CONCERT BANDS
Concert (military) and brass bands have been part of the musical fabric of Saskatchewan, and particularly Moose Jaw, since the turn of the century. By 1908 Moose Jaw had a very well established Salvation Army Band. One of its members, Arthur Delamont, went on to great fame as founder and director of the Kitsilano Boys Band.
Concert Band Clinicians
Gene Aulinger
Gene, and his wife Diane, live in North Battleford. Gene currently works with the North Battleford City Kinsmen Band and Light of Christ Roman Catholic School Division Bands.
Previous to that, Gene taught for the Living Sky Public School Division. He directed high school Bands and Choirs , and was the Music Consultant for the division. After retiring from classroom work, he accepted a position as the Arts Consultant with the Living Sky School Division.
He received a B.A. with Teaching Credentials from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater in 1974. After completing several courses at the University of Saskatchewan, he continued at Northwestern State University in Louisiana, and completed a M.M. in 1998.
Aulinger taught at the Saskatchewan Summer School Of The Arts at Fort San for eight summers. He coordinated the summer band camp at North Battleford for five summers.
Gene has been a been a board member of SMEA. He chaired the Provincial SMEA Convention in 1991 and has coordinated the SMEA Honour Groups five times. SMEA has awarded Gene an Outstanding Achievement Award in 1996, and the SMEA Honourary Life Membership Award in 2005.
He is currently on the the Board of the Saskatchewan Band Association. Gene received the Distinguished Band Director Award in 2005. He is currently the coordinator of the SBA Regional Junior Summer Band Camp in North Battleford .
Gene has adjudicated festivals and led workshops in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Louisiana. During these events, his goal has been to create an appreciation of music and performing. Most recently, he has performed recitals of 19th and 20th century literature on the clarinet and has appeared with the Gallery Singers of North Battleford.
Jason Caslor
Dr. Jason Caslor currently serves as Assistant Professor of Instrumental Conducting at Memorial University in St. John's, NL where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches conducting. He recently completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts (Conducting) at Arizona State University where his principal conducting teacher was Professor Gary Hill. Other mentors include Dr. Dale J. Lonis and Dr. Fraser Linklater.
Prior to obtaining a Master of Music degree from the University of Manitoba, Jason earned his Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education degrees from the University of Saskatchewan where he studied with Professor Marvin Eckroth. During this time, he was a member of the Scherzo Quartet, winner of the Chamber Music category at the 2000 National Music Festival.
From 2005-2008, Jason was Resident Conductor with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. During his tenure with the TBSO, he conducted over 75 concerts (including a CBC Radio broadcast), designed and implemented myriad of education and outreach initiatives, and recorded CD with Canadian blues artist Rita Chiarelli. Described as "the lushest-sounding set of blues ever recorded in Canada", it received two Canadian Folk Music Award nominations.
Jane Pinch
Jane began her Bachelor of Music Education degree in Saskatoon, and completed the degree at the University of Regina in 1996. She taught instrumental music in the Regina Public schools, teaching at the high school and in the elementary program at Campbell Collegiate, and in the Thom Collegiate area, teaching elementary concert and jazz band. Jane is the director of the Prairie Winds Intermediate Band, a community based adult band in Regina. Her late father, D’Arcy Mossing, established many band programs throughout the province. She studied flute with Sandra Hoffman and Ed Abramson, and has been a flute clinician and teacher in the province for many years. Jane served two terms with the Saskatchewan Band Association Board of Directors. She conducted the Campbell High School Concert Band on their tour of Cuba in February 2010 and she was the guest conductor for the Junior Honour Band at the Regina Catholic School Band Days in 2010.
She received the Distinguished Band Director Award from the Saskatchewan Band Association in November 2010. Jane retired from the Regina Public Schools in June 2010, and continues to adjudicate, conduct and teach part-time.
Brian Unverricht
Born, raised, and educated in Saskatchewan, Brian pursued further studies in New Jersey, Australia, Strasbourg, and the University of Calgary. For many years he taught band, choir, jazz studies, guitar, and general music to students from grades seven through university level in Saskatoon, Australia, PEI, and the DND schools in Germany. He is currently a sessional instructor at the University of Saskatchewan, teaching music education classes.
In 2004 he received SMEA’ s outstanding Achievement Award that recognizes outstanding accomplishment and an ongoing dedication to excellence in music. As a trombonist, Brian has been a member of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra since the late sixties, and has performed with various brass quintets and jazz groups over the years. He can also be heard performing with the Metro Jazz Ensemble and the Saskatoon Klezmer band.
Brian has commissioned many composers to write music for his groups, written numerous articles about music education, authored several music curricula, and currently serves on the provincial curriculum renewal project. He is often called upon as an adjudicator and workshop clinician.
On Stage
Concert bands will perform at the Mae Wilson Theatre in the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre at 217 Main Street North. and at Peacock Collegiate on 145 Ross Street East.
Important : Even if you know where these are located, we ask that you register first at our office at the Comfort Inn on 155 Thatcher Drive West prior to your performance. When you register, we will give you your receipts, any tickets you may have pre-ordered for our evening concerts, directions and information about parking, and free parking passes for the City of Moose Jaw. We will also give you a souvenir banner suitable for hanging in your music room.Directors are asked to number every bar in the two scores handed in to clinicians
We will provide four timpani, bass drum, xylophone,and orchestra bells at both band venues. We ask that you provide your own snare drums, cymbals, sticks, beaters and mallets, as well as any percussion effects - tambourines, maracas, etc. Other equipment (eg. chimes, drum set, amplifiers, etc.) may be available upon request. Deadline for requesting equipment is April 24.
With the exception of the 8:30 A.M. time slots, warm-up rooms will be available for one hour prior to your scheduled performance. Stands and chairs will be provided in the warm-up rooms. If you are scheduled for 8:30, the actual performance venue will be available to you for warm-up by 7:50 A.M.
We won't be able to lock warm-up rooms, so please remind your students not to leave anything valuable behind. Hopefully, your chaperones will be able to help out in this regard.
Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance.
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