The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Concert Band will perform a concert of mostly South American music on Tuesday, February 24.

The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Michelsen Hall of the Fine Arts Center. Scott Teeple, assistant professor of music, will conduct the band, and Professor David Hastings will be the featured soloist on alto saxophone.

Part of the Music Scholarship Series, admission is $6 for the general public, $3 for senior citizens, $2 for youth and free the day of the concert for students with a UWSP ID. Tickets are available at the UWSP Box Office in Room 103A of the University Center, by calling 715-346-4100 or 800-838-3378 or at the door if the recital is not sold out in advance. A pre-concert lecture beginning at 7 p.m. will be included with the price of admission.

The program will include fanfares from the opera "Libuse" by Bedrich Smetana/Nelhybel, "Air For Band" by Frank Erickson, Maurice Whitney�s "Introduction" and "Samba", "South American Calls" by Professor Ryan Korb, and the "Tocata", "Volver a la Montana", "Sies Manuel", and "La Tumba de Alejandro Garcia Caturla" from Shelley Hanson�s "Islas y Montanyas".

Teeple, director of bands at UWSP, conducts the Symphony Band and the Wind Ensemble as well as teaching conducting and music education.  He serves as a clinician and conductor for honor bands throughout the U.S.   He was assistant director of bands at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and taught at Port Huron Northern High School.

Hastings is a professor of saxophone musicianship, and jazz studies at UWSP. He has performed in locations across the United States and Europe in both jazz and classical genres. Before coming to UWSP, Hastings was a faculty member at West Virginia University, where he was awarded an Outstanding Teacher Award for the College of Creative Arts. He has also been a member of the faculty at Baylor University. Professor Hastings has spent much of his career studying new music and improvisation through performance and commissions.

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