The May 31, 2003 concert of the Virginia Grand Military Band featured the
dedication of Gordon Bowie's march Current Events to the Newseum, the
The December 15, 2002 concert of the Virginia Grand Military Band featured
Gordon Bowie as guest conductor. In his presentation, Dr. Bowie discussed
and presented three marches by R.B. Hall: the march
The November 24, 2001 concert of the Virginia Grand Military Band featured
the premier of Gordon Bowie's Lake Wobegon March, dedicated
to Garrison Keillor. Dr. Bowie appeared as
guest conductor at the
Dr. Bowie began his sixth season conducting the band in the fall of
2004. Under his baton the band has grown to more than 70 pieces, and
presents concerts monthly both at Montgomery Village venues and other locations
in
The 2004 Bucksport Trombone Festival, mounted every year by trombonist Don Blodgett, again featured Gordon Bowie as guest conductor and clinician. The concert, held in August, included trombonists from all over the east coast. This was the nineteenth consecutive year for the festival.
Legacy Brass Quintet featuring Gordon Bowie on trombone appeared in May 2001
at the Southwest DC Chamber Music Concert. The Quintet played a variety
of brass music, including Overture For Brass
Quintet by
At the July 4, 1999 concert of the Montgomery Village Community Band in
Gordon Bowie's Sonata Duegale for cello and
bass trombone was chosen for performance at the 1999 National Association of
Composers,
Loras Schissel, conductor of the Virginia Grand Military Band, featured U.S.S. Maine March at a September 1998, concert with composer Gordon Bowie as guest conductor. Gordon also conducted the Virginia Grand Military Band during a performance of his march Top Kick during the 1999-2000 season, on May 27 2000. Gordon is a regular member of the trombone section in the Virginia Grand Military Band.
The North Central College Low Brass Workshop commissioned Gordon Bowie to
create Festival Prelude for performance at the workshop opening in
August, 1998. The composer conducted his new prelude at the three-day festival,
in addition to conducting Tommy Pederson's Blue Topaz for featured
soloist and clinician Douglas Yeo of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, and several other works. During the course of the festival,
Gordon and Paul Kemp of the Chattanooga Symphony performed
Gordon Bowie is a regular member of the National Concert Band, where he performs on Bass Trombone. At a concert in May, 1998, the band performed his march Top Kick under the baton of Conductor Buck Wade, and Gordon appeared as guest conductor for two other pieces, R.B. Hall's New Colonial March; and The Light Cavalry Overture by F. von Suppé. In November 2000, Gordon appeared as soloist with the band, and he continues to appear from time to time as guest conductor.
The 1999 Bucksport Trombone Festival, mounted every year by trombonist Don Blodgett, featured Gordon Bowie as guest conductor and clinician. During the festival's evening concert, Gordon performed his arrangement of Puccini's Un Bel Di Vedremo, the famous soprano aria which he has arranged for Bass Trombone and piano.