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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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Samuel Jones

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Member Bio Samuel Jones first came into prominence as a conductor, one of the few Americans to advance through the ranks of the smaller American orchestras to become conductor of one of the majors (the Rochester Philharmonic). He then achieved national recognition in another field as he founded a significant new music school and served for six years as its first dean (Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music). All the while he has continued to compose and has amassed a vital and active catalogue of works After stepping down as dean, Jones continued at the Shepherd School as Professor of Conducting and Composition and Director of Graduate Studies, spending a total of 24 years at Rice. In 1997 he retired from full-time academic life, and he and his wife moved to the Seattle area where he was appointed by Gerard Schwarz as Composer in Residence of the Seattle Symphony. He served fourteen years in that position, the longest such tenure in American orchestral history, composing a large number of significant works, including a successful series of concertos for principal players in the orchestra. In addition to his work in composition, Jones continues to spend significant time as a teacher of conducting and composition, for which he has also developed a wide reputation. As a past president of the Conductors’ Guild and as a frequent master teacher at the Conductors Institute and other conductor study classes, Jones has made a strong contribution to the advancement of the American conductor. Samuel Jones is the recipient of numerous awards for his compositions, including a Grammy nomination for the Seattle Symphony recording of his work for children, The Shoe Bird, based on a story by Eudora Welty; a Ford Foundation Recording/Publication Award; a Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant; NEA Grants; repeated ASCAP Awards; an International Angel Award; the Seattle Symphony Artistic Recognition Award, the Houston Symphony Distinguished Service Award, and six Music Awards from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. He received an honorary doctorate from Millsaps College in 2000, and the same year he was inducted into the inaugural class of the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame. He was named the Music Alive Composer in Residence for the Meridian Symphony by Meet The Composer and the League of American Orchestras. His works have been performed by such orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the All-Star Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Louisville Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Britt Festival, the New Century Chamber Orchestra, and scores of others.
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Stuart Jones

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Member Bio Stuart Jones (b. 1964, Pittsburgh, PA) maintains active careers in both music and software engineering. He earned a Doctorate in Musical Arts at Columbia University as a Mellon Fellow and studied both music and computer science at Florida State University and SUNY-Stony Brook. His composition teachers include Arthur Berger, Mario Davidovsky, Fred Lerdahl, John Lessard and Armand Qualliotine. Dr. Jones is the music director of the Acton Community Band and was a founding member and conductor of the LUMEN Contemporary Music Ensemble, a Boston-based new music ensemble. His composition prizes include the BMI Student Composer Award for his Storm Dreams for violin and piano and the International Horn Society Composition Prize for his Variations for horn and percussion. His compositions have been performed by LUMEN, Fear No Music (Seattle), Zeitgeist (Minneapolis), New York New Music Ensemble, Omega Ensemble (New York), the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM (New York), Columbia Sinfonietta (New York), Centre Acanthe (Avignon, France), International Horn Society, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US (SEAMUS), University of Florida Electronic Music Conference, Wellesley Composers Conference, Aspen Music Festival, Sandpoint (Idaho) Music Festival and June in Buffalo Music Festival. He is a former member of the Board Of Governors for the American Composers Alliance. Dr. Jones is principal owner of Berwick Heights Software, a software consulting firm helping businesses grow their services on the internet.
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Joseph Joubert

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Member Bio Joseph Joubert is a hugely versatile musician whose wide-ranging accomplishments and talent as a pianist, arranger, orchestrator, Broadway conductor, and music director have taken him around the world. Most recently Mr. Joubert was musical director and orchestrator for “Harriet Tubman” star Cynthia Erivo in three sold out Tokyo performances. Next season Mr. Joubert will be musical supervisor for “Blue” at the Apollo directed by Phylicia Rashad starring Lynn Whitfield and Leslie Ugams. Also next year Roundabout Theatre Company is presenting “Caroline, or Change” using orchestrations by Mr. Joubert. Last summer Mr. Joubert was orchestrator with Danny Troob for Alan Menken’s “Hercules” presented by PublicWorks for Disney. Mr. Joubert was music supervisor and orchestrator for Classic Stage Company’s “Carmen Jones” starring Anika Noni Rose to rave reviews. His Broadway orchestration credits include: “The Color Purple”(Drama Desk Nomination), “Disaster”, “Violet”(Drama Desk Nomination), “Leap of Faith”, and “Caroline or Change”. He was Musical Director for Berry Gordy’s “Motown The Musical “and was assistant conductor for Nice Work If You Can Get It and Billy Elliot. Mr. Joubert was guest conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Christmas Concert featuring Take 6. Mr. Joubert was Musical Director, Arranger, and Pianist for Norm Lewis’s American Songbook, the PBS Live from Lincoln Center special. Mr. Joubert was orchestrator/musical supervisor and conductor for the PBS special “Three Mo’Tenors” and production of “Three Mo Divas”. Mr. Joubert was an orchestrator for the TV show “Smash” and the film “Night’s In Rodanthe”. He received a grammy nomination for Best Arrangement Acompanying A Vocal for the Broadway Inspirational Voices “Great Joy”. As a record producer and arranger/orchestrator he has worked with Ashford and Simpson, Diana Ross, George Benson, Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston, Jennifer Holliday, Dionne Warwick, Luther Vandross, Norm Lewis and Diane Reeves. His orchestrations are used by symphonies across the USA including The New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia orchestras. He appeared in the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Porgy and Bess as the piano-player Jasbo Brown. Critics have hailed Mr. Joubert’s “sensitive and supportive” performances as an accompanist and the “uncommon tonal beauty” of his playing. He has collaborated with such classical singers as Denyce Graves, Esther Hinds, Harolyn Blackwell, Florence Quivar, Simon Estes, a n d Hilda Harris, and performed with Kathleen Battle at the White House for President Bill Clinton as well as Carnegie Hall. Mr. Joubert is at home arranging and performing in any style from classical to pop, gospel to Broadway, spiritual to R & B. He has reinterpreted classic hymns on his solo piano CD Total Praise and most recent solo piano CD A Mighty Fortress Is Our God: The Joubert Experience released by GIA Publications. His published arrangements are performed all over the world.
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Kristin Jurkscheit

Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship
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Member Bio Kristin Jurkscheit is a leader in advancing the strategic vision and goals of organizations. She has a track record in designing and managing new initiatives and services in nonprofit and higher education institutions; HR full-cycle recruitment with a DEI focus, including executive search; collaborations across the nonprofit, corporate and higher education sectors; and procurement of monetary and in-kind gifts. With an Executive MBA and a career in nonprofits, Kristin brings the business acumen and nonprofit knowledge for organization-wide expertise and oversight as well as extensive national and global connections via the World Economic Forum in Davos which she attended from 2019-2021. Kristin Jurkscheit’s career began as a professional musician in the Colorado Symphony Orchestra where she also served on various committees and as a musician member of the Board of Trustees. Upon relocating from Denver, CO to Baltimore, MD, Kristin served as the Director of a newly established Music Entrepreneurship program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) while pursuing an Executive MBA at the Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business. Upon completion of her EMBA, Kristin worked for the University of Notre Dame Maryland, establishing the international festival Women of the World as an annual event. She worked for the nonprofit Baltimore Corps, where she conducted HR services with a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She has been a member of the Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle for a decade where she serves as a grant reader in determining the distribution of over $450,000 in grants annually. Kristin’s background in classical music, extensive career in nonprofits (particularly those that focus on gender equality and DEI), and her business acumen make her the ideal Executive Director for a small nonprofit such as the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship.
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Robert Kahn

Mannes School of Music
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Member Bio Dutch-American conductor Robert Kahn is known for his clarity, versatility, and command of both operatic and symphonic repertoire. A recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, he currently works closely with the singers and creative teams at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, where he recently led performances of Così fan tutte and prepared new productions for the 2024–2025 season. In 2022, Kahn completed the Conducting Fellowship at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he was mentored by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Since then, he has built strong relationships with major orchestras across North America. Robert has collaborated with several of the world’s leading orchestras, serving as cover conductor for the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, and the New York Philharmonic. In the summer of 2024, he joined the New York Philharmonic on tour in Vail and Asia, and was recently invited by the Rotterdam Philharmonic to assist Yannick Nézet-Séguin on a major European tour of Wagner’s Die Walküre. As a guest conductor, Robert conducted the Mannes School of Music’s (Un)Silent Film production featuring Metropolis in concert, as well as Music On Site’s production of Don Giovanni. In the 2024–2025 season, Robert returned to the Mannes School of Music to conduct a contemporary opera and led Così fan tutte with the Academy of Vocal Arts. As a music director finalist, he made his subscription debut with the Marin Symphony in California. He also served as cover conductor for Opera Philadelphia’s production of Don Giovanni, and returned to cover several programs with the New York Philharmonic.
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Mr. Tonu Kalam

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Professor Emeritus)
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Member Bio Tonu Kalam (Professor Emeritus) served on the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty as Music Director and Conductor of the UNC Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 2024. Under his leadership, the UNCSO was named as the 2012 first-place winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Performance—College/University Division. He was educated at Harvard University (AB, 1969), the University of California at Berkeley (MA, 1971), and the Curtis Institute of Music (Certificate, 1973). For 25 years Prof. Kalam also served as Music Director and Conductor of the Longview Symphony Orchestra in Texas, where he commuted for several concerts each season, and he has guest conducted orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and in Europe. Prof. Kalam was born of Estonian parents and has lived in the United States since the age of two. Trained as a conductor, pianist, and composer, he studied with conductor Max Rudolf and composers Leon Kirchner and Andrew Imbrie. His summer credits include fellowships at Tanglewood and Aspen as well as many years at the Marlboro Music Festival, where he conducted the Beethoven Choral Fantasy on five occasions at the invitation of legendary pianist Rudolf Serkin. He has guest conducted the North Carolina Symphony, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, and the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, among others, and has served as Music Director of the New England Chamber Orchestra in Boston. He was a prizewinner in the first Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductor’s Competition and was also a finalist in the prestigious Exxon/Arts Endowment Conductors Program. In 1994 Prof. Kalam made his European debut conducting the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in Tallinn and he was immediately reengaged for festival appearances the following year. He returned to Europe in 1997 to guest conduct Finland’s Oulu Symphony Orchestra and in 2004 he made his fourth Estonian appearance in the “Tubin and His Time” festival. He has collaborated with artists such as Gil Shaham, Lang Lang, Christine Goerke, Anthony Dean Griffey, Anton Kuerti, Seymour Lipkin, Roman Totenberg, and Phyllis Curtin. Tonu Kalam has conducted over 135 opera performances for companies such as the Shreveport Opera, the Lake George Opera Festival, and the Nevada Opera. For seven years he was Music Director of the Illinois Opera Theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he has also filled short-term visiting faculty appointments as director of the orchestra programs at the University of Miami in Florida and St. Olaf College in Minnesota. As an educator, he has guest conducted at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and has led all-state, all-region, and all-county orchestras in New York, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Texas, Louisiana, and Montana.
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