Program Selections - Music for All

Festival Clinicians
Paul Nolen
Saxophone
Paul Nolen is a doctoral candidate in Saxophone
Performance at the Michigan State University College of
Music in East Lansing, Michigan. Paul was awarded first
place in the Lansing Matinee Musicale Woodwind Artist
Competition and has experience as a recording artist.
Doug Spaniol
Bassoon
Sponsored by Yamaha
Doug Spaniol is Associate
Professor of Music at Butler
University’s Jordan College of
Fine Arts where he teaches
bassoon and courses in music
theory and pedagogy. He also
serves as Instructor of Bassoon at the world-renowned
Interlochen Arts Camp.
Dr. Spaniol was named a Marshall Scholar and
studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in
Manchester, England. He also holds degrees from the
University of Illinois and The Ohio State University.
His bassoon teachers include William Waterhouse,
Christopher Weait and E. Sanford Berry.
Dr. Spaniol has appeared as concerto soloist with the
St. Petersburg Classical Symphony Orchestra, Soloisti
St. Petersburg, the Central Ohio Symphony Orchestra,
the Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis and Butler’s
Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Jordan Sinfonia. He
appears as soloist on two CDs: Bassoon with a View and
Frank Felice: Sidewalk Music. As a member of Arbítrio,
he has performed throughout the Midwest, in St.
Petersburg, Russia and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As
principal bassoonist of Sinfonia da Camera, Dr. Spaniol
has toured England, was heard on NPR’s “Performance
Today” and appears on CDs on Redcliffe and Zephyr
records and the “Classical Music for Dummies” CD.
He has also performed with many other ensembles
including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the
Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and the Evansville
Philharmonic Orchestra. He has presented master classes
at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Michigan State
University and since 2001 for the Music for All National
Festival. He frequently appears as a performer/presenter
at conferences of the International Double Reed Society
and serves as the Bassoon Chair for the IDRS’s Fernand
Gillet-Hugo Fox Competition. Dr. Spaniol is a Yamaha
Artist/Clinician and performs on the Yamaha YFG-811
bassoon.
Mimi Stillman
Flute
Sponsored by Yamaha
Mimi Stillman is one of
the most highly regarded
flutists in the concert world
today. Ms. Stillman has
performed recitals at The
Kennedy Center, Weill Hall at
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Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center, the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
La Jolla Chamber Music Society, the Verbier Festival in
Switzerland, the Italian Festival delle Nazioni and other
international venues. She has appeared as soloist with
The Philadelphia Orchestra and orchestras throughout
the United States and Mexico. She is a substitute flutist
in The Philadelphia Orchestra.
At age 12, Ms. Stillman was the youngest wind
player ever admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music,
where she studied with Julius Baker and Jeffrey Khaner
and received her Bachelor of Music degree in 1999. That
same year she became the youngest wind player ever to
win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions,
joining the Young Concert Artists roster. Among her
many awards are the Bärenreiter Prize for the Best
Historical Performance for Winds and The Philadelphia
Orchestra Young Artists Competition.
Ms. Stillman has taught master classes and
performed recitals for universities and flute societies. She
teaches flute students at the University of Pennsylvania.
She is regularly featured in the national press, as guest
on NPR’s “Performance Today” and WGBH Boston, and is
host and performer on the Musical Encounters TV show
and video “The Magic Flute.” She recorded the soundtrack
for Kevin Bacon’s 2005 film “Loverboy.” She is a Ph.D.
candidate in history at the University of Pennsylvania
and a columnist for Flutewise Magazine UK. Mimi
Stillman is a Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician
and plays the Yamaha YFL-872H handmade Julius Baker
model and YFL-874H professional French model flutes
and the YPC-81 piccolo.
Hollis Ulaky
Oboe
Sponsored by Yamaha
Hollis Ulaky is currently
Principal Oboist of the
Charlotte Symphony. She is a
graduate of Carnegie Mellon
University, where she studied
with Thomas Fay and James
Gorton. Before joining the CSO, Ms. Ulaky was principal
oboist in the Wheeling Symphony and Opera Festival
Orchestra in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
She has performed chamber music at the Sarasota
Music Festival, the Charles Ives Center for the Performing
Arts and at Piccolo Spoleto. As a founding member
of the chamber music group, Rhodora, Ms. Ulaky
continues to perform recitals throughout the southeast.
She recently premiered works for oboe and organ; and
oboe, bassoon and piano at the IDRS conference in
Greensboro, North Carolina. Ms. Ulaky has been featured
in Today’s Charlotte Woman Magazine, The Charlotte
Observer and was voted Best Female Instrumentalist
in 2004 by Charlotte Magazine. An avid educator, Ms.
Ulaky serves on the faculties of Winthrop University and
Queens University of Charlotte and was a member of the
faculty of Cannon Music Camp at Appalachian University
and woodwind coach for the Youth Symphony of the
Carolinas. Hollis Ulaky is a Yamaha Performing Artist.
Larry Zalkind
Trombone
Sponsored by Yamaha
Larry Zalkind is Principal
Trombone with the Utah
Symphony and began
his trombone studies at
age eight. He entered the
California Institute of the Arts
Youth Program at age twelve and attended through high
school. At Cal Arts, he coached chamber music with Los
Angeles Tubist Tommy Johnson and played trombone in
the Cal Arts Youth Orchestra.
Through high school, he studied with Byron Peebles.
Five years later, he began his studies at the University
of Southern California where he received his Bachelors
and Masters degrees in music. Mr. Zalkind won the
Saunderson Award at the Coleman Chamber Music
Competition in 1976. He has toured, recorded and
performed extensively as a member of the Summit Brass
on Trombone and Euphonium since 1990. In addition,
he has performed with Chamber Music Northwest in
Portland Oregon, Music of the Baroque in Chicago, the
Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, the Grand Teton
Music Festival in Jackson Wyoming and the Elkhorn
Music Festival in Sun Valley, Idaho.
He has performed and recorded with the Chicago,
Atlanta, and St. Louis Symphonies, and performed as a
member of the Long Beach Symphony before moving to
Utah. He has been featured as soloist with the Fairbanks
Symphony, The Southwest Symphony, The West Los
Angeles Symphony, the Billings Symphony, the Twin
Falls Symphony, the Macon Symphony, the Central
Oregon Symphony, the New Sousa Band, The Ringgold
Band, the Burbank (California) Chamber Orchestra and
the Pierce Symphonic Winds.
Mr. Zalkind is the Adjunct Professor of Trombone at
the University of Utah and also teaches at Westminster
College. He has served on the faculty of the Hartwick
Summer Music Festival in New York, the Marrowstone
Music Festival in Port Townsend, Washington, the
Batiquitos Festival of the Arts in San Diego and the
Grand Teton Orchestral Seminar in Wyoming. He has
held faculty positions at Cerritos College in California,
Albion College in Michigan and Weber State College in
Utah. He served on the faculty of the Idlewild School of
Music and the Arts and was the Jazz Band Director at
the Crossroads School for the Performing Arts in Santa
Monica, CA during the 1979-80 school year. Mr. Zalkind’s
wife, Roberta, is the Associate Principal Violist of the
Utah Symphony, and they are both proud of their three
children: Benjamin, Matthew and Aaron.