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Mr. Ronald Atienza

Student University of Texas At Arlington
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Dr. Matthew Aubin

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Member Bio A passionate advocate for American and contemporary music, Matthew Aubin has conducted and performed internationally from Carnegie Hall to the Musikverein and many stops in between. Currently in his third season as Music Director of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Aubin also serves as Artistic Director for The Chelsea Symphony in New York City. He regularly serves as a conductor and consultant for film and television including collaborations with the Golden Globe award-winning television series Mozart in the Jungle, Younger, and feature films Joker and Bel Canto. Upcoming engagements include the Symphonic Orchestra of the Teatro de Paz in Brazil, Washington State University, The Hartt School, and an orchestral recording project of the concerti of French composer Fernande Breilh-Decruck featuring soloists from the New York Philharmonic and President’s Own Marine Band, amongst others.
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Michael Avagliano

Summit Symphony Orchestra
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Member Bio Michael Avagliano has created a multifaceted career as conductor, performer, and educator. He serves as music director of the Central Jersey Symphony and the Summit Symphony, and is on the faculty of Drew University as director of the University Orchestra and violin professor. Mr. Avagliano is increasingly in demand as a guest conductor in the New York area and beyond. Recent and upcoming appearances include the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Light Opera of New Jersey, the Newburgh Symphony, the University of Oregon Symphony, the YPHIL International Youth Philharmonic, the Scuola Popolare di Testaccio in Rome, the Plainfield Symphony, and the Northern Dutchess Symphony. Under his leadership, the Central Jersey Symphony has drawn acclaim for a transformation in artistic achievement from audiences and critics alike. In the 2014 season, Mr. Avagliano conducted the orchestra’s first opera performances, collaborating with Light Opera of New Jersey for a fully staged production of Die Zauberflöte, followed by Donizetti's Don Pasquale in 2016 and Daughter of the Regiment in 2018. The CJSO also presented Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake with FM Dance Company. Previously, the orchestra was a runner-up for The American Prize, awarded each year for excellence in orchestral performance.
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Dr. Ricardo Averbach

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Member Bio Now celebrating his 16th year as Director of Orchestral Studies at Miami University of Ohio, Brazilian conductor Ricardo Averbach has also served as President of the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA) and guest conductor of orchestras in Bulgaria, Russia, Portugal, Italy, Luxembourg, France, Azerbaijan, China, Brazil, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Japan, India, Armenia and the United States. His concerts have been broadcast on radio and television in over 50 countries. As a dedicated advocate of contemporary music, Dr. Averbach has performed and recorded several world premieres for major labels, which have sold more than half a million copies around the globe. The American Prize recognized his work in the College/University Division in three different categories: Winner of the 2010 American Prize in Conducting (runner-up in 2016), runner-up in the 2010 American Prize in Orchestral Performance with the Oxford Chamber Orchestra and finalist in the 2016 American Prize in Orchestral Performance with the University Symphony Orchestra. A recipient of the 1st Honor Diploma at the 2010 Masterplayers International Music Competition in Lugano, Switzerland, Ricardo Averbach previously worked as Music Director of the Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de São Paulo in Brazil, the Echternach International Music Festival Orchestra in Luxembourg, and the University of Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble in Philadelphia. He worked with Sergiu Celibidache at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany, Gennady Rozhdestvensky at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Italy and received the Maurice Abravanel Fellowship at the 1992 Tanglewood Music Festival. Residing in Oxford since 2002, Ricardo Averbach has been promoting the arts in the state of Ohio by collaborating with world renowned composers, soloists and musicians, participating in multidisciplinary projects, taking his students on tours nationally and abroad, commissioning Ohio composers, and serving in the Committee for the Arts and Innovative Thinking of the Ohio Department of Education. Averbach is passionate about working in a university environment, and challenging his students to think out of the box and use music as a tool for civil engagement, cultural erudition and artistic refinement.
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David Avshalomov

Composer/Guest Conductor
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Member Bio A third-generation American composer and conductor based in Santa Monica, David Avshalomov is also an accomplished bass vocalist. He composes in an accessible neo-tonal, modern Romantic style that balances a lyric gift with characteristic rhythmic vitality and pungent harmonies. His influences include the great 20th-century tonal composers (plus his late father Jacob and grandfather Aaron). He has written for forces ranging from solo instruments to full orchestra, band, and chorus, from songs and incidental pieces to full-length oratorio, with an increasing number of regional commissions. Currently he is writing his second opera. His music has been performed professionally across the US, in Europe, Russia, South America, and the Far East, and recorded on Albany and Naxos. He has won numerous grants and competitions, most recently The American Prize for Band Composition (1st Place 2015, 2nd Place 2016, 3rd Place 2014, and frequent Finalist in other categories); the 2016 IOCSF Choral Composition Competition (First Place), Five VoxNovus 15 Minutes of Fame awards, Honored Artist of the American Prize 2014, a 2013 ACDA Silver Platter Award for Choral Composition, and a 2012 Special Judges’ Citation for Unique Artistic Achievement and Distinctive Merit from the American Prize for Orchestral Composition. He earned his B.A in Music at Harvard and a D.M.A. in conducting (Krachmalnick) and composition (Bergsma, Verrall, Suderberg) at the University of Washington, studied at Aspen (Morel, Blomstedt, Torkanowsky, Jones [composition]), and Tanglewood (Bernstein, Schuller, Ozawa), was music director of several US orchestras and choruses on both coasts, guest conducted widely, has toured in Europe and the Far East, and recorded orchestral music by his grandfather Aaron in Moscow for Naxos. His conducting work has garnered frequent listings in Who's Who in Music and Who's Who in the West.
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Louis Babin

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Member Bio Louis Babin’s work has been acclaimed in Canada and abroad. His 2015 album features his symphonic piece Saint Exupery : of Heart, of Sand and of Soul, an homage to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the publication of which was supported by the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation. The album received outstanding reviews: “particularly elegant and full of tenderness” (Sonograma), “hauntingly beautiful” (Music & Vision), “…some fine music by a composer we should be hearing more from” (The WholeNote), and “creativity and colours that charm the listener immediately” (La Scena Musicale). Many music ensembles and performers have commissioned or performed Louis Babin’s works, including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Chamber Orchestra, McGill Chamber Orchestra, Laval Symphony Orchestra, Eurochestries Festivals (China and Europe), Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de Strasbourg, the Molinari Quartet, the American Festival of Microtonal Music and the South Bay Philharmonic in the U.S.A., and the French violinist Marie Cantagrill (France), to name a few. Louis Babin is known for his modern, playful, accessible, and cinematographic works. He received a special mention from the World Music Competition IBLA Grand Prize (Italy) and was a finalist in the Canadian Music Centre Composer Competition – Quebecor. His musical and teaching skills, combined to his showmanship are what makes him a sought-after musical director. In addition to his directing work in recording studios, Louis Babin has conducted many musical ensembles in Canada, China, and France. He currently conducts two choirs: Ô Choeur du Nord and Les Chanteurs de la Place Bourget.
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Mrs. Ellen Bacon

Ernst Bacon Society
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Member Bio American composer Ernst Bacon was born in Chicago on May 26, 1898. A recipient of three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Award for his First Symphony, his body of works includes symphonies, piano concertos, chamber music, ballets, and more than 250 songs, as well as several books about music. Bacon's music reflects the dual heritage of his Austrian mother and American father. While influenced by the 19th century classical tradition of Schubert and Brahms, it also reveals the strength and vitality of his American roots. 2 With his father, Charles Sumner Bacon, in about 1903 As a composer, Bacon belonged to no “school” and followed no fads. He was largely self-taught in composition, except for two years study with Karl Weigl in Vienna. While there, he experienced the depression of post-war Europe first hand, and concluded that the European avant-garde movement, reflecting the pessimism of that era and locale, was not appropriate to America. Returning to Chicago, he set out to write music that expressed the vitality and affirmation of our own country. 12 In New York City with (possibly) Karl Weigl in about 1938 At the age of nineteen, while majoring in mathematics at Northwestern University, Bacon published a complex treatise exploring all possible harmonies. However, when he began to compose music in his twenties, he rejected a cerebral approach, taking the position that music is an art, not a science. He felt that its source should be intuitive and imaginative, rather than abstract and analytical. His chief aim as a composer was to express the spirit of America in music as Whitman, Emerson, Melville and others did in literature. He was deeply interested in our country's history and folklore, as well as its indigenous music; and the poetry, folk songs, jazz rhythms and geography of America as well as the landscape itself, which he hiked, climbed, and also painted -- all of these elements found their way into his music. Mntn In the Sierra Nevada, about 1930 Among the American artists who influenced him was his lifelong friend, Ansel Adams. Ernst and Ansel met in the 1920s and shared a love of music and mountaineering, along with a passionate concern for the environment. In an age of specialists, these two had the wide-angled vision of Renaissance men. The grandeur and rugged beauty that Adams captured so eloquently in the light and shadow of his photographs is reflected in the tones of Ernst's elegy, Remembering Ansel Adams. Sandburg Far left unknown; middle left, Mary Prentice Lillie Bacon (Ernst's first wife), middle right, Ernst Bacon; and far right, Carl Sandberg About 1927 Others who influenced him included Carl Sandburg (pictured above with Ernst in the late '20s) Thornton Wilder, and Roland Hayes. Bacon's music expresses the common touch and humor of Sandburg; the profound simplicity of Wilder; and the melodic beauty that Roland Hayes expressed so movingly in his singing.
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Virginia Bacon

Duke University
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Jason Baker

Maryland Opera Studio
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Member Bio American conductor, coach, pianist and administrator J. Bradley Baker enjoys a versatile career both in and out of the concert hall, currently serving as Director of the Maryland Opera Studio at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland; Principal Coach on the Music Staff of The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New York; and Co-Founding Executive & Music Director of Music On Site in Wichita, Kansas. In addition to his ongoing work with Maryland Opera Studio, The Glimmerglass Festival, and Music On Site, Baker has worked on operatic productions with Opera Naples, Wichita Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Orange County, Opera Arlington, Landlocked Opera, Chicago Summer Opera, Opera Seme, Natchez Festival of Music, Opera Birmingham, LOLA-Austin, Franco-American Vocal Academy, Tabor College Opera, and the University of Alabama Opera Theatre. Baker has collaborated with many noted international opera artists, including Samuel Ramey, Greer Grimsley, Jill Grove, Eve Gigliotti, Michelle Bradley, Michael Sylvester, Yongzhou Yu and Issachah Savage. Dedicated to training the next generation of opera artists and bringing opera to new audiences, Baker is the Executive and Music Director of Music On Site, Inc. (MOSI), an opera company in Central Kansas that he co-founded with his wife, opera singer and stage director Jen Stephenson. MOSI’s mission is to increase the accessibility of opera by producing engaging performances at low or no cost for underserved communities and providing high quality training and opportunities for promising emerging and early-career opera artists. Since 2016, Music On Site has performed for more than 20,000 individuals through its free-admission performances of professional opera productions throughout Central Kansas, particularly focusing their efforts on rural locations with limited or no access to the arts. Since its first production in 2017 featuring six singing-actors, Music On Site’s Winter Opera Festival has grown to be one of the largest opera festivals in the country, welcoming more than 150 artists annually, including pianists, conductors, stage directors, orchestral musicians and production interns. Alumni of Music On Site have continued on to success at such prestigious programs as the Merola Opera Program, The Glimmerglass Festival, Wolf Trap, Des Moines Metro Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Scottish Opera, Houston Grand Opera and HGO Studio, The Metropolitan Opera, Dallas Opera, Utah Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City, among many others. More information on Music On Site can be found at www.musiconsite.org. As a collaborative pianist and chamber musician, Baker has presented nearly 300 collaborative recitals throughout the United States, Canada, France, and Italy, and has performed at many international and national conferences and festivals, including those of the International Double Reed Society, International Women’s Brass Conference, National Trumpet Competition, Hot Springs Music Festival, North American Viola Institute, Ad Astra Music Festival, National Opera Association, ClarinetFest, CollabFest, College Music Society, National Association of College Wind & Percussion Instructors, Music Teachers National Association and the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Chamber music coaches include Elizabeth DeMio, Anita Pontremoli, Virginia Weckstrom, Paul Kantor, Yi-Fang Huang and Cleveland Quartet founding member Peter Salaff. From 2016 to 2021, Baker was the principal pianist and celesta for the Wichita Symphony Orchestra (KS). Prior to his appointment in Wichita Symphony, Baker also held orchestral keyboard roles at Hot Springs Music Festival (AR), Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra (AL) and Cleveland Institute of Music (OH). An avid scholar and academic in service to the musical community, Dr. Baker currently serves as Co-Chair of the Pianists and Conductors Committee for the National Opera Association. His research has been presented multiple times at the national conference of the National Opera Association, at Collabfest, and he has coauthored articles featured in the NATS Journal of Singing and NOA Now. From 2029–2021, Baker served as President of the Kansas Music Teachers Association and was awarded the 2021 KMTA Service Award for his years of service to the organization. Valued for his contributions to student learning, Baker was awarded the university-wide Outstanding Junior Faculty Award during his second year of employment at Tarleton State University (TX), and he has been invited to present masterclasses at many music schools through the US, including The University of North Texas, Baylor University, The University of Colorado at Boulder, The University of Arkansas, Kansas State University, The University of Missouri and Florida State University, among others.
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Mr. Oliver Balaburski

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Member Bio Oliver Balaburski began his music education at the age of ten in Macedonia studying violin and piano. He attended the Music Ballet High School Centre to study music and became interested in composing and conducting. In 1995 Oliver graduated in orchestral and choral conducting at the University of "Sts Cyril and Methodius" in the class of Prof. Fimcho Muratovski and Prof. Dragan Shuplevski. Supported and mentored by maestro Vancho Chavdarski, he began his successful conducting career at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet. Oliver was awarded a scholarship from the Macedonian government to specialize in conducting and in 1999 was awarded the Norman Del Mar Junior Fellowship in Conducting at the Royal College of Music in London, UK, where he specialized in symphonic repertoire under the mentorship of Prof. John Carewe. His residence allowed him to actively participate in Master Classes with distinguished conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas and Sir Roger Norrington. Returning home, Oliver was appointed as Artistic Director of the Macedonian Opera and Ballet and until 2004 was Principal Conductor of the Opera Company. That year, in search of greater opportunities, he immigrated to Canada, where he completed his Master’s Degree in Conducting at the University of Toronto in 2008 mentored by Prof. Raffi Armenian. Oliver has held the position of Conductor of the Hart House Chamber Strings at the University of Toronto, Assistant Conductor with Royal Opera Canada, Conductor of the Orillia Youth Orchestra, and Artistic Director and Conductor of the City of Barrie Choralfest. In his conducting career, Oliver Balaburski had opportunities to become involved in music making in different genres equally, opera, symphonic, chamber and even in the characteristic Silent Movie performances. He always embraces the challenge of performing to the full artistic capacity of the ensemble he is leading. In the past few years, he emerged in the field of composing and as a result in 2014 he had a World Premiere of his first major piece, a Musical Narration in 5 parts " Sadie's Door" with the story written by Edward Moll and in 2017 he had a world premiere of his Rhapsody for Orchestra "Bagosenim" (There is Hope) piece inspired by Indigenous peoples folklore, history and struggles. He is the recipient of many awards and recognitions such as: • Newcomer Recognition Award- Immigrant Artist by County of Simcoe, Ontario, Canada • Recognition Of Outstanding Service by Hart House, University of Toronto • The Arthur Plettner Graduate Fellowship, University of Toronto • The University of Toronto Fellowship • The Norman Del Mar Junior Fellowship at the Royal College of Music, London, United Kingdom • A Scholarship from the Macedonian Government for Specialization in Conducting • A Macedonian National Scholarship for Talented Students Oliver is currently a freelance conductor with regular guest conducting engagements at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet as well as the Greater Toronto Philharmonic.
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