Music Department

University of Wisconsin Whitewater

Southern Lakes Select High School Band Festival

Changes new for this year include a Friday evening concert performed by the Chicago Chamber Musicians in the Young Auditorium and the opportunity for interested students who are already accepted to UW-W and the music department to audition for the music major program!

Greetings and welcome to the homepage for the Southern Lakes Select High School Band Festival. This event is designed to bring the finest high school wind, brass and percussion students from Southeastern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois to the UW-Whitewater campus for an intense two-day musical experience.

The festival will culminate with a concert under the direction of the 2010 guest conductor Dr. Todd Fiegel. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to interact with UW-W faculty through concerts, sectionals, master classes, and a chair placement for the ensemble.

It is hoped that this experience will provide a rewarding and enriching opportunity for all involved. We look forward to making this event a success and in order to do that we need your participation. Please feel free to review the information and download an application for review.

John Tuinstra

Registration Form

High School Band Festival 2009-Gallery

Todd Fiegel - 2010 Guest Conductor

Todd Fiegel has guest conducted throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Europe and Japan. Though he now makes his home in Salt Lake City, he has strong Wisconsin roots. A native of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, he is former Director of Bands at UW-Eau Claire, taught at Horicon and Tomahawk High Schools, and received bachelors and masters degrees from UW-Madison. Prior to his appointment in Eau Claire, he was Director of Bands at Idaho State University and Muskingum College and professor of conducting and trumpet at the University of Montana. He holds a doctorate from the University of Colorado.

Dr. Fiegel is a serious scholar of film music, regularly conducting live score performances with their films and also lecturing on the
subject. His thorough examination of Bernard Herrmann's masterful score for "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was recently published in "The Journal of Film Music." He has arranged numerous scores for brass band, brass quintet, and tuba-euphonium ensemble and is the creator of The "Celluloid Tubas" and "Celluloid Brass" Shows, which have been given over 200 times, including five performances at international conferences. He has presented concerts with Jens Lindemann, Fritz Kaenzig, the Boston Brass, the U.S. Army Brass Quintet, the Denver Brass, and will perform with Calgary's Altius Brass in late 2009.

When not working with bands or film music, Todd Fiegel is associate conductor, arranger, and solo cornetist with the Utah Premiere Brass Band and also recently conducted a series of concerts with the Salt Lake Symphony.