The Ohio State University Percussion Ensemble at OMEA 2/3/24

Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024 • 12:30 p.m.

Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA)
Professional Development Conference

Greater Columbus Convention Center (CC)
A210–215

The Ohio State University Percussion Ensemble
Susan Powell and Joseph Krygier, directors
Erin Helgeson Torres, flute

PROGRAM

Mako (2021)

Susan K. Powell (b. 1971)

Ionization (1931)

Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)

Ennead (2020)

Joseph Krygier (b. 1971)

New York Counterpoint (1985/2008)

Steve Reich (b. 1936), arr. Krygier

I
III

Evocation — gentle rain falling (1988)

Mark Duggan (b. 1961)

Erin Torres, flute

Kroumata (2021)

Daniel Berg (b. 1972)

Percussion Ensemble Personnel

Directors

With a specialty in the fusing of multiple styles and cultures, percussionist and composer Joseph Krygier wields his background in classical, world, commercial and electronic music to forge a sound that is uniquely his own. As a composer Krygier has produced a diverse body of music for solo and chamber settings, including contemporary dance — each work defying categorization. His compositions are published by his own company, Whirlygigs Collective. Krygier performs regularly as a member of the Sympatico Percussion Group and Pendulum Percussion Duo, appearing at festivals, universities, and Percussive Arts Society events across the country and abroad. Within the greater Columbus region, he performs regularly with The Early Interval (medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music) and the contemporary mixed chamber ensemble, CODE, in addition to the Newark Granville Symphony, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, and LULU & Co. Novelty Ragtime Band. In the academic realm, he has served as a music lecturer and dance accompanist holding positions at The Ohio State University School of Music, the Ohio State Department of Dance, Ohio Wesleyan University, BalletMet Dance Academy, and Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Camp. Additionally, he previously served as a member of the United States Air Force Academy Band in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Krygier received his undergraduate degree in percussion performance from the Eastman School of Music and his Masters degree from Northwestern University. Krygier is proud to be an educational endorser for Zildjian Cymbals, Yamaha Percussion, Vic Firth, Grover Pro Percussion, and the Remo Drumhead Co.

Susan Powell is currently professor and director of percussion studies at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Powell is well known as a mallet keyboard specialist and considered one of the foremost ragtime soloists of her generation. Having a particular interest in increasing the repertoire and visibility of the xylophone as a featured musical voice, Powell has commissioned and composed multiple works for the instrument in this setting. She is the founder and director of LULU & Co. Novelty Ragtime Band, where she is featured as a xylophone soloist, arranger and composer. She has presented showcase sessions and clinics at the Percussive Arts Society International Conventions, the Midwest Clinic, as well as multiple OMEA (Ohio Music Educators Association) conferences. An active chamber performer, she often appears with the Pendulum Duo and Sympatico Percussion Group at festivals, universities, and Percussive Arts Society events across the country. She has performed as a solo and chamber musician across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Europe, and is the recipient of both The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and the School of Music Distinguished Teacher. She currently serves as Secretary for the Ohio Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society and her compositions are published by Keyboard Percussion Publications, Musicon Publications, and Whirlygigs Collective. Powell holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music (BM) and Northwestern University (MM, DM) and is an artist/ educational endorser for Malletech, where her signature line of xylophone mallets will be available in the spring of 2024. Additional endorsements include Zildjian Cymbals, Remo Drumhead Co. and Grover Pro Percussion.

Guest Artist

Highly regarded as an educator, clinician, soloist, new music specialist, and chamber and orchestral musician, flutist Erin Helgeson Torres has performed and taught throughout the United States and abroad in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Austria, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, China and Canada. She is assistant professor of music at Ohio Northern University where she teaches the flute studio and various musicology courses.
Helgeson Torres serves as principal flutist with the Lima Symphony Orchestra where she looks forward to a world premiere of a flute and saxophone concerto with her Tower Duo partner and husband Michael Rene Torres on April 6, 2024. She also serves as principal flutist of the Worthington Chamber Orchestra and Queen City Opera and solo flutist with the Columbus Ohio Discovery Ensemble (CODE), a contemporary music ensemble. She performs regularly in various area orchestras including the West Virginia, Louisville, Central Ohio, Springfield, and Westerville Symphonies as well as the Columbus Symphony Orchestra.
Erin Helgeson Torres conducted her dissertation research in Dijon, France and holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, The Ohio State University and Stetson University. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her saxophonist husband, Michael, and their rescue ex-racer greyhound, Arwen.

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