George Wiese

Performer and Music Educator

 

 

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. 
                                                                   - Henry Adams

 

 

We think of the effective teachers we've had over the years with a sense of recognition, but those who have touched our humanity we remember with a deep sense of gratitude.                                         

- Anonymous student

 


Dr. Harlan Parker
Harlan Parker is in his nineteenth year as the conductor of The Peabody Wind Ensemble and Coordinator of the Music Education Division at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of The Johns Hopkins University. In the fall of 2007, he as also appointed as the Conductor of the Peabody Youth Orchestra (formerly the Sinfonietta).  Under his direction, the Peabody Wind Ensemble has given over 25 world premieres, and has performed at State, Regional and National Conventions. Considered "one of the finest ensembles of its kind in the nation," the Peabody Wind Ensemble has received critical acclaim from contemporary composers such as David Amram, James Syler, Eric Ewazen, Stella Sung and Johan de Meij.

Their debut CD, From an Antique Land, has been praised as one of the most exciting wind ensemble recordings in recent times and the second CD, Orff, Bird and Reed, was re-released in August 2006 on the Naxos label. Of the performance of La Fiesta Mexicana on the second CD, composer H. Owen Reed, in a letter to Dr. Parker writes, "I have just listened, twice, to your brilliant recording of my La Fiesta Mexicana, and I must tell you that it was a thrill to hear my music performed exactly as I always hoped for. Your total understanding of the work showed up on all parameters. Your tempos were on the mark, and the overall conception of the work was superb."  The Orff, Bird and Reed CD was also listed on the "Best of the Year Discs for 2006" by Audiophile Audition.  Their second CD for Naxos, Collage: A Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Peabody Institute: 1857 - 2007, was the top Classical Music download (out of more than 12,000 CDs) on eMusic.com for the first half of April 2007. 

The Peabody Wind Ensemble is also featured on the Amstel Music label with the premiere recording of Johan de Meij's Venetian Collection, which is available in this country through The-Sheet-Music-Store.com. The recording of the critically acclaimed premiere performance of Symphony No. 2, The Lion of Panjshir, by David Gaines is also available through Verda Stelo. 

As well as his duties at Peabody, Dr. Parker has a very active musical life outside of the Conservatory. He is a Past-President of The Conductors Guild, an international service organization dedicated to encouraging and promoting the highest standards in the art and profession of conducting. Dr. Parker is also a member The American Bandmasters Association, an organization whose membership is by invitation and recognizes "outstanding achievement in the field of the concert band and its music."  Additionally, he is active regionally, nationally and internationally as a guest conductor, conducting pedagogue, clinician and adjudicator, having worked with professional musicians and students from all 50 states and over 35 countries.

In his first year as a faculty member at Peabody, Dr. Parker reorganized the Peabody Wind Ensemble in its present format after several years of non-existence and was awarded the Peabody Student Council Faculty/Administration Award for outstanding contributions to the Peabody Community. In the fall of 2000, Dr. Parker accepted the first graduate class of Wind Conducting students.  Graduates and students of the program are teachers/conductors in high schools and colleges and conductors of military bands. Dr. Parker received his Bachelor of Music from Emporia State University and his Master of Music and Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education with an emphasis in Conducting from the University of Kansas and has completed post-doctoral work at the Laban/Bartenineff Institute of Movement Studies in New York.


Edward Polochick is Artistic Director of Concert Artists of Baltimore, an all-professional orchestra and all-professional vocal ensemble of seventy musicians, which is celebrating its twenty-second season.  2008-2009 also marks his eleventh season as Music Director of Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra in Nebraska.  From 1979-1999 he was on the staff of the Baltimore Symphony as Director of the Symphony Chorus and since 1979 he has been at the Peabody Conservatory as Associate Conductor of the Orchestra, Director of Choral Ensembles and Opera Conductor. An accomplished pianist and harpsichordist, he has appeared as piano soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

Edward PolochickSince winning the Leopold Stokowski Conducting Award and conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, he has attracted attention as an orchestral, operatic and choral conductor. His appearances have included the Baltimore Symphony, Houston Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Aalborg Symphony of Denmark, Omaha Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Daejeon Philharmonic (Korea), St. Petersburg Symphony (Russia) and the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra in Toluca, Mexico. 

Mr. Polochick resides in Baltimore, where he is often asked to share his knowledge and love of music at various lecture series, adjudications and radio broadcasts.  He received the Peggy and Yale Gordon Achievement Award and in 2000 he was made an honorary member of the Baltimore Music Club.  In 2002 he was awarded the Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Alumnus Award. In 2003-04 he was named Baldwin Scholar at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, where he held lectures, demonstrations and panels on the creative act of music.  Maestro Polochick is also a regular panelist on Face The Music, a review of recordings hosted by Jonathan Palevsky of WBJC-FM.

Adam Glaser -
Conductor/Composer

American conductor Adam Glaser’s 2008 performance schedule includes his debut with the Victoria Symphony (B.C.), and return engagements with the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra and the orchestras of the New York Summer Music Festival. Now in his ninth season on the faculty of the Juilliard School, Mr. Glaser conducts the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, a professional-caliber youth orchestra he leads in regular concerts at New York’s Lincoln Center. Previous appearances include performances with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and orchestras of the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Michigan. Mr. Glaser was awarded the American-Austrian Foundation’s prestigious Karajan Fellowship for Young Conductors, which sponsored his residence at the Salzburg Festival and the Internationales Orchesterinstitut Attergau in St. Georgen, Austria.

An active composer, Mr. Glaser has enjoyed performances of his works by 19 major orchestras throughout the U.S. and Canada including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Utah Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, along with the orchestras of Victoria, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Illinois, Long Island, Richmond, South Bend, and Naples, and various college orchestras including the University of Michigan, Stanford University and Cornell University.

Mr. Glaser’s credits as an opera conductor include an adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen with the Curtis Opera Theatre, and Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne with the Ridotto Chamber Orchestra, which he also led from the harpsichord in performances of Baroque vocal works. He served as an assistant conductor for the Curtis Opera Theatre’s production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, and as chorusmaster/assistant conductor for Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore in Urbania, Italy, and studied the operas of Rossini at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. His choral conducting engagements include a performance of the Fauré Requiem with the All-County High School Choir of Suffolk County, NY, and appearances at the Oregon Bach Festival. Performances of his choral compositions and arrangements include those by choirs of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Kol HaKavod, a vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of Jewish music.

A former marketing executive and consultant to Fortune 500 companies, Mr. Glaser maintains a keen interest in commercial music, audio branding, and the use of music and sound throughout the business world. In 2007, he launched Glaser Music, Inc. (GMI), a unique firm which creates original music for film, television, advertising, corporate/retail and new media.

Mr. Glaser earned a diploma in orchestral conducting from the Curtis Institute of Music, a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School Pre-College Division in composition, and a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in English, Afro-American Studies and Music. Additional studies include piano performance at the Oberlin Conservatory and composition at the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division.

For more information about Adam Glaser, please visit www.adamglaser.com. For more information about Glaser Music, Inc., please visit www.glasermusic.com.

Richard Linn has been teaching instrumental music at all levels in the Southern New Jersey area since 1977. He has taught at the high school, junior high and elementary levels in the Millville, NJ school district, where he is currently teaching in three elementary schools. Mr. Linn is also presently an adjunct professor, teaching applied trombone at Rowan College of NJ. Mr. Linn has also been performing as a freelance trombonist and euphoniumist in the greater Philadelphia, Delaware, and South Jersey area since 1977. He has performed in many different venues, from the Academy of Music in Philadelphia to the casinos in Atlantic City. He has been playing principal trombone in the Bay-Atlantic since its inception, and regularly performs as Principal trombone with the Delaware Symphony, and the Reading Symphony (PA). Mr. Linn received a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education in 1975, and a Master of Music in Applied Trombone in 1977 from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, while working as a graduate assistant. During this time, he had also played extra trombone with the Pittsburgh Symphony.

James Markey joined the New York Philharmonic as Associate Principal Trombone in 1997, and has recently assumed the bass trombone position. Previously, Mr. Markey was the Principal Trombone of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - a position he assumed after his second year at the Juilliard School, studying with Joseph Alessi. His solo appearances include performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Sun Valley Summer Symphony, U.S. Army Band (Pershing's Own), New York Staff Band of the Salvation Army, North Shore Symphony Orchestra, Hora Decima Brass Ensemble, and Hanover Wind Symphony. Since 2001 he has also been the Principal Trombone of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony.

In demand as a recitalist and clinician, he has been a featured artist at the International Trombone Festival, the Eastern Trombone Workshop and the conferences of the New Jersey Music Educators Association and the New York State School Music Association. He has also appeared at several major educational institutions, including The Glenn Gould School at the University of Toronto, James Madison University, the University of Calgary and Mount Royal College, Rutgers University and the Boston Conservatory.

Mr. Markey appears on several recordings of the Pittsburgh Symphony and the New York Philharmonic, and released his first solo CD, Offroad, in 2003. He can also be heard as a soloist on the Hora Decima Brass Ensemble's recording of Janko Nilovic's Double Concerto for Two Trombones alongside Joseph Alessi, on the Summit Records label.

Mr. Markey currently serves on the faculties of the Juilliard School Pre-College Division, Montclair State University, New York University, and SUNY Purchase.

Visit James Markey’s Web page: www.markeybone.com

Mike Boschen began playing the trombone in fourth grade.  While studying with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra in high school, he decided to pursue a career in music.  After receiving his BM from the Eastman School of Music in 1995, he moved to New York City to attend The Juilliard School, from which he graduated in 1997 with his MM.  His interest in all styles of music has enabled him to establish a career with healthy variety, and he has performed with groups such as The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the New York City Ballet Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra, The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, the Village Vanguard Orchestra, the Temptations, the O'Jays, Yes, Chuck Mangione, Nancy Wilson, Phil Woods, Don Byron, Slide Hampton and the World of Trombones, Louie Bellson and Audra McDonald.

Mike has recorded music for radio, television, and movies, as well as for artists including Wayne Shorter, Audra McDonald, Slide Hampton, Steve Tyrell, Manhattan Transfer, The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, the Extension Ensemble, the American Brass Quintet, and The New World Symphony. As a member of the orchestra Mike has recorded cast albums for the Broadway shows The Full Monty, The Frogs, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He plays lead and solo trombone with the Birdland Big Band, which performs every week at the Birdland jazz club, and is also a member the band Jesus H. Christ and the Four Hornsmen of the Apocolypse.  In addition, Michael is principal trombone of the Riverside Symphony, which performs and records contemporary works for orchestra.  Michael has also been an adjunct professor at Sarah Lawrence College, and is currently a member of the Juilliard Pre College faculty.

David Fetter (b. 1938) is a Conservatory and Preparatory Trombone faculty member at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he also teaches Chamber Music in the Conservatory. Also a composer, arranger, and publisher, his career as trombonist included two years as Assistant Trombone in the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and sixteen years, ten of them as Principal, in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Sergiu Comissiona and David Zinman. Guest conductors in Cleveland included Pierre Boulez, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Istvan Kertesz, and Bernard Haitink. Mr. Fetter has also been a member of the San Antonio Symphony, The National Ballet Orchestra in Washington, D.C., the Radio/Telefis Eireann Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Ireland, and the U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own." He has performed chamber music with the Theater Chamber Players in Washington, D.C. and early music with Musica Rara in Baltimore, and he has been a soloist with the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the U.S. Army Band.

Mr. Fetter holds a Bachelor of Music/Education degree with a Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied trombone with Emory Remington and was a member of the Eastman Wind Ensemble under Frederick Fennell. He also holds a Master's in musicology from the American University in Washington, D.C. He has conducted brass ensembles and contemporary music. His works have been recorded by leading soloists and are performed at colleges and universities and festivals in the U.S. and Europe.

David Fetter's primary trombone teacher was Emory Remington at the Eastman School of Music. Other study was with Lewis Van Haney, then Second Trombone in the New York Philharmonic and later a faculty member at Indiana University. Mr. Fetter studied in Hamburg, Germany with Horst Raasch, Principal Trombone of the North German Radio Orchestra. Other strong influences were Robert Marstellar, Principal Trombone of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Edward Kleinhammer, Bass Trombone of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and Heinz Walter Thiele, Second Trombone of the Berlin Philharmonic.

At Eastman, Mr. Fetter studied conducting with Herman H. Genhart and composition with Thomas Canning. He has conducted the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Peabody Brass Ensemble, ResMusic America, and the brass ensemble of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society.

Visit David Fetter’s Web Page: https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/myweb/DavidFetter/

Above, I have given the names and biographies of my four major trombone teachers.  However, this page would be incomplete without making mention of several others who have touched my life professionally and personally.

Those would include: Jodi Leslie, Helen Stanley, John Lapetina, Phylis Dalton, Lorrie and Auggie Gall, Dr. Andrew Thomas, Charles Walker, George Rabbai, and so many more. 

But most especially, I would like to express my deepest thanks to my wondreful family and my loving, supporting parents, George and Jill, without whose support and advice I could never have followed my dreams.