Dennis AsKew
tuba
James Douglass, piano
Faculty Recital
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
7:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Program
Sonata in mi minore G.F. Telemann
Cantabile (1681-1757)
Allegro
Recitativo-Arioso
Vivace
Sultry & Eccentric James Grant
(b. 1954)
The Southern Cross Herbert L. Clarke
arr. D. AsKew
Intermission
When We Were Giants Jonathan Green
Allegro con brio (b. 1964)
Andante con mobile
Lento - Allegro
Not Your Average Joe Paul Johnston
Bayerische Polka Traditional
arr. Kelly Diamond
Dennis AsKew has performed solo recitals throughout the United States and in Italy, Finland,
Hungary, Australia, and The Netherlands. Currently President of the International
Tuba/Euphonium Association, he came to The University of North Carolina at Greensboro as the
tuba and euphonium professor in 1992 and became a member of the Market Street Brass.
AsKew, originally from Georgia, holds the DMA degree from the University of Michigan, the
master's degree from Penn State University, and baccalaureate degree from the University of
Georgia. His renowned UNCG Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble has performed at festivals around the
world. AsKew was the host of the 2002 International Tuba/Euphonium Conference held at UNC
Greensboro. His solo tuba recording, Carolina Morning, has achieved wide critical acclaim and
worldwide distribution. He can also be heard on Market Street Brass' two recordings Christmas
and Jive for Five, and as soloist on the UNCG Wind Ensemble Tribute to Sousa CD. AsKew also
is a national Associate Regent for Pi Kappa Lambda, the prestigious national honor society for
musicians.
James Douglass, assistant professor of collaborative piano, has been involved in diverse genres
including chamber music, vocal arts, opera, choral arts, symphonic repertoire, jazz, cabaret, and
musical theater. He received the BM and MM in piano performance from the University of
Alabama and the DMA in collaborative piano from the University of Southern California where he
was a student of Dr. Alan L. Smith; additional studies with collaborative Anne Epperson and
Martin Katz. While at USC he received a Koldofsky Fellowship and the Outstanding Keyboard
Collaborative Arts award. Douglass has served on the faculties of Mississippi College, Occidental
College LA, USC, and Middle Tennessee State University where he was coordinator of the
collaborative piano degree program. In 2003 he began teaching in the summer study program
AIMS (American Institue of Musical Studies) in Graz, Austria as the instructor of collaborative
piano and a coach in the lieder program with Harold Heiberg. Performances as a collaborative
pianist have included recitals and television/radio broadcasts across the United States and in
Europe (France, Germany, Austria, Hungary); in master classes given by artists Dawn Upshaw,
Carol Vaness, Vladimir Chernov, Norman Luboff, Paul Salamunovich, Natalie Hinderas, Leon
Bates. Douglass is also active as a clinician and recently completed a recording with soprano
Hope Koehler of John Jacob Niles songs, which will be released on the Albany label in 2008.
