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Mr. David Katz

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Alfonso Keller-Casielles

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Kevin Kelly

East Central Illinois Youth Orchestra
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Member Bio Kevin Kelly moved to the northwest Chicago suburbs in 2014, after 23 years living in Champaign-Urbana, where he served the musical community in multiple roles. In 1996, he founded a uniquely entertaining professional chamber orchestra called The Prairie Ensemble, with a mission to “make first-rate music fun, approachable and affordable.” Kevin has been honored three times by the Illinois Council of Orchestras for his work with the Ensemble: for “Programming of the Year “ in 1999 and 2003 and for “Meritorious Service in Orchestral Conducting” in 2002. He has conducted the East Central Illinois Youth Orchestra since 1993, helping to build an eleven-player middle school string ensemble into a full symphony orchestra of high school and middle school students from communities throughout the area. The ECIYO was named “Youth Orchestra of the Year” by the Illinois Council of Orchestras in 1999, and Kevin continues to commute to Champaign for Sunday rehearsals. After 13 years as a classical music host at public radio station WILL-FM in Urbana, he served as host and producer of “Live and Local,” which featured interviews with, and frequent live performances by, local and visiting artists across many musical genres, plus theater and dance. ​ In the fall of 2015, he became Artistic Director of the Allegro Community Chorus, a program of the Palatine Park District, and Conductor for the Lake County Núcleo of Sistema Ravinia, an outreach program of the Ravinia Festival. ​ Kevin’s work with choirs included 17 years as choirmaster at Emmanuel Memorial Episcopal Church in Champaign. As music director of The Prairie Ensemble, he conducted collaborative performances with the University of Illinois Concert Choir and Women’s Glee Club, Amasong, the Chorus of the Baroque Artists of Champaign Urbana and the Central Illinois Children’s Chorus. He previously directed the Sangamon Valley Youth Orchestras in Springfield and the Illini Statesmen Barbershop Chorus in Champaign-Urbana. He has guest conducted the touring Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra in children’s concerts in Bloomington, and the Cumberland Valley Chamber Players in his home town of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Kevin has been active in musical theater with the Illini Union Board and the Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company, serving most recently as musical director for CUTC’s productions of Gypsy, Grease, Fiddler on the Roof, Les Misérables (Student Edition) and Beauty and the Beast. ​ Kevin Kelly holds bachelor’s degrees in English (essay writing) and music history and criticism from Northwestern University, and master’s degrees in orchestral and choral conducting from the University of Illinois.
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Henry Kennedy

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Member Bio British-born conductor Henry Kennedy has recently graduated with Distinction from the world-renowned Master of Arts course at the Royal Academy of Music, under the tutelage of Sian Edwards. Henry is also mentored by Colin Metters. In reflection of his studentship and contribution to the Royal Academy of Music, he was presented with the Norma Simpson Award. Eager to conduct a wide variety of repertoire, Henry established his own orchestra, the Resonate Symphony Orchestra in 2017 and it has grown to become one of the leading young London ensembles. As Music Director, he has curated and conducted a number of diverse programmes in some of London’s most prominent concert halls. The orchestra has performed such varied works from Bach’s double piano concerti to Shostakovich’s monumental Leningrad Symphony. Outside of the Resonate Symphony Orchestra, he has conducted among others in various settings: Deutsche Oper Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra, Austrian Ensemble for New Music and Berlin Sinfonietta. Most recently, Henry had been selected as one of the semi-finalists for both the Toscanini and Karajan competitions. Also, Henry has assisted and been mentored by some of the following conductors including Christian Thielemann, David Zinman, Christopher Seaman, Robert Trevino, Sir Mark Elder, John Wilson, Anthony Negus, Jac van Steen, Edward Gardner and Marin Alsop, among others, in the recording studio, opera house and concert hall. Henry regularly attends orchestral and operatic master classes around the world, recent classes have included: Stefano Ranzani and Martyn Brabbins. Henry is particularly passionate about performing unfamiliar Russian music in Europe, including composers such as Glinka, Balakirev and Borodin. He is also a strong advocate for British music, including works by Butterworth, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Delius, Tippett and Bax. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling around his hometown in the Shropshire Hills and reading Russian literature.
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Wes Kenney

Fort Collins Symphony
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Member Bio Wes Kenney is in his 22nd season as Music Director of the Fort Collins (Colorado) Symphony. In May 2023 he retired after 20 years as Director of Orchestras and chair of conducting studies at Colorado State University. Maestro Kenney completed his tenure at CSU with two critically acclaimed performances of the Mahler Symphony No. 3. In 2022 he was named a University Distinguished Professor, the highest honor the university can award and has also been given the title of Professor Emeritus The 2007 Grand Prize Winner of the Varna (Bulgaria) International Conducting Competition, a 2020 Honored Artist from the American Prize, a winner of the American Prize for programming in 2020, a winner of the Ernst Bacon Memorial Prize for excellence in performance of American Music, and the 2020 American Prize Winner for best orchestral performance in the Professional Orchestra Division. In June 2023 Mr. Kenney completed his 10th and final season with Denver Young Artist Orchestra—the premier youth orchestra in the state of Colorado. DYAO has been recognized by the city of Denver for outreach and as an ambassador for Colorado. He has led that orchestra on two European tours and anchored two festivals at Carnegie Hall. In June of 2023 he led that orchestra on tour to Southern California where the audience responded with a standing ovation at Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles Mr. Kenney’s guest conducting activities include the Acadiana Symphony (LA), Alabama Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Dubuque Symphony, Lafayette (IN) Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Riverside Symphonia, Savannah Symphony, and the Virginia Symphony. International guest conducting includes performances with the Liev (Ukraine) Philharmonic, Changwon (South Korea) Philharmonic, Vietnam National Symphony (Hanoi), Vidin State Philharmonic, Stara Zagora Opera Company in Bulgaria as well as the Edinburgh (Scotland) Music Festival. Mr. Kenney has also enjoyed success directing opera, ballet, and musical theater. Previous positions include Music Director of Opera Fort Collins, Music Director of the Virginia Ballet Theater, Co-Principal Conductor of the Oakland Lyric Opera, and Guest Conductor with Universal Ballet Korea. Since 2004 he has conducted productions of Carmen, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Sweeney Todd, Turn of the Screw, Barber of Seville, Madama Butterfly, Cenerentola, Rigoletto, Tosca, Otello, Die Zauberflote, Die Fledermaus, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Street Scene, La Boheme, Orfeo, Pagliacci, Cavelleria Rusticana, Falstaff, Turandot, Marriage of Figaro, Serse, The Merry Widow, Aida, Don Giovanni, and Tenderland. In addition, he has conducted over two hundred performances of The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Firebird, and many other dance works. In six seasons as the Virginia Symphony’s Associate Conductor, Mr. Kenney appeared more than 350 times with that orchestra where he was responsible for programming and conducting Pops, Family and Young People’s Concerts. During his tenure with the Virginia Symphony, he was also invited to guest conduct the Williamsburg Symphonia, Virginia Chorale, Norfolk Chamber Consort and Virginia Waterfront International Arts Festival. Named Educator of the Year by the Colorado Chapter of the American String Teachers Association in 2008, Mr. Kenney enjoys working with talented young people in his position as Director of Orchestras at Colorado State University and has served as Guest Conductor with the Alabama, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Virginia All-State Orchestras. Awarded the prestigious Carmen Dragon Conducting Prize in 1992, Wes Kenney is a founder of the CSU Summer Master of Music Education with an emphasis in conducting program, now in its 12th year. He was recently a guest lecturer at the Conductor’s Institute held at Bard College in upstate New York, teaching alongside the late Harold Farberman and American Symphony Orchestra Music Director Leon Botstein. Mr. Kenney is a past president of the Conductors Guild, a 2000-member service organization to the conducting profession. He currently is on the Guild’s advisory board. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and San Francisco State University. Additional studies include three years as a fellow at the Conductors Institute, several American Symphony Orchestra League and Conductors Guild Workshops, and the Sandpoint Festival. His teachers include Harold Farberman, Hans Beer, Gunther Schuller, Hans Swarovsky and Miltiardes Carides.
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Zain Khan

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Member Bio Before earning an MBA from Loyola Marymount's School of Business and launching his career in tech, Zain studied viola at USC's Thornton School of Music (BM, Class of ’93). An accomplished violist, Zain has performed Principal with many orchestras throughout Southern California including the New West Symphony, Mozart Camerata, Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, American Youth Symphony, YMF Debut Orchestra, and many others. A recipient of the Percy Faith Award at USC's Thornton School of Music, Zain studied viola with Alan De Veritch and chamber music with Milton Thomas. After graduating from USC, Zain spent much of his twenties in pursuit of his dream of conducting, which included studying with Lord Yehudi Menuhin while he toured with the Sinfonia Varsovia and a summer at the famed Chigiana Academy in Siena, Italy. However, it was Mehli Mehta, the Founder and Conductor of the American Youth Symphony, who inspired Zain, and countless other young musicians, to love music. During his tenure with the American Youth Symphony, Zain performed as Principal Violist and later became the Assistant Conductor to Maestro Mehta. It was Zain that initiated the American Youth Symphony's Outreach Program, which brought music and instrumental lessons to dozens of public schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District. He gradually left behind his love of music to pursue other ambitions. For well over 20 years, he put his musical aspirations on hold to raise a family and build a business. He did so at the sacrifice of his musical ambitions, and told himself that he would pursue his love of music later. As his business career took off and his family began to grow, his dream of making music got pushed further away. Ultimately, it was the tragic passing of some close friends (musicians) who inspired Zain to reignite his love of music. And so in 2016, he set out to form his own chamber orchestra. Called the “Vicente Chamber Orchestra” (named after a street close to his home), the ensemble did not have a Board, an organizational structure, or committed musicians. He was even told that there was no need for yet another orchestra in Los Angeles. However, with the help of some close friends who were interested in starting a new orchestra on the Westside, he formed the Vicente Chamber Orchestra (VCO). The VCO gave its first performance on Saturday, November 16, 2016. Since that night, the orchestra has performed between two and three concerts a year, aiming for the highest possible quality in its performances. The VCO established itself as a Los Angeles success story when it first sold out the Broad Stage in Santa Monica in 2019 (performing Beethoven's 4th Symphony). Artists who have performed with the Vicente Chamber Orchestra include violinists Anne Akiko-Meyers, Irina Tseitlin, Joan Kwuon, Michelle Kim, and Robert Chen. Cellists include Han Bin, Carol Ou and Julian Schwarz. Violist incude Beatrice Chen.
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Iman Khosrowpour

Irvine Valley College
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Member Bio Conductor, violinist, educator and scholar, Iman Khosrowpour’s career is uniquely and richly diversified. Currently based in Berlin under the auspices of a research grant, he has conducted the Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Sinfonietta and Leipzig Symphony Orchestra. As a violinist he has toured and given concerts in Germany, Czech Republic, Japan, Canada, Brazil, and throughout the United States. He made his European debut performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in Brno, Czech Republic and performed Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 at the renowned Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria. Committed to encouraging new music, he gave the world premiere of the Violin Concerto by Daniel Luzko in Asunción, Paraguay. In 2000 Iman had the distinct honor of performing at a private event for U.S. President Bill Clinton at New England Conservatory. He has performed extensively with the Grammy Award-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Iman has performed on film soundtracks in Hollywood and regularly performs for Chapman University Holocaust Remembrance events. He is a frequent recitalist in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan and has given violin masterclasses and orchestra clinics in Germany, South Korea and Japan. Iman is much sought after teacher and performer in his hometown of Irvine, California. A passionate educator, he maintains a successful online private teaching studio and has taught at the prestigious Orange County School for the Arts. His students have been concertmasters and members of the Irvine, All-Southern and All-State California Honors Orchestras, Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra and Orange County School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, as well as winners of international and regional competitions. They have gone on to study at Princeton, Columbia, Northwestern and Chapman Universities, and California State University Long Beach, and have performed at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House and Segerstrom Hall. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Irvine Music Festival, an international summer training program which attracts inspired young participants and world-class faculty and guest artists. From 2012 to 2021 Iman was the conductor of the Symphony Orchestra at Irvine Valley College (IVC), often performing as soloist with the orchestra and the small ensemble he founded, The Ill-Tempered Chamber Players. He made his conducting debut at the renowned Segerstrom Hall in Orange County, California in 2016 and continues to develop his conducting career concurrent with violin and teaching. In high demand throughout the Southern California region as an orchestra clinician, Iman has conducted several esteemed top regional youth orchestras, including the Irvine and Capistrano Unified School District High School Honors Orchestras at Segerstrom Hall and the All-Southern Middle School Honor Middle School Orchestra at the Southern California School, Band and Orchestra Association Conference.
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Mr. David Kidwell

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Member Bio David Kidwell holds a Master's degree in composition from The Hartt School, where he studied with James Sellars and Stephen Gryc. His music is highly accessible, making use of easily discernible forms and a traditional harmonic language infused with elements of modern pop. Kidwell has written for full orchestra, chamber groups, chorus, piano, organ, and solo voice. In conjunction with his work as an organist and choir director, he has composed many anthems and solo pieces for organ. Several collections of Kidwell's organ compositions have been published by Lorenz and frequently appear in The Sacred Organ Journal, The Organist, and other Lorenz publications. David Kidwell is a conductor who is equally at home with the standard orchestra repertoire, contemporary music, choral literature, and music theatre styles. He has drawn praise from critics and orchestras for his clear beat, efficient rehearsal technique, innovative programming, and organizational skill. He is a passionate advocate of music by living composers. Kidwell conducts will the perspective of a composer, striving to eliminate questionable performance traditions and remain true to composers’ intentions. Now offering online conducting lessons!
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Hayoung Kim

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Prof. Jun Kim

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Member Bio Korean-American conductor Jun Y. Kim is widely recognized for his expressive clarity, collaborative artistry, and ability to draw deeply engaging performances from both professional and university orchestras. Praised for his “snappy energy and terrific ear for detail” (Milwaukee Magazine) and “stylish support” (Baltimore Sun) on a Schumann Cello Concerto recording, Kim has steadily built a reputation as a compelling musical leader across symphonic and operatic stages in North America and Europe. As Music Director of the UWM Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director and Conductor of the Washington Chamber Orchestra (WCO), Kim has shaped a distinctive artistic vision rooted in excellence, inclusivity, and community engagement. Under his leadership, WCO is completing a full Beethoven Symphony Cycle, presented a sold-out concert with pianist Seong-Jin Cho, and partnered with Nurit Bar-Josef (Concertmaster, National Symphony Orchestra) for a benefit concert for Ukrainian refugees. Other highlights include a critically acclaimed performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Alex Kerr (Concertmaster, Dallas Symphony Orchestra), Mark Kosower (Principal Cello, Cleveland Orchestra), and Min Kwon (Steinway Artist). Kim also collaborated with Yekwon Sunwoo (Van Cliburn Gold Medalist) in performances of Mendelssohn’s complete piano concertos. Internationally, Kim has guest conducted the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de Córdoba, North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Opera and Ballet in Constanța, Romania. He has appeared with more than 40 orchestras across Canada, the U.K., Russia, Austria, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Venezuela, through competitions, festivals, and masterclasses. Notable appearances include the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the St. Magnus Festival, and work with the Cincinnati and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras through the Conductors Guild. Other appearances include the Lithuanian Symphony Orchestra, Brasov Philharmonic, St. Petersburg State Symphony, and the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia. A laureate of several international competitions, Kim won First Prize at the Malta International Conducting Competition, Second Prize at the Orquesta de Córdoba Conducting Competition, and the Beethoven Conducting Prize from the European Music Academy. He is also a recipient of the L’Académie Lyrique Conductor’s Award, and was selected by Kurt Masur for his elite conducting seminar in New York. Earlier in his career, he was chosen for the Discovery Series at the Oregon Bach Festival, working closely with Helmuth Rilling, and trained at the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors, where he was awarded a full scholarship. Equally at home in the opera pit, Kim received First Prize in the American Prize in Opera Conducting. His operatic credits include full productions of works by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Strauss, Offenbach, Ravel, and Purcell. He also led the final round of the Washington International Competition in Voice at the Kennedy Center. A sought-after collaborator, Kim has worked with an array of internationally celebrated soloists, including Joshua Bell, Denyce Graves, Alexander Kagan, Martin García García, Yeol-Eum Son, Haesun Paik, Rachel Barton Pine, Bomsori Kim, Amit Peled, Alexander Fiterstein, Judith Ingolfsson, and Marina Piccinini. Committed to supporting young musicians from diverse backgrounds thrive, Kim is actively involved in efforts that foster inclusion and opportunity in classical music, most recently through his work with the Denyce Graves Foundation’s Shared Voices initiative, supporting emerging opera singers from underrepresented communities. Born in Seoul, Korea, raised in Vancouver, Canada, and based in Chicago, U.S, Jun-yong Kim began his musical journey as a violinist. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts and Artist Diploma from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music from Indiana University, and a Bachelor of Music from the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University. His principal conducting mentors include Dumitru Goia, Jorma Panula, Gustav Meier, and Markand Thakar, with further study under Martyn Brabbns, Nicolás Pasquet, Johannes Schlaefli, and Colin Metters. His violin teachers included Miriam Fried, Victor Danchenko, and Won-Bin Yim. Whether working with world-class orchestras, mentoring emerging artists, or building bridges through music, Jun-yong Kim brings passion, precision, and a deep belief in the transformative power of performance.
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