2011-2012 Concert Season Theme:
Read The Review"DUOS!"
"Heaven & Earth"
Friday , October 14, 2011, 8 PM
Fairfield Center for the Creative Arts
1035 West Texas Street, Fairfield
Hands Across the Sea …………………..…. Sousa
Chorus Angelorum ……………..… Samuel Hazo
Cambrian Explosion ……….. Richard Saucedo
Sendai ………………………………..…. Delbert Bump
DUO! - Clarinet Candy …….… Leroy Anderson Guest Artists.. Diane Maltester and Bob Calonico, Clarinets
Chorale and Alleluia ………. Howard Hanson
Clouds That Sail in Heaven ……. Todd Stalter
Hammersmith …………………...…. Gustav Holst
Nearer My God to Thee ….… arr. Henderson
Shenandoah …………………..… arr. Frank Ticheli
A Mighty Fortress ………..... arr. Glen Lienhart
Guest Artists Bios:
CLARINET CANDY, with Diane Maltester and Robert Calonico
Diane Maltester, Clarinet
Diane Maltester, clarinetist, received her Master’s degree in music performance from California State University at Hayward, and has been on the music faculty at Los Medanos College since 1980. She is a member of the Oakland-East Bay Symphony and principal clarinetist in the Napa Valley Symphony, Vallejo Symphony, and the Fremont Philharmonic Orchestra. She is also principal chair with the Festival Opera. She performs numerous solo and chamber recitals in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a member of The Emerald Ensemble and the Muir Trio. She enjoys teaching privately and is a former Northern Woodwind Chairperson for the Music Teachers’ Association of California. She is presently the co-conductor of the Diablo Wind Symphony and clarinet instructor at California State University East Bay.
Robert Calonico, Clarinet
Robert Calonico is the Director of Bands at the University of California, Berkeley where his duties include directing and arranging for the 240-piece “Pride of California” Marching Band, conducting the University Wind Ensemble, and teaching applied woodwinds.
A professional musician since 1972, Robert has performed with the Oakland East Bay Symphony, Oakland Ballet, Berkeley Symphony, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Natalie Cole, Maria Muldaur, Joan Baez and James Brown among others, and many San Francisco based Broadway shows.