The Arkansas Tech College Symphonic Wind Ensemble will honor the 47-career profession of ATU music school member Philip Parker throughout a live performance at Witherspoon Auditorium on Sunday, April 28.
The present will begin at 14:30. Admission will probably be open and free to the general public. Dr. Daniel A. Belongia, ATU director of bands and professor of music, will conduct the ATU Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
One of many items on this system is a Parker composition entitled “Dialogue for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble.” Dr. Nathan Mensink, assistant professor of music at ATU, will seem because the saxophone soloist.
Parker, a professor of music, has been on the ATU school since 1977. He holds a bachelor's diploma in music from Wichita State College and a grasp's diploma in music from Indiana College.
Utilized percussion, music historical past, music concept and composition are among the many programs Parker has taught at Arkansas Tech. He’s the longtime director of the ATU Percussion Ensemble and is a former director of the ATU Jazz Ensemble.
As a percussionist, Parker was timpanist with the Fort Smith Symphony for 27 years. He was a member of the Wichita Symphony for 3 years and has carried out with the Arkansas Symphony, the Pine Bluff Symphony, the River Valley Jazz Reunion, and as a soloist with the ATU Wind Symphony.
Parker composed “A New Horizon,” which was carried out on the opening of ATU's Ross Pendergraft Library and Know-how Heart in 1999, and “Celebration,” which was commissioned and debuted as a part of ATU's centennial. “Celebration” was later carried out by the ATU Symphonic Wind Ensemble throughout its 2021 look at Carnegie Corridor in New York Metropolis.
Previously Composer-in-Residence for the Fort Smith Symphony, Parker has received an Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship, two Nationwide Flute Affiliation Awards, and two ATU College Excellence Awards, each within the classes of scholarship and artistic exercise. Parker and Dr. Mostafa Hemmati are the one ATU school members to have received a number of ATU College Excellence Awards within the Scholarship and Inventive Actions class.
Parker received second prize within the 2009 Affiliation of Faculty Orchestra Administrators Worldwide Composition Competitors at Baylor College in Waco, Texas. He obtained a chamber music fee from the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra as a part of his American Residency Program and received Honorable Point out within the 2013 Nationwide Music Academics Affiliation Distinguished Composer competitors.
Along with Parker's composition, different items scheduled for the April 28 ATU Symphonic Wind Ensemble live performance are Scott Boerma's “Zoom,” the third motion of Frank Ticheli's “Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble,” Catherine Likhuta's “Positive-Fireplace,” and “Sunflower Research” by Nicole Piunno.
Likhuta, Piunno and Parker will probably be featured as visitor composers. The ATU Symphonic Wind Ensemble performances of “Positive-Fireplace” and “Sunflower Research” would be the consortium premieres of these compositions.
Different soloists will embody ATU pupil clarinetist Tess Butler for the Ticheli work and ATU school Evan Mino on horn for the Likhuta composition.
The weekend of April 27-28 will embody a possibility for the ATU Symphonic Wind Ensemble to file their program as a part of the Pat and Roger Wattam Recording Sequence.
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