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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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Joseph Kneer

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Member Bio Conductor, violinist, and composer Joseph Kneer currently serves as Associate Professor of Music and Conductor of the Trinity Symphony Orchestra at Trinity University, Conductor of the Campanile Orchestra at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and Music Director of Alamo City Symphony Viva. Under Joseph’s artistic leadership, both Symphony Viva and the Trinity Symphony Orchestra were named finalists in their respective categories for the 2024 American Prize in Orchestral Performance. Winner of the 34th International Conductors Workshop and Competition (Atlanta) as well as recipient of the Audience Choice Award and Third Prize at the 2023 Los Angeles Conducting Competition, Kneer has previously led several orchestras and ensembles, including the Oberlin Chamber Players, the Mercyhurst String Ensemble and Mercyhurst Civic Orchestra, and the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Chancel Choir in Baltimore. At home in concert, ballet, and operatic repertoire, Joseph’s recent conducting engagements and collaborations include Dvořák’s Violin Concerto with Jinjoo Cho, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with pianist Carolyn True, Poulenc’s Gloria with the San Antonio Choral Society and his wife, soprano Lydia Beasley, a period production of Dido and Aeneas with Trinity’s Opera Workshop, a mariachi program with the award-winning ensemble Campanas de America, Symphony Viva’s ballet productions of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and the U.S. premiere of Eloise Gynn’s Little Red Riding Hood with Alamo City Dance Company, and several world premieres, including Roger Zare’s commissioned work Neowise in May 2021. In demand as a guest conductor and competition judge, Joseph leads a full slate of concerts and ballet performances during the 2024-2025 season, including complete productions of The Nutcracker and Coppélia. Conducting mentors include Larry Rachleff, Donald Schleicher, Neil Thomson, Scott Weiss, John Farrer, Howard Williams, Phillip Greenberg, Adrian Gnam, and Gregory Pritchard. Kneer’s compositions include works for voice and piano, choir, and orchestra. His commissioned work “To Hope” for a cappella chorus was premiered by the Menomonie Singers in 2023. Joseph’s orchestral holiday medley A Festival of Carols is available for purchase at Murphy Music Press, and his Rhapsodic Overture for orchestra will be premiered in November of 2024. Joseph holds a B.M. in Violin Performance from Oberlin Conservatory, an M.M. and D.M.A. in Violin Performance from the Peabody Institute, and an M.M. in Theory Pedagogy, also from Peabody. Joseph’s principal violin teachers include Mary West, Milan Vitek, Herbert Greenberg, and Violaine Melançon.
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Douglas Knehans

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Ching Ko

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Leon Kobayashi

University of Minnesota
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Member Bio Outside of VCO, I enjoy listeing to classical music with the score, reading Japanese manga, and watching random YouTube videos.
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