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Jason Love

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Member Bio Conductor and cellist Jason Love leads the Columbia Orchestra in his twenty-fourth year as Music Director, the fourth person to have held that post in its forty-five seasons. Praised for his “intelligent and innovative programming,” the Baltimore Sun has called the orchestra “Howard County’s premier ensemble for instrumental music,” noting that “Love has the musicians playing not only with verve and passion, but with an awareness to enter into the emotional core of the works they perform.” He has received many recognitions including the American Prize for Orchestral Programming, a Peabody Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Music in Maryland, and a “Howie” Award recognizing achievement in the arts in Howard County, Maryland. Love was Artistic Director of the Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestras (now the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras) for thirteen years, and Music Director of the New Horizons Chamber Ensemble, a new-music group, for five. He has guest conducted a wide variety of ensembles such as the Baltimore Symphony, Washington Sinfonietta, Hopkins Chamber Orchestra, Bismarck-Mandan Symphony, Maryland Classic Youth Chamber Orchestra, and RUCKUS, a contemporary music ensemble at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he taught conducting for seven years. As a cellist Mr. Love has performed a wide array of concertos with orchestras. In 2019 he gave the U.S. premiere of Guillaume Connesson's Cello Concerto and previously played the North Carolina premiere of Tan Dun’s multi-media concerto, The Map. In recent seasons he has performed Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1 with Piedmont Symphony, the Dvořák Concerto with the Frederick Symphony, and concertos by Haydn and Boccherini with the Columbia Summer Strings. His many chamber recitals include work with the Columbia Orchestra Piano Trio featuring Concertmaster Brenda Anna and pianist Nancy Smith, and the Franklin-Love Duo with pianist Rachel Franklin. A highly respected educator, Mr. Love spends part of each summer conducting at the Baltimore String Orchestra Camp and recently joined the faculty of Play Week Maryland. In his eleven years on the faculty of the Governor’s School of North Carolina he taught Twentieth-Century music, philosophy, and other subjects to academically gifted high school students. He led the McDaniel Orchestra Camp in Westminster, MD for five years and conducted the Repertory Orchestra of the Chesapeake Youth Symphony in Annapolis, MD for four. He has adjudicated and guest conducted at music festivals around the country. Born in Burlington, North Carolina, Love studied violoncello with Ronald Thomas and conducting with Frederik Prausnitz at the Peabody Conservatory. He is a Past President of the Peabody Alumni Association. His website is www.jasonlovemusic.com.
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Dr. Matthew Lovelace

Fort Worth Medical Orchestra
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Member Bio Matthew Lovelace currently serves as Director of Orchestras at The Colony High School in Lewisville ISD. He is a student of Dr. Germán Gutiérrez at Texas Christian University and will graduate with a Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting in May. He also serves as the inaugural conductor of the Fort Worth Medical Orchestra, the first ensemble of its type in the DFW area, dedicated to connecting those in the medical profession through music. He was named a finalist for the 2021 American Prize in Conducting – College/University Orchestra Division. He previously served as Music Director for Texas Hill Country Opera and Arts where he conducted annual performances of the company’s New Year’s Eve production of Die Fledermaus. Additionally, he conducted the world premiere of the chamber version of the one act opera Lady Bird: First Lady of the Land by composer Henry Mollicone and librettist Sheldon Harnick. Before attending TCU, he was a public-school orchestra director for five years. Previous conducting posts include Orchestra Director of the Trinity University Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the University of Texas at San Antonio Symphony. Lovelace earned a Master of Music in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Texas at San Antonio where he studied conducting with Eugene Dowdy and violin with Stephanie Westney. His undergraduate degree is from Tarleton State University where he studied percussion with Rich Bahner and piano with Leslie Spotz. Before beginning graduate studies at TCU, he was active as an actor and music director at Circle Arts Theatre in New Braunfels, TX. He is an inaugural member of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts Leadership Council of Tarleton State University and a member of Pi Kappa Lambda.
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Mr. James Lowe

Spokane Symphony
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Jia Lu

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Member Bio Lü Jia, currently Artistic Director of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing and Music Director of the China NCPA Orchestra, has served as Music Director of the Arena di Verona, Artistic Director of the Santa Cruz De Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Macau Orchestra and the Trieste Opera. Lü Jia has conducted over 2,000 symphonic concerts and opera performances across Europe, Asia and the United States. He has collaborated with renowned theaters and symphony orchestras, including Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Accademia di Santa Cecilia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Lyon National Orchestra and many others. Acclaimed opera director, Lü Jia has conducted over fifty productions internationally. The first Asian conductor appointed music director at an Italian national opera house, he has been praised by critics as “a conductor who has a deeper understanding of Italian operas than the Italians themselves.” In 1989 he he was awarded the First Prize and Jury Prize at the Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition in Trento. In 2007, the President of the Italian Republic awarded Lü Jia the “Premio del Presidente” for his outstanding contribution to Italian culture. In the same year, the production of “La gazza ladra” conducted by him at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the composer’s hometown, was named “Opera Production of the Year” in Europe.
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Melissa Luck

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Fabio Luisi

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Member Bio GRAMMY® Award-winner Fabio Luisi launched his tenure as Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) at the start of the 2020/21 season. In January 2021, the DSO and Luisi announced an extension of the Music Director contract through the 2028/29 season. A maestro of major international standing, the Italian conductor embarks on his ninth and final season as General Music Director of the Zurich Opera and his fifth as Principal Conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. He previously served for six seasons as Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. Fabio Luisi’s 2020/21 programs in Dallas and for the DSO’s NEXT STAGE platform include revised repertoire for smaller ensembles reflecting the realities and health considerations required for live performance in the age of COVID. Pianist Yefim Bronfman joined Luisi and the DSO for an all-Beethoven program; mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford and tenor Stuart Skelton appeared as soloists in a chamber version of Mahler’s The Song of the Earth; and a celebration of the operas of Giuseppe Verdi—Luisi has won wide acclaim for his performances of the great Italian composer’s music—featured soprano Angela Meade, mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton and tenor Bryan Hymel. In five spring programs, Luisi will conduct music by Beethoven, Bizet, Mahler (the chamber version of the Fourth Symphony), Richard Strauss (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite) and concertos with violinists Leonidas Kavakos and DSO Concertmaster Alexander Kerr, the pianist Alessandro Taverna, and the world premiere of Angélica Negrón’s En otro noche, en otro mundo (On Another Night, In Another World). Last season, Luisi led a concert performance of Richard Strauss’s opera Salome and Alpine Symphony, the Dallas premieres of Fountain of Youth by DSO composer-in-residence Julia Wolfe and Aureole by Augusta Read Thomas. Beyond Dallas this season, Luisi will finish his tenure at the Zurich Opera with Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra with Christian Gerhaher in the title role and Jennifer Rowley as Amelia. With the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, where his contract was recently extended until 2026, Luisi will conduct a wide range of repertoire, with a special focus on music by Danish composers of the past and present, especially works by Nielsen and Langgaard as well as Abrahamsen and Sørensen. Luisi’s appearances as guest conductor will include several concerts with the Filarmonica della Scala, Philadelphia Orchestra and NHK Tokyo, as well as concerts with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra that include taking the orchestra to the Mahler Festival in Leipzig in May 2021. Last season, Luisi conducted Richard Strauss’s Arabella in Zurich in a new staging by Robert Carsen. He also returned to the Paris Opera for Aribert Reimann’s Lear and Verdi’s Don Carlo with Roberto Alagna and Michael Fabiano sharing the title role.
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Mr. Ming Luke

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Member Bio With the “energy, creativity and charisma not seen since Leonard Bernstein” and “vibrant,” “mind-blowing,” and “spectacular” conducting, Ming Luke is a versatile conductor that has excited audiences around the world. Highlights include conducting the Bolshoi Orchestra in Moscow, performances of Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella at the Kennedy Center, his English debut at Sadler’s Wells with Birmingham Royal, conducting Dvorak’s Requiem in Dvorak Hall in Prague, recording scores for a Coppola film, and over a hundred performances at the San Francisco War Memorial with San Francisco Ballet. The 20-21 season Luke conducts San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, and at Classical Tahoe with musicians of the Met Opera Orchestra. He has been recognized nationally for his work with music education and has designed and conducted education concerts and programs with organizations such as the Berkeley Symphony, Houston Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, San Francisco Opera and others. Luke has soloed as a pianist with Pittsburgh Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, and San Francisco Ballet, and currently serves as Music Director for the Merced Symphony and Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra; Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Nashville Ballet, Associate Conductor for the Berkeley Symphony; and Principal Guest Conductor for the San Francisco Ballet. Long time critic Allan Ulrich of the San Francisco Chronicle said, “Ming Luke delivered the best live theater performance I’ve ever heard of [Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet]” and in 2016 Luke’s War Requiem was named best choral performance of 2016 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Passionate about collaboration with dance companies and deepening the impact of movement to live music, Luke has guested with Boston Ballet, New York City Ballet Orchestra, Nashville Symphony/Ballet, San Diego Ballet and others and conducted l’Orchestre Prométhée in Paris as part of San Francisco Ballet’s residency with Les Etés de la Danse. Famed dancer Natalia Makarova stated, “Ming has a mixture of pure musicality and a sensitivity to needs of the dancers, which are such rare qualities.” Luke has written, arranged, and performed over 150 education concerts with the Berkeley Symphony and has served on grant panels for the National Endowment of the Arts and the Grants and Cultural Committee of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. An exciting pops conductor, Luke has created and conducted a variety of pops concerts in many venues, from baseball stadiums, to picnics in the park with over 4,000 people in attendance, traditional concert halls and recording for Major League Baseball. Ming Luke holds a Master of Fine Arts in Conducting from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and Piano Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College of Rider University.
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Michael Luxner

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Member Bio Michael Luxner retired in 2016. His conducting career included Music Directorships of regional orchestras in Georgia, Kentucky, and Illinois, freelance work in ballet, music theater, and contemporary ensembles, and guest engagements in Italy, France, and Egypt. Dr. Luxner studied conducting principally with Charles Bruck at the Monteux School in Maine and in Paris, and received his formal education at the Eastman School. He is a former officer and Board member of the International Conductors Guild.
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Yunn-Shan Ma

Rochester Institute of Technology; Genesee Valley Orchestra and Chorus
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Member Bio Taiwan native Yunn-Shan Ma is active as a conductor, pianist, and educator in both America and Asia. Praised as being “extremely musical” and “having the gift of keeping the orchestra tight with her hands,” Ma’s range of conducting experience bridges the gap between professional, semi-professional, collegiate, and youth ensembles. With a passion for orchestral, operatic, choral, and contemporary repertoire, Ma has guest conducted select performances across Europe, Asia, and North America, including the Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok in Hungary; Cadaques Orchestra in Spain; North Czech Orchestra in the Czech Republic; Taipei Civic Orchestra; Evergreen Symphony Orchestra; and the Chin-Yun Choir in Taiwan. US engagements include the New York State Ballet; Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra; Genesee Symphony Orchestra; Greater Rochester Women’s Philharmonic; Geneva Light Opera; Syracuse Vocal Ensemble; Eastman School Symphony Orchestra; Eastman-Rochester Chorus; Eastman Chorale; and Eastman’s new music ensemble OSSIA. As co-founder and music director of the chamber vocal ensemble F-Sharp in Taipei, Ma led the ensemble to win the Gold Medal First Prize in the Sacred Music category, and the Gold Medal Third Prize for Mixed Choir category at the Taipei International Choral Competition in 2018. Both on and off stage, Ma is committed to bringing new light to existing musical works. She is equally eager to present orchestral live performances in an interdisciplinary manner, incorporating new media, visual content, and special themes to interact with musicians and audiences. At the Rochester Institution of Technology, Ma has collaborated with specialists from the fields of AR/VR, Audio Engineering, Film and Animation, Illustration, Game Design, Modern Languages, and Museum Studies. A devoted educator, Ma has served as a frequent guest clinician and adjudicator at competitions and festivals. She has been on the faculty of the Taipei International Choral Festival since 2015, led the Monroe All-County Senior High School Orchestra in 2018, and will direct the Monroe All-County Junior High School Orchestra in March, 2022. Under her astute leadership, the RIT Philharmonic Orchestra was awarded an Honorable Mention in Orchestra Performance at the American Prize 2021, while Ma herself has been a finalist in the Conducting Competition and a semifinalist for the Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award for Conductors' Orchestral Programming. Ma received her Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music following conducting, piano, and violin performance education at the National Taiwan Normal University and the pre-college division of the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria. Her current conducting positions include Music Director of the RIT Philharmonic Orchestra; Music Director of the St. Kateri Parish in Irondequoit NY; and Music and Artistic Director of the Taiwanese Choral Society of Rochester.
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Ziwei Ma

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