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Opera, the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra and Players, thePotomac String Trio and the Clarendon String Quartet. She is on theteaching staff of the Gettysburg College Chamber Music Workshop,the Chamber Music Conference and Composer’s Forum of the Eastin Bennington, VT, and the Levine School of Music. DEBORAHMILAN, cello, is a member of the Contemporary Music Ensemble,Collaborationa, and the Washington Bach Consort. She is an AdjunctInstructor of Cello at Columbia Union College and has a privatestudio as well. LOIS NARVEY, harpsichord, has performed in soloand chamber concerts in the U.S. and Canada, and was recently guestsoloist with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.

BIGGS AND DUTTON DUO - Besides touring withthe Biggs and Dutton Duo, BEVERLY BIGGS is Co-ArtisticDirector of ALLEGRO -- BAROQUE AND BEYOND, a periodmusic organization based in Spokane, Washington. She is alsoCo-Producer/Director of the Royal Fireworks Concertm, a four-teen-year-old tradition in the Inland Pacific Northwest that draws anaudience of more than 40,000 people each summer. DAVIDDUTTON oboist, tours with his musical partner, fortepianist andharpsichordist Beverly Biggs, as one of only two classical duos on theprestigious WESTAF Touring Roster. Dutton is owner of B&DPublications and Master Oboe Reeds. In addition, he is conductorand Co-Director of the Royal Fireworks Concerts, the largestindependent musical event in the Pacific Northwest. Dutton, whostudied with DeVere Moore and Marcel Tabuteau, is a formermember of the St. Louis and Dallas Symphony Orchestras.

THE HENSCHEL ENSEMBLE is an unusual trio ofmusicians whose interests range from the Elizabethan period throughthe 20th Century. The group derives its name from Sir GeorgeHenschel, the first conductor of the Boston Symphony. Performingtogether since 1980, the musicians have commissioned 12 works foroboe, bassoon and guitar. THOYAS GREENE, guitar, was untilrecently Chairman of the Music Department of the Warwick, RIpublic schools. He has been a Guitar Instructor at Boston Universityand Brown University He has degrees from the New EnglandConservatory and the University of Connecticut Mr. Greene has alarge collection of stringed instruments dating from the 17th centuryon which he has performed throughout New England. DELIGHTIMMONEN oboe, has a bachelor’s degree from the University ofMichigan and a master’s from the New England Conservatory. Herprimary oboe teachers were Robert and Sara Lambert Bloom. Shehas also worked with Blanche Honneger Moyse in Brattleboro, VT.She is a member of the New Music Ensemble of Providence and hasplayed principal oboe with Concerts on the Island in Newport, RI,the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra, and the ProvidenceSingers. She teaches at Rhode Island College and Wheaton College.SUSAN WOOD, bassoon has degrees from the State University atPotsdam, Indiana University and has done doctoral work at BostonUniversity. Her teachers include C R. Reinert, Leonard Sharrowand Matthew Ruggiero. She is presently Bassoon Instructor atRhode Island College and performs with the New Music Ensembleof Providence, Concerts on the Island and for the past threesummers with the Newport Music Festival.

ENSEMBLE LA GUERRE is dedicated toplaying the music of the Baroque and early classical eras oninstruments of the period. Now in its second year of residency atMount Vernon College, the group has also been named ensemble inresidence for 1990-91 at the Levine School of Music, where three ofits members are on the faculty. Ensemble La Guerre has appeared inconcert with the Strathmore and Music at Noon series, as well as atthe National Museum of Women in the Arts. The group performsperiodically in the Washington, D.C. Public Schools under theauspices of Young Audiences. MELISSA GRAYBEAL, violin,currently plays with the Handel Festival Orchestra, the Washington

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THE HUNTINGTON TRIO - The membea of theHuntington Trio are all classically trained musicians who havecollectively and individually appeared as members of numerousorchestras and chamber music ensembles. For the IDRS conferencethey have chosen to play the music of Mozart in commemoration ofthe bicentennial of his death. MARGO EASTER is known as anactive freelance artist, recitalist and chamber musician. Originallyfrom upstate New York, Ms. Easter studied with Philip MacArtherof the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. She received her academictraining from West Chester University and continued study withLouis Rosenblatt of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Recently Ms. Basterhas served as Artist/Faculty for the Virginia Governor’s School forthe Arts and performed with the internationally acclaimed AudubonQuartet. Presently she is a member of the music faculty at RadfordUniversity. DAVID WIDDER is Principal Clarinetist with theRoanoke Symphony Orchestra and a member of the music faculty atVirginia Tech. He is active as a performer, guest conductor, clinicianadjudicator and soloist and has performed throughout the U.S. andabroad. He is a graduate of the University of Arkansas and NorthTexas State University. DOUGLAS KEHLENBRINK is a memberof the music faculty at James Madison University. A graduate of BallState University and James Madison University, he has performedextensively in chamber music and recital. He studied with HomerPence, William Waterhouse, Mark Popkin, and Sol Schoenbach.Most recently, he has performed with the Washington Bach Consortat the Kennedy Center and with the Contemporary Music Forum inWashington, D.C

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JUDITH KAY JAZZ TRIO - JUDITH KAY, guitar andvocals, and CHUCK HOLDEYAN, Buffet bassoon, have beenperforming together since 1980 when they gave a joint concert toconclude fellowships they had both been awarded that year. Sincethen they have been artists-in-residence for the city of Wilmington,Delaware and in various schools, as well as giving concerts andplaying for parties and weddings. RICKY LOSA, percussionist andLatin percussionist lives in Washington, D.C and has appeared therewith Chuck and Judith several times, as well as traveling north forperformances in Delaware. JUDITH KAY is responsible for thetrio’s arrangements as well as composing a number of original songs.The rest of the group’s repertoire includes jazz standards andBrazilian bossa nova standards, many sung in Portuguese. JudithKay’s first recording *‘Everybody’s Talkin” (TASTY 100-l) wasrecorded in Rio de Janeiro. Her second recording entitled “JudithKay Live at JJ’s Grotto” (TASTY CS-95) will be rereleased in thesummer of ‘9l as a CD under the title, “Judith Kay Live.” An activecomposer and arranger, Judith Kay’s pieces include string quartets,chamber works, big band arrangements and about 2.5 songs in Englishand Portuguese. (See SOLOISTS for information on CHUCK

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Who’s Who: Ensemblescreative endeavor of the bassoonists of Professor David DeBolt’sstudio class at Kent State University. Members perform, compose,and arrange in a variety of styles from the Renaissance, Baroque,and Classical masters to contemporary jazz, minimalist, and electronic music. Skills and enthusiasms are thus shared in building of abroadly-based musicianship for the twenty-first century. In additionto their own works, the group has inspired compositions by notedcomposers Halim El-Dabh and Stephen Griebling, which will also beperformed for the IDRS convention. Members include: Collin J.Anderson, Timothy Bishop, Sabastianna Bonacci, David DeBolt,Sharon Geil, Phoebe Peterson, Roberto Iriarte, and Lynnette White.(For information on Director, DAVID A. DEBOLT, see under

OBOHIO’S director and founder is ROBERT H. SORTON,Professor of Oboe, at the Ohio State University. For thirteen years,he was Assistant Principal Oboe of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.After graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts, heearned both his BM and MM degrees, summa cum laude, from theCleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with John Mack,Principal Oboe of the Cleveland Orchestra. He has performed withthe Cleveland Orchestra, the Miami Philharmonic, the ColumbusSymphony and the Charlotte Symphony. He has taught at OaklandUniversity and Wayne State University. He is a member of Pi KappaLambda and was awarded the 1990 OSU School of MusicDistinguished Teaching Award. Mr. Sorton is internationally recog-nized as an authority on reed-making, gouging machines and oboerepair. P. BAILEY SORTON holds a BM degree, magna cumlaude, from Appalachian State University and an MM degree fromJames Madison University. She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda.She is former Principal Oboe of the Western Piedmont Symphonyand the Salisbury Symphony. She is currently English Homist in theRoanoke Symphony Orchestra. She has been an instrumental musicteacher in North Carolina and has taught oboe at Wake ForestUniversity. YARK DuBOlS received his BM and MM degreesfrom the Cleveland Institute in 1983 and 1984. While serving asPrincipal Oboe of the Flint Symphony, he was a member of thefaculty of the Center of Creative Studies in Detroit He performedwith the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and was adjunct facultymember at Macomb Community College. At present, he is pursuing adoctorate degree at OSU where he holds a performance assistant-ship. SARAH HAMILTON was English Hornist of Canada’sWindsor Symphony before beginning her doctoral studies at OSUwhere she holds a teaching assistantship in theory. She earned a BMdegree with honors in performance from the University of WesternOntario and an MM degree from Wayne State University. As amember of the Columbus Chamber Winds, she attended the

Sandpoint Festival during August of 1990 and was semi-finalist in the1990 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. CHRISTOPHERWEAIT was Principal Bassoon of the Toronto Symphony for 17years before joining the Ohio State faculty in 1984 where he teachesapplied bassoon and conducts the OSU Wind Ensemble. He wasfounder and music director of the Toronto Chamber Winds and waswoodwind coach for the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. Hehas been a Visiting Professor at the Eastman School of Music andIndiana University and has taught at the University of Toronto andthe Festival at Sandpoint. He has recorded solo and chamber musicalbums and his compositions have been nerformed around the world.

THE PENNSYLVANIA QUINTET is the windfaculty chamber ensemble at Penn State University. Its presentmembers have performed together since 1985, receiving acclaim forperformances throughout the East and Midwest. In 1987 the Quintetwas ensemble-in-residence for Arizona’s Sedona Chamber MusicFestival and the following year was named finalist in the prestigiousEast and West Artists’ Competition. The Quintet’s CD recording,AMERICAN WIND MUSIC, including works by Rochberg, Fine,Etler, and Bach has recently been released by Centaur Records.Composers Steven Stucky and Nicholas Thome have been commis-sioned by the Quintet to provide new works for premiere in 1990 and1991. DARYL DURRAN, Assistant Professor of Bassoon at PennState University, has performed with the Milwaukee SymphonyOrchestra, and was Principal Bassoonist with the Milwaukee Balletand Waukesha Symphony Orchestras. An active chamber musicplayer and recitalist, he has performed in music festivals in Michigan,Wisconsin, and Arizona. Prior to coming to Penn State, Mr. Durranserved as a member of the music faculty at the Kenosha campus ofthe University of Wisconsin. During the summers he has taught atthe National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan, and is presentlyPrincipal Bassoonist of the Music at Penn’s Woods FestivalOrchestra Mr. Durran holds degrees from the University of Arizonaand the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. BARRY KROEKER,Assistant Professor of Oboe at Penn State University, came to theUniversity from South Dakota where he was Principal Oboist withthe South Dakota Symphony and the Dakota Wind Quintet. Mr.Kroeker has performed at the Aspen and New College Music

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Festivals and was invited to perform at the 1988 IDRS convention inVictoria. He is presently the Principal Oboist of the Music at Penn’sWoods Festival Orchestra and the Altoona Symphony. In addition tohis performances with the Pennsylvania Quintet, he is an activerecitalist and clinician. He has studied with Ray Still, PrincipalOboist of the Chicago Symphony, and Bert Lucarelli at the HarttSchool of Music. ELEANOR DUNCAN ARMSTRONG isAssistant Professor of Flute at Penn State University. She previouslyperformed with the Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, taught atOklahoma City University, and was a member of the Aspen FestivalOrchestra. During the summers she has been Co-Principal Flutistwith the Breckenridge Music Institute Orchestra in Colorado andPrincipal Flutist with the Music at Penn’s Woods Festival Orchestra.As a member of the Pennsylvania Quintet and the Armstrong Fluteand Percussion Duo, she performs extensively as a chamber musicianand as a solo recitalist. Dr. Armstrong holds graduate degrees fromJuilliard and the University of Michigan. Her teachers includeFeodora Steward, Albert Tipton, Arthur Lora, and Keith Bryan.SMITH TOULSON is an Associate Professor at Penn StateUniversity where he teaches clarinet, conducts the Symphonic WindEnsemble, and is Principal Clarinetist of the Music at Penn’s WoodsFestival Orchestra. His educational background includes a BA THE PLYMOUTH TRIO is a unique combination ofdegree from the University of Illinois and an MM degree from Yale soprano, oboe, and keyboard accompaniment that delights inUniversity, where he was a student of Keith Wilson. He has been bringing neglected repertory to public attention. CHRISTINAPrincipal Clarinetist with the New Haven Symphony, performed with PRICE is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music andthe Pittsburgh Symphony, and appeared in concerts in Washington’s studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She has sung with theNational Gallery and New York’s 92nd Street YMCA Concert Choral Arts Society in Washington, DC., the Louisville BachSeries. His performances include recordings for Crystal and CRI Society, and is currently a member of the Robert Page Singers. Ms.recording companies. As a member of the Claremont Quintet, he Price has presented preconcert programs for the Cleveland Orches-participated in the New School Chamber Music Festival in Sarasota, tra on the vocal music of Charles Ives and Samuel Barber. She is anFlorida, and the Waterloo Festival in New Jersey, working with active performer in several Cleveland musical organizations andmembers of the Dorian and New York Woodwind Quintets. LISA soloist at Plymouth Church of Shaker Heights, Ohio. JOHN HERR0. BONTRAGER, Assistant Professor of Horn at Penn State is Minister of Music at Plymouth Church of Shaker Heights. HisUniversity, has performed with the Cincinnati Chamber and Ballet studies in organ, piano, and church music were at the EastmanOrchestras, the Chautauqua Symphony, the Aspen Festival and School of Music and with Flor Peetem in Belgium. He is active inChamber Orchestras, and the Harrisburg Symphony. Presently she is many Cleveland musical organizations and has played recitalsthe Principal Hornist of the Altoona Symphony and the Music at throughout the United States. He has lectured for the University ofPenn’s Woods Festival Orchestra. Active as a soloist and chamber Michigan Organ Conferences, the Bach Riemenschneider Institute,musician, she has performed at the 1987 and 1989 New York Brass and American Guild of Organists’ Chapters. Mr. Herr has taught atConventions, the Great Lakes Horn Workshop, and the 1988 the Cleveland Institute of Music and at Kent State University.convention of the International Horn Society. She also serves as JOHN MACK is Principal Oboist of the Cleveland Orchestra. (seeclinician for the Holton/Leblanc Corporation. Her performance SOLOISTS.)degrees are from the University of Michigan and her teachersinclude Louis Stout, Michael Hatfield, Eugene Wade, and LauraKlock.

THE RAMEY DUO is comprised of Richard Ramey,bassoonist and Maxine Ramey, clarinetist. MAXINE RAMEY is

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Clarinet Professor at Eastern New Mexico University. She holdsdegrees from Arizona State University and Michigan StateUniversity, where she studied with Dr. Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr.Other teachers include Keith Stein, Fred Ormand, and Ron DeKant.She is Principal. Clarinet with the Southwest Symphony and is amember of the Roswell Symphony. She has also been a member ofthe Arizona Opera Company Orchestra and the Nouveau WestChamber Orchestra of Scottsdale, Arizona. She is completing theDMA degree at MSU. RICHARD RAMEY Assistant Professor ofBassoon at the University of Arkansas, holds degrees in BassoonPerformance from Arizona State University, and in Musicology andBassoon Performance from the University of Southern California.His teachers include Norman Herzberg, Willard Elliot, and ManuelZegler. He has been a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony, theLansing Symphony Orchestra, and is currently a member of theNorth Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and the Festival Orchestra ofthe Flagstaff Summer Arts Festival, Flagstaff, Arizona. Mr. Ramey isthe co-founder of the Nouveau West Chamber Orchestra based inScottsdale, Arizona. He is currently completing the DMA degree inBassoon Performance from Michigan State University.

SPONTANEOUS WINDS was formed in 1 9 8 5 whenthree old friends were reunited as students at the Juilliard School.They were coached by professors David Weber and Steven Maxymthere. The trio has performed at Columbia University, at the loft ofartist Frank Stella, for Senator Bill Bradley, and at the JuilliardSchool. Winners of the Artists International Competition, theSpontaneous Winds gave their debut recital in Weill Recital Hall atCarnegie Hall in 1988. The trio has commissioned new compositions,including those written by members of the group, and throughresearch and arrangement, has expanded the repertoire for thiscombination with music from all periods. PEDRO DIAZ, of PuertoRico, began his musical studies there at the Escuela Libre de Musica.At 17, he came to Pittsburgh where he studied with James Gorton atDuquesne University. He later finished his bachelor’s degree atJuilliard where he was in the class of Elaine Douvas. He has playedwith the McKeesport and Wheeling Symphonies, on the Musica deCamara series in New York and with the Queens Philharmonic. Anative of Perry Hall, Maryland, ROBERT DILUTIS is the newAssistant Principal Clarinetist with the San Antonio Symphony. Healso received his bachelor’s from Juilliard under the tutelage ofDavid Weber. His other teachers include William Blayney, RogerHiller, and Clark Brody. He is a two-time winner of theInternational Clarinet Society Competition, and is an accomplishedteacher and repairman. JOHN FALCONE, of New York, hasdegrees in bassoon from Carnegie-Mellon University and theJuilliard School. His teachers include Steve Maxym, Arthur Kubey

and Walter Stein. He has been Principal Bassoon with the NationalOrchestra of Costa Rica, the McKeesport Symphony, and the DesMoines Metro Opera, and has toured with the New York CityOpera National Company. Most recently, he performed on theCasals Festival in Puerto Rico.

TENNESSEE BASSOON QUARTET was for-med in 1985 by Keith McClelland, James Lotz, James Lessen, andMichael Benjamin. The four, from Knoxville and Oak Ridge, wereall looking for an additional performance outlet for their variedbassoon talents. The result has been an ensemble which has broughtsmiles and ovations from audiences in Tennessee, North Carolina,and Kentucky with a repertoire from Renaissance to Jazz with stopsat Gilbert and Sullivan, Saint-Siiens, and Joplin. KEITH McCLEL-LAND has been Principal Bassoonist in the Knoxville Symphony andBassoon Instructor at the University of Tennessee since 1972 Anative of upstate New York, he received his BM degree fromEastman School of Music and MA degree from Columbia University.He is also a former faculty member at Sewanee Summer MusicCenter, Eastern Music Festival, and Tennessee Governor’s Schoolfor the Arts. MICHEAL BENJAMIN is a native of Oak Ridge andreceived his BA and MM degrees from the University of Tennessee.He has been a member of the Rome Festival Orchestra and hasparticipated in festivals at Blossom Music Center and Yale SummerSession at Norfolk, He is currently a member of the KnoxvilleSymphony and performs as a jazz pianist in the Knoxville area.JAYES LASSEN received a BM degree from the University ofTennessee and received an Assistantship to complete his MM degreeat Indiana University. He is a former member of the Knoxville

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Symphony and also held the position of Co-Principal Bassoon withthe National Orchestra of Chile. He grew up in Oak Ridge, has beenon the faculties of Austin Peay State University and Tennessee TechUniversity, and currently is a member of the bassoon section of theNew Orleans Symphony. JAYES LOTZ is from Knoxville andgraduated with a BM degree from the University of Tennessee andan MM degree from Yale University where he studied with ArthurWeisberg and Steven Maxym. He is currently Assistant Professor ofbassoon at Tennessee Tech University and a member of theCumberland Woodwind Quintet He has held bassoon positions withthe Mexico City Philharmonic, Knoxville Symphony, OakridgeSymphony, Bridgeport Symphony, Norwalk Symphony, StamfordChamber Orchestra, Connecticut Grand Opera, and Jaap Schtider

TOWSON FINE ARTS WIND QUINTET is oneof four faculty chamber ensembles in residence at Towson StateUniversity. SARA LANDGREN, flutist, is on the faculties ofTowson State University and the Baltimore School for the Arts. Inaddition to being principal flute of the Baltimore Opera, sheperforms with the Balt imore Symphony Orchestra, Towson ChamberPlayers, Resmusic America, and, on baroque flute, with Pro MusicaRara. She is also a member of the Towson Fine Arts Quintet whichwill be giving concerts and master classes in Russia this fall inaffiliation with the Leningrad Conservatory. EDWARD PALAN-KER, clarinetist, is the bass clarinetist with the Baltimore SymphonyOrchestra. He previously taught at the Eastern Music Festival inGreensboro, NC where he was principal clarinetist of the EasternPhilharmonic and Chamber Players. He has recorded for the GoldenCrest, Orion, and Shall-U-MO record labels. KAREN THORN-TON, hornist, was a member of the Royal Ballet Orchestra inLondon and Principal Horn with the Jacksonville Symphony beforecoming to Baltimore. Besides playing principal horn with theBaltimore Opera Orchestra, National Chamber Orchestra, and theFairfax Symphony Orchestra, she is a busy freelancer and hasappeared often with the National Symphony and the BaltimoreSymphony Orchestras. (See under HOSTS for information on H.GENE GRISWOLD, bassoonist, and ANN BILEZIKIAN, oboist)

TUCHINA is a chamber ensemble formed by three Northwes-tern University graduates who have converged on the greaterOklahoma City area. Flutist, VALERIE WATTS, a native of NewYork, is Visiting Assistant Professor of Flute at the University ofOklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, flutist with the OklahomaWoodwind Quintet and Principal Flutist with the Oklahoma CityPhilharmonic Orchestra. She has a BM degree from NorthwesternUniversity where she studied with Walfrid Kujala and an MMdegree from the Eastman School of Music where she studied withBonita Boyd. She is currently pursuing the DMA degree at Eastman.Oboist, SALLY BENNETT, comes from Georgia and is AssistantProfessor of Oboe and Theory at the University of Oklahoma, oboistwith the Oklahoma Woodwind Quintet and Principal Oboist withthe Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra. She holds BM andDMA degrees from the University of Georgia, where she studiedwith John Corina and an MM degree from Northwestern Universitywhere she studied with Ray Still. Pianist, KIMBERLY HOLLING-BURY, has returned to her native Oklahoma City after several yearsof study in London with the distinguished British pianist BenjaminKaplan. She holds the BM and MM degrees from NorthwesternUniversity where she studied with Donald Isaak and RobertWeirich. In addition to her private studio, Hollingbury is pursuing anactive career as a solo collaborative pianist The ensemble’s name,TUCHINA, is a Choctaw Indian word which means ‘Three.” Thename was chosen as a tribute to the rich Indian heritage in the stateof Oklahoma where the three members presently reside.

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THE WINDS OF WASHINGTON REEDTRIO - Bassoonist, NANCY SEEGER, graduated from theInterlochen Arts Academy and went on to study at the CurtisInstitute of Music where she received a Performance Certificate.During the summers, she attended programs at Interlochen andTanglewood. Currently Ms. Seeger holds the Principal Bassoonposition and is Personnel Manager of the Prince William Symphonyunder the direction of Joel Revzen. She also freelances in theWashington area with the National Symphony, Maryland Symphony,Fairfax Symphony, Roanoke Symphony, and the Genesis ChamberPlayers. JAMES BRYLA made his solo clarinet debut in 1987 as awinner of the Young Soloist Competition with the National THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCESymphony Orchestra in the Kennedy Center. His other soloachievements include the Milton King Memorial Certificate, winner SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA has the distinoof the National Young Performen’ Competition, and winner, for two tion of being the only symphony orchestra in the US. Armed Forces.

years, of the International Clarinet Competition. Mr. Bryla has A unit of the United States Air Force Band, The Air Forceperformed throughout the United States as an orchestral and Symphony Orchestra has performed at official functions given by allchamber musician including performances with the Los Angeles American presidents since Truman, and was one of the first

Philharmonic Institute, the Handel Festival Orchestra, and the American orchestras to make an overseas concert tour. With itsCambiata Winds. DOROTHY DARLINGTON, oboist and founder appearance in Bodo, Norway in 1955, it became the first major

of the Winds of Washington, is a graduate of the Eastman School of American musical organization to have performed north of theMusic, Michigan State University, and the Catholic University where Arctic Circle. The Air Force Symphony Orchestra has always servedshe finished her doctorate in wind music. Before coming to as an instrument for introducing new American music. It hasWashington, she performed with the National Symphony of Costa premiered many composit ions by contemporary American composers

Rica, Savannah Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Atlanta Sym- and has given numerous concerts for the National Association forphony, and the Richmond Symphony. In 1981, she joined the United American Composers and Conductors. A majority of the Air ForceStates Marine Band where for six years she performed as concerto Symphony Orchestra’s concerts are presented in the Washington,

soloist at the White House, chamber musician at the Library of DC. area. In addition to its numerous performances at official

Congress, and toured with the band. In fact, it was on a trip in 1986 military and governmental functions, it has appeared frequently at

with the band to the Netherlands that she commissioned the TRIO the Pan American Union and has performed at Washington’s D.A.R.XII for English Horn (Oboe D’Amore), clarinet and basroon. Since Constitution Hall and New York City’s Carnegie Hall. The Air

1987 Ms. Darlington has freelanced in both the Washington and New Force Symphony Orchestra is composed of musicians representingYork areas where she performs with such groups as the National several symphony orchestras and numerous colleges, universities and

Symphony, Washington Opera, Wolf Trap, National Theater, New music conservatories. The highly versatile woodwind, brass andJersey Symphony and Summer Ballet at the MET. She also appears percussion instrumentalists also perform in The Air Force Concertwith the D’Amore Duo, oboe and guitar, and in 1989, captured First Band; the string players form the Air Force Band’s world renowned

Prize in the Baltimore Chamber Music Competition. Strolling Strings and The U.S. Air Force String Orchestra.

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THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCEWOODWIND QUINTET is composed of the principalwoodwind players of The United States Air Force Concert Band inWashington, D.C The quintet was organized in 1962 The presentsoloists in the quintet are Sergeants Judith Genovese Lapple, flute;Rebecca Brown Williams, oboe; Steven Lawson, clarinet; PhilipMunds, horn; and Danny Phipps, bassoon, The United States AirForce Woodwind Quintet is a nationally recognized ensemble thathas performed coast-to-coast They have appeared in recital forvarious chamber music performance series, as well as for many of thenation’s leading colleges and universities. In addition, The UnitedStates Air Force Band uses The Air Force Woodwind Quintet inperformances for protocol functions and in recitals and concerts forour nation’s civic and military leaders. SENIOR MASTERSERGEANT JUDITH ANN GENOVESE LAPPLE, flute, joinedthe United States Air Force Band in 1978. She is from Rochester,New York, and received her BM degree from the Eastman School ofMusic. She received her master’s degree from Northeast LouisianaUniversity in Monroe. While at Eastman, her teachers were JosephMariano and Leone Buyse. Other teachers have included SamuelBaron, John Krell and Britten Johnson. Besides appearing as soloistwith The Air Force Band, Sergeant Lapple has had solo appearanceswith South Arkansas Symphony, Monroe Symphony, EastmanChamber Ensemble Orchestra, and the Rochester Philharmonic.Before joining the Air Force Band, Sergeant Lapple was the FluteInstructor at the University of Mississippi and Northeast LouisianaUniversity. CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT STEVEN LAWSON,clarinet, attended California State University, Northridge, beforejoining The United States Air Force Band in 1975. While there, hewas Principal Clarinetist with the Wind Ensemble and Orchestra. Hehas also performed with the Aspen Festival Woodwind Quintet andits Repertory Orchestra under James Chambers. His clarinetteachers have been Charles Bay and Ignatius Genausa. ChiefLawson is an active freelance artist and recitalist in the metropolitanWashington, D.C. area, where he is also in great demand as a teacherand clinician. He is the Woodwind Supervisor of the United StatesAir Force Band and performs as concertmaster with The ConcertBand. TECHNICAL SERGEANT PHILIP YUNDS, horn, is anative of California. He attended the San Francisco Conservatory ofMusic where he studied with Arthur David Krehbiel. Upongraduation, Sergeant Munds established himself as a freelance artistin high demand in the San Francisco Bay area, where he performedwith such groups as the Berkeley Symphony, the Santa Cmz

Symphony, the Cal ifornia Symphony, the Modesto Symphony, andother chamber groups. In addition, he has appeared with the SanFrancisco Opera Orchestra and with the San Francisco Symphony.Sergeant Munds joined the The United States Air Force Band inJuly, 1989. Presently he performs as homist in The Concert Bandand in The Air Force Woodwind Quintet. (For information onTECHNICAL SERGEANT REBECCA BROWN WILLIAMS,oboe, and MASTER SERGEANT DANNY PHIPPS, bassoon, seeSOLOISTS.)

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