2022 Western Horn Festival

1020 Simpkins Circle,Macomb IL 61455

03 April, 2022

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2022 Western Horn Festival featuring guest artist, Dr. Katie Johnson-Webb The 2022 Western Horn Festival will be in person event featuring a group warmup, masterclasses, horn choir, interactive sessions, and performances by our guest artist and attendees. This year's featured guest artist is Dr. Katie Johnson-Webb, Professor of Horn at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Other artists include Stasia Siena, Joanne Chang, Dr. Randall Faust, and WIU Horn Professor, Dr. Jena Gardner. All ages and abilities are welcome! This event is hosted by Dr. Jena Gardner and sponsored by the WIU Horn Institute. Schedule:9 am | Group Warmup | Dr. Jena Gardner 10 am | Horn Festival Choir Rehearsal | Dr. Randall Faust 11 am | Guest Artist Masterclass with Roger Collins Award Finalists | Dr. Katie Johnson-Webb 12:30 pm | Lunch 1:30 pm | Alexander Technique for Horn Players | Stasia Siena 2:30 pm | Break 3:00 pm | Final Concert | Dr. Katie Johnson-Webb, horn; Joanne Chang, piano, & the WIU Horn Festival Choir Artist Biographies:Dr. Katie Johnson Web Katie Johnson-Webb is the Associate Professor of Horn at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She excels as a flexible, thoughtful, and active performer of solo repertoire, chamber music, and orchestral literature. In past years, Katie was selected to perform with the Aspen Summer Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado, the Kent/Blossom Music Festival in Kent, Ohio, and the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado. She frequently joins the horn section of the Knoxville Symphony. As a soloist, she has been heard in recitals at the 2018 International Horn Symposium at Ball State University, the 2016 International Horn Symposium at Ithaca College, and the 2015 International Horn Symposium at the Colburn School. Additionally, she has given recitals and masterclasses at universities across the United States and Canada. Johnson-Webb can been heard with pianist Kirstin Ihde on her CD, La Loba, which was released on the Summit Brass label. As an active chamber musician, Johnson-Webb is a member of the Tennessee Brass Quintet and a founding member of the Cobalt Horn Quartet, winners of the 2018 International Horn Society Horn Quartet Competition – Professional Division. She has presented research on incorporating ear training in private teaching at the 2015 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, IL. She has presented similar lectures at the 2017 and 2016 Southeast Horn Workshops and the 2015 Northeast Horn Workshop. Johnson-Webb completed her undergraduate studies in music and political science at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. She completed the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While completing the Master of Music degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she was awarded a Bolz Fellowship. In 2018, she was awarded a grant from the American Scandinavian Foundation to collaborate with Norwegian hornist and pedagogue, Frøydis Ree Wekre in Oslo, Norway. - Dr. Randall Faust Randall Faust served as Professor of music at Western Illinois University from 1997 until May 2018--where his teaching areas included Applied Horn, Brass Chamber Music, and Music Theory and hornist of the Camerata Woodwind Quintet and the LaMoine Brass Quintet. Previously, he held appointments at Auburn University (Alabama) and Shenandoah Conservatory of Music (Virginia) where he taught a full range of music courses including Applied Horn, Composition, Music Theory, Electronic Music, and Brass Chamber Music. From 1985-2008, he was on the summer faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. He holds degrees from the University of Iowa, Minnesota State University-Mankato, and Eastern Michigan University and studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy - Interlochen Honors Musicianship Project. Faust's composition teachers include Rolf Scheurer, Warren Benson, Anthony Iannaccone, Peter Tod Lewis, and Donald Jenni. He has been the recipient of the ASCAPlus Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers every year since 1990. Detailed information on the compositions of Randall Faust may be found at www.faustmusic.com. His current work entails maintaining a private studio, traveling nationally and internationally presenting master classes and recitals, and working on a wide variety of commissions and composition projects. - Dr. Jena Gardner Jena Gardner, DMA, is the Assistant Professor of Horn at Western Illinois University. She is also the advisor for WIU’s music performance majors and the director of the WIU Community Music School. In addition to teaching, she is an active soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player throughout the state of Illinois and the United States. Dr. Gardner has performed extensively around the world including tours in Europe, Mexico, Japan, and the United States. She has been a guest section member with the Chicago Lyric Opera, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Steamboat Springs Festival Orchestra horn sections and was acting 2nd and 4th horn of the Louisiana Philharmonic orchestra for the 2012 and 2013 seasons respectively. Dr. Gardner is a passionate chamber musician and can be heard performing with the faculty ensembles at WIU: the Camerata Woodwind Quintet and the Lamoine Brass Quintet .. She is one of four horn players in the Cobalt Quartet, professional division winners of the 2018 International Horn Society’s Horn Quartet Competition. The Cobalt Quartet performs regularly at international conferences and universities across the United States. From 2010-2015 she was a member of the Arabesque Winds. With that ensemble, she performed concerts and master classes at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, the Sanibel Music Festival, the Wooster Chamber Music Festival and many others. In 2021, Dr. Gardner was awarded a summer research stipend by the Western Illinois University Foundation and the Office of Sponsored Projects. The project, Overuse Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation in Brass Pedagogy, was presented at the International Horn Society’s 53rd international conference. In addition to this lecture and article on the same topic, Dr. Gardner received a certification in the Essentials of Performing Arts Medicine and now curates the website BrassInjury.com, providing a number of resources to musicians, students, and educators. As an educator and performer, Dr. Gardner is interested in a holistic philosophy of music performance. She frequently integrates anatomy, wellness, and other special topics into her horn pedagogy. As a recipient of the Early Music America Summer Study Scholarship in 2016, Dr. Gardner attended the Natural Horn Workshop at Indiana University, studying with Dr. Richard Seraphinoff. Previously, she has participated in the Lucerne Festival Academy, the Youth Orchestras of America, New York String Orchestra Seminar, and the Pacific Music Festival. From 2007-09, Dr. Gardner was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and had the privilege to perform under the batons of Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez, Mark Elder, Esa-pekka Salonen and many others. Dr. Gardner completed a Doctor of Musical Arts at Northwestern University under the guidance of Gail Williams and Jon Boen and was involved in presenting the 2016 and 2017 Peak Performance Horn Symposiums. She holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in horn performance from Carnegie Mellon University and Northwestern University respectively. Her principal teachers have included Gail Williams, Jon Boen, Bill Caballero, Dave Krehbiel, and Jennie Blomster. - Stasia Siena “Stasia Siena is a world-class teacher of the Alexander Technique. Beyond her technical skill in the Alexander work, she is a beautiful singer and naturally gifted teacher. Stasia is ideally suited to lead a program on the Alexander Technique for performing artists. In addition to her skills as a teacher, she has an in-depth knowledge of musical performance in all of its varying forms. She understands how to work with a flute player or a string player equally as well as a clarinetist, guitarist, trombonist, actor or singer. It stands in her favor that she is not a musical specialist in -- or a teacher of -- one particular instrument. Instead, Stasia can work with performers from any department and help them improve their artistry.” - Michael J. Gelb, Author of Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique Trained as a singing actor, Stasia Forsythe Siena, has a special interest in the Alexander Technique and wellness in the performing arts. She has served on the music faculties of Indiana University, Milliken University, DePauw University and the University of Illinois School of Music. She is currently an Artist Faculty member at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts, where she teaches group classes in the Alexander Technique to musicians and actors. Over the past sixteen years, Stasia has presented the Alexander Technique in university, conservatory and master class settings throughout the United States and abroad. She teaches the Alexander Technique every summer to some of the world’s finest French horn players at Kendall Betts Horn Camp on the shores of Lake Ogontz in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire. (https://horncamp.org) Stasia has been teaching the AT for over twenty years. She received her Alexander Technique teaching certification from Joan and Alexander Murray at the Urbana Center for the Alexander Technique. She was an assisting teacher before joining the UCAT faculty and was appointed Co-Director of the UCAT teacher training program in 2017. Stasia is well-versed in The Dart Procedures, which were developed by Joan and Alexander Murray in collaboration with the esteemed neuroanatomist and anthropologist Raymond Dart. The Dart Procedures use developmental movement patterns to illuminate and underscore principles of the Alexander Technique. Stasia draws on other innovative teaching tools, including Body Mapping, to help her students move with ease and perform optimally. Stasia holds an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a master’s degree from Indiana University. Diagnosed with scoliosis in her late teens, Stasia has a lifelong interest in holistic health and mind/body wellness. She sought out the Alexander Technique while struggling to recover from debilitating injuries resulting from a serious car accident in 1996. Since then, she has continued to explore a broad spectrum of somatic approaches. She is a 200-hour registered yoga teacher (RYT) and a certified Scolio-Pilates practitioner. (https://osteopilates.com/our-team/stasia-siena/). She is an active member of AmSAT (American Society for the Alexander Technique). Stasia resides in Champaign, Illinois with her husband, Jerold Siena, and two children. She enjoys music, travel, practicing yoga and long walks with her three dogs. - Joanne Chang Described for her captivating and poetic musical interpretations, Malaysian pianist, Joanne Chang has performed and taught internationally in Asia, North America, and Europe. She has been featured on WQXR's Young Artist Showcase (New York), WFMT's Fiesta Latin America (Chicago), International Menuhin Music Academy (Switzerland), BFM's Front Row Podcast (Kuala Lumpur), Indiana University's Latin American Music Center (Bloomington), and the National Youth Orchestra of China (Beijing), among others. Recent success and upcoming projects include recitals and debut CD Diálogos (2018) featuring Mexican violin and piano music with Alan Snow (Concertmaster, Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra), presentations at MTNA National Conference and Collegiate Symposium, lecture recital at the 2019 UCSI University Piano Pedagogy Symposium (Kuala Lumpur), paper presentation and publication at the 2020 9th Hawaii University International Conference, and chamber performances at North America, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Prior to joining WIU as Faculty Assistant – Staff Accompanist, Joanne held teaching positions at Indiana University and Florida State University. At IU, Joanne served as Associate Instructor in Piano and program assistant to the Secondary Piano and Accompanying Departments. Joanne is president/founder of the Music Teachers National Association MTNA Collegiate Chapter at IU, established Fall 2019. During the summer, Joanne is faculty member at Camp Encore/Coda (Maine) and collaborative pianist at the International Menuhin Music Academy (Switzerland). An ABD candidate in Piano Performance and Literature at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Joanne holds Minors in Music Theory and Arts Administration. Joanne received a MM degree in piano from Florida State University, a BM (summa cum laude) in piano from Kent State University, alongside an honors thesis written on French piano duet music. Joanne is currently working on a written project titled "Franz Liszt: The Bridge to Modernism." Joanne's primary teachers are Karen Shaw, Read Gainsford, Jerry Wong, Patricia Lim, and studied additionally with Menahem Pressler and Olga Sitkovetsky. For more information, please visit www.joannechangpiano.com Roger Collins AwardThis award is in memory of ROGER COLLINS - The founding Hornist of the Camerata Woodwind Quintet and Horn Professor at Western Illinois University from 1966-1997. All High School students are encouraged to apply. Rules Applicants must be current high school school students and registered for the 2022 Western Horn Festival.Up to 5 finalists will be selected to perform a 5-7 minute solo of your choice on the Western Horn Festival Guest Artist Master ClassWinners will be selected by a panel of adjudicators including Western Horn Festival guest artists and Dr. Jena Gardner, (Assistant Professor of Horn at western Illinois University).Up to two winners will be chosen to receive the Roger Collins Award and a $100 cash prize.Interested? Check the "Yes" box indicating your application when you register!