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Mr. Brad Maffett

Athens Symphony Orchestra - GA
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Member Bio Brad Maffett (M.M.Ed.) was named Conductor at the start of the Athens Symphony’s 45th season. Mr. Maffett served as Assistant Conductor beginning in 2012, as Associate Conductor since 2017, and is in his 11th year as Principal Trombonist. Previously Mr. Maffett performed with the Athens Symphony Chorus and continues to serve as a rehearsal assistant for the Chorus. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Georgia State University in 1996 and his Master of Music Education from The University of Georgia in 2007. He studied conducting with Robert Rumbelow, Jerry Junkin, Donald Hunsberger and Frederick Fennell. Mr. Maffett presently conducts Band and Choir at Franklin County Middle School in Carnesville, Georgia and has previously been conductor for “Musica Fraterna” of the Atlanta Children’s Choir, Local Vocals, and B Natural. His groups have been selected to represent the state of Georgia for the National July 4th Parade and to perform for President George H.W. Bush. He has also been guest conductor for various groups. In addition to his symphonic and choral experience, Mr. Maffett has been involved in all aspects of music from serving as a singing waiter to playing tuba in a polka band.
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Seth Magee

36th Infantry Division Band
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Asieh Mahyar

Pacific Lutheran University
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Member Bio Passionate about performing music from different cultures, Asieh Mahyar serves as the interim Director of Orchestral Studies at Pacific Lutheran University and Symphony Orchestra Conductor at West Seattle Community Orchestra. A Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in Orchestral Conducting at Michigan State University, Ms. Mahyar received her MM in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and her BM in Choral Conducting from Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, Armenia. Coming from Iran and one of the very few female conductors from her country, Ms. Mahyar has broad experience working with ensembles at different labels and countries. Her international experience includes roles as Assistant Conductor at MSU, MI, UMass Amherst, MA, and Tchaikovsky Music College, Armenia, as well as collaborations with professional orchestras like the Grand Rapids Symphony and Mansfield Symphony Orchestra. Her dedication to music education is evident through collaborations with high school Orchestras, festivals and conferences as a clinician and adjudicator including WMEA Conference Junior All-State Orchestra, Lake Stevens HS Solo Ensemble Competition (MPMEA), PLU Invitational High School Orchestra Festival, Mercer Island High School Festival, WA, Warner Middle School Orchestra, MI, Stadium High School Orchestra, WA, Bellevue High School Orchestra, WA, and Curtis Senior High School Orchestra. Ms. Mahyar works equally with instrumental and vocal ensembles and leads full opera productions. Selected for prestigious workshops and conferences, Ms. Mahyar continues to contribute to the global music community, fostering cultural diversity and musical excellence. Ms. Mahyar has been selected to participate in prestigious conducting workshops and conferences including Cabrillo Music Festival with Christian Macelaru and Octavio Más-Arocas, National Music Festival with Richard Rosenberg, Eastern Music Festival with Gerard Schwarz, Conducting Institute with Miguel Hart-Bedoya, Conductors Retreat at Medomak with Kenneth Kiesler, and Choral Conducting Workshop with Antanina Kalechyts.
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Francisco Maia

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Member Bio Francisco R. Maia is a Portuguese conductor and music educator who holds the position of Conducting Fellow of the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra. Francisco holds a Licenciatura degree in Musicology (2016) from FCSH-Nova, in Portugal, as well as a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting (2021) from West Texas A&M University, where he studied conducting under Mark Bartley and music theory from BJ Brooks. Highlights from Francisco’s collegiate career include the Musical Direction of the 2020/21 WTAMU Opera, where he conducted Gilbert & Suillivan’s “HMS Pinafore”. Before moving to the United States, Francisco furthered his studies at the Atlantic Coast Conducting Academy in his native Portugal. He studied conducting under Luis Clemente, Colin Metters and John Trail, and orchestration & score studying under Nuno Peixoto de Pinho and Roberto Fiore. In addition to his duties at the MSO, Francisco is the Director of Orchestras at Boulter Middle School and Tyler High School, in Tyler, TX. He takes pride in involving himself in the surrounding orchestral community, working occasionally with Maestro Felix Torres at the East Texas Youth Orchestra as a cover conductor.
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Gregory Maldonado

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Member Bio Gregory Maldonado is the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Nevada Chamber Orchestra and also served as Guest Conductor of the Nouveau Chamber Ballet and the San Diego Chamber Orchestra. Additionally, he was Principal Conductor and Leader of the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, a critically acclaimed period-instrument ensemble, for nearly two decades. During his tenure with L. A. Baroque, Maestro Maldonado worked with many international artists, such as Christopher Hogwood, Monica Huggett, Ton Koopman, Reinhard Goebel, Trevor Pinnock, and Friedemann Immer. He is an AFM Local 369 member. He has recorded on the Harmonia Mundi, RCM, Centaur, and Rococo labels. Dr, Maldonado holds degrees from USC (D.M.A. in Musicology), CSULB (M.M. in Orchestra Conducting), and UCLA (B.A. in Violin/Viola Performance), as well as a Nevada Department of Education Teaching License in Secondary Education. He has taught for over 25 years at many Universities and Colleges, including University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the College of Southern Nevada, USC, UCLA, CSU Long Beach, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, University of San Diego, and Riverside Community and Long Beach Community Colleges. He is also a Clark County School District Teacher and is currently Director of Orchestras at West Career and Technical Academy, Las Vegas, and served as Director of the Las Vegas Youth Orchestra Concert Strings. Dr. Maldonado has over 35 years’ experience conducting professional ensembles and has performed on the Violin and Viola for over 40 years in many professional orchestras, including Las Vegas Philharmonic, Nevada Pops, Opera Las Vegas, Las Vegas Jazz Connection, Nevada Chamber Symphony, Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society, Las Vegas Camarata, Nevada Symphonic Orchestra, Reno Philharmonic, Reno Opera, Fresno Philharmonic, Fresno Opera, Tuacahn Arts Center Orchestra, Hidden Valley Opera, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Jose Symphonies; Santa Barbara Symphony, Santa Monica Symphony, Los Angeles Sinfonietta, Westside Ballet, Center Stage Opera, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Brandenburg Collegium, Magnificat, Musica Angelica, Santa Fe Pro Musica/Santa Fe Opera, and San Diego Bach Collegium. He also worked as a violinist and violist at The Westgate, Harrah’s Reno/Tahoe, and Fantasy Springs Casino, accompanying popular artists such as Glen Campbell, Carol Channing, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jackie Evancho, Liza Minelli, Frank Sinatra, and Martin Fontaine as Elvis Presley in “The Elvis Experience.”
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Nikolaos Maliaras

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Philip Mann

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Member Bio Hailed by the BBC as a “talent to watch out for, who conveys a mature command of his forces,” American conductor Philip Mann is quickly gaining a worldwide reputation as an “expressively graceful yet passionate” artist with a range spanning symphonic repertoire, opera, new music, and experimental collaborations. As Music Director of the Arkansas Symphony, the state orchestra has seen unprecedented artistic growth, attendance records, construction of a new concert hall, launches of several groundbreaking performance series, expansion of classical programming weeks, the return of fully staged opera to the metropolitan area, 6 consecutive years of financial surplus, and the founding of Arkansas’s first collaborative arts festival-Acansa. His already highly praised Brahms collaboration with the London Symphony and pianist Norman Krieger is scheduled for 2017 release on Decca Records. Elected a Rhodes Scholar, he was also winner of the Vienna Philharmonic’s Karajan Fellowship at the Salzburg Festival, and an American Conducting Fellow. Philip Mann Recent and upcoming engagements with l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sofia Philharmonic, Busan Philharmonic, National Radio Orchestra of Romania, Batumi Festival Orchestra, Voronezh Philharmonic, and major orchestras, operas, and festivals in Europe, USA, and Asia. Mann has been an assistant conductor for performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Previously, the music director of the Oxford City Opera and Oxford Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, he has also held conducting positions with the Indianapolis Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and Music in the Mountains Festival. As the Associate Conductor of San Diego Symphony, Mann performed hundreds of critically acclaimed performances including a Strauss/Debussy/Mozart program where the Union Tribune raved, “Mann was masterful… a skilled musical architect, designing and executing a beautifully paced interpretation, which seemed to spring from somewhere deep within the music rather than superimposed upon it.” Mann’s Canadian debut with l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec, was dubbed by Le Soleil as a “Tour de Force,” and produced an immediate reengagement. Other recent engagements include Georgian State Opera, National Symphony of Cyprus, Phoenix Symphony, Sarasota Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Symphony in C, and the New Mexico, Tulsa, and Voronezh Philharmonic. Mann has worked with leading artists such as Joshua Bell, Sharon Isbin, Dmitri Alexeev, Midori, Marvin Hamlisch and given premiers of major composers including John Corigliano, Jennifer Higdon, Samuel Adler, Michael Torke, Lucas Richman, Christopher Theofanidis and many others. He maintains a lively schedule as a guest conductor having conducted multiple sell-outs at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fischer Hall and London’s Barbican Center.
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Dr. Sylvia Mann

Southland Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and La Verne Symphony Orchestra
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Member Bio Dr. Sylvia Lee Mann - composer, conductor, violist, educator, and performer, appears with many musical ensembles in the Southern California area and across the nation. Currently a faculty member at Chaffey College and the University of La Verne, Dr. Mann has also served at CSU Dominguez Hills, St. Teresa Open Catholic Seminary, and Centenary College of Louisiana. Dr. Mann is the Pastor & Minister of Music at Bethel Congregational Church, UCC of Ontario, CA. She is the Music Director & Conductor of the Southland Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Temecula Valley Jr. Youth Symphony, La Verne Symphony Orchestra. and a popular guest conductor throughout Southern California. In addition, Sylvia is honored to be a featured guest conductor at Carnegie Hall (New York City) Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage for the 42nd season of MidAmerica Productions International NY. She will be conducting a special concert in the Spring of 2025. During the COVID-19 crisis and quarantine, in partnership with MUSICO, Dr. Mann developed a robust online music learning and performance system for all of her orchestras, musical ensemble, and private students. They produced virtual performances throughout the quarantine. Having begun her musical studies at age 4, and professional activities at age 14, Sylvia completed undergraduate studies at Chapman, and graduate studies at the University of Southern California & London University. As a violist and violinist, she studied with many distinguished teachers, tracing the pedagogical line back to Ivan Galamian. As a composer, her mentors include William Kraft, Gunther Schuller, and Samuel Adler. Her conducting studies included such notable pedagogues as John Koshak, Hans Beer, Daniel Lewis, James Vail, Rodney Eichenberger, Gunther Schuller, and Neville Mariner. Originally from Los Angeles, Dr. Mann resided in Louisiana from 1987 - 2002, where she served as the principal violist of the Shreveport Symphony, the Baroque Artists of Shreveport and violist of the Premier String Quartet, and was the Director of the Ark-La-Tex Youth Symphony Orchestra program. She also enjoyed performing with the popular all-woman rock band, “Lip Service” and was the recipient of the Shreveport LA Regional Arts Council’s prestigious Music Fellowship Award. Sylvia’s music is heard on the concert stage, in film, television, and media outlets. Works have also been commissioned and performed by many orchestras, and she was featured in the Culver City Symphony’s historic concert, “The American Beat - Women Composers”. Dr. Mann and her orchestras have been recognized by the City of Ontario, the City of West Covina, Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties, and have received citations from the U.S. Congress. The Los Angeles County Fair recognized her as a “Community Hero” for her work in the arts, and she received “Woman of the Year in the Arts” awards from the California State Legislature and the US House of Representatives. She has also received multiple awards from CSU system for her scholarship, research and creative activities, as well as for her outstanding participation in the CSU Affordable Learning Solutions Initiative and contribution to student learning. She is an ACME Honoree of Mu Phi Epsilon. To see her in action - here is a link to a brief video with some pics and media clips! https://vimeo.com/734507588 More information about Dr. Mann, her performances, appearances and original compositions can be found at https://sylvialeemann.com
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Mr. Paul Manz

Danville Symphony Orchestra
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Member Bio Paul Manz is a native of Phoenix, moving to Prescott, AZ in 1965. Paul received his Bachelor of Music Education and Masters in Orchestral Conducting from Northern Arizona University. He taught orchestra and band for 30 years. He taught music at Yavapai College, Prescott Public Schools and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Paul has served as principal horn in the Flagstaff Symphony and as assistant principal horn in the Flagstaff Festival of the Arts Orchestra. He served as the principal horn in the Prescott Chamber Orchestra for over 20 years and has extensive experience in both woodwind and brass quintets. He has performed in the pit of numerous Prescott Fine Arts productions, as well as conducting “Mame” and “The Man of La Mancha”. He has also performed in the pit of a number of professional operas and musicals. Paul has shared the stage with Toni Tennille, David Cripps, James D’Leon, Mike Vax, Gary Grafman, Jerry Goldsmith, Roberta Peters, William Warfield, Isola Jones, Eric Ruske, Anastasia Kitruk, Harold Weller, Jeffrey Schindler and others. Additionally, he has served as the Arizona All State French Horn adjudicator. Paul is a member of the Conductor’s Guild and is a member of its board of directors. As an alumnus of Northern Arizona University, he has received the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Jeff Ferris Volunteer Award. Paul graduated with honors and was accepted into Phi Kappa Phi. In North Carolina, Paul has served as the guest conductor for the New Horizons Band Blast, working with Peter Perret and drawing participants from five eastern states. Paul is the founding conductor of the Prescott POPS Symphony and served as its music director from its beginning in 1992 until his retirement in 2015. During this time the ensemble grew from being a community orchestra to a semi-professional regional symphony. Paul is currently the Music Director of the North Carolina Chamber Orchestra.
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Tim Mar

Frank Salomon Associates
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