CROSSSOUND 2000 - SOUTHEAST ALASKAN MUSICIANS

CROSSSOUND 2000
SOUTHEAST MUSICIANS

BOB BANGHART - MANDOLIN - grew up within the traditions of the American Southwest and brings a blend of cowboy, country, western swing and Cajun to both his fiddle and mandolin playing. Over the last twenty five years he has played festivals, dances and clubs throughout the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Canada and has shared the stage with a variety of musicians such as Marc and Ann Savoy, Commander Cody, Tiny Moore and Michael Doucet. He has also written and performed music for theater and film, including original scores for theater productions of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid.
JULIA YOUNG BASTUSCHECK - VIOLA - began her study of the viola in the Palo Alto, CA, public schools in 1965. She was fortunate to have many outstanding teachers and musical opportunities as she was growing up, and decided to make music her career. In 1978, she received a B.A. in viola performance from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, where she studied viola and chamber music with Barton Frank, Serge Kardalian and Charmian Gadd. After graduation, Julia moved to Seattle, where she performed regularly with local symphonies and musical theater groups on a free-lance basis. Feeling the need for full-time work in music as well as the responsibility to continue the tradition of string education, Julia decided to pursue teacher certification at the University of Washington. She enrolled in the music education program in 1985 and studied viola and chamber music with Paul Coletti, conducting with Rick Byrnes and Timothy Salzman and played in the University Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, where she met her husband, Nathan. After receiving certification in 1988, Julia was contacted by the Juneau School District, where she has been teaching strings, choir and general music classes since October 1988. During the 10 years Julia has been teaching in Juneau, the orchestra program has grown tremendously. The Juneau-Douglas High School Orchestra was recently selected to perform in Disneyland as part of Magic Music Days. Besides her teaching duties, Julia has been conductor of the Juneau Youth Symphony, is principal violist with the Juneau Symphony and performs with the Nimbus Ensemble.
NATHAN BASTUSCHECK - EUPHONIUM - received the majority of his musical education at the University of Washington where he was a three-time recipient of the Walter Welke Scholarship for Wind Ensemble. While at the University, Nathan performed regularly with the Wind Ensemble and the University Symphony, and studied privately with Richard Byrnes and Stuart Dempster. Other performance credits include the Seattle Brass Ensemble, Seattle Philharmonic, Everett Symphony, Washington Wind Symphony, Seattle Concert Band, Puget Sound Musical Theater, Civic Light Opera, Village Theater, Tacoma Concert Band and the Seattle Symphony Brass Ensemble. Nathan has also been an active freelance musician with many different small ensembles and as a solo performer. He currently plays with the Juneau Symphony, the occasional polka gig with accordionist Dale Wygant, and with his personal favorite, the Nimbus Ensemble, which counts among its members his lovely wife, Julia.
SUSAN BRANDT-FERGUSON - BARITONE SAXOPHONE - lives and teaches music in her home town of Sitka, Alaska. Although baritone saxophone is her primary instrument, she began her musical studies on piano, and continued them on the clarinet. However, it was her introduction to the baritone saxophone at the age of twelve that gave her love for music a voice. In college she also studied the bassoon. Susan has a music education degree from Pacific Lutheran University where she studied saxophone with Roger Stemen and Bruce Wilson, and bassoon with Francine Peterson. Following college, Ms. Brandt-Ferguson taught music in Washington state before making Sitka her home once again. Susan has been teaching general music and band at Verstovia Elementary School since 1996. She has recently become certified in the Kodály philosophy of music education. She is also a member of the Sitka Sound Saxophone Quartet.
JOCELYN CLARK - KOTO attended grades K-12 in Juneau where she took piano lessons and played the clarinet and oboe in various school music groups as well as the Juneau Symphony. After graduating from Juneau-Douglas High School in 1987 she spent a year in Japan where she became interested in non-Western music. She started studying the koto at the age of 18 with the Sawai Koto Academy at Wesleyan University. From 1990 she studied zheng at the Nanjing Academy for the Arts in China, continuing her studies the following year with Wang Changyuan in New York City. In the winters of 1992 and 1993 she toured Southeast Alaska performing zheng and doing workshops with the Orion Trombone Quartet and the Alaska Musicians Guild. From 1992 to 1994 she received a scholarship to study traditional Korean music majoring in kayagûm performance at the National Classical Music Institute in Seoul, Korea. In Sept. 1993, she received first prize with kayagûm sanjo, and in 1999, with kayagum pyongch'ang, in the KBS TV Korean Folk Arts Contest for Foreigners. In Sept. 1995 she won the grand prize with kayagûm pyôngchang in the HBS TV first annual Korean Folk Arts Contest for Foreigners. Clark performs regularly with the Wang Changyuan Zheng Art Ensemble of New York, and the Sawai Koto Ensemble of New York, and also as a soloist. Most recently, she has won a Fulbright award for the 1999-2000 academic year to return to Korea to study Korean traditional music.
Born and raised in Sitka, Alaska, PAUL COX - MARIMBA - native to Sitka, received a bachelor of music degree in percussion performance from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Michael Rosen. He pursued additional study at London's Royal College of Music, Rice University, the Aspen School of Music, and Yale's Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. In addition, he holds a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from Case Western Reserve University. An avid composer, his Percussion Quartet No. 1 was premiered by the Oberlin Percussion Group in 1996. Two new works, Totems I (a trio for three, five octave marimbas) and Manhatta for solo percussion and film (using an instrument built by metal artist David Balog and Paul Strand's landmark film Manhatta of 1928), will be premiered in 2000. Since 1996, he has been the assistant curator of musical arts of the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he produces some 70 concerts a year. Among his many pastimes are sea kayaking, hiking, chess, gardening, and traveling. He is married to Kirsten Docter, violist of the Cavani String Quartet.
DAVID GLAZIER - VIOLIN - has spend the past five summers in Sitka powertrolling his own commercial boat for salmon. During the school year he teaches music in Kotzebue. Before that, he also taught music in Southeaset for nine years and in Southwest Alaska for one year. Mr. Glazier hold a Master's Degree in Music from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor's of Music from the University of Oregon. His symphony experiences are extensive and varied and he has a strong background in jazz and folk music as well.
BOB KING - VIOLIN - of Juneau plays in the second violin section of the Juneau Symphony and is a member of the Symphony's Board of Directors. A long time and enthusiastic supporter of contemporary classical music, King's paying gig is as Press Secretary to Governor Tony Knowles.
HALE LOOFBOURROW - VIOLIN - is a Junior at Juneau-Douglas High School and is a violin student of Linda Rosenthal. He started violin at age seven and has also studied with Guo-Hua Xia and Lisa Ibias. Twice a winner of the Juneau Symphony Youth Concerto Competition, Hale received a Superior rating and a command performance at the Southeast Alaska Music Festival, was a 1999 winner of the Alaska Solo Competition and has received several scholarships from the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council. Hale is a member of the Alaska All-State Honor Orchestra, the Juneau Symphony, Concertmaster of the Juneau-Douglas High School Orchestra and was a member of the Fireweed String Quartet. This summer Hale attended BRAVO String Institute in Minneapolis, and he also has received training at the Indiana String Academy. An avid soccer player, he is on the high school soccer team and also enjoys running.
BILL PAULICK - FRENCH HORN - was hooked on the Horn following the Leonard Bernstein "Concerts for Young People" series of the 1960's. He started playing in the public school system of Whittier, California and continued studying privately for many years under Arthur Franz and later Philip Farkas. Bill played in various ensembles in the Los Angeles area, including regional honor bands, brass and woodwind quintets, and the Rio Hondo Symphony, conducted by Mehli Mehta. Following graduation from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1973, Bill settled in Juneau and has been active in brass and woodwind quintets, the Juneau Symphony and the Southeast Alaska Symphony in Ketchikan. In a 1984 partnership with Professor Farkas, Bill produced a two-hour video entitled "The Horn" for use as a surrogate instructor in rural areas. Distribution eventually included 14 countries around the world. Bill was president of the Juneau Symphony in 1986 and currently teaches horn and manages the Juneau Brass Quintet. He is owner/manager of Juneau Brass & Woodwinds, serving the repair, sales, and rental needs of Southeast Alaska brass and wind musicians.
SALLY SCHLICHTING - FLUTE and COORDINATOR of CrossSound '00 in Juneau - began playing flute at the age of ten in her home town, Juneau, Alaska. She played flute through high school, and attended music workshops and summer camps including Interlochen before continuing her music studies at the University of Southern California and the University of Washington, where she earned a degree in music in 1990. She has studied flute with Pamela Ryker, Mary Louise Poor, Felix Skowronek, Gary Woodward and Mel Flood. Ms. Schlichting currently enjoys a full life in music, playing regularly with the Juneau Symphony, the Nimbus Ensemble, the Dal Segno flute and guitar duo and especially with her aunt, pianist Mary Watson. She has been the concert coordinator for the Symphony Showcase chamber music concerts since 1995, and firmly believes there can not ever be too much chamber music in the world. She is delighted to have been a part of the inaugural performances of CrossSound.
DAVID SEID - CELLO - will listen to his mother in his next life and continue to play and practice his cello throughout school. After about 13 years of musical inactivity, including a degree in English and law school, he started playing again in Ketchikan. Two kids later, David is back in Juneau and loves to be asked to play with chamber groups and orchestras.
ROGER SCHMIDT - TROMBONE and COORDINATOR of CrossSound '00 in Sitka - grew up in his present home, Sitka. As a musician he has studied music at the Bruckner Konservatorium in Linz, Austria, at Oberlin Conservatory and at the Aspen Music Festival. His principal teachers have been Raymond Premru of the Philharmonia Orchestra and Paul Welcomer of the San Francisco Symphony. He has worked as a free lance musician in the San Francisco Bay area playing with various groups in a wide range of musical styles.
JOHN STAUB - BASS - a woodworker by trade, has played bass since his early teens in orchestras and chamber groups, in jazz and big bands and around gypsy campfires. John has been principal bassist for many years with the Juneau Symphony and has also performed in local jazz trios and with the Fiery Gypsies among other ensembles. "I like an instrument that can do it all." And, he's both base and vile.
STEVE TADA - VIOLIN - began playing the violin at the age of five through the Seattle Suzuki School under Mihiko Hirata. He later studied with Denes Zsigmondy at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has participated in many chamber concerts with the Bravura String Quartet and is now concertmaster of the Juneau Symphony in Juneau, Alaska.
RICK TROSTEL - TRUMPET experienced his first joy with music classes, choirs and piano lessons as a young student at Interlochen, National Music Camp (now National Arts Camp) where he spent five summers studying voice, drama, piano, trumpet, orchestra and band. Rick began playing trumpet at the age of ten and has studied with a number of teachers, most notably Ron Hassleman of the Minnesota Orchestra and Richard Pressley of the Seattle Symphony. Rick attended Oberlin College and where he received BA in Biology (in order to get a "real job.") After several years pursuing real jobs, music reared its beautiful head in the form of a music teaching job at a school in southwestern Alaska. More recently he has returned to studying conducting with Dr. William Jones of the University of Iowa and is contemplating a masters degree in conducting. Rick is executive director of a small music school in Juneau where he conducts and arranges music for three small student ensembles. He has also had the opportunity to conduct rehearsals of the Juneau Symphony for which he has been principal trumpet for the last seven seasons. In addition, Rick performs regularly as principal trumpet.