2025 Brass Festival Weekend: Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble—Autumn Walk

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Saturday / September 20, 2025 / 8:00 p.m.

Boston Conservatory Theater

31 Hemenway Street, Floor 2

Boston

02115

United States

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Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble opens its artistic season with a concert of works that challenge the audience to take a moment and appreciate the beauty that autumn brings. Conducted by Matthew M. Marsit, the program is a leaf-peeper’s delight, with works by Kevin Charoensri, Alexandre Kosmicki, and Julian Work as well as David Maslanka’s monumental Symphony No. 7. Plus, Boston Conservatory is honored to share the stage with the Belmont High School Wind Ensemble, playing side-by-side for a portion of the performance—as well as a special encore presentation with Brass Festival Weekend guest artist Adam Unsworth, principal horn of the Ann Arbor Symphony and professor at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music.

This performance has been selected as part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s 2025–2026 Center Stage collection.

Program Information

Repertoire

KEVIN CHAROENSRI: Rising Light
Side-by-side with the Belmont High School Wind Ensemble

JULIAN WORK: Autumn Walk

ALEXANDRE KOSMICKI: Nitescence Crépusculaire

—INTERMISSION—

DAVID MASLANKA: Symphony No. 7
I. Sunday night church services from my youth. Mrs. Smith played the piano. The opening piano solo is marked “enthusiastically” in the score. A dream travels to a far place.
II. In the manner of an American folk song, with a setting that might have come out of the 19th or early 20th centuries.
III. A ferocious fast music, unrelenting, determined to get a grip on chaos. Toward the end, a fractious quote of the Bach Chorale melody “Du Friedensfurst Herr Jesu Christ” (Prince of Peace Lord Jesus Christ).
IV. A simple song of peace and healing

CATHY LIKHUTA: Vivid Dreams
3. Urban Secrets

Adam Unsworth, horn soloist

Concert Services Staff

Assistant Director, Concert Services – Luis Herrera
Coordinator, Concert Services – Matthew Carey
Concert Production Manager – Kendall Floyd
Performance Technology Technicians – Sara Pagiaro, Goran Daskalov
Performance Technology Specialist – Andrei Radu

Ensemble

BOSTON CONSERVATORY WIND ENSEMBLE

Conductor
Matthew M. Marsit

Piccolo
Claressa Castro, BM '28
Talley Powell, MM '27
Zhanru Xiao, MM '27

Flute
Sasha Blackman, BM '29
Sabrina Clubine, MM '27
Rhea Karnick, BM '27
Julia Spretty, BM '27
Maggie Stuteville, BM '27
Zhanru Xiao, MM '27

Alto Flute
Rhea Karnick, BM '27

Oboe
Isabella Guevarra, BM '28
Jesse Myers, BM '26
JD Uchal, MM '26

English Horn
Jesse Myers, BM '26

Clarinet
Zeyu Dai, BM '29
Gage Frazier, BM '29
Jacqueline Huang, BM '27
Rose Lao, MM '26
Kristina Nie, MM '27
Jiahua Qiu, MM '26
Kevin Song, BM '28
Suning Yu, MM '26
Jiaxiang Zhao, BM '29*

E-flat Clarinet
Nathan Soric, MM '26

Bass Clarinet
Jessie Cho, BM '29
Rachel Wilensky, BM '27

Contrabass Clarinet
Andrew Lee, BM '26

Alto Saxophone
Xander Dawson, BM '26
Yuyan Huang, BM '29
Alejandro Taveras, BCM '26

Tenor Saxophone
Wentao Luan, BM '28
Judah Maurice, BM '29

Baritone Saxophone
Brian Esparza, BM '28

Bassoon
Matthew Gaudio, BM '28
Carson Saponaro, BM '26
Kyle Sodman, GPD '26
Alexander Weber, BM '27

Contrabassoon
Matthew Gaudio, BM '28

Horn
Holly Fullerton, BM '27
Anne Howarth^
Drew Lingenfelter, BM '28
Cam McCarty, MM '27
Ricardo Verde, BM '26
Zach Watson, BM '27
Felicity Zhao, BM ’29

Trumpet/Cornet
Charlotte Berube-Gray, BM '25
Edward Mason, MM '27
Freddie Poor, BM '27
Jackson Stahlman, BM '28
Elliot Wlasiuk, BM '27

Trombone
Takumi Crary, BM '29
Carter Lepuil, BM '29
Kevin Smith, MM '26
Brooke Thomson, BM '26

Bass Trombone
Collin Good, BM '26
Cole MacEwen, BM '28
Zayden Morgan, BM '28

Euphonium
Collin Hawkinson, BM '28
Lukas Johnson, BM '29
Angus Tsui, BM '27

Tuba
Gabel Eib, BM '29
Clayton Frank, BM '27
Lowrider James, BM '27

Percussion
Logan Bass, BM '28
Dustyn Carter, BM '27
Jialu Du, BM '26
Yunni Fu, BM '28
Tripp Haynes, MM '27
Ryder Hendry (Berklee College of Music)
Slaton Meador, BM '28
Camdyn Miles, BM '29
Uchyu Ono, BM '29
Joseph Rodriguez, BM '29
Shixiao Shan, MM '26
Dennis Smith, BM '27

Harp
Claudia Moreno, MM '26

Piano
Sumi Kim, GPD '26

Cello
Nigrui Bu, MM '27
Juan Suarez Carmona, BM '29
Abby Clifford, BM '29
Enrique Garcia, BM '26
Shuo-I Hsiao, BM '29
Tyler Hsu, BM '29

Bass
Joe Holt^

^ BCB faculty member

BELMONT HIGH SCHOOL WIND ENSEMBLE

Flute 1
Yolanda Yu ('28)
Emilly Zhou ('26)

Flute 2
Hanna Kim ('26)

Oboe
Avery Walsh ('26)

Clarinet 1
Qingyin (Angela) Yang ('26)
Barnabas Kwak ('26)
Andrew Aloisio ('26)

Clarinet 2
Irene Park ('28)
Eric Pyo ('28)

Clarinet 3
Sophia Sun ('26)
Erika Wang ('27)
Sarah Kisin ('26)

Bass Clarinet
Javeed Moussignac ('28)

Bassoon
Hank Hicks ('26)

Alto Saxophone 1
Kaayna Jain ('26)*
William Sun ('27)

Alto Saxophone 2
Ruben Bucciarelli ('26)
Naima Gludicelli ('27)

Tenor Saxophone 1
Ali Masoud ('26)
Meena Senthil ('28)

Tenor Saxophone 2
Sarah Kisin ('26)

Baritone Saxophone
Patrick Lee ('26)

Horn 1
Yihua Liu ('26)

Horn 2
Delaney Gutierrez ('28)

Trumpet 1
Ryan Park ('26)
Lily Lusis ('28)

Trumpet 2
Peter Aloisio ('28)
Dustyn Gallo ('26)
Tyler Kim ('28)

Trumpet 3
Anne Gu ('28)
Brady Chan ('26)

Trombone 1
Hibiki Yoshikawa ('26)
Sophia Bufano ('27)

Trombone 2
Brianna Yueh ('27)
Rohan Bhagwati ('26)

Bass Trombone
Joe Barry (26)

Euphonium 1
Max Abouzeid ('26)
Armen Barsoumian ('27)

Euphonium 2
Aidan Dunham ('27)

Tuba
Nolan Zimkus ('26)
Eva Cohan ('27)

Percussion
Stella Ocharova ('26)
Niko Moustakas ('26)

Concert Services Staff

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