AMEA 2011 Clinicians and Performers
Oak Mountain High School is located in Shelby County, Alabama. The band program is nationally recognized having had groups within it invited to perform for a variety of national and state-wide events.Most notably are the invitations extended by Percussive Arts Society to the Percussion Ensemble, to perform at their international convention in 2007, and the invitation extended to theWind Ensemble and Symphonic Band to perform at Carnegie Hall in 2010.Membership in the band programis an elective course,with individuals placed in appropriate groupings based on an individual audition. There are four of these groupings within the program as a whole. These groupings areWind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Jazz Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble.With the addition of the visual groups, all band students are also part of the Oak Mountain “Spirit of Cahaba” Marching Band.The Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band are the concert bands of the Oak Mountain program. These
bands perform expressive and challenging music that stretches each individual member to achieve a higher level of musicianship. Performances by these groups are time and again experiences in musical banquets where the audiences are the guests of honor. On an individual level, members of the band can be found performing with state-wide honor bands hosted by various colleges and the Alabama BandmastersAssociation. Thesemembers very often are rated as the top players which is indicative of the players’ talents as well as the quality of the band program. Individual members are sought after by universities across the southeast for the quality of musicianship and leadership inherent to members of the OakMountain program.
PatrickK. Freer
isAssociate Professor and Coordinator ofMusic Education atGeorgia StateUniversitywhere he conducts the University Men’s Chorus. Dr. Freer holds degrees from Westminster Choir College and Teachers College, Columbia University. He is the author of Getting Started with Middle-Level Choir, the DVD series Success for Adolescent Singers: Unlocking the Potential in Middle School Choirs, and many articles in the field’s leading journals. Dr. Freer is a frequent guest conductor for all-state and regional honors choruses and has presented at numerous national and international conferences. He is currentlyAcademic Editor and Chair of the Editorial Board for Music Educators Journal.
The Troy University Band Program is a comprehensive, student-oriented, multi- faceted organization that encourages participation from all disciplines and academic majors on the university campus. In addition to performing in the renowned “Sound of the South”Marching Band, auditions are held each semester for the opportunity to perform in the Symphony Band and Chamber Winds (the recording and touring ensemble), three Concert Bands, two jazz ensembles (big band), three jazz combos, the Basketball Pep Band, and various small ensembles. The Symphony Band is comprised of the top fifty-five wind and percussion students in the Long School of Music. This premiere group has recently released its second compact disc recording in association withGrammy-nominated and Telly award-winning composer StephenMelillo entitled:
“Stormworks, Chapter 13:Whispers in theWind” available on digital download sites such as ITunes and CDBaby. Since 2001, this ensemble has been under the baton of every living member and inductee of the National Band Association’s Hall of Fame of Distinguished Conductors. Over the years, the band has performed at the national conventions of the American Bandmasters Association, the College BandDirectorsNationalAssociation, theMusic EducatorsNational Conference, theWomen BandDirectors International, Alabama Bandmasters Association and is the featured band at the annual Southeastern United States Concert Band Clinic. The band is open by audition only at the beginning of each semester. The band gives numerous concerts year-round, and tours extensively throughout the southeast during the spring semester.
As head of Retirement Systems ofAlabama,David Bronner
has gained national attention for his staggering financial successes and high profile, lucrative investments in office buildings in Montgomery, Mobile and New York. He has also invested in eight luxury hotels and conference centers in Alabama and in Raycom Media, owner of 43 television stations, and Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., which owns more than 160 newspapers. But Bronner is most proud ofAlabama's Robert Trent JonesGolf Trail,which has landed the state among the top golf destinationsworldwide and helped growAlabama tourism to a $9.6 billion industry.With assets in excess of $28 billion, RSAserves more than 325,000 public employees and retirees and is the world's 86th largest private/public pension fund.
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