Michigan State University
Saturday, March 28 at 8:00 p.m.
Kevin L. Sedatole, conductor
PROGRAM
John Mackey: ASPHALT COCKTAIL (8’) (Osti Music)
Aaron Copland, arr. Kenneth Singleton: THE PROMISE OF LIVING FROM THE TENDER LAND (6’) (Boosey and Hawkes)
Carter Pann: CONCERTO LOGIC (20’) (composer)
Ricardo Lorenz: EL MURO (9’) (composer)
William Bolcom: FIRST SYMPHONY FOR BAND (28’) (composer)
KEVIN L. SEDATOLE
Kevin Sedatole serves as Director of Bands, Professor of Music, and Chair of the conducting area at the Michigan State University College of Music. Prior to joining MSU, he was director of bands and associate professor of conducting at Baylor University. Previous to his appointment at Baylor he served as associate director of bands at the University of Texas and director of the Longhorn Band, and as associate director of bands at the University of Michigan and Stephen F. Austin State University.
Sedatole holds both the doctor of musical arts degree and master of music degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his bachelor of music education degree from Baylor University. At Michigan State, Professor Sedatole serves as administrator of the entire band program totaling over 700 students that includes the Wind Symphony, Symphony Band, Concert Band, Chamber Winds, Campus Bands, Spartan Marching Band and Spartan Brass. He also guides the graduate wind-conducting program in addition to conducting the MSU Wind Symphony.
Sedatole has conducted performances for the College Band Directors National Association, American Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Educators Association, Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, as well as performances in Carnegie Hall. He has conducted across the United States and Europe. Professor Sedatole also serves on the summer faculty of the Interlochen Music Camp. He most recently at Interlochen he conducted the Michigan All-State Band and the World Youth Wind Symphony. Over the past ten years he has served as guest conductor with the Dallas Wind Symphony.
He is a member of the College Band Directors National Association, for which he served as Southwestern Division Vice President, the American Bandmasters Association, the Big Ten Band Directors’ Association, the Michigan State Band and Orchestra Association, the Texas Music Educators Association, and the Texas Bandmasters Association. He holds honorary memberships in the Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma National Band Fraternities, as well as the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Professional Musicians Fraternity.