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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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Dr. Deborah King

Ember Choral Arts; Manhattan School of Music; PROJECT : ENCORE
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Member Bio Deborah Simpkin King, Ph.D., is a choral conductor, new music advocate, and master teacher. She plays an active role in the vibrant Manhattan choral scene and serves the national and international music community through her guest conducting and body of published work. Her leadership as a conductor is ongoing with the semi-professional Ember, of Ember Choral Arts; as Director of Music and Arts at the historic Trinity Episcopal Church in Asbury Park, NJ; as Conductor of the Manhattan School of Music Chorale; and as a conductor within Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. Her commitment to nurturing the next generation in the arts can be seen through the arts education initiatives at Ember Choral Arts, her long-standing leadership of the NJ-ACDA High School Choral Festival, and the expansion of the New York Choral Consortium’s (which she Chairs) work to include young singers through the Big Sing, Jr. Through PROJECT : ENCORE (which she founded in 2009), Dr. King is at the leading edge of the new music industry, working with composers in securing post-premiere performances, and commissioning and performing many premieres herself. Her most recent advocacy initiative is the birth of the Ember Ablaze Composer Lab, with Robert Paterson as the founding Composer in Residence. Dr. King is a published author and editor. As a monthly columnist with ACDA’s Choral Journal and host of public radio’s Sounds Choral (syndicated through WWFM) she serves the music community internationally.
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Jill M King Jill King DePaul University

DePaul University
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Douglas Kinney Frost

University of Texas, Butler School of Music
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Member Bio Douglas Kinney Frost has led orchestras and opera companies on four continents, consistently thrilling audiences and inspiring the musicians with whom he works. “Under the baton of music director Douglas Kinney Frost the orchestra consistently presents concerts that are interesting, stimulating and thought-provoking,” says the Deseret News. In concert, the breadth of his repertoire has been highlighted in performances with the National Symphony of Mexico, the Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and orchestras in Brazil and Uruguay, Russian Federal Orchestra in Moscow, St. Petersburg Festival Orchestra, Kharkov Philharmonia in Ukraine, and the National Orchestra of Korea in Seoul, and in the U.S. with the Baltimore, Utah, Virginia, Syracuse, Santa Barbara, Mississippi and Richmond Symphonies, Grand Teton Music and Colorado Bach Festivals, Rochester Philharmonic, and Westminster College, among others. Labelled a Britten specialist by Maestro James Conlon, Frost was invited to serve as associate conductor for his work on Benjamin Britten Operas numerous times including: The Turn of the Screw, Albert Herring, and Billy Budd with Los Angeles Opera and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Curlew River and The Prodigal Son with the Fondazione Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, and The Burning Fiery Furnace with the Ravinia Festival. Last season, he returned to Los Angeles Opera for John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles and il barbiere di Siviglia. In 2015 he led important projects in Los Angeles and New York City. The LA Times commented, “…orchestra and chorus conducted by Douglas Kinney Frost were excellent, and at times it was fun watching Frost with his colorful style of conducting,” about his performances of Figaro 90210. This 21st century update of Mozart’s classic played to sold-out houses and added performances at LA Opera. He also served as Music Director and conductor for a co-production of David Lang’s Difficulty of Crossing a Field for Beth Morrison Projects which received a concert performance in New York and was recorded and released in June 2015 on Cantaloupe Records. The recording is receiving rave mentions including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Philadelphia Examiner.
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Mr. Paul Kirby

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Member Bio Composer/conductor Paul H. Kirby has served as music director and conductor of the Central Iowa Symphony, Iowa State University Symphony, Houston Youth Symphony and Ballet, and several other musical organizations. He holds degrees in music from the City University of New York (Doctor of Musical Arts), the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Rice University, with additional study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has been the recipient of a wide range of commissions including ballet, choral, organ, musical theatre, sonatas, and symphony. His musical arrangements, compositions, discography and resume are listed at http://library.newmusicusa.org/PaulHKirby. He is also keenly interested in supporting his fellow composers. In addition to sharing his financial expertise with the Musicians Club of New York as its Treasurer for almost 20 years, he also served as the first Chairman of the Musicians Club's re-instituted Member/Composers Committee, and has become a regularly featured composer and performer at its annual concert.
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Ms. Mary Kitchens

Orchesterverein Kempten/Allgäu, Rainbow Sound Orchestra Munich, Frauenorchesterprojekt Berlin
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Member Bio Mary Ellen Kitchens was born in Houston, Texas. She began studying piano and cello at an early age. After graduating from high school in New York, she attended Yale University (USA) and completed a year abroad in Paris (École Normale de la Musique, Sorbonne). In 1980 she moved to Munich, where she continued her studies at Ludwig Maximilian University and completed her M.A. in musicology. She also attended courses on conducting with Rodney Wynkoop (Yale), Pierre Dervaux (Paris), Sergiù Celibidache (Munich) and Julius Kalmar (Vienna). From 1984 to 1991, Mary Ellen Kitchens led the Haydn Orchestra in Munich, of which she was co-founder. Since 1991, she has presided over the Kempten / Allgäu Orchestra. In that same year she began her position in the audio archives of Bavarian Radio Broadcasting (BR), which she has led full–time since January 2004. She has been the musical director of the Munich International Choral Society since 1986.
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Jacqueline Klein

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Member Bio In February 2025, Jacqueline served as Assistant Conductor to Jaap van Zweden with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra for a live recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 7, her first project in Asia. She has been an assistant, cover, and clinician across the United States and Mexico, most recently with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra and University of Texas at El Paso. During the 2023-24 season, she performed with the Houston Symphony Chorus under the direction of Dr. Allen Hightower. Equally at home on stage or in the pit, she received numerous accolades for her operatic command at The Dallas Opera's Hart Institute for Women Conductors in 2019 and garnered critical acclaim for conducting a world premiere with the Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet that same year. A Dallas native, Jacqueline made her conducting debut at the age of 17, leading members of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in their annual Music Memory Contest concert in 2014. Jacqueline attended Southern Methodist University as a President’s Scholar, where she earned degrees in Music and Management Science. She studied conducting with Dr. Paul Phillips and was Assistant Conductor to the Meadows Symphony Orchestra during the 2018-19 season. She also attended the University of Oxford as a Visiting Student in 2017, receiving high honors for her research there on the symphony between Beethoven and Mahler. Jacqueline continues her professional development through conducting workshops and masterclasses around the world with renowned maestros such as Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Larry Rachleff, and Donald Schleicher.
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Dr. Lonnie Klein

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Member Bio In addition to an extensive regular concert season with the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Lonnie Klein has guest conducted regularly with orchestras in Mexico, Canada, Italy, Germany and Turkey as well as orchestras in the United States. Last season Klein guest conducted on two occasions the Orquesta Filarmonica del Estado de Chihuahua in Mexico, the Europa Philharmonie in Germany and the Orchestra Sinfonica Della Provincia in Italy. Other European concerts include conducting the Milano Classico Orchestra on two separate occasions in Milan and Las Spezia and the Solisti di Perugia Orchestra in the Piazza Novembre in a concert entitled “A Night Under the Stars” in which over 12,000 people were in attendance. In May 2004 and March, 2005, Klein conducted concerts in Adana, Turkey with the Cukurova Devlet Senfona Orkestra which were broadcast live on Turkish television. As a POPS conductor, Maestro Klein has produced and conducted concerts with such celebrated artists as Doc Severinsen, Mariachi Cobre, The Temptations, The Contours, The Dukes of Dixieland, 5 By Design, The Beatles, Sandi Patti, Lee Greenwood and Daniel Rodriquez. Lonnie Klein is committed to performing music of our time. Since his appointment the LCSO has given world premiers of new music especially commissioned for the orchestra. Noted composers include Peter Inness (England), Reinhard Seehafer (Germany), Oliver Payan (Mexico), Joan Tower (American) Bill McGlaughlin (American) Steve Chatman (Canada) and slated for the 2008-09 season, Joseph Schwanter. In 2005 and 2007 the LCSO was featured on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, which was heard in all fifty states and Sirius Radio. In June 2006, Klein was asked by Joan Tower to talk about the LCSO performance of her new work Made in America at the American Symphony Orchestra Leagues annual conference in Los Angeles. From his inaugural concert with the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra at New Mexico State University in October 1999, Maestro Lonnie Klein has led the orchestra to new levels of artistic excellence, with high audience acclaim, rave reviews and nine consecutive seasons of sold out concerts! James Houlik, renowned saxophonist, described Lonnie’s energy and vision “as a one man ant hill!” Klein’s spirited vision includes a deep commitment to education and community. Under his leadership and guidance the LCSO has expanded its outreach programs for young and old. Lonnie Klein holds a Doctorate in Performance from the University of Illinois, a Master of Music from Michigan State University, and
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