Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
The Youngstown State University Wind Ensemble and the YSU Dana School of Music Clarinet Ensemble have been selected to perform as guest artists at the 2011 Ohio Music Education Association/North Central National Association for Music Education Conference.
The performances will be Thursday and Friday in Cincinnati’s Duke Energy Convention Center.
More than 150 musical ensembles submitted CD recordings for performance consideration, and this year three university concert bands were chosen: Northern Kentucky University Wind Ensemble, Ohio State University Wind Symphony and the YSU Wind Ensemble.
The YSU Wind Ensemble, consisting of 52 of the top woodwind, brass and percussion students in the Dana School of Music, has a rich history of feature performances, including numerous OMEA conventions, College Band Directors National Association conferences, National Association for Music Education conventions and a premier performance in New York’s Carnegie Hall for the 2005 New York Wind Band Convention.
The group has six critically acclaimed CD recordings.
Brandt Payne, director of athletic bands and assistant professor of music, will guest conduct the Wind Ensemble on this tour. Payne is in his first year on the Dana faculty, and he recently earned the DMA in Conducting at Arizona State University.
The Dana Clarinet Ensemble consists of 20 Dana clarinet majors. Alice Wang, conductor of the ensemble, is in her fourth year as assistant professor of clarinet in the Dana School of Music. She came to YSU in 2007 after completing the DMA in Clarinet Performance at the University of Texas, Austin.
She is a member of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and is principal clarinet in the Warren Philharmonic.