2017 SAISA BAND & CHOIR FESTIVAL

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CONCERT PROGRAM Saturday, February 25, 2017

1:30 p.m. in the gym

**Doors close at 1:25 p.m.

SAISA Festival 2017 Choir

**listed in alphabetical order

Lao Rahal Soti (If My Voice Departs) Samir Shqer arr. Shireen Abu Khader The Road Home Stephen Paulus The Storm is Passing Over Charles Albert Tindley Arr. Barbara W. Baker Tshotsholoza (Go Forward) traditional arr. Jeffery L. Ames “Unclouded Day” arr. Shawn Kirchner from Heavenly Home: Three American Songs Wade in the Water traditional arr. Larry Shackley

SAISA Festival 2017 Band

**listed in alphabetical order

Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618 W.A. Mozart arr. Joseph Kreines Lighting Field John Mackey “Mars” Gustav Holst from The Planets arr. William Owens Sun Cycles Brian Balmages

SAISA Festival 2017 Choir and Band

with musical guests U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Rock Band

Bohemian Rhapsody Freddy Mercury Recorded by Queen arr. John Berry

DIRECTORS

James Housego ACS

Darren Jahn ACS

Jennifer LaChonce ACS

Deborah Lee AISC

Cary Stewart AISC

Edwin Roy AISC

Christine Snyder AISD

JohnDavey Hatcher AISD

Judith Mann ASB

David Williamson ASB

Bill Warren KAS

Marianne Ide KAS

LeeAnna Pekel KAS

David Tomasini LS

Iris Kolodji LS

Jeremiah O'Sullivan LS

Loretta Duncan OSC

Andrew Lambert-Knott OSC

Rebecca Bailey TAISM

Dylan Dwyer TAISM

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CHOIR ENSEMBLE MEMBERS

SOPRANO

Raneem Bdeir ACS

Alena Kravtsova ACS

Emmry Anderson ACS

Nadine Zimmermann ACS

GyoungA Kim AISC

Hyein Jung AISC

Kavya Radhakrishnan AISC

Johui Hwang AISC

Sarah Desbans AISC

Laurel Curley AISD

Maham Khan AISD

Tarini Sinha ASB

Eloise Chapman ASB

Alizeh Raza KAS

Rahma Edhi KAS

Sadaf Punjoo KAS

Gabrielle Traw LS

Ritika Tewari LS

Shenali Pilapitiya OSC

Sheruni Pilapitiya OSC

Anjulie Grimm OSC

ALTO

Klara Nazzal ACS

Carly Raymo ACS

Sara Hassan ACS

Anna Russin ACS

Jana Darabseh ACS

Eva Gennrich ACS

Nivetha Kumar AISC

NamYoung Kim AISC

Subeen Choi AISC

Suhee Youn AISC

Kailey Porter AISC

Andrea Acosta AISD

Justine Mannan AISD

Nandini Patel ASB

Tooba Edhi KAS

Aamna Khan KAS

Emaan Mannon KAS

Sarah Qadar KAS

Zaha Sheikh KAS

Aisha Asha Ibrahim OSC

BASS

Shailen Sheth ASB

Zain Ansari KAS

Miles Mellot LS

Kannapat Pattaranavakul LS

Jongbin Shin OSC

TENOR

Kawas Aga KAS

Roan Findley LS

Mohamed Ahnaf Ibrahim OSC

Aamir Akbarally OSC

BAND ENSEMBLE MEMBERS

ALTO SAX

Alex Kaufeld ACS

Arjun Sherwal AISC

Kaavya Malhotra ASB

Dara Omer KAS

Aarya Shah LS

Hardika Kashyap LS

Avi Rjkarnaikar LS

BASS CLARINET

Maya Mushtaq KAS

Dahlia Faruque KAS

Hanul Kim LS

Niharika Tudalahar LS

BASSOON

Elias LaChonce ACS

MinJae Kim AISC

Ismael Hassan TAISM

CLARINET

Juyoung Jeung AISC

Serin Kim AISC

Jason (Kyoungjun) Kim ASB

Minji Kim ASB

Alina Punjoo KAS

Nayab Khurshaidi KAS

Samar Baakza KAS

Haya Syed KAS

Silvia Guidi KAS

Jiyun Kim LS

Prakriti Adhikari LS

EUPHONIUM

Teymour Saifi ACS

Sooji Lim AISC

Mahad Altaf KAS

Austin Macfadyen TAISM

FLUTE

Yeon Ju Lee ACS

Dha Hae Chung ACS

Nithya Gogineni AISC

Jiwon Kim AISC

Choha Kim AISC

Athena Maharjan LS

Elisa Gurung LS

Glory Pang LS

Hyunseon Won LS

Yujin Jin TAISM

FRENCH HORN

Arman Ajanee KAS

PERCUSSION

Ahyeong Lee ACS

Seth Jensen ACS

Sang Won Kim AISC

Conner Swanson LS

Aryan Veer Singh OSC

Naufal Pranata TAISM

Alex Wagner TAISM

Simon Hinoul TAISM

STRING BASS

Jannick Frampton AISC

TENOR SAX

Johann Silvanus LS

TROMBONE

Murad El Asad ACS

Alexis Demitriou ACS

Dojin Kim ASB

Wajeeh Mir KAS

Jigme Norchen LS

Mackenzie Scheer LS

Majd El Ashkar TAISM

Laith Al Abri TAISM

TRUMPET

Karim Abu Ghazaleh ACS

Ali Alabaddi ACS

Kiyan Saifi ACS

Brian Lewis ACS

Collin Gruenewald ACS

Ravi Patch ASB

Yuya Kumasako ASB

Aroon Das ASB

Yuki Nakamura ASB

Zoya Hussain KAS

Aurhan Khan KAS

Dameer Faruque KAS

Noor Bajracharya LS

Mazen El Ashkar TAISM

Nathan Fernandez TAISM

Gustavo Larez Lopez TAISM

TUBA

Fuad Samhouri ACS

George Handal ACS

Benno Hulsing ACS

Donghyun Lee AISC

VIOLIN

Anya Isaak KAS

Yuna Yang KAS

Siddhanta Sakya LS

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RANIA EJEILAT began her music training at the age

of 8 with Vera Podchasova Otaibi and obtained her bachelor’s

degree in music with honors from the National Music

Conservatory in Amman, studying with Mohammed Uthman

Sidiq. As a recipient of the Fulbright scholarship, she completed

her masters degree in piano performance from the University of

Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music in the USA in 2014,

studying with Michael Chertock. Rania has participated in piano

and chamber music festivals in the US and Europe, such as the

Savonlinna Music Academy in Finland, the Micul Paris festival

in Bucharest, Romania, and the Apple Hill festival for chamber

music in New Hampshire. She currently teaches piano and music theory at the National Music Conservatory in

Amman. She also holds a BSc in Pharmacy from the University of Jordan.

WILLIAM CULVERHOUSE is currently Director of Choral Activities

and Associate Professor of Music at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, where he directs the Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers and teaches courses in musicology, conducting, composition, music education, and musicianship. He received his undergraduate degree in music education from Oberlin Conservatory and graduate degrees in choral conducting from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studied with Edward Maclary. Before coming to Earlham, he taught music in the public schools in Ohio, Illinois, and Virginia, and served for eight years as Director of the Schola Cantorum at the Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. A lyric baritone with a specialization in early and contemporary music, he has sung professionally throughout the Midwest and the East Coast. He is also an active composer, particularly of choral and solo vocal music, with performances also throughout the Midwest and East Coast. His composition teachers have included Adolphus Hailstork, Robert Sirota, and Kathryn Alexander. He is in frequent demand as a choral clinician, and has recently developed a specialization in choral music of the Arab world. His Requiem for chorus and harp received its New York premiere in March 2016, and he traveled to Jordan on a Fulbright grant to conduct a program of Handel and Vivaldi in May.

Hailing from Saratoga Springs, NY, PHILIP TAPPAN currently

serves as an officer and conductor for U.S. Army Music. Philip holds a B.A. in Music Composition, a B.M. in Music Education, and a M.M. in Orchestra Conducting Performance. He was the Graduate Assistant for Opera, Orchestras and Orchestral Conducting at the State University of NY at Fredonia from 2008-2010. Philip has studied conducting with David Rudge, Murray Sidlin, Timothy Dixon, and Colin Metters. He has held engagements with the West Shore Symphony Orchestra, the Rocky Ridge Music Festival, the Hilman Opera, the SUNY Fredonia Chamber and Symphony Orchestras, Capitol Opera Harrisburg, the Trinity Episcopal Church Choir, the First Cavalry Division Band, and the 2d Infantry Division Band. Philip is active as a composer and arranger; his film score to 'Old Boots,' was recently performed by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Band, Fort Eustis, VA.