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Will has pursued diverse interests through the Music Department. He has performed on horn in the DCSO, Brass Choir, and Wind Ensemble. In 2005, he was selected to perform Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 1 with the DCSO. He has also performed chamber music as a soloist with piano, within the Brass Quintet, and in other contexts such as recitals and New Music Davidson concerts. He studied privately with Frank Portone, Principal Horn of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. Will additionally enjoys playing recorder, and has worked with harpsichordist Henry Lebedinsky, as well as composed recorder into his own pieces (and inevitably performed those parts). He served as librarian for the DCSO, and, to some extent, the Jazz Ensemble. Will has completed three semesters of formal study of composition with Dr. Stasack, incorporating elements of 20th- and 21st-century techniques, and non-Western idioms into his musical language. In fall of his junior year, Will took the course Electronic Music with Dr. Lawing, collaborating with other student musicians to blend international, popular, and Western art musics. Will has also composed incidental music for the theatre, working with the Royal Shakespeare Company's Keith Clouston, composer, and Gemma Fairlie, director, to underscore the Davidson Student production For Every Passion Something. He traveled with the company of this show to Edinburgh, Scotland, where it was performed fourteen times with live seven-piece band in the Fringe Festival.
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