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Gary Burns Gary Burns Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University
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Naima Burrs

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Member Bio Naima Burrs, D.M.A, a violinist and conductor from Richmond, VA, has performed as a section violinist with many ensembles including the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, the Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra, and the Waterloo Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra as well as serving as principal second violin with Opera on the James and as concertmaster of Summer Garden Opera. Burrs was selected as a participant in the Conducting Academy of the Domaine Forget International Music Festival (Québec, Canada), where she studied with Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of the Metropolitan Opera House and Philadelphia Orchestra. In January of 2022, Burrs was appointed Music Director of the Petersburg Symphony Orchestra and concluded her tenure after two exciting seasons, in 2024. Burrs has collaborated with prominent solo artists both locally and internationally, including pianist Joanne Kong, clarinetist LeTriel White, violinist Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, and cellist Christoph Wagner. In August 2022, she became a member of the University of Richmond's faculty, where she also currently leads the University of Richmond Symphony Orchestra. In 2023, Burrs made her guest conducting debut with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and in the same year, was appointed as the Youth Concert conductor with the National Philharmonic Orchestra, leading eight performances for their educational series at the Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda, MD. Most recently, Burrs made her conducting debut with the Richmond Ballet, leading the Richmond Symphony in 6 performances for the annual presentation of The Nutcracker. During the 2024-2025 season, Naima will lead the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and the National Philharmonic in mainstage performances. Naima Burrs serves as the Director of Orchestral Activities at Virginia State University (Petersburg, VA) and has previously contributed to the faculties of Longwood University (Farmville, VA) and Hampden-Sydney College (Hampden Sydney, VA). Burrs holds degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University (B.A. in music), the University of Northern Iowa (M.M. in violin performance), and the Catholic University of America (D.M.A. in instrumental conducting).
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Jaime Bustillo

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Member Bio Jaime S. Bustillo is a conductor, music educator, and arts leader with over a decade of experience directing band, orchestra, choir, and mariachi ensembles. He has served as a Head Director and Assistant Director of Bands in North Texas, leading ensembles at the middle and secondary levels while overseeing comprehensive fine arts programs in Title I communities. Bustillo’s conducting work has resulted in consistent Division I ratings, sweepstakes, and superior evaluations at UIL Concert and Sightreading and other regional music festivals. In addition to his work with wind ensembles, Jaime has held long-standing appointments as an orchestra and mariachi director, including leading the longest-tenured orchestra program in his school’s history. He has been recognized for his ability to build sustainable music programs, mentor young musicians, and coordinate large-scale district events and clinics. Fluent in English and Spanish, Jaime is an advocate for access, equity, and excellence in music education and performance. He holds a Master of Music Education degree from VanderCook College of Music and a Bachelor of Music with teacher certification from The University of Texas at Arlington.
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Mr. Steven Byess

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Member Bio Steven Byess is a dynamic and passionate conductor, hailed by critics as “masterful and brilliant,” “creating the epitome of instrumental elegance,” and capturing “the full spirit and vitality of the score perfectly.” Recognized for his musical versatility, multi-faceted presence on the podium, and passion for music education, he is devoted to promoting a life-long love and enthusiasm for music and the arts. Steven is the music director of Orchestra Nova Northwest (Portland, Oregon), the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, and the Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra. He conducted the U.S. premiere of Russian violinist Alexander Markov’s Rock Concerto at Carnegie Hall in New York, and was selected by Walt Disney World Entertainment to conduct the 2000 NFL E*TRADE Super Bowl Halftime show, where he performed for a television audience of 88 million viewers. As a passionate advocate for the arts, Steven is sought after for his speeches on the arts, music, and education, and has organized collaborations with numerous choruses, chamber music ensembles, and festivals. He wrote and co-directed a PBS presentation, Count On It!, designed to connect music and mathematics for children grades K-3. Since 2013, he has shared this passion with over 90,000 children around the country as a conductor of the Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute Link Up orchestral education concerts. A prolific conductor of opera from grand to contemporary, his performances include Puccini’s La Bohème and a critically acclaimed production of Robert Ward’s The Crucible at the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel; Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with Greensboro Opera; Bizet’s Carmen with Emerald City Opera (Colorado); Copland’s The Tender Land, Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance, and a collaboration with composer Ricky Ian Gordon on his opera “27” with Intermountain Opera (Montana); and Weill’s Street Scene and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance with the Eastman School of Music Opera Theatre. Steven has been a regular guest conductor at the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Michigan for their productions of Le tragédie de Carmen (Bizet/Brook), a highly acclaimed production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, collaborating with the composer’s daughter Jamie Bernstein, and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Steven is the former associate music director of the Ohio Light Opera where he conducted over 80 productions and 21 commercial recordings, including repertoire ranging from well- to little-known operas and operettas to blockbuster classic American musical theater works. In addition to over 40 symphonic performances in the 2024-2025 season, Steven will conduct multiple ballet productions of The Nutcracker and Don Quixote, and a memorial program in New York City for the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project celebrating the 100th anniversary of the passing of American composer Victor Herbert.
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William Cabison

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Member Bio Will Cabison is a conductor, pianist, and composer. Will returned this season as a Cover Conductor at the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, following their guest conducting debut with the orchestra in the 2023/24 season. Earlier this season, they served as Assistant Music Director for Waiting for Lefty at New York University. Previously, Will was Guest Supporting Conductor for Charles Ives’s Fourth Symphony at Lincoln Center with the Mannes Orchestra, as well as Assistant Conductor and Assistant Coach for L’enfant et les sortilèges at Mannes Opera. Their past work also includes Assistant Conductor for La Calisto (Mannes Opera), Assistant Conductor and Guest Conductor for In the Green (Mannes Opera), Guest Supporting Conductor for David Lang’s crowd out (Los Angeles Philharmonic Association), and Assistant Conductor of the Los Robles Master Chorale. Will is an experienced vocal collaborative pianist, adept in classical, contemporary, and musical theatre repertoire. As a composer, their vocal work Feet Searching for Sound premiered at Carnegie Hall in spring 2024, alongside the Lincoln Center premiere of their chamber piece In Memoriam: Miki Gorman. Their choral work Moonrise won the 2016 Los Angeles Master Chorale Young Composers Contest and premiered at Walt Disney Concert Hall. In addition to conducting and composing, Will serves as a Teaching Artist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Outside of their professional work, they are a distance runner with Front Runners New York and dedicate their time to the queer community through the team’s Brooklyn Committee. Will is currently a candidate for the Professional Studies Diploma in Orchestral Conducting at the Mannes School of Music, studying with David Hayes. Prior to this, they earned a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the same program and received the Carl Schachter Award in conducting. Before that, they graduated with Latin honors from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a major in Piano Performance. Originally from Los Angeles, they now reside in Brooklyn.
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Enrique Caboverde Enrique Caboverde Florida International University

Florida International University
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Gregory Campbell

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Member Bio Gregory Campbell is a versatile and accomplished performing arts professional in performance and arts administration. He is currently the Assistant Music Director of the Shawnee Concert Band. Recent conducting engagements include Assistant Conductor/Prompter with Lawrence Opera Theatre, The Nutcracker at Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, Kansas, and Menotti's The Medium with Opera on Tap-Kansas City. Gregory is also the Director of Marketing and Communications at Lyric Opera of Kansas City where he works on various projects promoting the company regionally, nationally, and internationally. Gregory started his career in the performing arts as a classical trombonist. He performed extensively in the United States and Mexico with The Fountain City Brass Band, The Kansas City Symphony, Symphony Orchestra of Northwest Arkansas, The Wichita Symphony, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony of the Americas, Atlantic Classical Orchestra, Brevard Symphony Orchestra, Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, Miami Symphony Orchestra, Opera Naples, Klezmer Company Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica UANL (Monterrey, Mexico), Summer Opera Theatre of Washington DC, and the Ohio Light Opera. Gregory holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Miami, where he was a Mancini Fellow, and a bachelor's degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he received the Richard Franko Goldman award in performance. His expertise and dedication have made him a respected figure in the performing arts community.
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Mason Cancilla

Avanti Chamber Orchestra and Chorus
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Member Bio Mason Cancilla is a graduate of the University at Buffalo (UB) with an MM in Orchestral Conducting. While at UB, he served as the assistant conductor of the University at Buffalo Symphony Orchestra (UBSO). In 2023 he created Avanti Chamber Orchestra and Chorus - an amateur group dedicated to performing works for choir and orchestra not frequently heard in the concert hall. He is currently music director of Cantio Sacra at Canisius University and has been since 2021. Mason is a conductor and team coordinator for Buffalo String Works, a general music educator for St. Andrew's Country Day School, and serves as organist to several churches throughout Western New York. In the 2022/23 concert season, Cancilla acted as a long-term guest conductor for the Cheektowaga Community Symphony, and is expected to return in April of '24. During the summer of '23, Mason spent time at the Eastman School of Music studying, conducting and performing Mendelssohn's Elijah. He was also part of the 2022 program, similarly studying, conducting and performing Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem. In the summer of '21, Mason spent two intensive weeks studying with eleven other conductors in the South Carolina Conductors Institute. This was his second time through the program, having been a member of the 2020 institute. Cancilla conducted the world premiere of his Festival Mass written for the sesquicentennial celebration of Canisius College (now Canisius University) in March of 2020. A few months later, he’d earn a Bachelor of Music degree from the same school. Festival Mass was written for chamber orchestra, choir, and soprano soloist. While at Canisius from 2018-20, Cancilla was the assistant conductor of the Canisius College Chamber Orchestra and also served as it's resident composer and arranger. He performed as a member of the Canisius Chorale and pursued studies in conducting, vocal, and piano performance. In 2020 Mason was awarded the "Edith DeLuca Memorial Award for Excellence in Music". In 2018 he placed second in the 7th Annual "Persis Vehar Competition for Excellence in Composition". ​In 2018, Mason graduated from Niagara County Community College (NCCC) where he was invited to return on several occasions to music direct for it's Music and Theater programs - past engagements include Into the Woods and GodSpell. While a student at NCCC, Mason received the "Award for Excellence in Business, Technology, and the Arts". In 2017-18 Mason acted as Artistic Representative to New York conductor, Dr. Harold Rosenbaum. As an advocate for community arts programs, Mason has served as music director for the St. Stephen’s Parish Players on Grand Island in productions of The Wizard of Oz and 9 to 5 the Musical. From 2015-17 Mason was the stage manager and librarian for the Cheektowaga Community Symphony Orchestra.
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Gary D. Cannon

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Member Bio Dr. Gary D. Cannon is one of the Seattle area’s most versatile choral personalities, active as conductor, musicologist, singer, educator, and composer. In 2016, he founded the Emerald Ensemble, a professional chamber choir engaging the region's leading ensemble singers. Since 2008 he has served as conductor and Artistic Director of two prominent community choirs. The Cascadian Chorale, a chamber choir based in the Eastside suburb of Bellevue, performs a breadth of mostly unaccompanied repertoire including many premieres of works by local composers. The Vashon Island Chorale, numbering 70–90 singers, is a focal point of its island’s arts community. He also directs the congregational choir at Temple Beth Am in Seattle. At the invitation of Early Music Seattle, he founded and directed a Renaissance choir, Sine Nomine (2008–15). He has three times conducted for Vashon Opera. Equally comfortable directing professional and volunteer ensembles, Cannon has also conducted Anna’s Bay Chamber Choir, Choral Arts Northwest, Kirkland Choral Society, Northwest Mahler Festival, several choirs at the University of Washington, and others. Cannon gives pre-concert lectures for Seattle Symphony and has provided written program notes for choirs across the country. His research and writing topics span music of nine centuries, with special emphasis on twentieth-century English composers. In 2024 he joined the voice faculty at Edmonds College, and he formerly taught music history and theory at Whatcom College, where he received the Faculty Excellence Award. As a tenor, he has appeared as a soloist with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle Philharmonic, and the Auburn, Eastside, Rainier, and Sammamish Symphony Orchestras, as well as Byrd Ensemble, Choral Arts Northwest, Master Chorus Eastside, Opus 7, St. James Cathedral Cantorei, Seattle Bach Choir, and Tudor Choir. A California native, Cannon holds degrees from the University of California at Davis and the University of Washington. 284 words, updated 21 Oct 2024, for general use
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Nikolas Caoile

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Member Bio Nikolas Caoile is a conductor, pianist, and music educator. Currently, he is Music Director and Conductor of the Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra, Director of Orchestras at Central Washington University, and the Music Director Designate of Lake Union Civic Orchestra. Since 2017, Caoile has served as Acting Chair of the Department of Music at CWU. He served as the Conductor and Artistic Director of the Salem Chamber Orchestra from 2012-2016. He has guest conducted many other orchestras including: Auburn Symphony, Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Singers (OSSCS) Northwest Mahler Festival Orchestra, Rainier Symphony, Yakima Symphony, Gig Harbor Symphony, Lake Avenue Orchestra, and Olympia Symphony. In 2009, he conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas in collaboration with the Christopher Wheeldon's Morphoses Dance Company at New York City Center. Caoile participated at the Cabrillo Festival for Contemporary Music where he worked with Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier. A passionate believer in music education for all ages, Caoile has led numerous educational and community engagement concerts including the Alaska, Indiana, and Idaho All-State Orchestras, the Washington All-State Jr. Orchestra as well as many regional honor orchestras in Washington, Montana, Alaska, Arizona, Oregon and Indiana. In 2019, Caoile will direct the All-City Middle School Orchestra in Salem, Oregon. In 2016, Caoile received the Outstanding Orchestral Achievement Award from the Washington Chapter of the American String Teachers Association. Caoile regularly presents clinics at National Association for Music Educators Regional and State Conferences and has served as a presenter for Seattle Symphony Pre-Concert Talk series. Born in Portland, Nikolas Caoile now resides in Ellensburg WA with his wife, mezzo-soprano, Melissa Schiel and their son, Kieran. Caoile holds degrees in conducting and composition and completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Michigan. In 2013, he accepted a nomination to join Phi Beta Kappa as a member of the Willamette chapter, Delta of Oregon. His principal teachers are Kenneth Kiesler, Gustav Meier, and Peter Erös. Caoile also enjoys playing golf, NYT Crosswords, and cooking.
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