USU Alumni Band July 31: Marching On!
AlumniBand-AllysaPackard_ust - Caption: Soprano Allysa Packard is a guest vocalist with USU's Alumni Band and its July 31 concert. She is a recent graduate of USU and will pursue graduate study at the University of Maryland this fall.
The next Utah State University Alumni Band performance features guest conductor Thomas P. Rohrer and guest soprano Allysa Packard. The concert is Sunday, Aug. 31.
Rohrer, director of bands and music education in the Caine College of the Arts (CCA), has conducted the USU Wind Orchestra, Symphonic Band and the Aggie Marching Band at USU. He has an established reputation as a conductor and clinician and is music director and conductor of the Salt Lake Symphonic Winds. An active composer, he has twice earned honors as a winner of the Dallas Wind Symphony’s composition competition, completed several commissions, had works performed at two conferences of the College Band Directors National Association and received the international premier of Excessive Force for Wind Ensemble.
Packard is a 2016 USU graduate in vocal performance. During her time at USU she sang leading roles in the opera productions each year. She will begin a master’s degree in voice performance at the University of Maryland in August. Packard has been a member of the Marie Eccles Caine-Russell Family Opera Outreach Quartet and is an apprentice at the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre this summer.
The Alumni Band will play selections from Gershwin, Sousa, Osterling and more.
The concert opens with Strike Up the Band by Gershwin/Yoder and close the night with I’ll See You Again by Noel Coward.
“Bring the whole family and a picnic dinner and some blankets,” said Nick Morrison, Alumni Band director and senior associate dean in the CCA. “We’ll see you on the Quad for a beautiful night of music.”
The final Alumni Band concert of the 2016 season is Aug. 7. Performances begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public. Concerts are held on the USU Quad but in case of inclement weather, performances move to the Morgan Theatre in the Chase Fine Arts Center.
For more information, call 435-797-8022 or see the college’s website.
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Writer and contact: Whitney Schulte, 435-797-9203, whitney.schulte@usu.edu
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