Music Program

April 10-12th2014

Nelson

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Cantando

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CANTANDO FESTIVALApril 12-15, 2015

Winspear CentreEdmonton

EDMONTON

Apr 30-May 3, 2015Whistler Village, BC

WHISTLERCANTANDO FESTIVAL

www.WhistlerMusicFestival.ca

April 23-26, 2015

NELSONCANTANDO FESTIVAL

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www.SunPeaksMusicFestival.com

April 17-19, 201530 min. from Kamloops, BC

SUN PEAKSCANTANDO FESTIVAL

Nelson, BC

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Director’s Message

for Yamaha Canada and St. John’s in Edmonton for providing us with high quality equip-ment.

We are thrilled that the University of Lethbridge music students and some of their facul-ty are coming to perform and assist with the operation of the festival. Acting as mentors to younger students is a big part of everyone’s music education and the opportunity for high school students to work not only with professionals, but to experience dedicated music students at the University level is a unique experience.

Selkirk College in Nelson has a unique music program and we are also thankful for their support and eagerly look forward to working with their students and faculty in this and future festivals.

Cantando supports music education in Edmonton, Sun Peaks, Whistler and now Nelson. Over 5000 music students attend annual festivals and University music programs are lined up and anxious to perform at our festivals. We bring some of the world’s great art-ists to many of these venues and hope you enjoy this festival and will consider returning . . . or attending another great Cantando festival.

Check out our website at www.cantando.org for current and future information.

Dr. Dennis PrimeCantando Festival Director

Welcome to the First Annual Nelson Cantando Festival. Nelson has had a long history of supporting the arts and we are very appreciative of the help we have had from not only members of the community and various arts groups, but also from the academic and business com-munity as well.

We have purposely kept the Festival small this first year but anticipate that it will grow substantially over the next several years. The problems in bringing over 500 students from throughout Western Canada are not small – we have had to find hotel space in adjacent towns and securing the concert venues and equipment we require has been challenging. In the end we are very happy with the quality of venues we have found and thankful

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Festival-At-A-Glance

April 10 April 11 April 12

Concert Bands

InstrumentalWorkshops

Concert Choir

Jazz Ensembles

April 10 April 11 April 12

Evening Concert

Evening Concert

Evening Concert

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Shambhala HallMary Hall

Nelson United ChurchCapitol Theatre

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Jazz Ensembles

Time Ensemble Room Adjudicator7:30am Yale Jazz Band Shambhala Hall Josh Davies9:00am Canmore Collegiate Jazz Band Shambhala Hall Josh Davies

10:30am Burnaby Mtn Jazz Band 1 Shambhala Hall Josh Davies

12:00pm Lunch Time Director's Jazz Workshop Shambhala Hall Josh Davies

1:00pm Cremona Sr. Jazz Ensemble Shambhala Hall Josh Davies2:30pm Elphi Jazz Band Shambhala Hall Josh Davies4:00pm Burnaby Mtn Jazz Band 2 Shambhala Hall Josh Davies

Friday April 11th, 2014

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Instrumental Workshops

Friday April 11th, 2014

Selkirk College

Time Ensemble Room Adjudicator9:00am Mass Woodwind Ensemble 10th St Gym Chee Meng Low

10:00am Mass Brass Ensemble 10th St Gym Chee Meng Low

11:00am Percussion Workshop 10th St Gym Graeme Peppinck

1:00-3:00pm Mass Choir Workshop 10th St Gym Scott Leithead

1:00pm Flute Workshop NS Cafeteria UofLethbridge1:00pm Double Reed Workshop Scholars UofLethbridge2:00pm Clarinet Workshop NS Cafeteria Dennis Prime2:00pm Horn Workshop Scholars UofLethbridge3:00pm Choir Directors Workshop 10th St Gym Scott Leithead3:00pm Saxophone Workshop NS Cafeteria Chee Meng Low3:00pm Trombone Workshop Scholars UofLethbridge4:00pm Trumpet Workshop NS Cafeteria Taina Lorenz4:00pm Low Brass Workshop Scholars UofLethbridge

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Time Ensemble Adjudicator8:00am John Oliver Tour Choir Scott Leithead9:00am Bishop O'Byrne Choir Scott Leithead

10:00am Burnaby Mountain Choir Scott Leithead11:00am M.E. LaZerte Choir Scott Leithead1:30pm Magrath High School Choir Scott Leithead2:30pm Yale Concert Choir Scott Leithead4:00pm Mass Choir Rehearsal Scott Leithead

Concert Choirs

Saturday April 12th, 2014

United Church

Concert Bands and ChoirsConcert Bands

Saturday April 12th, 2014

Mary HallTime Ensemble Name Adjudicator

9:00am Canmore Collegiate Concert Band Chee Meng Low9:30am Yale Concert Band Josh Davies

10:00am Magrath Concert Band Chee Meng Low10:30am MEI Junior Band Josh Davies11:00am John Oliver Tour Band Chee Meng Low1:00pm Elphinstone Secondary Concert Band Chee Meng Low1:30pm Burnaby Mtn Concert Band Josh Davies2:00pm M.E. LaZerte Concert Band Chee Meng Low2:30pm Bishop O'Byrne Concert Band Josh Davies

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Concert ChoirsEvening ConcertsThursday April 10th, 2014

Capitol TheatreUniversity of Lethbridge Chamber Ensemble

Time Groups Assigned7:00pm Burnaby Mountain, Canmore Collegiate,

John Oliver, Yale, Cremona8:15pm Elphinstone, Magrath, Bishop O’Byrne, ME Lazerte, MEI

Featuring:The University of Lethbridge Brass Quintet,

Saxophone Quartet,Trombone Choir,

and Clarinet Quartet

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Evening Concerts Continued..

University of Lethbridge Wind Ensemble

Friday April 11th, 2014 7PM

10th Street Gym

Overture to “Candide”

The Glass Bead Game Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble

Arirang and Akatonbo

Awayday

American Jazz Suite

Sleep

Machu Picchu

Leonard Berstein (1918 – 1990) Arr. Walter Beeler

James A. Beckel Jr. (b.1948)

Korean Folk Song/Kosaku Yamada Arr. Chang Su Koh

Adam Gorb (b. 1958)

Allen Vizzutti (b.1952)

Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)

Satoshi Yagisawa (b. 1975)

University of Lethbridge Wind and Percussion Faculty

Sarah Gieck: FluteDavid Sussman: OboeThomas Staples: Horn

Nick Sulivan: Trombone, Bass trombone, Euphonium and Tuba

Peggy Mezei: ClarinetFrancesca Davenport: Bassoon

Adam Mason: Percussion

Chee Meng Low: SaxophoneJoshua Davies: Trumpet

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Saturday April 12th, 2014 8PM

10th Street GymEvening Concert with Mass Choir

Selkirk College EnsemblesStudent Social and Dance

Evening Concerts Continued..

Andrew Parkhouse and the Magpies

An Alternative pop rock band; they play originals and the odd cover. They have been together for a year with the writing coming from Guitar player Kristian Zulinick and Vocalist Andrew Parkhouse. They plan on touring and writing for the next few years and basing there project out of Kitchener Ontario. Although their home base will be Ontario, their plan is to be all over the country for the next 2 years. The Magpies are going to leave their mark on Canada as soon as they leave Selkirk College with their new EP album “Awol”; and the hope is to make 2014 and 2015 two very big successful years for the band.

Nikita and the Reckless Revolvers

From solo to a trio, to a full band routine, Nikita and the Reckless Revolvers are capable of entertaining anywhere from coffee shops to weddings to festival stages. Performing original material and covers that range from Folk to Country to Classic Rock means that this flexible act can please a range of audiences. Ni-kita has had the opportunity to be brought up on stage to sing with Keith Urban, have a sold out show at the Cleland Theatre and open for Canadian Country act, Paul Brandt, at the South Okanagan Even Centre.

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AdjudicatorsScott Leithead (Choral)

the Mascato Youth Choir and numerous other choirs in southern Africa. Scott’s passion for innovative and unique choral music experiences has shaped the direction of the Kokopelli Choir Association and was the founder of Òran as the alumni ensemble for the Kokopelli Youth Choir.

This season Scott has been invited to conduct the Saskatchewan and New Brunswick Youth Choirs for the second time. On July 1st, he will lead the Unisong National Choir Festival on Canada Day with the National Arts Orchestra. In addition he will be present-ing at Festival 500 in Newfoundland as a festival clinician and he will adjudicate the Ontario Vocal Festival, the Vancouver Kiwanis Festival, and the Edmonton Cantando Festival. He will be presenting major concerts with the Amabile Choirs in London On-tario, The Bach Children’s Choirs of Guelph, The Toronto Children’s Choir, The Hamilton Children’s Choir, and The High Park Children’s Choirs. He is also looking forward to con-ducting a summer program in Naramata BC in August 2011. He has been invited to work with ensembles and institutions in 9 provinces this year, as well as in the United States, the Cayman Islands, Thailand and in Africa.

Kokopelli’s artistic director, Scott Leithead, B.Mus. is the founder of the Kokopelli and TIME Jazz Associations. Scott is in demand as a clinician, guest director, and evaluator at events in North America, Europe and Africa. He has conducted provincial/state honour choirs in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, On-tario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Montana. Scott has a passion for music from southern Africa and he has been hired to work with choirs in South Africa and Namibia on numerous occasions. In 2008/09, Scott was on sabbatical in Namibia, where he worked with

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Adjudicators Continued..Josh Davies (Concert and Jazz Band)

the Regina, Lethbridge and Red Deer symphonies as well as the Primetime Big Band and Altius Brass in Calgary. Internationally, he regularly performs with the Orquesta Sinfónica de la UANL (Monterrey Symphony Orchestra) in Monterrey, Mexico, where he held the position of co-principal trumpet for the 2009-2010 season. Previously he was princi-pal trumpet of the Round Rock Symphony for four years and has also performed with symphony orchestras of Austin, Abilene, Brazos Valley, Monterrey, Monterrey Chamber, San Antonio Chamber, Temple, and Victoria, as well as The Austin Chamber Ensemble The Austin Chamber Winds, The Austin Lyric Opera and the Monterrey Metropolitan Opera Company. As an educator, Dr. Davies is an Academic Assistant at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, AB, Canada where he teaches studio trumpet, jazz history and is the director of the U of L Jazz Ensemble. Previous university teaching positions include Temple College and The University of Texas at Austin, Concordia University-Texas and Texas State University. Dr. Davies holds a Doctoral of Musical Arts and a Master of Music degree from The University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelors of Music degree from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His principal teachers include Michael Miller, Edward Bach, and Ray Sasaki (trumpet); Steve Haines, Dennis Dotson, Jeff Helmer (Jazz).

Dr. Josh Davies is a two-time Grammy nominated performer that enjoys a di-verse career as a versatile performer and educator. He has performed extensively throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada and Europe in places such as Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas and the Southern Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary. He has shared the stage with such artists as Byron Stripling, Phil Smith, Ellis Marsalis, Dick Oatts, Rob Smith, Kenny Garrett, Dewie Redman, Chris Murrell, and Fred Wesley, Fernando de la Mora, José Carreras, The Three Mexican Tenors, Alexander Markov, Raúl Di Blasio, Jens Lindemann, Al Kay, and Martin Hackleman to name a few. Dr. Davies can be heard on over 20 CD’s with various labels in jazz, classical, alternative, rock, latin, tejano, and funk styles. In Canada, Josh performs with

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Chee Meng Low (Concert Band)

College of Music, Mahidol University, coaching private lessons, saxophone quartet and saxophone ensemble and serving the College as assistant to the Deputy Director for Aca-demic and Research Affairs. Currently he is director of the University of Lethbridge Wind Orchestra, as well as the instructor of saxophone and musicianship skills. Chee Meng was a member of the International Committee, World Saxophone Congress (2006-2009), current member of the North American Saxophone Alliance, Alberta Band Association, and regional representative of the Asia Pacific Band Directors’ Association (2007-2010).

Chee Meng Low, a native of Malay-sia, is a Doctor of Music candidate at the University of Alberta, under the guidance of William Street (saxophone) and Dennis Prime (conducting). He is the recipient of the University of Alberta FS Chia Doctoral Scholarship, Beryl Barns Memorial Graduate Award, Edward Chang Memorial Award and the Green and Gold Student Leader-ship and Professional Development Grant. During 2007-2010, Chee Meng served as the Assistant Com-munications and Planning Manager for the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, developing the educa-tion & outreach programs, as well as implementing the daily opera-tions of the orchestra. In addition to that, he also served as one of the saxophone instructors for the

Adjudicators Continued..

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www.cantando.orgDATES FOR 2015 ARE AS FOLLOWS

Chicago: March 20-22, 2015Miami: March 16-17, 2015

Edmonton: April 12 – 15, 2015Sun Peaks: April 17 – 19, 2015

Nelson: April 23 – 26, 2015Whistler: April 30 – May 3, 2015

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