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Sole Mates
Mr. Gary Hill, guest conductor
June 27, 2010
2:00 PM
artwork by Mark Frossard
The upcoming "Sole Mates" performance will be held at the St. Francis Auditorium of the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Admission is free to the public – donations are gratefully accepted at the door.
Chamber Music Series
Previous Concert
April 18, 2010
artwork by Mark Frossard
All Chamber Music Series performance are held at the St. Francis Auditorium of the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Admission is free to the public – donations are gratefully accepted at the door.
2010 Concert Season
Gary W. Hill is the Evelyn Smith Professor of Music and Director of Ensemble Studies in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts School of Music at Arizona State University. In addition to overseeing the School’s large ensembles program, he conducts numerous instrumental groups and teaches graduate conducting courses.
Prior to Hill's appointment at ASU, he was Director of Bands at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, where he also served as Music Director for the Kansas City Youth Wind Ensemble, and conducted two professional groups: the Kansas City Symphony Brass Ensemble and newEar, a chamber ensemble devoted to contemporary music. Previously, he held a similar post at East Texas State University and was Associate Director of Bands at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Ensembles under Hill's direction have given performances for the National Band Association, the Music Educators National Conference, the College Band Directors National Association, the American Bandmasters Association, the International Horn Symposium, the National Flute Association, at many state conventions, and throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Performances conducted by him have consistently drawn praise from composers, performing musicians, and critics alike for their insightful, inspired, and cohesive realizations, and for their imaginative programmingAs a guest conductor and clinician, appearances in more than a dozen countries and throughout most of the United States have included performances with myriad high school honor bands, numerous college and university wind bands and orchestras, at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, and at World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles' conferences. Gary W. Hill is one of the most sought after guest conductors and clinicians in the wind band field; during the past four decades, he has presented more than one hundred workshops on conducting and rehearsal technique for instrumental teachers of all levels and has served as a clinician for thousands of bands and orchestras.
Hill’s current creative/research agenda includes: the use of digital technology in performance and conducting pedagogy; an exploration of biochemical reactions spawned by the musical process; and work on a monograph concerning the past, present, and future of instrumental music education.
