Shatterdome was inspired by the drama in film writing at climactic moments when good and evil collide and dark forces are at work, utilizing low resonances and a focus on brass. 

Shatterdome (Joanna Ross Hersey & William Bendrot)

The composers whose work I have arranged and performed on this recording represent the rich, vibrant history of women in the field of music composition. From the mystic and otherworldly echos of Hildegard von Bingen’s Medieval church music, to the modern concertos being composed today, music by women deserves more of a place in low brass repertoire. When programming, we all too often think of Galliard but not Francesca Caccini, of Brahms but not Clara Schumann, of Shostakovich but not Alma Mahler. The spirit and energy of these pieces will speak for themselves, they do not need me to speak for them, only to give them a voice.
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released 29 January 2010 

A native Vermonter, Joanna Ross Hersey studied with Dan Perantoni at Arizona State University, received a Master of Music in Tuba Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music studying with Chester Schmitz, and earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in Tuba Performance from the Hartt School. As Principal Tubist with the United States Coast Guard Band, Joanna performed throughout the country as a soloist and clinician after winning the position at the age of nineteen. Joanna has played for three U.S. Presidents, performed at numerous state functions for visiting dignitaries, and has appeared on The Today Show and Good Morning America. In her freelance career she has performed with artists including Placido Domingo, Roberta Flack, Marilyn Horne, Arlo Guthrie, Michael Bolton, Lee Greenwood, Arturo Sandoval and Jack Nicholson. Joanna is a founding member of the Athena Brass Band, a group first created for the 2003 International Women’s Brass Conference which has since performed at the 2006 IWBC, and has been featured at the Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville, Kentucky. As a member of the Alchemy Tuba-Euphonium Quartet, Joanna performs throughout North America and Europe and can be heard on the group’s first compact disc recording Village Dances, and on their 2010 release Live in Jever. Alchemy is in residence each February at the Horn-Tuba Workshop in Jever, Germany where the group performs recitals, gives master-classes and conducts ensembles. Joanna is Assistant Professor of Low Brass at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. For more information visit Joanna at joannahersey.com. 

Dr. Seung-Ah Kim, a native of Pusan, Korea, has recently received her doctorate in piano performance at the University of South Carolina. She holds two master's degrees in piano performance, one from Yonsei University in Korea and the other from The Cleveland Institute of Music. While studying at CIM, she was awarded the Arthur Loesser Memorial Award in Piano, recognizing her outstanding achievement. She also received a prize at the prestigious Darius Milhaud Performance Competition. At USC, she was applauded for the performance of Flights of Passage by Claude Baker, which was the South Carolina premiere at the Southern Exposure Concert. She was also on the piano faculty at the USC Community Music Program and served as the official pianist for the Concerto Competition at the Southeastern Piano Festival and Summer Conservatory at USC. Currently, she is teaching piano and accompanying UNCP Concert Choir as an adjunct faculty at University of North Carolina at Pembroke. In addition to her vigorous solo performances, she has actively performed as a collaborating artist. Most recently, she has accompanied Dr. Joanna Hersey’s Tuba recital at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Mr. Jacob Will’s voice solo recital at the East Tennessee University. With her Husband, tenor Jaeyoon Kim, she has been also presenting art song recitals at various concerts in Carolina area. Her teachers include Dr. Charles Fugo and Dr. Daniel Shapiro. She also studied chamber music with Carolyn Gadiel Warner and was chosen to play for the accompanying masterclass of Warren Jones and Elly Ameling.

10 - Mahler - Der Erkennende

09 - Shuman - Liebst Du Um Schönheit

08 - Hensel - Schwanenlied

07 - Mishell - Wax Eloquent (1991) - Etude No. 3 Vivace

06 - Mishell - Wax Eloquent (1991) - Etude No. 2 Allegro Vivace

05 - Mishell - Wax Eloquent (1991) - Etude No. 1 Andante

04 - Boulanger - Trois Pièces  (1915) - Vite Et Nerveusement Rythmé

03 - Boulanger - Trois Pièces (1915) - Sans Vitesse Et À L’aise

02 - Boulanger - Trois Pièces  (1915) - Moderato

01 - Von Bingen - O Quam Mirabilis

Sails, Whales and Whalers, Trad. Arr. Gary Buttery

Valdimir's Steamboat, Jay Under Arr. Gary Buttery

Ashoken Farewell, Jay Unger Arr. Gary Buttery

Prelude And Groove, Christopher Lee

Balkanika, Alexander Potiyenko

Prairie Suite 4, Roundup, Antony Paasch

Prairie Suite 3, The Solitary Cowboy, Antony Paasch

Prairie Suite 2, Hoedown, Antony Paasch

Prairie Suite 1, Dawn, Antony Paasch

Ukranian Suite 4, Zhart, Vyacheslav Timokhin

A native Vermonter, tuba and euphonium soloist Joanna Ross Hersey	has produced two solo albums, O quam mirabilis (2010) and Zigzags (2015), featuring music by composers including Hildegard von Bingen and Libby Larson in combination with her own compositions. Joanna is President of the International Women’s Brass Conference, Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and a Yamaha and Parker Mouthpiece Performing Artist. In collaboration with Parker Mouthpieces, Joanna has debuted the Hersey Artist Model Tuba Mouthpiece, featuring a three component stainless steel design.
 As a member of the Alchemy Tuba-Euphonium Quartet, Joanna performs throughout North America and Europe and can be heard on the group’s recordings Village Dances (1997), Prelude and Groove (2012), and their newest album being edited for fall 2019 release.  For fifteen years Alchemy has been in residence each February at the Horn-Tuba Workshop in Jever, Germany where the group performs recitals, gives master-classes and conducts ensembles.  As a composer, her work is published on her own website as well as with Cimarron Music Press, including the St. Cecelia Series, featuring her arrangements of music by women and minority composers.
 Joanna studied with Dan Perantoni at Arizona State University, received a Master of Music in Tuba Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music studying with Chester Schmitz, and earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in Tuba Performance from the Hartt School.  As Principal Tubist with the United States Coast Guard Band, Joanna performed throughout the country as a soloist and clinician after winning the position at the age of nineteen.  Joanna has played for three U.S. Presidents, performed at numerous state functions for visiting dignitaries, and has appeared on The Today Show and Good Morning America.  In her freelance career she has performed with artists including Placido Domingo, Roberta Flack, Marilyn Horne, Arlo Guthrie, Michael Bolton, Lee Greenwood, Arturo Sandoval and Jack Nicholson. 
 Joanna’s research interests focus on brass history and women in 20th Century American music, and her work has been published in the International Tuba Euphonium Journal, the International Women’s Brass Conference Newsletter, the Historic Brass Society Journal, the North Carolina Music Educator’s Journal and the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education.  Joanna has also contributed chapters to three books, Bands of Sisters: U.S. Military Bands During World War II, Women’s Bands in America: Performing Music and Gender, and for 2019 release, An Early History of Music Education in Universities: The Normal School Years.
PRAISE FOR JOANNA’S SOLO ALBUM ZIGZAGS... 
“It is quite fascinating to hear the swirling textures, tuba riffs and pedal notes, as well as blending of analog and digital sounds... it has something of everything including extreme range, tricky rhythms and intervals, multiphonics, and other extended techniques. The entire album is quite different from what we would call mainstream tuba recordings. The original tuba and electronics work, a major unaccompanied tuba work all juxtaposed with Hildegard von Bingen, herself a musical visionary, sets this recording apart from anything else. Brava!” Dr. Mark Nelson, International Tuba Euphonium Journal, Summer 2015

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