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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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