Monday, Feb. 20, 2023 • 8 p.m.
Timashev Recital Hall • 1900 College Rd
Columbus, OH
FACULTY AND GUEST
Ted Clark, trumpet, cornet
Sterling Tanner, trombone, bass trombone
Wei-Yi Sun, piano
PROGRAM
Pastorale
Eric Ewazen (b. 1954)
Ted Clark, trumpet
Sterling Tanner, bass trombone
if only in dreams…
Jordan VanHemert (b. 1989)
Sterling Tanner
Rhapsody
David Sterrett (b. 1988)
Ted Clark
Sonata (Vox Gabrieli)
Stjepan Šulek (1914–1986)
Sterling Tanner
Golden Hour
Cait Nishimura (b. 1991)
Ted Clark
Cousins
Herbert L. Clarke (1867–1945)
Ted Clark, cornet
Sterling Tanner, trombone
About the Artists
Originally from Brockville, Ontario, TED CLARK began his career in Toronto where he was a member of the Toronto Brass Quintet and the Charlottetown Festival Orchestra, and performed with a long list of ensembles including the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, Toronto Philharmonia, Hannaford Street Silver Band, Symphony Nova Scotia, Hamilton Philharmonic, Orchestra London, Opera Ontario, and the Kitchener–Waterloo, Thunder Bay, Niagara, and Windsor Symphony Orchestras. Since moving to Ohio in 2016 he has performed and recorded extensively with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Erie Philharmonic, ProMusica and CityMusic Chamber Orchestras, and the Chautauqua, Columbus, Akron and Canton Symphonies. He has shared the stage with The Who, Weird Al Yankovic, Hanson, Roger Hodgson of Supertramp, and many others. Ted is currently on faculty at The Ohio State University, Malone University, the College of Wooster, and is a member of the Firelands and Ashland Symphonies. In addition to playing the trumpet, Ted is an avid cyclist and resides in Mentor, Ohio with his wife Katie and their two children, Jackson and Sarah.
Performer, educator and clinician STERLING TANNER is trombone assistant professor of practice at Ohio State University. In addition to leading trombone activities at Ohio State, Tanner coaches chamber music and serves as the faculty advisor for The Buckeye Trombone Association. | An S. E. Shires Performing Artist, Tanner has appeared as a soloist throughout the United States and abroad including performances in Hong Kong and Valencia, Spain. Tanner was named the winner of the 2016 and 2018 American Trombone Workshop Division III Bass Trombone Solo Competition, the 2015 Southeastern Trombone Symposium S. E. Shires Solo Competition, and was a finalist in the 2016 International Trombone Festival’s Donald Yaxley Solo Competition. | A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Sterling Tanner earned his bachelor’s degree in music education from Columbus [Georgia] State University. He holds both MM and DMA degrees in trombone performance from the University of Texas at Austin. His primary teachers include Bradley Palmer and Nathaniel Brickens.
WEI-YI SUN is a pianist and piano teacher living in central Ohio. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from The Ohio State University in 2020, and her Master of Music in piano performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2016. As an active performer, Wei-Yi has performed world-wide including solo recitals in Taiwan (National Taichung Theatre), United States, and at many international music festivals including the Amalfi Coast Music Festival (Italy), the Prague International Piano Festival (Czech Republic), and Musical Academy of Villefavard (France). She won many awards including the absolute first prize in the UK (United Kingdom) International Music Competition, Gold Medal in Forte International Music Competition (Carnegie Hall, New York), first prizes in both the OhioMTA (Music Teachers Association) Graves Piano Competition and Women in Music Audition, Honorable Mention in NTD International Piano Competition. She is currently a piano professor at Kenyon College.
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