UNCW WIND SYMPHONY

Thursday December 3, 2009
:30 pm

Kenan Auditorium

Free

For more information, call the Department of Music at 910/962-3415.

Directed by Christofer Ackerman.

ABOUT THE WIND SYMPHONY

The Wind Symphony is UNCW's premiere symphonic band and its members consist of music majors in the Department of Music and students university-wide. Conducted by Christofer Ackerman, the Wind Symphony strives to create the highest level of musical communication possible through the performance of the wind band repertoire.

ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR

Christofer Ackerman is an accomplished musician, performer, teacher, and con¬ductor. 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 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, Ackerman is principal trumpet of the Long Bay Symphony, lead trumpet for the Cape Fear Jazz Orchestra, and plays in the UNCW faculty brass Quintet. Mr. Ackerman received his Bachelor's of Music in Education, cum laude, from the University of Arizona and his Master's in Performance from Northwestern University.