“[Hersey’s] playing was quite wonderful…like the compelling exhibition of an unusual and endangered bird.”
– Austin Statesman Newspaper
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New Performance, ElevenTwelve for Tuba and Electronic Accompaniment
ElevenTwelve was composed in 2019 for Bill Pritchard, for inclusion in a recital presentation on the performance of graphic scores for tuba, for premiere at Arizona State University at the International Women’s Brass Conference. The work is centered around the convent where medieval nun, composer, author, and theorist Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) lived and worked. Hildegard joined the convent as a young girl, traveling the seventeen miles from her home in the neighboring town of Bingen. When Hildegard arrived there, in the year 1112, she found a quiet and peaceful setting, the convent buildings in harmony with the surrounding forest and farmland. Set atop a hill in rural Germany, at Disibodenberg, the abby had been founded as a sacred place with the construction of a church in the year 640. Hildegard flourished under the creative atmosphere she found there, and after receiving her education, stayed into adulthood, and became Abbess in 1136, overseeing all operations of the thriving community of nuns. Hildegard went on to become a major political figure, author, and spiritual leader.
Looking to add to your music library? Bring these Fresh Faces onto your music stand. How about Hildegard von Bingen’s medieval chant music, updated for trombone or euphonium with electronics? Or perhaps music from the Chevalier de Saint-George’s violin concertos, for low brass duo or quartet? The sheet music collection includes original compositions, as well as arrangements including solo, duo and chamber music of varying levels. New titles are being added all the time, visit the store for instant download or hard copy purchase.
“As a composer, the vastness and diversity of your albums O quam mirabilis and Zigzags have expanded my idea of how the tuba can sound and what can be written for tuba. Your work has encouraged me to write what I hear for tuba and to place no limits on the musicality the tuba can achieve.”
– Charles J. Lumar II
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Hersey Artist Model Tuba Mouthpiece from Parker Mouthpieces.
Parker Mouthpieces are made in three interchangeable components: rim, cup and backbore. My Hersey cup will work with Hersey, Hitz, Helleberg/ Hall, Freelancer, Symphony, and Grand Parker backbores.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Thu19Aug2021
Brass Quintet Recital
7:30 PMUniversity of North Carolina at Pembroke, Moore Hall Auditorium.
Join my student brass quintet, with me playing euphonium, for our first concert of the semester, held over from last spring due to inclement weather. Free admission and parking, find a campus map at this link: https://www.uncp.edu/
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Sat28Aug2021
Concert and Incidental Music
10-4 PMWomen’s Military Memorial, Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, VA.This daylong celebration will feature ceremonies honoring our nation’s female veterans, and performances by an all-female, all-military brass quintet, comprised of veterans of the Women’s Army Corps Band and myself. For information on the memorial and their activities, visit, https://womensmemorial.
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Fri24Sep2021Sat25Sep2021
Darkwater Womxn in Music Festival
University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Moore Hall.
This two day festival will feature performances and lectures, and a recital of music for trombone and tuba by composers who identify as female, performed with Dr. Joseph Jefferson. For more about Darkwater, and to check back for the exact schedule, visit https://www.uncp.edu/
departments/music/darkwater- festival and find a campus map at this link: https://www.uncp.edu/ about/campus-map