AMEA 2010 Clinicians and Performers Gene Fambrough,
DMA, is currently Assistant Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Percussion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. He holds degrees from The University of Georgia, East Carolina University, and The University of Alabama. He directs the UAB Percussion Ensemble, Steel Band, Electro-Acoustic Percussion Group, serves as percussion arranger and instructor for the UAB Marching Blazers, and is assistant conductor for the UAB Wind Symphony and Symphony Band. A published composer, he has written works for many different mediums, including solo marimba, multiple percussion with tape, marimba quartet, percussion ensemble, and various forms of rudimental percussion. As a performer, he has appeared with the Alabama Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, Panama Steel, The Bizarre Arte Ensemble, and the Spirit of Atlanta drum and bugle corps. Dr. Fambrough’s articles have appeared in Percussive otes and The Instrumentalist. He has also presented lectures on the use of non-traditional notation for multiple percussion solos, including techniques utilized by Stockhausen, Feldman, and Xenakis. Prior to his appointment at UAB, he spent three years in public school education as both assistant band director and band director at Oak Grove High School in Bessemer, Alabama. His professional affiliations include the Percussive Arts Society, Music Educators National Conference, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Pi Kappa Lambda. He is a clinician/endorser for Sabian Cymbals, Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets, and Black Swamp accessories.
The Baker High School Band is located in Mobile, AL.
The program has received many
awards and accolades throughout its history, including performing at the Loyola University Invitational Band Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana with composer Phillip Sparke in 2007, many years of superior ratings at the Alabama Bandmasters Association Music Performance Assessment, many years of superior ratings in area and regional marching contests, and at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2004. Students in the Baker High School Band Program participate in the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band. Both bands along with the color guard, dance team, and drum
line combine to form the award winning “Pride” of Baker High School Marching Band. The Jazz program features the Baker Jazz Band that meets regularly from November to May. The Baker Jazz Band has participated in the University of South Alabama Jazz Festival and the Mississippi State Jazz Festival where it has won the “Outstanding Performance” award. Baker High School band students are active in the Mobile County Honor Band and the Alabama Bandmasters Association All-State Band Festival and Solo and Ensemble Festival. Students actively participate in various instrumental honors ensemble festivals and clinics throughout Alabama and the surrounding states. Causey Middle School under the direction of Chester Bean, Phillips Preparatory School under the direction of Heather Moore, as well as other area middle schools and parochial schools, send fine musicians to the Baker High School Band Program annually.
The University Singers
is the School of Music’s premiere choral ensemble and consists of 40 auditioned singers. University Singers has performed three times at the internationally-renown Spivey Hall of Atlanta, Georgia. Major works in the past five years include Bach‘s Johannespassion, Brahms Ein deutches Requiem, Orff Carmina burana, and the Verdi Requiem. The 2010 season will include performances of Britten’s Cantata misericordium and Duruflé’s Requiem. Most recently, University Singers and the University Wind Ensemble premiered Enterprise, a commissioned composition by Hollywood composer/orchestator/arranger, Ira Hearshen. This work commemorated the death of seven Enterprise High School students during the tornado of 2007, and the inaugural recording will be released on the NAXOS label in January 2010. University Singers have been included in concerts with Ward Swingle, James Earl Jones, Della Reese, and William Warfield, have made two recordings of the 40-year tradition, Hilaritas, three premieres of choral pieces at the SCI 1992 National Conference, and an appearance at the 1994 Southern Regional ACDA Convention in Knoxville.
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