This event has been cancelled.
The ensemble's April 2020 Korean tour has been postponed due to concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, but the Wind Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) performs its tour preview concert as scheduled on March 12, with special guests Donna Shin and Rachel Reyes, flutes; Minsun Kim, piano; and Lauren Kulesa, soprano.
Program Highlights
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Minsun Kim, piano
Franz Doppler: Andante et Rondo
Donna Shin and Rachel Reyes, flutes
H. Owen Reed: Michigan Morn
Lauren Kulesa, soprano
Artist and Director Bios
Flutist Donna Shin has been praised for her beautifully-spun phrases, seductive sound, sterling technique, and charismatic exchanges with the audience. Described as “dazzling” by the Boston Globe, Shin has built an enviable reputation as a versatile performer of solo, chamber, orchestra, jazz and ancient Asian repertoire. Performing in concert halls throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, she is admired for her adventurous programming and expressive flair.
Devoted to the role of artist-teacher, she is the flute professor at the University of Washington School of Music after holding faculty posts at the University of South Carolina School of Music and Oklahoma State University. She frequently appears as artist-performer and master class clinician at universities and flute clubs throughout the world, modeling the artist-teacher path for young flutists.
Shin has been featured in solo performances with the North Korean National Symphony Orchestra, People’s Liberation Army Band of China, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonia, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, University of Washington Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble, University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble, Oklahoma State University Wind Ensemble, and University of Washington Wind Ensemble.
Shin performed for two seasons as principal flute with the Heidelberg Schlossfestspiele Orchester in Germany. In the Boston area, she performed with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Bedford Symphony, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Chamber Orchestras. She has also performed with the Seattle Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, South Carolina Philharmonic, Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Tulsa Signature Symphony, Lake Placid Sinfonietta, Tanglewood Music Center, National Repertory Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival, National Orchestral Institute, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.
Shin has won prizes in competitions held by the National Flute Association, April Spring Friendship Arts Festival in North Korea, Performers of Connecticut, James Pappoutsakis Society, and Seattle Flute Society, to name a few. As a founding member of Paragon Winds woodwind quintet, she was awarded fellowships from the New England Conservatory and Yale University’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and won the Grand Prize at the Coleman National Chamber Ensemble Competition in Pasadena, California.
Committed to developing young artists and reaching out to audiences, Shin has introduced new music programs to a variety of communities, ranging from rural Oklahoma to communist North Korea to castle communities in northern Italy. Recent international concert tours include: Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, and Uzbekistan.
Shin earned degrees with the highest honors from the Interlochen Arts Academy, Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory, including the esteemed Performer’s Certificate at the Eastman School. As instructor of chamber music and flute at the University of Rochester and the Eastman School of Music, she was awarded the “Eastman School of Music Excellence in Teaching” prize. During her doctoral studies at Eastman, she became the first woodwind player in the school’s history to be nominated for the highly coveted Artist's Certificate.
During the summer months, Shin performs as artist-teacher at the Sewanee Summer Festival in Tennessee, ARIA International Summer Academy in Massachusetts, and Snowater Flute Festival in Washington. Her prior summer activities have included leadership of study abroad performance courses in northern Italy and Young Artist Competition Coordinator for the National Flute Association.
University of Washington Professor Emeritus Timothy Salzman served as Professor of Music/Director of Concert Bands and conductor of the UW Wind Ensemble from 1987 to 2025. When he was appointed to the position there were 11 students enrolled in one UW wind band – in his final year there were 335 enrolled in five bands. Former graduate wind conducting students of Professor Salzman have obtained positions at 73 universities and colleges throughout the United States and include past presidents of the American Bandmasters Association and the College Band Directors National Association as well as Jiannan Cheng, cover conductor for the Philadelphia Orchestra. During his tenure at the UW the band program was involved in commissioning and, in certain cases, the premiering of 38 new works for wind ensemble and undertook many concert tours including seven to Asia. From 1978 to 1983 he was band director in the Herscher, Illinois, public school system where the band program received numerous state, regional and national awards in solo/ensemble, concert and marching band competition. Immediately prior to his UW appointment he served for four years as Director of Bands at Montana State University where he founded the MSU Wind Ensemble and ‘Spirit of the West’ Marching Band. Professor Salzman holds degrees from Wheaton (IL) College, and Northern Illinois University, and studied privately with world-renown wind instrument pedagogue Arnold Jacobs, former tubist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has numerous publications for bands with the C. L. Barnhouse, Arranger's Publications, Columbia Pictures, Hal Leonard Publishing and Nihon Pals publishing companies, and has served on the staff of new music reviews for The Instrumentalist magazine. Professor Salzman has been a conductor, adjudicator, arranger, or consultant for bands throughout the United States and in Canada, England, France, Russia, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, China, and Japan, a country he has visited twenty-one times. He has traveled to China twelve times where he served as visiting professor at the China Conservatory, given master classes for numerous wind bands, and conducted several ensembles including the Shanghai Wind Orchestra, the People's Liberation Army Band, the Beijing Wind Orchestra, The China Conservatory Wind Ensemble and the Tsinghua University Band in multiple concerts. He also served on three occasions as an adjudicator for the Singapore Youth Festival National Concert Band Championships. He has conducted several of the major military bands in the United States including a 2019 world premiere with 'The President's Own' United States Marine Band. He was compiling editor and co-author (with several current and former UW graduate students) of A Composer's Insight: Thoughts, Analysis and Commentary on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band, a five-volume series of books on contemporary wind band composers. The forwards to each volume were written by five Pulitzer Prize-winning composers. He was also a contributing author to a recent book (2022) about his former teacher entitled Arnold Jacobs: His Artistic and Pedagogical Legacies in the 21st Century. Professor Salzman is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association and is a past president of the Northwest Division of the College Band Directors National Association. He is an elected member of the Drum Corps International Hall of Fame as well as the Santa Clara (CA) Vanguard and Cavaliers (IL) Drum and Bugle Corps Hall of Fame for his work as an arranger and brass instructor. In 2009 Nihon Pals, a music education resource company based in Osaka, Japan, released a set of instructional DVDs regarding ensemble musicality featuring the UW Wind Ensemble. The University of Washington hosted the 2011 National Conference of the College Band Directors National Association.