Prominent Young People in Handbells

[George Nelson]

Does anyone know who are prominent young adults in handbells? I was asked by high schoolers in one of my choirs. They didn't mean Ring of Fire or other groups. They wanted clinicians, directors, and composers, like that. I don't know how young. Just curious.

George

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[Ken and Linda Lamb]

I guess it depends on how young is young, in the eyes of your high school group, but I would say:  Michael Glasgow (clinician, director, and composer), J. D. Frizzell (all three, also), and Josh Bauder (composer, maybe more that I don't know about).  And in the order I listed them, I'd guess they were young, younger, and youngest.
 
Linda Lamb
Southern Maryland
 

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From: nels...@live.com
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Subject: [HB-L] Prominent Young People in Handbells
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:01:54 -0500

[Matthew Prins]

As Linda said, it depends how young is young, but this are the people whom I can think of off the top of my head who under, say, 35 or so. My sincere apologies in advance if I forget someone, and I'm sure I have:

Andrew Duncan (b. 1978): composer/publisher owner (14 pieces at his Ring-Press); director
J.D. Frizzell (b. 1983): composer (3 pieces at Jeffers; more at Ring-Press)
Shawn Gingrich (b. 1974?): composer (5 pieces at Jeffers); director of Hershey Handbell Ensemble
Michael Glasgow (b. 1976?): composer (10 pieces on Jeffers); clinician (8 festivals/conferences in 2009/2010); director
Derek Hakes (b. 1977?): composer (~50 pieces on Jeffers); not sure if he's a clinician or not
Nick Hanson (b. ????): director of handbells at the The Potomac School; handbell editor somewhere?
Matthew Prins (b. 1977): composer (26 pieces on Jeffers); handbell director at two churches; not a clinician

There was also a woman around 20 or so who in the past few years won one of the major handbell composition contests -- anyone remember her?

Matthew Prins
mdp...@gmail.com
www.matthewprins.com
www.emmanuelshall.com

[doug duggan]

Katheleen Wassinger in Harrisonburg VA is another...composer, director, clinician

 

Charm Peterman....another in Portsmouth VA

 

Douglas Duggan

Va Beach VA

[Shawn Gingrich]

You are great Matthew. What an honor to be named young! My birthyear is 1968 though so since I'm turning 41 next week I'm not sure I get to keep the honor. 

Shawn Gingrich

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[Michele Sharik]

I vote to keep you labeled "young", Shawn! (because I'm a year younger
than you & that means I get to be "young" too! LOL!)

-Michèle Sharik
San Francisco Bay Area, CA (for now; San Marcos, CA in Jan 2010)
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On 10/30/2009 12:28:32 PM, Shawn Gingrich

(shawn.g...@firstumchershey.org) wrote:
> You are great Matthew. What an honor to be named young! My birthyear is
> 1968 though so since I'm turning 41 next week I'm not sure I get to keep
> the honor.
>

> Shawn Gingrichsha...@firstumchershey.org [link: mailto:shawn.
> ging...@firstumchershey.org]

> ging...@comcast.net
> sgin...@messiah.edu
> Cell 717-877-8554
> Church 717-533-9668 ext 108
> Home 717-583-1922
>
>
>
>
>

> On Oct 30, 2009, at 3:01 PM, "Matthew Prins" <mdp...@gmail.com [link:
> mailto:mdp...@gmail.com]> wrote:

[Susan T. Nelson]

Hmmmm.... young..... leaves me out, LOLOL!!

Sue (was young once upon a time)

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[mic...@michaeljglasgow.com]

I've been reading all of these posts (though, Matthew, it appears that your switching me to digest version didn't "take," because they all came individually -- could you please check it?).

 

Thanks to those who've mentioned me (btw, I was born in 1977 [not 1976!].  Also, Matthew, where'd you come up with my conducting 8 festivals/conferences in 2009/2010?  I'm sure there are at least 10 listed on my website...).  Anyway, who's counting, really?  I'm just honored still to be included in the "young" crowd.

 

While it's depressing to be listed as the "oldest of the young crowd" (thanks, Linda!), I guess the silver lining is that soon, I'll get to be the YOUNGEST of the OLD crowd!  :)  (insert pause for the inevitable smart comment from Valerie)  <grin>

 

Enough about me.  Other names we must mention:

Jason Krug.  He's 30-ish.  I don't know that he works as a clinician, but he has a half dozen or so pieces out -- all with Beckenhorst, I think.  Most are arrangements of Christmas pieces, but I'll be excited to see more originals -- his Winter's Waltz was on the DB East rep this year and I really enjoyed it.  It has a darker feel to it, which I love -- I kept envisioning purple snowflakes...sort of a "trippy Christmas."  Think about Sarah McLachlan's Song for a Winter's Night.  I like the "darker," more melancholy part of Christmas.  After all, think about the reason Jesus was born.

 

Helen Blakey (Matthew, I think this may be the composition contest winner you mentioned -- she and I were co-winners in the Soundprint Productions composition contest in 2006; her piece was titled Thirteen.  I believe we discussed that I had a piece in the works called 15, and we were trying to get you to do one called 14 or Fourteen...).  I don't know if she has any other pieces out, but I hope she will soon; Thirteen is a very creative work.  Helen's a sweet gal, and another Area III person, and I believe she's on this list (hi Helen!!!).

 

Finally, don't forget about Veronica Bigham. She is now 16 or 17 (depending on when her birthday is), and she co-wrote Light of Peace with Derek.  I hope that she's got more stuff coming out; she has a very bright future ahead.  See page 24 of the following for a great story: http://www.stlukesumc.com/about_church/communion/jul-aug2007comm.pdf

 

Have a Happy Halloween, all!

Michael

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Michael J. Glasgow
Raleigh, NC
www.michaeljglasgow.com 
Latest news: I'm a winner of the 2009 VocalEssence "Welcome Christmas" composition contest!  See www.vocalessence.org for more information.  I'm so excited for the opportunities this amazing blessing presents!

 

 

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Subject: [HB-L] Re: Prominent Young People in Handbells

[Matthew Prins]

Michael:

>  Also, Matthew, where'd you come up with my conducting 8 festivals/conferences
> in 2009/2010?  I'm sure there are at least 10 listed on my website...).

Hey, just because I was 12th-place in the 1989 Iowa Sixth-Grade Math
Bee doesn't mean I can, y'know, *count*. (See also Shawn before you.)

> Helen Blakey (Matthew, I think this may be the composition contest winner you
> mentioned -- she and I were co-winners in the Soundprint Productions composition
> contest in 2006; her piece was titled Thirteen.  I believe we discussed that I had a
> piece in the works called 15, and we were trying to get you to do one called 14 or
> Fourteen...).

Good guess, but I've never met Helen and had no idea how old she was,
so it definitely wasn't her I was thinking of. (Aside to Michael's
aside: One of the movements in my honorable mention piece was "12," so
we had "12," "Thirteen," and "15." Maybe I'll start work on "14" --
something in alternating 4/4 and 6/8 measures.)

No, the woman I'm thinking of I *believe* won a composition contest
dealing with one of the International Symposia. Or maybe she won an
international composition contest not related to a symposium. But I'm
pretty confident I'm not inadvertently making this up.

Matthew Prins
mdp...@gmail.com

[Matthew Prins]

Quick slight clarification:

> Good guess, but I've never met Helen...

...by which I mean in person. I've certainly "met" her online, but
that doesn't help much to judge someone's age.

Matthew Prins
mdp...@gmail.com

[J.-C. Coolen]

Yuri Shimazu from Japan won the 2004 IHS Composition Contest with her
piece Wa (Peace).

http://www.handbellworld.com/music/MusicPiece.cfm?Piece=10453&CFID=2993179&CFTOKEN=5deb9093996b73dc-AE2C275D-9081-7133-D83EC11996E0A845

I believe she was about 18 at the time, which would make her about 23 now...

jc