Tuesday 7:30 p.m.                                                                                October 19, 2004

Allan Cox, Trumpet

Hildegard Holland, Organ

assisted by

Dan Schmidt, Trumpet

Louis Eckhardt, Trumpet

Fanfare Processional                                                       Raymond Burkhart (b. 1961)

Sonata No. 21                                                                   Giovanni Gabrieli (1551-1612)

                                                                                                               arr. David Baldwin

Fuga in C                                                                       DietrichBuxtehude (1637-1707)

Ariosa                                                                                   Andrea Gabrieli (1510-1586)

Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter                      Johann Sebastain Bach

                                                                                                                            (1685-1750)

Sonata in D Major                                                  Petronio Franceschini (1650-1680)

                Grave

                Allegro

                Adagio

                Allegro

Intermission

La Chant de la Resurrection                                                              Charles Koechlin

Hymnus (1998)                                                             Einojuhani Rautavaara (b. 1928)

Toccata                                                                                  Eugene Gigout (1844-1925)

Amazing Grace                                                                   Traditional American Hymn

                                                                                      Arr. Sue Mitchell and John Head

Suite in D Major                                                    George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

                Overture                                                                                    arr. Edward Tarr

                Gigue

                Menuetto

                Bourree

                March

Allan E. Cox, Trumpet Professor at Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music in Nashville, Tennessee since 1998, is an internationally renowned trumpet player. He has performed as a soloist with professional orchestras in the USA, Asia, Mexico and Venezuela including the Tokyo Yomiuri, Tokyo Metropolitan, Nagoya, Kagoshima (Japan), Taipei City (Taiwan), Carlos Chavez (Mexico City) and the Simon Bolivar (Caracas, Venezuela).

Professor Cox, who grew up in North Loup, Nebraska, holds a BME degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a MM degree from Wichita State University. He has taught at East Carolina University, the University of Southern Mississippi, and was Guest Trumpet Professor for two years at Musashino Conservatory of Music in Tokyo, Japan. For many years he was on the faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival in Tennessee.

Mr. Cox has presented innumerable recitals, clinics and master classes in the USA, Asia, Europe, and Latin America and has performed with numerous orchestras, bands and brass quintets throughout the USA and Japan. He has frequently participated as a performer at the annual International Trumpet Guild Conference and in diverse summer music festivals including Sewanee, Tennessee; Arcadia, Maine; Lakeside, Ohio; and Highlands, North Carolina. Professor Cox’s CD, Petite Pieces for Trumpet and Piano was released by Mark Records in 2003.

Cox performs regularly with the Blair Brass Quintet and is a founding member of Sonus Brass, which has performed at major music conferences in the USA and throughout Taiwan, and Venezuela. The quintet can be heard on the CD Captured released by Mark Records in 1992.

Hildegard Holland Cox, organist at Christ the King Catholic Church in Nashville, Tennessee and independent piano teacher in Nashville, was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. After finishing her piano and pedagogy studies at the Juan Manuel Olivares Conservatory in Caracas, Dr. Cox was granted a scholarship from the Venezuelan government to further pursue her musical studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria were she studied with Prof. Michael Radulescu and earned the Master of Arts degree in Organ Performance in 1987. In 1999 she earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Organ Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Southern Mississippi where she studied with Dr. Paul Andersen. Hildegard Cox served for 13 years as the Organist/Choirmaster at St. Johns Episcopal Church in Laurel, Mississippi.  She also worked as an independent piano teacher and accompanist in Hattiesburg, where she was an active member of the Hattiesburg Music Teachers League and the American Guild of Organists.

In 1994 and 1999 Hildegard Cox obtained the National Certification in Piano by the Music Teachers National Association and the State Certification by the Mississippi Music Teachers Association. From 1998 through 2000 she served as President of the Hattiesburg Music Teachers League. After moving to Nashville in 2000, Hildegard Cox served as organist at Second Presbyterian Church in Nashville until her appointment in 2003 to Christ the King.

Dr. Holland Cox has given numerous organ recitals and has participated in many chamber music concerts in Germany, Austria, Poland, Venezuela, Japan, and the United States. Allan and Hildegard Cox have performed trumpet and organ concerts together in the United States, Germany, and Japan.

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