michael Colgrass, among many others. In February of 2005 he led the world premiere performance of Corgliano’s Circus Maximus: Symphony No. 3, in both Austin and New York’s Carnegie Hall to enthusiastic reviews. The New York Times named his recent release on the Reference Recordings label, Bells for Stokowski, one of the best classical CD’s of the year. Mr. Junkin records for the Reference, Klavier and Naxos labels. His performance of Circus Maximus with The University of Texas Wind Ensemble was just released on the world’s first Blu Ray audio disc in 5.1 surround sound by Naxos.
Maintaining an active schedule as a guest conductor, clinician and lecturer, he has appeared in those capacities in forty-eight states and on five continents. He spends his summers in residence at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, as well as appearing at major festivals throughout the world. In 2005 he was presented the Grainger Medallion by the International Percy Grainger Society in recognition of his championing of Grainger’s works.
Mr. Junkin has served as President of the Big XII Band Director’s Association and is a member of the Board of Directors of The John Philip Sousa Foundation, Past-President of the American Bandmasters Association, and Past President of the College Band Directors National Association. This past season he made his debut with the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra and the Taipei Symphonic Winds, along with engagements in Germany, France and Austria.
SYMPOSIUM HOSTS
Andrew Yozviak – Director of Bands, West Chester University
Dr. Andrew Yozviak is the Director of Bands at West Chester University. Dr. Yozviak’s primary responsibilities include conducting the Wind Ensemble and Chamber Winds, directing the Golden Rams Marching Band, and teaching graduate and undergraduate conducting classes. Prior to this appointment, Yozviak served as Visiting Director of Bands at Susquehanna University and taught thirteen years in the Pennsylvania public schools.
Dr. Yozviak has earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education from West Chester University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Music Degree in Composition from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree in Wind Conducting from Rutgers University where he studied with William Berz.
Dr. Yozviak maintains a busy schedule as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician, regularly presenting at conferences and workshops. His research in the area of eighteenth century Harmoniemusik has produced two modern editions of wind partitas by the Bohemian composer, Antonio Rosetti (1750-1792). His scholarly edition of Antonio Rosetti’s Partita in E-flat is published by Amadeus Verlag, Winterthur, Switzerland.
As a composer, Dr. Yozviak has accepted commissions to compose and arrange music in a variety of genres. He has composed commissioned works for winds, chorus, jazz ensemble, and a variety of chamber ensembles. Dr. Yozviak’s work as an arranger has yielded more than one hundred fifty marching band shows for some forty high schools, eight universities, five drum and bugle corps and work for NFL Films. His original compositions for marching band, which include Africa, a-MAZE-ing, The Art of War, Artificial Intelligence, Balance, The Bells, Four Suits, Night Visions, Koto, Water, and Winter Sketches are published by Marching Show Concepts’ Center X Productions.
Dr. Yozviak is a member of the College Band Directors National Association, the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the National Band Association, the Music Educators National Conference, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, the Pennsylvania Bandmasters Association, Pi Kappa Lambda, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.
M. Gregory Martin – Associate Director of Bands, West Chester University
M. Gregory Martin, Assistant Professor of Music Education / Associate Director of Bands received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Eastern Kentucky University, a Master of Musical Arts degree from James Madison University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of Texas at Austin where he studied conducting with Jerry F. Junkin. He recently completed a six-year tenure as the Director of Athletic Bands and Assistant Director of Bands at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Prior to returning to Florida, Dr. Martin was the Assistant Director for the Longhorn Band and Lecturer in the School of Music at UT. His past teaching experience includes fourteen years in the Florida and Virginia public school system and two years as a teaching assistant at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he taught music education courses and conducted the Concert and Symphonic Bands. In addition to his public school and collegiate teaching duties, Dr. Martin has also served as a Color Guard Instructor and Marching Caption head / Visual Coordinator for the Suncoast Sound Drum and Bugle Corps (’82 -’88) and Marching Caption head / Visual Coordinator for the Magic of Orlando Drum and Bugle Corps (’92 -’94). He also serves extensively as an adjudicator and clinician around the Southern and Midwestern United States and writes drill for several High School and college bands around the country including The University of Michigan. Dr. Martin is a member of the College Band Director’s National Association, National Band Association, Music Educator’s National Conference, College Music Society, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma.