Date and time
Saturday, April 8, 2023 · 9am - 4pm CDT
Location
COFAC Recital Hall
1020 Simpkins Circle Macomb, IL 61455
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About this event
The 2023 Western Horn Festival will feature a fun day of horn related activities: a group warmup, masterclasses, horn choir, Musician's Yoga, and performances by our guest artist and attendees. This year’s featured guest artist is Dr. Lin Foulk Baird, professor of horn at Western Michigan University. Other artists include Stasia Siena, Yeon-kyung Kim, 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 and the Performing Arts Society.
Schedule:
9 am | Group Warmup | Dr. Jena Gardner
10 am | Yoga for Musicians | Stasia Siena
11 am | Guest Artist Masterclass with Roger Collins Award Finalists | Dr. Lin Foulk Baird
12:30 pm | Lunch
1:30 pm | Horn Festival Choir Rehearsal | Dr. Randall Faust
2:30 pm | Break
3:00 pm | Final Concert | Dr. Lin Foulk Baird, horn; Yeon-Kyung Kim, piano, & the WIU Horn Festival Choir
Roger Collins Award for High School Hornists
This 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 2023 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 Class.
Winners 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!
Artist Biographies:
Dr. Lin Foulk Baird
“The horn player, Lin Foulk, was particularly marvelous, showing warmth of tone and purity of pitch, even during the most difficult of passages.” New York Concert Review
Lin Foulk Baird is Professor of Horn at Western Michigan University, where she teaches horn and performs with the Western Brass Quintet and Western Wind Quintet. She has performed with Boston Brass, Monarch Brass, and as a soloist at five International Horn Symposia (including Valencia, Spain). In Michigan, she often performs with the Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestras. She has served as Principal Horn with the Oshkosh and Manitowoc Symphony Orchestras, was a member of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra (with which she toured the Netherlands) and has frequently performed as substitute and extra musician with the Milwaukee and Madison Symphony Orchestras. With the Western Brass Quintet she has performed in Carnegie Hall in New York City; in Bangkok, Thailand; Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia; Chengdu, China; and at universities across the United States. She performed and presented classes in Chengdu, China; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; and Bogota, Colombia with the Western Wind Quintet. During the summer, she teaches horn and chamber music at the Kendall Betts Horn Camp in New Hampshire and at Seminar, WMU’s high school summer music camp.
Especially interested in music with horn by female composers, Dr. Baird has performed and presented lectures on works by women and female performers at universities and festivals throughout the United States. Her first compact disc, “Four Elements: Works for Horn and Piano by Female Composers,” was originally released in 2004 and recently digitally re-released on Centaur Records in 2021. She has also published an annotated guide to works for horn and piano by female composers and a website at www.linfoulkbaird.org, which lists over 2,000 works with horn by female composers. She has served on the Board of the International Women’s Brass Conference (she co-hosted the IWBC Conference in 2012) and the International Alliance for Women in Music, in which she organized IAWM’s annual concert for three seasons (in Washington, D. C.; Miami, FL; and Fullerton, CA).
Recent projects include creating improvised chamber music. After receiving a year-long sabbatical leave to explore the subject in 2013-14, she performed a fully improvised concert with the Momentary Quartet at the International Society for Improvised Music Conference in New York City in 2014. She has presented masterclasses on creating music spontaneously at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Illinois, and the Kendall Betts Horn Camp. She created a popular class at WMU called “Improvisation for Classical Musicians.” In August 2015 she co-presented with WMU horn students a session on improvised music at the International Horn Symposium in Los Angeles.
Dr. Baird received the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her principal teachers include Douglas Hill, Nancy Cochran, Laurence Lowe, and Bruce Heim. Originally from Macon, Missouri, she has dedicated herself to music since her teens, receiving the Governor’s Scholar Award (sponsored attendance at the Interlochen Arts Camp) in 1994 and a National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Award in 1993.
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 coordinates the Health & Wellness team for CCPA's Center for Arts Leadership and 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.
Yeon-Kyung Kim
Pianist Yeon-Kyung Kim is from South Korea and enjoys diverse branches she can explore with her classical piano training. Currently, she is in the final phase of Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Her teachers include James Tocco at CCM, Emile Naoumoff at Indiana University, who was the last student of Nadia Boulanger, Christopher Harding at the University of Michigan, and Aviram Reichert at Seoul National University. She has been a scholarship recipient throughout her music education. Most recently, she was appointed as a staff pianist at Western Illinois University.
Yeon-Kyung regularly performs as a solo pianist and a chamber musician. She performed at multiple venues at CCM, in Northern and Southern Indiana, Detroit Metropolitan area including Ann Arbor, and in Seoul, South Korea. During her study in Michigan, she featured at Max M. Fisher Hall in Detroit for the Beethoven Sonata Marathon of Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She also presented at masterclasses for John O’Conor, André Watts, Peter Takács, Norman Krieger, Sphinx Quartet, Warren Jones, and Jonathan Feldman.
As an avid chamber musician, Yeon-Kyung finds a true joy of intertwining the music and idea of different people on the same page. Also, as a true collaborator who listens and reacts, she has performed extensively both with instrumentalists and vocalists. She is a 1st prize winner in Chamber music at Seoul Art Concours, where she played as an initial member of Quartet Y. Yeon-Kyung also served as a rehearsal pianist at CCM Opera under the supervision of Marie-France Lefebvre and Kathy Kelly, where she performed William Bolcom’s Dinner At Eight in two piano version. Her coaches include Kenneth Griffths, Anne Epperson, and Amy Cheng, to name a few. She was invited to a residency in Centenary College in Louisiana to perform and work on Korean art songs with their voice student. She also collaborates with large ensembles. She frequently played with MUSE, a women’s choir in Cincinnati, and was invited to collaborate with the CCM Wind Symphony for three consecutive semesters as a soloist on Hindemith, Bernstein, and Messiaen, and a keyboardist on numerous works by non-European, female, and living composers.
Yeon-Kyung believes that classical music should come closer to people in a more active way, and classical music is relevant. She performed at numerous outreach concerts for Michigan community including Michigan Performance Outreach Workshop. In Cincinnati, she directed concerts where she brought new musicians of the conservatory and presented to the city audience to break the barrier. To better serve this mission, she founded a non-profit organization, Glow Music. More concerts that connect local young artists and the community members are being planned.
Yeon-Kyung is an experienced teacher in a group piano classroom and a private teaching studio. During her time at CCM Secondary Piano Department, not only has she taught multiple group piano classes and private lessons for music majors and non-music majors, she also created a new syllabus for an online course. Currently, she is maintaining a private teaching studio of young musicians. Her passion and curiosity in teaching led her to study piano pedagogy with Dr. Michelle Conda. Moreover, she presented her research on teaching Leonard Bernstein’s Anniversaries at national and regional conferences by Frances Clark Center (NCKP) and Music Teachers Association (OMTA, SWOMTA). She also presented at the MTNA National Conference as a CCM Collegiate Chapter. Most recently, her article on asynchronous teaching video was featured in American Music Teacher (Aug/Sep 2022), a peer-reviewed journal of MTNA.
Having realized the importance of educating young musicians as well-rounded artists, she spent three consecutive summers at Indiana University Piano Academy (IUPA) as a live-in counselor. At IUPA, she developed her perspective about piano camps and leadership by acting as a residential supervisor of students and other counselors, coaching students’ practice sessions, and observing countless masterclasses. She also spent a year in Winona Lake, Indiana, demonstrating her administrative skills at the MasterWorks Festival as a festival assistant and a publicity assistant.
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