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Repertoire

1) “Blest Pair of Sirens” - Sir Charles Hubert Parry 

2) Sir Karl Jenkins Composition Award Winner: "Hua Fei Hua" - Tristen Wang （Student of Dulwich Beijing）

3) Polovtsian Dances (From Prince Igor) - Alexander Borodin

INTERVAL 

4) Four Dance Episodes from "Rodeo" - Aaron Copland

5) Chichester Psalms - Leonard Bernstein

6)  La Suerte de los Tontos - Composed & Orchestrated by Johnny Richards; Re-orchestrated by Newton

Wayland;  Choral Orchestration by Matthew Goss

Our Practitioners

Mike Vax

Big Band Specialist

 

Mike Vax is an International Artist for the Getzen Musical Instrument Company. He regularly impresses the audience with his vividly colourful sound and beautifully lyrical phrasing.

As a recording musician, he has performed on more than 75 albums, including 20 under his own name. He has appeared as guest lead trumpet and soloist with symphony pops orchestras around the United States, and in Europe, as well as the All-American Collegiate Orchestra at Disneyworld. 

Mike has done workshops and concerts in over 2500 high schools, colleges and universities all around the world over the past 42 years. He is very active as a music clinician and soloist in both the classical and jazz idioms.

Currently he is leading his own groups: The Stan Kenton Alumni Band, The Mike Vax Big Band, The Swing Shift Big Band in Prescott, Arizona, TRPTS (Trumpets), The Great American Jazz Band and the Mike Vax Quintet and Sextet. 

Colin Touchin

Conductor

Colin Touchin is an award-winning British conductor and composer, clarinettist and recorder-player, festival adjudicator and broadcaster. His encouragement of singers and players in choirs, orchestras and bands has inspired ensembles, amateur and professional, in schools, universities and communities in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. 

He has founded several ensembles: Midlands Wind Orchestra (now Warwick Orchestral Winds), British Universities Honours Band, and National Youth Recorder Orchestras. Five years as Conductor of Warwickshire County Youth Orchestra were rewarded in July 2011 with a Special Performance Award in the National Festival of Music for Youth Finals leading to an invitation performance at the Royal Albert Hall in the Schools Proms. 

His current work includes composing commissions for bands, choirs, orchestras and schools, and conducting City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong with Hayley Westenra, and Hong Kong Police Band in the annual Christmas Concert in the Park televised over half of Asia. His most recent composition Hallasan Concerto was premiered in Jeju by Steven Mead (euphonium) and HK Tak Ming Philharmonic Winds.

Dr Martin Adams 

Artistic Director: Repertoire and Development

“We all leave the festival enriched, not just musically, but by an awareness of our common bonds across different cultures, races and backgrounds.”

Martin Adams studied at Southampton University, and for a number of years was active as a composer and arranger of theatre music, and as a conductor of amateur and semi-professional choirs and orchestras. For three years he lectured at Leeds University, and in 1979 moved to Trinity College Dublin, where he is a Senior Lecturer, a Fellow of the college and head of the Music Department. His research interests lie in English music of the 17th century (mainly Purcell) and the late-19th/early-20th centuries (mainly Elgar, on whose music he has written several analytical papers). Henry Purcell: the Origins and Development of His Musical Style (Cambridge, 1995) is the only extensive and detailed study of that composer's compositional practice, and has just become available in paperback.

Dr Robert Hasty

Orchestral artistic director, Conductor

Dr. Hasty began his career teaching music in the public schools in Southern California; this included tenure in administration as the District Music Coordinator of the Capistrano Unified School District where he supervised the K-12 music education program and its staff of 39 teachers. 

Dr. Robert G. Hasty is the Music Director of the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra and conductor of the Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia and Summer Orchestra at the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University where he also serves as the Associate Director of Orchestras.

As a conductor, Dr. Hasty is currently the music director Merit Symphony Orchestra in Chicago and has performed with many orchestras including the All-American College Orchestra at Walt Disney World, Beijing Youth Orchestra, Metropolis Youth Symphony and Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra. His performances have been broadcast on WFMT in Chicago. Dr. Hasty’s international engagements include two sold-out performances at the National Concert Hall of Taipei, Taiwan, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China, and at the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center Concert Hall in Shanghai, China.