Trail of Tears—America: Part I
November 19, 2022
Vance Brand Civic Auditorium
Begins at 7:30pm
About the Concert
This evening’s performance will include Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha Overture, Daugherty’s Trail of Tears, featuring Brice Smith, on flute. After intermission, experience an enchanting world of exuberant celebration with a sunny, pastoral world filled with Bohemian folk melodies, rustic peasant dances, distant horn calls, and echoes of birdsongs, with Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major.
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
The Song of Hiawatha Overture
MICHAEL DAUGHERTY
Trail of Tears — Featuring Brice Smith, Flute
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK
Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Opus 88
Featured Guest Soloist
Brice Smith, Flute
Dr. Brice Smith has a deep passion for teaching and engaging communities
through classical music. Smith is the principal flutist of the Las Colinas Symphony
Orchestra and serves as a substitute flutist for the Seattle, Milwaukee,
and Colorado symphonies. Additionally, Smith has performed with the New
World Symphony Orchestra, 21st Century Consort, ÆPEX Contemporary
Ensemble, National Repertory Orchestra.
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Smith served as Adjunct Professor
of Flute at Adams State University and Assistant Artistic Director for Indiana
University’s Jacobs School of Music Flute Academy. As a soloist, he has
performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, with
the Arkansas Philharmonic, University of Michigan Camerata Symphony
Orchestra, 21st Century Consort, as well as other orchestras and bands.
Additionally, Smith was a guest soloist for the National Flute Association’s
50th Anniversary Convention Celebration, premiered solo flute works for the
NFA Summer Series and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music’s
“Gig Thru COVID.” He is a founding member of the Boulder Altitude
Directive (BAD Ensemble) new music ensemble conducted by composer, Dr.
Carter Pann. Smith is a Trevor James Alto & Bass Flute Artist and recording
Artist for Alry Publications LLC., and the American Composers Alliance Inc.
Smith has a rich and wide-ranging set of experiences in teaching, recruitment,
scholarly research and publication. He has given presentations and taught
masterclasses and lessons for several universities, including his alma mater, the
University of Arkansas. During his D.M.A., Smith served as Artistic and Development
Assistant for the Crested Butte Music Festival and Graduate Assistant
and Student Engagement Specialist for the Entrepreneurship Center
for Music director at the University of Colorado Boulder. Administratively, he
has served as an executive board member for the Texas Flute Society, multiple
NFA committees, Repertoire Specialist for Rachel Barton Pine’s “Music By
Black Composers” Organization, Artistic Representative for Rollopollolo
Press, and Assistant Artistic Administrative Director for CBMF. As a competition
adjudicator, he has served on panels for the 2022 TFS Myrna W. Brown
competition, NFA Alto Flute Artist Finalist Competition, 2021 NFA Junior
Soloist competition, and San Francisco Flute Society competitions. Smith
completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute Performance and Pedagogy at
the University of Colorado Boulder with Christina Jennings, Masters of Music
in Flute Performance and Chamber Music at the University of Michigan
with Amy Porter, as well as a Performer Diploma at Indiana University under
the direction of Thomas Robertello. Smith studied with Ronda Mains at the
University of Arkansas, where he completed a Bachelor of Music in Flute
Performance, Violin Performance and German language. Dr. Brice Smith is
published in the July 2020 issue of the Flute View magazine for his article
“Beauty With Intention: Expanding the Wealth of Flute Repertoire.
