Wind Ensemble

202227feb2:30 pm4:00 pmWind Ensemble

Time

(Sunday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall

740 University Avenue

Event Details

Free I No ticket required

Scott Teeple, conductor
H. Robert Reynolds and Alexander Gonzalez, guest conductors

Featuring Heidi Keener, flute
Winner of the 2022 Wind Ensemble Concert Competition

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Program

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Heidi Keener is a doctoral candidate and Paul Collins Distinguished Fellowship recipient at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her time at the Mead Witter School of Music, Heidi has performed with the University Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, University Opera, Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Collegium Musicum, Flute Ensemble, and various chamber groups. Heidi holds flute performance degrees from Western Michigan University and Youngstown State University. Primary teachers include Conor Nelson, Timothy Hagen, Martha Councell-Vargas, Kathryn Thomas-Umble, and Heather Young-Mandujano.

In addition to private teaching, Heidi is active as an instructor for the UW-Madison Community Music Lesson Program and works with the Madison Flute Club’s Adult Flute Choir and Chamber Ensemble. She has presented workshops and adjudicated events at Youngstown State University, Western Michigan University, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and the Wisconsin Flute Festival. In the fall semester of 2018, she had the opportunity to teach members of the Western Michigan University flute studio during Martha Councell-Vargas’ sabbatical leave. Heidi recently won the piccolo position with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and has performed with regional orchestras and ensembles in South Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. She was a quarterfinalist in the 2020 NFA Young Artist Competition and has placed in the COFA Young Artist, SEMFA Ervin Monroe, NFA Piccolo Orchestral Audition, and WMU Concerto Competitions.

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H. Robert Reynolds was Director of University Bands, Chairman of the Conducting Department, Director of the Instrumental Studies, and Arthur Thurnau Professor of Music at the University of Michigan until 2001. Following his Michigan tenure, he became the Principal Wind Ensemble Conductor and the H. Robert Reynolds Professor of Wind Conducting at the University of Southern California for nearly 20 years. In addition to these responsibilities, he was, for nearly 40 years, the conductor of the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, which is made up primarily of members from the Detroit Symphony.

Robert Reynolds has conducted recordings for Koch International, Pro Arte, Caprice, and Deutsche Grammophon. In the United States, he has conducted at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center (New York), Orchestra Hall (Chicago), Kennedy Center (Washington, D. C.), Powell Symphony Hall (St. Louis), Academy of Music (Philadelphia), Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), the Koussevisky Shed and Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. In Europe, he conducted the premiere of an opera for La Scala Opera (Milan, Italy), and concerts at the

Maggio Musicale (Florence, Italy), the Tonhalle and the Lucerne Festival Hall in Zurich and Lucerne, Switzerland, and at the Holland Festival in the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), as well as the 750th Anniversary of the City of Berlin. He has also conducted at the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

Robert Reynolds has won the praise of composers: Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Aaron Copland, John Corigliano, Henryk Gorecki, Karel Husa, Gyorgy Ligeti, Darius Milhaud, Bernard Rands, Gunther Schuller, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many others for his interpretive conducting of their compositions.

In 2019, Robert Reynolds was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame, and in 2010 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Duquesne University. In addition, he holds degrees in Performance and Music Education from the University of Michigan where he was the conducting student of Elizabeth Green. He began his career in the public schools of Michigan and California before beginning his university conducting at California State University at Long Beach and the University of Wisconsin prior to his tenure at the University of Michigan. He received the Citation of Merit from the Music Alumni Association of the University of Michigan for his contributions to the many students he has influenced during his career and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Michigan Band Alumni Association. He is also an Honorary Life Member of the Southern California School Band & Orchestra Association. Many of his former students now hold major conducting positions at leading conservatories and universities, and several have been National Presidents of the College Band Directors National Association.

Professor Reynolds is Past President of the College Band Directors’ Association, and he is the very first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from that organization. He is also Past President of the Big Ten Band Directors’ Association. He has received the highest national awards from Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Beta Mu, the National Band Association, the American School Band Directors’ Association, and was awarded the “Medal of Honor” by the International Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic. He is the recipient of a “Special Tribute” from the State of Michigan and was a member of the National Awards Panel for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for over 10 years and in 2001 received a national award from that organization for his contributions to contemporary American music. He is also listed in the New Groves Dictionary of American Music, and his frequent conducting appearances have included the Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, Northwestern University, Manhattan School of Music, as well as the Wind Ensemble at the Tanglewood Institute.

Robert Reynolds has been a featured conductor and lecturer at international conferences in Austria, Australia, Norway, Belgium, England, Holland, Slovenia, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland. He has conducted in many of the major cities of Japan, Spain, and Sweden including concerts with the Stockholm Wind Orchestra, the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra and professional wind ensembles in Bilbao and Barcelona, Spain.

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