I am thrilled to be the lead commissioner of a new work for small double reed ensemble by the wonderful bassoonist and composer Martin Van Klompenberg! From his website: “This work will be a four-movement piece, about all the diverse ways flight can be achieved in the animal kingdom. The piece will contain movements about the Texas Unicorn Mantis, a “one horned” mantis which lives in Southern Texas, the Mexican free-tailed bat, who perches in Read more
This week I’ve been away from San Antonio and back in the high plains and big skies of the Panhandle in Amarillo, Texas. The Amarillo Symphony is performing a truly unique concert entitled Mountains and Oceans. The program features a side-by-side with the Amarillo Symphony Youth Orchestra of Errollyn Wallen’s Might River in honor of Black History Month, the world premiere of Angela Elizabeth Slater’s Mountains Become Oceans, a piece for solo harp and solo Read more
Sunday, February 23 Featuring Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and Dvorak’s Symphonic Variations, op. 78, B. 70. Dr. Sarah Wildey got to play alongside Dr. Janelle Ott, a fellow Indiana University alumni.
San Antonio Harmonie Spring 2025 Concert Cycle SA Harmonie Performing at the UTSA Recital Hall on Sunday 2/9/2025.
Orion Concerto by Jenni Brandon – Three High School Tour With The UTSA Wind Symphony Left to right: UTSA Wind Symphony conductor, Prof. Ron Ellis, Composer Jenni Brandon, Professor of Oboe, Prof. Erin Mallard, and Professor of Bassoon, Dr. Sarah Wildey, on the last stop of their concert tour on 2/11/25.