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2026 Region IV Conference

Program Schedule

Friday 3/20

7 pm – Conference Registration Check-in

8 pm – Concert 1 (44 minutes)
Rosen Concert Hall

Unbecoming of Shadows (5′)
Mateo Woitczack
Anabella Carter and Raine Bausano, flutes
Blue Mountain Lake Suite (12’) 
Jane Kozhevnikova
Heather Niemi Savage, piano
Underneath, Below (10’)

I – Air
II – Rimsky’s Lullaby
III – Run
IV – Deep Wave

Alejandro Rutty
Alejandro Rutty and Xul Rutty, electric bass

#32 from Forty-four Ambitions (4’)

I. > as accent
II. > as diminuendo

Paul Richards

Kellie Hill, soprano
Heather Niemi Savage, piano

A Cycle of Love Songs (8’)
Jane Kozhevnikova

Kellie Hill, soprano
Soo Goh, clarinet

How to Explain Death to Your Daughter (5’)
Jessica Rudman

Kellie Hill, soprano
Heather Niemi Savage, piano

 

Saturday 3/2

9 am – Conference Registration Check-in

10 am – Paper Session
Broyhill 214

  • Careful Forests: Structures and Indeterminate Interplay within Wendy Reid’s Tree Pieces
    Ralph Lewis
  • Projects, Problems, and the Compositional Process
    Jessica Rudman
  • The Microtonal Works of Tui St. George Tucker
    Nicholas Cline

 
 

11 am – Concert 2 (44 minutes)
Rosen Concert Hall

…drift… (10’) 
Ronald Keith Parks
Tomoko Deguchi, piano
In a Trance (3’)
Samuel Rose
Samuel Rose, piano
beneath painted skies… (7’)
Isaac Pyatt
Isaac Pyatt & Louis Raymond-Kolker, percussion
Album Amicorum (11’)

I. Prelude – W. B.
II. Hymn Fragments – A. G.
III. Evidence – T.C. R.
IV. Groove Canons – R. R.

Peter Underhill
Peter Underhill, piano
Pastorale for Oboe and Piano (6’)
Mark Dal Porto
Tracy Carr, oboe
Mark Dal Porto, piano
Righteous Rage (7’)
Brittany J. Green
Blazing Bassoons

Andrew Coram, Emily Davis, Chris Levantis, Abigail Turner, Colin Whelen, Owen Marcellino, Bryan Harrell, and Hannah Gerlach

 
 

12-2 pm

Dolby Atmos Listening Room

Whirl (9’)
Garrison Gerard
Sounds Of A Liminal Space (7’) 
Kevin Mah
Bellitude (5’)
Christopher Cook
Rasp (6’)
Nicholas Cline
 
 

2 pm – Concert 3

Rosen Concert Hall

Hanunóo Colors (11’)

I. MABI:RU (Dark)
II. MARARA (Dry)
III. MALATUY (Fresh)
IV. MALAGTI (Light)

Roger Zare
Appalachian State Saxophone Choir
Justin Holloway, soprano saxophone
Camellia Peery, Lucas Bradley, alto saxophones
Kayli Picard, tenor saxophone
Luke Roberts, baritone saxophone
Zoë Tarrant, bass saxophone
Scott Kallestad, director
anchorage (6’)
Brookelynn Shell
Appalachian State Clarinet Choir
Divertimento for Clarinet Choir (14’)
Ralph Raymond Hays
Appalachian State Clarinet Choir
The Quiet Piece (13’)
Wenbin Lyu
Appalachian State Percussion Ensemble
Sparrow and sun (5’)
Louis Raymond-Kolker
Appalachian State Percussion Ensemble
 
 

4 pm – Concert 4

Schaffel Recital Hall

Billy’s Lament (4’)
William Price
David Wells, bassoon
Frederick Etude Book #1 – Trichord Studies (7’)

I. Break
II. Cycle
III. Scalar

Jack Frederick
Ethan Shen, tenor saxophone
Immersion (8’)
Matthew Asher
Matthew Asher, piano
Samuel Murphy, cello
Three Short Pieces (6’) 
Heather Niemi Savage
Soo Goh, clarinet
Forsaken Caverns (14’)
Robert Denham
David Wells, bassoon
Adam Booker, double bass
Coming Back (6’)
Robert Denham
Soo Goh, clarinet
Joe Brown, trombone
Love and Thunder (5’)
Justin Gruber
Samuel Ambrose & Nick Hathaway, tubas
 
 

7 pm – Concert 5

Rosen Concert Hall

light, unraveled (10’)
Robert McClure
new obsession•sound
Jamie Leigh Sampson, bassoon
Robert McClure, piano
Spectrum (6’)
Richie Arndorfer
Richie Arndorfer, piano
Adrift|Entwined (5’)
Jamie Leigh Sampson
Appalachian State Chamber Ensemble
Braids, interwoven (11’)
Trent Hanna
TBD
Suite for Viola and Piano (10’)
Christopher Jessup
Eric Koontz, viola
Catherine Garner, piano
Canons on Cannons (8’)
Louis Raymond-Kolker
Louis Raymond-Kolker, vibraphone