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BUTLER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
presents
BUTLER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Richard Auldon Clark, conductor
BUTLER UNIVERSITY
PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
Jon Crabiel, director
Livestream
Thursday, April 15, 2021
7:30 P.M.
The seventy-sixth program of the Butler University School of Music 2020-21 season
Jordan College of the Arts | Butler University | 4600 Sunset Ave | Indianapolis, IN | 46208PROGRAM
BUTLER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Symphony No. 5
IV. Adagietto
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35A
Anton Arenksy (1861-1906)
Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra
I. Andante – Allegro Vivace
II. Andante Cantabile
III. Allegro con Fuoco
Eric Ewazen (b. 1954)
Featuring Butler University Concerto Competition Co-Winner:
Mike Ellis, marimba
BUTLER UNIVERSITY PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
(It’s Just) Talk
Pat Metheny (b. 1954)
Arr. Steve Houghton and Tom Warrington
Featuring
Mike Ellis, vibraphone
Losa
Emmanuel Séjourné (b. 1961)
Featuring
Matt Brush, cajon
Robby Buetow, marimba
Mike Ellis, vibraphone
Jordan College of the Arts | Butler University | 4600 Sunset Ave | Indianapolis, IN | 46208BUTLER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Richard Auldon Clark, conductor
VIOLIN I VIOLA
Angela Pulliam*, Athens, GA Cassandra Tosh*, Carmel, IN
Anna Smith, Naperville, IL Nicole Felker, Indianapolis, IN
Annie Donato, Jasper, IN Jenna Small, Bargersville, IN
Lisa (Sung Yeon) Kim, Greenwood, IN Lexi Scida, Valparaiso, IN
Madeline Bowling, Taylorsville, IN John Qualkenbush, Indianapolis, IN
Kathryn Tuttle, Columbus, IN Alex Spees, Avon, IN
Charlea Fredstrom, Seymour, IN Martine Cardichon, Potomac, MD
Bailey Yates, Lexington, KY Anna White, Avon Lake, OH
Erin Gardiner, Perrysburg, OH
CELLO
VIOLIN II Tamalynn O’Grady*, Dexter, MI
Rebecca Wager*, Indianapolis, IN Sam Fansler, Carlock, IL
Adia Mimms, Indianapolis, IN Jose Martinez, Toledo, OH
Jessie Miller, Indianapolis, IN Katie Stitsworth, Frankfort, IN
Alex McGrath, Indianapolis, IN Rebekah White, Fishers, IN
Eric Clevenger, Indianapolis, IN Ella King, Indianapolis, IN
Carmela Thiele, Edina, MN
Ricky Del Real, Portage, IN BASS
Jade Woo, McHenry, IL Nick Gundersen*, Noblesville, IN
Tyler Baker, Indianapolis, IN Amanda Murbach, Libertyville, IL
Abigail Hopkins, Villa Grove, IL Elise Sparre, Waterford, MI
Lal Mawia, Indianapolis, IN Sara Austin, Lombard, IL
HARP
Michelle Jugovich, Western Springs, IL
BUTLER UNIVERSITY PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
Jon Crabiel, director
Christian Beachum Bennett Lang
Matt Brush JT Langdon
Robby Buetow Jonathan Padgett
Mia Chahmirzadi John Qualkenbush
Mike Ellis Ryan Sorge
Justin Heasley Sam Stucky
Caleb Jansen Juliana Zlatniski
Jordan College of the Arts | Butler University | 4600 Sunset Ave | Indianapolis, IN | 46208BIOS
RICHARD AULDON CLARK
Composer, conductor, violinist, and violist Richard Auldon Clark is Artistic Director and Conductor of the
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Manhattan Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and the Finger Lakes Chamber
Music Festival. A strong proponent of American music, Mr. Clark has performed and/or recorded hundreds of
world premieres, and his work has received extraordinary praise in the New York Times, Fanfare, American
Record Guide, Washington Post, and dozens of others. Mr. Clark has recorded the music of David Amram, Henry
Cowell, Seymour Barab, Lukas Foss, Alan Hovhaness, Otto Leuning, Osvaldo Lacerda, Dave Soldier, Alec Wilder,
and many more. An active studio musician as well, Mr. Clark has performed and recorded for Broadway,
television, commercial, and film music, including several films for Philip Glass. Mr. Clark’s compositions have
been praised in the New York Times and broadcast on NPR stations around the country. With more than twenty
chamber works to his credit, Mr. Clark has premiered six new compositions in the past three years at Zankel Hall
at Carnegie Hall, and in September 2016, his opera Happy Birthday, Wanda June, with a libretto by Kurt
Vonnegut, was premiered by Indianapolis Opera. A frequent collaborator, Mr. Clark works with dancers,
choreographers, and visual artists in the creation of new works. Currently, Mr. Clark is Professor of Music at
Butler University, where he conducts the Butler Symphony Orchestra and Butler Ballet.
JON CRABIEL
Jon Crabiel is Percussion Artist-in-Residence at Butler University’s Jordan College of the Arts in Indianapolis,
IN. At Butler University, Jon serves as coordinator of percussion studies, conducts the percussion ensembles,
and teaches courses in percussion literature, pedagogy, and world drumming. In addition, Jon serves as director
and founder of the Butler Percussion Camp, held every June at Butler University.
In 2017, Jon took a one-year leave of absence from Butler to perform and serve as Acting Assistant Principal
Timpani and Percussion with the National Symphony Orchestra for the 2017-18 season in Washington, D.C. Jon
is first-call extra percussion with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the National
Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Ft. Wayne
Philharmonic, Empire Brass, Ronen Chamber Ensemble, Dance Kaleidoscope, and national Broadway tour
companies. He has served as Principal Timpani at the Bear Valley Music Festival and toured with the River City
Brass Band. In addition to classical music, Jon is equally versed in rock, pop, jazz, Latin American, and Brazilian
percussion and drumset. He is a member of The Icarus Ensemble, an eclectic five-piece jazz group made up of
members of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The Icarus Ensemble have performed with the Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra in concert as guest artist at the Hilbert Circle Theatre, and released their first self-titled
CD The Icarus Ensemble in 2015.
Jon studied as an Artist Diploma candidate at Carnegie Mellon University and received both his Bachelor of
Music and Master of Arts degrees from Eastern Illinois University. His past teachers include Timothy Adams Jr.,
Professor Johnny Lee Lane, and Richard Paul. In 2014, Jon received the Outstanding Graduate Alumni
Award from Eastern Illinois University.
An active performer, clinician, and educator throughout the Midwest, Jon serves annually as percussion coach
of the Honor Orchestra of America and Masterclass Clinician for the Music For All National Concert Festival. He
has served on the faculty of the United States Percussion Camp, MidWest Percussion Camp, Las Vegas
Percussion Camp, Great Lakes Music Camp, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.
He has presented clinics for the Percussive Arts Society, Indiana Music Educators Association, and Indiana
Percussion Association. Jon is an active and in-demand studio musician for commercial recording sessions,
and has made solo performances with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (with The Icarus Ensemble),
Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Midwest Band and Orchestra
International Conference, and the Indiana Music Educators Association Convention.
Jon's students have received numerous Butler University Concerto Competition honors and awards, and his
former students are currently performing with major symphony orchestras, touring nationally and
internationally with Broadway shows, and teaching at universities in North America. Jon is a Yamaha Performing
Artist and endorses Yamaha Drums and Percussion, Vic Firth Drumsticks and Mallets, Remo Drumheads, and
Zildjian Cymbals.
Jordan College of the Arts | Butler University | 4600 Sunset Ave | Indianapolis, IN | 46208JCA LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT STATEMENT
We acknowledge that we gather here at Butler University on the traditional land of indigenous
peoples including the Potawatomi, Miami, Delaware, and Shawnee. We honor with gratitude the
land itself and the indigenous peoples past and present who have stewarded it throughout the
generations. This calls us to commit to continuing to learn how to be better stewards of the land we
inhabit, while also acknowledging that some were brought to this land not by choice.
The Butler University School of Music is proud to acknowledge
Meridian Piano Movers
as a corporate sponsor of our programs.
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