UNIVERSITY PERCUSSION ENSEMBLEconcert

Daniel Fabricius, Conductor

Marc Silvagni, Assistant Conductor

Adam Goldenberg, Xylophone Soloist

Tuesday evening, December 8, 2009

8:00 PM

Anderson Center Chamber Hall

PROGRAM

Yobel’ (1978)……………………...... Jesse Ayers

Yobel’ is a Hebrew word for a silver trumpet that announces the Year of Jubilee.

Overture for Percussion(1997)…………………….Mario Gaetano

Dance Barbaro (1965)...…………………………….Phillip Lambro

INTERMISSION

The Doomsday Machine (2000)……………………..Michael Burritt

Ceremonium(1987)……………………………………Jared Spears

Marc Silvagni, Conductor

Bit O’ Rhythm (1932)………………………………….Harry Breuer

Adam Goldenberg, Xylophone

We Three Kings (2009)………………………...John Henry Hopkins

Arranged by Daniel Fabricius

University Percussion Ensemble Personnel

Samuel Bae

Adam Goldenberg

Amanda Jacobs

Mike Longo

Benjamin Ramos

Keaton Rood

Marc Silvagni

Lee Vilinsky

Andrew Williamson

DANIEL FABRICIUS has been a member of the BinghamtonUniversity faculty as percussion instructor since 1992 and has also served as Director of Bands at OwegoFreeAcademy since 1989. He has been a member of the Binghamton Philharmonic percussion section since 1982 and is also comfortable performing in popular, rock, jazz, and other styles. He has played as a free-lance percussionist accompanying national touring artists such as Michael W. Smith, Tommy Tune, Jerry Vail, Lorrie Morgan, Ringling Brothers Circus, the Smothers Bothers, and Ella Fitzgerald. He is highly regarded in the region as a percussion soloist and ensemble player. He has served the New York State School Music Association as an All-State Percussion adjudicator for many years. In addition he is the Instrumental Jazz Reviews editor of The School Music News and was the Jazz editor for the recently published NYSSMA Manual, Edition XXIX. Dan serves on the faculty of the Binghamton High School Percussion Camp each summer and over the years has presented many percussion clinics at several state conventions and conferences. He also often serves as a guest conductor for honor band festivals and has adjudicated Jazz Ensemble and Concert Band performances at music festivals throughout New York.

MARC SILVAGNI is a senior at BinghamtonUniversity. He is currently double majoring in Percussion Performance and Psychology. He plans on attending graduate school after Binghamton to earn a MSEd degree in Social Studies. Marc started his music career relatively late in 7th grade under band director and amazing jazz drummer Marc Copell. During the summers following 7th and 8th grade, Marc attended the Manhattan School of Music Summer Camp and studied under percussionist Jeff Kraus who taught him about the entire world of percussion. He then attended St. Francis Preparatory High School in Fresh Meadows, Queens, and studied under percussionist Mark Teofilo. In the summer of his sophomore year, Marc and other students, under teacher David Kobayashi (Binghamton Alum), traveled to Australia and played with the Tallahassee Winds in the Sydney Opera House for the Eric Whitacre Festival. Marc began college at BinghamtonUniversity under percussionist Dan Fabricius. Here he has had featured solos with the Percussion Ensemble and has played with the Harpur Jazz Ensemble, University Orchestra, Harpur Chorale, Women’s Chorus, and the Commencement Wind Ensemble. He has also played at the Musica Nova concert and at Stephanie Lehman's Masters Recital.

ADAM GOLDENBERGis a graduate of VestalHigh School where he held the positions of Center Snare with the Vestal Marching Band, Principle Percussionist with the Vestal Concert Band, and was the lead kit player with the Vestal Jazz Ensemble. During the summer of 2009, Adam was selected to attend the Leigh Howard Stevens Summer Seminar; an intensive three week seminar devoted solely to the study of mallet percussion where he had the chance to attend master classes with several world renowned percussionists including Gordon Stout, Marta Klimasara, Thomas Burritt, Michael Burritt, and Percussive Arts Hall of Fame inductee Leigh Howard Stevens. In his spare time, Adam enjoys skiing, scuba diving, and pursuing a dual degree in Biochemistry and Integrated Neural Systems at BinghamtonUniversity.