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Grace Elliott Grace Elliott Oberlin College Conservatory Library

Oberlin College Conservatory Library
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Mathias Elmer

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Member Bio Dr. Mathias Elmer, a native of Switzerland, is the Director of Orchestral Activities and Assistant Professor of Music at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Prior to this position, he served as Director of Orchestral Activities at Connecticut College in New London and at the University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music. In 2017, he completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting at the University of Memphis under Maestro Pu-Qi Jiang. Further studies in conducting led Dr. Elmer to Michael Stern (USA), Karl Anton Rickenbacher and Johannes Schlaefli (Switzerland), and Mark Ensley (USA), among others. Elmer received his master’s degree in orchestral and operatic conducting at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts School of Music in Switzerland under Maestro Ralf Weikert. Elmer was Music Director of the Orchestra con brio in Glarus, Switzerland, a post he held for eight years. Between 2002 and 2014, he served as founding member and trumpet player of the professional brass quintet Philharmonic Brass Zurich–Generell5. Throughout Switzerland, Elmer is sought after as a wind band festival adjudicator, and from 2009 to 2014, he taught for the Zurich Music Association as a member of the conducting faculty. Together with his colleague Dr. Kevin Sütterlin, Elmer is Co-Music Director and founder of Sinfonietta Memphis, a Tennessee-based chamber orchestra focusing on historically informed performances of music by Viennese Classical composers. Another focus of his work as a conductor is his passion for works by underrepresented composers, and he has led seminars and given lectures on how to incorporate this repertoire into a University orchestra concert program. Elmer has performed music by Florence Price, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn, Louise Farrenc, as well as pieces by living American composers, including Scott Hines from Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Elmer is the winner of The American Prize in Conducting in the College/University Orchestra division for 2017/2018.
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Dr. Steve Emerson Steve Emerson California Baptist University

California Baptist University
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Jonathan Erman

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Member Bio Jonathan Erman is a composer, conductor, and pianist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He works extensively in theater, has sung with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and has participated in numerous conducting workshops across the United States.
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Bud Esper

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Beverly Everett

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Member Bio Dr. Beverly Everett is Music Director of the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra and the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra. She was named as one of the Bismarck-Mandan Business Watch magazine’s “40 under 40” for making a difference through her work in the region, and was the City Magazine cover story in November of 2011. In 2009 Dr. Everett was the youngest-ever recipient of the “Friend of the Arts” award for her contributions to the arts in Bemidji. And in 2010 Everett was one of six conductors in the nation to receive an “Excellence in Music Education” award by the American Prize. Everett was one of two recipients of the first 2011 Region 2 Arts/McKnight Career Advancement Fellowship to study with JoAnn Falletta. Dr. Everett has been a frequent guest conductor and clinician for orchestras and festivals. ​ Everett is passionately committed to working with living composers and commissioning projects. Her most recent project was the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra's opportunity to join the commission consortium along with the Oak Ridge Symphony and the Jewish Orchestra of L.A. to commission composer/conductor Lucas Richman's Symphony: This Will be Our Reply. This choral/orchestral work, inspired by the famous quote of Leonard Bernstein:
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Arthur Fagen

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Member Bio Music Director of the Atlanta Opera since 2010, Arthur Fagen is in great demand as a conductor of symphony and opera in Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. He is a regular guest at the most prestigious opera houses, concert halls, and music festivals at home and abroad. Mr. Fagen has an opera repertory of more than 90 works. He has served as Principal Conductor in Kassel and Brunswick, as Chief Conductor of the Flanders Opera of Antwerp and Ghent, as Music Director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra and a member of the conducting staff of the Chicago Lyric Opera. In 2002/2007 Mr. Fagen was the Music Director of the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dortmund Opera. Under his leadership and following his successful concerts with the Dortmund Philharmonic at the Grosse Festspielhaus in Salzburg, he was invited to tour with the orchestra through Holland at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Belgium at the Palais de Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and Austria (Salzburg) and China (Beijing and Shanghai). He conducted in that period, among others, new opera productions of Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, and two Ring Cycles. Mr. Fagen conducted a new production of Turandot at the Atlanta Opera opening the season 2007/2008 with enormous success and inaugurating the new Opera House, the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center. Soon after he conducted the contemporary opera Cold Sassy Tree by Carlisle Floyd. The next seasons included engagements with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, Holland Sinfonia, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Sicily and Rome’s Symphony Orchestras. In addition, he conducted concerts in Spain and in Taiwan, and a new production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Opera de Nice. In the last years, Mr. Fagen conducted in Atlanta Beethoven’s Fidelio, Akhnaten by Philip Glass, Wagner’s Fliegende Hollaender, Mozart’s Magic Flute, Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Abduction from the Seraglio, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Bizet’s Carmen, Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri, Gounod’s Faust and Roméo et Juliette, Puccini’s Tosca, Turandot, Madama Butterfly, and Bohème. He conducted the NDR Hannover in Braunschweig and at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Winterthur Orchestra in Switzerland, and has been invited to conduct concerts in Italy, Spain, Hungary, Germany, Poland, and many countries of South America. Arthur Fagen was a prizewinner of the “Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Conductors Competition” as well as a prizewinner of the “Gino Marinuzzi International Conductors’ Competition” in Italy. He has recorded for BMG, Bayerischer Rundfunk, SFB and WDR Cologne. Mr. Fagen has a long-term relationship with Naxos label. He has completed the 6 symphonies of Bohuslav Martinu and Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies with the Staatskapelle Weimar. The Naxos recording of Martinu’s Piano Concertos has been awarded an Editor’s Choice of Gramophone Magazine.
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Enrico Fagone

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Fouad Fakhouri

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Member Bio With over two decades of international credits as a conductor and composer, Fouad Fakhouri is committed to actively engaging with audiences through powerful artistic experiences. Known for his “musical accuracy” and “emotional intensity,” his performances have been celebrated for their broad, dynamic and powerful interpretations, which go beyond the score to capture both the essence and spirit of the music. In June 2016, after a year and half long international search, Fakhouri was named Music Director of the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra in Michigan. From 2004 – 2016 Fakhouri served as Music Director and Conductor of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra (North Carolina). In 2009 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (North Carolina) and was also Music Director and Conductor of the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra where he led the orchestra on its first international tour to Austria and Germany. Among his many recent international guest-conducting appearances are the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra (Lebanon), Cairo Symphony Orchestra (Egypt) and the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra (Sophia, Bulgaria). In addition to conducting, Fakhouri is an active composer of a multitude of symphonic, chamber, choral and solo music. His works have been premiered and performed by the English Chamber Orchestra (UK), the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, the Mediterranean Orchestra (Italy) and the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra to name a few. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Fakhouri hails from a musical family whose roots go back four generations. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of North Texas, and a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting, as well as a Master of Music in Composition/Theory from the Pennsylvania State University. He earned his Bachelor of Music in Theory and Composition from West Texas A & M University. In December 2014 in recognition of “his impressive career achievements, phenomenal leadership of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra (FSO), and dedication to music and the community” Methodist University (NC) bestowed upon him an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. In March 2016 he was inducted into the Fayetteville (NC) Music Hall of Fame and in April 2016, upon the completion of a highly successful 11-season tenure with the FSO, individual donors honored him with establishing “The Fouad K. Fakhouri Endowment for Artistic Excellence” – a $1.1 million fund. Fakhouri resides in New York City with his wife Diane Lavelle, an advertising executive, and their daughter Isabella.
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Ms. JoAnn Falletta

Buffalo Philharmonic
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Member Bio JoAnn Falletta Conductor Full Length Biography GRAMMY-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director Laureate of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Brevard Music Center and Artistic Adviser of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra. Hailed for having ‘Toscanini’s tight control over ensemble, Walter’s affectionate balancing of inner voices, Stokowski’s gutsy showmanship, and a controlled frenzy worthy of Bernstein’, she is a leading force for the music of our time. JoAnn with composer Ken Fuchs at the GRAMMY Awards in 2019 JoAnn with composer Ken Fuchs at the GRAMMY Awards in 2019 Her recent and upcoming North American guest conducting includes the National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and Milwaukee Symphony; and further north, the Toronto Symphony and Orchestre metropolitain. Internationally, she has conducted many of the most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia, and South America. Pending further national and international guidance on the current COVID-19 pandemic, she is looking forward to guest conducting appearances in Canada, Poland, Sweden, and Spain in 2021. Upon her appointment as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta became the first woman to lead a major America ensemble and has been credited with bringing the Philharmonic to an unprecedented level of national and international prominence. As the world has been impacted by COVID-19, JoAnn has been focused on working with her board, musicians, audiences, and other cultural institutions to keep audiences engaged during this difficult time and using this time as an opportunity to bring about artistic change. With goals of making sure voices that haven’t been heard will be heard in the concert halls, and using this time as an opportunity to shape orchestra programs in a positive way, JoAnn plans to incorporate pieces by Ernesto Cordero, Adolphus Hailstork, Jessie Montgomery ,George Walker, Natalie Coleman, Tania Leon, Julia Perry, Joseph Bologne, Le Chevalier de Saint Georges, C.T. Perkinson, and others into the coming seasons. She has also come to see the requirements of social distancing on stage as a special time to program repertoire using 35 or fewer musicians and is making plans to perform rarely heard gems for smaller orchestra. The Buffalo Philharmonic has become one of the leading recording orchestras for Naxos and returned twice to Carnegie Hall, first in 2004 after a 20-year absence, and again in 2013 as part of the Spring for Music Festival. In 2018, the BPO made their first international tour in three decades, to perform at Warsaw’s prestigious Beethoven Easter Festival where Falletta made history as the first American women conductor to lead an orchestra at the Festival.
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