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Edmonton Festival 2012
Adjudicators
Concert Band Adjudicators
Jazz Band Adjudicators
CONCERT BAND ADJUDICATORS
Concert Band Adjudicator
Ryan T. Nelson is the Music Director in Residence for the School of Communication at Northwestern University where he coordinates all musical activities for the Theatre and Interpretation Center, teaches in the Music Theatre Certificate Program, and music directs and supervises several productions each year, including the famed Waa-Mu show. As part of the American Music Theatre Project at Northwestern, he has music directed or supervised the premieres of Was, The Boys are Coming Home, Asphalt Beach, In the Bubble, Dangerous Beauty and Not Wanted on the Voyage. At Chicago's Marriott Theatre, he has music directed Footloose, Grease, Seussical, All Shook Up, Hairspray, Sleeping Beauty, Once on this Island, Guys and Dolls, How Can You Run with a Shell on Your Back?, Shout! and the world premiere of For the Boys. This season at the Marriott, he will be music directing Legally Blonde, Pirates of Penzance and the premiere of Hero. His work on A Chorus Line and The Light in the Piazza at the Marriott has been recognized with Jeff Award nominations for excellence in Chicago theatre.
He has conducted and recorded with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago 2011), the 2011 Meet The Composer Series at the Morgan Library (NYC), and the 2010 Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. At Northwestern, he has music directed and conducted Leonard Bernstein's epic Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers, Spring Awakening, Rent, The Secret Garden, Godspell, Parade and Falsettos.
Nelson was formerly an Assistant Professor of Music in Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music where he conducted the Contemporary Music Ensemble, was co-director of New Music Northwestern and conducted the Symphonic Band. As band conductor has conducted dozens of honor bands and adjudicated band festivals around the world. He received his bachelor's degree in Music Education from Duquesne University, where he studied conducting with Robert Cameron and Brady Allred. His Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in conducting are from the University of North Texas, where he was a student of Eugene Migliaro Corporon.
CONNIE TURNER
Concert Band Adjudicator
Connie Turner teaches conducting and music education at the University of Manitoba, where she founded and conducted the U of M Concert Band for 10 years. She also was a founding member of the teaching staff of the Canadian Wind Conductors’ Development Program.
Ms. Turner is Coordinator of the prestigious Teachers’ Professional Development Program at Banff’s Canadian Rocky Mountain Festival, and is a member of the Festival’s advisory board. She continues to share her experience and passion for music across Canada and the U.S. as an adjudicator, clinician, workshop presenter, and guest conductor.
Connie completed her formal music training in North Dakota, receiving a Master of Music Education degree from the University of North Dakota. She enjoyed an illustrious career as a music educator in the public school system in both Canada and the US for 34 years, developing highly acclaimed and nationally recognized ensembles in concert band, jazz, choir, and show choir.
Connie is a Board Member of the International Music Camp, where she served as guest conductor and Canadian Representative for many years. She was also musical consultant with Long & McQuade Music, where she assisted teachers with repertoire selection and yearly planning.
In recognition of her career achievements, Connie Turner received the Manitoba Band Association Award of Distinction for Outstanding Contribution to Music Education, and was recognized for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Manitoba.
CLINTON MARSHALL
Concert Band Adjudicator
Clinton Marshall is active as a band guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician. For more than 30 years he has traveled across North America sharing his knowledge, experience, and sense of humor with student musicians and music educators.
As a guest conductor, Mr. Marshall has successfully led numerous honor bands including the Maryland All State Band and bands at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Duquesne University. At the International Peace Gardens he directed the Wind Ensemble and Youth Bands which were comprised of students from 11 different countries. For 19 years he conducted the concert band at the Maryland Center for the Arts, a program for Maryland’s gifted and talented students. Last school year, Mr. Marshall guest conducted the Saskatchewan Provincial Honor Band and three honor bands in the Maryland/Washington D.C. area.
Each year, Mr. Marshall devotes a major portion of his schedule to adjudicating concert band festivals. He has participated in numerous festivals in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. On the east coast of the United States, he has judged festivals from New York to Alabama. Mr. Marshall has served several years as an adjudicator for the Rocky Mountain Music Festival held each year in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Mr. Marshall is frequently invited to present professional development workshops to music educators. He gave the keynote address at the British Columbia Music Educators Conference in Victoria and presented a full day of workshops at the Tempo Conference for the Manitoba Music Educators Association in Winnipeg. One of his most popular workshops, Eight Keys to Success at Band Festival, has been praised by music teachers and administrators for its practical approach to effectively solving performance issues for middle and high school bands.
Clinton Marshall currently lives on Lake Murray in Prosperity, South Carolina. Although "life on the lake" certainly agrees with him, Mr. Marshall remains active with school bands throughout the United States and Canada.
JAZZ BAND ADJUDICATORS
ALAN MATHESON
Jazz Band Adjudicator
Alan Matheson is a Canadian trumpeter, pianist, composer and arranger. He studied with Vincent Cichowicz at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) and graduated with a degree in performance. Alan currently teaches trumpet and jazz piano at the University of British Columbia and teaches in the jazz studies programs at Vancouver Community College and Capilano College in North Vancouver. He is the leader of his own big band, nonet and septet and has played with a wide variety of local groups including the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra.
Alan has also directed the CBC Jazz Orchestra in broadcast tributes to Duke Ellington and Paul Whiteman. As musical director of the Festival Vancouver Big Band, Alan has conducted for Clark Terry, Phil Woods and Bud Shank. He has also performed with Mel Torme, Cleo Laine, Louis Bellson and Doc Cheatham. Alan has played at the Vancouver, Montreal and Paris jazz festivals and toured Sweden and Finland with Goran Larsen's Helsinki City Jazz Orchestra. His compositions and arrangements have been played by Bud Shank, Clark Terry, percussionist Salvador Ferreras and French-hornist Martin Hackleman and, most recently, by the Houston Brass Sextet. Alan's main musical influences are Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Bix Beiderbecke, Clark Terry and Woody Shaw.
Jazz Band Adjudicator
Canadian saxophonist, composer, and arranger Andy Ballantyne is a graduate of the Humber College music program and also has a degree in jazz performance from the University of Toronto. He is a regular member of several prominent Canadian jazz groups including two Juno award-winning ensembles: the Rex Hotel Orchestra and the Neufeld/Ochippinti Jazz Orchestra (NOJO). Andy has also performed with some of the world’s foremost jazz musicians including Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass, Dave Holland, Maria Schneider, Vince Mendoza, Carla Bley, Sam Rivers and Bill Mays. In addition he has backed up numerous entertainers including Hugh Jackman, Paul Anka, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Natalie Cole, Johnny Mathis, and has performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. As a versatile performer on various woodwinds he is a regular on the Toronto studio and musical theatre scene and has recorded numerous jingles, movie sound tracks, CDs and live television shows.
As a composer and arranger, Andy’s works are frequently performed by many of Canada’s leading professional and school jazz ensembles. His original compositions are published in Canada by Clovertone Music and have been showcased by the Yamaha All-Star Band at Musicfest Canada.
Andy leads his own 11-piece jazz orchestra, The Andy Ballantyne Large Ensemble, which recorded and released their debut recording The Sum of the Parts in 2007 (available at www.cdbaby.com and on Itunes). The band features many of Canada’s finest jazz musicians including Kevin Turcotte, Kelly Jefferson and David Braid.
Andy is currently on faculty at Humber College in Toronto teaching woodwinds, composition, arranging and jazz pedagogy. He is also a Jupiter Canada artist.