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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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Greg A . Jasek
Highland Community Band
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Member Bio Works at Free Lance Conductor, Arranger and Educator Music Director at Filmharmonic Concepts Studied Conducting at Tanglewood Studied Music at DePaul University Went to George Washington High School (Chicago) Lives in Chicago, Illinois From Crown Point, Indiana Married to Kerry Bellamy Jasek.
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Weston Jennings
New Texas Sinfonia
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Member Bio Having first encountered the pipe organ at the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp (Michigan) at the age of sixteen, Weston later graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy. At the Eastman School of Music, he earned his Bachelor of Music Degree and the prestigious Performer’s Certificate. In May of 2017, he graduated from the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music with his Master of Music Degree. Prior to his studies at Yale, he completed two years in England as the Organ Scholar of Canterbury Cathedral and Chelmsford Cathedral. During this time, he was also appointed the first Organ Scholar to the Royal Festival Hall, London. Former organ teachers include Thomas Murray, Michel Bouvard, Hans Davidsson, David Higgs, Bill McCoy and Thomas Bara. Following his recital debut at The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) in 2009, he has performed across the United States and Europe, including Westminster Abbey (London), Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (New York), The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Los Angeles), The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (Denver), the Chapel of the Queen’s College (Oxford), Royaumont Abbey (France) and the Berliner Dom (Germany). On the Newberry Memorial Organ of Woolsey Hall, Weston has performed with The Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale, The Yale Concert Band, the New Haven Chorale and The Yale Symphony Orchestra. As a part of the London Handel Festival, he collaborated with the Apollo Baroque Consort in a concert of Handel Organ Concertos from Mayfair’s Grosvenor Chapel. Weston is an enthusiastic advocate for new music and has premiered compositions by Molly Joyce, Soosan Lolavar, Mark Carroll and Allison Willis. His performances and interviews have been broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and American Public Media’s Pipedreams. Committed to the education of new organists, Weston was Instructor of Undergraduate and Secondary Organ at Yale College. He has served on the faculty of the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, the Department of Music at The King’s School, Canterbury, and taught and performed at several Pipe Organ Encounters across America. Weston currently resides in Tyler, Texas where he serves as Director of Music and Organist of First Presbyterian Church, as well as Artistic and Executive Director of the Tyler Civic Chorale.
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