Encore Wind Ensemble
Peter Haberman, conductor
Curtain Call - Jack Stamp
Elegy for Albinoni - Shelley Hanson
Pebble Beach Sojourn - Ron Nelson
Organ - Bill Chouinard
Beacons Bright - Dean Sorenson
American Nomad - Steve Heitzig/Stamp
- featuring Charles Lazarus
First Suite in Eb - Gustav Holst
St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church
Charles Lazarus
Trumpeter Charles Lazarus is a member of the Minnesota Orchestra and a multi-faceted musician who has charted a unique course as performer, composer, producer and band leader.
His career has included tenures in Dallas Brass, Meridian Arts Ensemble, and Canadian Brass. He has created and produced several crossover orchestral programs featuring his various ensembles with which he has released six recordings. The Minnesota Orchestra’s live video recording of Steve Heitzeg’s “American Nomad” concerto and a children's animated short film collaboraton with author Michael Hall “Perfect Square” are also among his many collaboratons.
Lazarus has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras around the US and Canada, performed with the Empire Brass, New York Philharmonic Principal Brass, London Brass, Barry White, and opened for Tony Bennet. In demand as a clinician and teacher, he has performed and taught master classes in every US state, Canada, Brazil, Cuba, South Africa and throughout Asia and Europe.
Bill Chouinard is Organist and Music Coordinator at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, a position he has held since 1988. Mr. Chouinard, whose past organ teachers include Dean Billmeyer, Kim Kasling, and Edward Berryman, has presented workshops on service playing and improvisation techniques and has served as organist for religious conventions and for numerous hymn festivals. A prize-winning finalist for the McKnight Foundation Fellowships for Performing Musicians, he has appeared several times on live national radio broadcasts on the St. Paul Fitzgerald’s Wurlitzer theatre organ and is a frequent performer on the American Public Media radio program “Pipedreams.” Mr. Chouinard’s accomplishments also include performing with the Minnesota Orchestra and touring as a guest organ soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has recorded both organ and harpsichord for several recent choral compact discs, and his first solo recording of the St. Andrew’s organ, Bill Chouinard Premieres, is available on the Pro Organo label.
Charles Lazarus’s appearance, and this world-premiere performance of Jack Stamp’s band arrangement of Steve Heitzeg’s American Nomad concerto, are made possible through the generous sponsorship of CircleRock Concerts for Community.
