Download Cameron University Percussion Ensemble To Present Spring Semester Concert

For Immediate Release – Lawton, OK, March 12, 2007
Cameron University Percussion Ensemble
To Present Spring Semester Concert
The Cameron University Percussion Ensemble (CUPE) will be featured in its Spring Concert on Tuesday,
April 3, 2007, at 8 p.m. in the Cameron University Theatre, located at 27th St. and A Avenue on the
Cameron University campus.
The guest artist for this Spring Concert of the CUPE will be percussionist Mark Ford from the University of
North Texas. Ford’s guest appearance and residency is generously sponsored by the Cameron University
Lectures and Concerts Series. The CUPE is conducted by Jim Lambert, D.M.A., Professor of music at
Cameron, and it includes both Cameron student percussion majors and non-percussion majors. The
CUPE has performed 62 consecutive semesters in campus concerts featuring members of its percussion
studio--alumni who are now either performing or teaching throughout the United States.
Current members of the CUPE include percussionists Jason Dozier, a music major from Lawton; Eric
Vandergrift, music major from Lawton; Tony Bertram, a music major from Lawton; Jarrod LaRoche, a
music major from Lawton; Gareth Jester, a music major from Cache; Danny Morris, music major from
Lawton; Jeremy Toombs, a music major from Lawton; Klay Reece, a music major from Lawton; Grant
Johnson, a concurrently-enrolled senior at MacArthur High School; Jonathan Phelps, a music major from
Lawton; Melissa Caswell, a music major from Elgin and Joel Paoli, a music major from Lawton.
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The CUPE will perform original and arranged compositions for percussion ensemble. Among the
percussion ensemble compositions to be performed include: “Connected Forces” by Lynn Glassock, the
fourth movement of Ney Rosauro’s “Concerto for Marimba and percussion ensemble” featuring Eric
Vandergrift, John Beck’s “Concerto for Timpani and percussion ensemble” featuring Gareth Jester.
Compositions by Ford to be performed by the Cameron percussionists will include: “Stubernic” featuring
Grant Johnson, Jeremy Toombs and Jason Dozier on marimba; “Head Talk; Heads Up!” and “Nightwatch.”
Student composer Danny Morris’ “Timescapes” will also be performed during the concert.
Ford will also perform two marimba solos including Paul Bissell’s “Alabados” (with C.D. accompaniment)
and his original “The Green Road” for solo unaccompanied marimba.
The CUPE recently performed at the 2007 Oklahoma Percussion Festival and was named the host of the
Spring 2008 Oklahoma Percussion Festival.
The CUPE Spring Concert will be an invigorating, exciting program of contemporary percussion ensemble
literature performed by outstanding Cameron University music students. After the concert, the support
group for Cameron University percussion, Friends of Cameron Percussion, led by Dr. Tom Leckman, will
host a reception in the Cameron Theatre lobby for potential donors to the Friends of Cameron Percussion,
and as an opportunity for all of the audience to greet the Cameron Percussionists. Admission to the concert
is free. For further information please call the Cameron University Department of Music at 580--581-2440.
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