International Conductors Guild

Alex Kravchenko

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Member Bio Orchestra, opera and choral conductor, collaborative pianist and vocal coach, voice teacher, baritone, organist and percussionist. Music director, arts administrator, fundraiser, publisher and business owner. Educator and program developer. Speaks English, French, German and Italian.

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Bradley Krueger

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Member Bio Bradley Krueger, a singer, pianist, trumpet player, and conductor, is an instructor in voice at Lake Michigan College and choir director at the First Presbyterian Church in South Bend, Indiana. He has taught in three academies and a college and university in the Seventh-day Adventist school system. Bradley was born and raised in Maine, the younger of two sons born to Myron and Doris Griffin Krueger. He began his musical studies with his mother, who was his first piano teacher, and would later take lessons in trumpet, voice, and organ. Following graduation from Pine Tree Academy in Maine, he enrolled at Atlantic Union College, where he was a scholarship student. He then transferred to and graduated from Union College. While at AUC Krueger frequently sang tenor and counter-tenor solos not only on campus but, as a member of the choir associated with the New England Youth Ensemble, in well known venues such as Avery Fischer Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York. On three of these occasions, he sang under John Rutter. Upon graduating from Union College, he participated in the Three Choirs Festival at Worcester Cathedral, England, and the International Church Music Festival, with Sir David Willcocks, at Coventry Cathedral, England. Voice teachers have included Ellen Chickering, Richard Conrad, Mark Evans, and Daniel Lynn. While attending an Aspen Music Festival, he studied art song repertoire with Paul Sperry and performed a set of Schumann lieder at Harris Concert Hall. In the summer of 2000 he studied choral Renaissance music under Peter Phillips of the Tallis Scholars, and took a cultural tour of Germany that included attending the Passionsspiele at Oberammergau and the Bachfest at Leipzig, and visiting the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin. During the 2000-20001 school year he served as interim voice instructor and choral assistant at Walla Walla College, now University. Krueger had previously taught at Pine Tree Academy in Maine, South Lancaster Academy in Massachusetts, and at Greater Boston Academy. After leaving WWC, he taught voice at Andrews University, where he completed an M.Mus. in choral conducting. Bradley and his brother, Brendan, have sung in male quartets since they were students at PTA. They continue as first and second tenors, respectively, singing most recently in the Voices of Zion quartet

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Cheuk Nok Francis Ku

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Gert Kumi

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Kelly Kuo

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Member Bio In 2021, Maestro Kelly Kuo was named Associate Artistic Director of American Lyric Theatre and Music Director of the Reno Chamber Orchestra while continuing his duties as Artistic Director of the Oregon Mozart Players. Praised by the Cincinnati Enquirer as “a leader of exceptional musical gifts, who has a clear technique on the podium and an impressive rapport with audiences,” Maestro Kelly Kuo brings a dynamic versatility and nuance to a diverse repertoire, which includes nearly 100 operas and an expansive symphonic repertoire as well. Recent engagements include productions with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Opera Orlando, Opera Columbus, Wolf Trap Opera, the Brevard Music Center, and concerts with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Sunriver Music Festival, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and Ballet Fantastique. Maestro Kuo has served on the conducting staff of Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Pacific, Atlanta Symphony, and Cincinnati Symphony. In 2008, Maestro Kuo became the first conductor of Asian descent to lead a performance at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, making his company debut with Porgy and Bess. He has since returned to lead the Chicago premiere of Charlie Parker’s Yardbird and performances featuring artists of the Ryan Opera Center. Upcoming engagements include a return to Opera Columbus and his debut with the Merola Opera Program, New Orleans Opera, and the Olympia Symphony Orchestra. An Oregon native and recipient of a Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistant Award, Kuo continues to concertize as a keyboardist as the only pianist to have studied with two pupils of the Russian virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz. Maestro Kuo is a distinguished graduate of the University of Oregon, holds a master’s degree in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and is an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera Studio.

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