Opening Concert

BRIAN LUCE, flute

with

with The University of Arizona Wind Ensemble

Chad Nicholson, director

Note: best read in landscape view.

Febryary 28, 2025

7:30PM Crowder Hall

Jonathan Russell

Igor Stravinsky

Michael Gandolfi

William Linthicum Blackhorse

Song of the Ancient Night

Work

Mnicakmun: Sounds of Water

Brian Luce is “an authoritative soloist” praised for his “technical agility” and “lyric power,” and is a professor and Associate Director of the University of Arizona School of Music. His performances as a soloist and collaborations in the Luce-McLaughlin Duo, Arizona Wind Quintet, Luce-Caliendo Duo, Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Bach Society, Dallas Wind Symphony, Ulsan Symphony Orchestra, and Tucson Chamber Orchestra have been broadcast and appear on numerous recording labels. He has served as principal flutist of orchestras in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Texas and during the Crested Butte Summer Music Festival. Brian performs and presents master classes worldwide as a Yamaha Performing Artist. He is a prizewinner in many competitions including the National Flute Association, Myrna Brown, and Mid-South young artist competitions. He is published by Editions BIM and IntegrityInk, and his articles on performance and pedagogy have appeared in Flute Talk Magazine and Flute Explorer Magazine. He gives lecture-recitals and workshops on his award-winning dissertation, Light from Behind the Iron Curtain…Edison Denisov’s Quatre Pièces pour flûte et piano and actively promotes music from his Native American heritage. He enjoys time outside performing and teaching as a USSSA, USA, and PGF fastpitch softball coach.

Dr. Linthicum Blackhorse [b.1989] is a multi-ethnic music composer in North America that has been actively commissioned, writing music for ensembles and performers across the globe. He has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Western Music Theory and performed as a Guest Artist for numerous ensembles.

His works include a wide array of themes stemming from his cultural, environmental, and spiritual influences; namely his Latino, Anglo, and Lakȟóta heritages. He is currently a freelance composer living in the United States of America.

Dr. Blackhorse (he/they) is an active member of the global LGBT+ community, giving voice to all of those who are marginalized for identifying outside of the hetero-normative Anglo-Christian/American colonial stereotypes—with the goal of one day being granted equal liberty in our collective humanity.

Dr. Linthicum Blackhorse’s residency is sponsored by the University of Arizona office of Native American Advancement, Initiatives & Research.