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William Intriligator
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Member Bio William Intriligator strongly believes in the power of symphonic music to transform lives, to unite communities, and to heal the world. Intriligator currently serves as Music Director and Conductor of two orchestras, the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra (DSO) in Iowa and the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra in Wyoming. As a guest conductor, Maestro Intriligator has led performances with many distinguished orchestras across the USA, including those of Honolulu, Houston, Minnesota, Richmond, Saint Paul, Savannah, Syracuse, and Tulsa. In 2017, he made his European conducting debut in Italy with the Bari Symphony Orchestra. After the success of that concert, the orchestra immediately invited him to return to Bari and conduct two more concerts. Recent projects with the DSO include staged opera, musical, and ballet productions; concerts with world-renowned violinist Midori, as part of the Midori Residency Program; and the orchestra's first commercial recording, with Grammy winning cellist Zuill Bailey, of works of composer Michael Gilbertson. Other special programs with the DSO have included composer festivals; concerts in the warehouses of the Millwork District; concerts with local rock and country musicians; special partnerships with area schools; and accompanying musical prodigy Ethan Bortnick in a concert that became a popular PBS television special, “The Power of Music,” which has aired over 1,500 times nationwide. Maestro Intriligator was named "First Citizen" of Dubuque (Person of the Year/Lifetime Achievement) by the Telegraph Herald in 2025 for his commitment to and achievements in the Dubuque community. In 2014, the orchestra and Intriligator received the Dubuque365 Impact Award in Music, and in 2013 Intriligator won the Dubuque County Fine Arts Society’s Elisha Darlin Award. In Cheyenne, Intriligator has initiated new concert ideas reaching more audiences through presentations such as films with live orchestra, Symphony Underground with regional bands, Symphony at Sunset, ballet productions, family matinees, multi-media productions, collaborations with local and regional choruses, a season-long exploration of women composers, a multi-year Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss exploration, and unique productions with stage director—and Cheyenne-native—Sarah Hartmann: Music of the Spheres and Star-Crossed Lovers, the latter combined concert, opera, ballet, and theater in a staged retelling of Romeo and Juliet. He has performed oboe concertos with the orchestra in its Baroque in the Barn series. Intriligator believes that one of the most important roles of a regional orchestra is to promote local, native composers and performers. In Dubuque and Cheyenne, his orchestras have commissioned and premiered over 30 new works by such composers, as well as featured many local and regional performers as soloists. Originally from Santa Monica, California, Intriligator earned many accolades as an oboist before turning to conducting. He graduated with highest honors in music from Princeton University, received the university's first Certificate in Conducting and won the Sacks Memorial Prize for outstanding musical performance. He then studied conducting in France with Charles Bruck and in Germany and Austria with Michael Gielen and was Gielen’s Assistant Conductor of the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival for two summers and attended the Pierre Monteux School four summers. He earned masters and doctoral degrees in orchestral conducting at the University of Minnesota studying with Murry Sidlin, Mark Russell Smith, and Keith Clarke. During his years in Minnesota, he was on the conducting staff of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Minnesota Opera. He also enjoyed a special relationship with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, leading that orchestra for five seasons in educational concerts, family concerts, regional tours, and concerts of new music. Highlights of his 2025-2026 season in Dubuque include the commission and world premiere of Michael Gilbertson's Cello Concerto with the orchestra and cellist Zuill Bailey, recording a complete album of Gilbertsons music, launching a new chamber music series with DSO musicians, and performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. In Cheyenne, Intriligator's entire 2025-2026 Masterpiece subscription series is devoted to works by American composers in anticipation of the country's 250th anniversary. The orchestra will record an entire album of new Composer-in-Residence Jeff Lippencott’s music, including actor Gary Sinise narrating Lippencott's American Patriot Hymn and Myra Montfort Artist-in-Residence cellist Zuill Bailey performing and premiering Lippencott’s Pasturelands Cello Concerto. A concert performance of the musical 1776 and a performance on July 4, 2026 at the Wyoming State Capitol will cap the season and the orchestra's celebration of America.
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Larry Isaacson
Boston Conservatory at Berklee
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Member Bio Larry Isaacson joined the Conservatory in 1985 and is a professor of trombone. He teaches the courses Brass Fundamentals and Brass Seminar, coaches chamber music, and teaches private trombone lessons. In addition, he teaches Conducting 1 and Conducting 2, and conducts several ensembles on campus, including Brass Ensemble, Orchestra Repertoire, The Spectrum Project, and pit orchestras for dance productions. A former trombonist who began his career at the age of 19 performing as an extra with the Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Isaacson has performed worldwide in concert and on recordings with many of America’s finest ensembles, including the Empire Brass Quintet, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Boston Pops, Boston Symphony, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Detroit Symphony, Grant Park Symphony, and San Diego Symphony. He has performed in all musical mediums, including television, radio, commercials, and recordings. He traveled extensively for concerts to Europe, Japan, Canada, and throughout the United States. Isaacson is a former faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New England Conservatory, Boston University, Tufts University, University of New Hampshire, Mannes School of Music, McMaster University, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute. As a conductor, Isaacson has been a regular guest conductor at the Aspen Music Festival for almost 25 years and has also guest conducted the Oregon Symphony, Longwood Symphony, and at the Round Top and Eastern Music festivals. Isaacson was trained at Northwestern University, where he received his B.M. in trombone performance with honors. His trombone teachers included members of the Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago symphonies as well as the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
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Rosetta Isnardi
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Member Bio Rosetta Isnardi is a lifelong musician, who believes wholly in the power of musical curiosity and expression. She began her musical career by slapping at the piano’s keys cantankerously as a baby, and started lessons as a kindergartener in an effort to play more sonorously. Eventually she decided to devote her life to music, so she got a BS in Keyboard Performance (piano and harpsichord) from Adelphi University in Garden City, NY, and an MM in Piano Pedagogy and Performance from Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, NJ. Her penchant for playing the piano has landed her on concert hall stages, ballet studios, recording studios, and in bars and rock stages (as a keyboardist with the band Survival Society.. Her incredibly supportive family endured years of squeaking as 4th grade Rosetta began her studies of the violin, and watched the growth of a young musician with an unquenchable thirst for classical music. In fact, in one of her happiest childhood memories, Rosetta recalls laying sprawled on the carpet, blasting Tchaikovsky 6 on the boombox in her bedroom, and playing Zelda games on her muted Game Boy Color. She wishes to bring that kind of joy to everyone. Rosetta has taught in a variety of settings, and has decided the private studio is where her passion and talents lie. She lets her students’ tastes and curiosity determine exactly the ways she will teach them. She brings diversity to The Music Space with teaching piano, violin, voice, and music theory.
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David Itkin
Abilene Philharmonic / University of N. Texas / McCall Summerfest
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Member Bio The 2020-2021 season marks Maestro David Itkin’s 16th season as Music Director and Conductor of the Abilene Philharmonic, and his 13th year serving as Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of North Texas College of Music, where his recent performances have included Mahler Symphony No. 4, the Verdi Requiem, Beethoven Symphony No. 9, and Puccini’s Turandot with the UNT Grand Chorus, and Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen with the UNT Opera Theatre. During the 2018-2019 season he also joined the Abilene Opera Company for Handel’s Messiah and a fully staged production of West Side Story. Following a distinguished 17-year tenure, Maestro Itkin was named Conductor Laureate of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in July 2010. Previously Mr. Itkin served as Music Director & Conductor of the Las Vegas Philharmonic, Artistic Director and Conductor of the McCall Summerfest in McCall, Idaho, and as Music Director & Conductor of the Lake Forest Symphony (Chicago), the Kingsport Symphony, the Birmingham Opera Theatre, and the Lucius Woods Music Festival (Wisconsin). During past seasons Maestro Itkin’s career has taken him to 45 U.S. states and 15 countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, including concerts and recordings with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Slovenska Filhamonija, the San Diego Symphony, and the Seoul Philharmonic. Other guest conducting appearances include concerts with the Colorado Philharmonic, the Annapolis Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Illinois Symphony, the Delaware Symphony, the New Hampshire Symphony, the Cheyenne Symphony, and the Indianapolis, Baltimore, and Reno Chamber Orchestras. During the Summer of 2006 Maestro Itkin appeared once again with the Slovenska Filharmonija in Ljubljana, Slovenia, conducting the opening concert of the 14th World Saxophone Congress. His book, Conducting Concerti, was released in August 2014 to considerable critical acclaim. Leonard Slatkin called Conducting Concerti “a valuable textbook for the aspiring Maestro” and “highly recommended”, and Samuel Adler wrote that it is “an invaluable addition to the world of conducting textbooks.” Mr. Itkin’s first film score (“Sugar Creek”) was recorded in 2006 by the Arkansas Symphony for the film’s 2007 release. His most recent major work, “Exodus”, an oratorio, was premiered in April 2005 in Little Rock, with William Shatner narrating. “Exodus” was released worldwide on CD in 2007. In May 2009 Maestro Itkin was awarded both an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Lyon College and the Above the Barre award by Ballet Arkansas. In addition to his professional schedule, Maestro Itkin regularly serves as a guest conductor/clinician, including concerts with the Arkansas All-State Orchestra, the Southern California High School Honors Orchestra, the Maine All-State Orchestra, the Las Vegas Senior Honors Orchestra, and several Texas all-region Honors Orchestras.
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Mr. Peter Jaffe
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Member Bio Peter Jaffe has served as the Stockton Symphony’s dynamic music director since 1995, combining a passion for outreach and education with top-notch musicianship, and fostering sustained artistic growth throughout his tenure. Organizations ranging from the Association of California Symphony Orchestras to the Brubeck Institute and Goodwill Industries have honored Mr. Jaffe with prestigious awards for his innovations in educational programming and for his distinguished cultural contributions throughout the county. His engaging and informative preconcert discussions include his own renditions of symphonic examples at the piano, and he frequently advocates for the Symphony and orchestral music in radio broadcasts, television appearances, and web videos. He is also the host of the local radio program Symphony Mix, promoting orchestral events and broadcasting entertaining and educational programs about symphonic repertoire. With a zeal for introducing new vital repertoire along with established masterworks, Mr. Jaffe has spearheaded the commissions of many world premieres. Avner Dorman’s Uzu and Muzu from Kakaruzu earned the Stockton Symphony national recognition for community engagement activities dealing with crucial social issues. A portion of the Stockton Symphony CD of Chris Brubeck’s Mark Twain’s World was broadcast nationally on NPR’s Performance Today, and Ansel Adams: America, co-composed by Dave and Chris Brubeck, has since been performed nationally and abroad. Mr. Jaffe also conducts the Auburn and Folsom Lake Symphonies and Stockton Opera, and has appeared as guest conductor with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Silicon Valley, and many other orchestras and music festivals across the country. He teaches every summer at the Conductor’s Institute of South Carolina. He conducted and taught at the Aspen Music Festival for fourteen years, and he spent three seasons conducting at the Oberlin Conservatory and two as a visiting professor at Stanford University. Many of Mr. Jaffe’s own arrangements have been commissioned by and performed with orchestras in Aspen, Chicago, Long Beach, and Stockton, including his Symphonic Birthday and his transcription of Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos for Jan DeGaetani, which was also performed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. A CD of his lullaby arrangements was released on the Chandos label, featuring mezzo-soprano Nadia Pelle with Yuli Turovsky directing I Musici de Montréal. Mr. Jaffe appeared on NBC’s First Camera in a show devoted to Tanglewood, where he was coached by Seiji Ozawa, Gunther Schuller, Gustav Meier, and Leonard Bernstein—a brief segment was later included in the American Masters special honoring Bernstein. Mr. Jaffe also studied conducting with Andor Toth, Paul Vermel, Charles Bruck, and Herbert Blomstedt. His instrumental background includes extensive performing on the violin, viola, and keyboard, and he often conducts from the harpsichord when performing Baroque or early Classic repertoire.
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Tim Janiszewski
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Member Bio Tim Janiszewski is a conductor, composer and music educator in the Chicago land area. As a conductor, Tim has recently been appointed as the Music Director and Conductor of The Illinois Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra. He also currently serves as the Conductor of the Midwest String Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the Midwest Philharmonic Orchestra. Tim has previously served as the Assistant Conductor of the Northwest Symphony Orchestra. He also regularly guest conducts the West Suburban Flute Orchestra and conducts musical productions at the Summer Place Theatre in Naperville. As a composer, Tim Janiszewski is an active freelance composer writing for both the digital and concert medium. With several recent premieres of his compositions including Pursuit of the Mountain, Tragic Beauty, Woodwind Quintet no. 1 and his String Quartet no. 1, Tim Janiszewski has been in demand to commission pieces for ensembles and performers of all ages and abilities. An active educator and clinician in the Chicagoland area and abroad, Tim Janiszewski has over nine years of teaching experience in both the classroom and private lesson setting. Tim Janiszewski has worked with many different schools and age groups as a music educator and clinician. These schools include Lake Forest High School, Maine East High School, Glenbard East High School, Churchville Middle School, Cass Junior High School, Woodale Junior High School, Hampshire Middle School, East Richland High School, East Leyden High School, Lake Forest County Day School, and Palatine High School. Tim Janiszewski studied at Elmhurst College where he received his Bachelors in Music Education and Music Theory and Composition. During his time at Elmhurst College, he was the winner of six student conductor competitions where he conducted The Elmhurst College Symphonic Band and The Elmhurst College Philharmonic Orchestra for three consecutive years. He was also guest conductor of the Elmhurst College Varsity Band on two occasions, the second occasion as a guest composer where he conducted the premiere of his piece entitled Pursuit of the Mountain. He also conducted the Elmhurst College Theatre pit orchestra in the musical production Dames at Sea.
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