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The Anaheim Union High
School District High School Honor Band is made up of the finest
musicians from the 9 AUHSD high schools. These musicians are
selected each year by audition to rehearse and perform with some of the
best guest conductors from across the country.
Students selected for the
band each year attend 4 rehearsals in preparation for their concert
performance.
In order to be eligible
for the band, students must be enrolled in the instrumental music
program at an AUHSD high school, maintain an overall GPA of 2.0 or
higher, attend ALL rehearsals and the concert, and follow all AUHSD and
school rules for behavior and dress code at all rehearsals and the
concert.
Our
guest conductors this year are H.
Robert Reynolds and Frank Ticheli.
H. Robert Reynolds is
the principal
conductor of the Wind Ensemble at the Thornton School of Music at the
University of Southern California, where he holds the H. Robert
Reynolds Professorship in Wind Conducting. This appointment followed
his retirement, after 26 years, from the School of Music of the
University of Michigan where he served as the Henry F. Thurnau
Professor of Music, director of university bands, and director of the
division of instrumental studies. In addition to these
responsibilities, he has also been, for nearly 30 years, the conductor
of the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, which is made up primarily of
members from the Detroit Symphony.
Robert Reynolds has conducted recordings for Koch International, Pro
Arte, Caprice, and Deutsche Grammophon. In the United States, he has
conducted at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center (New York), Orchestra
Hall (Chicago), Kennedy Center (Washington, D. C.), Powell Symphony
Hall (St. Louis), Academy of Music (Philadelphia), and Walt Disney
Concert Hall (Los Angeles). In Europe, he conducted the premiere of an
opera for La Scala Opera (Milan, Italy), and concerts at the
prestigious Maggio Musicale (Florence, Italy), the Tonhalle (Zurich,
Switzerland), and at the Holland Festival in the Concertgebouw
(Amsterdam, Holland), as well as the 750th Anniversary of the City of
Berlin. He has won the praise of composers Leslie Bassett, William
Bolcom, Aaron Copland, John Corigliano, Henryk Gorecki, Karel Husa,
Gyorgy Ligeti, Darius Milhaud, Bernard Rands, Gunther Schuller,
Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many others for his interpretive conducting
of their compositions.
Reynolds has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Duquesne
University, and in addition, holds degrees in music education and
performance from the University of Michigan, where he was the
conducting student of Elizabeth Green. He began his career in the
public schools of Michigan and California before beginning his
university conducting at California State University at Long Beach and
the University of Wisconsin prior to his tenure at the University of
Michigan. He received the Citation of Merit from the Music Alumni
Association of the University of Michigan for his contributions to the
many students he has influenced during his career and the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Michigan Band Alumni Association. He is also
an Honorary Life Member of the Southern California School Band and
Orchestra Association.
Professor Reynolds is past president of the College Band Directors'
National Association and the Big Ten Band Directors' Association. He
has received the highest national awards from Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa
Psi, Phi Beta Mu, the National Band Association, and the American
School Band Directors’ Association, and he was awarded the Medal of
Honor by the International Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic. He is
the recipient of a Special Tribute from the State of Michigan, and he
is member of the National Awards Panel for the American Society of
Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and in 2001 received a
national award from this organization for his contributions to
contemporary American music. He is also to be listed in the New Groves
Dictionary of American Music, and his frequent conducting appearances
have included (among others) the Eastman School of Music, New England
Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, Northwestern University, Manhattan
School of Music, and the National Wind Ensemble each year at Carnegie
Hall as well as the Wind Ensemble at the Tanglewood Institute.
Reynolds has been a featured conductor and lecturer at international
conferences in Austria, Norway, Belgium, England, Holland, Slovenia,
Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland. He has conducted in many of
the major cities of Japan, Spain, and Sweden including concerts with
the Stockholm Wind Orchestra, and the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra.
Many of his former students now hold major conducting positions at
leading conservatories and universities, and several have been National
Presidents of CBDNA.
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Frank Ticheli's music
has been described
as being "optimistic and thoughtful" (Los Angeles Times), "lean and
muscular" (New York Times), "brilliantly effective" (Miami Herald) and
"powerful, deeply felt crafted with impressive flair and an ear for
striking instrumental colors" (South Florida Sun-Sentinel).
Ticheli
(b. 1958) joined the faculty of the University of Southern California's
Thornton School of Music in 1991, where he is Professor of
Composition. From 1991 to 1998, Ticheli was Composer in Residence
of
the Pacific Symphony, and he still enjoys a close working relationship
with that orchestra and their music director, Carl St. Clair.
Frank Ticheli's orchestral works have received considerable recognition
in the U.S. and Europe. Orchestral performances have come from the
Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Dallas
Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, the radio orchestras of
Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Saarbruecken, and Austria, and the orchestras of
Austin, Bridgeport, Charlotte, Colorado, Haddonfield, Harrisburg, Hong
Kong, Jacksonville, Lansing, Long Island, Louisville, Lubbock, Memphis,
Nashville, Omaha, Phoenix, Portland, Richmond, San Antonio, San Jose,
and others.
Ticheli is well known for his works for concert band, many of which
have become standards in the repertoire. In addition to composing, he
has appeared as guest conductor of his music at Carnegie Hall, at many
American universities and music festivals, and in cities throughout the
world, including Beijing and Shanghai, London and Manchester, Rome,
Singapore, Schladming (Austria), and numerous cities in Japan.
Frank Ticheli is the winner of the 2006 NBA/William D. Revelli Memorial
Band Composition Contest for his Symphony No. 2. Other awards for his
music include the Charles Ives and the Goddard Lieberson Awards, both
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Walter Beeler
Memorial Prize, and First Prize awards in the Texas Sesquicentennial
Orchestral Composition Competition, Britten-on-the-Bay Choral
Composition Contest, and Virginia CBDNA Symposium for New Band Music.
He is a national honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi and Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia, and he was named by the American School Band Directors
Association as the 2009 recipient of the A. Austin Harding Award,
bestowed to individuals "who have made exceptional contributions to the
school band movement in America."
Frank Ticheli received his doctoral and masters degrees in composition
from The University of Michigan. His works are published by Manhattan
Beach, Southern, Hinshaw, and Encore Music, and are recorded on the
labels of Albany, Chandos, Clarion, Klavier, Koch International, Mark
Custom, Naxos, and Reference Recordings.
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