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Program OrderNanalo! ! ! ! Briana Grimm, Grade 12! ! ! ! North Country UHS, NewportBrass Quartet in G Minor! Adele Woodmansee, Grade 12! ! ! ! North Country UHS, NewportThe Journey! ! ! Rian Fried and John Gaston, Grade 8! ! ! ! Barnet SchoolMarch of the Elephants! ! Garrett Weil, Grade 6! ! ! ! The Grammar School, PutneyA Bugatti in Paris! ! Alex Wick, Grade 5! ! ! ! Champlain Elementary, BurlingtonStars! ! ! ! Molly Durling, Grade 8!! ! ! ! The Grammar School, PutneyUpon a Golden Morningtide! Johna Saltsman, Grade 12! ! ! ! North Country UHS, NewportFly!! ! ! ! Ella Warner, Grade 6! ! ! ! The Grammar School, PutneyThe Burning City! ! David Fischer, Grade 12! ! ! ! Homeschooled and VYOAPersistence! ! ! Daelan Roosa, Grade 8! ! ! ! Barnet SchoolThe Possessed Piano! ! Max Aifer, Grade 12! ! ! ! George Mason HS, Falls Church, VAJihad Bis Saif! ! ! Saigelyn Green, Grade 11! ! ! ! North Country UHS, Newport

Intermission

Program Order continuedRed Sky at Night! ! Nathan Watts, Grade 12! ! ! ! Essex High SchoolEchoʼs Lament! ! ! Annie Beliveau, Grade 12! ! ! ! Essex High SchoolNewen ! ! ! ! Nik Hokaj, Grade 12! ! ! ! George Mason HS, Falls Church, VAFrench Horn Duet! ! Anna Halladay, Grade 7! ! ! ! Edmunds Middle School, BurlingtonMorning Fanfare! ! Sammy Beste, Grade 6! ! ! ! Edmunds Middle School, BurlingtonBouncy Man! ! ! Oscar Felcan, Grade 8! ! ! ! Edmunds Middle School, BurlingtonDuet for Trumpet! ! Colin Fennelly, Grade 9! ! ! ! Harwood Union School, DuxburyThe Old Man of the Sea!! Eileen Kocherlakota, Grade 11! ! ! ! Burlington High SchoolSerenata! ! ! Ethan Duncan, Grade 7! ! ! ! Williston Central, Independent Study

PerformersInora Brass

Chris Rivers and Jason Whitcomb, trumpetJoy Worland, French horn

Lori Salimando Porter, trombone Bill Keck, tuba

David Feurzeig and Matt Podd, pianoNicola Cannizzaro and Andrew Gagnon, percussion

Grace Chris and Stefanie Weigand, SopranoSarah Kervin, alto Erik Nielsen, tenor Eric Brooks, baritone

Composer Biographies

Nanalo - Briana Grimm, Grade 12, North Country Union High School.“I have been in chorus all throughout school. I am in women's ensemble for all four years of high school and select choir for the last three years.  I have been in the Northeast Music Festival throughout high school and I have been in the All State Music Festival for one year.  I play the clarinet and have been in band for two years.” 

Brass Quartet in G Minor - Adele Woodmansee is a senior at North Country Union High School. She has been playing violin for 11 years and currently studies with Julie Baker Goldberg in Lebanon, New Hampshire. She has participated in VYO as well as the All State and All New England music festivals. She has had pieces performed for the Opus 24, 25, and 26 concerts and the Burlington Strnig Quartet Project. Adele is also inter-ested in foreign languages, especially Spanish and Arabic. She speaks Spanish fluently and has studied abroad in Mexico and Morocco. She enjoys running and nordic skiing as well.

The Journey - Rian Fried and John Gaston. “My name is Rian and I am in the 8th grade. I play clarinet in band and jazz band. I also like sports, especially soccer. I have composed in Noteflight and Sibelius.” “My name is John, I am also an 8th grader and play trombone in band and jazz band. I love sports, especially soccer. This is our second at-tempt at Opus.”

March of the Elephants - “Hi, My name is Garrett Weil and I am a 6th grader at The Grammar School in Putney, VT. I play piano, soccer and I like to play video games. I'm eleven years old. I have one sister and I live in Chesterfield, New Hampshire. When I grow up I intend to become an inventor. I'd like to invent a machine that can play five instruments at once in a miniature orchestra. Music has always been and always will be a big part of my life.”

A Bugatti in Paris - Alex Wick is ten years old and lives in Burlington, Vermont. Alex is in fifth grade at Champlain Elementary School. When he was about three years old his dad taught him guitar and ukulele. When he was five years old he got a piano. When Alex was six years old he started taking piano lessons.  Alex's other interests include sports, pop music, and website building. He plays baseball, hockey, tennis, and sometimes for fun, basketball, soccer, and football. Three of Alex's compositions were performed in Opus. Minuet in C Major in Opus 24, Entertainment in F Major in Opus 25, and Concerto in G Major in Opus 26. Alex was featured on VPR Classicalʼs Student Composer Showcase as the student for December.

Composer Biographies continuedStars - “Hello, I'm Molly Durling, a eighth grade student at The Grammar School in Putney, VT.  I live in Dummerston, VT with my mom, three contented cats and a dog. I love all types of music and have played violin since I was five. I study traditional fiddle with L. Schneckenburger as well as Keith Murphy and Becky Tracey at the Brattleboro Music Center.  I also play a bit of mandolin, guitar, ukelele, and piano.  I've been very proud and overjoyed to have four previous pieces chosen for past Opus projects. So many people have helped me with my music. I'd like to thank all of them; my family, my teachers, my mentors and the people with the Music-COMP program.” 

Upon a Golden Morningtide - “Hello! My name is Johna Saltsman, and I have been composing music since I was a little girl of only six years old. I also play seven different instruments, even though I am only taking lessons on two. I had my first lesson on the piano when I was four, and have been playing ever since. I am a senior at North Country High School.”

Fly! - “My name is Ella Warner, I live in Putney, VT. I am eleven years old and I am a sixth grader at The Grammar School. I am a competitive gymnast and a circus performer. As well as being an athlete, I am a student of music. I study voice, guitar and recorder at school. I also enjoy theater and have performed at New England Youth Theater. I intend to keep pursuing these interests throughout my life.”

The Burning City - “My name is David Fischer. I am a sixteen (soon to be seventeen) year old boy who finds passion in all of its forms to be the most pow-erful, the darkest and the most fickle force of nature. The endlessly shifting colors of passion are hard to see; they only become clear when excess is stripped away and the raw innermost being of the world is laid bare. This bare backbone to the world has cornerstones in all of the senses: sight, touch, smell, sound, and taste. Only through these cornerstones can the essence of the world be touched, and any who uses these cornerstones must automatically provide insight into the world and into the nature of passion. Indeed, the cook is an artist who provides some of the very best revelations into the world as he sees it. However, I have found the world of sound, and music, to be endlessly fascinating. All of human interaction is coupled with sound. It permeates the natural world at least as much as does light, and the emotions they can inspire hold life and death in their hands. I try to create music, to create sounds, out of which human life and inter-action can flow. Some pieces are meant to invoke silence and wonder, others are intended to be background to the music of human interaction. I try to create them all. On a less personal note, I have been playing cello for eight years, and com-posing on an on-off basis since elementary school. I am homeschooled, which gives me a lot of time to think about life, and there are quite a few things which I love.” David was VPR Classicalʼs November Student Composer Showcase.

Composer Biographies continuedPersistence - “My name is Daelan Roosa (pronounced Rosa) and I am a eighth grader at Barnet School. I have been playing piano for five years, violin for two years, and trumpet for a four years. I am learning from Jason Bergman, who I am taking private music lessons from, and my school music teacher Ms. Persson.  I have been composing music since second grade, but I hadn't had a composition selected until Opus 22, and then again in Opus 23, 24, 25 and 26. I play 1st violin in the Northeast Kingdom Community Orchestra. My other interests are read-ing, building things and designing things.” Daelan was featured on the Student Composer Showcase with VPR Classical in October.

The Possessed Piano - Max Aifer is a senior at George Mason High School, and this is his first composition. He has been playing piano for over ten years, and french horn for the last four. Max enjoys a wide variety of musical styles and genres, including jazz, rock, classical, and rap. When Max is not performing or composing music, he enjoys working on math and science, and is also a wrestler.

Jihad Bis Saif - Saigelyn Green is a junior at North Country. “I play the saxophone in band, and I am in the chorus at my school, along with the select choir, women's ensemble, and jazz band.  I've participated in the Northeast Music Festival for 2 years now, and I was a part of the Ver-mont All State Choir last year. I spend a lot of my time listening to and composing many different kinds of music.” Saige is featured on the Stu-dent Composer Showcase with VPR Classical for January.

Red Sky at Night - Nathan Watts: “I am currently a senior at Essex High School. I enjoy writing music, both instrumental and electronic.My family was never very musical, but Iʼve always loved music. It fasci-nates me how its elements come together and create such a profound emotional impact. In sixth grade, I wrote my first real piece, a woodwind quartet. It wasnʼt my first composition, but it was the first I really put care and love into. It was accepted to VTMIDI (now Music-Comp) opus 16 and played by a professional quartet in a live concert, along with com-positions by other young composers around the state. That experience really solidified my love of composition. It was in-credibly fulfilling to see and hear my vague ideas and intense emotions profoundly touch the audience. Iʼve been writing music ever since.  A more recent example is an orchestral piece called Time Immemorial which Iʼve been working on perfecting for two years. Itʼs based on a piano piece I wrote when I was trying to explain my complex frustration about a recent event. Unable to fully express it with words, I sat down at the piano and started improvis-ing. Once I had finished, they understood how I felt, had experienced it themselves through the music.”

Composer Biographies ContinuedEchoʼs Lament - Annie Beliveau is a senior at Essex High School. She is a longtime singer, pianist, and composer and has had several of her compositions performed in public. In 2012 she performed her solo piano piece Leaves in the Wind, the Vermont All State 2012 Composition Scholarship winner. After writing many piano pieces, she is starting to branch out and write for other instruments and voice.

Echoʼs LamentSlow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears;

   Yet slower, yet, O faintly, gentle springs!   List to the heavy part the music bears,

   Woe weeps out her division, when she sings.       Droop herbs and flowers;       Fall grief in showers;

       Our beauties are not ours.               O, I could still,

   Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,       Drop, drop, drop, drop,

Since natureʼs pride is now a withered daffodil.

Newen - Nik Hokaj is a 12th grader at George Mason High School in Falls Church, Virginia. He had no previous composition experience be-fore composing this fall and plays piano.French Horn Duet - Anna Halliday - “I am eleven years old.  I play cello, a little bit of piano, french horn, and I do some double bass. I love to swim competitively.  This my second time posting for an Opus event. I starting composing in my 4th grade music class. I liked it, and I figured if I play four instruments, I could probably do some good composing.”Morning Fanfare - Sammy Beste: “I am a  6th grader. I like to run, play baseball, and soccer. I play the piano and the viola. I sing in a church choir and I am in the school chorus. I am very good at reading music. I enjoy playing and composing music. I started playing and composing music when I was about 7 years old. My favorite thing to do in my free time is to play outside or play and compose music.”Bouncy Man - “Hello, my name is Oscar Felcan from Burlington, Ver-mont. I am 13 years old, in the 8th grade, and I attend Edmunds Middle school. I really like to compose music. Some of my hobbies are reading a good book and messing around with random things on the computer. This is my seventh or eighth Opus submission. I have been chosen three times before but I still like to compose no matter what. I play the Alto Saxophone. I have been playing it since sixth grade and I have pro-gressed far. I like to play in the Jazz Band (which is the type of music that I like to play) and I am also currently am in the VYO. I have one sis-ter, a dog, and a frog. My dog always howls while I play my saxophone which is annoying but funny. Enjoy the piece!”

Composers Biographies ContinuedDuet for Trumpet - “My name is Colin Fennelly and I am presently a 9th grader at Harwood Union School. I play the trumpet and play in Band and in Jazz Band. I also really like to ski.”

The Old Man of the Sea - Eileen Kocherlakota lives in Burlington, Vermont and is a 16 year old junior at Burlington High School. She has been composing for Music-COMP since she was in the fifth grade. This is Eileen's eighth concert with Music-COMP. She had a composition, Jill and the Beanstalk, played by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra two years ago. This past summer she participated in the String Quartet Pro-ject with Erik Nielsen and composed Summer in Shelburne which has been performed twice by the Burlington Ensemble in concert. In addition to composing music, Eileen enjoys singing and playing the violin. She also likes reading, math, and learning new things.

Serenata- Ethan Duncan is 11 years old and lives in Williston. Ethan is currently a 7th grader at Williston Central School. He plays piano, euphonium and is just beginning to play trumpet. Ethan has been study-ing piano for 4 years and euphonium for 3 years. For two years, Ethan played in the chamber winds program at the Vermont Youth Orchestra in the brass group and also accompanied a flute group on the piano. In ad-dition, he played keyboard for one year with a youth jazz band in Willis-ton. The group performed in the 2012 Jazz Festival on Church Street.In addition to music, Ethan enjoys geography, travel, drawing, soccer and TaeKwonDo. He has two dogs named Beamish and Gingko.

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Andy Gagnon, Vermont Jennifer Jolley, Illinois

Jake Lester, Massachusetts Matt Podd, NYC

Erik Nielsen, VermontZach Sheets, Vermont/NY

 

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Performer BiographiesA native of Vermont, Chris Rivers, trumpet, attended The Crane School of Music and The Florida State University earning degrees in Music Education.   His teachers include Anthony Maiello and James Croft.  Chris is currently in his 23rd year as Band Director at Harwood Union High School in Moretown, Vermont where the program was awarded a prestigious Grammy Signature School Award.  He is also part-time ad-junct faculty at UVM.  The Harwood Music Program will be completing its 10th Recording Project in May of 2014.   Chris has earned honors as Teacher of the Year, and has served as District IV Chair, Treasurer and liaison to the VMEA Executive Committee.  Chris is an active performer, conductor, and educator - performing throughout Vermont with many or-ganizations including Inora Brass, Constitution Brass Quintet, Bach Winds, Mozart Festival and the VSO.

Jason Whitcomb, trumpet,  was born and raised in South Burlington, VT where he graduated South Burlington High School in 2001. He has a degree in music education from The Crane School of Music and a per-formance certificate after studying with Dr. John Ellis. In 2007 he gradu-ated from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincin-nati with his Masters in Trumpet Performance, studying with Phil Collins, former Principal Trumpet of the Cincinnati Symphony.  Jason currently teaches trumpet privately to over 40 students throughout Chittenden County, as well as at Harwood Union High School.  He performs with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Opera Company of Middlebury Orches-tra, Lyric Theatre Pit orchestra, as well as with his brass Quintet, Inora Brass, to name a few.Joy Worland horn, was Associate Principal Horn of the Nashville Sym-phony until 2009 and before that spent three years as Principal Horn of the Mexico City Philharmonic. During her twenty years in Nashville she performed in hundreds of concerts, national tours, and earned six Grammys for recordings with the symphony. She also taught at Vander-bilt University, had a private teaching studio and was active in Nashville's commercial music scene, playing jingles, soundtracks and backup for many kinds of pop artists. In 2009 she and her husband Paul decided they had deprived themselves, their two sons and their Golden Retriever of snow for long enough, and they moved to Montpelier. Since then she has performed with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Green Moun-tain Opera Festival, the Burlington Jazz Festival, the Orchestra of North-ern New York and other groups in the area, as well as the Gothenburg (Sweden) Symphony under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel. She stud-ied horn at Interlochen Arts Academy, Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to a Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance from the University of Wisconsin, Joy also has a Mas-ter of Library Science from the University of North Texas. She is the Di-rector of the Joslin Memorial Library, which gives her the distinct pleas-ure of spending her days in a gorgeous 100 year old building coming up with fun new projects for the library, talking to smart, creative people about what theyʼre reading, and getting to pick the books that go on the shelves. She is a member of the Vermont Library Association and co-chair of the Amelia Bloomer Project, a national book selection committee for the American Library Association.

Performer Biographies - continued Lori Salimando-Porter, trombone, returned home with her husband Joe to Chazy, NY on Lake Champlain after retiring from the United States Military in 2005. She served as Principal Trombonist with the US Military Academy Band, West Point, NY, the US Marine Band, El Toro, CA, and the US Naval Academy Band, Annapolis, MD. Lori has also per-formed with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Colorado Springs Symphony, Maryland Symphony, Hudson Valley Symphony and substitute Lead Trombone with the Miss Saigon Orchestra on Broadway. Currently Lori performs with Fanfare, the VSO Brass Trio, Inora Brass and Constitution Brass Quintet and substitutes with the Lake Placid Sin-fonietta, Vermont Symphony, VT Chorale Society Orchestra and VT Jazz Festival Orchestra. Lori received her B.M. from the Eastman School of Music and her M.M. from the Catholic University of America. Lori has been blessed to have the following people influence her life and trom-bone playing: John Marcellus, Dick Cryder, Bob Wigness, Terry Cravens, Joe Alessi and Marion Salimando.

Bill Keck, tuba, received his undergraduate degree in Music Education from the Eastman School of Music with a Performerʼs Certificate in Tuba.  He performed and recorded with the Eastman Wind Ensemble.  In 1977 he toured internationally with the Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Or-chestra followed by the Mexico City Philharmonic (1978-80). Bill has been the tubist with the New England Wind Symphony and the Constitu-tion Brass Quintet since 1992.

Nicola Cannizzaro is a percussionist living in Essex. He recently moved back to Vermont with his family after 15 years of freelancing in NYC. He has toured with the National Company of Lion King, Performed with the New York Philharmonic on numerous occasions, played many Broadway shows including West Side Story, In The Heights, and Phan-tom of the Opera. His playing spans many genres as he is equally com-fortable on latin percussion and drumset as he is on classical percussion.Nic has recorded with Itsaak Perleman, Absolute Ensemble and, Ver-mont Symphony to name a few.

Andrew Gagnon, percussionist, was raised in Hardwick and recently graduated from UVM with a degree in music education with a concentra-tion on composition. He studied percussion with Jeff Salisbury and Dr. D. Thomas Toner. His Jazz Band toured Colombia, teaching masterclasses and presenting workshops. Gagnon is a private percussion instructor and has worked with the Governorʼs Institute on the Arts, Vermont Jazz Camp and Green Mountain Youth Symphony summer camp. He was the recipient of the 2012 Thomas L. Read Prize in Composition. He also travelled to China with a focus on composition in a collaboration with col-lege students there. He is a composer mentor with Music-COMP.

The music of David Feurzeig, piano, has been performed throughout the United States as well as in New Zealand, Asia, and Europe. Since moving to Vermont, he has written for and performed with area groups, including the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble (where he played pieces by Music-COMP students), Bella Voce, and the the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. David is currently associate professor of composi-tion and theory at UVM. While he is “from away” and knows he will never be a “Vermonter,” he plans to grow old and die here.

Performer Biographies continuedMatt Podd is a pianist, composer, arranger, and music director based in Brooklyn, NY. He holds degrees from The Eastman School of Music and Ithaca College. Matt Podd's versatility as a musician keep in de-mand as a jazz, gospel, and pop pianist, arranger and orchestrator, ac-companist, church organist, and music director. Mattʼs compositions and arrangements have been widely performed throughout the United States. Matt is a frequent arranger and accompanist for the Young Peopleʼs Chorus of NYC, directed by Francisco Nunez. His arrange-ments for choirs and jazz ensembles have been performed at Carnegie Hall, St. Patrickʼs Cathedral, The White House, Town Hall, Symphony Space, and throughout the world. Mattʼs original musical Nightfall on Miranga Island, was featured in the 2012 NYC Fringe festival as well as the NYC Fringe Encore Series.

Grace Chris, soprano, is the general music and choral teacher at Or-chard Valley Waldorf School in East Montpelier, VT.  She graduated in 2011 from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in Music Education.  Throughout her years at UVM she taught instrumental, vo-cal, and general music throughout grades K-12. Outside of school she has directed the St. Paul's Youth Chorus in Burlington, was president of UVM's Music Education National Conference club, and taught general music at a local preschool.  Grace also plays many instruments and has performed in numerous ensembles around Vermont, including Bella Voce and Northern Bronze Handbell Ensemble.  

Stefanie Maas Weigand, soprano, received her BFA in Musical Thea-tre from Ithaca College. There, she appeared in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Rosa Bud), BatBoy (Ruth), Parade (Monteen), SideShow and A Little Night Music, among others. She was also the musical director/pianist for The Last 5 Years and The Pirates of Penzance at the Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca. In NYC, Stefanie played Amelia Bedelia in a national childrenʼs theatre tour of Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor. Stefanie was also a member of the New York Choral Society, performing at Lincoln Center with the Met Orchestra and Soloists, at Carnegie Hall, and in Madison Square Garden for Andrea Bocelliʼs Concert Tour. In Vermont, Stefanie has directed, musical directed and performed for Café Noir productions, the Mad River Chorale, the Green Mountain Opera Festival, Stowe Theatre Guild, Green Mountain Performing Arts, the VT Philharmonic, and is the chorus teacher at Harwood Union Middle/High School.

Sarah Kervin is a Brooklyn-based vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, edu-cator and composer/arranger. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Sarah attended the University of South Carolina, where she received a Bachelor of Music Jazz Studies degree in saxophone and voice. She went on to receive a Masters degree in Vocal Jazz Performance at the University of North Texas, studying with Jennifer Barnes and Rosana Eckert. Sarah is a six-time Downbeat student music award recipient and winner of the first ever Jazz Education Network student composition competition. She has been honored to perform in venues ranging from jazz clubs, to the Kennedy Center, to the Olympic Ceremonies, with artists such as Ben Folds, Jon Hendricks, and the Manhattan Transfer. Sarah is currently compiling her second solo album for release soon.

Performer Biographies continuedErik Nielsen, tenor, is better known as a composer with recent com-missions by the Boston-based string orchestra, A Far Cry; Voices in the Wind. Other compositions include a set of duets for flute and viola; The Crane Maiden for chamber ensemble, narrator and three actors; two song cycles, Trajectory of Flight for mezzo-soprano and strings and The Falling of Trees for baritone and piano quartet; his Quartet for Strings #2; and Cinque Amici, a work for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, and many more. Erik has won awards from ASCAP, the Vermont Arts Council, and in 1991 was chosen Vermont Composer of the Year by the Vermont Music Teachers Association. Mr. Nielsen is Senior Composition Mentor with Music-COMP. He also teaches music theory and composition with the Vermont Youth Orchestra, the Monteverdi School and privately. Mr. Nielsen lives in Brookfield, Vermont.

Eric K. Brooks, baritone, is a native of Montpelier. A founding mem-ber of the professional vocal ensemble Counterpoint, Eric has per-formed as soloist and chorister with many other groups, including the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Oriana Singers, Voces Dulcis-simis and the Burlington Choral Society. Eric has recently been a fea-tured soloist with the New York Choral Society at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Robert DeCormier. Eric also plays clarinet in the Ver-mont Symphonic Winds, Waterbury Community Band, and at the Uni-versity of Vermont. Eric makes his home in Waterbury Center, Vermont and is employed as a library professional at the University of Vermont.

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