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Élisabeth Comtois

Agence Station Bleue
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Dr. Vivian Conejero

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Member Bio Maestra Vivian Conejero is the Founder, Artistic Director, and Principal Conductor of the D Major International Music Festival, which she inaugurated in 2011, in Kiev (Ukraine) and has taken to Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Romania, and Switzerland. Dr. Conejero enjoys an increasingly active career as guest conductor in Europe, where her concerts consistently earn her standing ovations from large audiences. Most recently, she conducted a highly successful concert in Constanta, Romania which earned her further invitations as a guest conductor. She was also interviewed by the local press. Over the course of her career, she has led many orchestras, such as the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Academic State Symphony Orchestra, the Karelia Philharmonic, and the Sochi Symphony Orchestra (Russia); the Donetsk State Philharmonic, the Academic Philharmonic of Kharkiv, and the Ukrainian State Academic Symphony Concert Orchestra (Ukraine); the Zabrze Philharmonic and the Filharmonia Sudecka (Poland); the Symphony Orchestra of Moldova National Philharmonic (Republic of Moldova).
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Mr. Christopher Confessore

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Member Bio Christopher Confessoreserves as Principal POPS Conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. The 2019-20 Season marks his 20th year as a member of the ASO’s conducting staff. During that time, he has led the ASO in hundreds of Pops, Masterworks, Educational/Outreach, and Outdoor performances across the state of Alabama. Mr. Confessore also serves as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Brevard Symphony Orchestra. During his acclaimed tenure, the BSO has enjoyed a dramatic and sustained period of growth and artistic excellence. The BSO is consistently praised for its innovative programming, spirited performances and broad repertoire. Mr. Confessore’s schedule as a guest conductor has included appearances with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Charlotte (NC) Symphony, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, New Mexico Philharmonic, the Sibiu Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. He also regularly appears as a conductor for two of Walt Disney World’s most elaborate productions: TheCandlelight Processional at EPCOT – a production featuring a full orchestra, 300-voice choir and celebrity narrators including Whoopi Goldberg, Neil Patrick Harris, Kurt Russell, and Sigourney Weaver – and The Music of Pixar: A Symphony of Characters at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Heralded as a sensitive accompanist and inspiring collaborator, Christopher Confessore has accompanied a distinguished list of artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell and Lang Lang. As a Pops conductor, he has appeared with a diverse group of superstars, including Grammy Award winners Art Garfunkel, Amy Grant, Roberta Flack, Patti LaBelle, Judy Collins, Indigo Girls, Marvin Hamlisch, LeAnn Rimes, Chris Botti, Peabo Bryson, Rick Springfield, and Charlie Daniels and Tony Award winners Idina Menzel and Jennifer Holliday. Music columnist Mary Colurso of The Birmingham News remarked “Anyone who regards the symphony as stuffy and elitist hasn’t been to a SuperPops show when Confessore’s in charge. He exudes nice-guy appeal on stage, along with real warmth, a sense of humor and smarts to spare.” Mr. Confessore holds a Master of Music degree in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Southern California and the Bachelor of Music degree in Bassoon Performance from Florida State University.
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Dr. Thomas Conlin

Vallejo Festival Orchestra
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Member Bio Thomas Conlin is a frequent guest conductor with opera companies, ballet companies and symphony orchestras on five continents. Recent seasons have included performances in Germany with the Philharmonisches Orchester Augsburg, Baden-Badener Philharmonie and Philharmonisches Orchester der Stadt Ulm, in Italy with Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra in Rio de Janeiro, Cairo Symphony Orchestra (Egypt), Calgary Philharmonic (Canada), Flemish Chamber Orchestra (Belgium), Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon (Spain), Pusan Philharmonic (Korea), RTE Symphony Orchestra (Ireland), Volgograd Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Symfoniorkesteret I Stavanger (Norway), Orquesta Sinfonica de Antioquia (Colombia), in Turkey with the Presidential Symphony Orchestra (Ankara) and Izmir State Symphony Orchestra, and in Japan with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Chamber Orchestra. ​ American orchestras Thomas Conlin has conducted include Baltimore, Buffalo, Charleston, Charlotte, Knoxville, Monterey, Napa, Norfolk, North Carolina, Palm Beach, Rhode Island, Richmond, San Diego, San Jose, Tucson, West Virginia, Youngstown and many others. Conlin and the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra won a Gold Award (1st Prize) at the 1992 Houston International Film Festival for their music video Symphonic Wonderworks, which was also a finalist in the Entertainment Category of the 1992 Telly Awards. Conlin founded the Snowshoe Music Festival in the Appalachian mountains and has also conducted at Eastern Music Festival, Shenandoah Music Festival, Music in the Vineyards, Music From Bear Valley and the Festival at Hakone (Japan). His repertoire includes compositions of all styles and periods, with an emphasis on music of our time. Conlin has presented numerous world and national premieres of works by American composers. Thomas Conlin conducted the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus and soloists in George Crumb’s Star-Child on the CD which won the 2001 Grammy Award for “Best Contemporary Classical Composition.” Conlin’s recording (Bridge 9095) has received highest recommendations from music publications throughout the world, including Billboard, Classic CD, Klassik Heute, Gramophone (“monumental”), Amazon.com (Editor’s Choice), and ClassicsToday.com (“miraculous”). Mr. Conlin's recordings of Crumb's A Haunted Landscape (Bridge 9113)and Echoes of Time and the River (Bridge 9127) have also received international acclaim. All three of Crumb’s major orchestral works have been reissued together on one CD (Bridge 9174). For Naxos, Conlin has recorded the six piano concertos by Brazilian composer Camargo Guarnieri with the Warsaw Philharmonic and pianist Max Barros (Naxos 8.557666 and 8.557667).
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Devin Connolly

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Member Bio As a student composer, finding a unique and distinct voice is something that many struggle with, myself included. As I work more and more with the exceptionally talented faculty at Berklee, I only feel myself growing. In my personal studies I am writing a symphony, piano concerto, and many smaller works in the attempt of finding my own voice, and melding many of the styles that I am and have been studying throughout my life.
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Dr. Andrew Constantine

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Member Bio Andrew Constantine serves as Music Director of both the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and the Reading Symphony Orchestra. Having gained a reputation in Europe and the UK as a conductor of great skill, charisma, energy and versatility, Andrew Constantine moved to the US in 2004 to become Assistant Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Within his first season there he was promoted to Associate Conductor. In the US he has won great praise for his ability to communicate with audiences and his energetic and compelling advocacy for classical music have gained him many admirers. In May of 2007, following a two year search and a pool of over 280 applicants, he was appointed Music Director of the Reading Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania. In July of 2009, after a similar process, he was also appointed Music Director of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in Indiana. After winning the first Donatella Flick/Accademia Italiana Conducting Competition, Andrew Constantine made his Royal Festival Hall debut with the London Philharmonic. Press reviews were unanimous in their praise: “Definiteness of intention is a great thing, and Constantine’s shaping of the music was never short of it” was the Financial Times’ view, whilst The Independent wrote, “Andrew Constantine showed a capacity RFH audience just what he is made of, ending his big demanding programme with an electrifying performance of Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5.” Described by Classic FM (the UK’s largest radio station) as “a Rising Star of Classical Music” Andrew Constantine has worked regularly with the UK’s leading symphony orchestras including The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra, and by many others throughout Europe, including the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the NWD-Philharmonie. He was recently awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music by the University of Leicester, for this “contribution to music”, and also a prestigious British NESTA Fellowship to further develop his international career.
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Daniel Constantineau

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Member Bio Daniel Constantineau began learning music at age 12 and has been composing since the age of 16. His first works were created at the Camp musical de Lanaudière and were his gateway to the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, which he attended from 1975 to 1985. There, he completed master's degrees in writing (Magdeleine Martin, Clermont Pépin, Gaston Arel), analysis (Gilles Tremblay) and conducting (Raffi Arménian), to which he added learning the clarinet, piano, singing (Jeanine Lachance) and acousmatic composition (Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux). From 1985 to 1987, Daniel Constantineau perfected his conducting skills at the OSM and the SMCQ, with Charles Dutoit and Serge Garant. A scholarship recipient from the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec, he participated at the same time in workshops at Tanglewood (Gustav Meier), Domaine Forget (Pierre Dervaux) and the Artsperience Conducting Symposium (Nurhan Arman), in Ontario. In parallel with his studies in conducting, he tackled the composition of stage music — television, radio, theatre, cinema — from which emerged a catalogue of works that stands out for its diversity and originality. In September 1996, he founded the Orchestre philharmonique du Grand Montréal, a high-calibre amateur symphonic group that enjoyed immediate success until its dissolution in June 2001. He then took over the reins of the music profile of the Arts and Letters Program at Collège de Valleyfield, where, from 2000 to 2013, he taught history, theory, analysis, choral singing and computer-assisted music. In 2003, hearing a Beethoven symphony performed by John Eliott Gardiner's Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique prompted him to join the Tafelmusik ensemble in Toronto, where he received expert advice in 2004 and 2006 from Jeanne Lamon, Ivars Taurins and Bruno Weil in conducting baroque and classical orchestras and choirs. He completed this training by attending, in the summer of 2011, the rehearsals and concerts of the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique, an ensemble specializing in the performance of classical and romantic symphonic repertoire on period instruments. There, he met Philippe Herreweghe and Alexander Lonquich, renowned musicians in this field. These various experiences led him to found Galileo (formerly Orchestre symphonique de la Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent), an ensemble that plays classical, romantic and post-romantic repertoires mainly on period instruments and whose start-up year, in 2010-2011, was crowned with success. Since then, Galileo has produced approximately two to four concerts per year. In this context, the release of a first album on the ATMA label — André Gagnon Baroque — in October 2015, followed by nominations at the 2016 ADISQ Galas, the 2017, 2020 and 2021 Opus Awards and the receipt of an Opus Award in January 2020, are major accomplishments. In addition to his activities as a musician, Daniel Constantineau completed a certificate in journalism at UdeM in 2008, following which he worked as a supernumerary desk reporter for the newspaper Le Devoir , as well as a classical music columnist for the show Le 4 @ 6, on CIBL Radio-Montréal, from 2007 to 2009. The bug for studies and the need to take good care of his many affairs led him to enroll at the École des Hautes études commerciales de Montréal, where he was awarded a Master's degree in cultural business management with distinction in September 2014.
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Jackson Cooper

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Samuel Cooper

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Member Bio Sam is currently pursuing his master's in instrumental conducting at Colorado State University. He serves as the Assistant Conductor of Orchestras at CSU and the Assistant Conductor for the Fort Collins-based Health and Wellness Community Orchestra. As a DDAM scholar, Sam studied violin at MSU Denver, where he earned degrees in music performance and music education in December 2023. He has played violin with various musical groups, including the Aurora Symphony and Empire Lyric Players, and held the roles of concertmaster and assistant conductor with the MSU Denver Symphony Orchestra. He was also honored to serve as pit director for the Empire Lyric Players’ July 2025 production of The Mikado…in Space. As a co-founder and violinist of the Apollo String Quartet, Sam remains actively engaged in chamber music. In January 2025, Sam was selected to participate in a conducting workshop with Carl Topilow and the Cleveland Pops Orchestra. He was also invited to a workshop in June 2025 with Diane Wittry and Dr. Silas Huff in New York City. You can follow Sam’s conducting journey on Instagram at @cooper_conducts.
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Todd Craven

Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra
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Member Bio American conductor Todd Craven is the newly appointed Music Director/Conductor of the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra. He will lead the 35th anniversary season of the orchestra beginning in September of 2021 at the orchestras home, the Mattie Kelly Arts Center. Winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Conducting Competition, Todd is the Co-founder and Music Director of the Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra. He has held the positions of Assistant Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Assistant Conductor for the Florida Grand Opera and has led orchestras including the Detroit Symphony, Toledo Symphony and Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Orlando Arts Magazine said of the “captivating” world premiere of Donald Yu’s Four Seasons, that Mr. Craven “held the ensemble together with precision, allowing each instrument to resonate while minding the role of the soloist.” Todd was previously a prize winning trumpet player, beginning his professional career as Principal Trumpet of the Sarasota Orchestra. He also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony and was a frequent guest artist at the Sarasota Music Festival. Mr. Craven made his conducting debut in 2012 with members of the Sarasota Orchestra and Redeemer chorus in Maurice Durufle’s Requiem. Soon thereafter he was invited to a conducting workshop in St. Petersburg, Russia where he conducted in a prizewinner’s concert with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic. Todd then returned to his alma mater the University of Michigan to pursue conducting studies with Kenneth Kiesler and later the Peabody Conservatory where he studied with Marin Alsop. Other conducting mentors include Larry Rachleff, Donald Schleicher, JoAnn Falletta and William Wiedrich.
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