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Matthew Jaroszewicz

University of Akron
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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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Xiao Jiang

SMU
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Sebastian Jimenez

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Sara Jobin

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Mr. Kynan Johns

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Member Bio A protégé of Maestro Lorin Maazel, Kynan Johns served as Director Assistente at the Palau de les Arts, Valencia, Spain to both Maazel and Mehta. A native of Australia he has conducted the Israel Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonica della Scala, Netherlands Radio Symphony and Sydney and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras amongst many others. In Opera, he has worked at Covent Garden, conducted at Italy's famed 'La Scala', Maazel’s 1984 and Don Giovanni, Madame Butterfly, Luisa Miller and Don Carlos in Valencia; Don Giovanni with OperMagdeburg, Britten's Turn of the Screw in Rouen and La Bohème & Faust for the State Opera of South Australia. Johns was on the conducting staff for the final three seasons with New York City Opera, working on Adès's Powder Her Face, Chin's Alice in Wonderland (arr. Johns) Offenbach's La Perichole and Turnage's Anna Nicole. Most recent engagements have included Der Zigeunerbaron for MSM, where he had in previous seasons conducted Mahagonny & Die Fledermaus, debuts with the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Orquestra Metropolitana Lisboa, Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Le-Ziyyon, New West Symphony, as well as returns to the Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia, Madrid and the Asturias Symphony Orchestra (OSPA). He was awarded the inaugural 'Centenary Medal' from the Australian Government for his services to music and serves as Director of Orchestras at Rutgers University. A prize winner of many international competitions including the Mitropoulos, Maazel/ Vilar and Besancon, he is represented by CAMI, New York. Upcoming engagements include Verdi’s Requiem, Opera Gala at Teatro Real, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Orquesta Clàsica Santa Cecilia, Madrid as well as returns to New West Symphony and the Adelaide Intervarsity Festival in 2019.
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Mr. Gordon Johnson

Great Falls Symphony
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Member Bio During his thirty-five year tenure as conductor of the Great Falls Symphony, Gordon Johnson has been known for his energetic performances and dynamic leadership. In addition to his responsibilities in Great Falls, Maestro Johnson continues to maintain a busy schedule having guest conducting engagements with orchestras throughout the United States, Canada, England, Japan, Germany and France. In February 2009 Johnson was invited by the United States State Department to conduct an American music program with the National Philharmonic of Moldova.Johnson has served as the music director of the Glacier Symphony (MT) from 1982 to 1997 and later of the Mesa Symphony (AZ) from 1997 to 2005. He served as the director of orchestras at the Red Lodge Music Festival (MT) from 2006 to 2011. Gordon Johnson has been recognized by the League of American Orchestras, the American Society of Composers, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and the Carnegie Hall Foundation for his contribution to the musical arts. The State of Minnesota conferred a special commendation to Johnson, on behalf of its citizens, for recognition of his contributions. Johnson was award the Governor’s Award for the Arts by Montana Governor Steve Bullock at a ceremony at the State Capitol in Helena in 2016. In addition to the Great Falls Symphony he is conductor emeritus of the Great Falls Youth Orchestra where he was directly involved in the training future generations of orchestral musicians. He is past President of the Military Affairs Committee and continues to serve as a member of the Board of Directors. In 2012 he was awarded the Distinguished Patriot Medal by the Department of Military Affairs Adjutant General of the State of Montana. During his many years of concertizing Johnson has served as accompanist to many superb musicians including world renowned artists Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Midori, Sir James Galway, Evelyn Glennie and Joshua Bell. He has collaborated in concert with many of America’s most popular artists including Art Garfunkel, Amy Grant, Trisha Yearwood, Kansas, America, Lee Ann Rimes and Charlie Daniels. Maestro Johnson has been invited to serve on adjudication panels at Arizona State University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Montana, University of Oregon, Northwestern University and the Conservatoire Cesar Geoffray, Toulon, France. Gordon J. Johnson is past president of the Conductors Guild, an organization dedicated exclusively to the advancement of the art of conducting and to the artistic and professional needs of conductors.
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Richard Johnson

Coastal Carolina University
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Member Bio Richard Lawrence Johnson is Professor of Music at Coastal Carolina University. His previous experience includes Salisbury University and ten years of public-school teaching to include Crystal Lake Central High School and the renowned George Nelson Tremper High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin. During his thirty years in higher education Dr. Johnson has served in Arts administration, as associate provost for graduate studies, conductor to collegiate instrumental ensembles and artistic director to community ensembles in Illinois, Maryland and South Carolina. Dr. Johnson earned an international reputation for his interpretation of music of composer David Rakowski, the 1995 Hedwig Van Amerigen Rome Prize recipient. Among numerous guest-conducting engagements, notable appearances include the American Academy of Rome, the United States Naval Academy Chamber Music Series and the Maryland Music Educators Association. His orchestral experience includes the Arlington Echo Advanced String Orchestra Camps in Maryland and the Salisbury Symphony Community Orchestra. He has received numerous accolades from American composers for his performances by John Frantzen, Rossano Galante, James Syler, David Rakowski, Peter Westergaard and Beth Wiemann. Dr. Johnson has appeared as guest conductor in Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, South Carolina and Wisconsin. He has conducted over thirty all-county, regional high school festivals and intercollegiate band performances. He continues to maintain an extensive schedule as clinician, adjudicator and consultant in the fine arts. During 1996, he presented at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary and research at the National Széchényi Library. His interaction with composers Kamillo Lenvay and Frigyes Hidas also produced a solo work for Euphonium and Band. Hidas’s “Euphoniada” has recently been selected as one of the preliminary required works for the Leonard Falcone International Competition. Other research invitations have taken him to Genoa, Lucca, Milan, Pisa and Turin visiting with conservatory administration and touring the famed Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, Teatro alla Scala, Biblioteca Statale di Cremona and touring the Stradivarius Museo del Violino. Sponsored in part by a grant from the Charles and Martha Fulton Endowment Dr. Johnson developed a series of televised concert broadcasts with the Salisbury University Wind Ensemble. In conjunction with Access 26 Television Station, these 2002/03 broadcasts were viewed throughout the Maryland Eastern Shore, Delaware and eastern Virginia. He has served as member of regional CBDNA committees and he is past president of Maryland CBDNA with fifteen years of service in this position. He has served on numerous session panels, presenting at regional and national conferences of the College Band Directors National Association.
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Mr. Keith Johnston

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Member Bio Keith Johnston, Director of Performing Arts, Director of Bands and Orchestra at Sacred Heart University, has a long and varied career as a performer, conductor, and educator in the United States, and internationally. He has taken the Sacred Heart University Band and Orchestra on national, and international tours, commissioned new works, been featured in national television ad campaigns, and even made an appearance on MTV. In addition to directing the University Orchestra, Concert, Marching, Pep Bands, and Wind Ensemble, Johnston also directs the brass ensemble, teaches trombone, and oversees the instrumental chamber music program. Mr. Johnston has been a music director and conductor for professional, community, and educational bands, orchestras, and opera companies, conducting performances in a dozen states and half a dozen countries around the world. He’s conducted high school honor bands in CT, PA, and Illinois, and given master classes at Mott College, and University of Michigan-Flint. Mr. Johnston also conducts and teaches at Ecole Musique Sainte Trinite in Port au Prince, Haiti, and has directed brass festivals in Port au Prince, and Jacmel, Haiti. An advocate of Haitian composers, Mr. Johnston gave the American and European premier of Occide Jeanty’s Chery Marche Funebre, and gave the American and European premier of the band transcription of Ludovic Lamothe’s Danza No. 4 during the SHU band’s European tour in 2018. He’s given numerous world premieres including Blue Iris for Trombone and Organ, and 9 Feet of Brass, Concerto for Trombone and Band - both composed for him by Steven Rosenhaus - and Edward Thompson’s The Poem of the One World for trombone and organ, premiered in Ireland in 2016. In February, 2017, he was invited by the Orquesta Sinfonica de Oriente in Santiago, Cuba to perform and conduct in a program that included the world premier of Cuban composer Ernesto Burgos’ Suite Cubana Para Metales. In 2018 he conducted a new music project at SHU featuring a faculty and student ensemble premiering new works by composers Mel Mobley, Steven Rosenhaus, and Ray Strobel for chamber ensemble, dancers, and mixed media based on the Buddhist tradition of the The Four Immeasurables. ​ Mr. Johnston has taken the Sacred Heart Band and Orchestra on five international tours, including Ireland, Italy, Prague and Vienna. Mr. Johnston received his Bachelor of Fine Arts, and Master of Music from Carnegie Mellon University. He has studied trombone with Byron McCulloh, and conducting with Robert Page, Juan-Pablo Izquierdo, Eduardo Alonso-Crespo, and Keith Lockhart, as well as advanced conducting studies at London’s Royal Academy of Music. He currently serves on the board of BLUME Haiti, a non-profit organization that works to develop leadership skills through music education and performance in Haiti. Mr. Johnston is a member of NAfME, CBDNA, CMEA, CODA, a Life Member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and an Honorary Member of Kappa Kappa Psi.
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