AMEA 2012 Performers
The Liberty Park Middle School Symphonic Band is comprised of all 7th
and 8th Vestavia Hills, Alabama.
grade band students at Liberty Park Middle School in The ensemble, consisting of eighty-six
musicians, is unique because it meets as four different “sectional” classes each school day, allowing for a more individualized approach to the music. The symphonic band has consistently received superior ratings at the Alabama Music Performance Assessment since the school opened in 2008 and has been noted by judges as having a “powerful” and “well-blended” sound. Under the direction of Travis Bender, the band program at LPMS has grown to include over one hundred forty musicians in a school population just under five hundred. The majority of band students at Liberty Park participate in additional music activities outside of school including Solo and Ensemble Festival, All- State, and various honor bands.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville Chamber Choir began as a student-run ensemble in the early 2000s. It was created by a group of young and ambitious music majors and non-majors seeking to expand their knowledge of the choral repertoire. By 2005, the ensemble became a legitimate part of the choral program at UAHuntsville, specializing in a cappella music from all time periods. Erin Colwitz became their conductor in fall of 2008. Currently, the UAHuntsville Chamber Choir is the elite, most highly selective choir on campus.
This group also serves as ambassadors for the University—often performing at University functions. They also appear regularly at local high schools in order to recruit
and attract new singers to the program. They specialize in very difficult music, primarily unaccompanied. Most recently, they appeared on UAHuntsville’s New Music Festival, premiering new works by Curtis Lindsay (UAH student) and Julian Bryson (Huntsville music teacher). They plan to tour Los Angeles this spring.
The Auburn University Symphonic Winds, conducted by Director of Bands and Professor of Music, Dr. Rick Good, is the premier performing ensemble of the Auburn University Bands. A select group of 55 players, the Symphonic Winds perform a broad and diverse repertoire of standard and contemporary band literature along with occasional transcriptions. In recent years, this group has performed numerous times for Alabama Bandmasters Association events, and has undertaken tours within the southern region of the United States each spring. Of special note, the ensemble applied and has been accepted by the United States – China Cultural and Educational Foundation to The People’s Republic of China for a ten- day performance tour, March 2012. Membership in the AU Symphonic Winds is by audition and is open to any Auburn student regardless of major.
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