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Mr. Lanfranco Marcelletti Jr.

Texas Tech University
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Member Bio Maestro Lanfranco Marcelletti joins the TTU School of Music faculty as Associate Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Studies this January 2022. The Brazilian conductor and music pedagogue began his musical studies in Recife, Brazil, at the Conservatório Pernambuco de Música. He continued his piano studies at the Musik Akademie (Zürich), piano and composition at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Vienna), and eventually orchestral conducting at Yale University. Notable among his many awards are first prize in both the Conducting Competition of the Chilean Symphony Orchestra, and the Giovani Solisti di Roma Competition, being named Debut Artist Conductor of the Year by the São Paulo Association of Critics of Art, and the Dean's Prize along with the Eleazar de Carvalho Prize awarded by Yale University. Marcelletti was also awarded a special citation for his work promoting music in his native Recife. One of Brazil's most internationally renowned artists, Marcelletti has rapidly gained recognition for his brilliant musicality and effective leadership both as an orchestral and operatic conductor. A protégé of renowned scholar/maestro Alberto Zedda, Marcelletti appears regularly at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, where he has led productions of Il Viaggio a Reims and Carlo Coccia's Arrighetto. He began his opera career at Glimmerglass Opera, and has also appeared with Opera Tampa, Teatro Real (Madrid), Commonwealth Opera (MA), and Teatro Calderón (Valladolid, Spain). He assisted another famed maestro, Anton Coppola, in the world premiere of Coppola's epic opera Sacco and Vanzetti. Marcelletti has also written a musical theater piece based on Mozart, in collaboration with actress Carmen Bermejo. His guest conducting activities have taken him throughout North America, South America, and Europe, and he has appeared with the Brazil Symphony Orchestra (Rio de Janeiro), Chilean National Symphony (Santiago), National Theater Orchestra (Brasilia), Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa (Mexico), Orchestra del Teatro Communale (Bologna), Galicia Symphony Orchestra (La Coruña) and Eleazar de Carvalho Summer Arts Festival Orchestra (Fortaleza, Brazil). Previously to Texas Tech, Marcelletti served as Music Director of the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra (2012-2019) and the Aguascalientes Symphonic Orchestra (2020-2021) in Mexico. He has also served as Associate Director for the renowned Accademia Rossiniana at the Rossini Opera Festival, and Musical Director of the social music project Orquestra Criança Cidadã in his native city, Recife. Comfortable on stage as well as in the classroom setting, Marcelletti has held faculty positions at Amherst College, The University of Massachusetts in the US, and Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa – Mexico, where he started the Master's Program in Orchestral Conducting.
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Vicki Margulies

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
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Les Marsden

Mariposa Yosemite Symphony Orchestra
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Member Bio A thoroughly annoying, precocious child, Marsden began piano lessons at age 4 and was credentialed to teach piano by age 11. He added trumpet in elementary school and as a pre-teen/teen performed in recitals and with chamber ensembles as pianist/harpsichordist, becoming proficient on other brass, strings and woodwinds, as well as the concert grand harp. He composed his first symphony at 13; as a teen was principal trumpet of ensembles including the California Honor Orchestra and the Fresno Junior Philharmonic for many years. His composing and conducting interests were nurtured by (the late) Maestro Guy Taylor, conductor of the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra. Under Taylor’s tutelage, Marsden conducted the FJP in performances of his own works. As a teen he acted in local theatre; upon entering college (CSU Fresno) Marsden settled on a theatre career. While a college student he wrote, produced and starred in his one-man show “A Night at Harpo’s” with the cooperation of Harpo Marx’s widow Susan and children. The show was professionally booked directly from college and served as the young man’s entrée into show business. Well acquainted with the elderly Groucho Marx, he performed as that Marx Brother for years in various theatrical presentations. Groucho’s son Arthur Marx wrote the play Groucho: A Life in Revue and in it created the DUAL role of Harpo and Chico Marx specifically for Marsden who in addition to playing both brothers in and out of their well-known film personae also stunned audiences by actually playing lengthy piano and harp solos in each brother’s distinctive style. Highly successful in New York, the show then played London’s West End to great acclaim; Marsden was nominated in the U.K. for London’s prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for “Comedy Performance of the Year”—the equivalent of Broadway’s Tony Award. He also received the London Critics Award and many others for his work on the London stage. The Marx Brothers were carefully maintained only a sideline to his mainstream theatrical career, however: Marsden was seen nationally and internationally in innumerable dramas, comedies and musicals from Shakespeare to Neil Simon, Chekhov to Cole Porter, with countless appearances on film, TV and in commercials. He worked with greats such as Robert Redford, the late Charles Nelson Reilly (one of this country’s finest stage directors,) Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Burt Reynolds and Jeremy Irons to name only a few. While starring in a play at the famed Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1999, Marsden had an onstage accident which resulted in a career-ending permanent injury to his left leg. Disabled, he retired at age 42; with no further need to maintain an East Coast professional base, Marsden, wife Diane and young son Maxfield moved back to their native California to live near their beloved Yosemite National Park. In 2002 Marsden created the Mariposa Yosemite Symphony Orchestra, in partnership with YNP, the NPS - and its concessionaires.
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Frank Martignetti

Sacred Heart University & First Church Congregational, Fairfield, CT, USA
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Member Bio Frank Martignetti is an Assistant Professor and the inaugural director of the Music Education Program at Sacred Heart University, and Director of Music at First Church Congregational, Fairfield, CT. Previously, he served as Chair, Department of Music & Performing Arts at the University of Bridgeport, also leading choral activities, and additionally as a church musician in Manhattan, Connecticut, and Ohio. A K-12 teacher for ten years, almost entirely in urban schools, he received the New Haven Symphony’s 2006 Excellence in Music Teaching Award. As a conductor, Dr. Martignetti has prepared singers for performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, both at UB and as the Artistic Director of the Mystic River Chorale from 2008 to 2021. He was a finalist for the 2015 American Prize in Choral Conducting for his work with the Chorale. Guest conducting appearances include the Sacred Heart University Orchestra (2022), the CMEA Southern Region HS Festival (2022), New Haven Oratorio Choir (2021), Hamden Symphony Orchestra (2013), New York University choirs (2013) and University Glee Club of New Haven (2005). Dr. Martignetti holds degrees from the University of Rochester, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, New York University, and the Eastman School of Music. His current research involves urban music education, urban education, sociological approaches to music education, and innovation in the collegiate music curriculum. In addition to presentations at a variety of colleges and conferences, his writing has been published in the Choral Journal, the Music Educators Journal, Visions of Research in Music Education, and the Journal of Popular Music Education, and by Oxford University Press, as well as a forthcoming book chapter with Information Age Publishing. Dr. Martignetti currently serves on the board of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, as the Treasurer of the Connecticut chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, and is current Treasurer and a past Dean of the Greater Bridgeport Chapter, American Guild of Organists.
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Spencer Martin

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Member Bio Spencer Martin has performed and taught at music festivals throughout the U.S., Canada, Israel, and Europe. An active chamber and orchestral musician, he performs frequently in the Luther College Piano Quartet and serves as the festival violist at the Bonneville Chamber Music Festival (Utah). He has appeared as guest violist with the Pro Arte String Quartet and the Amelia Piano Trio and his solo performances include Berlioz’s Harold in Italy with the Luther College Symphony Orchestra in venues in Austria, including Vienna’s Konzerthaus. Spencer has served as Principal Violist in the Tuscaloosa Symphony, and also frequently performed in the viola sections of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. Spencer’s solo, chamber, and orchestral performances have been featured in numerous radio broadcasts including National Public Radio, CBC, Minnesota Public Radio, and Kansas Public Radio. Spencer’s CD, “Gems Rediscovered,” was released to critical praise on the Delos label in 2012 and features lesser-known works for viola and piano by Ernest Walker, Paul Juon, Robert Fuchs, and Benjamin Dale. Spencer can also be heard on the Innova label on the disc “Waves of Stone, Music by Brooke Joyce.” Spencer serves as co-director of the International Music Festival of the Adriatic, a chamber music festival for piano, strings, voice, and composition in Duino, Italy. A former member of the music faculty at the University of Alabama, Spencer holds degrees from Butler University, Wichita State University, and the University of Minnesota. His teachers include Korey Konkol, Catherine Consiglio, and Barbara Westphal. Also, an avid proponent of Baroque music, Spencer performs frequently on Baroque violin and has studied in Berlin with Baroque violinist Bernhard Forck. Visit Dr. Martin’s Youtube channel.
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Vincente Martinez Alpuente

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David Mascari

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Olivia Mason

Rat Stands
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Taylor Massey

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Member Bio Dr. Taylor Massey serves on the Greenville Fine Arts Center's faculty as the Winds Chamber Music Instructor and has served on the faculties of the University of Georgia, Augusta University, Georgia Southern University, Claflin University, Western Carolina University, and Brevard College. His principal instructors have been Steven Cohen, Russell Dagon, Ronald de Kant, and Alan Kay. Dr. Massey earned his bachelor’s degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, his master’s degree from Northwestern University, and a doctorate from Stony Brook University. ​ Dr. Massey has enjoyed a diverse and extensive performing career over the past two decades. He serves as the principal clarinetist with Augusta Symphony Orchestra and has performed as guest principal clarinet with the Savannah Philharmonic, Greenville Symphony, Charleston Symphony, and the South Carolina Philharmonic. Outside of the southeast, Dr. Massey has served as principal clarinet of the Lake Placid Sinfonietta, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, and the Choral Society of the Hamptons. In addition to orchestral performances, he has been a featured soloist with the Savannah River Winds, Carolina Youth Symphony, Augusta University Wind Ensemble, and, on multiple occasions, Augusta Symphony Orchestra. Internationally, he has performed chamber music at festivals in Morges, Switzerland, and Lucca, Italy.
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Dr. Andrew Mathers

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Member Bio Andrew grew up in a musical family, with both parents involved in singing. Andrew admits "failed attempts at piano and guitar" but played a few other instruments and first tried out conducting in high school. His tertiary music studies began with a Bachelor of Education majoring in music from the Melbourne College of Advanced Education before heading overseas to Florida State University to complete a Master of Music Education degree majoring in instrumental conducting. During this time, Andrew studied instrumental conducting with James Croft and choral conducting with Rodney Eichenberger. Back in Australia, Andrew has been awarded a PhD in music from Monash University, lectured in Conducting and Applied music at Monash University and held a position as an adjunct faculty member of the School of Music - Conservatorium. Andrew is currently Assistant Head of Music - Ensembles and Head of Woodwind at St. Kevin's College (Melbourne). Conducting roles have seen Andrew in front of the Melbourne Youth Symphonic Band from 2003-2008. He served three terms as National President of the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors' Association (ABODA)and has been a feature clinician at the ABODA Conducting Summer Schools in 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2016 and 2019. In recognition of Andrew's extensive commitment, he was chosen as one of four people to receive the first-ever Honorary Life Memberships to be awarded by ABODA. Andrew was also invited to conduct the Queensland State Honours Band for two years in a row.
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