2009
Edmonton Festival

Concert Bands
March 16-20, 2009
TransAlta Arts Barns
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Jazz Bands
March 17-19, 2009
Cosmopolitan Music Society
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2008
Edmonton Festival

2008 Jazz & Concert Band Recipients PDF icon

CONTACTS

Mr. Rob Speers
Edmonton Vice-President

Mr. Roy Townend
Assistant Vice-President

VENUES

CONCERT BANDS
TransAlta Arts Barns
10330 – 84 Avenue
Edmonton, AB  T6E 2G9
Tel: (780) 448-9000
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JAZZ BANDS
Cosmopolitan Music Society
8426 Gateway Boulevard NW
Edmonton, AB  T6E 4B4
Tel: (780) 432-9333
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Edmonton Festival 2009
Adjudicators

Concert Band Adjudicators

Jazz Band Adjudicators

CONCERT BAND ADJUDICATORS

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Dr. Richard Mayne

DR. RICHARD MAYNE
Concert Band Adjudicator

Dr. Richard Mayne currently serves as Professor of Music/Associate Director of Bands and Director of the Pride of the Rockies Marching Bandat the University of Northern Colorado (UNC). In addition to his conducting responsibilities Dr. Mayne teaches a variety of music education courses, including conducting and secondary instrumental methods courses. Most recently Dr. Mayne was inducted into the American Bandmasters Association and elected to the National Band Association Advisory Board. Dr. Mayne also serves on the Colorado Music Educators Association Advisory Board as the UNC college representative.

Dr. Mayne is the conductor of the UNC Symphonic Band. This ensemble serves as the official ensemble for the annual UNC Conducting Symposium, which brings 75 music educators to campus each January. The Symphonic Band is also featured on the Grand Mesa Publishing Company’s annual CD recording. Numerous clinics and concerts have been given by the Symphonic Band at the annual Colorado Music Educators Association Convention in Colorado Springs. An annual concert tour is also part of the Symphonic Band schedule.

The Pride of the Rockies Marching Band has performed for several Denver Broncos football games. The Pride also gives an exhibition performance each year at one of the Colorado Bandmasters Association regional marching contests and is recognized in the Rocky Mountain region and the Big Sky Athletic Conference as an outstanding musical organization.

Dr. Mayne has served as an adjudicator, clinician and conductor throughout the United States and Canada. He is also very busy in the state of Colorado as a clinician, mentor and colleague to the public school directors. Before coming to UNC, Dr. Mayne completed his PhD in Music Education at the Ohio State University. He studied conducting with Craig Kirchhoff and Rick Blatti and was the conductor of the University Band for two years.

As a public school teacher Dr. Mayne taught in Arizona at the high school level for eleven years — nine of those being at Dobson High School. While teaching public school he served as President of the Arizona Band and Orchestra Directors Association and played trombone in the Tempe Symphony for ten years. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Music Education from Arizona State University, where he studied conducting with Richard Strange and Robert Fleming.

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JAZZ BAND ADJUDICATORS

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Steve Kirby

STEVE KIRBY
Jazz Band Adjudicator

Steve Kirby is creator and director of the Jazz Studies Degree Program at the University of Manitoba. This comprehensive program is first of its kind in Western Canada. Since his arrival in 2003, Steve has overseen a full-fledged rejuvenation of the jazz scene in Winnipeg.

In January 2004 Professor Kirby joined forces with the campus corporation Smartpark to become Artistic Director for the Smart Park Jazz Innovators Series.

In March of 2004 Steve spearheaded the creation of what has become a weekly jazz institution in Winnipeg – the Cool Monday Night Hang. The Hang is a place where students, faculty, seasoned professionals, and visiting artists can hone their skills and exchange ideas in a live performance setting

Professor Kirby is currently Artistic Director for the Izzy Asper Jazz Performance Series.

Steve’s newest project is Jazz on Wheels, his version of New York’s famous Jazz Mobile. Designed as a mobile concert stage, Jazz on Wheels will feature interactive presentations illustrating the evolution of jazz and its influence on modern popular music.

Steve Kirby’s career as a jazz musician spans over 25 years of performance collaboration with many of the finest artists in the field. Throughout these years, his role as an educator has been a fundamental and vital part of his commitment to music. He was named the 2006 recipient of the Xerox Manitoba Jazz Educator of the Year Award. 

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Steve graduated from Webster University with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1985 and Manhattan School of Music with a Master's in Jazz Composition in 2001. Steve has studied with a great number of professional instructors; including Ron Carter, Rufus Reid, Dave Holland, Buster Williams, Red Mitchell and Homer Mensch, former principal bass of the New York Philharmonic.
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Brian Lillos

BRIAN LILLOS
Jaza Band Adjudicator

Brian Lillos is one of Canada’s leading jazz pedagogues. The scope of his teaching ranges from 5th grade beginning band to doctoral dissertation advisement in jazz studies. The scope of his playing ranges from clarinet with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to Bari Sax with the Tommy Banks Canadian All-Star Big Band to Be Bop Alto Sax with Barry Harris to Woodwinds with the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra.

His students have received Provincial, National and International recognition as performers, educators, composers, and scholars.He was Director of the Internationally acclaimed Jazz Studies Program at Humber College in Toronto from 1992–2001 where he has since held the position of Professor of Jazz Studies.

Educationally, Brian holds a MMus in historical musicology/ethnomusicology and a BMus (honors) in historical musicology and theory/composition from the University of British Columbia. Academically, Brian studied extensively with David McCallister, William Malm, Allan Merriam, Robin Ridington, Ming-Yueh Liang, Donald McCorkle, Pierre Maranda, Elli Kongas-Maranda, Claude Levi-Strauss, Bill Reid and Wilson Duff.

As a performer Brian has appeared with Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Bill Holman, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Dianna Ross, Stevie Wonder, Mel Torme, Rob McConnell and Diana Krall.

Brian also studied with Heinrich Ohlemann (clarinet), Robert Marcellus (clarinet), Fraser MacPhearson (saxophone), Don Thompson (composition and voice leading), Dick Grove (arranging), Pat LaBarbera (improvisation), Jerry Coker (improvisation), Barry Harris (voice leading and improvisation), Jamey Aebersold (improvisation), and David Baker (improvisation). Brian is considered a curriculum expert. He has been a Curriculum Consultant to the British Columbia Ministry of Education, an External Assessor to numerous post-secondary degree assessment panels for undergraduate and graduate jazz degree programs and a curriculum committee member with the IAJE.

Brian has also been a Juno juror, a consultant to the National Research Council on funding for the arts, an advisor to the Banff International Workshop on Jazz and Creative Music, a president of Jazz Canada; a regional co-ordinator for the West Coast Jazz Combo Festival and the Greater Toronto Music Fest; a program co-ordinator for the Courtenay Summer Youth Jazz Program; a partner in the New West Jazz Clinic; and is currently Chairman of Music Fest Canada (instrumental jazz division). Brian can be heard most recently on The Elders Are Listening Volumes 1 and 2; For Sonny; Rezidential School Blues; and Hannah’s Dance. Coming attractions may include a book/DVD on Navigating the Be-Boppers Harmonic Galaxy, several CDs — The Elders are Listening volume 3 – A Tribute to Horace Silver; volume 4 – A Tribute to Bird; A Hammond B3 Session; and Ballads. Widely published and recorded, Brian is in constant demand as a clinician, performing artist and adjudicator.

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