as published in PAN PIPES, Volume 95, Number 2

Daniel J. Bukvich ***

SAI National Arts Associate Daniel J. Bukvich is Professor of Music at the Lionel Hampton School of Music, University of Idaho (UI) in Moscow, ID, where he teaches percussion, music theory and aural skills, jazz theory, and composition, and directs jazz choirs, a jazz band, and the UI Percussion Ensemble.  He was initiated as an SAI National Arts Associate in 1997 by the Sigma Zeta Chapter at the university. Outside the university, he has served as a clinician and artist-in-residence in percussion, music theory, and sight-singing; as a writer and arranger of choral music; and as a guest conductor for both choral and instrumental ensembles. The manuscript of his Sonata for Timpani (2002) is available from the composer. For more information, please see his website, www.bukvichmusic.com, or write him at the Lionel Hampton School of Music, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-4015.

Premieres

Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra was introduced by UI percussionist Ben Morrow and the Washington Idaho Symphony, conducted by Keating Johnson, during the symphony's Young Artist Concerts, February 2002 in Pullman WA. In 2002, premieres occurring at the UI included Missa Samba, for choir, solo soprano, and Brazilian percussion, with the UI Jazz Choir, February 2002; and Percussion Symphony, with the UI Percussion Ensemble, April 2002. The Glittering Hill, a suite for orchestra and chorus, celebrating the history of the composer's hometown, Butte, MT, was commissioned and presented by the Butte Symphony Orchestra and Chorale on April 27, 2002, at the Mother Lode Theatre, with James Allen Anderson, conductor. Gordon Johnson will conduct Jennifer Smith and the Great Falls Symphony Orchestra in the first performance of Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, commissioned by the Great Falls Symphony Association and written in tribute to violist Mary Sanks, March 1, 2003.

Performances

Under Gordon Johnson, From the Journals of Lewis and Clark (1999), for chorus and orchestra, was performed by the Montana Power Company Summer Symphony, July 2002 in Helena.

Publications

Buffalo Jump Ritual, high school wind band; Three Phrases from Yugoslav Folk Songs, wind band; both by Wingert-Jones Music, Inc., 2002.Four Phrases from Psalm 91, SATB choir and piano; ChoralWeb Publishing, 2002.

Recordings

The Glittering Hill, Butte (MT) Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, Anderson, conductor, Butte Symphony Association CD. Original compositions and arrangements, UI Jazz Choir, UI Studios Missa Africa CD, August 2002.

***Sigma Alpha Iota National Arts Associate