Mass Steel Band with Liam Teague, Chris Hanning, Ricardo Flores
World Showcase Concert
Saturday, 5:00 p.m.
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Liam Teague
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Chris Hanning
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UI Steelband
Central College Flying Pans directed by Stan Dahl
Miami University of Ohio directed by Chris Tanner
Jim Royle Drum Studio Steel Band
Chris Hanning has been performing with steel bands and studying the drumming styles of Trinidad for over 20 years. He plays regularly with the Panyard Steel Orchestra and recently released a drumset instructional DVD with Panyard, Inc. titled Island Grooves that was awarded 4 ½ stars out of 5 by Modern Drummer. Chris Hanning has performed throughout Europe and the United States in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Royal Albert Hall in London. As a result of over ten years of work for NFL Films, Chris has performed on numerous recordings for movies and films. He also has played on recordings with the Bach Festival Orchestra, the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, Relâche, and several jazz and rock CDs. Chris is Professor of Percussion at West Chester University and is an artist/clinician for Pearl/Adams, Panyard, Pro-Mark, Remo, and Zildjian.
Percussionist Ricardo Flores has been electrifying audiences for years playing classical percussion, drumset, and world percussion in orchestral, chamber, jazz, pop, Latin and many other musical settings. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 where he holds the title of Associate Professor specializing in drumset and Latin percussion and directs the Steel Band / World Percussion Ensemble. Flores has appeared with numerous groups and artists including the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, the Cleveland Ballet and Opera Orchestras, the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Luciano Pavarotti, Aretha Franklin, Diane Shuur, Tony Bennett, Alex Acuña, Louie Bellson, John Riley, Vernon Reid, John Faddis and Peter Erskine. He has presented clinics, concerts and masterclasses in North and South America, Europe and Asia and can be heard on recordings with such performers as Arturo Sandoval, Dan Wall, Kenny Anderson, and Chip Stevens. Ricardo is a former President of the Illinois Chapter of PAS and serves on the PAS Drumset Committee.
A strong advocate for original steelpan compositions, Liam Teague has commissioned a number of significant composers to write for the instrument, including Pulitzer- prize-winner, Michael Colgrass; Grammy award winner, Libby Larsen; and Pulitzer-prize-award nominee, Jan Bach. Many of his own compositions are published with Maumau Music, Pan Press, and Ramajay Music. Teague, with the Chicago Sinfonietta, gave the world premiere of Jan Bach’s “Concerto for Steelpan and Orchestra” at Orchestra Hall in Chicago. He has also performed with many diverse ensembles, including the Czech National Symphony, Panama National Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Vermeer String Quartet, Dartmouth Wind Ensemble, TCL Group Skiffle Bunch, and the BP Renegades Steelbands. Teague has released eight compact discs including For Lack of Better Words, Panoramic: Rhythm Through the Unobstructed View, and Open Window. Liam Teague is Associate Professor of Music and Head of Steelpan Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) where he also co-directs the renowned NIU Steelband with steelband legend Cliff Alexis.
The Central College Flying Pans Steel Band from Pella, Iowa, founded and directed by Stanley E. Dahl, Assistant Professor of Music, has traveled extensively throughout the Midwest performing concerts and clinics for elementary and high schools, colleges and universities, island parties, and festivals since 2000. They have performed for the Iowa Day of Percussion, Iowa Music Educators Association Conference, Iowa Bandmasters Association Conference, International Association of Pan, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They have also performed and received clinics with steelpan/Caribbean artists Chris Wabich, the PANic All-Stars, Jumbies, Tropical Steel, Britton/Moore Duo, Liam Teague + Robert Chappell, Panoramic, Ken “Professor” Philmore, and Andy Narell. The Flying Pans consist of both music and non-music majors and perform diverse styles of music from traditional calypso, soca, and reggae to that of Latin, disco, techno, and rock and roll. They have recorded numerous CDs for steelpan including Led Pans, Sanpana, Aerosteel, Caribbean Rhapsody, Despanado, Pan Jam, Frankensteel, Disco Steel, and Cirque D’ Steel.
The Miami University Steel Band was founded in 1994 with a complement of ten players and six instruments. Under founder and director Chris Tanner, the program has grown to encompass two separate ensembles with a combined enrollment of over sixty members, and twenty-five university-owned instruments. The ensemble is one of the most active in the Cincinnati area, performing over twenty times annually in settings ranging from school outreach programs to guest appearances with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The goal of the Miami University Steel Band is to present excellent performances of quality literature in the steel band idiom, with a special emphasis on original music by contemporary composers. The ensemble appeared at the Ohio Music Educators Association annual conference in 2002 and 2006, and at PASIC 2002 and 2005. The ensemble’s latest recording, Three Wishes, was released in 2009 and is available via the Pan Ramajay website and the iTunes Music Store.
Tom Siwe formed the University of Illinois Steel Band in the spring of 1977 as an adjunct to the school’s historic percussion ensemble program. The goal was to provide students with a cultural and aesthetic experience by performing trans-Caribbean music as well as special arrangements of jazz, classical, and pop music. Its current director, Ricardo Flores, continues this tradition and has added a World Percussion Ensemble component focusing on Afro-Cuban/Brazilian percussion techniques and improvisation.
The Jim Royle Drum Studio Steel Band is from Bridgeport CT. Just recently back in April from a nine day performance tour in Trinidad. In Trinidad they performed at the University of West Indies, as well as performing in a joint concert with the Sound Specialists with arranger Ken "Professor" Philmore in Laventille. Jim's group was sponsored in Trinidad by Gill's Pan shop were they borrowed drums and practiced in the Sforzata panyard. It was a trip of a lifetime! The Jim Royle Drum Studio is a private percussion school with one hundred and twenty private students, andfour faculty. There are five graded percussion ensemble groups that split their practice time between concert percussion and steel pan. The studio goal is to reach our A team touring ensemble that has also toured in Italy, England, and has performed through out the United States.