Peck School of the Arts ++ Music UWM Bands

ATTENTION: Honors Band nominations extended. Directors, nominations will be accepted through MONDAY, OCTOBER 15 at 12 NOON.

IF YOU ARE HAVING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE ON-LINE NOMINATION SYSTEM, PLEASE E-MAIL YOUR QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS TO mcp3@uwm.edu

Honors Band Festival
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Bands will host the 41st Annual UWM Honors Band Festival on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 30 and December 1-2, 2007 on the UWM campus. The Festival takes place in the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts and in the Music Building of the Arts Center, just west of beautiful Lake Michigan. The festival serves about 600 students in two concurrent programs: one for high school (grades 9-12) and the other for middle school (grades 6-8).

We believe that experiences like the UWM Honors Band Festival help young musicians grow. The festival provides the region's top middle and high school students with an opportunity to work with each other and with nationally recognized wind band conductors. In addition, students participate in master classes with the UWM Department of Music’s performance faculty and they have the opportunity to hear performances by many UWM ensembles.

Directors, we hope that you will consider nominating your finest students to join us for the festival.
Nominations will be accepted between September 24 and October 9, 2007.
Click here to view the letter to directors.

PARENTS & STUDENTS
Students who are nominated by their school band director and accepted by the festival will be mailed a registration packet on October 22, 2007. The packet will include instructions for registering and fee information. Registrations must be received by November 9, 2007.

Tickets for the final festival performances on Sunday, December 2, 2007 will be available for purchase at the time of registration.

NOMINATE YOUR STUDENTS top
School band directors only
Nominations for the 41st Annual UWM Honors Band Festival will be accepted from September 24-October 9, 2007. Click here to nominate your students.
If you are having technical difficulties with the on-line nomination form system, please e-mai your questions or concerns to: mcp3@uwm.edu

GENERAL INFORMATION
Map and Directions top
Click here for map and directions to campus.

Registration top
Students who are nominated by their school band teacher and accepted by the festival will be mailed a registration packet on October 25, 2007. The letter will include instructions for registering fee information. Registrations must be received by November 12, 2007. The registration fee is $55 per student; students are responsible for the cost of all local transportation needs, meals and housing.

Placement Audition top
All students who participate in the festival will play a short audition upon their arrival to determine their ensemble and chair placement.

Items to Prepare for your audition top
1. A short solo preferably with contrasting lyrical and technical sections.
2. Major scales (instrument pitch) - Bb, F, C, G, D (quarter note=96, toungued ascending, slurred descending)

Lodging top
Housing can be arranged at local Milwaukee hotels and motels for students who live outside of reasonable commuting distance. Click here for a list of the recommended hotels and ask for the UWM Honors Band rate.

Parking top
You are encouraged to use metered street parking or the underground parking garage at the UWM Union. All parking venues are free on Sundays for the performances.

Meals top
Various dining options are available in the UWM Student Union. A wide variety of restaurants are within four-block radius of campus. Participating students will not be accompanied by Festival staff to and from meals. Click here for a list of options near campus.

Music top
All music will be furnished by the UWM Band Department. Students must provide their own pencils, folding music stand, and all other necessary equipment for rehearsals.

Concerts top
All of the festival concerts will take place in the Bader Concert Hall of the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts. All seats at all concerts are reserved.Tickets may be ordered at the time of registration, or by contacting the Peck School of the Arts box office at 414-229-4308.

The UWM Symphony Band and Jazz Ensemble will perform on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 4pm.

Each middle school ensemble will perform a separate concert on Sunday, December 2, 2007 starting at 1:00pm. Watch the festival schedule for exact times. The high school concert will begin at 4:00pm on Sunday, December 2, 2007 with the UWM Wind Ensemble.

Recordings top
All final festival concerts will be recorded. A CD for the high school performances and another CD for the middle school performances will be available for purchase online at the time of registration. Students may purchase CDs in advance for $15 per CD; if ordered on the day of the performance, the cost will be $20 per CD.

Cynthia Eisenmann is currently the Director of Bands at Central Middle School, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Ms. Eisenmann’s responsibilities include seventh and eighth grade concert bands, two jazz ensembles, beginning instruments classes and numerous smaller ensembles. She is also the band director at Randall and Hadfield Elementary Schools in Waukesha. She has taught instrumental music in the Waukesha School District for 20 years at the elementary, middle and high school levels. Before coming to Waukesha, she taught 6 years in Stoughton, Wisconsin, 2 years at West Lyon School in Inwood, Iowa, and 2 years in the parochial system in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

Ms. Eisenmann earned a Bachelor of Music Education from Westmar College in LeMars, Iowa in May 1976 and a Master of Music Education from VanderCook College of Music in Chicago in July 2004. She has been active in research involving the challenges and experiences of women band directors, particularly at the high school and college levels, focusing on the reasons for the low percentage of female directors at these levels. In addition to performing on trumpet in the Waukesha Area Symphonic Band and the Waukesha Park and Recreation Band, Ms. Eisenmann has been guest conductor for the UW-Milwaukee Summer Music Institute, Waukesha County Band Day, and Wisconsin Chapter NBA All-State Junior Honor Band. She is a member of MENC, NBA, WMEC, WBDI, WYBDA and Phi Beta Mu. She serves on the board and is trumpet section leader for the Waukesha Area Symphonic Band and is involved with the Wisconsin School Music Association’s selection process of new music. In 2005, she was honored to have the Central Eighth Grade Band chosen as a guest band performing at NBA-WC State Convention. She and her husband, Kurt, are the proud parents of two children, Erik, 26 and Kelsey, 23. Both are accomplished musicians on horn and trombone, respectively.

Thomas V. Fraschillo, DMA
Professor of Music/Director of Bands, University of Southern Mississippi

Thomas V. Fraschillo has served as catalyst and mentor for the music profession in the area of Wind Music for 39 years. A renowned international musician/scholar, Fraschillo has recorded, published, conducted and lectured in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Among his recordings is The Music of Luigi Zaninelli and University of Southern Mississippi Wind Ensemble LIVE IN ITALY (recorded in Italy with the USM Wind Ensemble). His most recent publications include a translation from the original Italian of Alessandro Vessella’s Studi di strumentazione (Instrumentation Studies) published by BMG Ricordi, Milan, and distributed in the United States by Shawnee Press, and La Tecnica dell’orchestra contemporanea (The Technique of Contemporary Orchestration), by Alessandro Casella and Vittorio Mortari, published by BMG Ricordi and distributed in the United States by Hal Leonard Publications. Further, Dr. Fraschillo serves as a frequent conductor and lecturer in Italy (where he lectures in Italian). His most recent conducting in Italy has been with La banda dell’esercito/The Italian Army Band from Rome, considered to be Italy’s most prestigious military concert band. Dr. Fraschillo often serves as a member of the giuria (judging panel) for Italian band festivals, most notably the Bacchetta d’oro, an international festival for bands from Italy and throughout Europe. Dr. Fraschillo has served as guest conductor in 2005 and 2006 at the Melbourne, Australia Summer Youth Music Program and was guest lecturer for the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors Association in 2006. Also in 2006, he was clinician and guest conductor of the Harmony II concert with the Central Armed Forces Band in Singapore.

Dr. Fraschillo serves as president of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. Other offices have included president of the world’s largest organization for band directors, the National Band Association, president of the CBDNA Southern Division, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago-based Sudler Foundation. He has devoted a significant amount of his career to the education of young people in the urban and rural environments of Mississippi. Under his leadership the University of Southern Mississippi’s Wind Ensemble has been featured on frequent public radio broadcasts in Mississippi, on Performance Today, a program of PRI (Public Radio International), and has performed for many regional and national conventions.

Mary Land
Director of Bands, Pickens County (GA) Middle School

Mary Land is Director of Bands at Pickens County Middle School in Jasper, Georgia, which opened in the fall of 1988. Mrs. Land, a native of North Augusta, South Carolina, received her Bachelors of Music Education degree from the University of Georgia and her Masters of Music Education degree from Vandercook College of Music in Chicago, Illinois. She has been teaching band in the Pickens County school system in Jasper, Georgia for 24 years. She has served the Georgia Music Educators Association in various state and local offices. Mrs. Land is currently serving GMEA as immediate past state Band Division chair. She has been an adjudicator and clinician throughout the southeastern United States. Her professional affiliations include: GMEA, MENC, IAJE, PAGE, and Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Professional Teacher Association. Mrs. Land is a member of the Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters Fraternity. Mrs. Land is a member of the National Band Association and the Women Band Directors Association. Mary Land is also on the faculty of the prestigious Interlochen Arts Camp.

Mary Land has been presented the National Band Association Citation of Excellence on five separate occasions and has been presented the Women Band Directors International Scroll of Excellence twice. Mrs. Land was awarded the GMEA Music Educator of the Year Award for 2002. Mrs. Land was presented with the John Philip Sousa Foundation Legion of honor Award at the 2002 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic for her contributions to music education. Mary Land was selected by the national publication School Band and Orchestra in their December 2003 issue as one of “50 Directors Who make a Difference”. Mary Land’s band program was the recipient of the Georgia Senate Resolution 212 commending the success of the Pickens County Middle School Band Program. Mrs. Land and the Pickens County Middle School Band were the 2003 recipient of the Magna Cum Laude Award, a prestigious International Award for Middle School Bands. Bands from Pickens County Middle School have been invited to perform at numerous conferences and clinics. Most recently the PCMS band performed at the joint CBDNA-NBA Conference in February of 2004 and the University of Georgia’s Midfest in December of 2004.

Barry Martin
Director of Bands, Grand Valley State (MI) University

Barry D. Martin is Associate Professor of Music and Director of University Bands at Grand Valley State University. He received his M.S. degree from the University of Illinois, and his B.M. degree in music education from the University of Akron. In addition to conducting the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and University Marching Band, Martin teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and repertoire in the Department of Music. Before joining the music faculty at GVSU in 1994, he taught as a graduate assistant and the first master’s conducting intern at the University of Illinois. Martin also served as Assistant Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands at Akron. He has numerous arranging credits and writes music performed by the GVSU ensembles. He has been a guest conductor and clinician for numerous high school bands and honor bands throughout the United States. Martin has conducted at numerous state and national conferences. This list includes the 1992 Ohio Music Educators Association Conference, the 56th and 60th annual Michigan Music Education In-Service Conferences, the 2005 North Central MENC Conference, and the 2007 Michigan Music Conference.

After a two-year national search, Barry Martin was selected as the new Artistic Director/Conductor of the Grand Rapids Symphonic Band in the fall of 2004. He is a member of the National Band Association and College Band Directors National Association. Martin also holds honorary memberships in the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, Kappa Kappa Psi Honorary Band Fraternity, Tau Beta Sigma Honorary Band Fraternity, and Mu Phi Epsilon.

Mike Parks
Music Supervisor, Orange County (FL) School District

Michael Parks is the Resource Teacher for Instrumental Music for the Orange County Public Schools in Orlando, where he facilitates student/teacher growth in the district’s 53 band and 59 string/orchestra programs. Currently enjoying his 32nd year of teaching, Mr. Parks is active as a guest conductor/clinician for honors bands throughout Florida and the Southeast, as an adjudicator for the Florida Orchestra Association, and has served as a Florida All-State Band Conductor in 1995 and 2001. Professional organizations include Phi Beta Mu International Band Directors Fraternity, Florida Bandmasters Association, Florida Orchestra Association, and Florida Music Supervisors Association.

Hosts top

Scott R.Corley
Interim Director of Bands
Conductor, UWM Youth Wind Ensemble II

Scott R. Corley directs all aspects of the University Bands program at UWM, and serves as the primary conductor of the UWM Wind Ensemble and Youth Wind Ensemble II. A native of South Carolina, Mr. Corley received his Bachelor of Music (Education) degree from the University of South Carolina and began his teaching career in the public schools of his home state. In 2000, Corley was awarded a graduate teaching assistantship and earned his Master of Music (Conducting) degree from the University of Georgia. During this time he performed with the UGA Wind Symphony and Georgia Brass, and was codirector/conductor of the Georgia Ambassadors of Music European Tour in 2001. Corley joined the UWM Department of Music in 2002 as lecturer and assistant director of bands. In 2004, Mr. Corley and the UWM Youth Wind Ensemble II were featured performers at the Cantando International Music Festival in Edmonton, Alberta, and he recently conducted on the UWM Wind Ensemble program at the CBDNA North-Central Divisional Conference at Northwestern University. In addition to his publication and recording credits, Corley has served as a guest clinician and adjudicator on numerous occasions in Wisconsin and throughout the Southeast.

Scott A. Jones
Interim Assistant Director of Bands

Scott A. Jones directs the Symphony Band, Panther (Basketball) Band, and supervises the University Band. He is active in all administrative aspects of the Band program including leadership in the Honors Band and Concert Band Festivals, supervision of band staff and librarians, and recruitment and retention of ensemble personnel. Mr. Jones holds two Master of Music degrees, one in Instrumental Conducting from UWM, under the guidance of Professor Emeritus Thomas Dvorak, and one in Saxophone Performance
from The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, studying under Gary Louie. He earned his Bachelor of Music from Grand Valley State University. Mr. Jones
has held teaching or conducting positions with the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, Morgan State University, Maryland Conservatory of Music, The Peabody Preparatory, The Highlands School (Maryland), and has served as a guest clinician.

Tentative Schedule top
Friday, November 30, 2007
5:00pm Placement Auditions
5:00pm - Dinner Break
7:00pm - 9:00pm – Rehearsal

Saturday, December 1, 2007
8:30am - 11:30am - Rehearsals and Master Classes
11:30pm - 12:45pm - Lunch
1:00pm - 3:45pm - Rehearsal
4:00pm - Concert by the UWM Jazz Ensemble UWM Symphony Band
5:30-6:45pm – Dinner Break
7:00-9:00pm – Rehearsal

Sunday, December 2, 2007
9:00am - 10:30am - Rehearsal
1:00pm - Middle School groups begin performances
4:00pm - UWM Wind Ensemble Performance
4:45pm - High School groups begin performances