JOHN LEIBENSPERGER - John recently earned an Artist Diploma in tuba performance from the Yale

School of Music and holds additional degrees from Temple and Georgia State Universities. He has per-

formed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Reading Symphony, Reading POPS, and the South East Penn-

sylvania Symphony Orchestra. John has presented recitals and masterclasses along the East-coast and inter-

nationally. In addition to having won various competitions, he founded and directed the CMSP Youth Wind

Ensemble in Philadelphia, and was a conducting assistant at Tenth Presbyterian Church. John and his wife,

Lola, live in Milford, Connecticut with their eleven-year-old beagle, Daisy.

DANIEL LEWIS - An active freelance musician and teacher, Daniel currently holds the third trumpet posi-

tion with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed with the Richmond Symphony Orches-

tra in Virginia. Daniel received his Master of Music degree in performance from the Cleveland Institute of

Music and his undergraduate degree from Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio. Daniel lives in Dayton,

Ohio where he is an avid Ohio State Buckeye fan.

DANIEL MORRISON - Daniel has a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from Taylor University in

Upland, Indiana. While at Taylor University, he played trombone in the Wind and Jazz Ensembles, as well as

singing bass in the Chorale. Daniel developed his acting skills by performing a number of roles in the Taylor

University Opera and Musical Theatre productions. He grew up as a missionary kid in Kenya, in Eastern

Africa, but now lives in Lititz, Pennsylvania where he enjoys playing basketball, drinking chai tea, and pursu-

ing the art of pun-making.

Calvary Baptist Church April 2, 2017

To multiply Christ-like disciples who are:

Passionate about their God.

Obedient to the Word,

Dependent on God through prayer

Connected to one another,

Authentic and relevant in their witness

1625 Capital Avenue NE

Battle Creek, MI 49017

269-963-4433

www.calvarybaptistbc.com

KING’S BRASS 2016-2017 TOUR Selections will be taken from the following

PART ONE Olympic Fanfare and Theme - John Williams / Arr. David Culross

Great Is The Lord - Michael W. Smith & Deborah D. Smith / Arr. Bryan Nelson

Come, Thou Fount - John Wyeth / Arr. Dan Marvin

Come, Thou Almighty King - Felice de Giardini / Arr. Lisa Varner Nelson

Be Thou My Vision - Irish Folk Melody / Arr. Michelle Fevig Kuhl

Dixie! Dixie, Hallelujah! - Traditional / Arr. Eric Alexander

I’d Rather Have Jesus - George Beverly Shea / Arr. Sunghwan Kim

The BIBLE - Kid’s Program - Traditional / Arr. Lisa Nelson

Yankee Doodle - Morton Gould / Arr. Ardis Faber

St. Louis Blues March - W. C. Handy / Arr. Jerry Gray / Ardis Faber

America the Beautiful - Samuel Ward / Arr. Dan Marvin

Crown Him with Many Crowns - George Elvey / Arr. David Gravesen

Calvary Covers it All - Mrs. Walter Taylor / Arr. Dan Marvin

Christ the Lord Is Risen Today - Traditional / Arr. Tim Zimmerman

PART TWO Transcendental Etude No. 10 in F Minor - Franz Liszt

Down By The Riverside - Spiritual / Arr. David Gravesen

The Vacuum Cleaner - Group Parable / John Duckworth

Great Is Thy Faithfulness - Philip Bliss-Horatio Spafford / Arr. Dan Marvin

What A Friend - Charles Converse / Arr. Dan Marvin - Tim Zimmerman

10,000 Reasons - (Bless The Lord) - Matt Redman / Arr. Lisa Varner Nelson

God of Our Fathers - George Warren / Arr. Tim Zimmerman

Blessed Be The Name of the Lord - Clinton Utterbach / Arr. Lisa Nelson

MEMBERS OF THE 2016-2017 KING’S BRASS TOUR

TIM ZIMMERMAN - Director of The King’s Brass, Tim received his graduate degree in Trumpet

Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore,

Maryland. He has been a member of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra and has assisted with a number of

orchestras in the Midwest and East Coast. For thirteen years, Tim served as Chairman of the Music

Department at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana. He has also taught at Taylor and Indiana Wesleyan

Universities in central Indiana. Tim and his wife Beckie, have four grown children and live in the

Pennsylvania mountains of Wilkes-Barre / Scranton.

GREGORY ALLEY - Currently, Gregory is the trumpet instructor at Calvin College and Aquinas College in

Grand Rapids, Michigan. Prior to teaching, he was a member of the West Point Band in New York for

twenty-three years. His music degrees are from Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan and

Michigan State University. Gregory plays in the Holland Symphony Orchestra, has been a soloist with the

Dallas Symphony, Hudson Valley Bachfest Orchestra, and the Montclair Chamber Ensemble. He, his wife

Deb, and their four daughters, live In Hudsonville, Michigan.

JUSTIN BROWN - Justin graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Trombone Performance

from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. After college, he went back to Nebraska where he taught

at his former Middle and High Schools and served as music director at his home church. Recently, Justin

moved to the Chicago area, where he is an active freelance musician, teacher, and organist at Bethany

Methodist Church in Aurora, IL. He enjoys hiking and is an avid Nebraska Huskers football fan.

JIM HUFF - Jim hails from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, in the greater Cleveland area, and holds a Commercial

Music Technology Degree from Malone University. He is a free-lance drummer - percussionist, as well as

the drumline - percussion ensemble director at Woodridge High School in Peninsula, Ohio. Over the years,

Jim has been inspired by drummers Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Joe Morello, Neil Peart, Vinnie Coliauta and

Steve Gadd. When not playing music, he enjoys long distance bike riding. This past summer Jim rode the

great Allegheny Passage from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C.

SUNGHWAN KIM - Sunghwan holds two Master’s degrees in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano

from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He also graduated summa cum laude from

his undergraduate studies at the Chugye University for the Arts in Korea. Sunghwan studies music

composition at the Hanyang University and served as a pianist in the Republic of Korea Air Force Band.

Currently living in Cincinnati, he is an active accompanist and chamber musician, as well as pianist at the

Power Mission Baptist Church. If Sunghwan was not a pianist, he dreams of being a singer in an acapella

ensemble.

CASEY KLINT - Casey received his Master of Music degree in Trombone Performance from the University

of Maryland and his undergraduate performance degree from Shenandoah University in Winchester,

Virginia. As a result of the high quality performance he heard as a young man in his native Chicago and the

encouragement of his Chicago Symphony mentors, he dedicated himself to pursuing a career as a

professional trombonist. Casey is currently living in Washington, D.C., and working as a freelance musician

and brass teacher. When not in the practice room, he works diligently at taking strokes off of his golf game.

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