Alumnus Seggelke returns to conduct concert band Nov. 14
 Martin Seggelke |
Music Alumnus Returns To Conduct the Concert Band
Saturday, November 14, at 3 pm
King Concert Hall – SUNY Fredonia campus
Free and open to the public
Concert Program:
Psalm for Band – by Vincent Persichetti
Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon – by Percy Aldridge Grainger
Lincolnshire Posy – by Percy Aldridge Grainger
Gloriosa – by Yasuhide Ito
Give Us This Day – by David Maslanka
Conductors:
Samuel Newsome and music alumnus Dr. Martin Seggelke.
Dr. Martin Seggelke’s Bio:
Dr. Martin H. Seggelke is a member of the music faculty at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He is the conductor of the UMM Wind Ensembles and serves as Professor of Conducting and Clarinet. Prior to his appointment at the University of Minnesota, Morris, he taught conducting at the Eastman School of Music and served as Assistant to the Director of the Eastman Wind Ensemble and the Eastman Wind Orchestra. In addition, he was conductor and board member for OSSIA, an ensemble for contemporary music at Eastman. Furthermore, he was Assistant Director of Bands at SUNY Fredonia; he taught conducting and wind music history at the University of Bremen, and held several positions as Music Director including the New Opera Theatre Ensemble (NOTE) Bremen, the Symphonic Wind Band Norderstedt, and the Norderstedt Youth Wind Orchestra.
Martin Seggelke holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Conducting from the Eastman School of Music where he worked with Mark Scatterday, Neil Varon, Brad Lubman and Donald Hunsberger. He also completed a Master of Music in Conducting at the State University of New York College at Fredonia, USA, a Diploma of Fine Arts in Conducting at the University of Calgary, Canada, and both a Master of Music in Music Education and a Master of Science in Geography at the University of Bremen, Germany. He has worked with Paula Holcomb, Glenn Price, Mark Hopkins, Felix Hauswirth, Gunther Schuller, Michael Haithcock, Rodney Winther, Toshiyuki Shimada, Paul Vermel, Pierre Kuijpers, Baldur Brönnimann and Claus Peter Flor, and he received several international scholarships and grants as well as first prizes at national music competitions in Germany.
After two years of playing clarinet with the German Marine Band, Kiel, Dr. Seggelke worked as a studio musician and freelance performer, including productions for the Northern German Radio Station (NDR) and appearances at the Salzburg Festival 2003 and the Schauspielhaus Hannover. His principal teachers were Martin Stoffel (University of Bremen), Wolfgang Braun and Jürgen Schmidt. He played in the Bremen Chamber Symphony, the Western New York Chamber Orchestra, the WASBE International Youth Wind Orchestra, the MID Europe International Wind Orchestra and the Symphonic Wind Band Norderstedt as well as performing several solo concerti with the Buxtehude Symphony Orchestra. His private clarinet studio included students in Hamburg, Norderstedt and Bremen, as well as students at the Wiemersdorf School of Music.
Dr. Seggelke is an active guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator. For four years, he served as a board member of the German Section of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE). In addition, he is a member of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), the College Music Society (CMS), the International Society for the Promotion and Research of Wind Music (IGEB), the National Band Association (NBA), the National Association for Music Education (MENC), the Minnesota Music Educators' Association (MMEA) and the Minnesota Band Directors' Association (MBDA).
