OBA Concert Band Festival - 2006 Adjudicator Bios
Glenn Price
Dr. Glenn D. Price has an international reputation as one of the leading conductors of his generation. His ensembles from the University of Calgary (Canada) have received great critical acclaim for their performances, recordings and broadcasts, including a performance at the 1999 WASBE Conference in San Luis Obispo (USA) and the National Conferences of CBDNA in 1995 and 2001. His series of recordings on the Arktos label has been specifically cited as a major contribution to the field. An active conductor on the international scene, Dr. Price has conducted professional and student orchestras and wind ensembles throughout North America as well as in Europe, the United Kingdom, South America, the Middle East and Asia. In 2003-04, Dr. Price will conduct the International Youth Wind Orchestra for the WASBE Conference in Sweden, the Wind Orchestra of the Bruckner Conservatory in Austria and return to the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain, in addition to North American appearances including Toronto, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Dallas.
As a percussionist, he has performed with the Canadian Opera Company, National Ballet of Canada, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, New Works Calgary, Eastman-Dryden Orchestra, Alberta Theatre Projects and Alberta Ballet. He has also appeared as a soloist and recitalist. His performances have been heard on radio, television, recordings and film. Following Master's and Doctoral degrees at the Eastman School of Music, Dr. Price completed post-doctoral studies in conducting at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Japan, Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts and advanced studies in Europe and Russia.
Dr. Price serves on the Executive Board of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE). He has spent the past two years in Los Angeles as Head of Wind and Percussion, Professor of Conducting and Director of Wind Ensembles at The California State University, Northridge. September 2003 marks his return to The University of Calgary and his position as Director of Wind Ensembles and Professor of Conducting and Percussion.
Dale Lonis
Besides his role as the Dean of the Faculty of Music, Dale Lonis is also Music Director of the Winnipeg Winds, the highly regarded wind ensemble founded by professional musicians and music educators to perform both standard and cutting edge works for wind band. Dr. Lonis is Founder and Music Director of the Israel Wind Symphony, an ensemble comprised of the principal wind and percussion players from the Israel Philharmonic and Israel's other professional orchestras including the Jerusalem Symphony and the Israel Opera Orchestra. He is also co-founder of the Australian Young Conductors Development and Leadership Program which provides early training for aspiring young conductors throughout Australia. He holds Bachelors and Doctoral degrees in Music Education from the University of Illinois and a Master of Music in Conducting degree from Northwestern University.
Prior to accepting his post at the Faculty of Music, Lonis was the Director of Bands at the University of Missouri. While at Missouri he founded the Missouri Summer Music Institute, the Fine Arts Residential College, the Junior/Senior Honour Band Program, the MU Concert Band Festival, and the Missouri Wind Conductors Repertory Workshop. He also established a Jazz faculty position which was initially funded by Jamey Aebersold. Under his leadership the University of Missouri band and graduate wind conducting programs grew to be among the largest and finest in the nation. The concert band program grew from one band in the fall of 1988 to four bands with over 300 student participants in the Spring of 2001.
During his tenure at Missouri, Dr. Lonis recruited and graduated over 70 masters and doctoral conducting students from throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad. His students are currently teaching in public schools and colleges worldwide.
Dr. Lonis has been a regular guest conductor at youth music camps throughout the world. He regularly conducts all-provincial and all-state bands and orchestras in addition to professional ensembles internationally and has been an advisor and teacher to conductors and music educators from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Singapore and Uruguay. Ensembles conducted by Dr. Lonis have been noted for their attention to the musical and emotional development of the composers' intent as well as a sense of the drama and passion evoked by artistically performed music. His interpretation of newly commissioned works and 20th century contemporary art music has placed him among the most highly sought-after conductors of this genre. He is a noted authority on conducting pedagogy and regularly provides private conducting instruction throughout Australia, North and South America and the Middle East.
Colin Clarke
Colin Clarke is the founder and Artistic Director of the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra, and oversees the continuing growth of the Wind Orchestra, TYWO Chamber Winds, Symphonic Brass and the Toronto Youth Concert Winds. Under his direction, the multi-award winning Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra has developed its reputation nationwide as one of the leading performance wind bands in Ontario, specializing in music from the traditional through to the newest works for wind band. Premiere performances and new composition readings have been an integral part of the Wind Orchestra's continuing program.
Though he is best known for his work with the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra, Colin's popularity as a conductor, clinician, adjudicator and educator has captured the attention of instrumental and choral ensembles, schools and music festivals all across Canada. A recent recipient of the Clifford Evans Award for Conducting, Colin's credits include collaboration with groups such as the United States Air Force Band of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, the University of Western Ontario Symphony Orchestra, UWOpera, the Woodstock Strings and the International Symphony Orchestra in Port Huron, Michigan.
Mr. Clarke's creative adaptation of Gustav Holst's The Planets was featured by the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra in a special world premiere at the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts in May, 1995 and recorded the following season. This complete orchestration for winds and chorus has gained national attention, and has been performed by many notable ensembles including the Calgary Wind Orchestra, the Kwantlen University College Wind Ensemble in B.C., and was debuted in Montreal under the baton of Rolph Bertch and members of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
Colin's formal training stems from the University of Western Ontario in London, where he studied orchestral conducting with Jerome Summers and Jim McKay, and worked alongside artists such as Timothy Vernon, Robert Reisling and Susan Haig. He furthered his studies at the University of North Texas where he participated in workshop for wind band conducting and rehearsal techniques led by famed wind conductor Dr. Eugene Corporon and renowned composer Jack Stamp. He also studied briefly in New York at the Manhattan School of Music, participating in a special masterclass for orchestral conductors. The masterclass featured a session at Carnegie Hall with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Sibelius Orchestra of Findland. Colin has since branched out to the world of operatic conducting. His debut with Orchestra London Canada and the UWOpera Division featured a presentation of Gian Carlos Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. Colin served as Assistant Music Director of the UWOpera's production of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (the Marriage of Figaro) and in 2001 served as Music Director of the UWOpera's Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck.
With a passion for the music education and outreach, Colin maintains a commitment to working with young people and the community. He has conducted several all-city and honour bands and orchestras across Southern Ontario. He is the Symphony Orchestra conductor at the Toronto District School Board Music Camp, a position he has held for the past seven years, and is the youngest conductor to hold this post in the history of the camp. Since his appointment as Artistic Director of the Guelph Concert Band in 1999, the band's membership has tripled in numbers, and has grown from what was once just a small town band to what is quickly becoming one of the leading community ensembles in Canada.
Colin also maintains an active schedule as a clinician and adjudicator. He has lead seminars and workshops in percussion and conducting for the Toronto District School Board and the Toronto Metropolitan Separate School Board, and has adjudicated for various music festivals including the Kiwanis Festival, the Rotary Music Festival in St. John's, Newfoundland, and MusicFest Canada.
Sharon Fitzsimmins
Sharon Fitzsimmins, Mus. Bac, B.Ed, is a respected educator, adjudicator, clinician and conductor. She is past president of The Ontario Music Educators’ Association (OMEA) and currently co-editor of "The Recorder", conductor at National Music Camp of Canada and examiner for The Royal Conservatory of Music. She has received numerous teaching, professional development and leadership awards. Her book, "Just one more time..." was released in October 2004 and she her resource manual, "An Earful", was published in November 2005. She is currently working on another resource for music teachers, called "Everything but the Kitchen Sink". Sharon is proud to have taught for thirty years at Barrie North Collegiate where she conducted award winning bands and choirs. In April 2005, Sharon will be the guest conductor of the Northern Ontario Music Festival All Star Band.
Peter Stoll
Known for his virtuoso energy on stage as well as an easy and entertaining way of speaking with the audience, Peter Stoll was a prizewinner in the 1987 International Clarinet Society Competition, and also that year Solo Clarinetist with the World Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales in Berlin and Vienna, which was broadcast on live television across Europe on the occasion of Berlin's 750th Jubilee as the only group allowed to cross the Berlin Wall to perform on both sides. In 1989, Peter's trio Triomphe! won First Prize in Chamber Music at the National Music Festival, for whose 50th Anniversary edition Peter was invited back as Woodwind Adjudicator and as soloist in the Gala Celebration Concert in Winnipeg.
Peter's tape "Bits 'n Pieces" was broadcast on CJRT-FM and the English and French CBC, and he has been heard in solo performance on CBC-FM's "Arts National", "Music Around Us", "Music Alive" and "DiscDrive". Summer festival performances have included the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Ottawa Valley Festival, as a Mentor at the Boris Brott Music Festival in Hamilton. Toronto engagements have included for the Mozart Society, performances over the last ten years with the contemporary music group Continuum, including a western Canada tour and each year in the Toronto Symphony's Massey Hall New Music Festival, and with the ERGO ensemble in the CBC's Glenn Gould Studio, where Peter has also made two solo recital appearances. The Ontario Arts Council awarded Peter and award-winning electro-acoustic composer Randall Smith a Commissioning Grant for a new solo bass clarinet piece "Borealis", premiered in Toronto in February 2001.
Orchestral performances have included the ensembles of Ragtime, Phantom of the Opera, ShowBoat, Miss Saigon and Mozart's Magic Fantasy, as well as with several local and regional orchestras and currently as a regular member of the Toronto Philharmonia, with whom he played the Glazounov Saxophone Concerto as soloist. Peter was featured in a showcase performance at the Ontario Arts Council's Contact conference, and now tours extensively throughout the province presenting solo and ensemble concerts. In June 1999 he travelled to Munich, Germany with the ERGO ensemble to take part in the AdeVant Garde new music festival, an invitation repeated in June 2001. Trips to New York City, Finland and Lithuania complete the recent ERGO itinerary, and in November 2004 Continuum undertook a 6-city tour of England, Holland and Belgium including broadcasts by the BBC and Radio Netherlands.
Featured on two CD releases with Continuum, as well as with the Canadian Brass and composer John Gladwell, Peter has been guest soloist with orchestras in Canada and the United States, and adjudicates bands, choirs and orchestras from across North America and Europe. He was the founding Coordinator of the University Settlement School Chamber Music Program, and teaches clarinet and chamber music privately and at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, where recent highlights have included a Christos Hatzis song cycle with Lorna McDonald, violist Scott St.John, cellist Shauna Rolston and William Aide on piano, and the world premiere of faculty composer John Hawkins= ASummerdances@ for solo clarinet and wind ensemble at the retirement gala of longtime UofT conductor Stephen Chenette, with a repeat performance in Saratov, Russia in December 2001.
Richard Heidel
Richard Mark Heidel is Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Music and Theatre Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he conducts the Wind Symphony, teaches courses in conducting, supervises student teachers, serves as advisor to the National Band Association-Collegiate Chapter, and coordinates the UW-Eau Claire band program. Under his direction, the Wind Symphony has performed at the Wisconsin Music Educators Association State Conference, Illinois Music Educators Association All-State Conference, National Band Association-Wisconsin Chapter State Convention as well as on annual concert tours throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota.
A native of Texas, Heidel holds the Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music in Conducting from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas as well as the Doctor of Education in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to his appointment to the UW-Eau Claire faculty in 2000, Dr. Heidel served as Director of Bands at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and as a teaching assistant in the School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to his university teaching experiences, Heidel was a high school band director in Texas for nine years.
Dr. Heidel has been distinguished with memberships in numerous national and international honor societies and fraternities including Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Pi Kappa Lambda, Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Delta Pi, Pi Nu Epsilon, and Golden Key. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Musician award at Texas Tech University in both 1985 and 1986, and in 1997, he received the A. A. Harding award at the University of Illinois for the "highest possible achievement, service, and devotion to the University Bands." Dr. Heidel was named to the "Who's Who Among America 's Teachers" in 2002, and in 2003 he received the Citation of Excellence from the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Band Association. In 2005, Dr. Heidel was honored by being initiated into Sigma Alpha Iota as a Distinguished Member-National Arts Associate.
Dr. Heidel maintains a busy schedule as a guest conductor, adjudicator, clinician, guest lecturer, trumpet performer, and custom drill designer. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Band Association, NBA-Wisconsin Chapter, Shell Lake Arts Center , and the International Music Camp (Honorary Member). Dr. Heidel has presented clinics at state music conferences in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin as well as guest lectures at Texas Tech University, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Ohio University, Bowling Green State University, Oakland University, and the University of Illinois. Heidel has served as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician in Texas, New Mexico, Georgia, Nebraska, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C. In 2003, Heidel served as an adjudicator for the Limerick International Marching Band Competition and the 100 th St. Patrick's Day Festival in Dublin, Ireland. His summer teaching experiences include serving as a faculty member of the Shell Lake Arts Center in Shell Lake, Wisconsin, Texas Tech University Band and Orchestra Camp, Illinois Summer Youth Music Program at the University of Illinois, and the International Music Camp. His list of publications includes numerous articles in the National Band Association Journal and Teaching Music. Dr. Heidel holds memberships in the National Band Association, College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, and the Wisconsin Music Educators Association. As a trumpet performer, Dr. Heidel is a member of Eau Claire Brassworks and has recently performed with the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra and Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra.
Wendy McCallum
Dr. Wendy McCallum is the Instrumental Music Education Specialist and director of the Wind Ensemble at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba where she teaches courses in music education and conducting.
McCallum holds a Bachelor of Music degree and a Bachelor of Education degree from Brandon University and completed a Master of Music in Instrumental Conducting at the University of North Dakota. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of North Texas where she served as a Doctoral Conducting Associate and Teaching Fellow in the Wind Studies Department.
Committed to excellence in public school music education, McCallum taught band and general elementary music for five years in Manitoba. She has served as the conductor of the Long & McQuade All-Star Wind Ensemble in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as guest conductor of the Winnipeg Wind Ensemble, and as a solo and ensemble adjudicator and clinician for concert and jazz ensembles in Canada and the United States. She served as the artistic director and conductor of the chamber ensemble Harmoniemusik in Frisco, Texas. Prior to her appointment at Brandon University, McCallum was the Director of Bands at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa where she conducted the Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensemble and taught applied saxophone, conducting, elementary and secondary music education, instrument pedagogy, and jazz history.
McCallum is a regular contributor to the publication and recording series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band and serves as a member of the Gender/Ethnicity Task Force for the College Band Director's National Association.