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Manhattan TransferCelebrating their new Number 1 release "THE JUNCTION"

With special guest

The Wyoming All-State Jazz ChoirTuesday, February 5, 2019, at 7 p.m.John F. Welsh Auditorium Natrona County High School

CASPER COLLEGE presents

FEBRUARY 4-6, 2019

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1 The Kinser Jazz Festival 2019School of Fine Arts and Humanities 2

Casper College offers a wide range of performance activities. Casper College student jazz ensembles include: Jazz

Ensemble, Jazz Combo, and Contemporary Singers also known as Triple C. Participation scholarships are available to music majors and nonmajors alike.

Jazz studies at Casper College encompass a wide variety of music and experiences. Students study and perform standards, new arrangements, original compositions, new commissions, free jazz, and fusion.

In addition to performance opportunities, students are encouraged to enroll in “Jazz Improvisation,” and “History of Blues, Jazz, and Rock” as they are offered. These courses provide the groundwork for a lifetime of jazz enjoyment and are designed to encourage freethinking, spontaneous music making, and historical understanding of the only original American art form.Triple C, the CC Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo have enjoyed numerous performing opportunities at Casper

College, in the community, and around the world. Triple C has toured throughout the state of Wyoming and the Northwest. The CC Jazz Ensemble has performed at the All-Northwest Conference, and both the CC Jazz Ensemble and combos perform frequently at the Greeley Jazz Festival in Greeley, Colorado.

The CC Jazz Ensemble and combos routinely work and perform with clinicians and guest artists throughout the academic year and during the Kinser Jazz Festival. Past artists include: Dizzy Gillespie, Ellis Marsalis Jr., the Count Basie Orchestra, Betty Carter, Bob Mintzer, the Yellowjackets, Art Pepper, Bobby Shew, Rufus Reid, Clark Terry, Arturo Sandoval, Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, and Vertical Voices. This year, please join us on Monday, Feb. 4 at noon, in the Wheeler Concert Hall when the CC Jazz Ensemble and the CC Contemporary singers will perform a brief set.

Jazz at Casper CollegeWelcome to the 52nd Annual

Kinser Jazz Festival!I

am delighted to welcome you to the Casper College Kinser Jazz Festival. The Casper College music department takes great pride in the Kinser Jazz Festival, a cornerstone

of our departmental mission, which includes “enriching the cultural life of our community.”

The festival has grown remarkably since its inception 52 years ago, hosting over 1000 students and music educators from across Wyoming and the surrounding region. Three days of performances and clinics are at the educational heart of the festival. High school and middle school jazz ensembles have the opportunity to be adjudicated by some of the finest jazz educators in the region. Students and teachers gain valuable insight into their performances due to the nature of the critiques and clinics that are part of their festival experience. Participants are also able to attend each other’s performances as well as Casper College jazz ensembles performances and of course, our headliner concert featuring The Manhattan Transfer.

If time allows, please come up to the music building and listen to the excellent student performances which are taking place in our beautiful Wheeler Concert Hall. Students at Casper College enjoy small class sizes as well as significant and meaningful interaction with faculty members. Prospective students are welcome to apply and audition for a music activities scholarship. We award scholarships to students who wish to pursue a music major as well as those students who are interested in being involved in music while pursuing other academic interests. In addition, the Casper College Foundation offers a variety of specific scholarships for music majors. These scholarships, along with our activity scholarships, can greatly ease the financial burden of attending college. If you, or a talented

student you know, is interested in auditioning for a scholarship, or requesting additional information about the Casper College music program, send an email to: [email protected].

I sincerely hope that you enjoy this evening’s performances. The All-State Jazz Choir includes some our most talented students from across our great state. Congratulations to the students and their teachers for being selected for this honor ensemble.

Thank you for attending and supporting the 2019 Kinser Jazz Festival. I look forward to seeing you at other departmental events, including our annual Music of the Masters concert on Sunday, May 5, 2019.

Warmly, Jennifer Cowell-DePaolo Music Program Director

Special Thanks to:• Casper College

Foundation

• Creating Thunder Campaign

• Casper Star-Tribune

• CC Office of Public Relations

• CC Grants Office

• CC School of Fine Arts and Humanities Office Staff

• Kinser Jazz Festival Volunteers

• Paulanne Doane, Past Executive Director Casper College Foundation

• Larry Burger, CC Recording Engineer

• Jennifer Cowell-DePaolo, CC Music Department Chair

• Brandon Kosine, Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs

• Eric Unruh, Dean, School of Fine Arts and Humanities

• Ray Citak, Piano Tuning Services

• Ramkota Hotel and Conference Center

• Hill Music Company

• Natrona County High School

• Natrona County School District No. 1

• Natrona County BOCES

• Wyoming Jazz Educators

• Holiday Inn Casper East - Medical Center

• Wyoming Music Educators

• D’Addario Woodwinds

• Friends of the Kinser Jazz Festival:

» Rob and Paulann Doane

» Nathan Baker

» Joshua Mietz

» Veronica Turner

» Maria Millan

• Leadership Circle

» Jim & Sally Belcher


Wheeler Concert Hall, Music Building, Casper College campus

The Casper College Kinser Jazz Festival, now in its 52nd year, is named for the late Dr. Thomas Kinser, who founded

the festival and promoted jazz as a standard component of music study in Wyoming. In 1967, the festival hosted three ensembles. Today, the festival has grown to accommodate nearly 50 ensembles, including college, high school, and junior high school instrumental and vocal ensembles.

Our mission statement is: “The Casper College Kinser Jazz Festival exists to provide world-class jazz and jazz education to the current and future generations of musicians in the Rocky Mountain region. Our focus is to present authentic jazz performances by artists of the highest caliber and to offer a variety of educational experiences for jazz ensembles, their directors, and the public at large.” The clinicians provide written comments, a rating, and a custom work session for each ensemble to help improve future performances. Regularly scheduled seminars, workshops, and performances are offered to expose festival attendees to high quality jazz performance and education.

The highlight of the festival this year is the evening concert featuring The Manhattan Transfer. In past years, jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Betty Carter, the Count Basie Orchestra, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Ellis Marsalis, Clark Terry, Kurt Elling, Russell Malone, Arturo Sandoval, Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, and others have performed and worked with students from Casper College and throughout Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, and Nebraska.

Due largely to Kinser’s passion, Casper College has a strong tradition of excellence in the area of jazz. The program provides students with an excellent beginning and continuation

to their jazz careers. Because Casper College is a two-year college, students are provided opportunities and leadership roles typically only available to upperclassmen and graduate students.

Our small class size means that our freshmen and sophomores may audition and receive lead positions in instrumental and vocal ensembles including: the Casper College Jazz Ensemble, Contemporary Singers, Jazz Combo, Collegiate Chorale, and Concert Band. An additional benefit to our smaller class size is that students may receive individualized instruction in most courses including theory seminars, jazz improvisation, music history special topics, and individual applied instruction. The jazz program at Casper College has provided a solid start for generations of musicians. To date, we can confirm three generations of Wyoming instructors who have brought their students to our festival to perform and we are rapidly anticipating the fourth generation. While on campus for the festival, students who are interested in attending Casper College may arrange to audition for scholarships by speaking with any of our faculty and performing a short, private audition.

History

Dr. Thomas Kinser

Schedule of EventsAll events, except the evening concert, are FREE and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

8 a.m. Jazz Cats 8:30 a.m. CY Jazz Band 9 a.m. Encore9:30 a.m. Thunder Basin Jazz 110 a.m. CCA Jazz Band10:30 a.m. Centralaires

11 a.m. Thunder Basin Jazz 211:30 a.m. Campbell County Jazz 1Noon Casper College

Jazz Ensembles1 p.m. Big Horn High School

Jazz Ensemble1:30 p.m. Riverton Jazz Ensemble

2 p.m. Campbell County Jazz 2 2:30 p.m. Jazzical3 p.m. Riverton Jazz Choir3:30 p.m. CY Jazz Band4 p.m. High Plains Vocal Jazz4:30 p.m. RMS Jazz Ensemble

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2019


8 a.m. Sola Voce8:30 a.m. Concert Choir9 a.m. Cody Middle

School Band9:30 a.m. Cantare10 a.m. Jazz on Elm Street10:30 a.m. Bison Orchestra11 a.m. Vocal Jazz

11:30 a.m. Morgan SingersNoon Frontier Brass from the

67th Army National Guard Band

1 p.m. Dean Morgan Jazz Band

1:30 p.m. Balladiers2 p.m. Sheridan Jazz Band

2:30 p.m. Central High Jazz Band3 p.m. Spectrum3:30 p.m. Valley Singers4 p.m. Central High

Jazz Orchestra4:30 p.m. Girls Select

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2019


TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 20198 a.m. Tiger Jazz Orchestra 8:30 a.m. Bandit Big Band9 a.m. GHS Jazz Band9:30 a.m. KW Jazz 310 a.m. Hamilton Boulevard10:30 a.m. Centennial

Jazz Band11 a.m. Bison Jazz Ensemble

11:30 a.m. Honor ChoirNoon Casper College Jazz

Faculty Performance1 p.m. Centennial Singers1:30 p.m. Wheatland High

School Jazz Ensemble2 p.m. KW Jazz 1

2:30 p.m. JEN Presentation: Grant Green: The Master of Time and Groove Entertainers

3 p.m. Douglas Bearcat Big Band

3:30 p.m. KW Jazz 24 p.m. Douglas Bearcat

Big Band

7 p.m. THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER CONCERT OPENING ACT: THE WYOMING ALL-STATE CHOIR

Location: John F. Welsh Auditorium, Natrona County High School Tickets: $15 for Students, $25 for Adults – https://www.caspercollegearts.cc/kinser-jazz-festival

For more schedule information, go online: https://www.caspercollegearts.cc/kinser-jazz-festival and click on “schedule.”


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Alumni Association2018-2019 ALL-STATE JAZZ CHOIR RHYTHM SECTION

Piano – Claire Peasley, Wheatland HS

Guitar – Zachary Ross, Campbell County HS

Bass – Brad Eveatt, Green River HS

Drum Set – Anthony Trent, Laramie HS

2018-2019 ALL-STATE JAZZ CHOIR

Soprano 1 – Izabelle Cardenas, Kelly Walsh HS

Soprano 1 – Emily Johnson, Laramie HS

Soprano 2 – Aili Robertson, Cody HS

Soprano 2 – Kyra Klinghagen, Worland HS

Alto 1 – Kaitlyn Bostrom, Worland HS

Alto 1 – Danica Boyce, Buffalo HS

Alto 2 – Nyah Campbell, Worland HS

Alto 2 – Caitlin Cotrell, Worland HS

Tenor 1 – Raeth Tolman, Worland HS

Tenor 1 – Benjamin Wambeke, Cody HS

Tenor 2 – Izak Triplett, Kelly Walsh HS

Tenor 2 – Ryan Loghry, Kelly Walsh HS

Bass 1 – Andrew Brown, Kelly Walsh HS

Bass 1 – Christian Nicholas, Worland HS

Bass 2 – Lance Reutlinger, Buffalo HS

Bass 2 – Gabriel Durrant, Worland HS

Wyoming All-State Jazz Choir

under the direction of Amanda Taylor

Amanda Taylor is a composer, vocalist, and educator from Seattle, Washington. She graduated from Central Washington University in 2013 with a degree in music composition. She currently teaches contemporary voice and composition at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, and directs an ensemble at A Cappella Academy, a teen summer intensive in Los Angeles, designed to train up-and-coming vocal talents.

She is also known for singing lead soprano in the Seattle-based professional jazz ensemble, Groove for Thought. Groove for Thought was featured on Season 2 of NBC’s show, “The Sing-Off,” which featured a cappella groups from all over the country.

Taylor is a frequent guest clinician and adjudicator at various vocal jazz festivals, and continues to arrange for both scholastic and professional vocal ensembles.

Director Amanda Taylor


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VOLUNTEERReceive one complimentary ticket to the headliner performance when you volunteer for two shifts.

CONTACT USJoshua R. Mietz, DMA, Executive Directorjoshuamietz@caspercollege.edu307-268-2246caspercollegejazz.comcaspercollege.edu/foundation

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIESTITLE SPONSOR – $25,000 (1)

• Event name will include sponsor’s name – “The Kinser Jazz Festival sponsored by XYZ Company”

• Introduction from stage on all three nights• Corporate logo with top billing on projections

during all student performances• Corporate logo with top billing in publicity

materials and in press releases• Corporate logo on website and hot link to

company’s website• Top billing for corporate logo placement

on festival T-shirt• Backstage dinner with artist(s)• Reserved seating at headliner concert• Assigned parking at headliner concert• Sponsor booth space during festival• Space for banners to hang in the Jean D.

and H.A. (Dave) True, Jr. Atrium throughout festival

• Twelve complimentary tickets• Private reception at president’s house• Priority ticket sales• Tuesday night reception• Invitation to luncheon with

executive committee• CD autographed by headliner artist(s)• Poster autographed by headliner artist(s)

FOUNDERS CIRCLE SPONSOR – $10,000• Corporate logo on rotation with other

Founders Circle donors on projections during all student performances

• Corporate logo with prominent billing in publicity materials and in press releases

• Corporate logo on website and hot link to company’s website

• Prominent billing for corporate logo placement on festival T-shirt

• Backstage dinner with artist(s)• Reserved seating at headliner concert• Assigned parking at headliner concert• Sponsor booth space during festival• Space for banners to hang in the Jean D.


• Ten complimentary tickets• Private reception at president’s house• Priority ticket sales• Tuesday night reception• Invitation to luncheon with

executive committee• CD autographed by headliner artist(s) • Poster autographed by headliner artist(s)

GOLD CIRCLE SPONSORS – $7,500• Corporate logo in publicity materials and

in press releases• Corporate logo on website and hot link to

company’s website• Corporate logo placement on festival T-shirt• Backstage dinner with artist(s)• Reserved seating at headliner concert• Sponsor booth space during festival• Space for banners to hang in the Jean D.


• Eight complimentary tickets• Private reception at president’s house • Priority ticket sales• Tuesday night reception

Sponsorship Opportunities • Invitation to luncheon with executive committee

• CD autographed by headliner artist(s)• Poster autographed by headliner artist(s)

SILVER CIRCLE SPONSOR – $5,000• Corporate logo in publicity materials and


company’s website• Corporate logo placement on festival T-shirt• Sponsor booth space during festival• Space for banners to hang in the Jean D.


• Six complimentary tickets• Priority ticket sales• Tuesday night reception• CD autographed by headliner artist(s)• Poster autographed by headliner artist(s)

BRONZE CIRCLE SPONSOR – $2,500• Corporate logo in publicity materials and


company’s website• Corporate logo placement on festival T-shirt• Backstage dinner with artist(s)• Sponsor booth space during festival• Space for banners to hang in the Jean D.


• Four complimentary tickets• Priority ticket sales• Poster autographed by headliner artist(s)

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE SPONSOR – $1,000• Corporate logo in publicity materials and


company’s website• Corporate logo placement on festival T-shirt• Two complimentary tickets• Priority ticket sales• Poster autographed by headliner artist(s)

ARTISTS CIRCLE SPONSOR – $500• Poster autographed by headliner artist(s)• Logo on festival T-shirt• Priority ticket sales• Name in program

PARTNERS – $250• Priority ticket sales• Name in program

FRIENDS – $100• Name in program

IN-KIND SPONSOR • Recognition on day of event• Sponsor booth space during festival• Promotional materials distributed

to all participants

IN-KIND SUGGESTIONS:• Meals for adjudicators• Meals for artists• Festival T-shirts• Promotional items for distribution to

student ensembles• Door prizes (any musical supplies: reeds,

mouthpieces, strings, drumsticks, etc.)• Food for participants• Audio equipment


Paul’s co-write “Swing Balboa (Down on Riverside)” mixes the classic Balboa swing sound (which originated in Los Angeles in the 1920s) with edgy, modern electro-swing. Paul’s lyrics also re-fashion a 50’s Martin Denny recording called “Paradise Found” into the hopeful and calming, tropical flavored, “The Paradise Within.” Bentyne penned sly lyrics to saxophonist Grace Kelly’s moody, film noir-ish “Blues for Harry Bosch” which reference numerous classic detective movies. Siegel co-wrote and sings lead on the hip, uptempo “Shake Your Boogie (Galactic Vocal Version),” whose story cleverly incorporates a playful element of “Star Wars.”

Defying easy genre categorizations, The Manhattan Transfer became the first act to win Grammy Awards in the pop and jazz categories in one year (1981) for “Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal” for “Boy From New York City” and “Best Jazz Performance Duo or Group” for “Until I Met You (Corner Pocket).” In 1985, their album “Vocalese” made history as the single greatest Grammy nominated album in history in one year with 12 nominations. Vocalese earned two Grammys: “Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group;” and “Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices” for “Another Night in Tunisia” (won by Bentyne and Bobby McFerrin). This album, which featured jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Ron Carter, and the Count Basie Orchestra, changed the perception of The Manhattan Transfer from superstar pop artists to formidable jazz singers.

For Siegel, performing “Birdland” in 1979 at The Grammy Awards was one of her personal highlights, along with singing twice at The White House, and performing at President

Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993 with Little Jimmy Scott. She says the group was blessed to know giants of the music business. “Working with Ahmet Ertegun, Arif Mardin, and artists who are no longer here like Laura Nyro,” she reflects. “We caught the tail end of an era.” The Manhattan Transfer has also sung with musical greats Tony Bennett, Smokey Robinson, Bette Midler, Phil Collins, B.B. King, Chaka Khan, James Taylor, and Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons.

“As our work on “The Junction,” and the theme of the album reflects – democracy is the fabric of the group, and has been from the beginning,” says Bentyne, who took leave of the group several times while undergoing treatment for Hodgkins’ lymphoma in the early 2010s, but has since made a complete recovery. “We all have a different take on music and appreciate different styles, so each member brings something to the table that is unique. We have tremendous faith in that process. This album is completely us, a true snapshot of who we are right now, having survived so many hardships, but looking forward to exciting new chapters in the band’s story. We all give great credit to our producer Mervyn Warren, without whom this project would not have come together as beautifully as it did. His participation, oversight, brilliant arrangements, and production helped us make one of the strongest musical statements ever.”

Beginning with their first performances in the early 1970s, The Manhattan Transfer have become the cornerstones of contemporary music. Originally launched by Tim Hauser in 1969, Hauser, Alan Paul, Janis Siegel, and Laurel Masse were the group by 1972. Cheryl Bentyne joined the group in 1979 after Masse left. Known for their amazing harmony and versatility, incorporating pop, jazz, R&B, rock and roll, swing, symphonic, and a cappella music, the group was signed by the legendary Ahmet Ertegun to Atlantic Records. The group made their recording debut with their self-titled album in 1975. Known primarily as an East Coast cult act, they expanded their following by starring in their own 1975 CBS-TV variety series as a summer replacement for the “Cher Bono Show.” Starting as an underground group in New York City, The Manhattan Transfer garnered international popularity when “Chanson D’Amour” from the 1976 “Coming Out” album became a number one hit in Europe.

One of the co-writers on “The Junction” – the group’s new album which draws inspiration in part from The Transfer’s classic 1975 version of Glenn Miller’s “Tuxedo Junction” – is the group’s new member, bass vocalist Trist Curless. Curless began subbing on the road for the late band founder Tim Hauser in 2013, officially joining after Hauser’s passing in late 2014.

Welcoming Curless – a founding member of famed Los Angeles a cappella group m-pact – to the fold, Siegel (alto), Paul (tenor) and Bentyne (soprano) embrace a new dynamic and fresh possibilities for their legendary sound that artfully incorporates his low range into their established blend. “The Junction,”

dedicated to the memory of Hauser, was produced by another master vocalist, five-time Grammy winner Mervyn Warren, a renowned film composer, arranger, and producer. Warren, one of the founders of gospel/R&B a cappella legends Take 6, in addition to his intricate vocal arrangements, wrote the album’s first single, the soulful ballad “Sometimes I Do.”

“It’s a whole different ball game, but one we feel is still musically very viable and exciting,” Siegel says. Paul adds, “The concept of ‘The Junction’ is that this is a special meeting place, a junction of merging our four and a half decade musical legacy with something new. It wasn’t exactly a seamless transition because Tim is irreplaceable, and he and Trist are very different singers. We weren’t looking to replace Tim’s unique personality, but found in Trist someone who could add a new element to the group, and take care of the bottom of the quartet with his true bass.” Curless reflects, “My personal desire was that the album would sound like The Manhattan Transfer, keeping what they’ve done, but bringing a new energy that would come naturally with my strengths as an artist, becoming a part of theirs.”

While well-renowned for their spectacular re-imaginings of classics like “Java Jive,” “Birdland,” “The Boy From New York City,” “Twilight Zone,” “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square,” and “Route 66,” one of their most acclaimed albums was 1991’s “The Offbeat of Avenues,” which featured numerous group originals amidst the cover songs. In many ways, “The Junction” harkens back to that approach, with members of the group writing or co-writing five songs.

The Manhattan Transfer “The Junction”


Manhattan TransferCelebrating their new Number 1 release "THE JUNCTION"

THE With special guest

The Wyoming All-State Jazz ChoirTuesday, February 5, 2019, at 7 p.m.John F. Welsh Auditorium Natrona County High School


Donna Wickham is a jazz performer, educator, composer, and arranger known for her innovative genre-bending musical projects. Wickham is on the jazz faculty at the University

of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, and teaches and designs online music courses for Colorado Community Colleges Online. Her diverse professional activities include work as a composer, arranger, conductor, vocalist, and keyboardist, in genres that range from early music to rock, jazz, and avant-garde. Her discography includes a chamber jazz recording of her own compositions, and two recordings with her vocal quartet, Firesign. Wickham makes her home in Denver with three crazy cats, and enjoys climbing rocks and ice on big alpine summits around the world.

Lynn Baker is an award-winning composer, performer, and educator. He is an active saxophone performer and clinician, performing with the Lynn Baker Quartet, Rhythmic_Void trio,

and the Gemstone Debris Trio.

Baker holds degrees from the University of Oregon and Western Oregon University. He also studied with Larry McVeigh at Mt. Hood Community College, and David Baker, Dominic Spera, and Eugune Rousseau at Indiana University.

Baker was the former director of the jazz studies and commercial music program at the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver. He now dedicates his time to teaching classes at the University of Denver.

Baker has won numerous awards; the 1995 COVisions Award for Jazz Composition, the 1987 Westside Composer Award, the 1980 Ruth Loraine Close Award, and the 2005 Downbeat Magazine Award for Outstanding Achievement in Jazz Education – College Level. Baker’s compositions include “The Shape Method,” “Etude Supplements, Vols. 1 and 2” and “Jazz Fundamentals in Flamenco.”

As a Conn-Selmer Artist Clinician, Baker has made appearances at college universities, high schools, and festivals, which have taken him across North America and Asia.

AdjudicatorsIn demand as a saxophonist and educator of jazz and classical

music, J. Scott Turpen, DMA, has performed world-wide including the United States, Singapore, Thailand, China, Brazil,

Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, and Switzerland. His orchestral experience is extensive and includes performances with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, the Macon Symphony Orchestra, the Savannah Symphony Orchestra, and the Augusta Symphony Orchestra. Turpen has performed and recorded with some of the most distinguished artists in jazz and popular music including Stefon Harris, Terell Stafford, Jeff Hamilton, Louis Bellson, Joel Frahm, Eric Reed, Doc Severinsen, Red Rodney, Ernie Watts, Bob Mintzer, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Ray Charles, and The Temptations to

name only a few. He has been invited to perform at numerous national and regional meetings of the North American Saxophone Alliance and represented the United States when he performed many World Saxophone Congresses.

Turpen is professor of music at the University of Wyoming where he serves as the chair of the U.W. Department of Music and saxophone professor. During his tenure in Wyoming Turpen has received many prestigious awards including the Jack P. Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award, the College of Arts & Sciences Top 10 Teacher Award, the Extraordinary Merit Award for Research, the Extraordinary Merit Award for Teaching, the Top Prof Award, the Student Council Thumbs Up Award, and the Excellence in Advising Award from the University of Wyoming. In addition, he was awarded a Performing Arts Fellowship from the Wyoming Arts Council. He was selected by his peers to serve as the chair of the prestigious committee for the 2010 North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) Biennial Conference.

ClassicsToday reviewer Jed Distler proclaimed, “The top-to-bottom evenness of (Turpen’s) sonority, together with unflappable technical control will guarantee listening fun.” The Macon Telegraph said of his performance of Alexander Glazounov’s “Saxaphone Concerto” with the Macon Symphony Orchestra, “Turpen turned the saxophone into a producer of a most rounded and liquid tone and the audience responded with a deserved enthusiasm.” Turpen has recorded music for the National Geographic television channel and has performed, presented clinics, and adjudicated at several music events including the Gene Harris Jazz Festival, the UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the University of Georgia Saxophone Performance Workshop, the Siskiyou Saxophone Workshop, the Wyoming Music Educator’s Conference, the Eastern Montana Jazz Festival, the Georgia Music Educator’s Association Conference, and the Georgia Governor’s Honor Program for gifted students. He has performed numerous concertos with orchestras and concert bands throughout the United States. His five solo and chamber music recordings, “Dance of the West,” “Verismo” (with the Verismo Trio), “Tableaux,” “Crossover,” and “Chamber Music of Jennifer Higdon” (on the Dazzle Recordings, ACA Digital, and Albany Records labels respectively) have received much acclaim. Turpen is a Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician, a D’Addario Performing Artist, and an E. Rousseau Performing Artist.


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Festival DirectorsDR. JOSHUA R. MIETZ – Executive Director

Joshua R. Mietz, DMA, serves as the executive director of the Kinser Jazz Festival as well as the instructor of woodwinds at Casper College. He conducts the Casper College Jazz Ensemble, teaches applied

clarinet and saxophone as well as “Jazz Improvisation,” “The History of Blues,” “Jazz and Rock,” and coaches the Casper College Clarinet and Saxophone Choirs. Mietz was born in Upstate, New York and went to high school in Alamosa, Colorado. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in clarinet performance from the University of Colorado-Boulder, a Master of Music degree in clarinet performance from the University of Montana-

Missoula, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His graduate degrees both featured emphases in instrumental conducting and his doctoral document analyzed David Maslanka’s “Desert Roads” from the viewpoint of a clarinetist and also a conductor. In addition to his work at Casper College, Mietz also maintains a studio of clarinet and saxophone students through Vibes Fine and Performing Arts Music Studio in Casper. During the summer of 2015, he taught as a guest lecturer and performer at the University of Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Prior to arriving in Casper in the fall of 2014, Mietz taught applied clarinet and saxophone at Fort Lewis and San Juan Colleges near Durango, Colorado. He is an active member of ICA, NASA, CMS, NaFME, WJE, and MTNA. In his spare time, Mietz enjoys baking bread, backpacking, and running in the mountains.

DR. ZACHARY VREEMAN – Vocal Director

Zachary Vreeman, DMA, is director of choral activities at Casper College, and current president-elect of the Wyoming chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. He holds two degrees from

Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, and completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he studied with Peter Eklund and Therees Hibbard. Vreeman conducts the Casper College Collegiate Chorale, Men’s and Women’s Choirs, and the Contemporary Singers and teaches “Music History” and education courses. Prior to Casper College, he directed choirs at the

University of Wyoming. Vreeman has also sung with several professional chamber choirs, currently with the Colorado Bach Ensemble and the Skyline Singers. In 2016 he founded the Wyoming Choral Arts Ensemble in Casper, and is also choirmaster at Grace Reformed Church in Casper. When not teaching or conducting, Vreeman enjoys woodworking and spending time with his wife and six young children.

FacultyName SpecializationJordan Asker, M.M. Low Strings

Nathan Baker, M.A. Music Theory, Music Technology, and Trombone

Teague Betchel, D.A. Guitar

Larry Burger, Dante 2/ProTools Certs. Audio Engineering

Ron Coulter, M.M. Percussion Ensemble and Percussion

Jennifer Cowell-DePaolo, M.M. Department Chair, Orchestras, and Upper Strings

Gary DePaolo, M. Ed. Viola

Paula Flynn, M.M. Piano

Jane Hamman, B.M Harp

Joshua R. Mietz, D.M.A. Woodwinds, Concert and Jazz Bands

James Olm, M.F.A. Musical Theatre

Delores Thornton, B.A. Flute

Richard Turner, B.M. Bassoon

Veronica Turner, M.M. Voice

Eric Unruh, D.M. Dean

Zachary Vreeman, D.M.A. Choirs

RON COULTER – Instrumental DirectorRon Coulter is instructor of percussion at Casper College and has

presented at more than 100 universities internationally. He previously served as senior lecturer of percussion and improvisation at Southern Illinois University Carbondale for a decade.

Interests in noise, intermedia, interdisciplinary collaboration, and improvisation have led to organizing Fluxconcerts and projects with performance art, video, ceramics/metalwork, and spoken word artists. Coulter co-founded the Percussion Art Ensemble, duende entendre, Marble Hammer, Drm&Gtr, and founded of the Southern Illinois

Improvisation Series and Wyoming Experimental Sound Series. As a composer, he has created 300+ works for various media.

Originally from Hermitage, Pennsylvania, Ron earned M.M. and B.M. degrees in Percussion Performance from Youngstown State University. His principle teachers include Glenn Schaft, Tony Leonardi, Feza Zweifel, and Fred Morris.


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Upcoming Events All events take place in the Wheeler Concert Hall unless noted otherwise. The Wheeler Concert Hall is located in the Music Building on the Casper College campus.

Feb. 27, Noon Covocation

Mar. 1, 7 p.m. Concert Band

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