Thursday September 25, 2008
UNCW Wind Symphony
7:30 pm
Kenan Auditorium
Free and open to the public. No ticket required.
Wind Symphony is UNCW's premiere symphonic band. It consists of majors in the Department of Music and students university-wide. Wind Symphony strives to create the highest level of musical communication possible through performance of the wind band repertoire.
Christofer Ackerman is an accomplished musician, performer, teacher, and conductor. As a conductor, he has served as guest conductor and clinician for Duplin, Brunswick, and Pender counties' all-county bands and adjudicated the Eastern District's Solo/Ensemble Festival as well as the Middle School Band Festival for the North Carolina Bandmasters' Association. He is also a tenure-track professor of music at UNCW, where, among other things, he is Professor of Trumpet, Instrumental Coordinator, and conductor of the Wind Symphony, Chamber Winds, and Pep Band. He has studied conducting with Gregg I. Hanson at the University of Arizona, and Mallory Thompson at the Northwestern Conductors' Symposium. As a trumpet player, Ackerman has maintained a richly diverse musical life that has included solo performances, lead parts in off-Broadway shows, CD recordings, studio work throughout the United States and the world-from Disneyworld to Germany and Norway. He has played with ensembles including the Chicago Community Orchestra and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, where he played an all John Williams concert under the baton of John Williams. Currently, Mr. Ackerman is Principal Trumpet for the Long Bay Symphony, lead trumpet for the Cape Fear Jazz Orchestra, and plays in the UNCW Faculty Brass Quintet. He received his Bachelor's of Music in Education, cum laude, from the University of Arizona and his Master's of Music in Performance from Northwestern University.
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