Program Selections - Music for All

Festival Clinicians
National Concert Band
Festival Clinicians
Joe Burgstaller
Trumpet
Sponsored by Yamaha
Trumpet soloist and crossover
artist Joe Burgstaller has
performed and taught in
48 states, 21 countries
and hundreds of cities in
major venues throughout
the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has performed
and taught at over 70 universities, conservatories
and colleges around the world, made numerable
national television and radio appearances, performed
with dozens of major orchestras and has an extensive
discography (including his solo CD The Virtuoso
Trumpet).
He tours extensively both as a member of The
Canadian Brass and as a soloist. He records regularly
with the Brass and has toured worldwide, performing
with many symphony orchestras arranged for the
group (including a television performance with Raffi
honoring Nelson Mandela). Prior to joining the Brass,
Joe performed nearly 60 solo concerts every season
with his “Joe Burgstaller: The Rafael Méndez Project.”
As a Yamaha Artist and Clinician, he reached upwards
of 5,000 students every season and The Instrumentalist
Magazine ran a feature article on Joe titled “The Next
(Rafael) Méndez.”
Joe is a former member of New York City’s avantgarde
Meridian Arts Ensemble, and with the group
performed worldwide at concert halls and clubs
including NYC’s Knitting Factory and CBGB’s, and
Amsterdam’s Bimhuis, recorded with Dweezil Zappa,
received the ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award
and recorded several of his own compositions and
arrangements. Joe began the cornet in Chicago at
age six, by twelve was improvising jazz and soloing
with area bands and jazz clubs, and by fifteen was the
youngest professional in the Virginia Opera Orchestra. He
holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Arizona State
University, where he studied with David Hickman/ Joe
was awarded ASU’s Inaugural “Distinguished Alumnus
Award”, and also the Inaugural “Outstanding Alumnus
Award” from Eastern Music Festival. Joe recently joined
The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University as
a Distinguished Visiting Artist.
Adam Frey
Euphonium
Sponsored by Yamaha
A native of Atlanta, Georgia,
Adam Frey began his musical
studies at the University of
Georgia in 1993 under Dr.
David Randolph and earned
a Bachelor of Music magna
cum laude with High Honors. Adam later completed
30 • Music for All National Festival Official Program
a Master of Music with Distinction and a Professional
Performance Diploma with Distinction. His first solo
recording entitled, Listen to THIS!!, received worldwide
acclaim for both its numerous world premieres and
impressive performances.
In May 2003, Adam released a second solo recording
entitled Collected Dreams - a wonderful collection of
traditional Scottish, Irish and classical melodies that
combines the lush sound of the euphonium with
dreamy synthesizer accompaniments in a new age
vein. He had two recordings released in 2005 with the
Metropolitan Wind Symphony and the New Zealand
Symphony Orchestra. Adam also serves as Adjunct
Professor of Euphonium at Georgia State University and
as an Artist Affiliate with Emory University.
Thomas Bough
Tuba
Sponsored by Yamaha
Dr. Thomas Bough is currently
the Director of Athletic
Bands at Northern Illinois
University. He directs the
Huskie Marching Band and
Pep Bands, the University
Band, and teaches courses within the music education
curriculum. Dr. Bough holds MM and DMA degrees in
Tuba Performance from Arizona State University, where
he was a student of Sam Pilafian and Dan Perantoni.
He holds the degree Bachelor of Science in Music
Education from Southwest Missouri State University,
where he was active in both vocal and instrumental
music. Previously, Bough served as the Assistant Director
of Bands and Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois from
1999-2005 and as the Band Director at Westwood High
School in Mesa, Arizona from 1992 to 1999. Dr. Bough’s
diverse performance background includes the St.
Louis Brass Band, Paducah Symphony Orchestra, Mesa
Symphony Orchestra, SIUC Faculty Brass Quintet, and the
Downbeat Dixieland Band. He is a Yamaha sponsored
artist, and performs on the Yamaha 822 CC tuba and
Yamaha 822 F tuba. Bough is a frequent contributor to
the Instrumentalist magazine and the Journal of the
International Tuba-Euphonium Association.
David Gresham
Clarinet
Clarinetist David Gresham,
recipient of the 2002 Lincoln
Center Martin E. Segal Award
for up and coming artists,
is constantly in demand
as a soloist and chamber
musician. An active concert
artist, Mr. Gresham’s recent appearances include the
Sakae Philharmonic in Yokohama, Japan, the U.S.
premiere of Yevhen Stankovich’s Chamber Symphony
No. 6: Secret, the New York premiere of David Rakowski’s
Cerberus concerto and the New York premiere of Osvaldo
Golijov’s Yiddish Ruakh.
In November 2005, he recorded the premiere
recording of David Maslanka’s Concerto for Clarinet
with the Illinois State University Wind Symphony. Mr.
Gresham has given numerous recitals New York City at
Lincoln Center in the Bruno Walter Auditorium and at
several other venues in New York, including the 92nd
Street Y in the “Meet the Virtuosi Series” and in the Great
Hall at Cooper Union. Other recent recitals have taken
Mr. Gresham to Illinois, California, Canada, England
and Japan. He was one of the youngest musicians
ever chosen to serve as an Artistic Ambassador, in
which capacity the United States Information Agency
sponsored him in an extended recital and master class
tour of South America. In the summer of 2005 toured
Japan giving solo recitals in Tokyo at the National
Museum of Art, as well as in the cities of Osaka, Fujisawa
and Kiyosato.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Gresham performs
worldwide. He is clarinetist with the respected
contemporary music ensemble Continuum, based in
New York, with which he has recorded multiple CDs
and performed across North and South America, Europe
and Central Asia, in addition to giving an annual New
York concert series. He has also presented chamber
concerts in New York City and London, England with
the British violinist Philippa Mo. He is co-founder with
flutist Kimberly Risinger of the mixed chamber ensemble
Difference Tones. Mr. Gresham holds the Doctor of Music
degree from The Juilliard School and is professor of
clarinet at Illinois State University.
Joe Neisler
French Horn
Joe Neisler, Associate
Professor of Horn, joined
the faculty at Illinois State in
1985. Dr. Neisler is currently
Principal Horn of The Prairie
Ensemble and Opera Illinois
and performs with the ISU
Sonneries Woodwind Quintet. He is formerly Principal
Horn of the Peoria Symphony and has performed
with the Indianapolis, Memphis, Champaign-Urbana
Symphonies and Sinfonia da Camera. Joe Neisler is a
Horn Clinician, Adjudicator and Soloist for IMEA, and has
served as Jurist for the International Horn Competition
and the American Horn Competition since 1994.
He has performed as a soloist and adjudicator at
Regional and International Horn Workshops, IMEA
and the Iowa Bandmasters Convention. Joe Neisler
has performed with Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett, The
Moody Blues, Vince Gill, Johnny Mathis, Suzy Bogguss,
Englebert Humperdinck and Robert Goulet. He studied
with Philip Farkas, Myron Bloom, Frank Brouk, Meir
Rimon, Froydis Wekre and Michael Hatfield. He holds the
BM and MM in Horn and a DM from Indiana University.
Dr. Neisler is an Artist/Clinician for Conn/Selmer and has
performed and given Master Classes in North America,
Europe and the Orient.