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About the Artists
Steve Carmichael is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts, Saxophone
Performance, with a minor in Jazz Studies at the University Of Wisconsin –
Madison where he is a student of Les Thimmig.
Formerly he was Director of Jazz Studies at Carthage College, Kenosha,
Wisconsin. Having served 20 years as a saxophone and flute instrumentalist
with the US Navy Bands, he has performed for audiences in over 40 countries,
including France, Italy, China, Russia, Australia, Germany, England, Jakarta, Hong
Kong, Japan, Scotland, and many others. He has been awarded two Navy
Achievement Medals and a Navy Commendation Medal for his leadership as Big
Band and Saxophone Quartet director.
He has performed as section and solo saxophonist with the San Diego
Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony, NHK Tokyo Symphony, Chicago’s
Northshore Concert Band, Spectrum Saxophone Quartet, the San Diego Wind
Ensemble, The Nelson Riddle Orchestra, and with such artist as Bill Holman,
Louie Bellson, Bill Watrous, Kim Richmond, Pete Christleib, Dave Leibman, Clark
Terry, Mike Vax, Florence Henderson, Harry Connick Sr, and Nancy Wilson.
Pianist Joseph Ross is an experienced solo performer, chamber musician and
accompanist. He has studied and appeared in concert in the United States,
Canada and Europe. Ross has held positions at Lawrence University, the
University of Wisconsin – Madison and the Hungarian State Opera.
Mr. Ross holds a MM from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest,
Hungary and a BM degree at Lawrence University.
Steve Carmichael
DMA Saxophone Recital
Assisted by
Joseph Ross, Piano
Mikko Utevsky, Viola
Mikko Utevsky is a violist and conductor studying at the UW-Madison. A Madison
native, Utevsky founded the Madison Area Youth Chamber Orchestra. He was
named the first recipient of WISC-TV and Heid Music’s “First Chair” award for his
work with the ensemble in 2013, and performed at the Madison Area Music
Awards.
Jerod Reetz is a D.M.A. candidate in music composition at the University of
Wisconsin, minoring in music theory. He holds composition California Institute
of the Arts and Cardinal Stritch University. In 2011, Reetz was awarded the Bro.
Rufino Zaragoza, OFM Music Composition Award, in Milwaukee, WI, for his
sacred works.
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Morphy Recital Hall
Saturday, April 11, 2015
6:30 p.m.
PROGRAM
Program Notes
Ballade for Alto Saxophone
Frank Martin
(1890-1974)
Steve Carmichael, Alto Saxophone
Joseph Ross, Piano
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Gustav Mahler
(1860-1911)
Steve Carmichael, Alto Saxophone
Joseph Ross, Piano
Guidance
Jerod Reetz
(1989)
Steve Carmichael, Sopranino Saxophone
Songe de Coppélius, Op.30, No.11
Florent Schmitt
(1870-1958)
Steve Carmichael, Tenor Saxophone
Joseph Ross, Piano
Intermission
From Nowhere to Nowhere
Aisling
Michael McGlynn
(1964)
Steve Carmichael, Soprano Saxophone
Joseph Ross, Piano
Lachrymae
Tigran Mansurian
(1939)
Steve Carmichael, Soprano Saxophone
Mikko Utevsky, Viola
Fantasia for Soprano Saxophone
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Anime
(1887-1959)
Lentement
Tres Anime
Steve Carmichael, Soprano Saxophone
Joseph Ross, Piano
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Ballade for Alto Saxophone, Percussion and Piano by Frank Martin was composed
for the saxophonist Sigurd Rascher in 1938. Ballade is composed entirely free of
form, consisting of a number of episodes that merge without breaks. In this work
one can find a number of twelve-tone series that play a pure melodic role,
meaning that they are the building material for a varied melody. In the early
thirties, Frank Martin studied Schoenberg’s twelve-tone theory and adopted only
the elements that were consistent with his own chromatic sound, thus his music
avoids becoming atonal. Ballade requires the saxophonist to perform a range of
almost four octaves.
Villa-Lobos’s Fantasia for Soprano Saxophone was composed in Rio de Janeiro in
1948 and dedicated it to saxophonist Marcel Mule. Brazilian saxophonist
Waldemar Szilman was hired for the premier, but did not own a soprano sax.
Anxious to have this music performed, Villa-Lobos recast the Fantasia for tenor
sax, changing the key signature and the orchestration slightly to accommodate
Szilman’s abilities. The original score has only recently been rediscovered.
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I am lost to this world) for voice and
orchestra is part of Gustav Mahler’s song cycle Rückert-Lieder based on the
poems of Friedrich Rückert, composed in 1901. This transcription is by virtuoso
saxophonist and UW-Madison Alumnus, Dr. Frederick Hemke.
Florent Schmitt was a prolific French composer with 138 opus numbers. His
music is difficult to categorized, and has been labeled conservative, neoRomantic, Impressionistic, and revolutionary. Schmitt adopted aspects of
Debussy’s harmonic vocabulary, such as the use of extended chords and parallel
streams of chords. Songe de Coppélius, Op.30, No.11 combines impressionistic
and orientalist sensibilities.
Tigran Mansurian is a leading Armenian composer of classical music and film
scores. He was born 1939 in Beirut. Tigran Mansurian’s work is always textured,
colorful, and maintains an experimental approach to chamber-instrumental
music, vocal works, and concertos, as well as music for film, theatre, and ballet.
Lachrymae, for soprano saxophone and viola was composed 1999 for
saxophonist Jan Garbarek and violist Kim Kashkashian.
Irish composer Michael McGlynn is recognized as one of the leading choral
composers of his generation. Recently he has become busy as a composer and
arranger of instrumental music. From Nowhere to Nowhere and Aisling were
commissioned by Saxophonist Gerard McChrystal.