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<br /> Artist Profiles Spring 2016 Arts Program Application
<br /> Clarinet and String Quartet. He also gave the US premier of Peter Maxwell Davies' Sonata
<br /> for clarinet and Piano and gave one of the firsts US performances of John Adams' concerto,
<br /> Gnarly Buttons
<br /> Mr. Oehler has always had a widely-respected studio during his tenure at the
<br /> University of North Carolina with former students presently in major teaching and
<br /> performing positions. Additionally, he has been a conductor of professional ensembles, high
<br /> school bands and youth orchestras, and presently serves as musical director of the Chapel Hill
<br /> Philharmonia. Mr. Oehler has presented master classes in England, Wales, Belgium,
<br /> Germany, Switzerland, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Haiti, Hong Kong,
<br /> Canada, and across the United States.
<br /> Mr.Oehler is founder and director of the University Chamber Players,past director of
<br /> the University New Music Ensemble and founder and member of the Qu'Appelle Winds, a
<br /> Canadian-American wind octet. Mr. Oehler founded and directs Chapel Hill Chamber Music
<br /> and the Chapel Hill Chamber Music Workshop. He was founder and artistic director of the
<br /> Corso Internazionale di Music da Camera in Tuscania, Italy and served on the faculty of the
<br /> Cours International de Musique in Morges, Switzerland for 16 years. He served as director
<br /> of winds for MusicFest International in Aberystwyth, Wales and also as faculty member of
<br /> the Utah State University Summer Music Festival.
<br /> Mr. Oehler is a graduate of the Juilliard School. He studied with Orville Matthias,
<br /> Bernard Portnoy, Joseph Allard, Robert Listokin, and Jack Brymer.
<br /> TIMOTHY SPARKS
<br /> Timothy W. Sparks has appeared with opera companies in the United States and
<br /> Europe, including The Israel Vocal Arts Institute, Operafestival di Roma, Jacksonville Lyric
<br /> Opera, First Coast Opera, North Carolina Opera, Greensboro Opera Company, Triangle
<br /> Opera, National Opera Company(A. J. Fletcher Opera Institute), Brevard Music Center,
<br /> Capital Opera-Raleigh, and Durham Savoyards. His representative operatic roles include
<br /> Conte Almaviva, Anatol, Rodolfo, Don Jose, Nemorino, Don Ottavio, Ferrando, Prince
<br /> Ramiro, Jaquino, Ralph Rackstraw, and Enoch Snow. With a commitment to contemporary
<br /> music, Mr. Sparks has participated in the premiere of several new stage works by Joel Feigin,
<br /> Benton Hess, Tom Lohr, D.J. Sparr, and Zachary Wadsworth.
<br /> In concert, Mr. Sparks has appeared with the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin, Canton
<br /> Symphony Orchestra, Statesboro-Georgia Southern Symphony, North Carolina Symphony,
<br /> Eastern Music Festival, Belleayre Music Festival, Breckenridge Music Institute and Festival,
<br /> University of Notre Dame, Duke Artists Concert Series, Smedes Parlor Concert Series at St.
<br /> Mary's School, North Carolina Bach Festival, North Carolina Master Chorale, Concert
<br /> Singers of Cary, Voices-The Chapel Hill Chorus, Choral Society of Greensboro, Greensboro
<br /> Oratorio Society, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Tar River Orchestra and Chorus,
<br /> Coastal Carolina Community Chorus, and Hillyer Community Chorus. Mr. Sparks has
<br /> performed the tenor solos in oratorio and concert works by Bach, Beethoven, Britten,
<br /> Gounod, Handel, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Alice Parker, Puccini, Respighi,
<br /> Rossini, Saint-Saens, and Schubert. In January 2011, his recording of the Arnold Schonberg
<br /> chamber orchestra transcription of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde was released by Centaur
<br /> Records, Inc.
<br /> The tenor received his BM in Vocal Performance from the University of North
<br /> Carolina at Chapel Hill and MM with the Performer's Certificate in Voice from the Eastman
<br /> School of Music. His teachers include Joel R. Adams, Dominic Cossa, Fredric Moses, Dr.
<br /> Terry Rhodes, and John Maloy.
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