THE 2006

Robert Nash Memorial Lenten Recital Series

Calvary Episcopal Church

March 22, 2006 12:05 p.m.

Michael Tunnell, Corno da caccia

Bruce Heim, Corno da caccia

Assisted by

J. Patrick Rafferty, Violin

Dominic Rotella, French horn

Michael Swope, Fluegelhorn

Margaret Dickinson, organ

Calvary Episcopal Church

821 South Fourth Street

Louisville, KY 40203

The Rev. J. Edward Morris, Rector

Melvin and Margaret Dickinson, Musicians

Telephone: 587-6011; Fax: 587-6012;

e-mail and web:calvaryepiscopal.org

THE PROGRAM

Concerto in D for solo violin and three horns

Georg Phillipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Allegro

Grave

Presto

Symphony for four Corni Johann Melchior Molter (1695-1765)

Allegro

Menuett

Allegro

Concerto in F Johann D. Heinichen (1683-1729)

Allegro

Andante piu meno un poco allegro

Presto

Concerto in F RV 538 Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Allegro

Largo

Allegro non molto

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Today we welcome three faculty members and two graduate students from the University of Louisville as our guest artists. Particularly interesting are the brass instruments used in today’s concert. Please realize that the two Cornio da caccia (hunting horns) are the only pair in the United States, and it’s not often that you can hear a Fluegelhorn!

Michael Tunnell has been Professor of Trumpet at the University of Louisville School of Music since 1988 where he performs with Louisville Brass and conducts the Trumpet Ensemble. The University of Louisville awarded Tunnell the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003. Tunnell performs as Principal Trumpet with the Louisville Bach Society and as Auxiliary Trumpet with the Louisville Orchestra. A founding member of the brass quintet Sonus Brass, Tunnell has toured the Far East and South America with this group and as a soloist. He also is a founding member of the Derby City Brass Band. In addition, he is featured on the Mark Records CD Sonus Brass Captured as well as four solo recordings: Mixed Doubles, Melancholia, and Lumen, on the Coronet label, and Passages on the Centaur label. He can also be heard on the Sinfonia da Camera of Illinois recording of the Saint-Saens Septet and on numerous Louisville Orchestra First Edition recordings. Tunnell is a former member of the music faculties of the University of Southern Mississippi, SUNY-Potsdam College, the University of Illinois and the New England Music Camp. Tunnell is a member of the International Trumpet Guild Board of Directors, and he served as an editor for the ITG Journal from 1978-2000. In the summer of 1999 Tunnell was a featured artist at Lieksa Brass Week in Lieksa, Finland, and in July, 2001 he was a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. He served on the Artist Faculty of the 2002 and 2003 National Trumpet Competitions and is an artist-clinician for Kanstul Trumpets. Tunnell’s degrees are from the University of Tennessee (Bachelor of Music, 1976), The University of Louisville (Master of Music, 1978), and the University of Southern Mississippi (Doctor of Musical Arts, 1982). His teachers include Leon Rapier, Allan Cox, Arnold Jacobs, Adolph Herseth and Armando Ghitalla.

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Bruce Heim is the Horn Professor at the University of Louisville and a member of Sonus Brass. Soon after graduation from The Juilliard School in 1974, he was appointed Principal Horn of the Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra. He has served on the faculties of Louisiana State University, University of Missouri, Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, and the Sewanee (Tennessee) Summer Music Festival. As a chamber musician, he has performed at music festivals in Italy, Germany, the Republic of China (Taiwan), Venezuela, and many states of the U.S. Mr. Heim has frequently performed and recorded with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, including their 1993 and 1998 European tours and numerous East Coast tours. As a member of Sonus Brass, he has performed extensively throughout the United States, the Far East, and South America. Their first compact disc, "Captured: Sonus Brass!" was released to unanimous critical praise by the five major brass magazines and the American Record Guide. Sonus Brass has been a featured ensemble at International Trumpet Guild (1999, 2001) and International Tuba and Euphonium Association (formerly T.U.B.A., 1992) conferences. In addition to teaching the horn students at the UofL, he directs the UofL Horn Ensemble, coaches chamber music, performs regularly with the faculty wind and brass quintets, and teaches music theory. Professor Heim has a graduate degree in music theory from the University of Tulsa. An interest in the study of musical intonation and tuning systems formed the basis of the topic for his master’s thesis. This document continues to be circulated among instrumentalists and conductors who share a curiosity about the intricacies of the subject of intonation and how to teach it more effectively.