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110 Orchard Road, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, USA
https://www.music.udel.edu/events/calendarThe UD Wind Ensemble presents a diverse program of music, including: Thai-American composer Kevin Charoensri's "Rising Light," a deeply personal work written in response to the recent surge of Asian hate; Margaret Brouwer's wild and exciting "Sizzle," a pair of works by the legendary Florence Price; Aaron Copland's masterpiece "A Quiet City" featuring faculty guest artists Dr. Chris Underwood (trumpet) and Dr. Erin Banholzer (English horn) and more!
DR. ERIN BANHOLZER (English Horn) enjoys an active career as an orchestral musician, soloist, and educator. She has performed with notable orchestras across the United States, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared internationally on several occasions, including on tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, in concerts for members of the Vatican in Rome, Italy, and in performances at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, Oman.
Banholzer is principal oboe of the Ocean City Pops Orchestra and Lancaster Festival Orchestra, former artist-in-residence at Summer Music in Tuscany, and has also participated in the Britt, Castleton, Music Academy of the West, National Orchestral Institute and Spoleto USA summer music festivals. As a soloist, Banholzer has appeared with the Lancaster Festival Orchestra, Rutgers University Symphony Band, and the Evelyn Dunbar Early Music Festival.
A sought-after educator, Banholzer is a member of the oboe faculty at the University of Delaware School of Music. She was formally a faculty member at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. She founded the University of Delaware CMS Reed Making Seminar and has presented masterclasses at many institutions including Northwestern University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, New York University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Banholzer was born in upstate New York and raised in Ohio and New York. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University and Master of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. She participated in the Performance Residency program at Carnegie Mellon University and earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University. Her principal teachers have included Nathan Hughes, Scott Bell, Jeffrey Rathbun, Scott Hostetler, and Michael Henoch.
DR. CHRIS UNDERWOOD (Trumpet) currently serves as Assistant Professor of Trumpet at the University of Delaware, and has previously held positions at UNC Pembroke and East Tennessee State University leading master classes, conducting trumpet ensembles and teaching studio lessons. Dr. Underwood performs as Second Trumpet/Associate Principal of the Asheville Symphony, solo cornet in the Atlantic Brass Band, and frequently performs with the Roanoke Symphony. Underwood has also performed with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Bay Atlantic Symphony, Carolina Philharmonic, Piedmont Wind Symphony, Western Piedmont Symphony, and has served as Principal Trumpet of the Durham Symphony and Lund Stradorchester in Lund, Sweden.
Dr. Underwood received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in trumpet from the University of North Carolina – Greensboro while serving as a graduate teaching assistant. He graduated with merit from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, U.K. with a Masters in Orchestral Studies, and attended the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden. Additionally, Dr. Underwood holds a Master of Music in Trumpet Performance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a Bachelor’s in Music Business from Radford University. Dr. Underwood's teachers have included Mark Clodfelter, John Miller, Rhys Owens, Bo Nilsson, Mark Camphouse and he has worked with Håkan Hardenberger, Reinhold Friedrich, Tom Hooten, and Kristian Steenstrup.
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