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Longing Past the Moon * [saxophone soprano, saxophone alto et piano / soprano saxophone, alto saxophone and piano] funding for this piece by a Special Initiatives Grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Georgia Southern University
Tom Pearsall, piano * Création / World premiere |
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Carolyn J. Bryan is Assistant Professor of Saxophone and Music Education at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Bryan received the DM and MM degrees from Indiana University and the BME degree from BaldwinWallace College. She has studied saxophone with Eugene Rousseau, Daniel Deffayet, Yushi Ishiwata, and Galan Kral.
Dr. Bryan is a Yamaha Performing Artist performed at the 1998 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference at Northwestern University and the 1999 conference of the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors. She is a member of the Savannah Jazz Orchestra and also performs with the Savannah Symphony. Dr. Bryan has been involved in various orchestral, chamber, and solo premiers and recorded with the Winds of Indiana on Eugene Rousseau's CD "Saxophone Vocalise". She is an adjudicator and clinician and was a presenter for the Minnesota Music Education Association's state convention in 1997. Dr. Bryan has held teaching positions at Bethany Lutheran College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Indiana University, Youngstown State University, and Baldwin-Wallace College. Adept in both classical and jazz styles, George Weremchuk has.performed throughout the United States and Europe. He has performed at Ithaca College, the University of Miami, the University of Massachusetts, .SUNY Potsdam, Baldwin Wallace College .and Ball.State University to name a few. In Europe, Dr. Weremchuk performed in 14 countries with the international touring company of Duke Ellington'.s "Sophisticated Ladies", including a tour of Italy with Mercer Ellington conducting. He has appeared as a soloist with the University of Miami Wind Ensemble and has performed extensively with the New World Symphony and the Florida Philharmonic. He is featured on the most recent recording by Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, entitled "New World Jazz". Weremchuk is also featured with the University of Miami Wind Ensemble on the world premiere recording of Urban Requiem by Michael Colgrass. Weremchuk holds the Doctor of Music degree from the University of Miami. He is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Massachusetts where he received the Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and Indiana University where he received the Master of Music degree. His teachers have included Eugene Rousseau, Lynn Klock, Gary Keller, Daniel Deffayet, David Baker and Jerry Bergonzi. Dr Weremchuk is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Central Florida. Tom Pearsall holds degrees in piano performance from the University of Kentucky and Bowling Green State University and a doctorate in performance and pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma. An advocate of contemporary music, he has premiered several compositions for piano, recorded with the Bowling Green State New Music Ensemble and performed the music of George Crumb on Wisconsin Public Radio. A native of North Carolina, he has also appeared as an orchestral soloist and in numerous solo and chamber music recitals throughout the American south and midwest. Pearsall is currently associate professor of music at Georgia Southern University. He previously taught at Bowling Green State University, the University of Toledo, the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County and the Wausau Conservatory of Music. |
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Literature for the Developing SaxophonistI. Lecture/recital on recent, original saxophone literature that is appropriate for the following students:
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