A Holiday Concert, featuring Horn Tod Bowermaster and the Favorite Sounds of the Season
On Sunday, December 5, the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra performed A Holiday Concert featuring horn soloist Tod Bowermaster on Reinhold Glière’s Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in B-flat major, Op. 91.
Tod Bowermaster, horn
Dan Goeller - A Christmas Festival of Carols
Georges Bizet - L'Arlesienne Suite, No. 2: Farandole (March of the Three Kings)
Hawley Ades - A Festival of Alfred Burt Carols
Georges Bizet - Farandole from L’Arlessienne Suite No. 2
Arcangelo Corelli - Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 n. 8 “Christmas Concerto”
Reinhold Glière - Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in B-flat major, Op. 91.
Engelbert Humperdinck - Overture to Hänsel and Gretel
Hawley Ades - Festival of Alfred Burt Carols
Irving Berlin, arr. by Robert Russell Bennett - White Christmas
Richard Hayman, Mykola Leontovich, and Peter Wilhousky - Carol of the Bells
Leroy Anderson - Sleigh Ride
ABOUT TOD
Tod Bowermaster, native of Ottawa, Illionis, is Third Horn of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since 1995. He studied with Dale Clevenger and Richard Oldberg at Northwestern University and worked extensively with Arnold Jacobs. Noted for his “gorgeous solo playing” (St. Louis Post Dispatch) and his “golden-honey tone” (Kansas City Star), Bowermaster has appeared as a soloist with the St. Louis Symphony on numerous occasions, and served as Principal Horn for the 2002-2003 season. He also has performed as soloist with the Honolulu Symphony, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, and many orchestras throughout the Midwest, including the IVSO in 1978 (where he was the senior division winner of the IVSO Concerto Competition), 2001, 2005, and 2012. Prior to his appointment in St. Louis, he was a member of the Honolulu Symphony and the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra. Winner of the American Horn Competition and the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition, he continues to enjoy performing in both solo and chamber music settings. He is lecturer of horn at the University of Missouri - St. Louis and maintains an active teaching studio in his home.
