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Sunday, September 26, 2010, 7:00 pm
Bass Concert Hall
$15

Jerry F. Junkin, conductor
with special guests, Joseph Alessi, trombone and The Jim Cullum Jazz Band

Presented in partnership with the Butler School of Music

Conducted by Jerry Junkin, The University of Texas at Austin Wind Ensemble has firmly established itself as one of America’s elite wind bands. Since 1988, the group has been an active commissioner of new music for wind ensemble and has premiered works by composers such as John Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, Donald Grantham, David Maslanka, and Dan Welcher.

In this first program of the performance season, the UT Wind Ensemble continues its commitment to new work with the premiere of John Mackey’s Concerto for Trombone and Wind Ensemble, performed by Joseph Alessi, principal trombonist of the New York Philharmonic; and the premiere of the wind ensemble arrangement of Frank Ticheli’s Playing With Fire, featuring San Antonio’s own Jim Cullum Jazz Band.

The University of Texas Wind Ensemble debuted at the Napa Valley Festival del Sole during the summer of 2007 and maintains a relationship with IMG Artists. They appeared in concerts at major venues in England, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria and Spain during a seventeen-day tour in July of 2008. The UT Wind Ensemble records for the Reference, Klavier, and Naxos labels. Its CD Bells for Stokowski was named one of the Best Classical CDs of 2004 by The New York Times.

“The performance by Jerry Junkin and The University of Texas Wind Ensemble is just stellar. It is amazing to think that this is a college group.” SAM PLUTA, NEWMUSICBOX.COM

“...(Allesi’s) extraordinary accuracy and rhythmic dexterity…His variety of sound, from drainpipe low drones to trumpetlike high notes, was remarkable.” NEW YORK TIMES

“The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, in our estimation, is the best traditional band in the country, and quite possibly the world.” JAZZ-JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Joseph Alessi’s website

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