Randal Swiggum Celebrating his fifteenth season with the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra, Randal

Swiggum has helped raise the profile of the EYSO as one of the premier regional youth orchestras in the country.

Neuqua Valley High School Chamber Strings

Greg Schwaegler, Charles Staley, Brad Pfeil, Randal Swiggum,

Under his tenure, the EYSO has more than tripled in size, drawing students from a wide geographical range of
over sixty communities in Illinois and Wisconsin, with five orchestras, a brass choir, a vibrant chamber music
program and performances at Ravinia, on NPR’s From the Top, and with superstars Midori and Yo Yo Ma, as well
as headlining the Aberdeen International Festival in Scotland. A frequent guest conductor of orchestral and choral
festivals, he recently conducted the Scottish National Youth Symphony in Glasgow, the APAC Festival Orchestra in
Seoul, Korea, the first ever Pennsylvania ACDA/PMEA All-State Junior High Choir, the New York City
InterSchool Festival, the Singapore American Schools Music Festival, the MENC All-Northwest Honor Choir in
Portland, and American Mennonite Schools Orchestra Festival, the Northern Arizona Honors Orchestra, and both

Li-Kuo Chang, Viola; Lillian Lau, Harp

the Wisconsin Middle Level Honors Choir and Orchestra. In recent seasons, he conducted both the Illinois and

Richard Bauer, Conductor

Georgia All-State Orchestras.

Li-Kuo Chang has been assistant principal viola of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1988 when he
was appointed by Sir Georg Solti. He has appeared with many orchestras, including the CSO, as soloist, most

Guest Conductors
Naperville, Illinois
recently with Pinchas Zukerman performing Bach’s Sixth Brandenburg Concerto. He also has been an active
chamber music performer collaborating with many renowned artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph
Eschenbach, and Pinchas Zukerman in concerts at Orchestra Hall in Chicago, at the Ravinia Festival, the
Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, the Staatsoper Berlin, the Lucerne Festival, and the Jerusalem
International Chamber Music Festival, among other venues around the world. From 2000 to 2007, he was invited
by Daniel Barenboim to be guest solo viola of Berlin’s Staatsoper and Staatskapelle, and toured with these two
ensembles on their many European and Asian tours, including Wagner’s complete Ring cycle in Japan in 2002.
Li-Kuo Chang has been active as a teacher for many years. Previously on the faculty of Northwestern
University from 1993 to 2008, he has been since 1998 on faculty of Roosevelt University. In 2011, he joined the
Peabody Institute as an artist teacher. He also has been on the faculty of the Affinis Music Festival in Japan since
1992. Chang has given master classes at Indiana University, Northern Illinois University, DePaul University, the
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and the Shanghai Conservatory. His students have garnered
competition prizes and won positions in major orchestras including the Chicago, Detroit, Saint Louis, and
Indianapolis symphonies.Chang studied violin and piano at the Music High School of the Shanghai Conservatory
in his native city. He was a first-prize winner of the Chinese Young Artist Competition, held in Shanghai in 1978.
In 1979, he came to the U.S. on a full scholarship to study at the Eastman School of Music and at the Music
Academy of the West as a young artist fellow. He studied viola with Francis Tursi, Donald McInnes, Milton
Thomas, William Magers, and Paul Doktor. He also has played for William Primrose in Primrose’s master classes.
Li-Kuo Chang lives in Chicago’s East Lakeview neighborhood with his wife Maggie and son Daniel. His
instrument, the famous ex-Henri Vieuxtemps viola, is a rare viola made by G.B. Guadagnini in Turin in 1770.

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 Brad Pfeil is currently an orchestra director at Neuqua Valley High School where he has taught for the past
Neuqua Valley High School Chamber Strings 6 years. He holds a bachelors degree from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree from the University of
Nevada Las Vegas. Pfeil’s previous teaching experience includes 11 years as orchestra director at Las Vegas High
Violin Viola String Bass School and 3 years at Fremont Middle School and Keller Middle School. Pfeil was also adjunct double bass
Jennifer Cha Dillon Gozum Patricia Wallinga professor at UNLV for four years.
Joyce Chung David Kraemer Remo Panella Mr. Pfeil’s performance experience includes six seasons with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, four of those as
principal double bass. Pfeil has performed as Associate Principal Double Bass of the Ann Arbor Symphony
Taka Iida Neha Salgaonkar Orchestra, a member of the Peoria Symphony, and many other regional orchestras.
Christie Jeung Andrea Ohlhausen Harp Mr. Pfeil has spent his past three summers as a conductor at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp where he will be
Wendy (Kang Hee) Lee Devon Olson Lillian Lau conducting the Masterworks orchestra for the summer of 2013. Pfeil was also conductor of the Henderson Civic
Stephen Leung Avani Pai Symphony for 5 seasons, and directed the Desert Springs Arts Orchestra for two years. Pfeil teaches a private
Cecilia Li Corey Worley Piano studio, and is past president of the Nevada chapter of the American String Teachers Association.
Hariharan Ravi Catriona Barr Greg Schwaegler is in his seventh year as a music educator in Illinois’ Indian Prairie School District #204. In
Manu Sankar Cello addition to directing three curricular orchestras and one co-curricular orchestra at Neuqua Valley High School,
Jeremy Shin David Koo Percussion Mr. Schwaegler is honored to assist with the string program at Scullen Middle School. He has also been a member
Hannah Wong Alyssa Liu Akhil Chavan of the music faculty at Gregory Middle School, Graham Elementary School, and Spring Brook Elementary School.
Rachelle Yang Felix Li Lauren Deveikis Outside of District #204, Schwaegler is frequently invited to serve as clinician for the Illinois Grade School
Music Association. He has worked for the Illinois Summer Youth Music camp at the University of Illinois as both a
Yonsu (Sally) Lee Drake Kurtenbach
counselor and faculty artist. Along with Brad Pfeil, Schwaegler served as IMEA District 9 Orchestra
Richard Li Saurav Patnaik Representative for the past two years. Schwaegler is an active composer and arranger whose works have been
Garrett Nickel performed by ensembles at Augustana College, Western Illinois University, Neuqua Valley High School, Moline
Tara Safavi Timpani High School (Moline, IL), Rock Island High School (Rock Island, IL), and Scullen Middle School.
Alex Stumphauzer Mr. Schwaegler holds Bachelor and Masters Degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign.

Richard Bauer is in his seventh year as an orchestra director at Neuqua Valley High School. This is the third
time an orchestra of his has performed at The Midwest Clinic. Previously were South Salem High School (Salem,
Oregon) Chamber Strings in 2003 and the Neuqua Valley Chamber Symphony in 2007. His first experience
conducting at The Midwest Clinic was as a guest middle school orchestra director with the Pendleton (Oregon)
String Ensemble in 1981. His orchestras have also performed at the Oregon Music Educator’s Conference, the All-
Northwest Music Educators Conference and the Illinois Music Educators State Conference. He has traveled with
students throughout the United States, Canada, Britain and Europe. Mr. Bauer was named Oregon Music Educator
of the Year in 2003 and is a former president of the Oregon String Teachers Association.
Mr. Bauer began his career teaching elementary and middle school orchestra in Pendleton, Oregon. He then
taught orchestras in Salem, Oregon for over twenty years before moving to Illinois in 2006. He spent his summers
for many years as a Suzuki String Specialist at Suzuki Institutes throughout the Western United States and Canada.
Mr. Bauer was the principal violist with the Portland Opera Orchestra and the Portland Chamber Orchestra and
has also played with the Spokane and Columbus Symphonies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of
Idaho and a Master of Music from The Ohio State University
Charles Staley is the Fine Arts Chair At Neuqua Valley High School, Naperville, Illinois. He teaches the
Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble and Musical Theater Orchestra.
Mr. Staley has taken three groups to the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic held in Chicago, Illinois; the
Waubonsie Valley Wind Ensemble in 1995, the Neuqua Valley Symphony Orchestra in 2007 and the Neuqua
Valley Wind Ensemble in 2009. His bands have performed at the Association of Concert Bands National
Convention, the Illinois Music Educators Association (IMEA) State Convention, the American School Band
Directors Association National Convention (ASBDA), and the University of Illinois Superstate Festival. He has
traveled with students throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and China.
Mr. Staley is a National Board Certified Teacher and holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-
Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Staley began his teaching career at Eisenhower High
School in Blue Island, Illinois and taught for twelve years at Waubonsie Valley before moving to Neuqua Valley
when it opened in 1997.
 Brad Pfeil is currently an orchestra director at Neuqua Valley High School where he has taught for the past
Neuqua Valley High School Chamber Strings 6 years. He holds a bachelors degree from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree from the University of
Nevada Las Vegas. Pfeil’s previous teaching experience includes 11 years as orchestra director at Las Vegas High
Violin Viola String Bass School and 3 years at Fremont Middle School and Keller Middle School. Pfeil was also adjunct double bass
Jennifer Cha Dillon Gozum Patricia Wallinga professor at UNLV for four years.
Joyce Chung David Kraemer Remo Panella Mr. Pfeil’s performance experience includes six seasons with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, four of those as
principal double bass. Pfeil has performed as Associate Principal Double Bass of the Ann Arbor Symphony
Taka Iida Neha Salgaonkar Orchestra, a member of the Peoria Symphony, and many other regional orchestras.
Christie Jeung Andrea Ohlhausen Harp Mr. Pfeil has spent his past three summers as a conductor at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp where he will be
Wendy (Kang Hee) Lee Devon Olson Lillian Lau conducting the Masterworks orchestra for the summer of 2013. Pfeil was also conductor of the Henderson Civic
Stephen Leung Avani Pai Symphony for 5 seasons, and directed the Desert Springs Arts Orchestra for two years. Pfeil teaches a private
Cecilia Li Corey Worley Piano studio, and is past president of the Nevada chapter of the American String Teachers Association.
Hariharan Ravi Catriona Barr Greg Schwaegler is in his seventh year as a music educator in Illinois’ Indian Prairie School District #204. In
Manu Sankar Cello addition to directing three curricular orchestras and one co-curricular orchestra at Neuqua Valley High School,
Jeremy Shin David Koo Percussion Mr. Schwaegler is honored to assist with the string program at Scullen Middle School. He has also been a member
Hannah Wong Alyssa Liu Akhil Chavan of the music faculty at Gregory Middle School, Graham Elementary School, and Spring Brook Elementary School.
Rachelle Yang Felix Li Lauren Deveikis Outside of District #204, Schwaegler is frequently invited to serve as clinician for the Illinois Grade School
Music Association. He has worked for the Illinois Summer Youth Music camp at the University of Illinois as both a
Yonsu (Sally) Lee Drake Kurtenbach
counselor and faculty artist. Along with Brad Pfeil, Schwaegler served as IMEA District 9 Orchestra
Richard Li Saurav Patnaik Representative for the past two years. Schwaegler is an active composer and arranger whose works have been
Garrett Nickel performed by ensembles at Augustana College, Western Illinois University, Neuqua Valley High School, Moline
Tara Safavi Timpani High School (Moline, IL), Rock Island High School (Rock Island, IL), and Scullen Middle School.
Alex Stumphauzer Mr. Schwaegler holds Bachelor and Masters Degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign.

Richard Bauer is in his seventh year as an orchestra director at Neuqua Valley High School. This is the third
time an orchestra of his has performed at The Midwest Clinic. Previously were South Salem High School (Salem,
Oregon) Chamber Strings in 2003 and the Neuqua Valley Chamber Symphony in 2007. His first experience
conducting at The Midwest Clinic was as a guest middle school orchestra director with the Pendleton (Oregon)
String Ensemble in 1981. His orchestras have also performed at the Oregon Music Educator’s Conference, the All-
Northwest Music Educators Conference and the Illinois Music Educators State Conference. He has traveled with
students throughout the United States, Canada, Britain and Europe. Mr. Bauer was named Oregon Music Educator
of the Year in 2003 and is a former president of the Oregon String Teachers Association.
Mr. Bauer began his career teaching elementary and middle school orchestra in Pendleton, Oregon. He then
taught orchestras in Salem, Oregon for over twenty years before moving to Illinois in 2006. He spent his summers
for many years as a Suzuki String Specialist at Suzuki Institutes throughout the Western United States and Canada.
Mr. Bauer was the principal violist with the Portland Opera Orchestra and the Portland Chamber Orchestra and
has also played with the Spokane and Columbus Symphonies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of
Idaho and a Master of Music from The Ohio State University
Charles Staley is the Fine Arts Chair At Neuqua Valley High School, Naperville, Illinois. He teaches the
Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble and Musical Theater Orchestra.
Mr. Staley has taken three groups to the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic held in Chicago, Illinois; the
Waubonsie Valley Wind Ensemble in 1995, the Neuqua Valley Symphony Orchestra in 2007 and the Neuqua
Valley Wind Ensemble in 2009. His bands have performed at the Association of Concert Bands National
Convention, the Illinois Music Educators Association (IMEA) State Convention, the American School Band
Directors Association National Convention (ASBDA), and the University of Illinois Superstate Festival. He has
traveled with students throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and China.
Mr. Staley is a National Board Certified Teacher and holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-
Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Staley began his teaching career at Eisenhower High
School in Blue Island, Illinois and taught for twelve years at Waubonsie Valley before moving to Neuqua Valley
when it opened in 1997.
 Randal Swiggum Celebrating his fifteenth season with the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra, Randal
Swiggum has helped raise the profile of the EYSO as one of the premier regional youth orchestras in the country.

Neuqua Valley High School Chamber Strings

Greg Schwaegler, Charles Staley, Brad Pfeil, Randal Swiggum,

Under his tenure, the EYSO has more than tripled in size, drawing students from a wide geographical range of
over sixty communities in Illinois and Wisconsin, with five orchestras, a brass choir, a vibrant chamber music
program and performances at Ravinia, on NPR’s From the Top, and with superstars Midori and Yo Yo Ma, as well
as headlining the Aberdeen International Festival in Scotland. A frequent guest conductor of orchestral and choral
festivals, he recently conducted the Scottish National Youth Symphony in Glasgow, the APAC Festival Orchestra in
Seoul, Korea, the first ever Pennsylvania ACDA/PMEA All-State Junior High Choir, the New York City
InterSchool Festival, the Singapore American Schools Music Festival, the MENC All-Northwest Honor Choir in
Portland, and American Mennonite Schools Orchestra Festival, the Northern Arizona Honors Orchestra, and both

Li-Kuo Chang, Viola; Lillian Lau, Harp

the Wisconsin Middle Level Honors Choir and Orchestra. In recent seasons, he conducted both the Illinois and

Richard Bauer, Conductor

Georgia All-State Orchestras.

Li-Kuo Chang has been assistant principal viola of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1988 when he
was appointed by Sir Georg Solti. He has appeared with many orchestras, including the CSO, as soloist, most

Guest Conductors
Naperville, Illinois
recently with Pinchas Zukerman performing Bach’s Sixth Brandenburg Concerto. He also has been an active
chamber music performer collaborating with many renowned artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph
Eschenbach, and Pinchas Zukerman in concerts at Orchestra Hall in Chicago, at the Ravinia Festival, the
Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, the Staatsoper Berlin, the Lucerne Festival, and the Jerusalem
International Chamber Music Festival, among other venues around the world. From 2000 to 2007, he was invited
by Daniel Barenboim to be guest solo viola of Berlin’s Staatsoper and Staatskapelle, and toured with these two
ensembles on their many European and Asian tours, including Wagner’s complete Ring cycle in Japan in 2002.
Li-Kuo Chang has been active as a teacher for many years. Previously on the faculty of Northwestern
University from 1993 to 2008, he has been since 1998 on faculty of Roosevelt University. In 2011, he joined the
Peabody Institute as an artist teacher. He also has been on the faculty of the Affinis Music Festival in Japan since
1992. Chang has given master classes at Indiana University, Northern Illinois University, DePaul University, the
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and the Shanghai Conservatory. His students have garnered
competition prizes and won positions in major orchestras including the Chicago, Detroit, Saint Louis, and
Indianapolis symphonies.Chang studied violin and piano at the Music High School of the Shanghai Conservatory
in his native city. He was a first-prize winner of the Chinese Young Artist Competition, held in Shanghai in 1978.
In 1979, he came to the U.S. on a full scholarship to study at the Eastman School of Music and at the Music
Academy of the West as a young artist fellow. He studied viola with Francis Tursi, Donald McInnes, Milton
Thomas, William Magers, and Paul Doktor. He also has played for William Primrose in Primrose’s master classes.
Li-Kuo Chang lives in Chicago’s East Lakeview neighborhood with his wife Maggie and son Daniel. His
instrument, the famous ex-Henri Vieuxtemps viola, is a rare viola made by G.B. Guadagnini in Turin in 1770.

Mark Records • 10815 Bodine Road • Clarence, NY 14031-0406 50286-MCD

 2012
phone: 716.759.2600 • fax: 716.759.2329 • www.markcustom.com
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2012 Midwest Clinic • Neuqua Valley High School Chamber Strings

Neuqua Valley High School Chamber Strings

Richard Bauer, Conductor
Greg Schwaegler, Charles Staley, Brad Pfeil, Randal Swiggum, Guest Conductors
Li-Kuo Chang, Viola; Lillian Lau, Harp
Grade
1. Danza Final from the ballet Estancia Boosey & Hawkes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alberto Ginastera/arr. Robert Longfield 4 2:24
2. Dance of the Clowns from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Belwin/Alfred . . . . Felix Mendelssohn/arr. Christina Hans 2 2:31
Greg Schwaegler, Conductor, Orchestra Director, Neuqua Valley High School
3. Dark Visions Carl Fischer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Mixon 1 2:13
4. Three Pieces in Baroque Style Schott/Hal Leonard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kryzsztof Penderecki 3 4:28
I. Arioso
II. Minuet
5. Trauermusik Schott/Hal Leonard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Hindemith 5 8:26
Slowly – Quietly moving – Lively – Largo
“To Your Throne I Herewith Tread,” (“Old Hundredth”) Chorale
Randal Swiggum, Conductor, Music Director, Elgin Youth Symphony
Li-Kuo Chang, Viola, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. II. Allegro scherzando from Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Boosey & Hawkes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Béla Bartók 6 8:21
Charles Staley Jr., Conductor, Fine Arts Chair, Neuqua Valley High School
Lillian Lau, Harp, Quad City Symphony
7. II. For If You Are My Heart “Che se tu se’ ‘l cor mio” from Madrigals from the Italian Renaissance Kjos . . .
. . . Claudio Monteverdi/arr. Zach Wallmark 3 5:10

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8. Theme from Symphony No. 1, Mvt. 3 Belwin/Alfred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gustav Mahler/arr. Brad Pfeil 3 7:21
Brad Pfeil, Conductor, Orchestra Director, Neuqua Valley High School
9. Prelude and Scherzo, Op. 11 Kalmus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dmitri Shostakovich/arr. Lucas Drew 6 10:40
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