Medina Community Band will present their annual Winter Concert, a celebration of 161 years (since 1859) of presenting community concerts in Medina, on Sunday, January 26, 2020, in Medina High School Middle Stage Auditorium, 777 East Union Street, Medina, at 2p.

Under the baton of Marcus Neiman, the band will perform Suite in E-flat Major, Op 28, No 1 (Gustav Holst); Carnival of the Animals (Camille Saint-Saëns/Yo Goto); and, Themes from Green Bushes (Percy Grainger/Larry Daehn).  Two Sleigh Ride compositions will be performed, one by Frederick Delius and the other by Leroy Anderson.

Associate Conductor John Connors will be featured in Percy Grainger’s Country Gardens.  Kristin Thompson, flute, will perform Stephen Bulla’s Rhapsody for Flute and Wind Symphony, with Connors conducting.  Assistant Conductor Matthew Hastings will conduct John Hazel’s march Buick.

Tenor voice Daniel Doty will be featured singing George & Ira Gershwin’s It Ain’t Necessarily So (from Porgy and Bess) and Granada (Fantasia Española) (Augustin Lara/Roger Niese).  Trombonist George Rosin will be featured in Alexandre Guilmant’s Morceau Symphonique, Op. 88.  And, Lu Ann Gresh, Marcia Nelson-Kline, and Lorna Lindsley will be featured in Don Raye & Hughie Prince’s Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy cornet trio.

Concerts by the Medina Community Band traditionally last approximately one hour and are patterned after outdoor band concerts in the 1880s through 1930s and feature concert overtures, solos by instrumentalists and vocalists, as well as popular selections, and lots and lots of marches.  For listings of all concerts, visit the band’s website (www.medinacommunityband.org).

Medina Community Band is proudly sponsored and supported by the Medina Community Band Association, composed of members of Medina Community Band.  The board of directors consists of Lu Ann Gresh, president; Amy Muhl, vice president; Gail Sigmund, financial secretary; Karen Sater, treasurer; Sue McLaughlin, secretary; with directors John Connors, Dr. Thomas Kenat, Robert Moore, and Kristin Thompson. 

Membership in MCB is open and there are no dues or auditions; however, members are expected to maintain a regular attendance.  The band rehearses on Wednesday evening from 7p – 9p in the band room of Highland Middle School (3880 Ridge Road, Medina).  The band also presents their popular summer series every Friday, June through July, in Medina’s Uptown Park Gazebo.  Each year the band presents at a winter concert, and, spring concert.  For additional information on the 2019 concert season or Medina Community Band, contact Neiman at 330.725.8198 or MarcusNeiman@medinacommunityband.org.

Featured Soloists

Daniel Doty, tenor voice soloist

Daniel Doty is a tenor who is equally at home on the opera, theatre or concert stage. He has appeared with the symphonies in Akron (OH), Mansfield (OH), Muncie (IN), Urbana (IL), Marion (OH), and community bands in Medina and Wadsworth (OH). Performances have found him in a variety of settings from church sanctuaries to concert halls, and at such locations as the Celle di Puccini (Puccini summer home) and Severance Hall. In Akron, Daniel has appeared on the stage of Weathervane Playhouse as King Kaspar in “Amahl and the Night Visitors.”

As participant of the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Daniel spent six weeks in the Tuscan village of Lucca (Italy) singing operatic arias at various venues associated with Lucca’s most famous son, Giacomo Puccini.

Mr. Doty has appeared in Master Classes with such Metropolitan Opera stars as Martina Arroyo and Angela Brown. A past Guest Artist with the Masterworks Festival, Daniel worked with David Geier, Assistant Conductor for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mr. Doty holds a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Bowling Green State University. He is also an ordained minister and holds a Master of Divinity degree from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL.  Mr. Doty lives in Wadsworth with his wife Amy and is the proud father of Kristian, Sean, and Kaetlyn Doty.

Daniel’s most recent Cleveland area performances were as Spoletta in Tosca with Cleveland Opera Theatre and Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with KSU Opera Theatre. In May of 2017 Daniel made his Carnegie Hall debut singing the “Hostias” solo with the Hudson Festival Orchestra and Choir in the Fauré Requiem.

George Rosin, trombone, is a self-employed attorney in Akron Ohio, with emphasis on employer representation in Workers Compensation

George Rosin, trombone soloist

matters.  Married to Diane and proud father of two future health care professionals, Rosin has a wide range of musical experience. He was a member of a Dixieland Band in high school; at Wittenberg University, he played with Wind Ensemble, Chet Bausch Big Band and Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Since then, he had a short stint with Blues/Rock Band (Grand Theft Auto), but mostly big band work – Night Coach, Jimmy Dorsey, Guy Lombardo, and Jazz Revival Orchestra.

Rosin is currently director of The Brass Choir at The Bath Church, lead trombone for the Hudson Community Chapel’s Holiday Musical Extravaganza, and a James Brown Tribute Band (The Real-Soul Pleaser, Robert T). He joined Medina Community Band in October of 2016. He is a member and past president of Akron Symphony Board. Music has been very, very good to me, he stated.

Kristin Thompson, flute soloist, is a 2017 graduate of The University of Akron with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. While at UA, she played with the Concert Band, Flute Choir, and Symphonic Band. She has been devoted to music for over 17 years, beginning on flute at age 9 and progressing into piccolo studies. Her principal teachers include Kyra Kester and Heidi Ruby-Kushious. 

Kristin is a 2012 alumna of Medina High School where she played in Symphony Band and the Medina Marching Band for all four years, the Symphony Orchestra for two, and played in the pit orchestra, in addition to making select appearances with the Medina Choirs. High school solo performances featured Kristin with the Stardusters jazz ensemble as well as the Symphony Orchestra, where she performed Vivaldi’s Concerto for Flautino in C Major (piccolo). In addition, she is an alumnae member of the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, the latter of which offered her performances alongside members of The Cleveland Orchestra flute section.

Kristin works as a Clinical Research Coordinator for The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in the Department of Radiology. Though residing in Columbus, Ohio, she teaches privately and remains an active member of the Akron Pops Orchestra (2018) and the Medina Community Band (2015) where she serves on the board of the Medina Community Band Association.

Featured Ensemble

L to R – Lorna Lindsley, Lu Ann Gresh, & Marcia Nelson-Kline

Lu Ann Gresh, cornet, is a retired elementary music specialist with 36 years of experience. She has both a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in music education from The University of Akron.  She has taught for the Revere City Schools, Highland Local Schools, Clark County Schools in Las Vegas, Nevada, and most recently Wadsworth City Schools. She taught preschool music and adult beginning piano classes at The University of Akron. Lu Ann and her husband, Paul, reside in Wadsworth, Ohio. She has two children, Jonathan and Kelsey. She has been a member of the Medina Community Band since 1997. She also plays in the Sounds of Sousa Band, and is a member of the Brass Band of the Western Reserve. Lu Ann currently serves as the trumpet section leader. She is president of the Medina Community Band Association.  

Lorna Lindsley, cornet, earned her Nursing degree from The Huron Road School of Nursing. She worked as a Registered Nurse at The Cleveland Clinic South Pointe Hospital in their Step Down Unit. She performed with The Bluecoats and Garfield Cadets Drum and Bugle Corp over a span of seven years and continues to be active with their alumni groups playing several concerts a year. Lorna lives in Medina with her husband Sam and their three children Bella, Sydney and Emerson. She joined the Medina Community Band in 2017.

Marcia Nelson Kline, Copley resident Marcia Nelson Kline began her trumpet studies with parents Milton and Sarah Nelson, Lloyd Haines, and further advanced her studies with Harry Herforth and James Darling.  She is a member of Medina Community Band (since 1984) and Brass Band of the Western Reserve (since 1997) and has performed with Marcus Neiman’s Sound of Sousa Band, Mill Street Brass Quintet, and Cleveland Women’s Orchestra.  She is featured as a cornet soloist on Medina Community Band’s CD “Sounds of Summer”.  Marcia has an associate degree in medical assisting from The University of Akron and is retired from the Cleveland Clinic where she was an ophthalmic technician.

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