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Zeinab Hashemi

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Ms. Marsha Hassett

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Member Bio Marsha Hassett, SYS conductor, has a diverse musical experience. She played in her area youth orchestra in Buffalo, NY and attended Ithaca College and SUNY at Buffalo to earn undergraduate and graduate cello performance degrees. Her principal cello teachers were Einar Holm, Robert Silvester, and Mischa Schneider, and her chamber music coaches were members of the Cleveland Quartet. After several seasons with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Marsha embarked on a thirteenyear teaching career at Amherst (NY) Central High School while remaining active as a performer in ensembles, including the LeClair Trio, Musica Reservata, and the Buffalo New Music Ensemble. In 1990, Marsha entered the New England Conservatory Masters program in Conducting. Following graduation, Marsha taught for one year in Connecticut and served for two years as Associate Conductor of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the ARK-LA-TEX Youth Orchestra. To fulfill a long-time ambition, Marsha returned to Boston in 1995 to enroll in the violin-making and restoration program at the North Bennet Street School (NBSS). As a 1998 graduate of NBSS, Marsha now works at Johnson String Instruments in Newton Centre, MA. She continues to perform and freelances throughout the New England area. Marsha became YPP conductor in 1998.
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Ms. Elizabeth Hastings

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Member Bio Elizabeth Hastings, Director of the Queens College Opera Studio, has had a diverse career as an accompanist, vocal coach, and conductor. Her first coaching positions were at Wolf Trap and Central City Opera, followed by her serviced as Assistant Music Administrator for the Washington Opera [now the Washington National Opera] from 1986 to 1988. This was followed by two years as Music Administrator for the Opera Music Theatre Institute (OMTI) in Newark, founded by Jerome Hines, with whom she had the privilege of performing many times. It was under the auspices of OMTI that she conducted Bilby's Doll by Carlisle Floyd with the composer present. From 1996 to 1998 she headed the Apprentice Program of the Sarasota Opera Association and also served as Chorus Master. She has conducted for the Toledo Opera, the Washington Opera, the Sarasota Opera and the New York City Opera National Touring Company, among others. She was privileged to conduct Amahl and the Night Visitors for the Kennedy Center, directed by Gian Carlo Menotti. In addition to opera, her broad experience encompasses musical theatre and operetta, and she conducted over 60 productions in her 25 seasons at the Highfield Theater on Cape Cod. In 2005 she conducted The Mikado and The King and I for the University of Colorado at Boulder, followed by Madame Butterfly for the Harrisburg Opera. In 2009 she was honored to have composer Stephen Paulus in attendance at when she conducted his The Three Hermits at St. Bonaventure University. The following year took her to St. Louis where she conducted Rossini's La Cenerentola with the Union Avenue Opera. From 2005 until 2013 she served as Music Director of the Liederkranz Foundation in New York City. In addition to supervising the prestigious Liederkranz Competition, she ran the Liederkranz Opera Theatre, serving as producer and Musical Director for nearly twenty productions. The diverse repertoire of the LKOT included Das Rheingold, The Chocolate Soldier by Oscar Straus and Marschner's Der Vampyr. A proponent of opera in English, she has about a dozen operatic translations to her credit. The Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia commissioned and performed several of these; Le Villi, Oberto, and Linda di Chamounix. The Bronx Opera produced her translation of Rossini's rarely performed L'Equivoco Stravagante, and her translation of Flotow's Martha has been produced several times. She has performed many times at Carnegie Hall as a continuo player, including playing harpsichord for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's first operatic venture, Rossini's Il Signor Bruschino. In 2015 she served as Musikdirektorin of the Tyrolean Opera Program in Maurach, Austria, where she had the pleasure of coaching accompanists as well as singers. A highly regarded vocal coach and accompanist, she maintains a busy studio in her native New York.
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David Hattner

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Member Bio Conductor David Hattner delivers “calmly authoritative” (The New York Times) performances that are “brilliant in all departments.” (The Chicago Tribune) Hattner’s high musical intelligence and phenomenal technique uniquely combine with a warm and cooperative disposition, allowing for an ease of execution which imbues confidence and expands possibilities. Although he is energetic and animated, an inner calm and polish characterizes Hattner’s presence on the podium. This clarity creates space for Hattner and his performers to revel in the joy of music-making, leading to concert experiences that are truly magical. Hattner is the Musical Director of the highly acclaimed Portland Youth Philharmonic (Oregon), the nation’s oldest youth orchestra. The fifth music director in its distinguished 93-year history, he is the first to be born in the United States. Known for his encyclopedic knowledge of American repertoire having directed more than 75 orchestral works by over 45 American composers, Hattner’s programming is relevant, thoughtful, and “especially attractive.” (The Chicago Tribune) Hattner’s recent seasons included his conducting debuts with the Phoenix Symphony, Olympia Symphony, Baton Rouge Symphony, and Chamber Music Northwest as well as appearances with the Oregon Symphony and the Musicians of the Fort Worth Symphony. Additional guest appearances include the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Interlochen Philharmonic, Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble, Eugene Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Sospeso, Kansas City Symphony, Oregon Mozart Players, and Massapequa Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. Known for his superior talent in forming an orchestra in its early days, Hattner often guest conducts at summer festivals. Hattner excels at mastering repertoire under pressure and has earned a reputation as a reliable and impressive substitute conductor. He is also highly skilled at directing myriad forces, as demonstrated by his flawless performances of Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light performed to silent film with Ensemble Sospeso, Anonymous 4 and the New Amsterdam Singers at New York's Winter Garden. (The recording of this performance remains available in the New Sounds online archive following its radio broadcast on WNYC.) Of the performances, soprano Susan Narucki wrote, “Mr. Hattner synchronized the musical performance with the screening of the film effortlessly and led the musical forces in passionate, vital performances, which were received with enormous enthusiasm by the large audiences. He also possesses a rare quality - the ability to create an atmosphere that enables the performers to do their very best: to take risks and to make music that moves people.” Additional multimedia conducting experience includes leading performances in Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland and Sao Paulo, Brazil of Jason Staczek’s score to Guy Maddin’s silent film Brand Upon the Brain, and four performances of Theresa Koon’s opera Promise. An accomplished clarinetist having studied with the legendary Robert Marcellus, Hattner regularly performs in live radio broadcast on All Classical Portland, and has served as principal clarinet with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Cascade Music Festival Orchestra in Bend, New Jersey Opera Theater, and Key West Symphony Orchestra. He has made guest appearances as a clarinetist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra. Hattner is an honors graduate of Northwestern University, and was a Conducting Fellow at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen for three summers where he honed his craft with David Zinman and Murry Sidlin.
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Andrew Hauze

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Member Bio A conductor, pianist, and organist, Andrew Hauze has taught at Swarthmore since 2006. He directs the College Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, teaches the Musicianship sequence linked with the music theory program, and teaches conducting and orchestration. He also organizes a Lab Orchestra for student conductors. Andrew's recent projects at Swarthmore have included performances as piano soloist in Mozart's Mozart’s Triple Piano Concerto, K. 242 and Piano Concerto no. 12, K. 414, both with Chamber Orchestra First Editions; Sounds of Cinema, a screening of silent films and early documentaries with their soundtracks recreated live; Stravinsky's Soldier and Other Tales, a collaboration between Orchestra 2001 and the Departments of Music & Dance and Theater; and the musical direction of a departmental production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Past projects have included the organization of concert performances of Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls, featuring the premiere of Andrew's new orchestrations created for the occasion; directing concert performances of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific for the College's Sesquicentennial; two performances as pianist in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Swarthmore Wind Ensemble (conducted by Swarthmore conducting students); and collaborations with violinist David Kim and pianist Marcantonio Barone (watch: Brahms's Second Piano Concerto), both with the Swarthmore College Orchestra. Passionate about bringing live music to the Swarthmore community, he participates in a series of informal lunchtime concerts in Parrish Parlors, and has helped to organize chamber music flash mobs across the campus. In May 2014 Andrew Hauze was appointed Conductor and Music Director of the Delaware County Youth Orchestra, a selective group of 100 young musicians, most of whom are in high school. Andrew leads three concerts a year with DCYO, and with DCYO he has recently collaborated with soloists Jennifer Montone, Marcantonio Barone, Randall Scarlata, David Kim, Lio Kuokman, and Udi Bar-David. Andrew was given his first experience as a vocal coach and accompanist by the late Julian Rodescu, who selected him as a pianist for the Florence Voice Seminar, a post that he held for four summers. In August 2018 he conducted Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti at Twickenham Fest in Huntsville, Alabama. He has conducted productions of Domenick Argento's Postcard from Morocco at the Curtis Opera Theatre and of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore and Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at Swarthmore College. He has also served as a vocal coach at the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music and for the CoOperative Program at Westminster Choir College. He has also frequently collaborated as a guest pianist and conductor with Astral Artists. With Astral Artists he has conducted concert arias by Mozart, Oliver Knussen's Hums and Songs of Winnie the Pooh, and the Philadelphia premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's Ayre. He is also a regular panelist for Astral's National Auditions.
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Brent Havens

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Miss Sinead Hayes

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Member Bio Irish conductor Sinead Hayes is equally at home working with choir, orchestra and in opera. She is emerging as one of Ireland's leading interpreters of contemporary music and opera, with a particular interest in the work of emerging and established Irish composers. She is a Britten Pears Young Artist for 2023/24, and from January 2024 is a member of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Women's Conducting Excel Course where she will work in masterclass with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. The 2023/24 season is her tenth as conductor of the Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble (HRSE) in Belfast, and her third season as conductor of the Royal Irish Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra. In February 2022 she was appointed principal guest conductor of Galway's professional orchestra The Luminosa String Orchestra. She has worked with the Ulster Orchestra on a number of projects since first working with the orchestra conducting 7 educational concerts around Northern Ireland in 2019. Most recently she returned in January 2023 to conduct the orchestra for an album of orchestral works by Belfast composer Greg Caffrey, due to be released later in 2024. In November 2021 Sinead made her debut with the Cork Opera House Concert Orchestra, returning in July 2022 to conduct an opera gala with the Cara O'Sullivan young artists. She also conducted recordings of contemporary operas/works by Brian Irvine, Tom Lane, Fiona Linnane and Elaine Agnew's opera Paper Boat, which was broadcast on RTE Lyric FM in December 2022.This season, she returns to work with Wexford Sinfonia, conducting a programme of Mendelssohn, Bach and Tchaikovsky. She makes her Ulster Hall debut in March 2024 with the Irish Doctor's Orchestra, conducting Dvorak Symphony No. 9. Highlights of previous seasons include making her debut with the Irish Chamber Orchestra (Der Schauspieldirektor for Irish National Opera), return visits to Northern Ireland Opera to conduct productions of Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and Greg Caffrey’s children’s opera The Chronic Identity Crisis of Pamplemousse, as well as working with Irish National Opera as assistant conductor and chorus master on Bartok: Bluebeard’s Castle, Dennehy: The Second Violinist, Verdi: Aida, Puccini: Madama Butterfly & Mozart die Zauberfloete. She also worked with Opera Collective Ireland and Crash Ensemble to conduct the world premiere performances of Raymond Deane's Opera Vagabones. Sinead is also a professional level Irish traditional fiddle player, and in 2017 performed alongside members of the Berliner Philharmoniker in two of the orchestra's family concerts in the Philharmonie, Berlin. Since July 2023 Sinead has returned to playing classical violin, performing as guest leader with Galway's ConTempo Quartet in Galway's Candlight Concerts in October/November 2023. Recent performances include playing the solo part in Vivaldi's 4 seasons with ConTempo Quartet as well as performing with her own ensemble, the Ivernia String Quartet in their debut concerts in Tuam in December 2023. Sinead completed her MMus in conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music and her BMus in violin and composition at City University, London. Sinead also participated in masterclasses with Johannes Schlaefli, Sylvain Cambreling & Sir Roger Norrington among others. In 2014 she was one of three finalists in the Interaktion Conducting Workshop, chosen by the players of the Critical Orchestra Berlin (leader: Lothar Strauss), whose players are drawn from the Berlin Staatskapelle and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras. She has worked as assistant conductor to James Lowe (Halle Harmony Orchestra), Alex Ingram (British Youth Opera), André de Ridder (Irish National Opera) and others. The lockdown gave Sinead the opportunity to complete a PG Certificate in Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship at Trinity College, Dublin. She also partnered with local music schools in Athenry and Gort Co. Galway to devise and deliver two music education projects: Carolan's Rambles and the Baroque Session. Both music schools were jointly awarded the Irish Association of Youth Orchestra's 2021 Ovation Award in recognition of their innovative work during the pandemic. Sinead is committed to providing opportunities for emerging conductors in Ireland. Her education work has been funded by the Irish Arts Council (Agility Award & Artist Bursary) and the Galway County Arts Office. She created the 'Discover Conducting' pack, deliverable by classroom music teachers to 1st and 2nd year secondary school students and she is also the creator and workshop leader of the Sandbox Conducting Sessions aiming to find, train and give opportunities to the next generation of conductors based on ability, regardless of gender, age or socio-economic background. In the development of her skills as a conducting teacher Sinead is very grateful for the mentorship of conductor Alice Farnham. In the summer of 2023, Sinead was a participant in th
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Isaac Hayward

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Kristin Heath Kristin Heath Carnegie Mellon University

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Joanne Heaton

Haileybury College
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Member Bio Having worked as a music educator in many varied environments in Australia and in the USA, Dr. Joanne Heaton currently serves as Head of Bands at Haileybury College in Melbourne, Australia. She completed a Bachelor of Education with a music education focus and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education Studies at the University of Melbourne, and a Masters of Music majoring in conducting performance at the University of Utah, USA. Before returning to Australia, Joanne also undertook the position of Band Director at Eastmont Middle School at Sandy, Utah. Most recently, Joanne completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree specialising in Wind Band Conducting at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Joanne is in demand as an adjudicator, conductor, guest lecturer and educative consultant and has been a guest lecturer and conductor at Monash University and The University of Melbourne. In 2001 Joanne served as the music education representative for the curriculum writing project ‘Schools to Careers’ for the Utah State Office of Education. Joanne was invited to be a guest conductor of the Southern Mississippi University Honor Band in February 2007, guest conductor of the Interscholastic Association of Southeast Asian Schools Honour Band in Kuala Lumpur in 2014 and guest conductor for the Colorado State University, Pueblo, Festival of Winds in 2018. Major clinic presentations include the 2012 Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, the 2019 World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles Conference in Spain, the 2019 Oxford University International Conducting Studies Conference in Sydney and the 2019 Australian Society for Music Education conference in Perth. In 2000 Joanne was awarded the Jordan Education Foundation’s Outstanding Educator of the Year for her work in Utah schools, and in February 2017 she was honoured with an ABODA Victoria Excellence in Music Education award. The Victorian branch of the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors’ Association awarded Joanne with a Life Membership award in January 2020.
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