Randall Eyles has performed with The United States Air Force Concert Band, Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Players since 1973 and was appointed Principal Percussionist in 1986 and Concert Band Superintendent in 1991. As marimba soloist he has been featured on record album, cassette, compact disc recordings; television and radio broadcasts; and on concert tours of the United States, Japan, the People’s Republic of China, Belgium, England, France and Germany.
He has been on the faculty of The Catholic University of America since 1977. Before joining The United States Air Force Band, he taught at the Interlochen Arts Camp. Dr. Eyles holds degrees from the University of Illinois and from The Catholic University of America where he completed the doctor of musical arts degree in May, 1989. He serves as first vice-president (president elect) of the Percussive Arts Society and hosted their International convention in 1986. In addition, he is active as a board member and percussionist with Washington’s highly acclaimed Contemporary Music Forum.
Al Fabrizio, received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Music Degree from Ithaca College. He has taught in public schools for thirty-four years, encompassing primary, secondary , college and community groups. He has conducted over 150 festival bands and has taught or lectured for numerous colleges in the United States and Canada. As a composer for Columbia Pictures Publications and Shawnee Press, Mr. Fabrizio has written many pieces which have been published. He is an adjudicator for various festivals as well as a clinician for the King Division of United Musical Instruments. Among his other duties, he conducts the Greater Rochester Music Educators Wind Band and the Hochstein Youth Wind Symphony. In addition, he composes and arranges music for and teaches over thirty marching bands and drum & bugle corps in the United States and Canada.
Mr. Fabrizio is an educational enthusiast and devotes his individual time to his own business: Fabrizio Educational Service/Silver Fox Publishing Company. His method books and song books are currently being utilized as basic learning instruction for many young students. To his credit, Mr. Fabrizio has been selected as Teacher of the Year, DCA Hall of Fame, Outstanding director and was named in the Outstanding Young Men of America Publication.
Susan Farrell is a curriculum specialist for the Fine and Performing Arts, assessment and school improvement planning with the Calgary Board of Education which serves a student population of 96,000. For thirteen years she taught and coached senior high school instrumental music, concert bands, wind ensembles and jazz bands in a manner which allowed student musicians to develop the same understandings and habits of mind that professional musicians use to sustain and enhance their work. At the same time, she led a team of teachers committed to learning and teaching English, Instrumental Music and Social Studies in an interdisciplinary format. Great insights were gained from her prior work with elementary, junior high and learning disabled students both in classroom and musical settings.
Susan holds an Associate in Performance, an Honors Bachelor of Music and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Western Ontario, as well as a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership from San Diego State University. She has studied with Howard Gardner (Multiple Intelligences Theory) and with David Perkins (Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds).
While presenting assessment ideas and teacher workshops around the country, Susan's practical articles on evaluation have been featured in professional journals and publications. Her busy life includes sharing musical interests with her husband who teaches musical theatre, choral and vocal music, and driving her two children to all their activities.
Dr. Frederick Fennell was principal guest conductor of the Dallas Wind Symphony, principal conductor of the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra in Japan, and Professor Emeritus at the University Of Miami School Of Music. The internationally-acclaimed conductor was widely regarded as the leader of the wind ensemble movement in this country, one of America's most recording living American classical conductors.
Born July 2, 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, Fennell studied at the Eastman School of Music on the University of Rochester campus, earning a Bachelor of Music degree in 1937 and a Master of Music degree two years later. He became a member of the Eastman conducting faculty in 1939, founded the Eastman Wind Ensemble in 1952, and received an Honorary Doctorate from Eastman in 1988.
Dr. Fennell served as conductor of the Columbia University American Festival, the National Music Camp, the Yaddo Music Period, the Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra and the Eastman Opera Theatre, among others. He was principal guest conductor of the Interlochen Arts Academy, and other guest conducting appearances with the Boston Pops Orchestra as well as performances with the Carnegie Hall Pops Concerts and the Boston Esplanade concerts. He appeared with the Denver, San Diego, National, Hartford, St. Louis and London Symphonies; the Buffalo, Calgary and Greater Miami Philharmonic Orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra and the New Orleans Philharmonic. He was also Musical Director of the School Orchestra of America with which he toured Europe in the mid '60s.
His honors include an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Oklahoma City University, membership in the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, honorary chief status in the Kiowa tribe, and a fellow in the Company of Military Historians. In 1961, he received a citation and a medal from the Congressional Committee for the Centennial of the Civil War for two volumes of recordings of the Music of the Civil War. Also, he was the recipient of the 25th Anniversary of Columbia University Ditson Conductor's Award in April of 1969 and of the New England Conservatory's Symphonic Wind Ensemble Citation in 1970. He was also awarded the Mercury Record Corporation Gold Record in 1970, and the National Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts Oscar for outstanding service as a conductor in 1975.
The Fennell/Eastman Wind Ensemble recording of Percy Grainger's Linconshire Posy was selected as one of the Fifty Best Recordings of the Centenary of the Phonograph, 1877-1977, by the Stereo Review. In 1977, he was named consultant to the Scala Memorial Fund Library of Congress. That same year, he received the Eastman School of Music Alumni Citation for the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. He received the University of Rochester Outstanding Alumni Award in 1981 and the Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service Medal in 1982. He was presented the Star of the Order in 1985 from the John Philip Sousa Memorial Foundation.
Other distinctions include the Interlochen Medal of Honor and the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic Medal of Honor, awarded in 1989. The following year, Dr. Fennell was inducted into the National Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame for Distiguished Band Conductors. In January of 1994, he received the Theodore Thomas Award presented by the Conductors Guild, Inc., in recognition of unparalleled leadership and service to wind band performance throughout the world. The last two recipients of this award were maestros Solti and Bernstein. He was the initial recipient of the Medal of the International Percy Grainger Society for Distinguished Services in 1991. Frederick Fennell Hall was dedicated in Kofu, Japan, with a concert by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra on July 17, 1992.
Frederick Fennell authored several publications with musical topics, including his 1954 book "Time and the Winds", which is still the only text of its kind. He also authored the continuing series "The Basic Band Repertory Study/Performance Essays", and was editor of contemporary editions of classic military, circus and concert marches for Theodore Presser Co., Carl Fisher, Inc., Sam Fox Publishing Co., Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., and of the Fennell Editions for Ludwig Music.
Eileen Fraedrich has taught band in Fairfax County, Virginia, since 1984. She graduated as valedictorian from Mount Vernon High School in Fairfax County, received her Bachelor of Music Degree, summa cum laude, from Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, and received her Master of Arts Degree from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. A 1991 Teacher of the Year Nominee, she served as secretary of the Fairfax County Band Directors' Association for many years and has been a presenter at educational conferences and workshops. Her elementary bands are recognized for their high levels of student participation and musical achievement.
Robert J. Garofalo is professor of music and director of graduate programs in instrumental conducting at the Benjamin T, Rome School of Music of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. During his tenure at CUA, Dr. Garofalo’s performing ensembles - the Wind Symphony, Heritage Americana, and Chamber Winds - have performed to critical acclaim at conferences of the Music Educators national Conference, the College Band Directors National Association, and the American Bandmasters Association.
From 1989 to 1993, Garofalo was music director of Eternal Winds of Washington a versatile professional ensemble which performed music from the Renaissance to the 20th century. From 1978 to 1988 he was conductor of Heritage Americana a recreated Civil War era brass band which performed on period instruments. Heritage Americana is featured in the video series The History of Bands in America and is hear on the sound track of Ken Burns’ TV documentary The Civil War. Heritage Americana’s recordings of Civil War brass band music are considered to be among the most authentic of their genre.
Garofalo is author of eight books, including Guides to Band Masterworks and Guide to Score Study (co-authored with Frank Battisti), and numerous journal articles and music publications covering a wide range of topics. His articles, both scholarly and practical, have appeared in national and international music journals and dictionaries. Garofalo is past president of the Eastern Division of the College band Directors National Association and a member of MENC, NCBA, and WASBE - the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles.
Garofalo maintains a busy schedule as a guest conductor, clinician, lecturer, and adjudicator throughout the United States, Canada and abroad.
Dr. Guy G. Gauthreaux, a native of Thibodaux, Louisiana is currently timpanist with the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Edward Douglas White Catholic High School, he received his bachelor’s degree from Northeast Louisiana University, his masters degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and doctorate from Louisiana State University.
In 1987, he joined the Navy Band, was selected as the organization’s “Sailor of the Year” in 1990, and was appointed timpanist in 1992. In addition to performing percussion solos and touring the United States with the Concert Band, Dr. Gauthereaux has also served as Assistant Drum Major for official military ceremonies at the Pentagon and the White House.
Prior to moving to Washington, D.C., Dr. Gauthereaux served as Director of Bands at Wossman High School, and as Assistant Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music at Northwestern State University in Louisiana. Since 1987, he has taught percussion part time at Robinson Intermediate and High School and at the Conservatory of Music at Shenandoah University.
Additionally, he continues to serve as a soloist, clinician, composer, publisher and freelance percussionist in the Washington area. In 1989, his American Suite for solo snare drum won First Place in the Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest.
Russ Girsberger holds degrees in music education, music history, and library and information science. He served as Assistant Chief Librarian with the United States Marine Band in Washinton, D.C., and was the first to hold the positon of Librarian with the Percussive Arts Society. Currently he is Performance Librarian for the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. Girsberger is a member of the Major Orchestra Librarians Association (MOLA) and the Music Library Association.
Lynn Glassock is a native of Dallas, Texas and received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Degrees from the University of North Texas. His teachers have included Paul Guerrero, Ron Fink, Kalman Cherry, Ed Soph and Leigh Howard Stevens. Professional experience includes performances with the Dallas Symphony, Forth Worth Symphony, principal percussionist with the Fresno Philharmonic, musical shows and commercial bands. He has written articles for the Instrumentalist and music reviews for Percussive Notes.
He has received several awards for his compositions including winner of the Festival of New American Music sponsored by California State University, Sacramento in 1987 and the Percussive Arts Society first place awards in 1994, 1997 and 1998. His compositions have been performed at numerous universities in the USA and international performances including Brussels Conservatory, Belgium; Amsterdam Conservatory, Netherlands; and Rotterdam Conservatory, Netherlands. He has also had performances at the Percussive Arts Society International Conventions in New Orleans, Atlanta, Phoenix, Nashville and Anaheim.
Lynn received a Faculty Fellowship Award for the spring of 1992 to write a piece for solo marimba. The result was a four movement work entitled Altered Echoes which was subsequently performed in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York by marimbist Michael Burritt.
Mr. Glassock is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he teaches Percussion, Introduction to Music Technology, Percussion Methods and conducts the UNC Percussion Ensemble.
Born in Omaha Nebraska on May 23, 1893, George Hamilton Green, Jr. was a piano prodigy at the age of four. His grandfather, Joseph Green I, began as violinist and violin maker in New York City-later he moved to Omaha to work as conductor and baritone horn soloist with the Seventh Ward Silver Cornet Band. In 1889 George Hamilton Green Jr.’s father (George Hamilton Green, Sr.) followed his father’s footsteps becoming cornet soloist, arranger and conductor of the Seventh Ward Silver Cornet Band-playing weekly concerts to audiences of 7,000-10,000 in the 1890’s. Coming from such a musical background, it is not too surprising that George Jr. was already being called the "world’s greatest xylophonist" when he was only eleven years old! The next four decades of recording and composing provide documented evidence to justify the title.
In 1915, a review in the United States Musician stated: "He has begun where every other xylophone player left off. His touch, his attack, his technique, and his powers of interpretation in the rendition of his solos being far different than other performers. To say his work is marvelous and wonderful would not fully express it."
G.H. Green Jr. recorded his first solo record for the Edison Co. in February 1917-the beginning of an incredible recording career as a solo xylophonist. He recorded hundreds of records on virtually all record labels of the era-including the big three companies: Edison, Victor and Columbia. Groups that he recorded with include: Patrick Conway’s Band, American Republic Band, All Star Trio, Green Brothers Novelty Band (his brother Joseph Green II was also a xylophone soloist, composer and percussionist), Earl Fuller’s Rector House Orchestra, Fred Van Eps Quartet, Imperial Marimba Band, Happy Six, and the Yerkes Jazzarimba Orchestra.
In 1928 Lew Green, Sr. (much younger than his brothers George Jr. and Joseph II) joined his brothers to hit the "big time." Lew played percussion but favored the banjo and guitar. The three Green brothers were the original sound music crew for the first three Walt Disney cartoons. In 1946, G.H.Green retired from music and began a second career as a commercial artist, illustrator, and cartoonist. It is sad that George Hamilton Green, Jr. passed away in 1970-just a few years before a great revival of interest in his music, and before his 1983 indoctrination into the percussive Arts Society’s Hall of Fame.
Steven Grimo, is an officer in the United States Air Force, he entered the Air Force in January, 1986, after a successful teaching career in New England. He is presently a Lieutenant Colonel serving for the USAF Bands and Music Branch as a Band Commander for the USAF Band of Mid-America, stationed at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. He is also an active Minister of Music for the Church of the Nazarene.
Dr. Grimo is a native of Bristol, Rhode Island. He began his career in music as a percussionist, attending the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and Percussion Performance. Upon graduation, Steve began his teaching career as an elementary and junior high school band director for the Newton, Massachusetts public schools. He later became Director of Instrumental Music at Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, Massachusetts, where he received the National Band Association’s Citation of Excellence, and the Stanbury Award of the American School Band Directors Association.
Steven Grimo received his Master of Music degree in Wind Ensemble Conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Frank Battisti. He was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Conducting from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in May of 1992. He has numerous published works to his credit and is a nationally active guest conductor and clinician. He has conducted throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, South America and Australia. His service as an USAF Band Officer has taken him to Washington DC, Texas, Alaska and throughout the Pacific.
Steve, his wife Lisa, and their children, Michael, Jonathan, and Jennifer, reside in Collinsville, Illinois.
Neil Grover performs with the Boston Symphony, the Boston Pops and is Percussionist/Assistant Timpanist with the Boston Ballet. He has recorded with the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Philip Glass Ensemble, Empire Brass, Music from Marlboro on the Sony, RCA, Telarc, Nonesuch, Phillips and DGG labels. He has also recorded a music video with the legendary rock group “Aerosmith” for MTV and recorded a special segment of percussion for the hit movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Additional credentials include performances with the Royal Ballet of England, Bolshoi Ballet, Boston Musica Viva, American Ballet Theater, and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. An active percussion soloist, he has been heard at many music festivals including the Fromm Festivals at Tanglewood and Harvard, the Berkshire Music Center and for six consecutive summers the prestigious Marlboro Festival. Neil has toured the United States with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Music from Marlboro chamber series, and as mallet soloist with the Broadway production of Pirates of Penzance.
Neil has been featured as a clinician at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Texas Music Educators Convention, New Jersey Percussion Ensemble Festival, University of Miami, North Texas State University, Berklee College, University of Massachusetts, University of Texas and University of South Florida. In addition, he has been the subject of feature articles appearing in Modern Drummer, Percussive Notes, Drum Tracks and Musical Merchandise Review.
As founder and president of Grover Pro Percussion, Neil Grover’s innovations in the design and manufacture of percussion instruments has contributed immensely towards raising the standards of excellence in the percussion industry. He was formerly professor of percussion at the Boston Conservatory and the University of Massachusetts and holds the distinction of serving on both the Board of Directors and the Sustaining Members Advisory Council of the Percussive Arts Society.
Alan Gumm is Associate Professor of Music Education at Central Michigan University, where his responsibilities include Women's Chorus, music education methods and research courses, and student teacher observation. Prior to coming to CMU, Dr. Gumm served at McPherson College, where he chaired the music department, was director of choral music activities, managed a full voice studio, led eight U.S. and European choir tours, and co-founded and conducted the McPherson Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Gumm also previously taught at Ithaca College, University of Utah, and in Kansas public schools. He holds the Ph.D. in music education from the University of Utah, a M.M. from Fort Hays State University, a B.A. from McPherson College in Kansas, and is a member of Music Educators National Conference, American Choral Directors Association, Society of Research in Music Education, and the National Education Association. He is a nationally recognized researcher and clinician of music teaching style, motivation, and learning styles, and is published in the Music Educators Journal, Journal of Research in Music Education, Southeastern Journal of Music Education, Visions of Research in Music Education, Choral Journal, and New York Choral Cues.
ELIZABETH GUTIERREZ
Pianist Elizabeth Gutierrez enjoys a diverse career as a performer, teacher, and pedagogue. She currently holds the positions of Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Keyboard Area at the University of Texas at San Antonio and is Piano Editor for Carl Fischer, LLC and the Theodore Presser Company. Previously she served as Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Director of Keyboard Editing for The FJH Music Company.
A native of Texas, she received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano performance with highest honors from the University of Texas at Austin where she studied with Lita Guerra. Other teachers with whom she has collaborated include distinguished pianists Artur Balsam and Leonard Shure. She performs extensively as both a soloist and chamber musician and has appeared in recital throughout the U.S. and abroad and has been praised for her “exciting musicianship and thoughtful interpretation”. She is a featured solo recording artist with Euterpe’s Ear,www.the-ear.com, an audio music reference library website, highlighting recorded excerpts of selected piano works drawn from the standard teaching and performance literature.
Ms. Gutierrez is in frequent demand as a lecturer and clinician for workshops, conferences, and master classes in the U.S. and has also given presentations for universities and music teacher organizations in South America. Her piano students at both the pre-college and college levels have received top honors in competitions around the country and several now hold academic positions at universities in the U.S. and abroad. Several of her articles on teaching have been featured in the national music journal, Keyboard Companion, and she is also recognized as a successful composer of educational music for piano students.
An avid researcher and proponent for Latin-American piano music, Ms. Gutierrez is becoming particularly well-known for her discoveries in this field. Many of the attractive pieces from this distinctive literature are now distributed through ALMA Inc. (The Association for Latin-American Music and Art) a company she founded in 1998.