Finale Concert of 32nd Annual Auburn Univ. High School Symphonic Honor Band Festival, Wind Ensemble

Saturday, February 11, 2023
Jay & Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center, Auburn, Alabama
0:00 Welcome, Dr. Rick Good, Chair, Department of Music
1:06 American Hymnsong Suite, Dwayne S. Milburn
1:07 I. Prelude on Wonderous Love
5:06 II. Ballad on Balm in Gilead
7:42 III. Scherzo on Nettleton
9:22 IV. March on Wilson
12:14 Shenandoah, Frank Ticheli
18:22 Remarks, Dr. Good and Viet Cuong
21:20 Diamond Tide, Viet Cuong (Lebaron McWhorter, conductor)
29:45 Remarks, Dr. Good and Dr. Peterson
33:51 Folk Dances, D. Shostakovich arr. by H. Robert Reynolds
Wind Ensemble Personnel
Dr. Stephen Peterson, conductor
Piccolo
Aldyn Falkenberry - Oak Mountain High School
Flutes
Margaret Tonsmeire - Huntsville High School
Kate Owen - James Clemens High School
Jada Hicks - Marbury High School
Madelyn Kipp - Niceville High School
Sam Zoebelein - Thompson High School
Oboes
Lee Howell - Bainbridge High School
Faith D'Amico - Hewitt Trussville High School
Bassoons
Kristina Olszowy - Huntsville High School
Nataleigh Parham - Port St Joe Junior Senior High
Clarinets
Jones Preg - Hewitt-Trussville High School
Darien Williams - Bradford High School
Jackson Gilson - Hazel Green High School
Jazriene Revalde - Lee-Scott Academy
Daegan Benjamin - Dothan High School
Zola Spence - Moody High School
Victoria Marks - Alma Bryant High School
Jacob Kroll - Opelika High School
Abby Madden - TR Miller High School
Bass Clarinets
Ellie Mann - Hewitt Trussville High School
Rachel White - Oak Mountain High School
Alto Saxophones
Shane Tucker - Hayden High School
Eliza Chang - Robertsdale High School
Joshua Lee - Northridge High School
Tenor Saxophone
Jackson Alexander - Aubum High School
Bari Saxophone
Alexandros Chingas - Helena High School
Trumpets
Nathan Speake - Horseshoe Bend High School
Connor Creighton - Helena High School
Joshua Wortham - James Clemens High School
Anna McCaleb - Benjamin Russell High School
William Spinks - Sparkman High School
Caleb Wilson - James Clemens High School
French Horns
Talise Milligan - James Clemens High School
Matthew Thompson - Thompson High School
Carter Robinson - Austin High School
Lester Harbison - Hewitt Trussville High School
Quinn Zalamea - James Clemens High School
Trombones
Ken Jones - Albertville High School
Will King - James Clemens High School
Hunter Cabra - Covenant Christian Academy - Homeschool
Lena Jones - Huntsville High School
Euphoniums - Bryson Moon - Saint James School
Ira Colvin - Northridge High School
Matthew Hutcherson - Huntsville High School
Tubas
James Ezra Brown - Saint James School
Nate Hunter - Tuscaloosa County High School
Amir Thompson - Dothan High School
Percussion
Koen Pritchard - Hewitt Trussville
Taylor Lynch - Hoover High School
Caiden Bennett - Gulf Shores
Kiersten Pritchard - Hewitt Trussville
Logan Hunter - Mcintosh High School
Omari James - Bradford High School
Breck Willard - Springville High School
Omari James - Bradford High School
Breck Willard - Springville High School
Stephen Peterson has enjoyed a forty-three-year career teaching and conducting throughout the United States and around the world. Most recently he served as director of bands at the University of Illinois where he served from 2015 until his retirement in 2022. At Illinois he conducted the Illinois Wind Symphony, led the graduate wind conducting program, taught courses in wind literature, and guided all aspects of one of the nation's oldest, largest, and most storied band programs. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Illinois, he served as director of bands at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York for seventeen years. From 1988-1998 he served as associate director of bands at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Peterson was also conductor of the renowned Northshore Concert Band. He held positions as associate and interim director of bands at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas and has several years of successful teaching experience in the public schools in Arizona. Peterson maintains a busy schedule as a conductor and clinician and has appeared on four continents and in forty-four states. He is a member of the College Band Directors National Association and has been honored with membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association, where he has served on the Board of Directors. He is also a member of Phi Mu Alpha, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda, and an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi. He is past president of the College Band Directors National Association.