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Tom Griffin

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Member Bio Tom studied clarinet under Elizabeth Drew and Christine Roberts at the Royal Marines School of Music. He spent subsequent years performing around the globe in countries including the USA, Dubai, Switzerland, Holland, France, Afghanistan, Jersey and New Zealand. After completing his BMus (Hons) degree, Tom began conducting ensembles such as Hatherleigh Silver, Phoenix Brass and Yeovil Concert whilst guest conducting with Hythe and Woodfalls Bands. He earned an LRSM in Musical Direction in 2016 and simultaneously won the Bob Harding Bursary Award for Young Conductors; subsequently appointed as the Assistant Conductor of the Havant Symphony Orchestra for the season. Tom studied under Mark Heron and Clark Rundell at RNCM, attaining a MMus in Conducting in 2021, and is now a Director of Music of the Royal Marines Band Service. Recently he has conducted RM Band Collingwood and Bath Philharmonia in concert performances.
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Dr. Michael Griffith

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Member Bio "Conducted brilliantly and sensitively" Cleveland News "A conductor of grace and precision" Boulder Daily Camera With conducting engagements on four continents, Dr. Michael Griffith is in his 37th year as Music Director of the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra. He’s led such orchestras as Orquestra Petrobras in Rio de Janeiro, the Shanghai City Symphony in China, Orquestra Sinfônica de Goiânia and Orquestra Sinfônica Jovem de Goiás in Brazil, Orquesta Municipal de El Alto (Bolivia), the New York Repertory Orchestra, and more. Tour venues have included Barcelona, Avignon, La Paz, Toronto, Chicago, Detroit, Denver, at the 2009 All-Northwest convention of the National Association for Music Education, and more. As a teacher, he’s lectured at Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy, the University of London, Shanghai University, Universidade Federal de Goiás in Brazil, and pre-concert lectures at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole. Closer to home he’s conducted Boulder’s Colorado Music Festival, the Cheyenne Symphony, Ft. Collins Symphony, Opera Fort Collins, Denver’s Mercury Ensemble, Opera Wyoming, the Powder River Symphony, Kearney Symphony, Longmont Symphony, and Broomfield Symphony. With younger musicians he has conducted youth orchestras in Bolivia, China, and Brazil, and All-State and other honors ensembles in Maryland, Colorado, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming. He has also been a guest conductor at Shanghai University, the University of Cincinnati, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, University of Missouri, University of Delaware, Iowa State University, Pacific Lutheran University, Millikin University, Michigan State University, and the University of Colorado. Dr. Griffith is a past president of the International Conductors Guild, a winner of an ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, and a winner of The American Prize in concert programming. He has conducted 31 world premieres, and his UW Symphony was chosen as one of only three college orchestras to participate in the 2010 Ford Made in America commissioning program. Broadcast performances include the Nigerian Broadcasting Company, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Minnesota Public Radio, Nebraska Public Radio, University of Illinois Public Radio, KUSF San Francisco, Wyoming Public Television, and Wyoming Public Radio. He has conducted performances with renowned guest artists such as Van Cliburn medalist Daniel Hsu, harpsichordist Igor Kipnis, pianist Christopher O’Riley, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and NY Philharmonic Principal Cellist Carter Brey. Dr. Griffith has frequently been lauded for his teaching. He was elected a Top Ten Teacher by two UW graduating classes, taught the UW London Semester, was selected for the UW/Shanghai Professorial Exchange, led four UW cultural tours of New York City, taught at UW’s Saturday University in Jackson Hole, was nominated for an Ellbogen Teaching Award, and received a “Thumbs-Up” award from the UW Arts & Sciences student council. Dr. Griffith inherited his musical talent from his grandmother Rose Brandt, a leading soprano in the Vienna Folksoper early in the 20th century. He grew up in Cleveland, where he studied oboe with Harvey McGuire and Robert Zupnic of The Cleveland Orchestra. His conducting teachers were Charles Bruck at the world-renowned Pierre Monteux School; Kenneth Bloomquist and Dennis Burkh at Michigan State University; and Giora Bernstein at the University of Colorado, where he earned his doctorate. Dr. Griffith is a published composer and ASCAP member, and has contributed to the Conductors' Guild Journal, its Podium Notes Newsletter and New Music Panels, and to conferences of the College Music Society and the Wyoming Music Educators’ Association, plus their Windsong newsletter. Equally at home in the orchestra pit as on the concert stage, Dr. Griffith has conducted operas, ballets, operettas, and musical comedies in Equity summer stock and URTA theatres, and many other venues throughout the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states. For ten years he was on the faculty of Michigan Tech University, serving as conductor of their Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra and Director of Bands. He is married with three children, and an avid downhill skier, hiker, and mountain biker.
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Deborah Griffiths

RATstands, Ltd.
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Dalton Guin

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Member Bio Dalton M. Guin, a native of Erwin, North Carolina, began his musical life at home, with a family that loved music, and in the choir loft of a Southern Baptist church. At 11 years old, when he began studying trumpet and horn, he made the decision to spend the rest of his life in musical pursuits. Dalton served in the United States Marine Corps as a French Horn Instrumentalist (5544) from 2011 - 2018. During his two tours he achieved the rank of Sergeant, and served with the Marine Forces Pacific Band in Kaneohe Bay, Hawai’i, and Marine Corps Band New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana. Over this period Dalton served in various capacities, from music librarian and public affairs non-commissioned officer to assistant and acting Enlisted Conductor. After leaving the Marine Corps, Dalton completed his Bachelor’s in Music Performance in 2023 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the studio of Dr. Abigail Pack. He is currently pursuing a Master’s in Instrumental Conducting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, studying under Dr. Jungho Kim and Dr. Jonathan Caldwell. As an instrumentalist, Dalton has performed with various ensembles around the United States, including: The Kamuela Philharmonic JALPAC Chorus Without Borders Carolina Ballet (substitute) The Oahu Civic Orchestra Appalachia: A Southeastern Wind Symphony (substitute) Goldsboro Theatre Society Triangle Youth Ballet Cor-tet Horn Quartet He has attended workshops as a fellow, continuing his studies under Markand Thakar with Conducting Programs International in 2024, and with Dr. Robert Ambrose and Dr. Margaret Underwood at Wake Forest University’s inaugural conducting workshop in 2024. Dalton currently resides in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he freelances and performs with local community groups while attending UNCG.
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Kamna Gupta

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Member Bio Known for her versatility, nuanced interpretations, and collaborative style, Kamna Gupta is an American Prize-winning conductor experienced in operatic, orchestral, and choral repertoires. In the 2024-25 season, Ms. Gupta enjoys a wide variety of projects. She makes her debut with Madison Opera conducting a new production of Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires with Madison Opera, and leads the workshops for Sarah Kirkland Snider's new opera, Hildegard. On the concert side, Ms. Gupta will serve as a cover conductor at the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Sinfonietta, and also joins Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra as a guest artist. In the summer of 2025, Ms. Gupta will return as a faculty member at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. A champion of contemporary music, Ms. Gupta has collaborated with several composers on notable premieres, including Luna Pearl Woolf's new oratorio Number Our Days (part of the 2023-24 inaugural season of the Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York), Layale Chaker's opera Ruinous Gods at Spoleto Festival USA in 2024, and Du Yun's In Our Daughter's Eyes which premiered at LA Opera in 2022. Other recent engagements include Vancouver Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Tapestry Opera, International Contemporary Ensemble, Beth Morrison Projects, Trinity Church Wall Street ensembles, and cover conducting with Washington National Opera and Atlanta Opera. She has also appeared with Seattle Opera, the Royal Opera in Versailles, American Lyric Theater, Sarasota Opera, and Opera Saratoga. Active internationally, Gupta’s orchestral credits include performances in France, Germany, Russia, and the Czech Republic; leading the Leipzig Barockorchester in an all-Bach program was a special highlight. Gupta’s passion for education has also led her to work with education departments at the New York Philharmonic and the Castleton Festival. Based in New York City, she is active as a pianist and harpsichordist in addition to conducting.
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Hector Guzman

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Member Bio Maestro Hector Guzman was included in the “Outstanding Musicians of the XX Century” magazine, published in 2000 by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England and, in 2003, a Dallas- based Univision television documentary on Mr. Guzman’s career was nominated for an “Emmy” award. He is the recipient of the “Silver Good Citizenship Medal” from the Sons of the American Revolution for his outstanding contributions to the Arts in North Texas. A recipient of countless international distinctions such as these, Mr. Guzman is Music Director of the Plano Symphony Orchestra, the Irving Symphony and the San Angelo Symphony all in Texas, USA. In 2004, he was declared winner of the “Seven Conductors-One Baton” International Conducting competition and appointed Music Director of the Jalisco Philharmonic in Mexico. As guest conductor, Maestro Guzman has appeared with the Monterrey Symphony, Xalapa Symphony, State of Mexico Symphony, UNAM Philharmonic, Philharmonic Society Orchestra, Bellas Artes Chamber Orchestra, the San Antonio and Dallas Symphonies, the Wheeling Symphony, the National Symphony of the Dominican Republic, the Mexico City Philharmonic, the National Symphony of Mexico, the Vivaldi Orchestra of Mexico City, the Collegium Orchestra of Prague in the Czech Republic, the Japan Philharmonic and the Amadeus orchestra in Ruffano, Italy. He made his Operatic debut with “The Barber of Seville” in 2005 and conducted the Spanish version of the Opera “Frida” in May 2007. He has also appeared as soloist and recitalist in venues such as the Meyerson Symphony Hall in Dallas, Spivey Hall Distinguished Artists series in Atlanta and the cathedrals of Morelia, Guadalajara and Chartres, among others. In his native Mexico, Hector Guzman achieved an impressive reputation as an organist by taking first prize in both the “Chamber Soloists” competition and the “Manuel Ponce” National Organ Competition. In the United States, while a student of world famous master teachers Alfred Mouledous and Robert Anderson, he earned further distinction by winning solo competitions at Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas. In 1978, he gained world acclaim when he became the first Latin-American ever chosen as a finalist in France’s “Grand Prix de Chartres”- the world’s most prestigious international organ competition. Mr. Guzman holds degrees from the Conservatory in Mexico City, the University of North Texas and Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He has studied with many illustrious conductors including his mentor, Anshel Brusilow, Helmuth Rilling and Carlo Maria Giulini at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. For several years, he was a protégé of the late Maestro Eduardo Mata, Conductor Emeritus of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. In demand internationally as a conductor and recitalist, Maestro Guzman was accorded the “Outstanding National Young Artist” award from the government of Mexico, the “Golden Lyre” award, given by the Mexican Union of Musicians, the “Meadows” award from SMU, the DeVry Institute’s “Director Par Excellence” award.
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Kory Ha

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Dr. David Hagy

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Member Bio Music Director and Salisbury Symphony Conductor Dr. David Hagy has led the orchestra since January of 1988, and has achieved a reputation for developing and expanding the orchestra’s repertoire as well as bringing some of the most talented musicians and soloists from across the Piedmont to perform with the orchestra. Dr. Hagy was instrumental in the creation and development of the annual free summer outdoor concert entitled “Pops at the Post” which in 2011 won a “Best Event” award from the statewide organization, North Carolina Main Street. Beginning in 2007, he helped to establish the production of the Nutcracker Ballet here in Salisbury as an annual performance in collaboration with the Piedmont Dance Theater. Hagy received his Bachelor of Music in violin performance from Indiana University in 1977 and received his doctorate in 1992 from Yale University where he was a student of Otto-Werner Mueller. While in Connecticut he served as an assistant conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale, the International Music Program of the North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Norwalk and Stamford Symphonies; conductor of the Western Massachusetts Youth Orchestras; and guest conductor with the Omaha and Indianapolis All-City Orchestras. During his tenure in Salisbury Mr. Hagy has served variously as the assistant conductor of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, the music director of the Greensboro Symphony and Winston-Salem Symphony Youth Orchestras, and guest conductor of the Gulf Coast Symphony, the New York All-State String Orchestra (2013), the
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Rakefet Hak

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Misaki Hall

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