Wind Ensemble
Fri, December 5th, 2014
8:00 pm
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The Williams College Department of Music presents the Williams College Wind Ensemble in concert on Friday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. in Chapin Hall. This free event is open to the public.
The Williams College Wind Ensemble offers an exciting program that melds contemporary and traditional music for wind and percussion instruments. David Maslanka’s transcendent Give Us This Day: A Short Symphony is partnered with Pulitzer Prize winner Karel Husa’s powerful and intense Al Fresco. Also featured is the passionate neoromantic American composer Vittorio Giannini and his Symphony No. 3, as well as Adam Gorb’s charming and playful Eine Kleine Yiddshe Ragmusik.
The group’s leader, Matthew Marsit, is known as a conductor with a knack for programming. “My goal of this concert is to show the audience the variety of styles available for the wind ensemble. Each of these composers has a very unique voice and utilizes the ‘instrument’ of wind ensemble in a unique way.
About Matthew Marsit
An active conductor and clarinetist, Matthew M. Marsit has led ensembles and performed as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician throughout the U.S. He is currently on the artistic staff of the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts at Dartmouth College as Director of Bands. Marsit has previously held conducting positions with the Charles River Wind Ensemble, Cornell University, Drexel University, the Chestnut Hill Orchestra, the Bucks County Youth Ensembles, and the Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary. Marsit has served as a guest conductor, clinician and consultant for a great number of schools, institutions and festivals throughout the eastern United States, and has produced a recording project for the United States Military Academy West Point Band. He was recently named Artist in Residence in Winds and Music Director of the Williams College Wind Ensemble.