UpbeatUniversity of South Dakota Department of Music Newsletter • Vol. 16, No. 1 • Fall 2014

MUSIC

EDUCATION | SCHOL ARSHIP | PERFORMANCE

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From the Chair…

Dear Alumni, Students and Friends of USD,

Greetings from the Music Department of the University of South Dakota. I am proud to have been a faculty member for the last seven years and I look forward to serving this wonderful department as interim chair this year. We are so excited to

welcome a new, talented freshmen class to our already outstanding stable of young musicians. I look forward to seeing these students grow and flourish under the dedicated tutelage of our fine faculty.

The USD Music Department has had an award winning year. We are proud of our students and faculty as they were recognized with several prestigious local, state and national awards. Dr. Rolf Olson and Dr. Rick Rognstad were both recognized by the SDHSAA, Susan Keith Gray was presented the Knutson Distinguished Professor Award, and I was named the winner of the Belbas Larson Award for Teaching Excellence. Additionally, you will see in this newsletter, several other faculty members were recognized in their specific fields for outstanding achievement. In the past year, members of our talented faculty have performed throughout the United States and in Australia, Canada and Japan. In addition, several faculty members have presented at major conferences, published articles and books and recorded professional CDs. The Rawlins Trio’s new CD Attracting Opposites: New Music for Piano Trio and the Chamber Singers’ CD Yours in Song both have received rave reviews from critics and listeners alike. All these high honors are a testament to the outstanding teaching, performing and creative scholarship going on within this department.

Our students continue to produce wonderful performances throughout the department, including several who were recognized by state, regional and national organizations. The USD Opera and Chamber Singers were both named as finalists for the American Prize. Several voice students placed in the SD-NATS competition this past year. In fact, USD had more place winners than any other South Dakota institution. Additionally, USD had three Young Artist winners at the SDMTA competition and had a student honored by the South Dakota Bandmasters Association. Our student ensembles continued their tradition of concert touring during the past year. The USD Chamber Singers, Symphonic Band, USD Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble traveled throughout the region bringing their musical excellence to audiences and high school students in eight states. This year, the Chamber Singers take their choral talents to Europe where they will perform in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic during spring break.

We would love to have you attend our concerts and festival performances either on the USD campus, or while our faculty or ensembles are on tour. In addition to our scheduled concerts and tours, several student organizations will be performing at the USD Night at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls on Jan. 31, 2015. The faculty’s talents will be on display at South Canon Lutheran Church in Rapid City on February 6, 2015. More information on both of these free concerts will be coming. Watch your email.

I hope you can see that great things are happening in the Music Department at the University of South Dakota. Thanks to the talents of our wonderful students and the dedication of our amazing faculty, the sky is the limit to the musical excellence we can produce.

David Holdhusen, Chair Department of Music

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Music Department Welcomes Timothy Campbell The University of South Dakota Music Department is excited to welcome Timothy Campbell to the faculty in the area of voice and choir. Timothy Campbell is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of South Dakota, where he conducts the Concert Choir and Men’s and Women’s Chorus. In addition to his conducting duties, he also teaches courses in applied voice and choral literature and techniques. A doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona, he is currently completing a D.M.A. in Choral Conducting with a Minor in Voice, and also holds degrees from the University of Minnesota (MM in Choral Conducting) and Bemidji State University (BS in Vocal Music Education). He recently served as Interim Director of Choral Activities at West Virginia University, where he directed three choral ensembles and taught undergraduate conducting. He has directed the St. Luke’s Early Music Ensemble (TX), the University of Minnesota Early Music

Ensemble, and the University of Arizona’s Honor Choir, Kantorei, and University Singers. He has also served as associate director for Men’s Consort Houston, and the CORO Vocal Artists. His conducting mentors include Bruce Chamberlain, Elizabeth Schauer, Kathy Romey, Matthew Mehaffey, P. Bradley Logan, and Paul Brandvik. A lyric tenor, Timothy has performed with many of the nation’s finest professional ensembles, including VocalEssence, The Singers, the Tucson Chamber Artists, the Houston Chamber Choir,

Cantare Houston, the South Dakota Chorale, and Conspirare, with whom he was a member on the Grammy®-nominated and Edison award-winning CD Requiem. He also toured Spain with the acclaimed early music group The Rose Ensemble, where they received first prize in the sacred category of the prestigious Tolosa International Choral Competition. A South Dakota native, he lives in Sioux Falls with his wife, Natalie, and their two sons, Isaiah and Ian.

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The USD Symphony Orchestra presented the region with four very diverse concerts in the 2013–14 season. The first concert featured a salute to American music with the American Suite by Charles Wakefield Cadman, The Tides of Manaunaun by Henry Cowell, and The Call of the Plains by Rubin Goldmark. The great Czech composer Antonin Dvor̆ák was important for American music. He was hired in 1892 to lead a new conservatory in New York City, which later became Julliard, and was very influential on a generation of American composers. His advice to them in seeking to achieve a distinctly American compositional style was to use music native to the country as he had done by incorporating Czech melodies, rhythmic patterns, and harmonic devices into his own music. While in America at the conservatory, Dvor̆ák heard the hymns and spirituals of African Americans from a student, and while during summers in Spillville, Iowa, he encountered the music of American Indians. He used melodies from both in the works he wrote while in this country, notably the American String Quartet and Symphony from the New World. Though not a student of Dvor̆ák, Cadman followed his advice, and the American Suite utilizes both sources. Rubin Goldmark was one of Dvor̆ák’s students at the conservatory, and his Call of the Plains brings to mind the open spaces he encountered in Colorado while living there to overcome

a respiratory ailment. Henry Cowell, on the other hand, was an experimentalist who explored new possibilities of the piano, his instrument. For his Tides of Manaunaun (an Irish god of the sea), he pushed clusters of keys down all at once with his forearms to simulate the massive tides. The second fall concert highlighted the string faculty at USD. Double bassist Rick Rognstad performed Bottesini’s lovely Elegie, with graduate student conductor Victor Yip leading the orchestra. The Rawlins Piano Trio, with pianist Susan Keith Gray joining violinist Eunho Kim and cellist Marie-Elaine Gagnon, was featured in the beautiful slow movement of Tchaikovsky’s 2nd Piano Concerto. The concert ended with highlights from Tchaikowsky’s Swan Lake and Nutcracker ballets. USD history professor David Burrow joined the orchestra for the winter concert to narrate Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, and the concert concluded with perhaps the most famous orchestral work: Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. The season concluded in late April with a focus on students. It featured the winners of the annual concerto competition, violinist Ashley Graber, pianist Qiao Zheng Goh, and soprano Jordynn Bangasser. The combined USD choirs then joined the orchestra, and Director of Choral Activities David Holdhusen brought the audience to its feet with his powerful reading of Schubert’s Mass in D, D. 167.

USD Symphony Orchestra Has Stellar Season

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I had never imagined owning a baroque cello. When I was studying at the Montreal Music Conservatory, baroque players were wearing Birkenstocks, smelling like patchouli and often sporting an excessive amount of hair. What I’ve learned in the last couple years is that baroque players are nothing like that early stereotype. The Baroque period covers the years 1600 to 1750. The music is brilliant, virtuosic and buoyant. Two years ago, I was reintroduced to the old world of music. My curiosity was first ignited in the summer of 2012 when I attended the Institute for Early Music on Modern Instruments for Professional String Players in Washington D.C. Bowing techniques, interpretation of slur and “staccato” articulations, application of vibrato and ornamentation were only a few examples of technical aspects taught by renowned early music experts, violinist Elizabeth Field and cellist Stephanie Vial. Instantly, I fell in love! Inégals rhythms, a performance practice in which some notes of equal values are played with unequal durations, rocked my world. Months later, I acquired a second cello—a baroque instrument made in 1826 by Z. L. Hodges, in Taunton, Mass. This past summer, I attended the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute under the artistic direction of Kenneth Slowick. Faculty concerts delivered memorable listening and music-making experiences. Lectures, daily masterclasses and ensemble coaching enriched my newfound love of baroque

performance. Great baroque composers such as Lanzetti, Caldara, Berteau, Geminiani entered my solo work for cello. Once upon a time one these baroque composers may have entered my musical world but I never really understood the magnificence and magnitude of their respective works. One Italian composer in particular, Francesco Geminiani, had my attention. Geminiani, also a violinist and music theorist, published a set of six cello solo sonatas, opus 5, in 1746. These cello sonatas, later adapted for the violin by the composer himself, “were considered highly technical and ‘fantastical’ and appeared to not have achieved high sales unlike others of his concertos and sonatas.”1 These cello sonatas were difficult to execute for the mid-18th century cello player, but modern cello performance practices have a far easier time with the work. This modern popularity and interest by both modern and baroque players has made Geminiani’s opus 5 his most published work since the 20th century. In more than a quarter century of playing modern cello, appreciation for the roots of my instrument were mostly historical. Recently, I have found that performing baroque music on a period instrument has made me a more complete educator and cellist. Baroque music and its practices are not old. They are being rediscovered by modern musicians every day. Such has been my experience with the music, which has never been more hip, hot and happening.

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Going Back to Move Forward: Rediscovering the Baroque Heart of the Modern Cello

By Marie-Élaine Gagnon, D.M.A.

1 Francesco Geminiani, Sonates Pour Le Violoncelle et Basse Continue dans lesquelles il a fait une étude particulière Pour l’utilité de Ceux qui accompagnent. Ouvrage cinquième., with an introduction and commentary, by Christopher Hogwood, editor, (Cambridge, March 2010; Ut Orpheus edizioni).

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USD Concert Bands and Brass Reach a Wide Audience in 2013–14

The Symphonic Band, Concert Band, and Brass Choir had another busy and successful school year of presenting excellent music to many people in the region. The fall semester included the Symphonic Band, under the direction of Dr. Rolf Olson, performing a concert to thank and recognize long-time scholarship donors and supporters of the band program, Gary Begeman and Gail Griffith. Their support over the years has funded numerous brass and woodwind student scholarships! Thank you again Gary and Gail! That concert also featured graduate conducting student, Bethany Amundson, conducting Jack Stamp’s famous and well-loved piece, Be Thou My Vision. Several USD students in the band composed the program notes. Ms. Amundson and Kiley Coyne, who conducted on each concert in the spring semester, are the first two instrumental conducting students in the new master of music degree program in conducting. The fall semester also featured the USD Brass Choir performing music of the great composers, William Byrd, Percy Grainger, Fisher Tull, Edvard Grieg, and Philip Sparke. The concert, held in Aalfs Auditorium in Slagle Hall, included the brass choir surrounding the audience from the balcony on Byrd’s, Fantasy in Six Parts. In the spring the Brass Choir performed two concerts and featured seniors, Becca Lunstrum on horn and John Mathews on trombone. The repertoire included many of the great works for brass and several antiphonal pieces that utilized the wonderful acoustics in Aalfs Auditorium. The spring semester was extremely busy as the Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Gary Reeves, performed two concerts which featured some of the band world’s most famous composers, such as James Barnes, Alfred Reed, W. Francis McBeth, John Philip Sousa, and John Barnes Chance. The Symphonic Band

performed four concerts in the spring semester and also toured for three days in February. The first performance was in January for the 150 high school students attended USD’s Quad State Honor Band Festival. The Festival, organized by Dr. Rolf Olson, featured internationally famous composer/conductor, David Holsinger and USD Associate Director of Bands, Dr. Gary Reeves. In February the Symphonic Band performed on tour for over 1,000 students at Iowa schools: Sibley-Ocheyedan, and Sheldon, and South Dakota Schools: Canton, Sioux Falls Roosevelt, Sioux Falls Christian, and Brandon Valley. The band culminated their tour with a performance at the South Dakota Bandmasters Convention in Brookings, SD where they performed for most of the band directors in the state of South Dakota. The band received a standing ovation and received numerous comments on a performance that several called, “the best I have ever heard from the USD band!” The Symphonic Band’s concert in March featured senior musicians Lacey Semansky on oboe and Becca Lunstrum on horn, who both played beautifully and will be missed. The year ended with another bang, as the Symphonic Band and Concert Band performed their joint Bands Extravaganza Concert in April. That concert featured an original piece for band composed and conducted by senior music major, Jimmy Bloomquist. The piece, titled Badlands at Dawn, received a standing ovation from the audience. Both Dr. Reeves and Dr. Olson conducted the combined bands in Introduction to Act III from Lohengrin, and Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner. The concert was a wonderful end to a busy and successful year of music-making by the instrumental concert ensembles.

EnsemblesThe USD Brass Choir is in the initial stages of recording a CD of original music for brass. If you wish to be a part of the CD project, please contact Dr. Rolf Olson at Rolf.Olson@usd.edu.

Other NewsThe 2014 Summer Band Director Institute, (Dr. Rolf Olson, Director) was again very successful and featured internationally-known composer and conductor, James Barnes. The Band Director Institute has grown in the past few years and has become the region’s most well-attended and popular workshop for teachers seeking graduate credit and wanting to further knowledge and skill in their profession. The SOUND of USD performing at halftime of the USD vs. Kansas

football game

USD Choirs Complete a Busy and Successful YearThe 2013–2014 school year was a wonderful year with several memorable moments and outstanding performances, not only on campus but throughout the state and region. The fall semester saw the university choirs, under the direction of David Holdhusen, Ph.D., perform twice for large enthusiastic audiences in Vermillion. The Fall Choral Showcase in October and the Music Department’s Holiday Concert in December gave the choral groups the opportunity to display the musicianship and quality of singing they had worked so hard to achieve. The fall showcase saw the Chamber Singers premiere a new work by Jonny Priano called Do Not Fear. This piece quickly became a favorite of the choir and the audience in Vermillion, as well as on the group’s spring tour. In addition to these concerts, the Chamber Singers presented numerous performances throughout the community, including a concert as part of the 10th Annual All-State Chorus Workshop. This year’s workshop was attended by approximately 250 students from 30 area high schools. The spring semester was extremely busy for the choral department as well. The semester was highlighted by the two traditional major concerts for the university’s choirs. The Spring Choral Showcase, in late February, highlighted the ensembles’ continued development and growth as each group performed multiple numbers spanning the breadth of history. The end of the semester saw the Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, and Men’s and Women’s Choir combine with the USD Symphony Orchestra to present the Schubert Mass in G. Student soloists were featured including Jordyn Bangasser, Jerry Holbrook III, Hannah Lambertz, Christopher Larson, Danur Kvilhaug, Mickey McGrann, and Brian Rasmussen. It truly was a great semester of choral music. The Chambers Singers’ very busy year also included numerous additional public performances and honors. In October, as part of the D-Days celebration, an alumni concert saw around 30 former members of the ensemble join with the current members

to prepare a program of music that included O Day Full of Grace, and Peter William’s Agnus Dei. In March, prior to the concert tour, the ensemble performed in Yankton in a combined concert with the Yankton Children’s Choir at the Lewis and Clark Theatre. It was especially meaningful to junior Hannah Lambertz, who had been a member of the YCC and whose father had been the Director of the theatre. This truly was a great opportunity to exhibit the outstanding music making going on at USD. The annual spring tour took the group south and east. The trip was comprised of 25 concerts spanning four states, included stops in Sioux City, La Crosse, Rochester, St. Peter, Bloomington, Worthington and Sioux Falls, among others. The tour concluded with the Home Concert before a very large, receptive audience in Vermillion. The students worked tirelessly to prepare the program to speak to the audience on a deep musical and emotional level. The tour program, titled “The American Voyage” featured a variety of repertoire that spanned the historical spectrum while showcasing music from the early England and the United States. The program included pieces by William Byrd, William Billings, and David Conte, as well as folk songs and spirituals. The Chamber Singers also released a new CD entitled, Yours in Song, on the Con Brio label featuring live recordings of performances from the past four years. The CD can be purchased at amazon.com, iTunes, or by contacting the music department. Work has already begun on the next recording to be released in fall 2016. This summer, the ensemble was again selected as a finalist for the American Prize in Choral Performance (College/University Division). Each year, the American Prize rewards the best recorded performance of music by individuals and ensembles in the United States. The Chamber Singers submitted a 35 minute recording which was adjudicated by a national panel. The ensemble is very proud to have accomplished this for the fourth consecutive year.

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USD Chamber Singers perform for a receptive audience at First Lutheran Church in St. Peter, Minn.

Members of the Chamber Singers receive lollipops from the kids at North Presbyterian Church in La Crosse, Wis.

Studio News

In the fall of 2013, junior Jordyn Bangasser won First Place in the Junior/Senior division of the SDMTA Collegiate Voice Competition in addition to being selected the vocal winner of the 2013–14 USD Concerto-Aria Competition. She performed her winning aria, In uomini, in soldati, with the orchestra in April. Jordyn was also a winner in the First Bank & Trust Scholarship Competition for her lecture-recital entitled “Impressionism and the Mélodies of Claude Debussy” and was accepted to present her research at IdeaFest. Laura Bertschinger ’13, M.M. competed in the MTNA Young Artist voice competition and advanced to the regional level in Des Moines, serving as the representative from South Dakota. In the winter of 2014, Jordyn Bangasser was selected to perform in the chorus of Die Fledermaus with Sounds of South Dakota in addition to being chosen to sing for USD’s Jesse Blumberg master class. James Cooper, first year grad student, was chosen to sing for USD’s Martin Katz master class along with former studio member Katie Pacza ’13, M.M. In the spring of 2014, several singers participated in the South Dakota NATS competition, with the following studio members winning awards in their divisions:

• 1st place graduate division: James Cooper• 1st place junior women: Jordyn Bangasser• 1st place adult division: Laura Bertschinger• 2nd place musical theatre women: Hannah Lambertz• 2nd place freshmen women: Mickey McGrann• Honorable mention sophomore women: Sarah Schmidt• Honorable mention musical theatre women: Jordyn Bangasser

In other spring studio news, Ashley Hogarth ’14, B.M., was accepted into the master’s program in vocal performance at Roosevelt University in Chicago with a vocal scholarship. James Cooper sang the role of Uriel in Haydn’s Creation with Mount Marty College, and Laura Bertschinger was named an alternate for the Druid City Opera Young Artist Program in Alabama. Finally, many of Dr. Gesteland’s voice students were featured in the 6th annual Gesteland Studio Showcase in April. Each singer performed a solo followed by a finale consisting of a medley of favorites from opera, Broadway, jazz, and classic movies.

Pictured front: Rachael Biggerstaff. Second row left to right: Kaela DeJong, Mickey McGrann, Nathaniel Knoblock, Hannah Lambertz, Joshua Guenther, Laura Bertschinger. Back row left to right: Anna-Rabea Schulz, Sarah Schmidt, Jordyn Bangasser, Josh Rolling, James Cooper, Dr. Gesteland, Kate Wietzema,

Kayla Kaltenbach, De Shonté Helm, Taryn Hogarth. Missing: Tom Emanuel.

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The voice students of Dr. Tracelyn Gesteland had a very busy year performing in a variety of venues.

Paul Lombardi, Ph.D., assistant professor of music at the University of South Dakota, placed third in the orchestral division of the American Prize in Composition 2014 with his piano concerto. The piano concerto was composed in 2003–04, and with a grant from the University of New Mexico, was recorded by pianist Dmitry Tavanets and the Kiev Philharmonic with conductor/producer Robert Ian Winstin (ERMMedia 2007). Founded in 2009, the American Prize provides “evaluation, recognition and reward to America’s finest performing artists, ensembles and composers, based on recorded performances.” One judge commented, “… a true piano concerto, with a big and dramatic part for the soloist.” An assistant professor of music theory and composition at USD, Lombardi’s music has been performed in more than

20 states across the United States, as well as in other areas in North America, South America and Europe. Recordings of his music are available from Capstone Records, Zerx Records, and ERMMedia. Lombardi’s theoretical work focuses on mathematics and music, and is published in the Music Theory Spectrum, Indiana Theory Review, and Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, among other places.

Lombardi Honored for Piano Concerto by American Prize

USD Opera Presents Too Many Sopranos

Brian Rasmussen St. Peter

Josh Rolling Gabriel

Hannah Lambertz Miss Titmouse

Jordyn Bangasser Madame Pompous

Mickey McGrann Dame Doleful

Ashley Ballou-Bonnema Just Jeanette

James Cooper Nelson Deadly

Seth Pierce Enrico Carouser

Brody Krogman Unnamed Bass

Laura Bertschinger Sandman

Sam Schroeder Orson

Dr. Jonathan Alvis and Walker Rose as Hellz Angels, Joe English as Pavarotti, Nathaniel Knoblock as Josh Groban and Matt Nesmith as the Phantom of the Opera.

On Thursday morning, April 17, the Theta Upsilon chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda held its new member induction ceremony. The ceremony was held as part of the weekly Recital Lab required for all music majors and minors. Dr. Susanne Skyrm, President of the chapter, led the ceremony and Dr. Darlene Fett, Secretary/Treasurer, presented certificates of membership, pins, and memento booklets to the inductees. Selected for membership were seniors Nicole Chlipala, John Mathews, and Jared Mogen, as well as faculty member and former department chair, Dr. Timothy Farrell. Pi Kappa Lambda is the national honor society for music. Based on their academic achievements, members are selected by the faculty and represent the top 20% of those full-time music majors who graduate within the calendar year. Since Theta Upsilon’s establishment on the University of South Dakota campus in 1999, over 40 students and faculty have been selected for this very prestigious honor.

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In spring 2014, USD Opera presented Too Many Sopranos, a comic opera by Edwin Penhorwood. The production was the third opera to be given in the newly renovated Aalfs Auditorium in Slagle Hall. Fully staged with orchestra, the cast included:

The opera was staged and music directed by Dr. Tracelyn Gesteland and conducted by Dr. David Holdhusen. Laura Bertschinger was assistant stage director, Danur Kvilhaug was assistant music director, and Becca Lunstrum served as assistant conductor. Rachael Biggerstaff was the stage manager, with set and lighting design by Brian Adams and costume design by Morgan Porter.

Pi Kappa Lambda Inducts Four New Members

Student Research in MusicSeveral department of music students participated in undergraduate and graduate-level research and creative activity. Graduate student Chesley Peabody won a graduate school grant to fund research on her thesis and presented the paper “The Use of Paper in the Construction and Preservation of Musical Instruments” at the 2014 IdeaFest. Undergraduate student Jordyn Bangasser presented her paper “Impressionism Through the Melodies of Claude Debussy” at IdeaFest under the tutelage of Dr. Tracelyn Gesteland.

USD MUSic FacUlty ShowcaSe

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2014–2015 Music Scholarship Award RecipientsFirst Bank & Trust

Keithan Dart Kaela DeJong Kayla Kaltenbach Hannah Lambertz Benjamin O’Bryan Kristopher Ohrlund Emily Rigge Sarah Schmidt Emily Sommerfeld

Usher and Barnes Abell Family String Scholarship Endowment

David Amussen Emily Rigge

An Die Musick Scholarship

Jillian Bryan James Carrell

Frank Aiello and Larry TorkelsonScholarship Endowment

Rachael Biggerstaff Kaela DeJong Emily Sommerfeld

GeLoris E. and Olaf C. Akland Music Scholarship

Michael Hoffman

Elizabeth Kathryn Ames Music Scholarship Endowment

Daniel Bellis Devon BeVier Michael Hoffman Kayla Kaltenbach Seth Pierce

Ronald Oakley Barkl Memorial Scholarship

Jordyn Bangasser Rachael Biggerstaff Michael Hoffman Jerry Holbrook Nathaniel Knoblock James Stueckrath

Gary D. Begeman and Gail E. Griffith Instrumental Music Education Annual Scholarship

Amber Bock Ethan Conrad Jimmy Cuadros Dallas Doane Michael Hoffman Jerry Holbrook Preston Kenley Drew Ohlendorf Kristopher Ohrlund Garret Olson David Schelske Sarah Schmidt James Stueckrath Andrew Watts

Mary Ellen Stanley Beukelman Scholarship

Devon BeVier Kayla Kaltenbach

Matthew P. Brzica Scholarship Fund Devon BeVier Michael Hoffman Hsa Soe Pa Htoo Hunter Jackson Kayla Josephson Brody Krogman Benjamin O’Bryan

Synnora Peterson Danielle Portz Emily Sommerfeld Lexi Tuttle Elizabeth Wensmann Kaitlynn Wolfe

Ray DeVilbiss Band Scholarship Jordan Hoffman Xiola Koile-Paxton Nathaniel Lundin Benjamin O’Bryan

David William Eyres Memorial Scholarship

Kristopher Ohrlund Lexi Tuttle

Fine Arts Recruitment Scholarship

Ashley Baier Meredith Jenkins Kevin Phillips Samantha Schoenherr

Joe Gullion Memorial Scholarship Fund

Daniel Bellis Hsa Soe Pa Htoo Nathaniel Knoblock Katie Svendson

Ethel Gunderson Vocal Scholarship

Kevin Phillips Josh Rolling Erin Sternhagen

Louise Hansen Memorial Music Scholarship

Daniel Bellis Hannah Lambertz Katie Svendson

Bruce and Wendy Hasche Vocal Music Scholarship

Kevin Phillips

Carmen Howard ScholarshipRachael Biggerstaff Alia Nix Seth Pierce

Instrumental Music Fund ScholarshipKeithan Dart Nathaniel Knoblock Danielle Portz

Murrell F. Kautz ScholarshipMichael Hoffman James Stueckrath

Arne B. and Jeanne F. Larson ScholarshipBrody Krogman Kaitlynn Wolfe

Robert E. Litke Fine Arts ScholarshipLauren Deatrick

L&R Annual String Scholarship

Rachael Biggerstaff

Lyric Strings Orchestra Scholarship

Thorn Dramstad Emily Rigge

Robert C. and Leona P. Marek Scholarship Endowment

Lennea Clark

Marjorie Townsley Rawlins Music Scholarship Endowment

Thad Alberty David Amussen Martin Balmer Rachael Biggerstaff Kortney Brunner Tanner Chilson

Lennea Clark Lauren Deatrick Thorn Dramstad Caitlin Gerdes Grace Gering Taryn Hogarth Jerry Holbrook Hsa Soe Pa Htoo Kayla Josephson Jordan Judt Hope Justesen Xiola Koile-Paxton Jake Matheson Elizabeth Pekas Ingrid Peterson Danielle Portz Blake Proehl Lukas Ptacek Brian Rasmussen Abigail Sandberg Sarah Schmidt Sam Schroeder Andrew Schuiteman Amanda Simantel Timothy Skog John Slunecka Anna Sobotka James Stueckrath Jonathan Susemihl Lexi Tuttle Krista Vogt Elizabeth Wensmann Shelby Wollmuth

Gary L. and Deborah C. Reeves Scholarship

Xiola Koile-Paxton

John A. and Agnes J. Ringley Scholarship

Jordyn Bangasser Daniel Bellis James Carrell Scott Clabough Keithan Dart Kaela DeJong Michael Hoffman Taryn Hogarth

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Jerry Holbrook Nathaniel Knoblock Brody Krogman Zachary Krogman-Behrens Ben Lunn Jake Matheson Michaela McGrann Synnora Peterson Kevin Phillips Seth Pierce MeKayla Pravecek Blake Proehl Chris Robinson Josh Rolling Samantha Schoenherr Sam Schroeder Lexi Tuttle Emily Vidler

Singers Choice Music Scholarship

James Carrell Brody Krogman Hannah Lambertz

Genevieve and John Truran Piano Scholarship

David Amussen Rachael Biggerstaff Amber Bock Lennea Clark

Michael Conway

Michael Hoffman

Nathaniel Knoblock

Xiola Koile-Paxton

Hannah Lambertz

Drew Ohlendorf

Elizabeth Pekas

Abigail Sandberg

Amanda Simantel

Spencer L. Smith

Vocal Choral Music Scholarship

James Carrell

J. Laiten and Lucy Weed Scholarship

Ethan Conrad Dallas Doane Brody Krogman Chris Robinson

$10,001 and higher Gary Begeman and Gail Griffith

$5,001– $10,000 John and Janet Thietje James and Ruth Weaver $1,001– $5,000 Anonymous Cheryl Crandell Bruce and Wendy Hasche Gary and Deborah Reeves William and Rochelle Ringsdorf Richard and Lynn Rognstad Ronald O. Barkl Memorial General Mills, Inc.

$501– $1,000 Truman and Beverly Schwartz Steve and Dori Solem $251– $500 Janet Gilbertson Larry Gilbertson Walter and Raeanna Gislason Tim and Colleen Tucker American Center for Philanthropy

2013–2014 Music Contributors$101– $250 Ronald and LeEtta Bennett Sean and Sara Bray Anthony and Gretchen Burbach Lynn Hartmann and Mary Johnson Robert Johnson Ronald Johnson Karen Lipp Robert Lipp William Smialek and Molly McCoy Lucas and LeEtte Vos Yankton School District 63-3

Gifts up to $100 George and Helen Auer Gregory and Julie Aune Dean and Vicki Baldwin Patrick and Tamera Bangasser Randy and Mary Benton Erin and David Burrow Harold and Nora Christensen Timothy Hoekman and Carla Connors Forrest and Barbara Conrad Jimmy Cuadros Arlene DeVany John DeVany Lori English

Patricia FarnessLoyce FoucherBob Frieberg and Elaine MillerDwain and Tena GibsonRobert and Sharon GordonNancy HandlonDianna HannaDuane and Annette HelgelienDiane HellieKristin HiltJohn and Janice HolteLinda JensenLaurence and Mary Jo JohnsonMary KaiserOtto KaiserGordon and Marlene KotabLaura KuschelHannah LambertzMichael and Danielle LarsonSean and Kimberly LomaxClaudia LunstromKevin Jarvis and Safiya Mahmoodian JarvisAshley MazurScott and Karen McGregorLawrence and Elizabeth MitchellPaul Frederiksen and Jane MoenMatthew and Amy Morrison

Steven and Kerri MorrowAnthony and Paula NelsonJulia NeufeldCurt and Catherine PaulsenMilo and Donna PietzJames and Linda RichardsonAdrian RiesMelvin and Doreen RonningRussell and Jane RudolfArnold SchillingJacqueline SchillingJay and Sharon SchmidtMary SeggermanMichelle SlagleWyatt SmithRobert and Patricia SpeelmanMichael and Jessica SrstkaDavid and Kristine TankDaniel TsukamotoDouglas and Susan TuveJeremy and Amanda Vande ZandeBurl WalterPat and Amy WeightMichael and Susan WieselerAndrea WohlenbergEli Lilly and Company FoundationLomar Enterprises

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Music Department Names Two Endowed Professorship PositionsThe University of South Dakota Department of Music named Tracelyn Gesteland, associate professor of music (voice), as the Walter A. and Lucy Yoshioka Buhler Endowed Chair, and David Holdhusen, associate professor of music (choral), as the Douglas and Susan Tuve Distinguished Professorship in Choral Music. These generous gifts from Lucy Yoshioka Buhler and the late Walter A. Buhler, and the Tuves, will provide funding for Gesteland’s music position and Holdhusen’s professorship at USD. These funds will be used to “recognize, recruit, and retain an exceptional faculty person who consistently demonstrates exemplary scholarship and performance in the classroom and a dedication to the following principles: ethical leadership in the classroom, a commitment to lifelong learning, and global awareness.” Both donations will impact the department of music for generations to come, according to Larry Schou, dean of the College of Fine Arts. “Doug and Susan Tuve are generous benefactors to the College of Fine Arts,” Schou added. “They have a special interest in choral music. They desire to see that a continuously strong tradition of excellent choral music thrives at USD. Their

gift of an endowment helps us to continue to achieve great things in the Department of Music.” Gesteland was recently promoted to associate professor of music and granted tenure at USD. She teaches voice, diction and opera. She also performs in operas, presents solo recitals and directs opera performances within the region. “Dr. Gesteland is an outstanding educator and musician. She is very well respected in the region as a performer and workshop specialist,” Schou noted. “She also does exceptional work in the classroom to prepare our students for a lifelong career in music. Her students have won many awards in the past six years.” Holdhusen serves as the interim chair of the department of music and is the director of Choral Activities at the university. He directs the USD Chamber Singers, teaches choral literature and conducting classes. “Dr. Holdhusen is an exceptional conductor and his students in the choral area praise him for

the work he does to educate them and prepare them for a life in music,” Schou stated. “He is a well-respected clinician in the region and his choral groups have won several national awards in the past three years.”

David Holdhusen

Tracelyn Gesteland

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Piano professor recipient of USD College of Fine Arts Knutson Award

Susan Keith Gray, D.M.A., is the 2014 recipient of the Wayne and Esther Knutson Distinguished

Professor Award presented by the College of Fine Arts at the University of South Dakota. Keith Gray is professor of studio piano, collaborative piano and class piano. In addition to her teaching responsibilities at USD, Keith Gray is acclaimed as a specialist in collaborative playing and has performed in recital with a number of artists. She is also a member of the award-winning Rawlins Piano Trio. With the Rawlins Piano Trio, Keith Gray has toured in Korea, Taiwan and Panama and has recorded four CDs of American piano trios. With the Kobayashi/Gray Duo (violin/piano), she has recorded two CDs of music of women composers which include six world premiere recordings. Individual awards include prizes in the Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Artist Competition, and solo appearances with the South Dakota Symphony, Dakota Chamber, Spartanburg, Savannah, Huron, Cherokee and the USD Orchestras. Keith Gray holds degrees in piano performance from Converse College and the University of Illinois at Champaign-

Urbana and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Chamber Music and Accompanying from the University of Michigan. She joined the USD faculty and the Rawlins Piano Trio in 1995, and she is the 2005 recipient of USD’s prestigious Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching. “Dr. Gray’s portfolio and research and creative scholarship are outstanding at all levels of work at USD, as well as nationally and internationally,” stated Larry Schou, D.M.A., dean of the College of Fine Arts. “Susan is to be commended for her achievement in winning this award and for her work in the profession.” The biennial Knutson Award, presented for the first time in 2006, was named for Wayne Knutson, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, who provided 35 years of service to USD as a professor, chair of the Department of English, Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Additionally, Knutson directed 70 plays at USD, the Black Hills Playhouse, and community theatres across South Dakota, and wrote 10 plays and opera librettos, which all were produced. He and his wife, Esther Johnstad Knutson, continue to reside in Vermillion.

Senior piano major, Blake Proehl was one of 16 pianists for the Second Dublin International Piano Festival and Summer Academy held in Dublin, Ireland from July 26 to Aug. 3. Chosen by audition, the international participants came from Ireland, China, Japan, Malaysia, Romania, Italy, USA and Canada. All students performed in two masterclasses and received three private lessons along with admission to other masterclasses, faculty concerts and piano seminars. The daily events took place between the Piano Academy of Ireland, the National Concert Hall, and the Hugh Lane Gallery with world-renowned faculty Edmund Battersby, Evelyne Brancart, Archie Chen, Lance Coburn and Artur Pizzaro. Irish concert pianist and founder of the festival, John O’ Conor, gave one all-Beethoven masterclass and Proehl was one of the three lucky participants. “This festival was a good experience for me not only because of the knowledge and friends gained but it was also my first international trip,” he said. The Parkson, S.D. native studies piano with Susan Keith Gray, with additional keyboard studies with Susanne Skyrm on fortepiano and Larry Schou on organ. Blake plans to attend graduate school in piano performance after graduation in May 2015.

Proehl Finalist for Piano Festival

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The students in Dr. Hendrickson’s studio had a very successful year performing at the state, regional, and national levels. This past summer, first year student and bass-baritone Brody Krogman was selected as one of nine finalists for the Glen Miller Scholarship Competition held on June 14th. He performed Schubert’s Aufenthalt and Silent Noon by Vaughan Williams in the final round of competition and won third place. He competed against extraordinarily talented students from all over the country, including singers from schools like Carnegie Mellon and The Curtis Institute. His third place win, yet again, put USD’s Department of Music on the national stage. In the spring of 2014, several students performed in a variety of state and regional competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera National Opera Council Auditions. Third year students and baritone Brian Rasmussen braved the weather and competed in the MET competition in Ames, IA. Though Brian did not place in the competition, he was selected to perform in the master class the following day. He had the opportunity to work closely with Metropolitan Opera coaches and stars in the field. The South Dakota chapter of N.A.T.S. provides another annual competition in which many students from the studio perform. The following singers in my studio won awards in their divisions:

• 1st place freshman men: Brody Krogman• 2nd place freshman men: Seth Pierce• 2nd place senior men: Jared Mogen• Honorable mention men’s musical theater: Brian Rasmussen

Graduate student and soprano Ashley Ballou-Bonnema and Brody Krogman were selected to perform in a master class presented by baritone, Jesse Blumberg. Natalie Campbell,

recent alum of USD’s graduate program in voice and former Hendrickson studio member, performed in a master class with the world-renowned pianist and vocal coach, Martin Katz. Finally, several students upon graduation have landed wonderful jobs teaching music in elementary, middle school, high school, and collegiate settings in South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa. As a studio teacher, I could not be more pleased to see graduates from my studio achieve such wonderful successes early in their musical careers. I am inspired by the young professionals in my studio everyday, and always look forward to working with them throughout the course of a very busy year.

From left to right:Seated: Sam Schroeder, Dr. Brandon Hendrickson Standing: Brody Krogman, Jared Mogen, Brian Rasmussen, Seth Pierce

Studio News

Holdhusen Honored with 2014 Belbas-Larson AwardDr. David Holdhusen was named the recipient of the 2014 Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of South Dakota. Holdhusen is the director of Choral Activities and an associate professor of music who also serves as the conductor for the university’s three choral ensembles as well as teaching courses in conducting, choral literature and techniques, and applied voice. Additionally, Holdhusen is director of USD’s annual Choral Directors Institute and the USD Summer Music Camp. He received a B.A. in Music and Education from Gustavus Adolphus College (1996); a master of music in Choral Conducting from Northwestern University (1998) and a Ph.D. in Music Education from Florida State University (2007). “It truly is an honor to be recognized for the work I do, especially among such outstanding faculty at USD. I am very fortunate to work for an institution that values teaching and

supports what I do,” Holdhusen stated. “When I chose to enter the teaching profession, this is exactly the kind of position I hoped to have. As a musician and conductor I always believed my job was to educate and inspire my singers to reach new heights of artistic expression while providing the foundation for them to be lifelong learners who are passionate about music. From the time I was in ninth grade I knew I wanted to teach choral music at the collegiate level. USD has given me the opportunity to fulfill this ambition.” Dr. Holdhusen was honored at the 127th Spring Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 10, 2014, at the DakotaDome. The Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching is the highest honor USD bestows upon its educators and includes a cash tribute to each recipient, a framed certificate commemorating their accomplishment and a commemorative medal.

The Belbas-Larson Awards were established by a 1956 graduate of USD, Dean Belbas of Edina, Minn. and Sioux Falls, S.D., and his friends, Harold W. and Kathryn Larson of Bemidji, Minn. and Scottsdale, Ariz.

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Jazz Guest Artists Brad Goode and Paul McKee Visit USDBrad Goode, trumpet, and Paul McKee, trombone, were guest artists at USD in the spring semester of 2014. Goode and McKee were on campus April 22 and 23 and rehearsed with the two USD jazz ensembles (directed by Dr. C.J. Kocher and Dr. Tim Farrell) and conducted master classes on jazz improvisation, trumpet, trombone, and arranging. Paul McKee is the newly appointed Associate Professor of Jazz Trombone and Arranging at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 1984 he joined Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd and appeared on several Grammy-nominated recordings. McKee has served on the jazz faculty at schools including DePaul University, Youngstown State University, Northern Illinois University, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and Florida State University. He maintains a busy schedule as a clinician and guest artist, and his arrangements and compositions have been performed by professional and academic jazz ensembles worldwide. His recording Gallery (Hallway Records) was released to critical acclaim and features performances by Carl Fontana, Bobby Shew, Tim Ries, and Ron Stout. Paul recently appeared on the recording Back When It Was Fun with “7 on 7,” a group comprised of musicians/educators from the University of Northern Colorado, the Eastman School of Music, and Middle Tennessee State University. Additional recent recordings include big band projects by Dan Gailey and Steve Owen. Paul is a clinician for the Conn-Selmer company and plays King trombones exclusively.

Trumpeter Brad Goode is currently Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Colorado. Whether working as a soloist, bandleader, lead trumpet man, or sideman, for twenty-five years he has consistently been one of the busiest performers in the United States. Brad’s jazz pedigree was established through his apprenticeship with many legends of jazz. As a youngster, he toured and recorded with Von Freeman, Red Rodney, Al Cohn, Eddie Harris, Ira Sullivan, Frank Morgan, Don Lanphere, Curtis Fuller, Jack DeJohnette, Ernie Krivda, Richie Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Barrett Deems, and many others. Brad led his own combo in Chicago from 1986 until 1998, appearing at major festivals and night clubs around the world, including a twelve year stint as leader of the house band at the famous Green Mill Jazz Club. As a Cultural Ambassador for Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, he led jazz groups on tours of Asia and the Middle East. He was named one of the most influential Chicagoans of the 1980s by the Chicago Tribune, who credited him as a “major catalyst in the revitalization of the Chicago jazz scene.” In recent years, Brad has increasingly appeared as a lead trumpeter with many big bands and symphony orchestras. His fifteen solo recordings can be heard on the Delmark, Sunlight, Steeple Chase, and Origin labels. He makes frequent appearances as a soloist and clinician at colleges and high schools throughout the U.S.

Kocher Returns to JapanDr. C.J. Kocher, Associate Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies at the University of South Dakota, played his second tour of Japan as lead alto saxophonist with the Los Angeles-based Billy Vaughn Orchestra. The band played fourteen concerts in July and August 2014, including performances in Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya, and Hiroshima. The band played for audiences of over 2,000 at noted concert halls such as Osaka Festival Hall and Shibuya Bunkamura Orchard Hall (Tokyo). The group was a full 17-member big band plus three vocalists. The concerts were a tribute to big band jazz of the 1940s and 50s, with music of Benny Goodman, Les Brown, Glenn Miller, and others, as well as new arrangements by Tom Kubis.

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Tracelyn Gesteland, D.M.A., lyric mezzo-soprano and member of the voice/opera faculty at the University of South Dakota, was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor. She was honored as the Walter A. and Lucy Yoshioka Buhler Endowed Chair in Opera. Gesteland gave a variety of performances and presentations in 2013–14. She was a performer and stage director at the Lone Star Lyric Theatre Festival in Houston, singing the role of Announcer in Gallantry and directing Talk Opera, both as part of the festival program, American Shorts: American Chamber Operas. She was also a featured soloist in Follies, Lone Star Lyric’s Broadway Cabaret. She also appeared in the role of Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus with Sounds of South Dakota and gave solo recitals at Rollins College in Orlando, Fla., and at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Gesteland also served as guest conductor for the SDMEA Elementary Festival Chorus in Beresford. She received word that the USD Opera production of The Medium, which she staged and music directed, has been named a semifinalist in The American Prize competition for Opera Performance. In addition, Gesteland directed the sixth annual South Dakota Vocal Arts Festival, served as president for the South Dakota chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and adjudicated for the Coyote Jazz Festival, the South Dakota NATS competition, and Region 1 solo/ensemble contest.

David Holdhusen, Ph.D., Director of Choral Activities, was very active as a clinician, conductor and presenter during the past school year. He served as guest conductor for Honor Choirs and Festivals in South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska and presented sessions at the North Dakota ACDA conference and at the International Conference on Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Holdhusen acted as an adjudicator at both solo & ensemble and large group contests in South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska, and worked as a clinician in more than 30 area high schools. He was recognized by the South Dakota Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association as the 2013 recipient of the Encore Award, given in recognition of excellence and achievement in the field of choral music, and by the University of South Dakota as the 2014 winner of the Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching. In addition to his teaching and research, Dr. Holdhusen served this past school year as chair of the music scholarship committee, co-vice president of the South Dakota American Choral Directors Association, Director of the USD Summer Music Camp and Director of the USD Choral Directors Institute. This year, Dr. Holdhusen begins a term as interim chair of the Music Department at the University of South Dakota.

David Moskowitz, Ph.D., professor of music and coordinator of graduate studies in music, continued his work both within and outside the department. This year, Moskowitz taught a variety of courses both undergraduate and graduate-level for music majors and non-majors. Additionally, he served as the treasurer for the Great Plains Chapter of the College Music Society. Moskowitz continued research and writing for the three-volume encyclopedia The 100 Best Bands of All Time, which will be published by ABC-CLIO this year. Further, Moskowitz continued his review writing for Choice Magazine: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Moskowitz is looking forward to serving as the local arrangements chair for the Great Plains Chapter meeting for the College Music Society which is scheduled to take place on the USD campus at the end of this coming February.

In March 2014, Rolf Olson, D.M.A., received the Distinguished Service Award from the South Dakota High School Activities Association. This is the highest award given by the SDHSAA in appreciation for highest level of service to the youth of South Dakota. Olson also continued to be very busy performing with the South Dakota Symphony, serving as an adjudicator for the South Dakota All State Band auditions, and guest conducting several band festivals in the region. In March, Olson was a guest trumpet soloist and clinician at the Wartburg Trumpet Festival along with internationally famous trumpet artist, Vincent DiMartino. They presented several clinics and recitals together for a large group of high school and college trumpet players.

Susanne Skyrm, D.M.A., played solo piano recitals in Chadron, Neb., Spearfish, S.D., and Sioux Falls, S.D., during spring 2014 featuring Spanish keyboard music from the 18th and 20th centuries. She presented a recital of 18th-century Iberian keyboard music on the 1767 Antunes fortepiano at the annual meeting of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America, held at the National Music Museum in May. In June, Skyrm attended a workshop about 18th-century Spanish keyboard music held at Duke University in Durham, N.C. She also attended and presented a paper at the annual conference of the South Dakota Music Teachers Association held in Sioux Falls in conjunction with the Dakota Sky Piano Festival. In August, she traveled to Spain to present a paper and a recital at the FIMTE (International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music) Symposium and Festival in Mojácar.

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