The UniversiTy of ArizonAString Symposium

Saturday, September 21, 2019Tucson, Arizona

C O L L E G E O F F I N E A R T S

Fred Fox School of Music

Soon Hee NewboldDistinguished Guest Artist

Theodore BuchholzEvent Coordinator

Toru TagawaPresident, Arizona-ASTA

Dear Colleagues, Musicians, and Students,

Welcome to the String Symposium. We are honored to have you here along with internationally celebrated composer, arranger and pedagogue Soon Hee Newbold, the University of Arizona’s newly apointed viola professor, Molly Gebrian, and the UA string and orchestral faculty. This event is made possible by the generous philanthropy of Julie Gibson, longtime friend of the Fred Fox School of Music.

At the Fred Fox School of Music, students experience a thriving string area within a highly demanding, yet supportive atmosphere. The strings program offers an abundance of opportunities for performances and master classes with distinguished guest artists, outreach events, pedagogical development, teaching opportunities and research projects.

University of Arizona string students encounter a wide variety of superb ensemble experiences including the Arizona Symphony Orchestra, University of Arizona Philharmonic Orchestra, Arizona Baroque, Arizona Contemporary Ensemble, HarpFusion, and a robust chamber music program. Our department features a variety of competitions and many opportunities to collaborate across disciplines. Music education students are immersed in a rich program that reaches out into the community, and our music education graduates enjoy a one hundred percent job placement success rate.

Graduates of the University of Arizona go on to rewarding careers as performers, teachers, and advocates, and as music leaders. Whether you are an undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral student studying performance or music education, you will find a home here that challenges, nurtures, and prepares you to make a difference and succeed as a musician in the twenty-first century.

Please visit the Fred Fox School of Music online at music.arizona.edu for more information. You can also stay up to date on news and current offerings by following us on social media.

Cordially,

Theodore Buchholz, DMA Event Director, String Symposium Assistant Professor of Cello String Area Coordinator String Project Director The University of Arizona, Fred Fox School of Music buchholz@email.arizona.edu

The University of Arizona College of Fine Arts

Fred Fox School of MusicTucson, Arizona

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The University of Arizona String SymposiumSoon Hee Newbold

Distinguished Guest ArtistSaturday, September 21, 2019

Tucson, Arizona

S C H E D U L E & P R O G R A M

9:00 a.m. Picking the Perfect Piece ........................................................................................................................Room 232 Presenter: Soon Hee Newbold

Create a dynamic concert for your next performance by picking the perfect piece for your ensemble. Learn what makes a performance successful, get recommended resources, and become a “hit” with your students and audience.

10:00 a.m. Composing/Arranging Specifically for Strings ...................................................................................Room 232 Presenter: Soon Hee Newbold

Composer Soon Hee Newbold shares her insights on the composition process and provides specific tips when writing for strings. Get advice on getting started in the composition world and unveil the mystery of the publishing process.

11:00 a.m. What Musicians Can Learn About Practicing from Current Brain Research ...............................Room 232 Presenter: Molly Gebrian

This presentation will focus on what neuroscientists have discovered about how our brains learn and how to apply these insights to practicing and teaching so that practicing becomes more efficient and effective, leading to enhanced performance ability, enjoyment, and confidence. Topics include: how to get rid of bad habits, how to make things automatic/reliable, the role of sleep in learning, the power of mental practicing, how to use the metronome to greatest effect and the benefits of random practice for enhanced performance.

1:00 p.m. Orchestra Clinic ....................................................................................................................Soon Hee Newbold Crowder Hall

Guest Artist Soon Hee Newbold will work with 100 high school students.

1:30 p.m. ASTA General Membership Meeting ....................................................................................................Room 232 Presenter: Toru Tagawa, President of ASTA-Arizona

A meeting for members of the American String Teachers Association.

2:00 p.m. Orchestra Clinic ...............................................................................................................................Crowder Hall Presenter: Thomas Cockrell

The director of UA orchestras will work with three Arizona orchestra programs.

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2:00 p.m. Private Teachers Roundtable Discussion ............................................................................................Room 170

Studio teachers gather to discuss issues and solutions for managing, teaching and building private teaching studios.

2:00 p.m. Conducting Clinic ...................................................................................................................................Room 232 Presenter: Soon Hee Newbold

Bring your wands or batons and have a bit of fun with some basic conducting techniques starting with the intimidating preparatory ictus and moving on to some advanced skills with mixed meters.

3:00 p.m. Reading Session of Works by Soon Hee Newbold ...........................................................Soon Hee Newbold Room 232

Sponsored by the FJH Music Company, Inc. Bring your instruments and play through newly released string orchestra pieces and some of Soon Hee’s personal favorites over the years. Various selections will include grade 1 through grade 5 in difficulty.

3:30 p.m. Social Break for High School Students

4:15 p.m. Master Classes and Technique Sessions

Members of the University of Arizona String Faculty

Timothy Kantor (violin) ........................................................................................................................Room 162

Lauren Roth (violin) ..............................................................................................................................Room 170

Molly Gebrian (viola) ............................................................................................................................Room 114

Theodore Buchholz (cello) ...................................................................................................................Room 232

Philip Alejo (bass) ..................................................................................................................................Room 106

7:30 p.m. Arizona Symphony Orchestra Concert .......................................................................................Crowder Hall The Arizona Symphony welcomes Samuel Pascoe of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México who will conduct his composition “Khromaticon.” Thomas Cockrell completes the program with George Enescu’s “Prelude in Unison” and Symphony No. 2 in D Major by Johannes Brahms. Dr. Pascoe’s visit is part of a continued partnership between the Fred Fox School of Music and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Facultad Nacional de Música.

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P R O G R A M

String Quartet Op. 76, No. 5 in D Major ......................................................................................................Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809) IV. Finale: Presto

The University of Arizona Graduate String QuartetJaeook Lee, violin; Melisa Karic, violin; Raiden Thaler, viola; Diana Yusupov, cello

Prelude in Unison .................................................................................................................................................. George Enescu (1881-1955)

Khromaticon, Symphony of Colors .....................................................................................................................Samuel Pascoe (b. 1964) I. Blue II. Green III. White IV. Red

Samuel Pascoe, guest conductorUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México

I N T E R M I S S I O N

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 .............................................................................................................. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) I. Allegro non troppo II. Adagio non troppo III. Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino). Presto ma non assai IV. Allegro con spirito

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Dr. Pascoe’s residency has been made possible by a grant from the College of Fine Arts Bank One Visiting Artist Professorship Awards.

The Arizona Symphony OrchestraThomas Cockrell, guest conductor

Samuel Pascoe, guest conductor & composer

Saturday, September 21, 2019Crowder Hall

7:30 p.m.

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Violin Isabella BryantLeah ChangYlia ChuffeChiara FerreroBrynne GallupHelena HadlockMelisa KaricJaeook Lee*Sara Miranda-Terrero Alexander Moore Carissa PoweCallum Robbins-Gennerich**Kai SkaggsJennalyn TamioDaniel WormsYiYun Wu

Viola Katie BairdJoseph BinghamGabriella CiocaXiaochen DongMason HaskettCorissa KnechtRaiden Thaler**Ziyun Wei VioloncelloCaroline BellKatherine Capp Cecilia Palma**Levi PoweMaria SavareseDiana YusupovLaura Zelis

The Arizona Symphony OrchestraThomas Cockrell, music director & conductor

TromboneStevie FigueroaAlexander HunterCopland Rose

TubaJesse Factor

PercussionRoss AckermanPorter Ellerman Barbara FreischladMarcus HawkinsHannah HutchinsAlyssa Prichard

PianoMinjun Dong

HarpVictoria Gonzalez

Assistant ConductorsRiddle Orchestral AssistantSean BresemannLorena Suárez

* Concertmaster** Principal

BassStephen DilleyJoshua HackGareth MontanarelloCharlie Welty**

FluteAnna MurphyMelissa Requist, piccoloIvo Shin OboeMichaela GauthierMaya Griswold, English hornJackson LivelySydney Streightiff

ClarinetMartin Duarte, bass clarinetColin NossekCharles du Preez

BassoonBrandon GoodSai Ganti

HornSean BresemannDouglas Byrd Michael MesnerBrianna ReedQuinn Zarecki

TrumpetRachel ClemmerHaolan LiuPaulo Sprovieri

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Biographies

Arizona Symphony Orchestra Concert Conductors

Dr. THOMAS COCKRELL has served as the Nelson Riddle Endowed Chair in Music, director of orchestral activities at the University of Arizona since 2000. He is also the artistic director of Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point, a summer festival in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Cockrell has conducted the professional symphony orchestras of Dallas, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Tucson, Louisville and Boulder, as well as several in Romania, Italy, Mexico and South Korea. Operatic credits include productions for Dayton Opera, Opera Colorado, Opera Theatre of the Rockies and Washington D.C.’s Summer Opera Theatre. He served as the associate conductor of Cincinnati Opera, Opera Colorado, The Colorado Symphony Orchestra and the Spoleto Festivals, music director of Denver Young Artists Orchestra, and interim conductor of the Phoenix Youth Symphony. He was a member of the conducting faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp from 2006 to 2008. While on sabbatical leave fall 2018 he served as a guest professor in Mexico City at Universidad Autónoma de México/Facultad de Música, with which the Fred Fox School of Music has recently established a promising partnership.

Cockrell earned his Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University. He studied conducting with Franco Ferrara in Rome and at L’Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Additionally, he was an Aspen Conducting Fellow and completed advanced training at the Conservatoire Américain in Fontainebleau, France and the Tanglewood Music Center, where he worked with Gustav Meier, Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa.

Mexican conductor and composer Dr. SAMUEL PASCOE is music director of the Estanislao Mejía Symphony Orchestra at the UNAM College of Music (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). Dr. Pascoe conducts the Minería Choir, Promusica Choir and AMEN Choir. He has also served as music director of Coro de Madrigalistas del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), Kontempo Ensemble and All Campus Orchestra at Boston University. He has been guest conductor of major orchestras such as Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM and the symphonic orchestras of Minería, Querétaro, Guanajuato, Campeche and la Orquesta de Cámara del INBA, among others.

As a composer, Pascoe wrote Symphony of Peace as his doctoral dissertation at Boston University. In 2016-2017 he was the composer in residence for the Vocal Essence Cantaré project in Minnesota. In 2016 he premiered Cantos de Primavera, a piece for soprano, tenor, choir and orchestra with texts of King Nezahualcóyotl in Náhuatl (the language of the Aztecs). In 2013 he composed Khromaticon, Symphony of Colors. This piece was performed in Spain in May of 2015 during the Fifth International Symposium of Synaesthesia, Arts and Sciences. The Urtext label has recorded several of his works.

Pascoe earned a BM in piano performance (UNAM), a Master of Music degree in choral conducting and composition (Westminster Choir College) and Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting (Boston University).

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Symposium Guest Artist & Fred Fox School of Music Faculty (For full biographies please visit music.arizona.edu)

SOON HEE NEWBOLD began studying piano at age five and violin at age seven. She has won many prestigious competitions and has performed throughout the world in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, Aspen and Tanglewood. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from James Madison University, where she studied film scoring, orchestration and audio production. Upon graduation, Ms. Newbold began working as a professional musician, contractor and stage manager. She has written and arranged works for albums, recording projects, and various performing ensembles.

TIMOTHY KANTOR (violin) joined the University of Arizona faculty in 2016. A member of the Afiara Quartet, he is also former concertmaster of the Evansville Philharmonic. Mr. Kantor was featured as the Young Artist in Residence for Performance Today, and has performed with many of today’s leading musicians including Joshua Bell, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Atar Arad, Alexander Kerr and the Pacifica Quartet. Mr. Kantor studied at Bowdoin College, the Cleveland Institute of Music and Indiana University. tkantor@email.arizona.edu

LAUREN RUSTAD ROTH (violin) joined the University of Arizona faculty in 2013 and simultaneously began her tenure as concertmaster of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Prior to these appointments she was concertmaster of the Canton Symphony in Ohio. Prof. Roth holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Washington and a master’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with Cleveland Orchestra concertmaster William Preucil. laurenroth@email.arizona.edu

MOLLY GEBRIAN (viola) joined the University of Arizona faculty in 2019. Previously, she taught at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Her debut album, Trios for Two, with collaborator Danny Holt, was named one of the 100 best recordings of 2017 by Ted Gioia, influential music critic and historian. Dr. Gebrian also has a background in neuroscience and frequently presents and writes on the topic of music and the brain. She studied at Oberlin College, New England Conservatory and Rice University. mgebrian@email.arizona.edu

THEODORE BUCHHOLZ (cello, chamber music coordinator) has recorded as featured artist for Centaur and Toccata Records, performs internationally as a soloist, and is the cellist of the Deco Piano Trio. During the summers he teaches and performs at the Killington Music Festival. He previously served as president of ASTA-Arizona. Dr. Buchholz studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of Arizona, and the Manhattan School of Music. buchholz@email.arizona.edu

PHILIP ALEJO (double bass) joined the University of Arizona faculty in 2013. He previously taught at St. Ambrose University and served as visiting professor of double bass at the University of Michigan. As a chamber musician and recitalist, his interests range from baroque to contemporary music and he collaborates regularly with harpist Claire Happel in River Town Duo. Dr. Alejo holds degrees from Oberlin College, the Yale School of Music and the University of Michigan. palejo@email.arizona.edu

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For more information please contactDr. Theodore Buchholz, string area coordinator

520-621-7012, buchholz@email.arizona.edu

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The University of Arizona String SymposiumSaturday, September 21, 2019

Participant High Schools:

Sabino High School – Tucson, Arizona – Danielle Applegate, director

Gilbert High School – Gilbert, Arizona – Laura Reed, director

Tucson High Magnet School – Tucson, Arizona – Cayce Miners, director

9:00 a.m. Soon Hee Newbold – “Picking the Perfect Piece” Room 232

10:00 a.m. Soon Hee Newbold – “Composing/Arranging Specifically for Strings” Room 232

11:00 a.m. Molly Gebrian – “What Musicians Can Learn About Practicing from Current Brain Research” Room 232

12:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

1:00 p.m. Soon Hee Newbold with all High School students Crowder Hall

1:30 p.m. ASTA General Membership Meeting Room 232

2:00 p.m. Soon Hee Newbold – “Conducting Clinic” Room 232

2:00 p.m. Orchestra Clinics with Thomas Cockrell Crowder Hall

2:00 p.m. Private Teachers Roundtable Discussion Room 170

3:00 p.m. Soon Hee Newbold Reading Session Room 232

3:30 p.m. Social Break for High School Students

4:15 p.m. Master Classes and Technique Sessions Timothy Kantor (violin) – Room 162 Lauren Roth (violin) – Room 170 Molly Gebrian (viola) – Room 114 Theodore Buchholz (cello) – Room 232 Philip Alejo (bass) – Room 106

5:45 p.m. Dinner Break (Take Instruments to be locked during dinner/concert in Room 170)

7:30 p.m. Arizona Symphony Orchestra Concert Crowder Hall