Show u liim s Unaasle oo ' CM CO CM All drammad mil than first place in the division in which he was entered” This year Cangelosi won first place in college keyboard wo Utah State University mallets and in snare drum He also performed in the music graduates and a Logan High School graduate are department’s annual Concerto featured soloists in the final Concert performing a concerpercussion conceit of the year to for marimba that he comat Utah State on Monday posed — the first student to April 26 Under the direction play his own concerto Griffin of percussion program head said Dennis Griffin the concert Titensor won first place in the Idaho state solo festival as begins at 7:30 pm in the a high school percussionist : Morgan Theatre of the Chase Fine Arts Center and he has placed second in Concert admission is $5 at the Utah Percussion Festival the door and USU students for the past two years In with current ID are admitted addition to soloing for the free percussion concert Titensor Utah State percussionists will be featured in a major concerto for percussion with Casey Cangelosi of Logan and Tyson Titensor of Preston Utah State’s Wind Orchestra in a performance Friday April began percussion study with Griffin as elementary school 23 in the Kent Concert Hall students They have gone on (See sidebar) to become the most outstand- The concluding percussion concert features Cangelosi ing percussionists Utah State has produced to date Griffin and Titensor in several works said Both have captured Griffin said The entire perawards at the Utah Percussion cussion ensemble will reprise Festival an annual event with the “Second Marimba 200 competing percussionists ' Concerto” by Ney Rosauro who performed the work last Cangelosi recently captured first place honors at the November in Logan at the national Music Teachers Eccles Theatre with the Utah State Percussion Ensemble National Association percus-sio-n This time around the soloists competition will be Cangelosi Titensor ‘‘Casey began playing at the and Logan High student iy Utah Percussion Festival as a middle school student” Whitesides each of whom Griffin said “In the years will perform one movement ' since he has never won less of the concerto and d8nee Senior and the veteran lltah State University T c Q O c bands Uhost professional trumpet player Adam Rapa in concert O with the Wind Orchestra at U 7:30 pan on Friday April o 23 Utah State student and E senior percussionist Tyson Titensor will also be featured o in the performance at the Kent Concert Hall of the 2 Chase Fine Arts Center Tickets are available at the a) door and admission is $3 with a family rate of $10 All students are admitted free Guest trumpeter Rapa was CM bom in Boston Mass where a he began playing the trumpet at age 11 By age 14 he was playing professionally He was the featured trumpeter in Vie Massachusetts Band the Grammy band and other scholastic ensembles He was soprano trumpet soloist with the East Coast Jazz Drum and Bugle Corps for seven years from 1994 to 2000 Also included in concert is percussionist Titensor performing Joseph Schwantner’s “Percussion Concerto” The work is recognized as one of the most significant recent works for solo percussion and large ensemble and was premiered by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in I p xa' c a £ All-Sta- te Graduating seniors Casey Cangelosi left Tyson Titensor and high schooler Tyler Whitesides will all be featured in the spring percussion concert this Monday Titensor will also perform “Concerto for Timpani and Percussion Ensemble”by John Beck and Cangelosi will perform “Marimba Spiritual” by Minoru Miki accompanied by members of the Caine Percussion Ensemble ' Whitesides has composed a wok for solo marimba and two percussionists that' will be an exciting addition to the concert Griffin said Mike Barlow from Logan High and Robyn Peterson from Sky View High will assist him ' The Cache Valley Percussion Ensemble will also perform 1994 all day baby: Cache Chamber orchestra performs Sunday All-volunt- eer Cache Chamber Orchestra an The concert opens with a piece that where she was the Sterling Scholar repmusihew to Cache Valley audiences is will in She a music resentative play groupof community cians ends its concert season with an “Oriental Festival March” by Carl concertino by the French composer Chiminade ' Nielsen event that highlights high school musi-cia' ‘The orchestra wants to give the announced conductor and direc- All three of the works the students student soloists and a guest Three - tor Robert Frost The in d full will perforin are for orchestras and audience some pew experiences and are featured perforyear-enconceit is Sunday April 23 and begins at 7:30 that’s why I picked this piece to open mance vrith the Cache Chamber 'are significant works in the solo neper- -' ' Hall said Kent the in Concert the the Frost for toire each of conceit” Frost said instrument Orchestra on Sunday pm ' Fourteen-year-o“We showcase students because we Chase Fine Arts Center at Utah State The major work of the conccit'is the violinist Koning n and want the community to have the oppor- ' final movement of Dvorak Y Shen die daughter ofT-University jhe concert is free and all are violin the for invited Shen has played ‘‘Symphony No: 9” the “New World’’ tunity to experience the outstanding tal' — have school we “This is a wonderful piece and the ' student soloists wehave a and ent nine years and currently studies with' featured High locally ' first time the orchestra has performed include violinist Koning Shen who Mark Emile She has participated in great deal” Frost said “Not many of ' will perform the first movement of the the work” Frost 'said “The composer these outstanding students have an the Utah State University Music ' Bruch “Violin Concerto in C minor” Clinic and the Mountains and Strings opportunity jo solo with an orchestra so spent some time in this country' and ' that is how the piece was developed It and Alexis Hoggard a cellist who will we are happy to feature them Camp This summer she plans to is very recognizable to those familiar first an a orchestra a with movement attend Summer Music West provided perforin symphony Performing frpm to with symphonic literature" and cello and Shen the concetto Francisco San the grow Elgar opportunity provides Conservatory by The closing selection is “The Dance of Music She has competed and Hoggard were selected to perform after' mature as a musician and to see what ' Baicchanale” arid in from the a honors in of like the American at it's to perform context received superior ratings local earning String showcase is and a This Teachers solo Deliah” ' festival held at state earand the activities state ASTA “Sampson symphonic setting locally Frost encotuhges interested commu- lier this year and a reward” and region level in solo and ensem- - 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