March 2011 - World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles

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Taiwan Wind Ensemble Formed in 2004, the Taiwan Wind Ensemble (TWE) consists of talented wind musicians who are professors and band directors from all over the country. With Ms. Wen-wen Chou as resident conductor, Dr. Kan-Kuo Ho as first artistic director, and later succeeded by Mr. Toshio Akiyama in 2008, the TWE devotes to bring the Taiwan’s sound to the world. The ensemble keeps a close relationship with local composers and commissions new works periodically. Works by Ching-Wen Chao, Tzyy-Sheng Lee, Yiu- Kwong Chung, Shu-Si Chen and Yu-Chou Chen have been premiered by the TWE and have brought lots of attention, locally and internationally. The ensemble has also worked with several internationally acclaimed maestros, including Francois Bailleul, Tsunanobu Kawamoto (the Sony Concert Band), Kanat Akhmetov (the State Wind Orchestra of Kazakhstan), Soichi Konagaya, Alain Crepin, Dominique Gable, Gary Green, and Guy Touvron, and all these performances acclaimed high praise. Lian-Chang Kuo (guest conductor) Holding Diplome Superieur 1984, Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, France, Mr. Kuo is an active conductor and professor in Taiwan. He was the conductor of Ensemble Instrumental International, Paris, France, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, and Youth Band of China Youth Corps, Taipei, Taiwan. Mr. Kuo has also worked with major orchestras, wind ensembles, Chinese orchestras, modern chamber music groups, and several maestros including Yumiko Sakuma, Si-Qing Lu, Roger Boutry, Guy Touvron, Robert Altken, Andras AdorJan, Shigenori Kudo, etc. Mr. Kuo is a professor at the Music Department of the Fu The Taiwan Wind Ensemble not only includes classic wind music in its programs, but also produces cross-border productions and family concerts. The ensemble has successfully combined live wind music with flamenco and ballroom dancing, and attracted people who are not regular guests of concerts. In addition, the TWE annual family concerts, usually corporate with theaters, are a “must see” to many families. With these efforts, the TWE has broadened the audience base, and introduced the wind music to more and more people. Publications by the Taiwan Wind Ensemble include music scores of the “Formosa Dance” by Wen-Yeh Chiang, “Rententir, Archetype, Exuberant dances” by Ching- Wen Chao, and “Wayfarer’s March” by Dai Yi-Qing, and a double-CD album “Festive Celebration – Yiu-kwong Chung’s Works for Wind Ensemble”, conducted by the composer himself. More information on: http://www.twwe.com.tw Jen Catholic University and conducts its orchestra and Wind Ensemble. He is also conductor of the Music Department Orchestra, National Taipei University of Education, Taipei County Youth Orchestra and Ministry of National Defense Symphony Orchestra. Wen-Wen Chou (resident conductor) Ms. Wen-Wen Chou was born in Chang- Hua County, Taiwan, and received her BA from the Music Department at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in 1993. While doing graduate work in conducting at the NTNU, she received instructions from Prof. Chang Ta-Sheng (former Music Director of National Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan), Liao Nien-Fu (the Music Director of Taipei Century Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan), and Maestro Vladimir Vais (former conductor of the Bolshoi Opera House in Russia). As a conductor, Chou has founded the Youth Vacation Orchestra in 1993, which has previously toured the island with such noteworthy soloists as violinist Su Shien-Ta (concertmaster of Taipei Sinfonietta & Philharmonic Orchestra). She is director of NTNU Band since 1993 and has conducted it in many band festivals such as the tenth annual Asia Pacific Band Festival at the Sydney Opera House. From 1999 to 2002, Chou conducted the Wind Ensemble of National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO) doing several wonderful concert tours. In 2003 Ms. Chou led the Band of High School of NTNU to win the Champion of National Music Contest. They were invited to the 7 th Hamamatsu International Band Festival, Japan. In 2004, she conducted a successful European concert tour with the Orchestra of “University System of Taiwan”. In 2004, Ms. Chou was invited to be the resident conductor of Tao Yuan Symphonic Band. At the same year she has founded “Taiwan Wind Ensemble (TWE)” and conducted it in “Band Contest by Taiwan Band Association (TBA)” and many other successful ones. In 2005, Ms. Chou was assigned as assistant conductor of Taipei Symphony Orchestra. 2006, she was elected as TBA Board member and conducted Hung- Dao Alumni Band in APBDA. Since 2007, Ms. Chou was appointed conductor of NTSO Youth Band. In 2008, she did “Russian Graffiti” with Sound By Ourselves Wind Ensemble as guest conductor, and participated the Singapore International Conducting Workshop under the direction of maestro Douglas Bostock. Besides she led the Hung-Dao Alumni Band and NTSO Youth Band to perform in 2008 APBDA concerts and conducted the Yi-Lan County Guo-Hua Junior High School Orchestra to win the music competition again. In addition concerts with TWE include: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’s Fantasy World” cooperated with the Clown Pantomime Theater, joint concert with Japan Omiya City Community Band under direction of maestro Toshio Akiyama, and performance in “Chiayi City International Band Festival”. At present Chou leads various school ensembles in the Taipei area such as NTNU Band, in addition to her responsibilities as resident conductor of Taiwan Wind Ensemble, and Youth Vacation Orchestra. 14 WASBE World
União Filarmónica do Troviscal History and Philosophy The first band that existed in Troviscal was founded in 1911 by an elementary school teacher, José de Oliveira Pinto de Sousa, that taught the regular school syllabus in the morning and music in the afternoon to all of his students. The “Banda Escolar do Troviscal” (Troviscal School Band) became famous nationwide due to a serious dispute that the band maintained with a, at the time, tyrant catholic church, that ended with the band’s excommunication, by the Bishop of Coimbra, in 1922. The Band’s reputation was not only the result of this 17 years lasting dispute but also due to its artistic merit, tested over several band competitions, which led many people to consider it one of the top bands in the country. Regrettably the band was declared extinct in 1942. In 1989 a group of local personalities decided to join hands and invited Professor Silas de Oliveira Granjo, grandchild of José de Oliveira, college teacher and amateur band conductor; to establish a non-profit society that would work towards restoring the tradition and carry on the legacy left by the “Banda Escolar do Troviscal”. This challenge was accepted and in September of 1989 a group of young children between 6 and 14 started to learn music. In December of this year it was already possible to listen to 23 of these students performing three Christmas melodies on wind instruments. The roots where launched and the band, now called “União Filarmónica do Troviscal” began its regular activity, as any other community Wind Band in Portugal. The goal of the band was always to perform the best possible repertoire that the musicians technical abilities where able to grasp while pushing the limits in a pedagogical and artistic effort to evolve. While maintaining the tradition of outdoor performances expected of a community band in our country (parades, religious processions, The Band in its own Iberian Band Festival in 2010. outdoor concerts, etc.) the band soon aimed at more artistically oriented targets and in 1998 decided to participate in the Purmerade festival for young musicians in Purmetend – Netherlands. In this festival the band received appreciations of “good” and “very good” in all parameters analyzed by the jury and obtained a 1 st prize with honors in the soloists contest. At a national level the band received the government recognition for its work and was awarded the title of “Institution of Public Merit” in 2000. In March 2001 the band toured France playing in Paris and Strasbourg at the European Parliament, in August played in Spain in a Youth Band’s Festival in Galicia and in October traveled again to France to perform in several cities of the Brittany region. In 2002 the band participated again in the Purmerade Festival and this time was classified with “excellent” in all the analyzed parameters by all of the judges and was thus awarded the prize of best Concert Band of the festival and also received two first prizes with honors (trumpet and saxophone) and two first prizes (flute and clarinet) in the soloists contest. In June 2004 the band represented Portugal in the International Band Festival FIJO in the Czech city of Cheb. In the following years the band took part in several band festivals and concerts in Portugal and Spain and kept its own Iberian Band Festival, organized every March since 2002. The last big achievement of the band was in April 2008 when the band won the 1 st Prize in the “IIº Certâmen Internacional de Bandas de La Senia” in Spain. Being this the first time a Portuguese Band performing at an international event of this level, and taking into consideration one of the goals of WASBE, which is to promote the exchange of repertoire from all over the world, the program we propose aims at showing our colleagues and audience the Wind Band music tradition of our country. Andre Granjo (conductor) Got his first experience playing clarinet in a band at the age of 8, in the Banda Filarmonica da Mamarrosa, after taking lessons with his father, Silas Granjo, and with the »dean« of the band Alvaro Ferreira. Went on to study clarinet at the Conservatories of Aveiro and Coimbra with Professors Fernando Rainho and Adelino Martins. Took a degree in anthropology and later a postgraduation in musicology at the University of Coimbra. Got his master in Wind Band conducting with Jan Cober at the Zuid Nederlandse Hogeschool voor Muziek (Maastricht) in 2005. Since 1994 he conducts the University of Coimbra Chamber Orchestra and in 1995 founded the Jazz Band of the university. Since 2001 he conducts the »União Filarmónica do Troviscal« with whom he won two international prizes: Purmerade 2002 (Holland) and “II Certamen Internacional de Bandes Vila De La Senia” (Spain). He has appeared as guest conductor with different ensembles in Portugal, Spain, France, Holland, Colombia, Costa Rica and USA. Currently works on his PhD, with a scholarship of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, at the University of Coimbra with Professors Jose Maria Cardoso and Christopher Bochmann and with the support of Mark Heron and Clark Rundell at the RNCM and Eugene Migliaro Corporon at North-Texas University where he is “visiting scholar” at the Wind Studies Department. He is a member of the Portuguese Ethnomusicology Institute (INET-MD), teaches Wind Band conducting and Portuguese Wind Literature at the Portuguese Piaget Institutes of Almada and Viseu and is a member of the national jury for the Annual Music Projects of the Ministry of Culture. He regularly presents lectures on several aspects wind music in Portugal, from history and sociology to repertoire aesthetics, and has given clinics on Portuguese Wind Music at international meetings such as the BASBWE 2007 Conference in Glasgow, the 2009 WASBE Conference in Cincinnati and IGEB 2010 conference in Oberschützen. WASBE World 15
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