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Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp’s Festival Band to perform at 3rd Annual Michigan Music Conference
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Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp’s Festival Band has been selected to perform at the 3rd Annual Michigan Music Conference. The conference will be held January 24-26, 2008, in Grand Rapids. The Festival Band will perform at DeVos Performance Hall on Friday evening, January 25, 2008, at 7:30 pm.
For this performance, the Festival Band will be directed by three of its long-standing conductors: Kent Krive, Carl Bjerregaard, and Donald Flickinger.
The repertoire for the concert will include Giovanni Gabrieli’s Canzon a 12 Echo, John Barnes Chance’s: Blue Lake Overture; Cecile Chaminade’s Concertino (with soloist Leonard Garrison, flute); Daniel Kovats’s Blue Lake Forever; Joaquin Turina’s La Procession du Rocio; James Niblock’s Soliloquy and Dance; H. Owen Reed’s Spiritual; Aaron Copland’s Emblems; Ludolph Arens’s Folk Song and Fugue Humoresque and From Canterbury Lane; Vassily Kalinnikov’s Finale from Symphony No. 1 in G minor; and John Philip Sousa’s Hail to the Spirit of Liberty.
The concert is open to the public. Tickets may be purchased on the Michigan Music Conference website (http://michiganmusicconference.org). Once on their homepage, click on the “2008 Conference Registration Open!” icon. On the following page, click on the “Concert Ticket order page” link.
Additional information about the Michigan Music Conference can be obtained at their website or by calling 734-975-1297.
The Blue Lake Festival Band is one of several major faculty/staff performing ensembles at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. In keeping with our long-standing belief that teachers can and should perform, faculty members are carefully chosen from some of the finest public school, university, and professional musicians throughout the United States. The Festival Band and the Festival Orchestra perform regularly for the camp community and the public in Blue Lake’s 4,000-seat William Stewart Memorial Music Shell and the new Gershwin Theater. These performances provide the foundation for Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp’s Summer Arts Festival and are broadcast live on Blue Lake Public Radio.
For many summers, the Blue Lake Festival Band performed under the direction of Dr. Harry Begian, one of the world’s most renowned band conductors. Dr. Begian and the Festival Band performed the finale concert at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in 1998. In January 2000, the Festival Band performed at the Illinois Music Educators Association All-State Conference in Peoria, Illinois, and at the Midwestern Conference on School Vocal and Instrumental Music in Ann Arbor in January 2002.
For the past five seasons, musical leadership for the Blue Lake Festival Band has been shared by Carl Bjerregaard, Donald Flickinger, and Kent Krive.
Carl Bjerregaard is Professor Emeritus at Florida State University. He holds degrees from Western Michigan University and Michigan State University and his public school experience includes directing music programs in Montague and Muskegon, Michigan. In 1972, he became the Director of Bands at Western Michigan University, and accepted the same position at Florida State University in 1976. Knowing that chamber music accelerated proficiency and musical understanding, Professor Bjerregaard initiated a chamber music program for all incoming wind players. Now, similar programs are common in universities throughout the country. His high school and university concert bands have performed at many musical events including the Midwest Band Clinic in Chicago and at regional and national MENC conferences. His ensemble recordings have been aired on National Public Radio, including Performance Today. In the early 1960s, as the first steps were taken to create BLFAC, Mr. Bjerregaard and his wife Marcia were involved in the site selection, planning, and financing. The success of the fledgling summer school of the arts was due in part to their contributions. In the Summer 1972, he served as music director of the Blue Lake International Symphony Band which toured throughout Europe. For the past eight summers, he has directed the Blue Lake Staff Band, Festival Band, and Festival Orchestra. Mr. Bjerregaard is a member of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and holds their Orpheus award. He is also a member of the American Bandmasters Association, CBDNA, and is an honorary member of the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association.
Donald Flickinger has recently been appointed Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs for Ferris State University. Prior to this appointment, he was Academic Department Head for the College of Arts and Science’s Humanities Department, Professor of Music, Director of Bands, Conductor of the University Chamber Orchestra, and Coordinator of the Music Industry Management Program. Mr. Flickinger holds Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Music Education, and Master of Music degrees from Central Michigan University. He has been a guest conductor throughout the Midwest and has served as a conducting clinician and guest conductor in Australia and Europe. He is a past president of the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association and was chosen Michigan’s Band Director of the Year in 1980. For eight years he organized and conducted the West Central Concert Band, a Big Rapids-based adult band. Mr. Flickinger has been associated with Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp for 35 seasons. He has been a regular conductor for student groups, the Festival Orchestra and Band, and the International Symphony Band, and he serves as the conductor for the Blue Lake International Adult Community Band. He and his wife Kaye have led numerous concert tours through Europe with Blue Lake bands. He is the currently the program administrator of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp’s summer Adult Arts Program, consisting of eleven four-day mini camps in a variety of arts areas. He is also a member of the Blue Lake Board of Trustees. Flickinger remains active as a clinician and adult band guest conductor. His primary conducting focus continues to be adult recreational music.
Kent J. Krive is Associate Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Ferris State University. He holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Michigan State University. He has held the position of Director of Bands in the school systems of Athens, Northport, Suttons Bay, Muskegon, and at Ferris State University. Mr. Krive served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Hope College in 1992, and in 1999 was Visiting Adjunct Instructor of Clarinet. Mr. Krive served as Principal Clarinet of the West Shore Symphony Orchestra for 39 years where he was featured as a soloist on a number of occasions. He has served as a clinician and Michigan Band and Orchestra adjudicator at the state and district levels, and has taught clarinet privately for 49 years. He has performed in the West Michigan Wind Ensemble and the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp Festival Band. Mr. Krive’s efforts in the first few years of camp operation helped to establish the successful band program at BLFAC. During the summers of 1991, 1999, and 2000, he conducted the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp International Symphony Band during its European tours. In recent years, Mr. Krive has conducted the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp Staff and Festival Bands.
According to the Michigan Music Conference’s website, “the purpose of the Michigan Music Conference is to provide an annual in-service opportunity for the professional development of Michigan music educators and to serve as a coordinating body for collaborative, inter-association initiatives in support of school music in Michigan.”
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