favourite composers: Episode 2

With a great response from last season, Maestra Justo Valdés brings back Favourite Composers. In Episode 2 the orchestra plays Mozart, Haydn, and Ravel. VIS member Mark D’Angelo performs Vivian Fung’s Trumpet Concerto, a virtuosic tour-de-force displaying the capabilities of the Eb trumpet and flugelhorn.

Program:

Mozart, Nozze di Figaro Overture
Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin
Fung, Trumpet Concerto
Haydn, Symphony No. 88 in G Major

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As a Guest Artist for Festival Metales del Pacifico, Mary Elizabeth Bowden will perform the piano reduction of Trumpet Concerto with Argentina Durán.

Program:
Debussy (arr. Bowden), Préludes, Book I, no. 8, L 123: La fille aux cheveux de lin
Bach (arr. Chen), BWV 972 after Vivaldi's Violin Concerto RV 230
Fung, Trumpet Concerto
Beach (arr. Bowden), Three Browning Songs
DeFalla (arr. Miles), Siete canciones populares españolas

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Tradition & Innovation
Featuring Mary Elizabeth Bowden

Program
Bohuslav Martinu, Thunderbolt P-47
Vivian Fung, Trumpet Concerto
Jean-Baptiste Arban, arr. DeJonge, Variations on a Theme from Bellini’s “Norma”
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5

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In a residency at Western Michigan University, Mary Elizabeth Bowden will perform the piano reduction of Trumpet Concerto with Professor Lori Sims in addition to putting on a masterclass for the WMU trumpet studio.

Mary Elizabeth Bowden performs the world premiere of the piano reduction of Trumpet Concerto with pianist Zhao Wang as the guest artist for Central Michigan University’s Trumpet Blast Day.

Program
Ravel, Vocalise-etude en forme de Habanera
Fung, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
Debussy (arr. DeJonge/Miles), Reverie
Beach, Three Browning Songs
de Falla, Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas

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Barbara Day Turner, Conductor
Trumpet soloist Mary Elizabeth Bowden
Three fabulous new works by American composers

Harriet: Journey to Freedom
Timothy Adams

Trumpet Concerto
Vivian Fung

Symphony #1 for Chamber Orchestra
Durwynne Hsieh. World premiere

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Join the Waynesboro Symphony as we usher in the 2023 Winter Season with a concert featuring trumpet soloists, Mary Elizabeth Bowden and David Dash. Admission is free and donations are gratefully accepted at the door or by credit card through our website.

• MENDELSSOHN: Trumpet Overture, Op. 101

• FUNG, Vivian: Trumpet Concerto (Consortium Premiere) | Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet soloist

• BIZET: Carmen Fantasia — for Two Solo Trumpets and Orchestra (arr. Hunsberger) | Mary Elizabeth Bowden & David Dash, trumpet soloists

Join the Waynesboro Symphony as we usher in the 2023 Winter Season with a concert featuring trumpet soloists, Mary Elizabeth Bowden and David Dash. Admission is free and donations are gratefully accepted at the door or by credit card through our website.

• MENDELSSOHN: Trumpet Overture, Op. 101

• FUNG, Vivian: Trumpet Concerto (Consortium Premiere) | Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet soloist

• BIZET: Carmen Fantasia — for Two Solo Trumpets and Orchestra (arr. Hunsberger) | Mary Elizabeth Bowden & David Dash, trumpet soloists

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Our February concert features the magnificent sounds of brass instruments. Made famous by cartoons and television shows, Gioachino Rossini‘s William Tell Overture is one of the composer’s most popular pieces on the concert stage. Lauded as “One of today’s most eclectic composers” (NPR), Vivian Fung wrote her trumpet concerto for the virtuosic trumpeter, Mary Elizabeth Bowden that “stretches the imagination of what is possible for the instrument.” The concert concludes with the lush and picturesque Third Symphony “Rhenish” by Robert Schumann.

PROGRAM:

Gioachino Rossini: William Tell Overture
Vivian Fung: Trumpet Concerto (Consortium premiere)
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97 “Rhenish”

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JAN WAGNER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR

Contemporary Works by Female Composers

The Symphony Orchestra highlights powerful contemporary music by female composers. The program includes works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw and JUNO Award-winning composer Vivian Fung, whose new Trumpet Concerto was co-commissioned by the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and will feature special guest soloist and Assistant Professor of Trumpet Mary Elizabeth Bowden.

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Recording session of Trumpet Concerto with CYSO and Cedille Records

As part of our commitment to performing new music and diversifying the classical music canon, CYSO is thrilled to present the Chicago premiere of Vivian Fung’s Trumpet Concerto performed by Gold Medal Global Music Award winner Mary Elizabeth Bowden, a 2000 CYSO alum. This is the first concerto written by a North American female composer for a female trumpet soloist and was awarded a New Music USA grant. The November 14 concert will also feature concerto performances from Symphony Orchestra’s Bianca Ciubancan performing Paganini’s Violin Concerto No 1 and Louis Auxenfans performing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A Major, alongside works by Barber, Bernstein, and Tchaikovsky.

PROGRAM

Allen Tinkham, conductor
Steven Gooden, assistant conductor
Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet
Bianca Ciubancan, violin
Louis Auxenfans, clarinet

Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981) Second Essay

Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Movement III, rondo
  Bianca Ciubancan, violin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  (1756-1791) Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622, Movements II and III
  Louis Auxenfans, clarinet
  CYSO’s CORE Chamber Orchestra

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Overture to West Side Story
arr. Maurice Peress
Steven Gooden, conductor

Vivian Fung (b. 1975) Concerto for Trumpet
  Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36

Classical Trumpeter and Gold Medal Global Music Award Winner Mary Elizabeth Bowden will perform the West Coast premiere of a concerto composed for her by San Jose’s Vivian Fung with the San Diego State Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, October 9, 2021. The concert will take place at Foothills United Methodist Church in La Mesa, CA, at 7:30pm, conducted by SDSU’s Michael Gerdes.

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