WASBE Elections 2005
CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT (PRESIDENT 2007 - 2009)
Laszlo Marosi / Hungary
Dr. Laszlo Marosi was born in Sarvar, Hungary. His musical education began at
the age of five, and continued at the Music Gymnasium, where he majored on both
piano and trombone. He studied conducting at the Liszt Academy of Music with
Tamas Breitner, the director of the Pecs Opera. From 1982 to 1997 Marosi worked
as the conductor of the Hungarian Central Army Band. During this period he recorded
a number of works by Liszt and several contemporary Hungarian composers. He also
conducted his ensemble for radio and television productions and toured with the
group throughout Europe. For twelve years he taught conducting at the Liszt Teacher
Training College, Budapest. In 1993, he was asked to serve as conductor and artistic
director of the professional Budapest Symphonic Band, in addition to his responsibilities
as the conductor of the Liszt Academy Wind Orchestra. These ensembles produced
several commercial CD recordings for leading European companies, including Hungaroton.
Between 1989 and 1994, Marosi conducted more than fifty performances annually with the Budapest State Operetta Theater Orchestra. He was invited to guest conduct the Matav Symphony Orchestra, and toured Europe with the Strauss Symphony Orchestra (1996 and 1998).
As guest conductor, lecturer and adjudicator he has appeared throughout Europe, Israel, England, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, and the United States. Following his professional career in Hungary, he matriculated to Florida State University, where he earned a M.M. in Conducting and a Ph.D. in Music Education with James Croft and Philip Spurgeon. He frequently conducted the University Symphony Orchestra, including acclaimed performances of the music of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Shulamit Ran. As Visiting Professor, Dr. Marosi served as Associate Conductor of the FSU Wind Orchestra during the 2002-03 academic year.
For his contributions to Hungarian contemporary music, he was twice awarded the Artisjus prize by the Hungarian Composers Union. In 1997, he was awarded the FAME prize for his international conducting activities.
At UCF, Dr. Marosi teaches conducting classes, as well as conducting the University Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra.
Glenn D. Price / Canada
Dr. Glenn D. Price has been a member of WASBE since the late 1980s and has served
on the Executive and Board for the past six years. His responsibilities have
included initiating and chairing the WASBE Conductor Scholarship program, which
has successfully assisted numerous WASBE members with continuing their professional
development around the world. More recently, after serving as Conductor of the
International Youth Wind Orchestra for the 2003 Conference, he was appointed
as its Artistic Director, working with the local organizing committee and guest
conductors to oversee its planning and implementation. His commitment to education
and his involvement as a member of the Artistic Planning Committee for the 2001,
2003 and 2005 conferences have led to positive contributions to the design and
content of these events.
Dr. 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.
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. He recently spent two years in Los Angeles as Head of Winds and Percussion, and Professor of Conducting at The California State University, Northridge. September 2003 marked the return to his position as Director of Wind Ensembles and Professor of Percussion and Conducting at The University of Calgary.
CANDIDATES FOR WASBE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2005 - 2011
BASTIAAN BLOMHERT / THE NETHERLANDS
studied musicology with Eduard Reeser at the University of Utrecht and viola
and conducting with Louis Stotijn in the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He
was professor of music history in the Conservatories of Utrecht and Arnhem, where
he also coached chamber music and taught instrumentation. His early activities
as conductor include the musical directorship of one of the Leiden University
Orchestras and many community orchestras. Since the late 1970s, when he founded
the Oktopus Wind Ensemble his field became the classical wind band music, both
as conductor in the concert hall or the recording studio and as researching musicologist
in (mostly central-european) musical archives. Blomhert earned his Ph. D. in
1987 with a dissertation about the Donaueschingen Harmoniemusik of The Abduction
from the Seraglio by Mozart. Recently, the New Köchel assigned the number
of K. 384 (together with the opera) to this music.
Bastiaan Blomhert has toured all over the world and his guest conducting activities include leading Wind Ensembles. His editions and arrangements are published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Chester, Doblinger, Molenaar and others and are frequently performed. In the course of the year 2005 a large number of Harmoniemusik scores edited by Bastiaan Blomhert will be published by Floricor Editions in The Hague.His lecturing and teaching activities include appearances at many universities and schools of music. Blomhert has been active in of a number of Boards, i.a. the Diligentia concert hall in the Hague and the Prince Bernhard Culture Foundation.
DOUGLAS BOSTOCK / ENGLAND
is Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Chamber Philharmonic, and Principal
Conductor of the Aargau Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland. He is also Pricipal
Conductor of the renowned Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. From 1991 - 1998 Douglas
Bostock was Music Director of the Carlsbad Symphony Orchestra. After his tenure
as Music Director in Konstanz and regular appearances with the Southwest German
Philharmonic he embarked on an international conducting career which takes him
to guest engagements with leading orchestreas in Europe, America and Japan.
In Great Britain Douglas Bostock's guest conducting engagements include the BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Elsewhere in Europe he has worked with the Aarhus Symphony, Odense Symphony, Prague Symphony, Czech Radio Symphony, Brno Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic and Munich Symphony; in Japan with the Tokyo City Philharmonic, Kanagawa Philharmonic and Gunma Symphony; in North America with the Kansas City Symphony, National Chamber Orchestra, Calgary Symphony and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Douglas Bostock's large repertoire covers a broad spectrum of genres and styles. Over sixty CD recordings of a wide and varied range of music, radio and television productions, as well as frequent appearances at international music festivals, document his versatile musical personality.
DANNY CARROLL / IRELAND
Born in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. A member of WASBE since the Inaugural Conference
in Manchester 1981. Danny has been active in the windband movement in Ireland
all his life. A music teacher and conductor. He has been particularly active
in the community band scene in Ireland. He has adjudicated both nationally
and internationally. He is a founding member of several music groups - vocal,
orchestral and wind.
Danny Carroll will be strongly involved in the WASBE 2007 Conference which will take place in Killarney, Ireland.
JAMES COCHRAN / USA
is regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on wind music literature.
He studied clarinet with George Mellott and conducting with Allan McMurray
at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois, where he received
his undergraduate and graduate degrees. Further conducting studies were with
Gerhardt Zimmerman, associate conductor of the St. Louis Symphony. He has
been employed by Shattinger Music for 30 years and became President in June
of 2000.
He has lectured at various symposia and festivals in the United States, England, and Israel. He is in constant demand as a repertoire consultant and has conducted sessions for CBDNA, BWASBE, and WASBE. He is currently chair of the repertoire committee for the upcoming WASBE conference to be held in Singapore, July 2005.
His awards include the Distinguished Service to Music Award (2001), presented by Kappa Kappa Psi in recognition of, and appreciation for, the invaluable contributions to the growth and development of modern college and university bands in the field of Industrial Research, and the Russell and Dorothy Chambers Award (2004) for outstanding and distinguished service to Music Education in Missouri. In 1999, he initiated the Cochran Chamber Commissioning Project. The project has commissioned wind chamber works from Clark McAlister, Michael Weinstein, Scott McAllister, Daniel Kallman, and Adam Gorb.
DONALD DEROCHE / USA
is the director of bands and Chair of the Performance Studies Division at DePaul
University in Chicago. Dr. DeRoche earned degrees in music education and
performance at the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in music education
at Northwestern University. For three years he was clarinetist with the U.S.
Army Band in Washington, D.C. and for two years was principal clarinetist
with the Victoria (Canada) Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared as guest artist
at the Alaska Festival of Music, and soloist with the Czech, Arcturus and
Vancouver quartets. He has conducted the DePaul Wind Ensemble in Austria,
Russia, Estonia, Poland, Ireland, and Hungary, and has been guest conductor
with professional and conservatory wind orchestras in Estonia. His wind ensemble
can be heard on several commercial recordings. French Plus 2 on the Toshiba/EMI
label was recorded in 1992 and released in Japan. Chicago Symphony clarinetist
John Bruce Yeh is the featured soloist on the album Ebony Concerto available
world wide on the Reference Recordings label. Trombonist Charles Vernon (Chicago
Symphony), is the soloist on a recording titled Eight Minutes to the Loop
on Wild Ear Music. Four recordings of 20th Century “classics” featuring
Chicago Symphony members Larry Combs and Donald Peck are available on Albany
Records. Also on Albany Records, Friends in Low Places, features tuba player
Floyd Cooley (San Francisco Symphony) and Charles Vernon performing concertos.
MARTIN ELLERBY / ENGLAND
was born in England. He studied composition with Joseph Horovitz at the Royal
College of Music in London and later privately with Wilfred Josephs by means
of an Allcard Award from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He has written
a broad range of works in most media including three symphonies, seven concertos
and a large scale Requiem. He has been commissioned, performed and broadcast
at an international level and has over 125 recordings of his work on CD.
Principally Studio Music and Maecenas Music in the UK publish his music.
For many years he was Head of Composition and Contemporary Music at the London
College of Music and Media. He is now Artistic Director at Studio Music Company,
a freelance composer and visiting professor to the Royal Air Force Music
Services. He has held the post of composer-in-residence with the Brass Band
Berner Oberland in Switzerland, the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain,
the Williams Fairey Band and is currently with the YBS Band. He has been
a guest lecturer at many UK colleges and universities as well as several
visits to institutions in the USA and Australia. Amongst his many memberships
are the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters, the Worshipful Company
of Musicians and the Royal Society of Arts. His personal pursuits include
reading (mainly history), travel, cooking and wines.
PHILIPPE PFISTERER / FRANCE
is director of the Music Information Center CDMC in Guebwiller, France. This information center gives the trainees, teachers, musicians and conductors from France and abroad a structured information tool, to fulfill their needs. CDMC hinges on two main axes: the musical education and the repertoire for wind orchestras. All types of documents are available: from encyclopaedias to CD-ROMs, with periodicals, monographs, but mainly scores and audio recordings. The computer based catalogue allows an easy use of these collections, offering the musicians fast and efficient research tools.
Philippe Pfisterer has been an active member in the WASBE-France section.
RODNEY WINTHER / USA
is currently in his eighth year as Director of Wind Studies and Professor of
Music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His duties
at CCM include conducting the Wind Symphony, Chamber Winds and the CCM Chamber
Players, while also teaching Masters and Doctoral students in Wind Conducting.
He has been invited to conduct many of the world's finest ensembles and to
speak at numerous conventions. His workshops and concerts in Venezuela were
recognized two years ago, when he was awarded the Otorga Botón Honor
al Mérito by the Governor of the State of Tachira - the first American
to receive this honor. His book - An Annotated Guide to Wind Chamber Music
- has already been hailed as a much needed and valuable resource in this ever-growing
area, and is published by Warner Brothers Publications. His reputation and
experience recently resulted in his being selected for inclusion in “Who's
Who in Fine Arts Higher Education”.
How To Vote
Members can download their ballot (Members Only username and password required) or use the ballot included in the March 2005 Newsletter. Once the ballot is completed, it should be sent to Past President Felix Hauswirth using one of the methods described on the ballot on or before 15 June 2005.
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