The 2011 Lakeside Band Festival featuring composer and guest conductor Dana Wilson.Dana Wilson conducts at the 2011 Lakeside Band Festival.Dana Wilson, composer and guest conductor, rehearses with students.The members of the 2011 Lakeside Band Festival rehearsing for the Lakeside Band Festival concert.

Music

Lakeside Band Festival

Nov. 5-6, 2011

10th anniversary Band Festival to feature music of Ronald Lo Presti

KanzaCarthage will host the 10th annual Lakeside Band Festival Nov. 5-6, 2011. To celebrate the 10th anniversary, the festival will feature the music of Ronald Lo Presti, one of the seminal composers of the contemporary band movement. In addition, Alvin Lowrey, Principal Trumpet Emeritus of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, will perform Kent Kennan's Sonata for Trumpet with the Carthage Wind Orchestra.

Well known works such as Lo Presti's Elegy for a Young American and Suite for Five Trumpets will be performed, as well as lesser known compositions such as Pageant Overture, Tundra, and Introduction, Chorale and Jubilee.

In addition, Lo Presti's significance as a Ford Foundation Composer in the Winfield, Kansas, school district will be highlighted with music from his 1961 pageant KANZA (Southwind People), written to commemorate Kansas' centennial year.

The goal of the Lakeside Band Festival is to provide an opportunity for area musicians to observe, engage and interact with world-class musicians. Each festival is conducted by a noted American composer/conductor. 

The 2013 Lakeside Band Fest will be under the direction of Stephen Paulus.

Distinguished artists who have participated in past Lakeside Festivals include:

  • Larry Combs — principal clarinet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  • Woodrow Hodges — bassoon, Carthage College 
  • Dr. Jay Gilbert — Doane College (guest conductor) 
  • Dr. Andrew Boysen Jr. —University of New Hampshire (guest conductor) 
  • Daniel Bukvich — University of Idaho (guest composer) 
  • Gregory Flint — horn, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
  • James Barnes — University of Kansas (guest conductor) 
  • Susan Cook — alto saxophone, DePaul University and Carthage College 
  • Timothy Mahr — St. Olaf College (guest conductor) 
  • Scott Tegge — tuba, Carthage College 
  • Jonathan Newman — BCM (guest conductor) 
  • Frank Ticheli — University of Southern California 
  • Melissa Snoza — flute, Carthage College 
  • Dana Wilson — Ithaca College (guest conductor)

High schools represented in the 2011 festival included Racine’s Horlick High School, Wilmot High School, and high schools from the Kenosha Unified School District.

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