Catherine Parsonage - Performance

Conducting

• Musical Director: Dr Jazz and the Cheshire Cats (Big Band)
• Assistant Musical Director: North Cheshire Concert Band

Repertoire: Wind Band

• Bedford - Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves
• Robert Russell Bennett - Suite of Old American Dances
• Bernstein - Prelude Fugue and Riffs
• Bernstein arr. Grundman - Overture to Candide
• Dvorak - Serenade for Winds
• Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
• Grainger - Colonial Song
• Grainger - Irish Tune and Shepherd’s Hey
• Gregson - Festivo
• Hearshen - Divertimento
• Holst - First Suite in E Flat
• Holst - Second Suite in F
• Ives arr. Schuman - Variations on America
• McNeff - Ghosts
• Mozart - Serenade for 13 Winds
• Offenbach - Orpheus in the Underworld Overture
• Rodrigo - Adagio
• Shostakovich - Festive Overture
• Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite
• Woolfenden - SPQR
• Wollmann - Concerto for Jazz Trumpet and Wind Band
• Williams - Red Pony Suite

Repertoire: Orchestral

• Beethoven - Coriolan Overture
• Beethoven - Symphony No. 1
• Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
• Dvorak - Symphony No. 8
• Haydn - Symphony No. 104 'London'
• Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel Overture
• Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 4 'Italian'
• Mozart - Concerto for Flute No. 2
• Rossini - Semiramide Overture
• Schubert - Unfinished Symphony
• Strauss - Die Fledermaus Overture
• Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite
• Weber - Concertino for Clarinet

Instrumental

Recent performances on clarinet and saxophone include:

• National Youth Music Theatre (Royal Charity Gala, Piccadilly Theatre, London, October 2005)
• Bolton Sinfonietta (concert in the International Wind Festival at the RNCM, November 2005)
• North Cheshire Concert Band (soloist in Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto in January 2006)
• Blackburn Symphony Orchestra
• Lancashire Symphonic Winds

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