Fanfare and Fireworks!
April 6, 2019 | 7:30 PM
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Featuring
David Friddle, organist Martin Hodel, trumpetist Garrett Klein, trumpetist Ronald Beitel, hornist Myra Lee, trombonist David Kassler, euphonist Terry Gresser, timpanist Program Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Vierne - Marche triomphale centenaire de Napoleon I, Op. 46 Dupre - Poeme heroique Albinoni - Trumpet Concerto in F Major, Op. 7 No. 9 Hindemith – Sonata No. 2 for Organ Works for Quintet by Bach, Dukas, Hudson and Forsythe |
David Friddle
David Friddle, organ, has had a varied career as an organist, conductor, composer, author, editor, teacher, art director, web designer, and reviewer.
He has given organ recitals in the U.S. and Canada and been director of music or organist at several churches. He has composed sacred music, written articles for music journals, founded two men’s choruses, conducted other choruses, and has taught at the university level. He has also worked in graphic and web design.
David received his music performance degrees from Baylor University, the Juilliard School, and University of Miami. He also studied at Texas Christian University, the Royal School of Church Music, and Istituto Italiano (Florence, Italy).
He has given organ recitals in the U.S. and Canada and been director of music or organist at several churches. He has composed sacred music, written articles for music journals, founded two men’s choruses, conducted other choruses, and has taught at the university level. He has also worked in graphic and web design.
David received his music performance degrees from Baylor University, the Juilliard School, and University of Miami. He also studied at Texas Christian University, the Royal School of Church Music, and Istituto Italiano (Florence, Italy).
Martin Hodel
Martin Hodel, trumpet, has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player in the US and around the world. During the 2005-06 season he played full time in the trumpet section of the Minnesota Orchestra, with whom he has recorded and plays extra. As principal and solo trumpet with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Hodel toured the U.S. and Japan, and he has toured coast to coast in America with the Dallas Brass. He has also shared the stage with jazz artists Joe Henderson, Maria Schneider, Slide Hampton, Claudio Roditi, David Murray, and Jimmy Heath, and has toured Germany with organist Bradley Lehman as part of the Hodel-Lehman Duo. A CD by the Duo, In Thee is Gladness, was recorded in Emden, Germany. Hodel appears as a soloist on seven other compact discs, has performed live on the nationally-broadcast radio program, A Prairie Home Companion, on Minnesota Public Radio, on public television, and on national broadcasts of the radio programs Sing for Joy and Pipedreams.
Since 1997 he has been the trumpet professor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Hodel holds a doctorate in trumpet performance and a performer’s certificate from the Eastman School of Music, a master of music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a bachelor’s degree in music education from Goshen College. His teachers have included Charles Geyer, Barbara Butler, Allen Vizzutti, James Ketch, Raymond Mase, Craig Heitger, David Hickman, and Anthony Plog. On a recent sabbatical, Hodel studied Baroque (natural, valveless) trumpet and 18th-century trumpet literature in Europe with Dr. Edward H. Tarr, the leading expert on early trumpets and trumpet literature.
Since 1997 he has been the trumpet professor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Hodel holds a doctorate in trumpet performance and a performer’s certificate from the Eastman School of Music, a master of music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a bachelor’s degree in music education from Goshen College. His teachers have included Charles Geyer, Barbara Butler, Allen Vizzutti, James Ketch, Raymond Mase, Craig Heitger, David Hickman, and Anthony Plog. On a recent sabbatical, Hodel studied Baroque (natural, valveless) trumpet and 18th-century trumpet literature in Europe with Dr. Edward H. Tarr, the leading expert on early trumpets and trumpet literature.
Garrett Klein
Garrett Klein, trumpet player with the Dallas Brass, enjoys a balanced career of teaching and performing. Originally from Port Orchard, WA, he tours the United States with the Dallas Brass, and has also traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia. He has held teaching positions in Singapore, and performed with the Singapore Symphony and the Malaysian Philharmonic. Other orchestral engagements have been with the New World Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, and The Phoenix Symphony. As a soloist, he has presented the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 with the Early Music Ensemble at Arizona State University, and has been invited on two occasions to perform at the International Trumpet Guild Conference. Garrett’s commitment to new music is evident in his forthcoming recording of five new sonatas for trumpet and piano.
Garrett holds degrees from St. Olaf College (BM) and Arizona State University (MM). He is currently completing a Doctorate of Music Arts at ASU. His primary teachers include Dr. Martin Hodel, David Hickman, and Charles Lazarus. In his spare time, Garrett enjoys going on outdoor adventures with his wife, Mara, and their dog, Scout.
Garrett holds degrees from St. Olaf College (BM) and Arizona State University (MM). He is currently completing a Doctorate of Music Arts at ASU. His primary teachers include Dr. Martin Hodel, David Hickman, and Charles Lazarus. In his spare time, Garrett enjoys going on outdoor adventures with his wife, Mara, and their dog, Scout.
Ron Beitel
Ronald Beitel, horn, is an active soloist, chamber music artist, and horn class clinician. As a soloist, he has appeared with the National Arts Chamber Orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony, the Salt Lake Symphony, the Vivaldi by Candlelight Orchestra in Salt Lake City, and the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Mr. Beitel has appeared with numerous friends and colleagues around the country, most recently on the Nova and Intermezzo series in Utah, and Manhattan to the Mountains at Snow College and Southern Utah University. For the last 29 years, his music career as an orchestral artist has included positions with the Utah Symphony for 18 years, the San Antonio for 9 years, and the Memphis Symphony and the Ohio Chamber Orchestra for one season each. He has also performed, recorded, and toured with the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Houston Symphony. Now a resident of Rochester, his musical activities are varied, including composing and arranging music for horn, and teaching private lessons.
Myra Lee
David Kassler
Terry Gresser
Terry Gresser, drums, taught elementary music in the Rochester Public Schools for 28 years and retired in 2017. He has taught applied percussion methods classes for Rochester Community and Technical College for the past 18 years, as well as MU 320 for the education department of Winona State University, Rochester Campus for the past 14 years. Earlier music teaching positions at the college level were at the College of Saint Teresa and Saint Mary’s College both in Winona. His professional percussion performance career has included national and international touring in a variety of popular music performing groups, jazz combos, pit orchestras, experiences in both the theater and ballet genres, and work with the Winona State Symphony (1987-1990). He holds a BS degree in Sociology from the University of Maryland, a BA degree in Music Education from the College of Saint Teresa, Winona, and an MA in Ethnomusicology and Music Education from Saint Mary’s College in Minneapolis. He currently resides in Rochester.
