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Michael Dolan

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Member Bio Michael is Assistant Professor of Music at Allegheny College, serving as Music Director of the Allegheny College Civic Symphony, String Area Coordinator, and teaching courses in the music curriculum. He earned is DMA in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music under Dr. Oriol Sans and Dr. Chad Hutchinson. While there he was a Teaching Assistant in both the School of Music and Department of Communication Arts, founding Music Director of the Medical Sciences Orchestra of UWM, and conducted a professional recording of new compositions for jazz quintet and string orchestra by Johannes Wallmann. His Master’s in Orchestral Conducting was earned under Gerardo Edelstein at the Pennsylvania State University School of Music. There he conducted his first professional recording: new compositions for viola ensemble by Scott Slapin. His undergraduate work was completed at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he received conducting instruction, both in the wind and choral departments, from Dr. William Jon Gray, Dr. Michael Schwartzkopf, and Dr. Paul Popiel. He also studied voice with James King, Alice Hopper, and Dr. Michael Gordon. Michael has attended workshops led by noted conducting instructors Kenneth Kielser, Donald Schleicher, Markand Thakar, and Diane Wittry with performances in New Hampshire, Los Angeles, and San Diego. He has held professional positions as Co-Conductor of the Spring Valley Concert Band in Schaumburg, IL, Director of Music at St. Cornelius Catholic Church in Chicago, IL, and Choir Director of Faith United Church of Christ in State College, PA. His musical and research interests include the promotion of American composers and works.
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Juan Dominguez

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Member Bio Juan-David Domínguez-Rincón initially trained as a pianist. He finished his studies in orchestra conducting at the Facultad de Artes ASAB in 2017. In 2024 he received his master's degree in conducting at the University of Northern Iowa and recently started his Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance (Conducting) at Shenandoah Conservatory in the fall of 2024 studying under Maestro Emanuele Andrizzi. He has conducted several orchestras in Colombia, such as the Bogota Philharmonic, Caldas Symphony Orchestra and Medellin Philharmonic. He founded the Orquesta Sinfónica Metropolitana de Bogotá “La MET” in 2019 with the purpose of developing himself as a conductor and to serve as an open space of practice for new professional musicians and students; this orchestra is projected as one of the most outreaching for young professionals in Colombia. With “La Met,” he recorded his first professional symphony album in 2021, which included five original tone poem winners of the First National Composers Competition that he also promoted and incorporates the different rhythms shaped by the diverse geography of Colombia. In 2021/22, he was considered to be assistant conductor of the Bogotá Philharmonic and Medellín Philharmonic. He conducted the Northern Iowa All State Workshop Orchestra in 2023, leading over 120 young musicians. Most recently, he has participated in the 2024 Cascade Conducting Masterclass with the Tacoma Symphony under maestra Sarah Ioannides, and the 2024 Everything Conducting Seminar with the Omaha Symphony under maestro Ankush Bahal, and he was a fellow of the 2024 Sphinx Connect in Detroit, Michigan. Recent invitations include participating in the conducting masterclass with Toby Purser at Oxford University and the International Conductors Workshop and Competition in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Brent D Douglas

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Member Bio Brent Douglas is American conductor and pianist with a highly varied and international career. He was appointed as a conductor with Dusseldorf (Germany) Lyric Opera in 2017, where he conducted the company’s inaugural production. He has conducted the London Classical Players Orchestra, National Women’s Chorus of Cuba, The Bard College Summer Symphony, University of South Carolina Conductor’s Institute Orchestra, The Gwinnett Symphony Chamber Orchestra, The Norwalk Chamber Orchestra, and the International Masterclass Orchestra in Berlin. He has also served as Assistant Conductor of the Tampa Bay Symphony. This is his sixth season playing piano and celeste in the Florida Orchestra and has also played with Tampa Bay Symphony and Springfield Symphony (MO). He is an active operatic vocal coach, serving on the faculty of the Savannah Voice Festival and has worked for Opera Tampa, St. Petersburg Opera, and Springfield Opera. Brent regularly performs in chamber music concerts, and is part of The Florida Orchestra Clarinet Trio. Mr. Douglas teaches Chorus, Piano and Performing Arts Management at Eckerd College and maintains a private studio of piano students. He has served as musical director for Crested Butte (Colorado) Mountain Summer Theater, Manatee Players Theatre, Springfield Little Theater, and M.A.D Theater. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance and a Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of South Florida, where he studied with Dr. William Wiedrich and Dr. James Bass. He furthered his conducting studies with Michael Francis (The Florida Orchestra), Kenneth Kiesler (University of Michigan), and Harold Farberman (Bard College).
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Eugene Dowdy

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Member Bio Eugene (Gene) Dowdy is conductor and artistic director of the Symphony of the Hills, Kerrville, Texas. Dowdy served for 23 years as director of orchestral studies and instrumental conducting at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and, upon his retirement in 2019, was named Professor Emeritus. Dowdy currently serves as Coordinator of Strings at Schreiner University. Dowdy was the assistant conductor of the Mid-Texas Symphony from 2009-2013 under David Mairs, and also guest conducted the Camerata de Coahuila, the state orchestra of Coahuila, Mexico. During his time at UTSA, Dowdy led the orchestral program in diverse venues and genres including collaborations and appearances with the Brubeck family of Jazz musicians, internationally-acclaimed Baroque violinist Rachel Podger, the progressive rock band KANSAS, Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan, and in world premieres of numerous orchestral and operatic works. The UTSA Orchestra, under Dowdy’s direction, performed as the featured university orchestra at the 2017 TMEA Convention, and has performed by invitation and on tour in Texas, Mexico, and Italy. Gene grew up as the youngest of four children in a musical family, and began violin studies with Achille DiRusso in Corpus Christi, Texas. His parents both completed college degrees as they raised children. Dowdy received the doctoral degree in orchestral conducting with James Dixon at the University of Iowa, a master’s degree in music education from UTSA with Donald Hodges, and the bachelor’s degree from UT Austin, where he was awarded a Performance Certificate in Violin, studying with Vince Frittelli, and taught in the University of Texas String Project under Phyllis Young. He taught award-winning public school orchestras for nine years in San Antonio’s NEISD, conducted orchestras for nine summers at the Interlochen Arts Camp, and continues to serves as honorary Resident Conductor of the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio. Dowdy is past president of both the Texas Orchestra Directors Association and the Texas Chapter of the American String Teachers Association, and a former executive director of the National String Project Consortium. Dowdy is an active guest conductor, having appeared with orchestras and festivals around the United States (Texas, Florida, Alaska, Wyoming, Georgia, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, California, and Iowa), and in Mexico, Austria, France, and Italy. He is a member of numerous professional and honorary societies including the American Federation of Musicians (Local 23), Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Sigma Alpha Iota (Friend of the Arts), and Mu Omicron. Gene and his wife Stacy have two daughters; Jessica Lopez, a piano-playing pastry chef, and Rachel Dowdy, an orchestra director and cellist.
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Simonida Dragovic

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Member Bio Simonida is a professional orchestral conductor and early music singer. She holds a degree in conducting from the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade, Serbia, and in orchestra and opera conducting from the Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland under the instruction of professors: Boguslaw Madey and Ryszard Dudek. She recently completed DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) degree in Orchestral conducting at TTU (Texas Tech University) School of Music in the class of Professor Lanfranco Marcelletti. She also attended the Josip Slavenski Music High School in Belgrade, where she majored in Early Music singing. Simonida has been an active participant in conducting masterclasses and summer schools. The most important being at the Conductor’s Academy with Jonathan Brett (Radom, Poland, Budapest, Hungary). She started to work on short-term projects with the Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Borislav Pašćan in Belgrade as a conductor. After that, she assisted and conducted in projects with the Symphonic Orchestra of Radio Television of Serbia and chamber Opera Orchestra Madlenianum. With Chamber Orchestra Collegium Academicum she worked and performed in International Cultural Center in Belgrade. She started to work as a manager and conductor of orchestra Pro Classica and had many great concerts in SKC Great Hall, the Polish embassy, and many other places in Belgrade. She organized and prepared a concert for guest conductor Maestro Predrag Gosta (USA). Simonida also had a successful concert while working with the famous “Wonder Strings” orchestra from Belgrade. Most recently, she was featured as a volunteer conductor at the Music Art Project in Belgrade – EL Sistema Serbia (“Music of Hope”). As a TA and as at TTU she worked with USO and Sinfonietta orchestra on various concert programs conducted by her, Professor Philip Mann and Professor Lanfranco Marcelletti. She conducted concerts in Hemmle Hall and Buddy Holly Hall in which she conducted pieces of Grieg, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Beethoven etc. as a part of her performance practice and at TTU opera project she was rehearsal/assistant conductor to Professor L. Marcelletti on the Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni”.
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Alyze Dreiling

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Member Bio Alyze Dreiling is an award-winning conductor, and accomplished violinist and violist in San Diego. In addition to serving as the YPO Soloists Ensemble Artistic Director and Conductor since 2010, she is adjunct faculty at Grossmont Colllege, University of San Diego and USD Chamber Music Festival and is also a violinist with Trio Licenza, the piano trio, in residence at USD, and a member of the California Consort. She was also the founding Artistic Director and Conductor of Classics for Kids, a fully professional orchestra performing specialty youth concerts in the San Diego area. Ms. Dreiling maintains a private teaching studio and is a member of the Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC) the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), and the National Piano Guild. She also serves as an adjudicator for the MTAC Certificate of Merit program. Ms. Dreiling won second prize in the American Prize Competition – conductor of youth orchestra division. Ms. Dreiling’s credits include: soloist with the Detroit Symphony, Philharmonica Hungarica at the Vienna Summer Festival, Florida Chamber Orchestra, concertmaster of the Knoxville Symphony and Knoxville Chamber Orchestra. With composer, Myron Fink, she received a recording prize from Contemporary Recording Society for the production and release of a CD featuring Fink’s Violin Sonata #1 and subsequently the Violin Sonata #2.Additionally, locally, she has appeared as soloist with the International Orchestra, SDSU Symphony and Grossmont Symphony where she serves as principal violist of the orchestra as well as the Grossmont Quartet, and was the Violinist/Conductor of the International Chamber Players at USIU. She has also served as concertmaster for shows at the Old Globe, Civic Auditorium, La Jolla Playhouse, Lawrence Welk Theater and Starlight Musical Theater and has played with the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Hutchins Consort, Opera Pacific, and Orquesta de Baja California. Adept with all musical styles, she has played concertmaster for Donna Summers, Smoky Robinson, Dionne Warwick and Tom Scott, to name a few. She has attended Kneisel Hall, Blossom Music Festival and Academy of the West for chamber music and worked with Walter Trampler, Karen Tuttle, Janos Starker and Menahem Pressler. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she began her studies with master pedagogue, Mischa Mischakoff .The Detroit Symphony and the Music Study Club of Metropolitan Detroit sponsored her education with Mischakoff. Ms. Dreiling graduated from Indiana University where she studied with the legendary violin teacher, Josef Gingold. She holds a BM in Violin Performance from Indiana University and MA from United States International University with an emphasis on Orchestral Performance.
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Joshua Dressler

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David Drexler David Drexler Fresno State

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Dr Joanna Drimatis

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Member Bio Joanna Drimatis has been a champion of Australian music and contemporary classical music for over 25 years. She has commissioned works from respected composers such as Iain Grandage (Australia), John Polglase (Australia) and Paul Rudy (USA) and subsequently premiered these works and others in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Joanna’s commitment to performing new music, especially Australian works, is evident in her recital and concert programs both in Australia and overseas. After completing her Masters in Music from the University of Texas at Austin, Joanna has performed at major festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival (USA), Strawberry Creek Festival (USA), Christchurch Arts Festival (New Zealand) as well as the Nelson Young Composers Workshop (New Zealand), Australasian Computer Music Conference (Australia) and the University of Colorado Boulder’s Pendulum New Music series (USA). In addition, Joanna is currently Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Beecroft Orchestra in Sydney. In her previous positions as Music Director of the University Orchestra – University of Texas at Austin, Music Director of the Christchurch Youth Orchestra and Conductor for the Adelaide Youth Orchestra association, Joanna initiated collaborations, commissions, premieres and selected performances have been broadcast on NZ Concert FM and ABC Classic FM. In 2009, Joanna earned her PhD in Musicology from the Elder Conservatorium of Music at the University of Adelaide. Her thesis, entitled “A Hidden Treasure: Symphony No. 1 by Robert Hughes,” was awarded the University of Adelaide’s Inaugural Doctoral Research Medal. A major part of the dissertation was the editing of Hughes’ Symphony No. 1, which has since been published by All Music Publishing and Distribution. In 2012 Joanna conducted a broadcast recording of this new edition with the Sydney Youth Orchestra for ABC Classic FM and the recording was also included in an ABC Classic FM “Music Makers” documentary. In 2011/2012 Joanna received a State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship to undertake further research on Robert Hughes and this will form the basis of a book about this important Australian composer. In 2013/2014 Joanna initiated and undertook research projects and activities at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music focusing on the music of Raymond Hanson. This has been highlighted in the new book by Peter McCallum, “The Centenary of the Con” (2015). Joanna has recently been appointed as Head of Strings at MLC School, Sydney and commenced her position in July 2016.
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Danko Drusko

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Member Bio Bio Danko Druško is a sought-after conductor and educator based in California. Born to Croatian parents in Germany, Druško comes from a modest background of immigrant parents; he is a first generation college graduate and Director of Orchestral Studies at Chapman University. Druško is a frequent guest Cover Conductor for the LA Phil at Walt Disney Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford. He also serves as the Artistic Director of the California Orchestra Academy, a program whose aim is to provide a high-level, pre-professional experience for young musicians, regardless of their economic status. He has collaborated with artists such as Alison Balsom, Nicola Benedetti, Lukáš Vondráček, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Ledisi, Simone Young, Philippe Jordan, Thomas Wilkins, David Newman, Louis Langrée, Eva Ollikainen, Café Tacvba, Gustavo Dudamel, and more. Druško's work has earned him several awards and distinctions in Germany, including the prestigious Friedrichshafen City Art Award in 2014 (Künstlerförderpreis), given to promising artists every two years in their effort to promote cultural advancements in the region. He was also a recipient of the 2011 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship and won the first and only prize in conducting by the County Culture Foundation of Lake Constance in Germany in 2012 (Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Bodenseekreis). Druško has conducted professional, university, and youth orchestras, as well as choirs throughout Europe and North America, including: Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Budapest Operetta, Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Orchestra Lisbon, Rochester Philharmonic, Naples Philharmonic, Idaho State Civic Symphony, Santa Clara University Orchestra, San Diego Youth Symphony, University of Florida School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music, University of Nebraska-Omaha School of Music, Jacobs School of Music, Eastman School of Music, Guildhall School of Music, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen, California Music Educators' Association Honor Orchestra, California Association of Independent Schools Honor Orchestra, Imperial Valley Music Educators' Association, and YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, LA Phil), among others. In addition to his work as a conductor, Druško partnered with LA-based artist Frances Stark and legendary music producer H.B. Barnum (Aretha Franklin, Jackson 5, Puff Daddy, etc.) to create a pedagogical opera of 'The Magic Flute' for the Absolut Art Award. He re-orchestrated the entire opera for youth wind soloists and string orchestra and led the recording of the project at the same Hollywood studio where Michael Jackson and Metallica previously recorded some of their most famous albums. The collaborative installation premiered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and appeared in major museums.
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