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Gregory Jones II

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Member Bio I am graduate of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Performance and an Advanced Certificate in Contemporary Music Performance. My objective in attending the university was to gain experience and skills in the areas of the performing arts, due to my childhood interest in music. Since graduating from UB, I have been well equipped with the necessary skills and techniques to effectively and efficiently complete any task that is given to me as well as achieving my goals. In addition to my plans of becoming a composer, arranger, orchestrator and performer, my ultimate goal is to become an ensemble conductor.
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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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Travis Jürgens

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Member Bio Conductor Travis Jürgens won 2nd Prize and the President of the Jury Award at the 2019 Bucharest Music Institute International Conducting Competition. He has conducted the Rochester Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic, and Denver Philharmonic, among others. He has worked with esteemed conductors, including Michael Tilson Thomas and Marin Alsop, who invited Travis to attend the Conductors Guild Composer/Conductor Workshop at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Jürgens has performed in the United States, Europe, and Japan. He has been praised as "a superior conductor" and "well on his way to becoming a major conductor in the world of symphony orchestras" (Opus Colorado). Musicians who have played under his baton have commented on his exceptional talent, dynamic musicianship, efficient rehearsals, and strong leadership. The fully professional Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra, near Toledo, Ohio, appointed Jürgens as their next Music Director and Conductor in 2018. In 2024, the Cleveland-based Heights Chamber Orchestra also appointed him as their Music Director. Previously, he was the Music Director and Conductor of the Ohio Northern Symphony for five seasons, the Lima Area Youth Orchestra for three seasons, the Philharmonia of Kansas City for six seasons, the Associate Conductor of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, and a cover conductor for the Colorado Symphony. He also held the position of Associate Conductor of the Lamont Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre in Denver, where he received the Leon Guide Outstanding Conductor Award. During his tenure with the Philharmonia of Kansas City, Jürgens raised the artistic level of the orchestra and helped to increase the audience base, which led to the organization's first sold-out concert. In collaboration with the board and staff, he expanded the education programs to include new outreach programs, competitions, and a mentorship program. He also conducted many world premieres and organized a video shoot with ESPN for a 2011 Halloween Special that was aired on Monday Night Football. As an active fundraiser, he participated in numerous fundraising activities, including book fairs, silent auctions, and the recruiting of board and staff members who created the organization's first annual fund drive. Jürgens formed new collaborations with the Kansas City Children's Chorus, public and private schools, and local choruses; he also continued a partnership with the Kansas City Youth Ballet. Jürgens' opera and musical theatre credits include Faust, Le Nozze di Figaro, Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi, The Drowsy Chaperone, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Pirates of Penzance, Cats, A Chorus Line, and Beauty and the Beast. He also performed in a Japan tour of Blast II: MIX. Travis' former teachers have praised him for his expressive conducting technique, tremendous energy, thorough preparation, and omnipresent passion for music. He earned his Bachelor’s in Piano Performance with High Distinction from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, his Master’s in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Illinois, and an Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Denver Lamont School of Music. Additionally, he studied at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien and the Institut für Europäishe Studien in Vienna, Austria. He also made his Viennese debut as guest conductor of the IES Vienna Chamber Orchestra. He has served as Graduate Assistant Conductor at the University of Illinois, and Assistant Conductor for the University of Illinois Opera Theater. His primary conducting teachers include Donald Schleicher, Lawrence Golan, and David Effron. Additionally, he has received instruction from Michael Tilson Thomas, Marin Alsop, Gustav Meier, Larry Rachleff, Jorma Panula, Jin Wang, and many others. As an advocate of new music, Jürgens has performed many world premieres by emerging composers, and works to create innovative programs to engage communities.
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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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Dong Hyun Kang

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Mr. Steven Karidoyanes

Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra
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Member Bio Mr. Karidoyanes is in his 30th season as Conductor and Music Director of the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra, a professional orchestra on Boston’s historic South Shore, and his 20th season conducting the New England Conservatory Youth Symphony, leading concerts in Boston’s most prestigious concert venues and in past concert tours of Italy, Greece, Costa Rica, Eastern Europe, Ireland and Spain. Since 2008, he is also an understudy conductor for the Boston Pops Orchestra. He made his Boston Pops conducting debut in Symphony Hall in December 2016. Past international guest conducting engagements include Hungary's Savaria Symphony Orchestra in Hainburg, Austria, the Prague Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Costa Rica’s National Music Institute Youth Symphony, and return engagements with the North Czech Philharmonic. In January 2016 he conducted a series of concerts with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Karidoyanes has also guest conducted the Syracuse Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, and orchestras in the Washington, D.C. region. Opera productions conducted include Cape Cod Opera’s Carmen, The Mikado by the Bostonian Opera & Concert Ensemble [a.k.a. “The Bostonians”] and Opera-by-the-Bay’s (MA) Die Fledermaus. He recently stepped down from leading Masterworks Chorale after a decade, conducting choral/orchestral masterworks in Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre. He has also held the posts of Music Director of the Boston College Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Winston-Salem Symphony and Greensboro Symphony orchestras in North Carolina, and Assistant Conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic. He has conducted many subscription, pops, educational and family concerts, as well as annual ballet performances of The Nutcracker with the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has served on the faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute for ten seasons, and on the conducting faculty of the New England Conservatory. Complementing his performing activities, Mr. Karidoyanes is a composer and member of ASCAP. His composition, Yerakína: Dionysian Dance for Orchestra, was written for and premiered by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and has already been performed by the Boston Pops. His Café Neon: Fantasy on Greek Songs and Dances has been performed over forty times by two dozen orchestras coast to coast plus Italy and Greece. Both Yerakína and Café Neon were performed together by the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra in Australia. His cantata, Cherished Youth, was twice choreographed by the Commonwealth Ballet (MA). Also a classical music announcer/producer, Mr. Karidoyanes has worked for National Public Radio affiliates in Boston, North Carolina and Indiana. Steven Karidoyanes holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Boston University.
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Ms. Cynthia Katsarelis

University of Notre Dame
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Member Bio CYNTHIA KATSARELIS is Music Director and Conductor of PMC. She has conducted excellent professional, conservatory, youth and training orchestras. As Conducting Assistant with the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops, Ms Katsarelis worked with top conductors and guest artists, assisted with recordings for Telarc Records, and worked with James Conlon and the Cincinnati May Festival. Her professional activities include conducting the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the symphonies of Knoxville, Kansas City, Spokane, Flint, Georgetown and the Columbus Women’s Orchestra. She made her international debut leading the Bourgas Philharmonic in Bourgas, Bulgaria. Ms. Katsarelis has served as music director of the Seven Hills Sinfonietta, Antioch Chamber Orchestra, Northern Kentucky Chamber Players, Dearborn Summer Music Festival and Hillman Opera. Critical reviews have praised her work as “a model of precision and spirit.” A pioneer for professional women conductors, Ms. Katsarelis served as Associate Conductor with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (North Carolina) and Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra. There, she was a dynamic force for education, creating and conducting dynamic Young Peoples' Concerts, as well as implementing innovative musical programs for economically challenged children, public school students, and gifted young musicians. Ms. Katsarelis charmed audiences in her appearances leading the Greensboro Symphony Pops and the Greensboro Ballet’s production of the Nutcracker and their parody “the Cracked Nut.” In Colorado, Ms. Katsarelis has guest conducted the Colorado Music Festival in their Young Peoples’ Concerts at Chautauqua in 2012, 2013, and 2014. In 2007, she assisted Michael Christie and the CMF orchestra by conducting the offstage brass in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the Resurrection. For three summers, she conducted the Young Artist Seminar at Rocky Ridge Music Center. Working with the Loveland Opera Theatre, Ms. Katsarelis led performances of Hansel and Gretel, HMS Pinafore, and La Boheme. She has conducted the Longmont Ballet in the Nutcracker with the professional Longmont Ballet Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Katsarelis’ commitment to working with young musicians has taken her to Haiti since the fall of 2004 to guest conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique Sainte Trinité, Les Petits Chanteurs, and teach at the Holy Trinity School of Music in Port-au-Prince. Ms. Katsarelis studied Violin and Conducting at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University, earning her Bachelors and Masters of Music degrees. She was the first undergraduate ever admitted to the conducting program. At the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, she pursued doctoral studies in Orchestral and Opera Conducting. There she served as assistant conductor for both conservatory orchestras and the Opera Theater.
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