The concert will feature tuba soloist, John Manning, assistant professor of tuba from the University of Iowa performing “Four Temperaments for Tuba” by Michael Brand. Also featured on the program will be “Freedom’s March”, a composition by NIACC sophomore music major, Jared Barnes.

John Manning is assistant professor of tuba at The University of Iowa, and is a founding member of the award-winning Yamaha performing ensemble, the Atlantic Brass Quintet. Originally from Raynham, Massachusetts, Mr. Manning received his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his graduate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. From 1986 to 1989, John served as the solo tubist with the Air Force Band of the Golden West. While stationed in California, former Staff Sergeant Manning was involved in numerous recordings and performed extensively throughout the Western United States.

With the Atlantic Brass Quintet, Mr. Manning has toured across the U.S. and around the world, including Korea, Japan, Costa Rica, France, Kuwait, India, Pakistan, England, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The quintet has won six international chamber music competitions and performed at the White House, Tanglewood, Sante Fe Chamber Music Festival, Savannah Onstage, the Sacramento Festival for New American Music, June in Buffalo, the Bank of Boston Celebrity Series and the International Trumpet Guild Conference. In 2003, the Atlantic Brass Quintet conducted master classes at Rice University, the San Francisco Conservatory, and the Julliard School.

Mr. Manning has served on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory, Boston University's School for the Arts, and Tanglewood Institute, and the University of Massachusetts. He has also taught at Brandeis University, Mount Holyoke College, and Amherst College and conducted tuba master classes at Louisiana State University, the University at Buffalo, Chautauqua Institution, and New England Conservatory. Outside the United States, John has worked with brass students in Tokyo, Japan; San Jose, Costa Rica; Panama City, Panama; the Cairo Opera House in Egypt; and the Royal Omani National Orchestra School in Muscat, Oman. When he was invited to appear as a guest on the NPR radio program "The Connection," Mr. Manning took that opportunity to educate the public about the tuba and discussed his participation in the 1997 World Euphonium and Tuba Competition of Guebwiller, France.

Mr. Manning is an active freelance musician and has performed with the Boston Symphony, the Empire Brass and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. He has also served as principal tubist with the Vermont Symphony and Albany (NY) Symphony. Outside the realm of classical music, Mr. Manning has been involved in a diverse array of eclectic musical interests; ranging from klezmer and world music to rock and jazz. He has performed with the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, Naftule's Dream, Brass Planet, the Pee Wee Fist, the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, Arlo Guthrie and John Lithgow.

As a Yamaha solo artist he has appeared at Louisiana State University Octubafest, the International Tuba Euphonium Conferences 2000 and 2002, and Music Educators Conferences in Connecticut and Massachusetts. In March of 2003, Mr. Manning hosted the Northeastern Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference at University of Massachusetts. Mr. Manning recently served as an adjudicator for the 2004 Tuba and Euphonium Competitions in Jeju, Korea.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/bios/BRASSmanning.htm

Members of the North Iowa Concert Band represent communities from all over North Iowa including the towns of Britt, Buffalo Center, Charles City, Clear Lake, Eldora, Floyd, Greene, Hampton, Hubbard, Iowa Falls, Manly, Mason City, Nora Springs, Osage, Plymouth, Sheffield and Thornton.

Fanfare: Sinfonia Jack Stamp

Linden Lea Ralph Vaughan Williams

Arranged by John W. Stout

Four Temperaments for Tuba Michael Brand

John Manning - tuba

Freedom’s March Jared Barnes

Intermission

Courtly Airs and Dances Ron Nelson

1. Intrada

2. Basse Danse (France)

3. Pavanne (England)

4. Saltarello (Italy)

5. Sarabande (Spain)

6. Allemande (Germany)

Rosalind in the Forest of Arden Alfred Reed

Pictures at an Exhibition (Finale) Modest Mussorgsky

Orchestrated by Carl Simpson, Edited by Alfred Reed

15. The Hut on Chicken Legs (Baba-Yaga) – Allegro con brio, feroce

16. The Great Gate of Kiev – Allegro all breve (Maestoso con grandezza)

Flute: Tammy Aberson, Clear Lake; Jennifer Ehlers, Mason City; Bethany Meyer, Mason City; Laura Paarman, Charles City; Mary Smith, Mason City; Oboe/English Horn: Kimber Kleven, Mason City; Clarinet: Sandra Ewalt, Floyd; Deb Gage, Osage; Amy Holmgaard, Hampton; Laura Hofstrand, Mason City; Abby Ingersoll, Mason City; Stephanee Johnson, Mason City; Ann Kostelnick, Mason City; Britney Mensing, Mason City; Marie Morud, Mason City; Brigitte Nystrom, Mason City; Louise Ruschoff, Mason City; Donna Smith, Britt; Ashley Stone, Mason City; Harvey Von Wald, Mason City; Richard Winga, Mason City; Bass Clarinet: Carla Venteicher, Mason City; Contra Bass Clarinet: Angela Bernier, Sheffield; Bassoon: Laurie Hoeppner, Osage; Susan Kovarna, Iowa Falls; Alto Saxophone: RenÈ Recinos, Mason City; Liz Smith, Mason City; E. Howard Sonksen, Mason City; Tenor Saxophone: Elizabeth Nannenga, Thornton; Derreck Tell, Mason City; Baritone Saxophone: Ken Schneider, Clear Lake; Steve Martin, Mason City; Trumpet: Chris Bell, Mason City; Kathy Dee, Clear Lake; Robb Holtz, Greene; Dennis Klemas, Mason City; David Kropman, Mason City; Bryon, Kwilasz, Charles City; Sara Lessin, Charles City; Derrick Orr, Mason City; Ann Stark, Greene; Horn: Barb Cornelius, Mason City; Josh Foster, Mason City; Kate Campbell, Charles City; Nikkole Koenig, Mason City; Carol Meyer, Mason City; Amy O'Connell, Mason City; Eleanor Waid, Floyd; Kyra Wood, Hubbard; Trombone: Rick Chitty, Greene; Ryan Dee, Clear Lake; Paul Hanson, Mason City; Jay Hardinger, Mason City; David Kovarna, Iowa Falls; Reed Peterson, Mason City; Steve VandenBerg, Mason City; Euphonium: Amy Cook, Buffalo Center; Chuck Cooper, Mason City; Ray Holtz, Greene; Tuba: Dan Djuren, Clear Lake; Nathan Pralle, Sheffield; Brian Stevens, Hampton; String Bass: Rich Dean, Mason City; Percussion: Joanna Aves, Manly; Jared Barnes, Plymouth; Scott Bell, Mason City; Dave Guetzko, Mason City; Jeff Morrow, Mason City