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Fountain City Brass Band places second
Four-time champion at the North American Brass Band Association, the Fountain City Brass Band was defeated by a resurgent Atlantic Brass Band to earn a second place finish. FCBB members also claimed 1/3 of all prizes in solo and ensemble competition.
Though they couldn't hold on to win for a fifth-straight year, a second place finish is nothing to be ashamed about in the world of competitve brass bands. On April 9th, 2011 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Fountain City Brass Band was beaten by the Atlantic Brass Band on the set piece, Peter Graham's On the Shoulders of Giants by a score of 277 to 275.6. The third place finisher, Chicago Brass Band's final score was 265.4.
Fountain City members and sections also placed in the follow categories:
Senior Solos: 1. Stan Smith (cornet); 3. Ron Stinson (cornet)
Percussion Solos: 1. Christopher Howard (marimba); 2. Theodore Musick (marimba)
Percussion Ensembles: 1. Fountain City Percussion Group
Brass Ensembles: 1. Fountain City Brass Quartet
Low Brass Slow Melody: 2. Lee Harrelson (euphonium)
Low Brass Technical: 2. Gregory Battista (euphonium)
Congrats to the men and women in blue and black on their fine showing this year.
Locally, the next opportunity hear this fantastic ensemble is their Symphonic Brass concert on April 30th with guest soloist, trumpeter Joe Burgstaller at MidAmerica Nazarene University. For tickets call (913) 971-3636 or visit www.fcbb.net.
Editor-in-Chief; Traditional and New Classical Contributor
Lee Hartman holds degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (D.M.A., M.M.) and the University of Delaware (B.M.). At the University of Delaware, he received a Dean's Scholar position enabling him to pursue an individually designed academic program combining music education and composition. At the University of Missouri-Kansas City he served for three years as the Assistant Director to Musica Nova, the conservatory's new music ensemble, while teaching a variety of composition classes.
In 2007 he was invited to both the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland and the Sichuan Conservatory in Chengdu, China to give lectures and master classes in composition. In the summer of 2009, Hartman served as an orchestra manager for the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble and Aspen Opera Theater Center for various performances. He serves on the National Executive Committee of the Society of Composers, Inc. as Submissions Coordinator. His primary composition instructors include James Mobberley, Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Paul Rudy, John Beall, and Jennifer Margaret Barker. He currently teaches music theory at the University of Central Missouri and general music classes at Park University having previously taught at UD (2007–08) and UMKC (2006–07).
His compositions can be found at http://www.leehartmanmusic.com
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