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Cleveland

romboneSeminar

Shachar Israel, Director

June 6 - 14, 2015

Cleveland Trombone Seminar 2015

Public Performances

Shachar Israel Faculty Recital

Sat, 6/6 @ 2 p.m. - Tickets ($10)

Mark Lancaster Lusk Faculty Recital

Mon, 6/8 @ 6 p.m. - Tickets ($10)

Great Lakes Trombone Ensemble

Tues, 6/9 @ 6 p.m. - Tickets ($15)

Stephen Lange Faculty Recital

Fri, 6/12 @ 6 p.m. - Tickets ($10)

Blair Bollinger Faculty Recital

Sat, 6/13 @ 4 p.m. - Tickets ($10)

Final Concert featuring 2015 CTS Members

Sun, 6/14 @ 2 p.m. - Free Admission

All public performances take place in Drinko Recital Hall.

Drinko Recital Hall is located in the Music and Communication Building on the campus of Cleveland State University at the corner of Euclid and East 21st Street.

Free parking is available in the garage at the corner of East 21st and Chester. Tell the attendant that you are attending a musical event.

For more information about the seminar, please visit:www.clevelandtromboneseminar.org

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June 6 - 14, 2015 Table of Contents Page CTS Par cipants, Associates, Faculty, and Staff............................ 2 Recital: Shachar Israel (Saturday, June 6)..................................... 3 Recital: Mark Lancaster Lusk (Monday, June 8)........................... 4 Concert: Great Lakes Trombone Ensemble (Tuesday, June 9)….. 5 Recital: Stephen Lange (Friday, June 12)...................................... 6 Recital: Blair Bollinger (Saturday, June 13)................................... 7 Final Concert: Par cipants & Associates (Sunday, June 14)……... 8 About the Ar sts…………………………………………………….……………… 15 Special Thanks............................................................................ 20

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2015 CTS Par cipants and Associates

Tony Apolczer Natalie Byers Mar n Chrzanowski Evan Cli on Zoe Cutler Nick Dewyer Jacob Elkin Samuel George Nick Gilmore Ian Gregory Ma hew Grey Anibal Hernandez

Zachary Jacobs Wade Judy Blake Malone Leland Matsumura Lyman McBride Joseph Murrell Aus n Oprean Jonathan Par n Thanasit Pimnipapatrakul Bryan Powell Steve Ramsey

Jeffrey Sharoff Daniel Sherman Bre Slifer Jahleel Smith Janos Sutyak Wesley Thompson Mary Tyler Rolando Velazquez Robert Viole e Nathaniel Welshons James Wilson

2015 CTS Faculty

Shachar Israel Blair Bollinger Stephen Lange Mark Lusk

Toby O , guest ar st

2015 CTS Staff

Whitney Clair, Administra ve Coordinator Kate Bill, CSU Liaison Julie A. Cajigas, Design

Kathy Ga uso Cinatl, Piano John DiCesare, Tuba Randall Fusco, Piano

Chris Graham, Trombone Jason Smith, Trombone Deborah Yasutake, Piano

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Shachar Israel, trombone Randall Fusco, piano

Saturday, June 6, 2015

2pm, Drinko Hall Cleveland State University

"A Li le Music" Raymond Goldstein (b. 1953) Medita ons of Sound and Light Anthony Lavelle Barfield Sound (b. 1983) Air Light

Intermission

Concerto in G minor, Op. 9, No. 8 Tomaso Albinoni Allegro moderato (1671-1751) Andante Allegro moderato 3 Songs Johannes Brahms Alte Liebe (1833-1897) Verzagen Wie Melodien zieht es mir Sonata "Vox Gabrieli" Stjepan Šulek (1914-1986)

Ar st biographies begin on page 15.

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Mark Lancaster Lusk, bass trombone Kathy Ga uso Cinatl, piano

Monday, June 8, 2015


Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 Johann Sebas an Bach Prelude (1685-1750) Allemande Courante Sarabande Minuet I/II Gigue An die ferne Geliebte Ludwig van Beethoven (To the Distant Beloved) (1770-1827)

Intermission Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 Johannes Brahms Allegro non troppo (1833-1897) Allegre o quasi Menue o Allegro Andante Cantabile from Beethoven’s “Pathe que” Sonata A la Urbie Green arr. Dick Hyman

Kathy Ga uso Cinatl, piano

Aidan Plank, bass Bill Ransom, drums

Aus n Oprean, Wade Judy, Daniel Sherman, trombone Wesley Thompson, bass trombone


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Great Lakes Trombone Ensemble

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 6pm, Drinko Hall

Cleveland State University Jubilate Deo Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon Sep mi Toni No. 2 (1557-1612)

Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneas Henry Purcell (1659-1695) arr. James Nova

Trios Modernes Pour Trombones (1961) Pe te Fanfare Jean Hennebelle Prélude Robert Lannoy Andan no Cantabile Marcel Cariven

Trombone Octet Gordon Jacob Allegro (1895-1984) Andante Sostenuto Allegro

Intermission

Canzona for 8 Trombones Walter Hartley (b. 1927)

Lake Effects Andrew Skaggs (b. 1972)

Rondo for Eight Trombones (1973) Allen Chase

Yoda’s Theme John Williams from “Star Wars—The Empire Strikes Back” (b. 1932)

arr. James Nova

Tonight’s concert is made possible by the generous sponsorship of the Edwards Instrument Company.


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Stephen Lange, trombone Deborah Yasutake, piano

Friday, June 12, 2015


À la manière de Stravinsky Jean-Michel Defaye À la manière de Vivaldi (b. 1932) -Title Announced from Stage- W. Gregory Turner [Consor um Premiere] (b. 1958)

Intermission The Eternal Quest Ray Steadman-Allen (1922-2014) Sonate for Trombone and Piano Paul Hindemith Allegro moderato maestoso (1895-1963) Allegre o grazioso Lied des Rau olds (Swashbuckler’s Song) Allegro moderato maestoso


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Blair Bollinger, bass trombone Randall Fusco, piano

Saturday, June 13, 2015


Fantaisie Concertante Pierre Ville e (1926-1998) Concerto for Bass Trombone Robert Spillman Allegro (b. 1936) Andante Vivace New Orleans Eugène Bozza (1905-1991)

Intermission Medita on Frigyes Hidas (1928-2007) South of the Pole Brian Hodges [World Premiere] (b. 1958) Sonata for Bass Trombone Alec Wilder Energe cally (1907-1980) Slowly Lively Expressivo Swinging


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Final Concert Featuring CTS Par cipants & Associates

Sunday, June 14, 2015

2pm, Waetjen Auditorium Cleveland State University

Leviathan Jack Wilds (b. 1986) A Song for Japan Steven Verhelst (b. 1981)

CTS Par cipant Ensemble Geological Survey Manny Albam (1922-2001)

CTS Associate Ensemble Full Tilt Anthony DiLorenzo (b. 1967)

CTS Par cipant Ensemble One for the Road Steven Verhelst Leffe Duvel Blonde Tripel

CTS Par cipant Ensemble

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Intermission

Requiem, Op. 48 Gabriel Fauré Reading: Kicking the Leaves (Donald Hall) (1845-1924) Introit and Kyrie arr. Mark Lusk Offertorium Sanctus

Reading: A Song for Simeon (T.S. Eliot)

Pie Jesu Agnus Dei Reading: And Death Shall Have No Dominion (Dylan Thomas) Libera me

Reading: “I Saw a New Heaven” (Book of Revela ons)

In Paradisum

CTS Trombones Kaitlyn Lusk, soprano

Casey Hesse, John Maurer, Stephen Mclean, and Carmen Scornavacchi, flugelhorn

John DiCesare, tuba Melody Rapier, harp

Jonathan Moyer, organ Deborah Yasutake and John Simna, speakers

See page 10 for texts of readings.

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Readings for Fauré Requiem

Kicking the Leaves by Donald Hall

Kicking the leaves, October, as we walk home together from the game, in Ann Arbor, on a day the color of soot, rain in the air; I kick at the leaves of maples, reds of seventy different shades, yellow like old paper; and poplar leaves, fragile and pale; and elm leaves, flags of a doomed race. I kick at the leaves, making a sound I remember as the leaves swirl upward from my boot, and flu er; and I remember Octobers walking to school in Connec cut, wearing corduroy knickers that swished with a sound like leaves; and a Sunday buying a cup of cider at a roadside stand on a dirt road in New Hampshire; and kicking the leaves, autumn 1955 in Massachuse s, knowing my father would die when the leaves were gone.

Each fall in New Hampshire, on the farm where my mother grew up, a girl in the country, my grandfather and grandmother finished the autumn work, taking the last vegetables in from the fields, canning, storing roots and apples in the cellar under the kitchen. Then my grandfather raked leaves against the house as the final chore of autumn. One November I drove up from college to see them. We pulled big rakes, as we did when we hayed in summer, pulling the leaves against the granite founda ons around the house, on every side of the house, and then, to keep them in place, we cut spruce boughs and laid them across the leaves, green on red, un l the house was tucked up, ready for snow that would freeze the leaves in ght, like a s ff skirt. Then we puffed through the shed door, taking off boots and overcoats, slapping our hands, and sat in the kitchen, rocking, and drank

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black coffee my grandmother made, three of us si ng together, silent, in gray November.

One Saturday when I was li le, before the war, my father came home at noon from his half day at the office and wore his Bates sweater, black on red, with the crossed hockey s cks on it, and raked beside me in the back yard, and tumbled in the leaves with me, laughing, and carried me, laughing, my hair full of leaves, to the kitchen window where my mother could see us, and smile, and mo on to set me down, afraid I would fall and be hurt.

Kicking the leaves today, as we walk home together from the game, among the crowds of people with their bright pennants, as many and bright as leaves, my daughter’s hair is the red-yellow color of birch leaves, and she is tall like a birch, growing up, fi een, growing older; and my son flamboyant as maple, twenty, visits from college, and walks ahead of us, his step springing, impa ent to travel the woods of the earth. Now I watch them from a pile of leaves beside this clapboard house in Ann Arbor, across from the school where they learned to read, as their shapes grow small with distance, waving, and I know that I diminish, not them, as I go first into the leaves, taking the way they will follow, Octobers and years from now.

This year the poems came back, when the leaves fell. Kicking the leaves, I heard the leaves tell stories, remembering and therefore looking ahead, and building the house of dying. I looked up into the maples and found them, the vowels of bright desire. I thought they had gone forever while the bird sang I love you, I love you and shook its black head from side to side, and its red eye with no lid, through years of winter, cold as the taste of chickenwire, the music of cinderblock.

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Kicking the leaves, I uncover the lids of graves. My grandfather died at seventy-seven, in March when the sap was running, and I remember my father twenty years ago, coughing himself to death at fi y-two in the house in the suburbs. Oh how we flung leaves in the air! How they tumbled and flu ered around us, like slowly cascading water, when we walked together in Hamden, before the war, when Johnson’s Pond had not surrendered to houses, the two of us hand in hand, and in the wet air the smell of leaves burning: in six years I will be fi y-two.

Now in fall, I leap and fall to feel the leaves crush under my body, to feel my body buoyant in the ocean of leaves, the night of them, night heaving with death and leaves, rocking like the ocean. Oh this delicious falling into the arms of leaves, into the so laps of leaves! Face down, I swim into the leaves, feathery, breathing the acrid odor of maple, swooping in long glides to the bo om of October — where the farm lies curled against the winter, and soup steams its breath of onion and carrot onto damp curtains and windows; and past the windows I see the tall bare maple trunks and branches, the oak with its few brown weathery remnant leaves, and the spruce trees, holding their green. Now I leap and fall, exultant, recovering from death, on account of death, in accord with the dead, the smell and taste of leaves again, and the pleasure, the only long pleasure, of taking a place in the story of leaves. A Song for Simeon by T.S. Eliot

Lord, the Roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and The winter sun creeps by the snow hills; The stubborn season has made stand. My life is light, wai ng for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. Dust in sunlight and memory in corners

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Wait for the wind that chills towards the dead land.

Grant us thy peace. I have walked many years in this city, Kept faith and fast, provided for the poor, Have given and taken honour and ease. There went never any rejected from my door. Who shall remember my house, where shall live my children’s children When the me of sorrow is come? They will take to the goat’s path, and the fox’s home, Fleeing from foreign faces and the foreign swords. Before the me of cords and scourges and lamenta on Grant us thy peace. Before the sta ons of the mountain of desola on, Before the certain hour of maternal sorrow, Now at this birth season of decease, Let the Infant, the s ll unspeaking and unspoken Word, Grant Israel’s consola on To one who has eighty years and no to-morrow.

According to thy word. They shall praise Thee and suffer in every genera on With glory and derision, Light upon light, moun ng the saints’ stair. Not for me the martyrdom, the ecstasy of thought and prayer, Not for me the ul mate vision. Grant me thy peace. (And a sword shall pierce thy heart, Thine also). I am red with my own life and the lives of those a er me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those a er me. Let thy servant depart, Having seen thy salva on. And Death Shall Have No Dominion by Dylan Thomas

And death shall have no dominion. Dead man naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;

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Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twis ng on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion. No more may gulls cry at their ears Or waves break loud on the seashores; Where blew a flower may a flower no more Li its head to the blows of the rain; Though they be mad and dead as nails, Heads of the characters hammer through daisies; Break in the sun ll the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion. “I Saw a New Heaven” Book of Revela ons

I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain.

Then, He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.”

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About the Ar sts Shachar Israel, trombone Cited by the New York Times as "a gi ed young trombonist”, Shachar Israel serves as Assistant Principal Trombone of the Cleveland Orchestra. Prior to joining the Cleveland Orchestra in the 2009-10 season, Mr. Israel served as Principal Trombone of the Har ord (CT) and the Haddonfield (NJ) Sympho-‐nies. He has performed with major orchestras such as the Philadelphia Or-‐chestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Montreal Symphony. A soloist and chamber musician, Mr. Israel performed Berio's 'Sequenza V' for solo trombone at New York's Lincoln Center for the New York Philharmon-‐ic's "Day of Berio". He has been a soloist with the Jupiter Symphony Players in New York City and has performed on several occasions with Canadian Brass, including at the Blossom Fes val. Also with this pres gious ensemble, he rec-‐orded 4 commercial CD’s. The trombonist was the winner of the Lewis Van Haney Philharmonic Prize Compe on at the 2008 Interna onal Trombone Fes val. An avid teacher, Mr. Israel is on the faculty of Cleveland State Univer-‐sity. He is the founder and director of the Cleveland Trombone Seminar (CTS). Born in Nahariya, Israel, Mr. Israel received his Bachelor of Music from The Cur s Ins tute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Nitzan Haroz, Principal Trombonist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. His primary teachers also include Joseph Alessi, Mark Lawrence, Mitchell Ross, Micha Davis and Joseph Nashkes. He has been a member of the Verbier Fes val Orchestra, the Spole-‐to Fes val Orchestra and a ended 2 summers at the Music Academy of the West. Mr. Israel is a graduate of the Thelma Yellin High School in Givatyim, Israel. His studies while in Israel were made possible by the generosity of the America Israel Cultural Founda on through its scholarship program, the Keren Sharet Compe ons. Blair Bollinger, bass trombone Blair Bollinger is the Bass Trombonist of the Philadelphia Orchestra where his chair is endowed by Dr. Bong and Mi-Wha Lee. He joined the Orchestra in 1986 at the invita on of Music Director Riccardo Mu and enjoys the full Or-‐chestra schedule of more than 160 concerts each year along with many re-‐cordings and interna onal tours, spanning the tenures of Mu , Wolfgang Sawallisch, Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. As a soloist, Mr. Bollinger has performed with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Na onal Symphony of Taiwan and others. He has per-‐formed recitals and given master classes in Brazil, Chile, China, Holland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Poland, Taiwan and throughout the United States. As a student he won the 1986 Philadelphia Orchestra Greenfield Compe on and remains the only trombonist to win this compe on since it began in 1934 as well as the only bass trombone soloist ever with the Philadelphia Orchestra. In March

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2007 he performed the World Premiere of a Bass Trombone Concerto wri en for him by Philadelphia composer Jay Krush with the US Army Orchestra at the Eastern Trombone Workshop. His trombone is the Bollinger Model bass trombone by the S.E. Shires Company of Hopedale, MA; a trombone Mr. Bol-‐linger helped design. His recordings include a solo disc, “Fancy Free”, for d’Note Records, hailed by American Record Guide as “The recording I’ve been wai ng for ... an amaz-‐ing display of Bollinger’s virtuoso skills.” Other recordings are 2 discs with his trombone quartet "Four of a Kind", a Gabrieli disc with the Canadian Brass and the Krush Concerto with the Temple University Wind Ensemble. With “Four of a Kind”, Mr. Bollinger has toured Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the U.S. An ac ve arranger, his arrangements of music for various string and brass ensembles are published by Alphonse Leduc in Paris, Ensemble Publica ons in New York and Southern Music in Texas. Mr. Bollinger is the founding Music Director of the Bar Harbor Brass Week in Maine where he conducts, performs and teaches each summer. He is a fre-‐quent guest conductor with the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, the Dela-‐ware County Symphony, the Atlan c Brass Band and other orchestras in the Philadelphia area. A 1986 graduate of the Cur s Ins tute of Music, he studied with Charles Vernon and Glenn Dodson. Mr. Bollinger is now on faculty at Cur s and Tem-‐ple University. In addi on to teaching lessons, he also conducts many classes and sec onal rehearsals at Cur s, Temple and the Philadelphia Youth Orches-‐tra. He has spent recent summers performing and teaching in the Grand Te-‐ton Music Fes val in Wyoming, Eastern Music Fes val in North Carolina, As-‐pen Music Fes val in Colorado, Vail Music Fes val in Colorado, New York State Summer School for the Arts and Luzerne Music Center in New York, Bar Harbor Brass Week in Maine and the Lindenbaum Music Fes val in Seoul, Korea. Mr. Bollinger is also very ac ve in backstage administra on work at the Philadelphia Orchestra and Cur s Ins tute. At the Orchestra he has nego at-‐ed union contracts, served on marke ng and educa on commi ees and chaired the commi ee that selected Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees at Cur s and has served on many Faculty and Board commi ees. Kathy Ga uso Cinatl, piano Dr. Kathy Ga uso Cinatl holds a Doctorate, Masters, and Bachelors degrees in Piano Performance from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where she studied with Dr. Karen Shaw. Prior to moving to State College, she taught on the music facul es of Has ngs College in Has ngs, Nebraska, Trinity Uni-‐versity in San Antonio, Texas, and Houston Bap st University in Houston, Tex-‐as. Dr. Cinatl is an ac ve collabora ve pianist, performing for faculty and

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guest ar st recitals as well as typically accompanying for over 70 Penn State music students each semester. She has performed over 40 faculty recitals with Penn State Professor of Trombone, Mark Lusk, and is the accompanist for his studio at Penn State. Randall Fusco, piano Randall Fusco is an ac ve piano soloist and collabora ve ar st. He has per-‐formed solo and chamber music concerts in Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan, and New Jersey. He has also appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Cleveland Ins tute of Music Orchestra, Alliance Symphony Orchestra, Hiram College Concert Band, W. D. Packard Band of Warren, Ohio, Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Fes val Band, the West Shore Chorale of Cleveland, and Winds on the Lake in Erie, PA. Mr. Fusco has recorded vocal music with various ar sts in Northeast Ohio, including members of the Cleveland Orchestra and Youngstown State Univer-‐sity. He has made two recordings with Barrick Stees, assistant principal bas-‐soonist with the Cleveland Orchestra. They are Opera Transcrip ons and Para-‐phrases, available on the Claves label, and Nostalgica, available on Centaur. Mr. Fusco earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Cecile Genhart, Frank Glazer, and Barbara Lister-Sink. He also studied accom-‐panying with John Wustman at the University of Illinois. In addi on to being a pianist, Mr. Fusco studied conduc ng at the Universi-‐ty of Illinois and was a Conduc ng Fellow at the Conductors Ins tute of South Carolina. He has guest conducted the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Heights Chamber Orchestra of Shaker Heights, Ohio, the Chagrin Valley Cham-‐ber Orchestra, and the Youngstown Opera Guild's produc on of Verdi's La Traviata. Mr. Fusco is Professor of Music at Hiram College, where he teaches piano, music theory, music history, introductory courses, and serves as staff accom-‐panist. He was also conductor of the Hiram Chamber Orchestra from 1998-2005. Stephen Lange, trombone A na ve of Dallas, Texas, Stephen Lange joined the Boston Symphony Or-‐chestra trombone sec on in fall 2010. Previously, he held the assistant princi-‐pal trombone chair of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra from 2000 to 2010, making his solo debut with the orchestra in 2007 in Frank Mar n’s Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments. During his me in St. Louis, Lange helped found, and was a member of, The Trombones of the Saint Louis Symphony, a chamber group composed of the SLSO trombone sec on. The group gave master classes and recitals through-‐out the Midwest, culmina ng in a cri cally acclaimed recording, 4.1. Before joining the SLSO, Lange performed one season with the San Antonio

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Symphony. He has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Cincinna Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Opera House Orchestra, the Extension Ensem-‐ble, and the Colorado Music Fes val. During his studies at Juilliard, Lange performed the U.S. premiere of Ruben Seroussi’s trombone concerto Play me with the New Juilliard Ensemble, and, as a recipient of the Frank Smith Memorial Scholarship, he performed Nino Rota’s Concerto for Trombone at the 1998 Interna onal Trombone Fes val in Boulder, Colorado. Other awards include First Prize in the Lewis Van Haney Interna onal Trombone Compe on at the Interna onal Trombone Fes val, and, with the Extension Ensemble, first place at the 1999 Carmel Chamber Compe on and the 1999 Fischoff Na onal Chamber Compe on. He has taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Washington Uni-‐versity in Saint Louis, and is currently on faculty at the New England Conserva-‐tory of Music. Lange has presented classes and recitals throughout the coun-‐try, including the Juilliard School, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the Tan-‐glewood Music Fes val. Mr. Lange’s former teachers are Joseph Alessi, New York Philharmonic; Keith Brown, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University; and Joe Dixon, instruc-‐tor of trombone in the Dallas area. Mark Lancaster Lusk, bass trombone Mark Lancaster Lusk joined the Penn State faculty as professor of Trom-‐bone in 1986. Prior to his appointment, he enjoyed a varied career with such diverse groups as the Woody Herman Thundering Herd, the Chicago Sympho-‐ny Orchestra, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, and the Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players. He con nues to have an ac ve playing career as a soloist, clinician, and freelance musician. As a member of the Woody Herman Alumni Band, he has performed throughout the United States and abroad, including featured per-‐formances at jazz fes vals in China, England, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Scotland, and Sweden. The two most re-‐cent recordings of the Woody Herman Alumni Band, tled "60th Jubilee" and "Live in London," are available on the New York Jam label. Professor Lusk has performed on Broadway in many shows, including the most recent produc on of Li le Women. The original cast album is currently available from Ghostlight Records. His successful career on Broadway has al-‐lowed him to play such memorable shows as Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Victor/Victoria, Miss Saigon, and Beauty and the Beast. Professor Lusk’s performing and teaching have also taken him to South America. He has toured Chile as an ar st/clinician, teaching and performing throughout the country, including a performance of Raymond Premru's "Concerto for Tuba" with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción and Robert

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Spillman’s “Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchestra” with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile. Lusk was also invited to Argen na as an ar st/clinician. His performance of the Spillman Concerto with the Orquesta Filharmónica de Buenos Aires was the first me a trombonist had been a soloist in the history of the Teatro Colon. Each year Professor Lusk’s tours as a soloist and with various groups take him to numerous universi es and schools of music across the United States. He has o en performed at the New York Brass Conference, the East-‐ern Trombone Workshop, and the Interna onal Trombone Workshop where he was invited to conduct the William Cramer Memorial Trombone Ensemble of College Professors. Lusk is a na ve of Brandenburg, Kentucky. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Eastman School of Music and a performance cer-‐ficate from Northwestern University. Lusk is a clinician for the S. E. Shires

Company and is published by Lyceum Press, including the Trombonist's Guide to the Unaccompanied Cello Suites of J. S. Bach. Deborah Yasutake, piano Deborah Yasutake is an ac ve collabora ve pianist in the Akron/Cleveland area. She is a staff accompanist at the University of Akron and has also played at Northwestern University, the University of Michigan and Kent State Univer-‐sity. Debbie has collaborated with members of the Cleveland Orchestra, Bos-‐ton Symphony Orchestra, Pi sburgh Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Akron Symphony Orchestra and Canton Symphony. Ms. Yasutake maintains a private piano studio in Hudson, Ohio. She holds a bachelor's degree in trombone performance from Northwestern University. Great Lakes Trombone Ensemble The Great Lakes Trombone Ensemble was formed in 2011 and played its inaugural performance at the 2012 Cleveland Trombone Seminar. The group is comprised of professional orchestral musicians from the Great Lakes region of the United States. The Great Lakes Trombone Ensemble performs original trombone music as well as arrangements of challenging pieces.

*Jeff Dee (Bass, Buffalo Philharmonic) *Jeff Gray (Bass, Rochester Philharmonic) *Shachar Israel (Cleveland Orchestra) *Jonathan Lombardo (Buffalo Philharmonic) *James Nova (Pi sburgh Symphony) *Tim Smith (Buffalo Philharmonic) *Ken Thompkins (Detroit Symphony) David Bruestle (Erie Philharmonic) Garth Simmons (Toledo Symphony)

*Asterisks denote GLTE founding members

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Special Thank You to our 2015 CTS Sponsors: Edwards Instrument Co. edwards-instruments.com Griego Mouthpieces griegomouthpieces.com We would also like to thank the CSU Music Department.

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